The Master Plan

4/1/2018

It was a Wednesday morning, I had woken up to the sound of birds chirping on my front porch-, I'm kidding, who do you think I am cinderella? Now let's really start my day shall we? I woke up to the smell of smoke from cars and factories, and the same blaring alarm I hear every morning,

'Another day in the Big Apple' I thought to myself as I rolled in bed.

So as per usual, I hadn't gotten out of bed until after ten minutes of the annoying beeping in my ear had gotten to my head. I wish I could stay in bed longer, but especially today there was no time for laziness, it was April fools day, which meant it was my time to shine. I was already late for work, obviously, so I get dressed, pack up my things, and get out of the apartment building. As I walk down the long set of stairs I see others joining me for another day of work. I finally get down and head to the bus station.

"``Right on time," I say

I get on the bus and doze off staring at the window as I watch the cars go back and forth in a hurry to get to their destinations, as soon as I know I'm already at my stop, I get off the bus and walk over to the cafe next to work, get my coffee and headed on to work. I get into the huge building that housed over 5 companies and 1,000 people every day, what do I work with may you ask? I am an editor

I am part of an editing company that provides services to the biggest of writers and companies. But still get so little pay, the unappreciated heroes I guess. I got through the day, at least I got out of there alive... I have plans with a friend later on the day so I quickly get ready to go out. I get to the same coffee shop as I get my coffee every morning to meet my friend, they're here, we go to a bar on the corner of the street have a few drinks, and talk for about two hours. But little did I know that my friend had other intentions than to just talk to me. It was April fools day after all.

I and my friend were basically just sitting in the park after we've had a few drinks, and then it came, a giant creature jumped out of nowhere, and my soul left my soul, it felt like every bit of my body was just activated my fight or flight system. Flight. I flew out of that bench as fast as I've ever run before. I ran, and I ran for my life.

I think I sprinted around the park for about a minute before my friend grabbed a hold of me and simply said,

" HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!"

I was furious, don't get me wrong I love April fools but this, this scared the life out of me, but I had a plan,

"HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!" I replied

I had a plan to scared them, as much as they had scared me...

4/1/2019

Now one year later, I was ready, what was my master plan you ask? you will soon find out, very soon,

They say that every trickster has a motive, well mine was to get my friend as scared as I was, I had invited my friend over, we had dinner and then I pulled off my master plan, my master plan was-

I'm kidding... HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!

But if you actually want to know the ending just scroll a bit...

A bit more

There we go, here's the rest of the story I promised!

My master plan was to get them to the attic of the apartment, but in that attic, there was a surprise, spiders, lots and lots of spiders, of course harmless, but the best part about it is that there was a trap door activated by weight that had a tunnel that leads down to the trash chute of the complex! They would be stunned by the spiders on the roof, walls, and floor, would trigger the trap door, and fall to the "slide" that leads to the garbage chute. I had finally lured my friend into my attic by telling them that I needed to go get some family pictures and needed help. They fell for it. Such a fool. They were immediately greeted by a warm welcome of spiders, and in the terror and confusion, they had triggered the trap door, just like I imagined they would, and feel down the dark tunnel slide all the way down to the garbage chute. I could only hear the screams as they made their way down the tunnel. Once I hear a loud thud,

"HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!!" I screamed as my friend was still in shock for all that had happened at the last minute.

"THIS IS PAYBACK FOR LAST YEAR" I screamed even louder so that I was certain they would hear me.

"OH YEAH, WELL THERE WILL BE PAYBACK FOR YOU ASWELL" They screamed out as I hysterically laughed across the building

They were scared, terrified even, and I knew exactly what awaited me next year, another year of pranks to scare each other's hair off our heads. One year more complex than the next, we had lots of fun this year, and I would consider this one of the masterpieces and I will only continue to improve my understanding of the art of April Fools day.

I don't think me and my friend will ever stop pranking each other, it is a bonding activity that we treasure and that most people don't understand. But it is a way for us to distract ourselves from the outside world

I hope you have a merry April fools day and that was the one and only Master Plan...