The Annual Prank

Act II

"Do you mind if I come over today?" Danny asks, startling me as I get into my car. I turn to him and give him a dirty look. "You scared the shit out of me," I say. Danny laughs. "Yeah. Hop in," I say smiling.

Danny gets in and we drive off. I look over at Danny to see him playing with his fingers. "Are you okay?" I ask. Danny looks over at me and then looks outside. "Yeah. I'm okay. I just have a big test tomorrow, plus the prank is making me unsteady," Danny confesses.

"You'll do fine on the test. You're really smart Danny. Don't ever doubt yourself. And yeah, I know, I'm kinda stressed out with it as well. I don't know how the schools gonna react. Good thing schools almost over," I explain. Danny looks over and smiles.

The rest of the car ride we talked about the video games we play on a regular basis. I pull into the driveway and turn off the car as I get out.

Danny makes his way into the house as I go to check the mail. I open the mail box to find nothing. I close the mailbox and begin to walk away but notice a strange man across the street.

After a few seconds, the man began making his way towards me, waving his hand. As he got closer, I noticed he was young. Probably my age.

"Can I help you?" I ask as the man reached me. "Yeah. Actually you can. I found out my girlfriend was cheating on me and kinda kicked me out and I barely know this area. Do you happen to know the nearest bus station?" The man asks with a worried face.

"Yeah. The bus station is on 5th and Valley," I answer. The man thanks me and walks off. "Weird," I think to myself as I walk towards my house and inside.

"Finally you decided to come in," my mom shouts from inside the kitchen. I take off my shoes and sit them by the front door and head into the kitchen. As I made my way to the kitchen, I could hear music coming from my moms radio.

"Yeah. Some weird kid asked for directions to the nearest bus station," I explained. My mom gives me a weird look and goes back to cooking.

"Wanna go up to my room Danny?" I ask. Danny smiles and nods as he gets up. "Are you staying for dinner Danny?" my Mom asks before we could leave. "Yeah I can," Danny smiles. "Okay. You two have fun," my mom smiles back.

An hour later

"Can I talk to you?" Danny asks, sitting down the controller and standing up. I look at Danny confused, "sure?" I place my controller down and turn to look at him.

"Look we've been best friends for so long and shit but I haven't been honest with you," Danny explains sitting down on my bed. I give Danny a look as to continue.

"I don't know how to say this but I have fee...." Danny says before getting interrupted.

"Matt. Danny. Come down. Dinner is done!" my mom shouts from the kitchen. I get up and head towards the bedroom door. "What were you gonna say?" I asked.

Danny gets up and starts walking towards the door. "Eh. It's nothing. I can tell you later. Let's go eat," Danny says, excitedly.

We make our way to the kitchen to see my mom, dad, and sister sitting at the table, beginning to eat. We take a seat and start getting food.

As we sat at the table eating, my parents asked all of us how we were doing in school and what our plans are and just all the things parents worry about.

As we about finished dinner, a news broadcast interrupted the music playing from the radio.

A group of high school students spring break trip to the cabins became fatal when the students didn't return. The parents of one of the students went down to the cabin to make sure everyone was alright to find out some horrifying news. The police suspect that one of the still missing students could possibly be the killer and is still at large. His name is Ian Thompson. Please be careful as this man could be armed and dangerous. If you have any information regarding this man, please contact BellTowne Police Department. That is such a tragedy and I'm sorry for the family's in grief but in lighter news...

After dinner, I ended up driving Danny home, which isn't too far from my house but I didn't want him walking home with a murderer on the loose.

After dropping Danny off, I began making my way back home. I pull into the driveway and go inside, upstairs to my room and collapse onto my bed.

"3 more days until the day of the prank," I say, sighing.

That night I though of ideas that we could do during the prank and how to not get caught. I also played some games with Donald and Danny. I mentioned some of my ideas to them.

I began feeling tired so I got off after a couple hours and not so long after, I ended up falling asleep.