The roof was boring. Staring up
at it, Maria thought of a million things she could be doing, right at that
moment. She thought of all the friends she could be calling, or songs she could
be listening to. But she didn’t move. She just lay on her bed, staring at the
roof.
It was the middle of the
holidays and she was home alone. Her parents were out at work and her brother
was at a friend’s house. She was bored and had no clue what she wanted to do.
It seemed she’d already done everything worth doing this holidays.
She went back to staring at the
roof.
And then it came to her. She
could pull a prank! ‘Only who to pull it
on…’ she paused, “Sven! He’s away. He
won’t be back until 3 o’clock. Perfect.’ And with that, she pulled herself
out of her thoughts and set to work.
Her idea was simple. To move all
the clothes in Sven’s draws to the cupboard in the unused guest bedroom. Her
mother had pulled a similar prank on her principal when she was at school. It
wouldn’t take her very long and it would annoy her brother to no end.
Moving quickly, Maria went into
her brother’s room and opened the draws. She carried each draw to the guest
room and emptied the contents into its respective placed in the new draw. She
than carried the old draw back to her brothers room and set it back in its
place.
It didn’t take her long. Maybe
half an hour. When she was finished, she still had a few hours left before her
brother, Sven, got home.
Sighing, she walked to her room
and pulled out her laptop. ‘Might as well
weight out the time on the internet.’ She thought.
The time flew by quickly, and
in-between watching videos and reading stories, she thought of what she would
say when her brother came home.
It wasn’t long before her
brother and parents were walking through the front door.
“We’re home!” her mother called
out. Maria grinned and waited for the yelling from her brother’s room. It came
quickly, but it wasn’t what she was expecting.
“Who moved my clothes?” Sven
yelled, though not nearly annoyed.
Maria ran to his doorway. “Why
don’t you sound annoyed?”
Sven smiled, “Thanks sis, I was
going to move them anyway. Mum and Dad gave me permission to use the room
because it’s bigger.”
Maria looked at him for a minute
before turning on her heal and leaving.
“I can’t believe this,” she said
over her shoulder. “The one time o go to pull a prank and I actually end up
helping someone.”
As she walked into her room, she
could hear her brother laughing behind her.
Then a plane crashed through the
roof of the house because of an explosion on the wing. No one ever worked out
what caused the explosion. And no one likes recalling the horrid events of that
day
