Piper POV:

Today was the day that my plan was to be set into action.

Last Monday, James decided that it would be a funny prank to steal my schedule and mess up my school binder.

I take my schedules very seriously but surprisingly, I was so used to my schedule that it wasn't difficult to get my daily activities done.

But what annoyed me the most was him messing up my binder. It had my school timetable, all of my assignment papers and loose pieces of work in it- all in a specific order.

When he finally gave me back my things, it took me three good hours to reorganise it. To say that I was furious was an understatement, so I decided to get him back.

One of James's fears, thanks to Riley, is waxing. She made him do it one time and it scarred him for life. His words not mine.

Last night, I snuck into his bathroom and replaced his shaving cream with waxing gel. I made sure that he wouldn't realise a thing.

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It was like 10 in the morning at our house, Riley had slept over, and I was downstairs, smiling like a chesire cat, at the sound of James unknowingly squirting the waxing gel. It echoed through the quiet house as my parents had already gone to work.

"Hey, P." Riley said as she sat next to me on the couch. "Guess what?" I asked, excitedly. "What?" She said, getting excited for what I was going to tell her.

"I finally thought of the perfect prank for James! I swapped his shaving cream for waxing gel." I explained, happily; she already knew about what James did to my binder and schedule, and as an organised person herself, Riley was not happy. So for the past few days, we had been brainstorming ideas.

"Oooh, he's not going to enjoy this one! Nice job, Pipes." She replied as I laughed.

"Piper!" I heard James yell, as he stomped down the stairs. Riley held in her laughter and quickly filled her mouth with cereal as I just smiled innocently.

"Don't give me that look. What did you do to my shaving cream?! It's really sticky and I tried to wash it off with water and it won't come off!" He complained as I smirked.

"You can't wash it off. The only way to get rid off it, is to peel it off. That's how waxing works." I said, before whispering the last part. Riley burst out laughing at James's face; he looked bewildered.

"What is wrong with you?! How am I supposed to just peel it off?!" He asked, angrily. "Yay, this is where I come in!" Riley exclaimed, excited at having another chance to introduce James to the world of waxing.

She began to talk to him whilst dragging him up the stairs as I laughed and he mouthed the word, "Help!".

I quickly ran to the kitchen and grabbed a packet of crisps, since I needed something noisy, and then I turned up the volume of the TV. I sat down and noisily ate my crisps, succeeding in drowning out the screams of my older brother.

After about ten or so minutes, he came downstairs scowling, with Riley, practically bouncing beside him, a giddy smile on her face. "See James, that wasn't so bad!" She exclaimed, as James shot her a look.

"My face and my pits are on fire!" He shouted, glaring at me as I shrugged. "I'll get you back for that, Pipes. Just wait and see." He said, smirking at me. That was probably the most extreme prank that I've ever pulled on James, but it was so much fun to see his reaction.

"I'm sure that I can handle whatever James decides to do next." I thought to myself as I continued to chat with Riley and a sulking James, who was still in pain, with red patches littered all over his face.

The rest of the day was great, which really unprepared me for the next day.

I knew that James was going to get me back but I wish I at least had some idea of what was going to happen next.

The next day:

Today was a beautiful day and Lauren and Julia were visiting from their universities. Lauren and Julia love Riley a lot, so she slept over again, much to my delight.

"Why are your pancakes so much better than mine?" I whined at breakfast as Julia laughed. "I have a special secret recipe." She said, winking, as I rolled my eyes and laughed.

"Pipes, your fluffy, bunny slippers are in the bathroom upstairs. Riley accidently left them there." James said to me once everyone started talking to each other.

I should've known something was up but I didn't because me and Riley always wear each others shoes; perks of having the same sized feet.

So I shrugged to myself and walked to the bathroom. As soon as I opened the door, I felt myself being shoved inside and then I heard the door being locked from the outside. I twisted the doorknob and knocked on the door, several times.

"James! This is not funny! Open the door!" I called out as I heard my brother's laugh. "No! And by the way, you're not alone in there." He shouted back to me as I stood there confused.

Not alone? What does he mean by-

My thoughts were cut off by the sound of something scuttling across the bathroom floor. "I know that sound, why do I know that sound?" I thought to myself as I begged it to not be what I thought it was.

I looked at the corner of the bathroom and there it was; a hairy, fat, ugly tarantula. Its eight beady eyes were trained on me and it took all of my willpower to not scream.

I have a huge fear of spiders. In my whole family and in A troupe, only me, Lauren, Riley, Amy and Lily are deathly afraid of them and now I was trapped in a small room with one.

I pounded on the door, calling out to James, begging him to open the door but I just heard him laughing on the other side.

I think all my yelling annoyed the ugly thing, (the spider not James), because it started to move towards me. Taking in a shaky breath, I remembered the reason why I came to the bathroom in the first place.

I reached out and grabbed one of my fluffy slippers and threw it at the spider, hoping that it would run away.

Actually, that made it angrier, and it made a low sound, almost like a hissing noise.

What kind of spider hisses?!

At that, I let out an ear-piercing scream. I would not stop screaming because the spider kept hissing at me and I was terrified that it would kill me with one bite.

Finally, James opened the door at all my screaming and I dashed past him, all the way downstairs before jumping on my dad, who I knew would get rid of it with no questions asked.

"Dad, James trapped me in the bathroom with the fattest, ugliest tarantula I have ever seen!" I complained. "A tarantula? In the house?" Lauren asked, as she and Riley paled.

"Go kill it, please!" I asked my dad, practically begging him as he rolled his eyes in amusement at us and got up.

"Guys, relax. It's probably not that big. Plus, they don't even attack humans." My dad said, laughing as he brushed it off but I huffed in slight annoyance as I didn't care, I just wanted that thing out.

"Guys, um... don't freak out but... I lost the spider." James said, as he ran down the stairs.

"I'm sorry! I tried to put it back in the box, then it jumped out and ran off somewhere." He explained as we all started shouting and yelling at him.

I sat back down, refusing to even go anywhere near upstairs, when I felt something hairy tickle my foot.

I looked down at my baby pink painted toenails to see those same ugly, eight beady eyes, staring straight back at me.

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James' POV:

A day has passed since the spider on Piper's foot incident, and after she screamed a bloody murder, the spider ran off somewhere.

I only just managed to catch it this morning before finally returning it at the pet store.

The only problem now, is that everyone but Piper and Lauren have forgiven me for the whole spider incident.

Lauren is giving me the cold shoulder because she claims that she understood how Piper must've felt when the spider climbed onto her foot, so she won't talk to me until Piper forgives me.

And Piper, now that the fear of the, possibly poisonous, tarantula was gone, was now livid at me.

She wasn't angry, she was RAGING. Furious Piper is not someone you want to mess with, so I got to the studio a little earlier, to avoid her, since Emily wanted me to help out with some Dancemania routines.

It turned out that most of the team were already there, since they were so excited to begin preparing for Dancemania.

I heard my phone ringing and saw that it was Piper. I answered it, praying that she wasn't still too angry with me.

"Hey, Pipes. What's up?" I asked her, nervously. "Nothing, dear brother." She replied with fake sweetness.

"Just know that I'm at the Next Steep and when I get to studio A, I am going to find you and kill you!" She yelled before hanging up. "Guys, you've gotta hide me!" I shouted to the team, who looked at me curiously.

Obviously, they asked why and when I finished explaining what went down, Lily and Amy stood in front of me, to at least buy me some time for when my little sister got there.

"That was an extreme prank, James. She's going to kill you." Amy stated, in a matter of fact voice.

"Yup, I can't wait!" Richelle said, as I rolled my eyes in amusement at the blonde.

"And you can't leave 'cus if you do, Emily will kill you herself." Ozzy said, making everyone laugh slightly.

The rest of A troupe were trying to form a barricade in front of me but there was only so much time before-

"Where is he?!" I heard Piper scream, furiously, as she stormed into studio A.

"Oh, gosh. I don't know if we can protect you James. This is uncharted territory." Lily said, sucking in a breath at the sight of a fuming Piper.

"WHERE IS HE?!" She screamed, yet again. Her whole face was bright red and she was breathing extremely heavily.

Finn and Henry were trying to calm her down, whilst Kenzie and Richelle were cheering her on, as I scoffed at the people who were supposed to be protecting me. Unfortunately, Piper heard me scoff and we made eye contact.

"YOU COWARD!" She exclaimed at me, clenching and unclenching her fists, as Lily and Amy moved out of the way, subconciously, for their own safety.

"I AM SO GOING TO KILL YOU!" She yelled before advancing quickly towards me, with thunder in her eyes.

Uh oh.