Secret Plan: Write this blog before Mum finds out that I flooded the bathroom because I forgot to turn the bath taps off.
We had meant to play a trick on Arabella when we suddenly remembered what day it was yesterday! So we forgot all about silly sisters and spent the week planning for it. And it was worth it.
Yesterday was the last day of school – and APRIL FOOLS DAY! The gargoylz were so excited. It’s almost better than Christmas for a gargoyle because they play even more tricks than usual. We had to go to school but it didn’t matter because Max and I had thought up the most fantastic trick ever for the gargoylz to do.
We decided to turn the school hall into a rainforest. (As we’ve been doing a project about rainforests we thought it would be quite educational.) First of all Cyrus went round the school singing everyone to sleep, including the teachers. He had to keep going up and down the corridors as his power doesn’t last very long. While he was doing that, me and Max and the gargoylz got soil and plants from the playground and decorated the whole hall. The wall bars made excellent trees when we’d put ivy all over them, and you couldn’t see the floor at all. It was completely covered in earth and leaves (and so was the piano). Our rainforest looked fantastic, especially when Ira flapped his wings to make it rain and Azzan breathed fire and turned it all into steam.
Then Max and I sneaked back to class as everyone woke up. The bell rang for the end of term assembly and we all had to go to the hall. We remembered to look surprised and not giggle when we went in and joined the rest of the kids who were gawping in amazement at the steamy green forest. Then Toby flapped past, wearing one of the vicar’s bright holiday shirts and looking like a cockatoo. Eli turned into a snake and slithered about – making all the silly girls shriek. Bart burped up some of his best spiders and Theo tried to turn into a rainforest tiger. Zack popped invisible and ran around with some paper butterflies. The other gargoylz made loud monkey noises.
Mrs Hogsbottom rushed in, slipped on the rainforest floor and fell flat on her face! She looked very funny covered in mud and shrieking ‘Outrageous!’ She was just about to think up a terrible punishment for the whole school as we had broken school rule number six hundred and seventy-four – children must not make rainforests on school property – when Barney came to the rescue. He did one of his stinkiest bottom burps ever, and we all ran out. And just in time as Lucinda Tellingly was telling Mrs Hogsbum that she thought Max and I had done the forest. She even said it was the sort of horrible thing we’d do. We won’t forget that, Lucinda!
When we saw the gargoylz after school we all agreed it was the best April Fools Day in the history of best April Fools Days.
I’m going to meet Max now. His gran – codename:supercook – is going to make hot cross buns as it’s Good Friday! Uh oh. I can hear someone squelching along the landing. Mum’s been in the bathroom. Now she’s coming to find me. Signing off in a hurry and going to hide in the wardrobe.
