Rough Draft 400

Jay Goldstein
Creative Writing
Oetter P3
9/29/09

The Prank
The Highland Park skate park also known by its formal name as Sunset Food’s Skate Park has always been a place where pranks come to reality and this place is my home away form home. When my sister who likes to think she skateboards decided to spend one of her days back at home from college for the weekend at the skate park she was the next person in line for surprise.
My sister, Marlo, is a extremely smart individual, but her school smarts could not have helped her against this prank, common sense could have. When my sister decided to grab some lunch at Sunset Foods, less than 100 yards away, she asked to borrow a fellow skateboarders bike (race style bike, expensive).
The prank only entered my head minutes after my sister left for Sunset Foods. I may have been the brains behind the operation, but I did have associates to complete the mission, friends Ian and Noah. The plan was to go get the bike from the grocery store and bring it back to the skate park without my sisters knowledge, making her think the bike was stolen.
Part I The Steal) Ian and Noah ride their skateboards over to Sunset Foods and retrieve the bike. A few minutes after Ian and Noah had left for the bike I realized that Luke, owner of bike, had given Marlo a lock. I made the phone call to Ian and Noah to disclose the combination to them, but while waiting for Ian to pickup I witnessed the two riding the bike into the park, both of them squeezed on the bike. Now Marlo is smart, but this was to hard for her, my sister had locked the bike up, but the frame was exposed and Ian and Noah only had to loop the lock around and the bike was free.
Part II The Bluff) Ian, Noah, Luke, and I knew that my sister would call us right away after she realized that the bike was missing. Within five minutes of Ian and Noah taking the bike my sister called Luke’s cell phone. She right away suspected that we were playing a prank on her, but with Luke going along with the plan he told her that his bike wasn’t at the skate park, when indeed it was.
Part III The Thief) My plan went into its next mission setting Marlo up to catch the thief. Our friend Dylan agreed to dress up in baggy clothes and ride Luke’s bike around the grocery store parking lot.
Part IV The Conclusion) Dylan arrived back at the park to tell us that while riding the bike around he was followed by a cop in the parking lot. We all began to worry now that maybe Marlo had called the police. Right as these thoughts rushed through our heads Marlo came walking down the hill to the skate park. To my surprise Marlo found the prank rather funny considering at least we got to the bike before someone who really wanted to steal it did.