Theme 50 - Breaking the Rules

“Bato!” Hakoda slung his arm casually over his friend’s shoulder, a devious grin plastered on his features. The pair had just finished their last day of cleaning the weapons hut as per their punishment and it seemed that Hakoda already had their next prank in mind. Since the pair had became teenagers, Hakoda became the mastermind behind their pranks and Bato went along with them just because he wanted to make sure Hakoda didn’t do anything too stupid. That and he would do anything Hakoda asked him to. Their first prank had involved a few gull-geese they had rounded up and released into the women’s bath house, back when they were thirteen. It had earned them three weeks worth of garbage disposal, but it had been worth it to watch the women flee out of the bath house, half-naked and screaming as the gull-geese chased them. In the three years since that first prank, the boys began to pull off pranks at least once a month, ranging from “the Living Snowman” to “the Bear-Seal in the Dining Hall”. (The Bear-Seal had been a dead, stuffed one, not a real one. The boys were pranksters, not idiots.) Their last prank, resentfully dubbed “the Great Blubber Fiasco” , had been their greatest to date, officially earning the boys their titles as the “Legendary Pranksters”. But that one is a long story. Perhaps it’ll be told another time. ;D

“What are we going to do this time?” Bato said with a slight sigh, imagining what task might be given to them for their next punishment. At first the elders had given them punishments of extra chores in hope that the boys would be kept busy enough that they wouldn’t have time to pull off anymore pranks. After several pranks, however, they saw that wasn’t going to be the case and began to use the punishments as a way to push off unwanted jobs onto the pair, such as cleaning the public huts and garbage detail.

“This one won’t get us into too much trouble, I swear!”

Oh how many times Bato had heard that one. He shook his head and chuckled, “Just give me the details.”

Hakoda’s grin widened as he leaned closer and began to whisper the plan to his partner-in-crime, who added some details of his own too it.  Bato knew they would get in trouble for it, but, at the same time,  he just didn’t care. If it meant he could spend time with Hakoda, he would gladly break all the rules in the world.