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"Sunny, I think I may have fucked up. Just a little bit, though! No need to panic!"
Truly, it was the last thing that Sunny wanted to hear when he picked up the phone at the ungodly hour of 1AM. However, coming from Basil, this was about the most in-character thing he could possibly hear at a time like this. He pinched the bridge of his nose, already knowing his sleep schedule was likely going to be ruined by whatever Basil's fuck up was.
"Basil, what the fuck did you do?"
"Uh, that doesn't matter. Can you come over to Kel's house, please." Basil said, before hanging up the call. His profile picture flashed on the screen, a cat from a mobile game that he had seen him play regularly. Sunny realised at that moment he had been left with no choice whether or not to help Basil, and chose to get his shit together.
After a quick change of clothes, Sunny snuck out of his room. When Mari got replaced with a chav, the clone requested they have separate rooms, so he had relocated elsewhere. After the real Mari returned, they couldn't be bothered to undo the change, so the siblings slept in separate rooms.
Sunny acted fast, avoiding the creaky floorboards like the plague in case they ratted him out. This wasn't the first time he snuck out in the middle of the night for Basil's sake, and it had probably come to the point that if his family heard him sneaking out, they would ignore him. But he knew Basil after years of friendship, and he understood this probably involved a crime scene clean up, or the hiding of a body. He did not want to risk getting caught doing that.
He successfully made it out of the house. Trying not to waste time, he quickly made his way down to Kel's house. Thankfully, they were neighbours, so it didn't even take thirty seconds. When he got there, however, Sunny realised that he would have to find a way inside.
And knowing Basil, he had probably broken in.
After a moment of thinking, he remembered that one time Kel accidentally revealed where his parents hid the spare key. Lifting the mat, he grabbed the spare key and quickly unlocked it, not bothering to close the door as he quietly stepped through the living room.
Sunny looked around the first floor, deciding that Basil was upstairs. His suspicions were confirmed when he saw Basil stick his head out of Kel and Hero's room while he was halfway up the stairs.
Sunny's stomach filled with dread, wondering why the hell he was in there. He made his way inside, and blinked at the scene before him.
Kel was lying on the floor, blood pouring out of his head. He was probably dead. Aubrey's baseball bat was on the floor next to the crime scene. In front of it all was a very sheepish-looking Basil, which was a facial expression that he never expected to see the boy wearing. Sunny also noted that the window behind him was wide open.
"Basil.. please explain to me what the fuck happened."
Sunny listened to Basil's explanation intently. Apparently, Basil had tried to do a 'harmless' April Fools prank on Kel, and acted on it as soon as the clock struck midnight. This prank involved breaking in through Kel's window and beating him with a bat.
It just so happened that Basil had 'accidentally' grabbed Aubrey's nail bat.
"How the fuck did you accidentally grab Aubrey's bat? And where's Hero?"
Basil completely ignored Sunny's first question, "I overheard Hero talking with Mari about spending the night together-"
"Okay, you know what, forget I asked," Sunny sighed again, not entirely sure how he was as calm as he was, "So.. do you want me to call an ambulance or help you bury the body? Because hanging my sister was one thing but to do something so similar to one of my closest friends like 5 months later is-"
"No! No! You don't have to help me bury the body, I can do that by myself.. I can see why you wouldn't want to do that. But you know this place better than I do, and we need to get... this," Basil gestured to Kel's body, "out. Can you help me?"
It was going to be a long night.
Sunny passed out immediately upon re-entering his bed. He and Basil had lifted Kel's body off of the bloodstained rug (Sunny can only pray for his best friend's sake that he cleaned it up), Basil got his wheelbarrow from down the street and Sunny immediately went back home, leaving Basil to bury the body by himself.
Sunny would have helped if not for two reasons, 1) that was his friend who got killed, 2) it was one in the fucking morning.
He also saw Hero sneaking out of Mari's window, but looking at each other, they both swore an oath of silence. Sunny covered in blood and Hero doing god knows what in his sister's room. Sunny had silently prayed for Basil's sake, hoping the blood had been cleared before Hero got back.
Sunny expected a lot of things to happen when he got to school that day. One of them being news on Kel's disappearance, or potentially a grieving friend group, based on how successful Basil was. What he did not expect, was to have a pie thrown straight at his face. He stopped walking in shock, before wiping his face and looking around to see the culprit.
He didn't actually need to look around, as the culprit was right in front of him, laughing their ass off.
...
"Fucking Kel?" Sunny asked,
"Uh, yeah? Were you expecting someone else? Happy April Fools, bro!" Kel smiled, almost as if he was not beaten to death with a nail bat not even the night before.
"Didn't you die?"
Kel stopped for a moment, looking sheepish. "Yeah, something like that happened.. I don't know what exactly, but it was really late last night and suddenly I came face to face with God, I think.. Anyway, they told me that my death was a huge April Fools prank and I woke up! I had to dig myself out of a grave at like, 3AM! Talk about the devil's hour!"
Sunny turned around. Nope. Kel called after him, "Wait! How did you know?!"
Nope. He was going back home.
This was too much.