Oh, I was a cruel kid back in the day.
Way back in high school, I once played a week-long April Fool's prank on my best friend that's a girl (we're still close as ever these days). We had been tight ever since we were tots. But once day I was like..."I'm gonna **** with her head."
So I got the idea that I would pretend that she did something horrible to me. I just stopped really talking to her one day. And whenever she tried to talk to me I'd brush her off and ignore her. I started off light. However, as the days went on, I started adding to my onslaught. For instance, she tried saying something to me, but I cut her off with " -- Meghan. How could you?" And then I stormed off.
She was literally going crazy over this, and she actually started to believe she did something wrong. I kept adding more phrases, like "I thought you were my friend", and I kept getting noticeably more angry at her.
So this built up for an entire week, and then April Fool's Day came along. I don't think she eve realized what day it was, because she reached the boiling point in the hallway.
She grabbed my arm and whipped me around and started screaming at me.
"Alright, you have to tell me what's going on right now! I would never do anything to hurt -- "
"Meghan, I never though you would do anything like this to me," I said.
"I'm sorry! What did I do?? You have to tell me!"
"Oh, you don't know? YOU DON'T KNOW??? Well, April Fool's."
I've never seen such a reaction from anyone. She stood their for a moment in shock. And then she started screaming at me with vulgar language and began to beat the hell out of me in the hallway in front of all my former schoolmates.
It was really mean of me to put her through that, but it was all worth it just to see her reaction. And the crowd in the hallway loved that final scene. But I was proud of myself for keeping up that charade for a full week.