A/N: I did not intend for this to be my first posted Pokemon fanfic, but...here it is! I did this for school, initially, giving the characters alternate names. But I decided to take it home and embellish on it a bit. I put the characters in a college setting, despite the fact that I'm nowhere near the actual experience of college myself O_O I hope I did okay despite that! Please enjoy, I'll probably have an epilogue up, since the original is just too short…

April Fools

The small-town college campus was abnormally quiet this Sunday night, but it was not at all still. Two lone figures slunk inconspicuously out of one of the dorms, keeping to the shadows as they headed for a small apartment complex a block away.

"Do you have everything, Lyra?" whispered the young man with wild raven hair.

The other student nodded with barely contained excitement, her brown pigtails bouncing with the movement. "Rope, raisins, marker, duct tape, and…what exactly are these, anyway?" she asked, holding up the plastic bag of small brown…objects that Ethan had handed her earlier.

Ethan grinned. "Brown jelly beans. Took me a month to collect 'em."

With that mysterious statement, the two snuck into the complex, using a key to invite themselves into an apartment on the third floor.

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Silver woke up on the morning of April first unsuspecting and unprepared for anything out of the ordinary. Naturally, the first thing that greeted him when he got out of bed and stepped forward was a tumble to the floor. Cursing under his breath, the redhead untangled his foot from the rope trap and clambered off the ground, glaring at the calendar that hung on his wall, which had the date circled in pink marker with the inscription, "Guess who?". The handwriting was unmistakable. He should have known.

Silver warily explored the rest of his apartment, finding several more "surprises," including permanent marker on his face, a raisin in his toothpaste, and his coffee bean pot entirely refilled with a mysterious brown candy.

It got worse, if you could believe it. Silver stepped outside, dreading what he might find. Sure enough, he was met with the sight of Ethan and Lyra standing next to his car, identical stupid grins on his two best friends' faces. His car…was duct-taped. All the way around. Nothing but the windows and mirrors had escaped the familiar silver adhesive. Silver was at a loss for words, fuming silently as he took it all in. Ethan, however, was bound by no such silence.

"April Fools!" the raven-haired teen called cheekily. Famous last words.

Ethan and Lyra took off, sensing the oncoming chase. Silver tore after them in hot pursuit.

Someone wouldn't live to see their next exam.