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Before we moved to the house in commerce we lived in Hazel Park, Detroit basically. We lived in a white three-story house the basement was unfinished and a huge mess the first floor had my grandmas room the living room the kitchen the dining room and upstairs was me in my moms room and a bathroom. This house is where I grew up with my mother we had many holidays and celebrations here including one of my favorites April fools.

On the morning of April 1 also known as April Fools’ Day me and my mom had decided to go out for a walk I decided though I wanted to go for a bike ride so we walk out the back door we go to the garage that you have to lift with your hands by the garage door not the side door which was blocked by a bunch of things because my grandma is a hoarder. So my mom starts opening the garage and she gets it all the way above her head and pushes it and starts walking in, in a shrieking voice ice cream to my mother “SPIDER” and she freaks out running with her hands flailing everywhere screaming at the top of her longs and I’m standing there laughing so hard she turns around and I say April fools. Long story short my mother is very gullible.

The first thing you have to understand is that it wasn't my fault. How could I have known he was going to get hurt? It was just supposed to be a prank. It was supposed to be funny, for god's sake!

All I wanted was to put a smile on his face. I didn't- gods, I didn't know it would end up like this.

I choke back a sob as my mind goes over the events of the afternoon.

Today was my best friend's birthday. It also happened to be April Fools day. With an opportunity like that, of course I had to play a prank on him! The temptation was too strong to resist. I couldn't plan anything too complicated, but any old joke would work. It was the thought that counts, right?

I went for an old classic. The old bucket on top of the door trick. It was supposed to be easy. He opens the door, the bucket falls on him, and he gets drenched. Except that didn't happen.

How the hell was I supposed to know he was allergic to maple fucking syrup?

Yeah, I forgot to mention the bucket wasn't filled with water. It had syrup instead. In my defense, it was supposed to make the prank funnier. He hates feeling sticky, so I knew it was the exact sort of thing to piss him off. And after, we could go get his birthday pancakes (an annual tradition), and make jokes about what happened!

Do you see how well I planned everything out?

But nope. Now everything's screwed and instead of IHOP I'm in a hospital, waiting for news on my friend.

Fucking April Fools.

Never again.

In my country, pranking on April fools isn’t really popular. In fact, almost nobody celebrates April Fools.

On that day, as I was surfing YouTube, I noticed there were a lot of April Fools videos and videos on how to do pranks. Having been inspired by the videos, I excitedly decided to prank my parents.

I put salt on their toothbrushes and made a fake poop using a brown toilet paper cardboard roll by wetting it and crumpling it into a shape of a poop.

My (boring) prank preparations were complete and I waited for my parents to come home. Unfortunately, they were going to come home late and it was already past bedtime. However, I still wanted to see their reactions and I was so sure that it was going to be funny.

I pretended to sleep and waited for them to come home.

Finally they are back from work! My had just entered our room, which, by the way, we all shared, and is connected to the bathroom where I prepared my pranks. I already began giggling inside my blanket.