Prank gone wrong

  I never expected it to end like this. I never expected this kind of outcome.

Photo by Antonette Reyes

My cousin was just rushed to the hospital. She fell down from the stairs because of the prank I did on her.

Well, she started it first. This prank journey started two weeks ago. I was on my bed, sleeping peacefully like an angel. It was raining heavily, so I laid on my bed and covered myself with a thick bedsheet.

My cousin ran into the room while screaming. I woke up from my sleep due to her screams. She told me something terrible had just happened. She told me that the car garage was on fire. Immediately, I jumped up and ran over to the car garage. While running, I fell and hit my hand on a big stone. I didn't mind the pain, but I kept running.

The garage was on fire. That was the question on my mind. I got to the car garage only to see it was perfectly fine with no problems. I turned to see my cousin laughing at me. Likewise, I was so dumb. “How could I believe that the garage was burning while it was raining?”

“How would fire burn when the rain is as heavy as anything else? Is that possible?” she asked in between her laughs. I got furious. I went back inside angrily, feeling frustrated. Passing in front of the mirror, I saw how horrible I looked. All thanks to the rain and the fact that I fell while running. I was fuming with anger deep inside of me. “How dare she? She dared to prank me?” I thought in disbelief.

I had to go have a bath in the cold weather. Not only that, but I really felt like breaking her head, if not her neck. After bathing, I went to the kitchen to cook lunch after realizing it was time for lunch. I turned on the gas and started cooking rice. I added the right amount of salt, oil, onions, and other ingredients. After some minutes, I went back into the kitchen to check on the food I was cooking. Great, it was done, and it was looking very nice. I dished my food and went into the dining room to eat. I took one spoonful of rice and spit it out immediately. “What is this?” I screamed. “This is definitely not what I cooked," I added.

It was too pepperish, too salty, too oily—everything in it was just too much. Immediately, I realized that my cousin must have tampered with the food. I screamed her name, and she came running. I looked at her from head to toe with anger, then I asked her what she did to the food I was cooking. She told me she did not even get close to the kitchen. She started crying those stupid crocodile tears. Furthermore, she started swearing and saying she did not even go close to the food at all.

I lied to her and said that I got a video of her adding enough pepper and salt to my food, which she agreed to. I was looking at her, and I was enjoying her shocked expression. She stared at me in shock. I looked at her and smiled, and then asked her to explain how she appeared on my phone, since she swore she never went near the kitchen. Before I could reach out for her, she ran away. At that moment, I decided in my mind to play a prank she would never forget in her life. “I will teach her a lesson," I promised myself.

“How dare she prank me twice in a day? How dare her?" I stood up and went to empty the food in the dustbin.

Three days later, my cousin received a letter from her best friend asking her to come and stay with her for some time, since she had just come back to the country. She was excited. She had not seen her for the past five years. Likewise, she was thrilled. Likewise, she told me she would live for the next two days. I thought about it. I had just two days to plan and execute my revenge for the prank she had been pulling on me.

It was finally time for my cousin to go and visit her friend. She got into the bathroom to brush, and she realized her brush and sponge were nowhere to be found. She came out and asked me if I knew where it was, and I told her I didn't.

I asked her if we were both using the same soup or sponge, but she said not at all. So I told her it was not with me.

She was looking for it everywhere, and she did not realize there was water on the floor. Immediately after she stepped on it, she fell and hit her head on the tiles. She fainted immediately.

I screamed at Jesus, “Who asked me to get revenge on her?” I called the ambulance immediately.

She is now fully recovered, and she has promised never to play pranks again.