Sunday morning began with a jump. Or rather a tap on the door. The imaginary door, not our door.

I jumped at the loud knocking sound coming from under my bed.

Do you want to build a snowman...

"Turn that off!" Harriet, another of our doormates, yelled from across the room.

I never see you anymore...

I rolled out of bed and crouched down on my knees to peer under my bed. Bingo! There was a speaker.

We used to be best buddies...

I lunged for the off button blocking out Frozen. A sigh of relief filled the room.

"I think that was a pretty considerate song choice to wake us up to." June hopped down from the top bunk. "Though it is only 7am."

"Time to go back to sleep." Holly groaned, pulling a pillow over her head.

I heard my phone chime and picked it up, seeing a text from an unknown number.

I groaned. How on earth had Griffin got ahold of my number? Here I was trying to ignore him and yet somehow he'd managed to get even closer. A shiver went through me as I remembered what had happened yesterday.

Griffin had kissed Brittney.

Ugh. Today I was not going to let him get under my skin. He was my rival and that was it, nothing more. I could handle him and his pranks with my head held high.

My phone buzzed again as another text came through.

I looked up. "June, I don't think this prank is over yet."

"Oh?" I showed her my phone and her eyes widened. "Oh."

"Yeah oh." I laughed.

June waggled her eyebrows. "I didn't realise you'd given him your number."

"I didn't. Someone else must have."

"We should go see what he's talking about." June moved to go open the dorm door.

"Wait!" I raised my voice and she turned back. "Let's get dressed first. I can't let Griffin see me in my PJ's."

June looked me up and down. "Fair enough, he'd never let you live it down."

It was bad enough that Griffin had seen my princess bra. If he saw that I also had Disney themed PJ's I don't know what he'd do. I began pulling on shorts and a light t-shirt. Today we were going down to the lake that was on the school grounds.

"Am I forgetting anything?" June asked looking into her bag. "I have my towel, bikini and water bottle."

I slung my own bag over my shoulder. "Well if you've forgotten anything then I have too because I have exactly that."

"And we're returning here before we set up our tents this evening?"

I nodded. "Yep."

Tonight marked the beginning of capture-the-flag. Well kinda. The game properly began at dawn tomorrow but today the opening bonfire would happen followed by a night spent in tents.

My phone began buzzing again on my bed and I picked it up again to see more messages from Griffin.

I decided it was time to put him out of his misery.

I wouldn't have pegged you as a double texter.

Scratch that, a septuple texter.

I saved his number on my phone as Shoulder-basher then looked up to see June by the dorm door. "Shall we face part two?"

"I'm ready for battle." She pulled open the door and we both peeked out into the hallway, ready to slam the door quickly shut again if need be.

For a few seconds I could see nothing out the ordinary then my eyes widened as I saw the floor. Or should I say, the lack of floor. Covering the ground and blocking the entire corridor were thousands of cups filled to the brim with water.

"No," June groaned. "I'm starving. It's going to take ages to get through this."

Griffin and Oscar rounded the corner at the end corridor where the cups finally ended. Griffin waved. "We thought we'd bring the lake to you this morning rather than making you go the distance."

"How considerate," I called back.

"How are we going to get through this?" June asked.

I stood there, thinking. It wasn't like we could move cups to the sides and clear a path. There quite literally wasn't any room between them.

"Do we have any containers in the dorm?" I asked.

June's face lit up. "The laundry trugs."

"Perfect."

We quietly dashed back into our dorm, trying not to disturb the people who had gone back to sleep.

"Hiding in your room won't make the cups vanish," Oscar shouted after us.

"No but I wish you would," June muttered and I laughed.

We returned to the corridor a minute later now armed with plastic laundry trugs. "Game on boys."

If either of them were surprised at our thinking they didn't show it, instead they laughed and walked away with smug smiles plastered on their faces. June and I began tunneling a way through the plastic cups, pouring the water into the trugs with only a few spills onto the ground.

"Not gonna lie, I think the boys pranked themselves with this one," June said and I knew exactly what she meant.

"Can you just imagine them last night while we're peacefully asleep, filling cups with water then having to spend the time here putting them in place."

"We definitely got the better end of the stick."

After about ten minutes we'd made a pretty good path through the cups, and our trugs were now full of water.

"Tonight we'll get them back for this."

"Yes we will." June tucked a stray strand of dark hair behind her ear. "Now can we please go eat breakfast, I'm starving."

We tipped the water from the trugs down the bathroom sink then made our way to the great hall. When we arrived we spotted Noah already there, sitting at our table eating breakfast. His hair was messy and his face held a slight morning puffiness.

"You're here early," June observed. "And look exhausted."

"I needed to escape my dorm room," Noah said, munching on cornflakes. "It was getting chaotic in there."

We sat down next to Noah. "We've also had a chaotic start to the day."

"What happened?" he asked.

I began pouring milk onto my cereal. "Griffin and Oscar filled our corridor with cups of water."

His eyes widened. "So that's what the water was for."

June turned to him. "What do you mean?"

"Griffin got me to fill some buckets of water for him last night."

"And you did?" I exclaimed.

"I owed him a favour," Noah explained.

June clutched her chest as if in pain. "The betrayal."

Noah laughed. "Don't worry, I'm still on Team Apocalypse."

"Where is the final member?" I asked.

"Ruben's biology experiment was moved to today," Noah explained.

I laughed. "He must be so happy. He did not want to go swimming in the cold lake that could cause frostbite just looking at it. His words, not mine."

June took a sip of water. "Today we shall be the three amigos."

We ate breakfast then began making our way outside.

"Ladies first," said Noah, pulling open the door.

I grinned. "Thank you oh kind one."

June and I stepped outside and—

Sparkles exploded in a cloud around us.

"What the heck!" I stumbled a few feet, coughing and trying to brush away the glitter that was falling from the sky.

From behind me I heard Noah still safely in the doorway say, "Oops."

The glitter torrent finally stopped enough for me to look up at the perpetrators. There, leaning out the first floor window with their hands full of the remains of popped balloons, was Griffin and Oscar grinning wildly.

We'd been glitter bombed.

"I think the score is now 5:4," Griffin said.

Somehow in the span of an hour he'd managed to pull two pranks on me.

"Not for long," I replied.

"Correct. Soon I'll overtake you." Griffin winked. "Don't let anyone dull your sparkle, princess."