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In a suburb of New York where the summer nights are usually cool and lively, however, on this one particular night, it was hazy and quiet. Too quiet. Roxy and her three best friends were having a sleepover at Roxy’s house. The four were having a great time as usual, eating popcorn and watching movies, when they realize Sharon fell asleep. Of course, Roxy decided to play a prank on her. She put make-up all over Sharon’s face; as Janay and Amy sat back laughing. As Roxy was about to put lipstick all over Sharon’s mouth, she wakes up. They were all laughing hysterically except for Sharon. Roxy apologizes and says that she will go get a wash cloth and make-up remover for Sharon. While Roxy is gone Sharon tells Janay and Amy that she is sick of Roxy always playing pranks on them. The other two agree completely. They say that sometimes Roxy takes pranks too far and we should plan a prank to get her back. Janay texted her two friends Liam and Brody to see if they wanted to get in on the prank. Liam and Brody were conveniently sleeping at Brody’s house which was just down the street from Roxy’s house. The boys decided that they would get in on the prank because they too had been victims of a prank by Roxy. Together the five of them devised a plan so devious that even Roxy could not figure out. Just as they finished Roxy came back into the room.  It became later and later and soon all of the girls had fallen asleep, so it seemed. Really the prank had just begun. Soon thereafter Amy wakes Roxy up telling her that Janay is gone. The girls are now all up and frantically searching the house. Amy recalls that Janay was texting Brody and Liam earlier that night and that she might have snuck out to meet them. Sharon and Roxy both agree that it was something Janay would do. They all agree that that was the best assumption and they should call Janay immediately. Janay answers the phone and tells them that she had gone to see the boys and they were having a great time. Roxy, Sharon, and Amy decided to go meet up with them. As they are about to sneak out the back door of the house, Roxy’s younger sister Susy, wakes up. Susy being the annoying and jealous younger sister was asking them a million questions. Roxy begs her to not tell her parents and to cover for them if they would wake up. After minutes of convincing Susy finally agrees and goes back to bed. As the girls saw Liam and Brody they noticed that they began to walk faster and faster towards them. Right as they approached each other, the first thing the boys said was, “Is Janay with you?!” The girls were in shock and said, “Stop joking around we thought she was with you!” The boys began explaining that Janay received a phone call and walked off to talk, but never came back. “We didn’t want to scream her name because it is so late and we didn’t want anyone to wake up and notice we had snuck out,” Liam said. Brody then went on to say,”We tried to call her phone multiple times but there was no response to any of them.” The girls immediately started to panic and thought about the worst that could be happening to Janay. As they were on the verge of hysteria they decided they had no other choice but to split up. They decided that Roxy and Brody would go together, Sharon and Liam would be together, and Amy volunteered to go alone. They were very hesitant to watch their friend walk off into the darkness alone. However Amy convinced them that she would be fine because she had her phone with her. They agreed to let her go but they would meet back up in no more than ten minutes. The meeting spot would be the stop sign between Elm and Cheyenne Street. Ten minutes elapses and everyone is back at the stop sign except for Amy. They called Amy and luckily she answered, but the response was terrifying. “HELP, HELP ME!” were the words being screamed through the phone. The others heard a scream and the call was lost. They immediately called back but there was no answer. Roxy is now bawling hysterically and Brody tried to comfort her. Sharon and Liam looked at each other and new the plan was working. To keep the prank going, Liam and Sharon said that they had no other choice but to go looking for Janay and Amy. Roxy knew that something bad was going to happen and begged them not to leave her. Roxy continued begging and said that everyone should go back to her house to get help from her parents before things got worse. Liam and Sharon said that was not an option because then her parents would know they had snuck out and got into trouble. Roxy agreed and knew that Liam and Sharon must go on. Roxy said, “The only way that I could let you two go out alone is if we stay on the phone with you the whole time.” Liam and Sharon agreed and set out on their search. Minutes past and they still heard the voices of their friends. As more time past everything was looking good for two except for the fact they still had not found neither Janay nor Amy. All of a sudden, once again, there was a disturbing scream and the phone died. Now all alone sat Brody and Roxy. Brody knew that to keep this epic prank alive he must leave Roxy alone. “I think I just heard something.” Brody said. Brody ran off into the woods with Roxy screaming behind him. Roxy was so afraid she was now by herself thinking all of her friends were in critical condition. Roxy sprinted back to her house knowing now that she had no other choice but to tell her parents. When she returned to her house she immediately woke Susy and told her everything that has happened. Susy began crying hysterically as well and told Roxy that she has to tell her parents right away. Their parents woke to the sound of the terrifying cries of their two daughters. Once again Roxy had to explain everything that happened, but this time it was harder. She knew that she would be in a great deal of trouble. Her mother just about fainted when she heard the disturbing news of that night. Her father called the police and set out an Amber Alert right away. The four of them were in such a state of hysteria and shock that for just a few moments they had to sit down and digest the news. Meanwhile at Sharon’s house, Sharon, Amy, Janay, Liam, and Brody all sat laughing and playing Yahtzee. They all thought they had just pulled off the greatest prank of all time, until Amy quit Yahtzee and turned on the television. She stood there in complete shock and screamed for the others to join her in the living room. When they all arrived they stood in complete shock with blank stares at the sight of their faces. They were watching their selves on the news as a newscaster told of five missing teenagers. Now they realized this prank got way out of hand. They all turned on their cell phones and noticed all the missed calls from their own parents, Roxy, and Roxy’s parents. When they heard police sirens coming closer and closer and becoming louder and louder they knew it was time to go back to Roxy’s. They arrived back at Roxy’s house at 5:45 AM. Frantically all of their parents, friends, neighbors, and police surrounded them. They were asked nearly a million questions at once. None of them knew how to answers these because they realized that so many people were worried about them. The police were the first to pull them aside to interrogate further. Sharon took the lead and relayed the entire story back to the police. Next Roxy came over after she realized that they all were just trying to play a prank on her for all the times she played pranks on them. At the same time she was feeling two emotions. One was relief that her friends were alive and well, but anger that they would go to these great lengths to get back at one of their best friends. Once the story was told the cops had no other choice but to punish them. They were each sentenced to 100 hours of community service to be completed in one year, but that wasn’t even the worst. The parents’ punishments were still to come. The group of friends each received harsh punishments from each of their own parents. Then they all laughed together as they finished retelling the story of that night, at their twenty-fifth high school reunion.