This is from my OC Libby's POV here below. This story is already on my Wattpad, but since today's April 1st, I thought 'Why the hell not?'
Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed it. And I hope you all don't get pranked too hard, because I don't think that would be so good.
Here's the chapter on my Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/1091063118-libby-sinclair-the-arcadia-oaks-diaries-april
It all started when my friends and me, well not really. Jim.. and Toby both weren't at school yet; Must be running late. Claire and I were already arriving at Arcadia Oaks High.
"It's such a wonderful day," I say as I take a gander at the morning sky.
"I know right! Never had the chance to just take a look at the sky for once.." Claire says.
Then, we see Jim in the small distance, looking around in a panic, all jumpy, paranoid-like. Carefully watching his steps as he walks. The two of us run up to Jim to see what's going on.
"Hey, Jim.. uh.." The boy quickly looks behind him and in front again.
"Uhh.. Hi.." He says with a frenzy. I see him trembling as he spoke.
"Jim are you ok?" Claire rushes up to him
"Why, what's happened?" I ask with concern.
"You guys know what day it is?" He vigorously shakes my shoulders.
"No.. well yes. But other than that- It's the day.." Jim continues to shake my shoulders as he spoke.
Claire and I are still a bit on the confusing side, something's up with him. Trollhunting's really gotten to him... Poor kid.
"You're hurting my shoulders, Jim," I strain, trying to point to my shoulders.
"Anyways, It's... *sigh* It's April Fool's Day.."
"Well, that's wonderful!" I cheer.
"Cool! So, why are you so worried about that?" Claire asks.
"It's Tobes' favorite holiday.." Jim hisses.
"And every April, he likes to pull off one of his 'pranks'" "On me!"
"Oh, well that's nice. What's wrong with that?" I ask.
"No, no- You don't understand.. He pulls off these ridiculous pranks, annoying pranks on me!"
"Like...?" Claire and I both say at the same time.
Jim sighs runs his hand to his face. "One time, he filled my whole room with bubble gum- Don't even ask me how he managed to do that.." "It took forever to get rid of the gum.." "There still some tiny bits of it on my desk,"
"Another time, Toby screwed up the food that I made.. THAT I SPENT TIME PREPARING! ..Filled it with dirt, bugs, and other gross things I will not mention,"
"Oh my.." I gasp as I cover my mouth with my hands.
"AAAAND! He- I don't know HOW, but he places BALLOONS, CONFETTI ALL OVER MY ROOM! EVERYWHERE. On my desk, my bed, my chair, windows, ceiling, door, EVERYWHERE! It was like a 6-year old's birthday party.. He ALSO managed to tie balloons to me, all over my hair, arms, with SCRIBBLINGS ALL OVER MY ARMS IN SHARPIE!"
"Those are just SOME of his little pranks.. I won't tell you guys all of them.."
"Yeah, thank goodness don't." I sighed.
Toby then comes up to us, just arriving.
"Heeyyyyy ladies!" He greets us.
"Oh, no.." Whispers Jim as he sees him, his whole body tensing up, eyes wide open.
"Hey, Jim-" He goes over to hug his best friend, but Jim recoils back in a flash.
"aaAAHH!" Jim yelps as we watch him quickly dash off, trying to pass the horde of students to get as far away from Toby as he can get. Just running off in a frenzy so far, he's so tiny now that he's far away from us. We see him in the distance, looking around frantically, gasping, and next thing you know- He's gone.
"Bye Jim!" I say in a sing-song tone, awkwardly waving.
"You guys know what day it is?" Toby asks, full excitement in his voice.
"Yeah, we all know.. It's April Fools Day," Claire responds.
"Yep, and today I have some new hidden surprises.. Especially for Jimbo.."
"C'mon.. Give Jim a break.. I'm sure he's been tormented enough..?" I say.
"Oh come on! I don't prank him THAT hard- I do this to him EVERY SINGLE YEAR, He LOVES it!" Tobes exclaimed, jumped up with his arms wide open.
"And.. who knows.. Maybe you two might be on my list of surprises..!" He chuckles in a fake-ish sinister tone, rubbing his hands together.
"Ah, well I'm gonna go get a Diablo Maximus Breakfast Burrito!" "See you guys in a few!" And he's gone. Great.
Claire and I went over to our lockers to get our things for our first class of the day. I went up to the metal blue locker, unlocked my lock, and opened it, where all my things were there snug and safe.
As I grab my textbook and notebook, I notice Claire struggling to open her locker.
"What's wrong," I ask her.
"I.. Can't... OPEN... LOCKER" She pulls hard on the handle, trying to get it unclosed, but it does not budge.
"Did you get the lock out first?" I suggest
Claire stops for a moment so she can relax a bit.
"I did, but the locker door's stuck.."
"That's odd.." I say. I spot a bright orange Post-It note- Well part of it sticking out from the thin little vent thingies at the top of the said locker.
"Hey, Claire look! There's something sticking out of there..!" I point to the Post-it note at the top.
"Whoa.. What in the world-" She reached over for the little piece of paper, struggling a bit on it.
Then another little Post-it note popped out, attached to the orange one, then another, another one, and another one, so on, all attached together, making a long chain.
Claire pulled and pulled on the chain until finally there was no more, just a big giant chain of them, forming a large pile on the ground.
She tried to open the locker door, once more, and she did! She opened it, only to see a white piece of paper in front of the locker inside. She picked it up, I got closer to see what it said.
"April fools.." Claire reads the note.
"...April fools....Seriously?"
"THIS is Toby's surprise? A CRUMMY prank? Does he even THINK he can pull off a so-called prank- Like THIS?" Claire chuckles at the horribly made prank, I laugh with her, seeing how it ended up.
But then out laughter was sharply interrupted as I hear a loud POP! I turn away to duck from the loud sudden sound, instinctively.
Everyone in the whole school heard the loud sound and soon started forming a large crowd around us.
What happened? Why's everyone all around us all of a sudden..? Why..? Oh, dear..
Then I notice confetti ALL OVER THE LOCKER, the ground... I look up and then take a glimpse of CLAIRE. Her hair was all messed up, all tangled up. She had her eyes very open, like she saw some ghost, staring at the locker. It was like a rainbow had thrown up on her, all glittery and shiny, with shreds of colored paper all over her.
Out of NOWHERE, Toby comes out from the crowd shouting, "GOTCHA!" and burst out laughing, while munching on his burrito. The rest of the audience started laughing along with him, too, which got really humiliating and quite embarrassing.
"UGH!" Claire slammed her locker shut and stormed off. Soon, the bell rang, which the laughter stopped abruptly, people running to their classes, scattering about.
I was in the bathroom with Claire. Her face was all heated up from the gruesome prank. I was fixing her hair, getting rid of all the confetti.
"I'm so sorry, you experienced that, Claire," I say sadly.
"It was Toby.. He made all of this.." Claire says furiously.
"Yes, it was him," I agree. I finish brushing her hair and put her hair clips back in her hair where they were before.
"There, now you look radiant!" I say.
"Thanks, Libby. Now let's get to class.."
In class, as the both of us came in, everyone looked at us. We sat down in our seats. Thankfully, Toby wasn't in our class, just Jim, Claire, and I.
Jim saw us sit down, and gave me a 'Is everything all right?' look. I proceeded to give him an assuring thumbs up, to which he nodded back and gave us another thumbs up.
Throughout school, we were more cautious at places we went to, like the bathroom, hallways, etc. Luckily we didn't get pranked, or anything. Jim was more paranoid, just as paranoid as he was early in the morning when we saw him, so he wasn't hanging out with us for the remainder of the school, because of it.
After a while, we didn't see any sign of Toby, anywhere. We thought maybe we were safe. OH WE WERE WRONG.
"Okay, I think we're safe.." I managed to say as I got out of my hiding spot by the vending machine.
"I think we may have gone prank-free for the school day," I tell Claire. Claire had also gotten out of her spot as well, behind a large bush by a large while pillar.
"I guess, so," She says, a slow smile forming on her face. I went over to the water fountain to get a sip of water- Bad choice.
I pressed the button, getting my mouth close to the water thingy, waiting, but no water came out. I pressed the button again and again, but nothing. I pressed it again, my face going close to the water thingy to see if there's any water coming out.
Yep, there was- A LOT. A large amount of water splashing out of the fountain, soaking me completely- Like a fire hose. Did I also mention there were soap suds in the water? I was drenched in sudsy soap water from the fountain. The fountain of LIES!
"UGH! GOSH DARN IT TOBY!" I yell out full of rage.
By then, the huge crowd returned and formed around me. Claire had her mouth covered by her hands in shock. My eyes were wide open, my body froze up, all tensed up. Everyone but Claire started laughing super hard.
Toby comes next to us, out of the crowd. "GOTCHA LIBBY!" "HAHAHAHA!" He joins the masses in their laughing. The end of school bell rings, and everyone stops.
I frown in anger as my hair is dripping with water, my clothes all wrinkled and damp, I take a deep breath and walk away in embarrassment, Claire following me, everyone else staring back. But I stopped and I realized soemthing just now. I turn to Claire and asked,
We'd forgotten all about him.. Hmm, what's he up to now? We walked around the school grounds, trying to look for any trace of him. It's Arcadia and if people say that impossible can happen, oh well in this town- IT CAN and IT WILL! We're talking trolls, goblins, all of that.. (OOP SORRY! FOCUS LIBBY, FOCUS ON THE OBJECTIVE, THE TASK AT HAND!)
We hear some slight rumbling over by the trash bins, where we run to them. Jim pops out of one of them, slightly startling us. He had a banana peel and some other trash on his hair and all over him kind of.
"Hey.. ladies," He managed to rasp out, coughing from the horrid trash stench.
"Uh.. Hi," Claire says with a chuckle.
"Uh, Libby why are you all wet.. and are those soap suds on your hair?" He asks, pointing to my hair, squinting to get a more better view.
"Toby happened. I just went over to the water fountain to get a sip of water, then POOF a bunch'a water flies out and splashed me," I explain.
"Did Claire get pranked?"
"Yes.. she did. A confetti bomb in her locker,"
"It could've gone worse.. We're talking about Tobias the Lunatic here.." Jim said
"Yep.... Uhh..anyways.. what.. are you doing in a garbage bin?" I ask, pointing to the bin.
"Hiding from you-know-who," He quietly says.
"And.. I couldn't find anywhere else to hide, I can't make it obvious.. Too many witnesses.. Who knows if they're on His side.."
"Wait- were you in there ALL DAY?" Claire asked
"WhAAT! That-That's CRAZYYY! NOO! NO NO! 'Course NOT!" He laughs awkwardly, trying to hide his lie. We both give him a look.
"Uhh... yes... It's true.. Yes, I was in there all day," Jim admits.
"Please help me out." He pleads.
The two of us get him out of the long garbage bin.
"AAH! He yelped as the bin tipped over, falling down on the concrete floor.
"Thanks.." He stands up, trying to stay balanced, while brushing off some garbage off of himself.
"Let's head over to your house, Claire"
"Why not your house?" I ask.
"Because I feel like it's the less pranked one."
"We certainly can't go to Claire's house .. It may be more pranked than mine.."
"How about my house," I suggest.
"There's magic, and he knows NOTHING about it.. He can't even hold a potion vial correctly!"
"Alrighty, let's make a run for it."He says.
We run as fast as we have ever ran before in our lives to my house. After getting inside, I lock the door.
"My Aunt and Uncle aren't home yet, thankfully," "Valeria's at the skate park and Lorraine went to her friend's birthday party, just now" I inform them.
"Okay, good good." We decide to sit down on the couch, carefully checking to see if it's pranked. We didn't do anything for a little while, just us sitting down, because of the incidents that happened earlier.
Everything was all calm, nothing, weird. Then finally Claire asked.
"You guys want guacamole?"
And of course, Jim and I immediately responded with, "Yes please!"
Jim got up to help Claire make the guacamole, as he does he spots a cake- a red velvet cake, beautifully decorated.
"Hey, Libby..? Mind if I have a slice of this?" I turn around confused.
"Sure.. Go for it.. Here I'll help you-"
"No, it's fine I got it.." He says, grabbing a knife to cut a slice, and gets a plate.
Then I got suspicious.. When did I make a cake..? Since when DO I make cakes.. Umm
"But.. wait... I don't remember-" But I couldn't finish because Jim screamed super loud, making me nearly fall back.
"AAAHHHHH!" We saw everything, we all proceeded to scream, as well. There was a hand coming from the cake. Jim got and grasped the knife, ready to use it, Claire and I getting behind Jim.
We heard some laughter coming from under the cupboard, next to the sink. We knew who's laugh that was.
We all halted our screaming, Jim putting down the knife, then quickly opening the cupboard, to reveal Toby.
"GOTCHA THREE! HAHAHAHA!" Toby tries to point at us, but fails to move his arm.
"...HAHAHAHA- Uh.. I can't feel my legs" He says. Then he kind of struggles, trying to get himself out, finally doing so.
"Whew! That was intense!" "Now where was I?" "Oh right.. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!" He continued.
I swiftly quickly ran off, to hide downstairs to the Potions/Brewing room, where no one noticed me dash off.
Toby continued his laughter.
"Did you know about this Libby?" Jim whispered, then he realized I was gone, Claire finding out too.
"Uhh.. Libby?" Jim asks looking around.
Jim and Claire looked back at Toby who gave them a sneaky smirk. Then they heard Libby's scream from downstairs. The alarmed teens immediately rush downstairs to where the potions were, all dark and smokey.
"Libby?!" "Where are you?!" Claire yells out. The two try looking for a light switch, struggling in the dark. Jim gets out his phone and turns on the flashlight on his phone. Finally, he finds the switch, turns it on, the whole room illuminating, Jim turns off his flashlight.
"Libby!" Libby turns around, and they notice black ash all over her face, throughout her clothes. Her hair was a mess, also filled with ash.
"Libby! Oh my God!" "What happened?" They rushed up to her.
*Cough* *Loud cough* "I- I- I *cough* I ran down here to hide.. Then when I went downstairs the lights flickered on and off, finally off.. *cough*"
"... I tripped on something, and some potions fell. Then when the light turned back on, I looked at the vials and they were all messed up."
"I see.." Claire notices the broken potion vials.
Claire and Jim notice some more smoke coming from the top of Libby's hair.
"Umm Libby?" Your hair.." Jim points to his head.
"What about my hai-" She touches her burnt hair.
"AHHHH!!! MY HAIR! MY SWEET SWEET HAIR!" She freaks out.
"Why would Toby do that..? Whhhhyyyy??" She sobs.
"We can't even dare to escape now.. I bet Toby has this place set up." "Toby could've done whatever, but why target me.. Especially MY HAIR.. My sweet soft hair.." I continue to sob as I rub my charred hair
As Jim takes a step, there's some slight rumbling, not loud, but some noise. He stepped on a booby trap. Then out of nowhere feathers fall out of nowhere, falling on the three.
"AHH!" "What's this stuff... FEATHERS? SERIOUSLY?!" Jim rages.
"We have to get out of here!" "Wait, Claire, you do have your Skathe Hrun with you, right?"
"'Course I do!" She gets out her staff. " Claire makes a portal.
"Take us to Trollmarket now!" Jim says.
Soon, a giant portal appears before us, we all run into it, the portal soon closing like nothing's happened. Toby comes inside the room, discovering that Jim Claire and Libby were long gone, he sees the broken vials, some parts of feathers left over.
"They are so doomed, heh heh," And he left, happily chuckling to himself.
We got to Trollmarket, where all three of us landed in Blinky's library.
"Ah, Master Jim, Claire, Lady Sinclair! What brings you here?" He comes to greet us, helping us up.
"We need to hide in here for a while! A lonnng while!" I panic.
"I think we should be fine in here.." Claire adds.
"Great Gronka Morka! What has happened to your hair!? Why are do you have feathers everywhere..? "What happened to you three!?"
"It was Toby.." Jim explains, he coughs, dusting off some feathers.
"It's April Fools Day, today and he pranked all of us." I say.
"Yeah, Tobes does this to us every single year, the first of every April," Claire says.
"Well, I suppose you three may stay here until said day is over," Blinky said.
"Cool! Great," Jim and Claire both say.
Blinky turns around to grab a book to read, but notices that it wasn't there- None of them actually weren't on the shelves.
"What in- MY BOOKS!" "My BOOKS! ALL OF MY BOOKS- THEY'RE GONE!" Blinky frets.
"We got away from Toby!" "How could that happen..??"
Then I notice something drip from the rock ceiling onto the table.
"Uhh, Blinky? I think I know where your books are.." I point to the ceiling, where all his books were glued to the top, all over the ceiling.
"All right, I do not know how that boy does it, but it is UNACCEPTABLE!" "That conniving pudgy SNEAK! That SCOUNDREL" Blinky accidentally slams his hand on the stone table where the large glob of glue was.
He realizes his mistake as he struggles to get his hand off, but does not work, he tries and strains trying to get his hand unstuck. And with some more pulling, finally.
Then a piece of paper got stuck on his other arm, starting the whole pattern again, then his other arms got stuck on a smaller, older book he had at his table. And from then on, it just turned into a struggling scene.
"OH NO! He's pranked the library, too," I whisper fearfully, I step closer to the two, complete fear. Jim and Claire nod in agreement.
Just then, Toby barges into the library, feeling absolutely proud of himself.
"Hello, guys!" We all freeze and stare at the pudgy boy as he walks in nonchalantly.
"What'd you guys think of my surprises today?" He asked us.
I scowled deeply at him. My voice starts off calm and sweet, Jim and Claire watch my short-spoken rant, nodding in agreement. "Well, Toby.. I think that your surprises.." Then my voice got really loud and furious.
".. COMPLETELY EMBARRASSED AND HUMILIATED US!" I took a deep breath and stared at him.
"And poor Blinky.. Can't get that book out of his hands.. Because of your 'little prank' Jim says sternly, as he points at Blinky.
"Oh, and don't worry.. I won't do any more pranks.. April Fools Day is almost over..." He says solemnly.
"Good!" We all cheer and laugh and celebrate.
"Don't you all just stand there and do nothing, help me remove this book from my hands!" Blinky grumbles.
Ooops.. I get a small vial from my backpack, where I slowly little bit pour the liquid onto Blinky's blue stone hands, where the book falls flat to the ground.
"Much appreciated, Elizabeth!"
"Well that's great and all, but I have one more surprise for you.. Jimbo"
Jim's eyes widened and he froze as he heard this.
"Y-You do, Tobes?" He smiles nervously.
"Mhm! Since you tried dodging my pranks today.. Pretty good, I'll admit.. you're getting a special treat,"
"Oh, Saraline!" He calls out in a sing-song voice, darkly chuckling. Saraline Timbers comes inside the library with a pie in her hand. Saraline gives Jim a sinister smile.
"Kindly give Jimbo what he deserves," Toby says, pointing to poor Jimbo.
"Okayaaaayyy, I will!" She aims the pie at Jim, which was just about to hit his face, but before it does, Saraline slowly moves the pie, aims it at Toby, and slams him in the face with the pie. The pie makes a loud splat as it hits his face.
Everyone covers their mouths, stifling laughter, some gasps.
"Ready for it, guys?" I ask, everyone nodding together.
"GOTCHA!" We say in unison, pointing our fingers at Toby.
"What?! It was supposed to be JIM!" Toby says as he wipes some whipped cream off his face, then licks his fingers.
"All right all right.. I got it.. But.. I pulled some pretty funny pranks on you guys today, didn't I eh?" He asks us, while laughing.
We all laugh along, nodding. "Yep you did, Toby!" Claire chuckles. "The confetti bomb was hilarious, actually"
"Yeah.. and great job gluing all of Blinky's books up in the ceiling!" I point upwards, everyone else pointing up too, laughing out loud.
"Yep, and Tobias, perhaps you would like to try another 'prank' that would really benefit us all?" Blinky walks up to Toby.
"It's a new one that I have recently invented- Called.. Oh yes, 'Cleaning Up'" He gestures to the books on the ceiling as an example.
Jim, Claire, and I exchange looks- sneaky looks.
"..Yeah and my house could really use this prank.." I suggest, the others nodding along, except Toby who didn't look too happy- he wasn't angry, well he didn't look to be..but he didn't look so amused, basically.
"Maybe my house could use some of that too, Tobes," Jim adds.
"My home would be better decorated and tidied up if you did that, too Toby!" Claire chimed in.
"I think that's a wonderful idea," Saraline gets in on the conversation. Everyone in the library gives Toby a sneaky look.
"All right, all right- Fine, fine, I'll get to cleaning.. Right away.." He goes to grab a bucket and other cleaning supplies.
"Hey, has anyone AARGH?" Jim asks. Everyone else looked around them, shrugging.
"I'm here," We hear his voice, which made us all kind of flinch, hearing him suddenly.
"Hey, uh where were you?" I asked
"Taking. Nap." AARGH replies.
"Cleaning up his mess," I responded, gesturing to a cleaning Toby, scrubbing all the glue from the table.
"We've had a pretty freaky day, huh Trollhunters?" Jim asks us.
"Yes indeed!" "Mhm, yep" Everyone says.
"I got my hair burned, today, that's interesting." I point to my ash scattered hair.
"Whoa.." Jim gasps, lightly touches my burnt hair.
Claire tried to stop her giggling but soon proved contagious as Jim joined in the small chuckling, the Blinky, AARGH, and also Toby, turning into a whole laughing session.
