Chapter 7.

        Melanie emerged from the closet in a tracksuit and walked towards Autumn with a water bazooka while Autumn stared at her, she spinned around and asked. "So what do you think of my outfit for prank week?"

        Stunned by her outfit she said, "You deserve a crown, honestly, Mel you are on fire, unfortunaltely I dont have an outfit yet."

         "Then lets go buy one, I can't let my best friend participate without an outfit so come on". Melanie took her hand and dragged her away.

         "Let's go Aidan, we've got some shopping to do". After walking throughout the mall and buying a lot of stuffs, the girl went home with a load of stuffs, packed her bags, waiting for the next day and fell asleep.

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         There was a shout all over the place which disturbed Autumn's sleep but she refused to leave her bed until she felt someone shaking her violently, she grew angry and jumped up expecting to yell at Henry but to her surprise it wasn't him but rather Emily and Melanie, she looked around and found her classmates banging at the gym door, "what's going on." She shouted.

      Emily stunned to find out that Autumn still haven't noticed where she was, took her shoulders and shook her, "Well in case you haven't noticed, Everst high snuck into our houses last night and somehow carried us here by switching us to another bed. Hold on, you sleep in black."

        After carefully observing herself she found nothing wrong with her dressing. "Yeah, so." 

         "I thought Aidan got rid of those, seems he missed out on one. Wow, you really are a bad ass." Emily said. Autumn came to her senses when she realized something was missing, she searched around and finally realized what it was.

         "Hey, my phone's gone."  She said.

         "All of our phones are gone." Emily said.

         "And our suites, we can't get them since we're stuck in here." She said, Melanie smiled walking forward, she was coming from the locker room and returned with a sports bag.

      "Meaning the war's happening in our school so they are out there waiting for us."

         "What do we do, since we're locked in." Autumn was clearly confused as to why no one was freaking out, apart from the door problem everyone looked rather calm, everyone walked into the locker room and returned with a sports bag well except her, Melanie  however walked up to her and threw her sports bag on Autumn's laps,

         "Relax, no need to freak out, its not a big deal, we predicted this might happen so we all came prepared, we hid our stuffs in the three schools so whichever school we get locked in we can still find a way around." Autumn said, "Then, I snuck into your house and stole your clothes, just in case."

        Autumn hurriedly opened the bag and of a truth her outfit was in it. "Wow, you really were prepared."

         "When you're up against Everest High, you must be prepared for anything. Hey don't worry, I knew you were unaware that's why I asked Aidan for help, while sneaking in." 

           "Really." She nodded.

           "Yep." Melanie opened her bag and took out a phone, "Which reminds me, I got you a phone, just for the purpose of our war."

            "Thanks a lot."

           "Nah, don't mention it." The ladies head for the shower room since those rights has been taken away, and while Autumn was having her bath, she felt a sudden silence, she wondered what made the once noisy room to be quiet so she walked out with a towel around her, once she stepped out she moved around in hopes to find a single soul but rather she found...

       "Oh hi." Aidan. With a toothbrush.

       She held her chest and sighed. "Aidan, you startled me."

        "Really?"

        "Yes, and what are you doing here?" She asked, as she noticed she was still in the shower.

        "I needed to speak to you." He whispered.

        "You could had waited until am done bathing before we speak."

         "I do what ever I want, whenever I want." She ignored his statement and turned away, however he continued,  "besides, I've seen you like this before, I can't say I was impressed." He laughed, she tried punching him but that didn't go so well, soon she was punching the door, "watch it." He said as he appeared again,

       "You're a dirty minded ghost, probably the worst of them all, you Pervert." He smiled at her and replied, 

       "What... Its not like I ever claimed to be a saint, but... It is the truth though."

        "And what do you know, you're just a ghost." He pushed her to the wall and held her hand above her head, she couldn't run if she wanted to, and for some reason she saw saddness in his eyes.

        "Whatever." He said. A girl walked in and on seeing the situation she calmly said,

       "If you were scared that we would have told the principal about this then you should had kept your money, nobody will say a thing." Autumn turned to Aidan and asked,

       "Money? Where did you get that much to pay a lot of girls?"

       "Henry's books." He said,

    

      Her eyes widen at the sound of this, "He hides his money in his, books, why didn't I think of that."

        "That's because a book is the last place you of all people would check." He calmly says, as they forget their position.

         "You little thief." She angrily said, 

        "Hey, don't call me that." He rebuked her,

        "What? Thief?" She mockingly asked,

        "Yes, thief." He smiled and gently let her go, but as he walked on, he stopped on his tracks, 

        "By the way, am not a ghost." With that word he left. She stood trying to understand the meaning of the word which he just said but she couldn't make out any sense of what he said. 

      "Wow, that was neat." Said the girl, Autumn turned to the girl next to her who was still listening to their conversation, she quietly walked away to her locker and put on her clothes.

      "Okay people were have exactly 3 hours to defeat the both schools. After that the survivors will proceed to fight the secret war. May the best pranker win." Said Melanie. They broke out in groups, and ran in different routes meeting up with Adam, Jay, Daniel, and three others, while Aidan was keeping a low profile. Melanie's and four others walked into the gym, trying to remain as quiet as possible. Autumn was outside keeping watch at the door, two others were hiding at the back of the chairs just in case they were attacked and the other two were in the ceiling.

      "Clear". Someone said as Autumn ran in. 

       Jay said, "Emily you will have to stay behind us to make sure they don't sneak up against..."

        "They are over here. Fire..." Cried an enemy, but before he could think of trying any tricks he was greeted by water balloons. His teammates rushed out to help him but the others hiding in the ceiling jumped out and blasted them with a water bazooka.

        "That's 13 down, according to the tracker, they are about 37 prankers still on the run, but... One of them haven't moved yet, its almost an hour and they aren't eliminated, whatever am sure we'll find them."

        "Wow, its not even an hour yet and 13 groups has been eliminated." Autumn said while checking the tracker,

        "Well that's prank week to you. Alright people let's move." Once again they moved out, changing formations and taking breaks they arrived at the school pool. They moved around making sure no one was in hiding and planned their next move,

       "They're closing up on us, the only way in is through the main entrance and the windows, surround the building, keep watching on the ceilings, block these places with booby traps and make sure no one gets in or out. Capeesh." Melanie said. She was usually the best leader when it was a matter of prank week, so she usually led the group,

      

     "Capeesh." Everyone took positions and waited. In a few minutes they heard footsteps, slow marching Footsteps, Melanie signaled the crew and they waited, but before they knew it, "Bam, Bam, Bam." Went a gun, they turned around and a teammate was shooting the crew, they knew they were betrayed and lost their focus, they turned towards him leaving their guard down, three teammate were eliminated including the traitor, the other groups outside rushed in causing rapid fire and soon they were joined by two more crew,

       "Its an ambush." Jay shouted.

        "Yeah, I see that." Daniel said. He quickly reloaded his gun and kept firing. "BAM", went a loud gun as it started firing all of Melanie's opponent. Once all of them were hit, they turned around looking for where the shots were fired, but they couldn't find any. Slowly people came out from the ceilings, the locker room, behind the chairs and everywhere. They were shocked seeing an opponent help them but then a girl came out, they raised their gun towards her, she was clearly a ghost, four of them were ghosts.

       "Don't even think about it, it's clear, you can come out now." Slowly the locker room opened once more and Henry popped out.