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It was a cold january afternoon when Judelow and Parker left the school. Both of them took the same extra lessons - physics and math - so they always finished school at the same time.
They had a very stressful week. The end of the first semester was coming, and everyone was doing their best to improve their grades..
The days were full off sleepless nights, energy drinks, non stop work, hours spent at the library, people crying in the school toilet and everyone dozing off at the first lessons.
Yeah, Strength High School looked amazing on paper. Impressive college acceptance rates, experienced teachers, countless of subjects to take.. but what others didnt see is that when the exam scores were so high, so were the students when they broke under pressure.
Judelow and Parker wrote 3 tests that day, and Jude drank at least 5 coffees while preparing for those the night before (at the last moment, as always).
Despite everything, they were leaving with big smiles on their faces. They had a plan that, at least in their opinion, would make the gloomy atmosphere disappear.
- I can't wait to actually do the prank, bro - Parker grinned like a small child given a lollipop. If you saw that grin, you wouldn't believe he just turned 18 a few days ago!
- Same dude, it's going to be so funny I need to see Sharpness's reaction when everything suddenly turns pink - Jude smirked back as they turned towards Parker's house.
- Yeah, like imagine you're focused on playing and then boom! Everything is covered in pink glitter.
- Oh, Sharpness will get so mad!
- Sharpness, sharpness, sharpness... not only him, imagine Flow's reaction pft! Or on the other hand, HD's I think she's gonna love this. - Parker said thinking how HD always came to school with glittery make up on and outfits so whimsical that once some preschoolers thought she was a fairy!
- you're right.. - Judelow chuckled. They stopped in front of Parker's house, who lived just a few minutes from school. Pretty close for someone who's late almost every day.
- See ya, better hurry before the school closes - Parker said, giving Jude the glitter bombs they made with Shadow - a guy from the best school in town that often helps them with their pranks and DoomedCow, their other friend.
- bye bye!- Judelow waved and hid the bombs in his backpack.
He started walking back to school, a cool wind blew in his face like a punishment for what he was about to do.
Judelow and his friends "the trappers"(as they like to call themselves) for every end of a semester since the start of high school are doing pranks, and this year - even thought they are supposed to be the mature seniors - it's not going to be different.
He smiled to himself thinking about the pranks they used to do. Last time for the end of second semester, Doomedcow with the help of Jude got into the radio center and put tiki tiki phonk on full volume while Parker with the cheerleaders danced to it in the hall. It was.. something..
Besides these pranks, he liked to do his own personal ones like covering Sharpness'es locker with photos of bunnies, taking tai's debate speech - from before he was kicked out of the debate team for screaming at others - and changing serious words to brainrot, putting honey in HD'S backpack and much, much more..
Anyways
For the end of this semester prank they are going to make glitter bombs explode while the basketball team plays a match in front of the whole school!
Judelow came to school so he coud hide the bombs, he put them everywhere, on the windows, seatings, floor, at the basket.. and the most important - the small ones were on the team jerseys, they woud litteraly cover the players in glitter. Jude smirked to himself as he put extra ones on Sharpness'es one.
He felt his tummy ache a little, even thought Judelow was a brave, confident person - who's rarely nervous - the prank stressed him a little, what if it won't be as good as the others? What if something went wrong?
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★The next day★
It was 4:30 pm when everyone gathered at the school gym, Judelow, doomedcow and Parker sat at the corner. They video called Shadow, who due to the fact that he was in a different school coudnt be there.
It was a great friendship the trappers shared. Even thought the opportunities were often not in their favor they always tried to include Shadow in everything!
The match started with a jump ball, where sharpness and flowtives stood in front of eachother. With a loud whistle the judge shouted "start!" throwing the ball up in the air. Sharpness immediatly jumped for it taking the lead!
The battle for the ball looked pretty intense considering it was teenagers playing. The passes were so quick that if you blinked you could miss one! When sharpness catched the ball he pushed through the opposing team and successfully shot into the basket winning 2 points.
The game was - to everyone's suprise - actually pretty fun to watch. Maybe that's becouse to tired, sleep deprived teenagers anything but studying becomes entertaining or maybe becouse the players actually improved a lot since the last match. For the trappers It was a nice distraction, something they could focus on instead of just thinking about whether this prank would be as cool as the others.
- dude you're staring at sharp a lot.. - Parker noticed and decided to tease Jude.
- not my fault he plays in such an.. interesting way? Besides no shit, he just scored - jude responded.
- I don't know, bro i'm focused on the bombs right now. When are we going to make them explode? - Parker asked.
- Give me a while, I hate to admit it, but this game is lowkey interesting - Jude said.
- Yeah, I enjoy it too, and it seems like the whole school does the same! - Doomedcow added as he looked around at the crowd loudly cheering for the players. Parker rolled his eyes, clearly not caring about the match and.. anything sports-related.
- well i can't see shit from that small screen - Shadow added squinting his eyes to which the trappers laughted.
The next 15 minutes of the game was fierce. The audience stayed so silent, jude coud hear shoes rubbing against the floor and he was in the farthest stands!
After much attempts Nufuli finally scored 3 points for what his team congratulated him. HD stood up from the crowd and clapped, blowing him tons of kisses before Dolphin calmed her down.
While everyone watched Nufuli judelow observed that Sharpness, who was on the opposite team clenched his fists looking, visibly annoyed. Jude smirked to himself, "can't wait to ruin his mood even more" - he muttered under his breath.
Judelow took the bomb activator out of his backpack to what parker smiled broadly.
They decided that the best moment woud be when someone woud make an important move and after a while of waiting - it finally happend.
Saparata managed to pass the ball to Sharpness from an end of the pitch. People cheered and from these loud shouting Parker's whisper emerged quietly
- Jude now!
But Judelow was too focused to even hear it, his eyes were glued on sharpness - how his long hair in a perfect ponytail flew as he jumped trying to shoot, how that idiot somehow always managed to look so annoyingly confident on the court, how his emerald eyes focused on-
- Jude now!! - Parker repeated himself this time louder.
- h.. huh? OH YEAH - Judelow grabbed the activator, His hands were shaking from stress, but he swallowed and...
BOOM
A loud noise stopped everyone's cheering.
- guys.. is this how loud glitter bombs are supposed to sound? - Doomedcow whispered shyly.
- i.. dont think so.. - Parker froze.
- fuck, fuck, fuck something went wr-