Do you have a sibling that enjoys playing pranks? Or maybe a parent? Poor Serena Margeurite has both – her father and her brother are both big pranksters. Well, her brother most likely inherited the disposition from his father, or he just watched and learned really well. Either way, it tends to create extra drama in Serena’s life that she’d often rather not have. And many fun laughs too, if she thought about it fairly. The drama usually begins innocently enough. Such as the day Serena and her good friend Rose Walnut were looking through a new book on plants and flowers and discussing what an odd name ‘snapdragon’ was for a flower.
“It says here it got the name because if you squeeze the bloom just so it can open and look like a dragon’s mouth… isn’t that funny?” said Rose.
“I don’t know,” replied Serena, “just looking like a dragon still seems concerning… I’m not sure I want to see any for real!”
That was all it took to give Romeo an idea for a prank, because he knew where some real snapdragons were growing…
Romeo needed a partner for this particular prank, and Ralph Walnut was easily persuaded, especially as it would involve his older sister Rose. Ralph didn’t have Romeo’s talent for thinking up pranks, but he did enjoy a good one now and then. As siblings go his sister was okay, but also as siblings go she could sometimes be annoying. The perfect timing came about a week later, as all four were on a hike and Romeo had easily steered them toward the snapdragons. Leaving the girls investigating some other flowers, he pulled Ralph around a bend and explained the upcoming hoax.
“Help! Help!! Dragon…. it’s a dragon!! Ahhh!!!”
Serena and Rose ran toward the screams of their brothers, not fully registering what they were saying, just thinking they were in danger, or hurt, or something. They rounded the corner, and there, in front of them – their brothers were being pulled back, struggling against something grabbing them from behind! Why, it had Romeo’s ears in it’s mouth – it couldn’t be? Could it?
“A dragon! It’s a dragon!! A dragon is eating Romeo!!”
“Ahhh!! Dragon! We need the police!! Help!!”
Both girls began screaming at once, and turned and ran back the way they’d come, screaming and running, running and screaming.
Romeo had not expected such a fantastic reaction to this particular prank. Wow. He’d hoped, but not really expected. He and Ralph looked at each other and burst out laughing, falling back into the innocent, and certainly not dangerous, snapdragons. Over their laughing they could just make out their sisters’ yells for the police, which sent them to laughing even harder.
There were many stern adults who gave correction and warned the boys against scaring people for fun, using words like ‘trauma’, ‘crying wolf’ and just ‘mean’. Landon Margeurite had to keep looking away to hide his own laughing eyes and the bit of pride he felt for his son following in his footsteps so well. Both boys did appologise to their understandably upset siblings. After all that, the joke that would remain from this prank for many years to come was the lesson that when you’re in dager from a dragon, you really need to seek out a knight, not a policeman. Both girls did eventually recover from their offence enough to agree that it really had made no sense for them to yell for the police. Laughing, they would admit that if it really had been a dragon, the obvious help was a knight in full armour. It speaks volumes that Serena could laugh at herself. Her laughter brought more of that pride to Landon’s eyes. She was also her father’s daughter to some degree, afterall.
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Hahahahah!!! If it had been actually eating the poor bunny, both boys would have been completely eaten by the time the police came! What a fun prank!
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