“I know a song that gets on every body’s nerves, every body’s nerves, every body’s…Mommy! She hit me!” That was Rebekah and Hayley’s annoying little sister banana head, I mean Bannah. She was singing that annoying stupid song at 2:00 in the morning on a Saturday, so they had a very good reason to hit her. And before we go any farther, Rebekah and Hayley are 12 year old twins.
Their mom came up the stairs. You could tell she had just gotten up. Her eyes were half open, and her hair was sticking up like she got electrocuted. Her voice sounded sleepy.
“What’s going on?” she said, “Oh never mind, I’m going back to bed and don’t bug me again,” Then there was a slam, then a click as she locked the door, and then like 2 seconds later snoring.
“Now we we’re trapped with Banana head, or not,” Rebekah and Hayley said at the same time. They opened the window and stepped onto the window sill.
“Okay, so we’re going to land right…” Rebekah started to say and all of a sudden they were flying, I mean falling, unfortunately. They were planning to fall onto the trampoline, but they grabbed onto a tree branch just before they hit the ground.
“I’m alive,” said Rebekah in relief.
“It’s a miracle,” said Hayley, also in relief.
“I think you missed!” Bannah called, or should I say, banana head. Then she threw down all of their stuff and they ended up sleeping outside. It was something like camping except they were fighting until morning about what they were going to do to get revenge on Banana head.
The next morning they woke up to their baby sister, Liza, screaming. They walked over to pick up the phone but when they picked it up they heard their mom screaming for help to the hospital lady.
“I know, I know you have a rule for children. I’ll just get my older kids to baby-sit…..BEEEEPPPP.” Then the girls hung up the phone and stared at each other in disbelief. They couldn’t believe they had to baby-sit their little sister who had pushed them out a two story window and nearly killed them! Who knows what she would do next.
Rebekah and Hayley came into the kitchen to find a note that was mostly scribbles. The only thing they could read was Rebekah, Hayley, baby-sit Bannah, and Mom. They looked at each other. “So it is true,” whined Hayley, just before they fainted.
Hayley and Rebekah woke up to Bannah singing at the top of her lungs, “I’m going to have a party; I’m going to have a party, oh look! It’s my party!”
The door bell rang, and before they could get the door, it flew open. Tons of kids marched in. “I don’t even know half of them,” Rebekah whispered to Hayley.
“Buggily, boggily, boo! Buggily, boggily, boo!” shouted the kids.
“I’ve got it!” said Hayley, “We can take the kids on a long walk to the park, and then they’ll get tired and not get into mischief,”
“And we can get our revenge,” added Rebekah.
So they rounded up the kids and started walking. “This is the song that never ends; it just goes on and on my friends! People started singing it not knowing what is was, they’ll continue singing it forever just because this is the song…hey look! It’s the park!” And the kids took off running. They jumped all over the play structure.
“Time for our revenge!” whispered Hayley and Rebekah. And they ran back home.
“I know we could sneak out right now, but I really want to swim in the lake,” Rebekah was saying to Hayley back at home. “Besides, you know how much trouble we would be in if Banana head told mom,”
“Oh fine,” Hayley said “Just let me get my swimming suit,”
Both girls stepped into the murky water and walked deeper until they were almost swimming. Then suddenly a dark fin appeared. Then another, and another, and before more than a few seconds there were at least 20. “Sharks!!” screamed Hayley.
“Run!!” Rebekah yelled. They splashed back, until they were almost out of the water when they tripped, fell, and broke their arms. They looked up to see if the sharks were following them, but now instead of sharks there was Bannah and her friends. They were wearing goggles that had shark fins attached to the back.
“You’re going to pay for this!” Hayley and Rebekah shouted. Then they had to call the kids’ parents to tell them the party was over because their mom wasn’t there and they had broken their arms.
“Sharks! Ouch, ooh, you’re going to pay for this, Sharks! Ouch, ooh, you’re going to pay for this, Sharks! Ouch, ooh, you’re going to pay for this, Sharks! Ouch, ooh, you’re going to pay for this, Sharks! Ouch, Hey stop kicking me!” Banana head sang in mimicking voice all the way home. Well, until the kicking part, because Rebekah and Hayley really had kicked her.
“I don’t get why she has to make such a big deal about the whole thing,” Hayley said.
“Yeah, it’s not like she hasn’t played a trick on us before,” agreed Rebekah
Suddenly Banana head ran to the door and slammed it.
“What was that all about?” asked Rebekah. Hayley shrugged and reached out to open the door. But it wouldn’t budge, it was locked! The girls ran around and tried the other doors.
“What about the windows?” suggested Hayley. They tried those, but they were locked too.
“Great,” said Rebekah sarcastically. But Hayley didn’t seem to be listening.
“I’ve got it!” she shouted.
“Huh? Got what?” asked Rebekah.
“Our revenge, what else?” Hayley said. Then she told Rebekah her plan.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Goodinger, Hayley and Rebekah’s mom, was sitting in a chair in the waiting room. Finally, after what seemed like hours a nurse came up to her to report on Liza. “We’ll keep her here overnight and see how she’s doing then,” the nurse said. Then quick as a flash, she was gone.
Mrs. Goodinger pulled out her cell phone to call Hayley and Rebekah. The phone rang eight times and a kid’s voice came on. “Hello, if you want to talk to Hayley or Rebekah, they’re down in the dungeon. If you want to talk to mom or Liza, they’re having brain surgery. And if you want to talk to Bannah, she’s a beautiful princess and is too busy to talk to you,” Mrs. Goodinger hung up and started pushing buttons again.
Bannah looked out the window down at her silly sisters. They were running around, trying all the doors. Then they went over to the neighbor’s house and rang the door bell. “Uh-oh” she whispered to herself, and ran for a place to hide. Under the kitchen sink? Too dark. . . If there was one thing Banana head was afraid of was being alone in the dark. The clothes hamper? Perfect. After crouching under dirty clothes for about an hour, Bannah decided Hayley and Rebekah hadn’t been getting the neighbors to come inside and get her.
She decided to make a trap for her sisters. First she tied a rope across the bottom of the door, so when Rebekah or Hayley walked in they would trip on the rope and fall splat into the transparent-extra-sticky-slime that she had spread all over the floor. But now she needed something to make sure they didn’t look at the rope. So she went into the kitchen and took out the ketch-up, mustard, and a banana. She squirted the ketch-up and mustard all over the wall you would see first when you opened the door. Then she took the banana and smashed it on the wall with the ketch-up and mustard. Bannah reached to unlock the door, but then changed her mind. She would let Hayley and Rebekah sleep outside, and then let them trip on her rope and fall into the slime. In the meantime, she had some other tricks to get ready.
Banana head dashed up stairs. Then she ran back down stairs, with a bottle of shaving cream in her hand. She made two ice cream sundaes. But instead of whipped cream she put shaving cream. Next she set out two sodas. She dumped half a bottle of olive oil into each soda.
Then she went upstairs and dug around in her room until she found two whoopi cushions. Bannah placed those under Rebekah and Hayley’s pillows. Banana head ran back into her room to find some more slime to pour all over Hayley and Rebekah’s double bed. She was just reaching for it when there was the sound of breaking glass. She turned around just in time to see a big, dark, scary, arm-less monster float in through the window. She screamed and screamed and screamed, but nobody came to help her. Then as suddenly as it had appeared, the monster was gone. But now bugs flew in through the window. Spiders, cockroaches, worms, centipedes and lots of other bugs. And she ran screaming the whole way down to the kitchen.
Hayley was trying not to laugh as Rebekah moved the big armless monster puppet they had borrowed, around in Bannah’s room. They smiled at each other with satisfaction as they heard her screaming. There were two reasons Hayley couldn’t laugh. One was that she would give them away and two was she might let go of the rope that held Rebekah up to Bannah’s window on the second floor, and then Rebekah would come crashing down. Apparently Bannah had gone as far as the monster puppet could go so Rebekah pulled the monster puppet back through the window and Hayley lowered her down then strapped the rope to herself as Rebekah pulled her up to the window where she could throw the rubber bugs. “She ran into the kitchen,” Hayley whispered as Rebekah lowered her down. So they took off.
Bannah kept running and screaming until she was in the kitchen. “This song goes on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever, this song goes on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever, this song goes on forever and--what was that?!” Bannah sang softly to her self, until she heard a loud creaking noise. There it was again. And again. Now there was a scraping noise. Then a twig breaking, and now a ghost “Boo”ing. Then as suddenly as the noises had started, they stopped. Bannah looked around and spotted two ice cream sundaes and sodas. They were the very same ones Bannah had set up as a trap, but she was too freaked out to think clearly. So she sat down and took a big bite, then she spit it back out. The whipped cream tasted like soap for some odd reason. She shrugged and took a sip of the soda. Yuck! Banana head choked and coughed. Then it came to her. This was the trap she had set out for Hayley and Rebekah. But she was too scared to fix it now.
Rebekah and Hayley dashed around to the kitchen. They took out the tape player they had borrowed and put in the tape of creaking noises, then switched it off. Then Rebekah scraped the side of the house with her finger nails. When she stopped, Hayley carefully broke a twig in half. Then they took the tape player again and popped in a tape with ghost noises. Then they watched, trying not to laugh as Banana head took a bite of the ice cream sundae in front of her then spit it out. Next she took a sip of soda, and Rebekah and Hayley watched as she gagged and coughed.
“Hey look, the phone’s right next to her,” Rebekah turned to Hayley “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” she said.
Hayley took out her cell phone “uh-huh,” she said. And then she started dialing the Goodinger’s phone number.
Bannah jumped as the phone rang. Cautiously she made her way over to the phone and picked it up on the 4th ring.
“Hello,” said the person on the other line “Is your toilet running?”
“Um, well, yes,” Bannah said.
“Then you’d better go catch it!” the other person said and hung up. Bannah had just put the phone down when it rang again.
“Hello,” she said.
“Come out side or you’ll be sorry,” the other person on the phone said in a ghostly voice. Bannah hung up the phone and stood there trying to decide what to do. But it turns out, she didn’t do anything. Well, other than collapse on the floor and faint.
Sunlight was just starting to stream in through the windows when Bannah woke up. She suddenly remembered her plan, and went to unlock the door. After she did that she remembered last night’s ghostly experience. So she ran upstairs to hide in the laundry hamper.
Hayley peaked through the window just in time to Bannah run and disappear into the laundry. “That was the last trick, right?” she said.
“Yeah, too bad, those tricks were fun,” Rebekah said.
Then they heard the sound of a car driving up. Their mom got out, and left Liza in the back seat. Mrs. Goodinger flung open the door and gasped. Rebekah and Hayley crept closer to see what was so surprising. Then they saw it too. The wall was covered with ketch-up, mustard, and smashed banana. Mrs. Goodinger took a step forward, her eyes still on the wall. Then suddenly she screamed as she tripped over a rope tied to the bottom of the door and fell right into a pile of super sticky invisible slime.
Bannah ran downstairs at the sound of her mom screaming. “Oh, sorry mom, I forgot to tell--, I mean how did that rope and slime get there? I don’t have that much sticky slime--, I mean; I don’t have any slime,” she said, trying to look innocent.
“Bannah,” Mrs. Goodinger said in a warning voice. She was about to say something else when she noticed Hayley and Rebekah’s arms were in casts. “How did you break them?” she asked.
“After you left Bannah called up a bunch of friends without permission. We took them to the park,” Hayley explained.
“And they put on goggles that had shark fins on the back, so we thought there were sharks and we ran and fell,” Rebekah added.
“I would never do a thing like that,” Bannah said.
“Yeah you would,” Hayley and Rebekah said.
“No I wouldn’t,” Bannah said.
“Uh-huh!”
“Nuh-uh.”
“You would too.”
“I would not!”
“Yeah you would! We have proof--just search her room,” Hayley and Rebekah said.
So Mrs. Goodinger searched, and she found all kinds of stuff: sneezing powder, bottles and bottles of slime, a couple ropes, some dirty jeans, a bottle of shaving cream, a disappearing ink pen, a pair of shark goggles, Mrs. Goodinger’s missing cell phone and its phone bill, just to name a few. Plus there were the rubber bugs Rebekah and Hayley had thrown in the night before. Mrs. Goodinger made sure everything that Bannah might use for pranks was cleared out.
So that night Rebekah and Hayley went to bed laughing to themselves about how well their revenge had worked out, and about how Bannah was probably going to be grounded until she was 35.
Bannah went to bed angry and frustrated because all of her favorite pranks had been taken away, and she was going to be grounded for 3 years, maybe more.
And Mrs. Goodinger went to bed feeling relieved that she had sorted out the problem.
So Rebekah and Hayley never had to be worried about Bannah again, except, maybe for her annoying songs.
THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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