We all love to have a nice time by cracking jokes or pranking one another. These are the things that made childhood fun and interesting, the memories linger on even unto old age. I always enjoyed pranking my friends forgetting that someday I would be pranked too. I love playing April Fool with my friends because there is always a price tag with it which I've won countless times. I do tell my friends that no matter how hard they try, I'll never fall for their pranks but unfortunately, they got me unguarded.
I do return from school before my parents and on many occasions, my dad has warmed me not to leave home after I'm back from school but I do play smart thinking I know the time they will be back. It did play out well for me until the day my friends pranked me which caused me more than I could ever imagine.
On one faithful afternoon, I returned from school as usual, and after taking my lunch I decided to go play with my friends in the next street. We have a spot where we hang out to enjoy our evening talking and playing different games. This my parents strongly kicked against but because I knew the time they would return from work, I would sneak out to play and return before they could.
Just as I had planned, I went out to play, and an hour after got to our favorite spot, unknown to me that they'd already planned to prank me that day. Two of my friends came running from my street shouting my name at the top of their voices, I became even when I had no idea why they were calling me. I immediately rose to join them on my way, one of them said "Your parents are back from work" as she was panting heavily. " We saw them on our way here, you are in big trouble," the second one said.
With immediate effect, I started running home as fast as my legs could carry me not minding what people would think. That day was the day I will never forget in the story of my childhood. As I was running, my friends were running behind me but not as fast as I was. Few more houses to my house, there is a building construction going on and several planks were laid on the floor.
I continued running, jumping over every obstacle on my way, as I got to the building construction site to jump over the first packed planks, I miscalculated which caused my fall. I fell on my left arm hitting the planks and my both knees scrubbed the ground. I busted into tears because of the severe pain I was feeling in that instance. My friends came running to me, dusting my clothes and helping me up.
My hand was held home because there were bruises all over my knees and left arm. Amidst the pain, I was scared that my dad would scold me and give me a punishment which I hated the most. On getting home, I didn't see my parents' car, I thought the car probably developed a fault. I tried to open the entrance door and it was locked as I had left it, it was then one of my friends said: "We are sorry for causing you much pain, it was a prank".
At that point, I was extremely angry, I couldn't utter any word, as I was short of words. I opened the door to enter leaving them all outside. I opened the first aid box and treated my wound thinking of what to tell my parents when they were back. From that day onward, I stopped visiting the spot to play nor did I visit any of my friends.
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