“Who broke the fridge?”

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Mrs. Broden.

“…somebody broke the fridge?”

“How does one even d o that??”

“It was probably Amber.”

“Nu uh. It was definitely Kyle.”

“Me?! I’ve been here in the living room the whole day!”

“You’re telling me you didn’t get snacks?”

“Chips! From the cupboard! It was probably Cody.”

“Me? Dude I just got back.”

“He did, I saw him.”

“Sasha..?”

“She’s literally not even here.”

They all went quiet, staring at eachother.

Duke stood up from where he was leaning against the wall, “I need to confess, I did it. Amber, could you pass me the wine?”

They all stared at him, mouths open. He was the quietest, most well behaved one out of all of them.

Mrs. Broden even seemed shocked, “Duke? Well I can’t say I was expecting that. How did that happen?”

Duke rubbed the back of his neck, “sledding?”

“…what do you m e a n sledding???” Cody sounded absolutely baffled.

“Me and my friends went sledding in it at 04:00 this morning.”

“Like… in the fridge?” Amber asked.

“Yeah…”

“Huh.”

Everyone seemed to share the same sediment.

“We ran into a tree.”

“Ow.”

“Yeah I was in the back though so at least I didn’t go face first into it.”

They stared at him again, seeming like everything they knew was a lie.

“Wait did you ask for wine earlier?”

“It was a joke! One of my friends dared me.”

“Suuuuurrrre.”

P.S.

The may or may not be based on a story my dad told me of when him and his friends took my grandmas fridge and sledded in it down the hill at my grandparents house. It’s a literal mountain with telephone poles all the way down. (They didn’t run into anything besides a small-ish rock somehow. How does one steer a fridge??) The fridge actually still works too, it’s used for sodas (and beer) in my father’s garage now. I didn’t realize the sledding thing was supposed to be a secret until I mentioned it to my grandmother and she was very confused. I also got a “you weren’t suppossed to tell her that!” Oops.