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“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” — Artemus Ward aka Charles Farrar Brown
Ryan walked into the office that morning tired and stressed. He knew he’d have a lot of work to get done today, and he barely got any sleep from a small cough he had acquired. He really wasn’t in the mood for any joking.
His chair was on the opposite side of the room for some reason, and he rolled his eyes, suspecting Gavin. He didn’t expect anything to happen when he grabbed his chair, didn’t know he had pulled rope attached to it that would trigger a hastily made trap that sent a gallon of water gushing onto his head.
When it happened, Geoff erupted into laughter. Ryan sighed, looking down at his chair and his other hand, where his laptop had been in his hand. He sucked in a sharp breath. It was soaked. He wanted to scream, but he took a moment. Then he whirled around, facing Gavin. “Gavin,” he said, deadly calm.
The prank had been hell to set up.
Originally it was something that Geoff mentioned to him, talking about old cartoons where a rope trap dumped a whole lot of water over some poor sap’s head. It wasn’t something that generally happened in real life, and that was why Gavin was determined to make it happen. The fact that it was Ryan who was to be the victim was just a circumstance of chance, really. He’d grabbed the chair, dragging it across the room.
It was done quickly, with the occasional snarkily-given advice from Geoff. Which didn’t prove to be very helpful, since his tips frequently contradicted each other. So Gavin ended up ignoring him completely, hastily rigging up the rope and bucket of water. He’d just barely settled down into his own chair—couldn’t have Ryan trying to steal his in revenge and ruining the entire prank—when Ryan came in.
It was well worth the effort. Initially at least.
Both Geoff and Gavin burst into laughter, although the older man’s quickly drowned out his own. Brilliant. It was the most ridiculous idea, the oldest trick in the book according to Geoff, but it had been glorious.
Still coming down from his fit of laughter, the deadly calm in Ryan’s voice didn’t even register with Gavin.
“Yeah, Ryan?” he replied, wiping away tears as he tried to regain control of himself.
Ryan did not find it funny.He brushed back his sopping wet hair. If Gavin kept laughing, there was no telling what he may do. Instead Ryan counted slowly in his head, and allowed Gavin’s giggles to fade.
There was an eerie silence in the room.
Ryan opened his mouth, ready to to say something. Then, deciding that whatever would come out of his mouth would not resolve the situation, he instead held up his dripping laptop for all to see. He shot the most menacing glare he could at Gavin, trying to get the message across.