When Pranks Get Out of Hand...

The other day, I got a text message on my phone from an unknown contact, saying something to this effect: " Hey Chrissy, and how are you this fine afternoon? Bet you can't guess who this is! Mwahahahahahahaha! Text back. www.cbfsms.com ". I was completely freaked out, and accused Briony and Becky of this mischief, who both denied it. When Becky got one similar a few minutes later we charged into Bri's room and found the web site on her history, which was a free sms messaging service.

A plan emerged to text Jennie (who was in Nottingham visiting a friend at the time), pretending to be the 'bum-fluff' guy whom she pulled at the chippy the other week. We gave her Ian's number (with Ian's consent, of course) to text back on, but never thought that she would do.

Well, she did. She also text poor Ian at 3am on Monday night when we came in from a night out at Kingdom. He wasn't best pleased.

So.. we had to tell her the truth. I never once thought she might text him back cos she'd remained defiant that she didn'f fancy him and couldn't remember what he even looked like.

We agonised all Tuesday about how to call it off. We had the following ideas:

a. Steal her phone and delete the number
b. Text her from the website pretending to be an outside authoriy and reminding her that texting mingers is a criminal offence
c. Get Ian to text her and call it off
d. Just sit her down and tell her the honest truth

It happened when she came home from swing dancing. Briony did most of the talking, solely because Becky and I would've been laughing if we'd said anything. At first I thought she was going to be really angry, but she was great... She just laughed it off and expressed her suspicions.
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I was just so worried about how she'd react. If it had been me I would've reacted inone of two ways:

a. If I hadn't fancied him I'd have run home wuith my phone outstretched in my hand and been screaming: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh that minger from the chippy has just text me! What do I do!" and probably nothing would've come of it.
b. If I had fancied him I'd have been really upset and angry to find out my friends played a trick on me.

And because it seemed Jennie did fancy him (cos she text him back), this was why I was terrified of telling her.

So, the moral of the story is... Don't play tricks on your friends!