I like to pull pranks on my friends and family. Problem is, I'm not very good at it. I smile and laugh and giggle and my face goes all red. People can see right through me.
Until yesterday.
On Tuesday at work this boy kinda proposed. It was a joke...I think. He asked me to Dougie, so I did. And on one knee he fell. I just laughed and walked away.
Yesterday my friend Keri and I were driving back over to campus and I'm giving her all the details and before I knew it, her eyes were brighter then the lights on my Christmas tree. In that moment we concocted a plan. An evil plan. An awesomely evil plan.
You see, there's this boy. We like each other but he has major commitment issues so we're going to be 'just friends'. Kinda feel like a roller-coaster some days. ANYWAY!!!
I pulled out this old ring I got in Vegas a few years ago. It really is my idea of a perfect engagement ring. And it's sparkly. I put it on my finger and away to class we went. I don't think we stopped laughing as we came up with the guys name to the date we were going to get married.
We walked into the class I have with this boy (we're gonna call him....Stefan), sat down next to him and introduced Keri to the guys I sit with in class. Next I leaned over and whispered "Hi! So....What are you doing December 15th?"
Stefan "Psh, I don't know. Why? What do you have planned?"
I did the typical showing off the ring, careful to not let him look to close in fear he'd see how fake it is and squealed "I'M GETTING MARRIED!!!!"
I've never seen the color drain out of someone's face like that before. One of my other guy friends, Fenox, began to freak out. Keri and I began to tell the story. I told the amazing story of how this guy dropped to one knee and how I said yes.
Stefan "How long have you been working there??"
Me "2 Days..."
Stefan "How long have you know this guy??"
Keri and I didn't think of this.... "ummmm...2 days.."
Fenox "What's his name?"
Me "Zac" Efron- Psh I wish!!!!
Stefan "Last name?"
Shoot.....Keri told me a good one....what was is??? ..... it started with A....A....A...A...
Me "Armoni"
Keri begins to giggle even more because that was so far off from what we had decided but I totally spaced it..
I asked Stefan if he'd be there for me at the wedding because it would mean a lot to me to have him there. He started to yell at me, telling me how stupid I was being, that I was rushing and there was no reason to, and that he wouldn't go and watch me throw my life away.
Ouch
Then he sits back, folds his arms and I'm pretty sure he wasn't breathing. He was kinda mad.
Fenox is still freaking out, Keri and I can't stop laughing and we realize that we're loosing the guys.
Keri "Ok I still say we need to go to Allyssa's Bridal. They have the cutest dresses! Oh, you're gonna look like a princess!!!"
Me "Oh and there's this place in Spanish Fork, you can rent the dresses there! That might be best. I only have 2 and a half weeks to plan this. "
Keri "Don't worry!!! With my help, Katelyn and Shantell we can totally pull this off-"
Stefan "HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN ON A DATE????"
Me "no.... we're going tomorrow though..."
Stefan "hmpf"
Me "yeah, we need to start planning the wedding, ya know?"
Stefan "WHAT?!?! WHAT KIND OF DATE IS THAT???"
And he kept ranting but he was actually kinda hurting my feelings so I turned to Keri and started to talk about different places we could go to find the right pair of shoes.
We made it about 20 minutes. Fenox was still rocking back and forth in his chair and Stefan was beside himself. I couldn't take it any longer, my face and abs were hurting from laughing so much! I slipped off the ring and placed it on Stefan's knee. I hear him say under his breath "thank god..." and before I knew it he was fake strangling me. Fenox picks up his backpack and throws it at me and Keri busts out laughing even louder then before.
For the rest of class Keri and I teased the boys about how they fell for it. Fenox would admit that we took 5 years off his life with all the stress and Stefan said he never believed us. I smiled and said he believed me a little tiny bit and he whispered "fine, a little bit"
KNEW IT!
Class was over and the 2 boys take off to whisper. Keri and I decided to follow. We walked and teased each other until we got to the main building. Stefan and Fenox start to head up the stairs and as Keri and I fall in behind Stefan gives me a look and I stop. I know him well enough to know he's still mad. Keri asks what should we do?
Me "We should stalk them."
I was kidding but before I knew it Keri was running up the stairs like a ninja. Let's just say we weren't very good at it. They spotted us a few times but we kept following them. At one point we were hiding behind a wall when this cute guys walks up and asks what we were doing.
Keri "Stalking."
He looks down the sidewalk and smiles back at us "Oh."
Me "Yup!"
Random guy "Well, good luck with that!"
Keri "THANKS! Gotta go!"
And off we went. We followed Stefan and Fenox all the way to Stefan's car. Fenox turns to head back to his next class and Stefan gets in the car and begins to drive away. Keri screams stop him so I step infront of his car. Hands on my hips and all. Then there was a click of the locks in the car. Keri and I climb into the car and Stefan mumbles "Where to?"
Me "My car"
Keri tried to talk to Stefan, and I made him smile for a tiny second but he was still really mad. He dropped us off and my car and speeds away. Keri and I still were laughing. We're really funny!! I drive her home and we analyzed every moment of our amazing prank. When I got home I texted Stefan to see how he was doing.... Nothing....
So yeah.... He's pretty mad and Fenox is finally starting to laugh about the whole thing.
I'm gonna start to bake some cookies now that I've shared my amazing prank with the world. Those boys know me quite well, I'm surprised they actually believed I would marry a guy 17 days after meeting him. HA! Well, they did believe me. So Cookies are in order. Hopefully that will make up what we did to those boys. Even though a little tiny part of me says they deserved it. An even larger part of me will still be laughing about this 20 years down the road.
Also, the last name Keri and I had come up with that I totally spaced at the worst moment...
Argyle.
Ha, Yeah.
I fail at pranks...
