Today I received my first threat note. After church, Sam and I walked into the house while C was still talking to some ladies outside. When I walked into my room to drop off my stuff, I noticed a note on my bed. It said, “BEWARE OF ME you will Regret it!!!!!!!!” (note: I included the punctuation and capitalization as was written on the note). I quickly walked out of my room and into Sam’s. When I told her about my note, we noticed that she had one on her bed too.
I then decided that I did not want to be in the house where the note leaver could still be waiting. We hurried outside to C to let her know of the notes. I was feeling pretty unsettled. When I told C that we found notes on our beds, she just kind of smiled and asked what kind of notes. We took her to Sam’s room to show her the notes and then realized that nothing had been taken from the room. Sam’s computer was lying in the open and had not been bothered. To calm us down, C said that the notes had been dropped off before we left for church. She then asked us who we knew that would leave such a note (especially one which, like Sam’s, had misspellings on it). It finally all clicked in our brains. Eddie had sent the notes with A (who had spent the night). He was trying to play a joke on us. He did succeed in scaring us, so Sam and I decided to turn the tables on him.
We called Carol and asked her if she would help us prank Eddie. We explained the notes that he had left and asked if she would just tell the kids that the ladies (Sam, C, and I) were coming to spend the night due to some threats that we have received. Sam asked Carol to mention in particular that Eddie would have to give up his room and let Miss Sam sleep there for the night. Carol loved the idea and agreed to let the kids know.
Less than five minutes later, my phone rang. It was Eddie, calling back to apologize. He was absolutely terrified to let me know that he was the prankster. I tried to keep a straight face, but because I was laughing so hard, I kept having to cover the phone. I then handed the phone to Sam to let him tell her. Once again, he barely managed to squeak out an apology. When Sam finally heard the apology, she yelled out, “Rachelle, you can unpack your bags now!” And when she couldn’t stop laughing, she handed me the phone, and I let Eddie know that we actually knew that it was him.
In Sam’s note, Eddie misspelled the words warning and sincerely. I think Sam is going to assign Eddie those two words as his two spelling bank words for the week. As Sam said, “You can’t prank the pranksters!”
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| The notes Eddie left for us |
