Excerpt from ZOEY 101: PRANKS FOR NOTHING
by Jane Mason and Sara Hines Stephens
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“I can’t believe it!” The next morning, Chase stood in the front of his dorm shaking his head at the freaky sight he saw before him. He should have been mad, but he could not wipe the smile off his face. When was he going to learn not to underestimate the girls at PCA?
“They’re not supposed to prank us back!” Logan said angrily. He could not not believe what he was seeing. “That’s against PCA tradition!”
“Yeah,” Michael agreed, tapping a finger on his chin as he eyed the statue. “But he does look kinda cute.”
The gilded statue of Clarence T. Bradford, the founding father of Pacific Coast Academy, had undergone an extreme makeover. He was porting a pink tie-dyed dress, a wig, and full makeup. He even had ribbons in his curly new hair. Every boy in the quad stopped to stare — they couldn’t get over the new look.
“Mornin’ boys,” Zoey called casually as she walked past the boys’ dorm on her way to class with a bunch of her dorm mates.
“Hey, nice statue!” Nicole called, pretending she was just noticing it for the first time.
“It really makes your dorm look special,” Dana said, holding back a laugh. The look on Logan’s face, in particular, was priceless.
“Hey, Logan, is that your dress on him?” Zoey asked. That id it. The girls cracked up.
Logan wheeled around angrily. “You’re not supposed to prank us back,” he complained.
Zoey lifted her eyebrows, but before she could launch into it with Logan, a golf cart pulled up and Dean Rivers got out, followed by a very angry-looking man in a charcoal-gray suit. With them were Dean Rivers’s secretary and a photographer.
“Uh-oh,” Dana said softly. Dean Rivers looked shocked. His secretary looked appalled. The photographer simply looked through his lens at the well-dressed statue and started clicking away.
“Rivers!” the man in the suit was suddenly as red as his necktie. “Would you care to tell me why the statue of my father is wearing — that?!” he stammered, clearly horrified.
“Uh . . .” The dean looked around, hoping to find an answer on the students’ faces.
Zoey and the girls tried to act casual, but inside Zoey was wigging out. This was not good. Operation Prank-Back had backfired . . . big-time!
“Oh, Daddy,” Mr. Bradford cried, stepping closer to his father’s gilded form, “what have they done to you!?”
The photographer circled the statue, still snapping away in an effort to capture every angle. Panicked, Dean Rivers snatched the camera from him.
“Don’t take pictures!” he snarled. This was not a moment he wanted to remember.
“Here, let me get this off of you,” Mr. Bradford said to his “father” as he reached up to pull the dress away. But what was underneath was even worse — matching underwear!
“Undergarments!” Mr. Bradford screamed in horror. He looked like a volcano about to erupt. And judging from the expression on his face, Dean Rivers was about to blow his top, too.
From Zoey 101: Pranks for Nothing. Copyright © 2006 Duo Entertainment Vertriebs GmbH. All rights reserved.
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