Lyki Aprilli [April Wolves]

[Scene One: Cypher's room. Ojay is on Mave's comp. Cypher is on his, with his monitor-mouse-monitor thing going. Charit barges in.]

Charit: Man, I totally buggered Vinay. He did not read the whole article.

Cypher: So he still thinks that the Indians are getting the World Cup? LOL.

Ojay: Let's start a SARS scare. Tell people that 4 guys in hall 5 were diagnosed.

Cypher: Yes, yes! You can tell people I have SARS.

[Onkar proceeds to tell Ipsh that Cypher is suffering from SARS. Ipsh is too dazed/drugged/tired/psyched to answer. She mumbles something]

Charit: I am sms-ing the Dude, Photon and Mave. [does so. Ojay's phone rings.]

Ojay: Yea, Dude. It's true man, he was puking and all, and had a fever. I am at the MC. I am not sure it's SARS yet, but the doctor has asked all the people who were in close contact with him to report to the MC, just in case.

Charit: Mave has replied with a "Fuck you", No reply from Photon, must be sleeping.

Ojay: Dude seems to have bought it. [Charit's phone rings]

Charit: Yeah, Dude. Of course it's not an April Fool's trick. Would I joke about something this serious. Ok, come over to the MC.

[Ojay chats with Vinay on MSN, laying the plan down. Mave walks in. The plan is explained to him. Phone rings again.]

Ojay: Yes, Dude. I am in the MC, I was chatting to Vinay from the computer room. Anyway, I'll keep you posted. They are asking all kinds of questions.

[Mave's phone rings]

Mave: Yes, Dude, Ojay called me. I am in my lab, but I am heading to the MC soon. Meet you there.

[Vinay rushes in]

Vinay: Oh, mother! He is totally buying it! He is talking about life and shit, man. Ojay, he is pretty shaken up. He is going to the MC with his passport and visa.

Ojay [grinning]: I guess we better tell him. I am calling him in another five minutes.

Mave: No, man. Let him go to the MC.

Cypher[nodding]: Let him go to the MC. [Ojay's phone rings]

Ojay: Dude, Cypher is out. He is negative. We are negative as well. No need to worry. Take it easy. [Cypher and Mave jeering noiselessly.]

Cypher: Why did you tell him? You spoilt everything.

Ojay: Come on, man. We can't take it too far.

[Cypher's phone rings, but he ignores it. Pretends to be Vinay, talks to Dude, asks him to come to the canteen.

Scene two: At the canteen, the Dude is literally crying in relief.]

Ojay: Shit, man. My heart was in my throat all the time Cypher was in the examination room. I started feeling the symptoms that weren't there. Scary man...

Dude: Yea, I guess. I am sure you were more shit scared than I was.

[The topic shifts to ghost stories, and people depart amiably]

Vinay: You should have told him.

Ojay: The crisis is over, the prank isn't.

Vinay: As you wish.

[In the evening, the Dude blogged about his near-death experience. Vinay adapted it for the masses and published it on his own blog.]

[Scene three: People are in the middle of watching 'The Animal House'. Dude barges in, hammers Cypher, Ojay, Vinay and Mave]

Dude: You jobless bastards! I have learnt my lesson! I am never going to trust anyone again.

Ojay: Dude, moral of the story, relax.

Vinay: Yeah, Dude, exam tension makes your brain work slow.

Dude: Fuck, man, I am an idiot.

Mave: No man, anyone could have been had. If Ojay had told me in person, I would have bought it.

Dude: Where is that bastard Charit? I am going to kill him.

Mave: Yeah. I got it when he smsed me. You don't report SARS cases by sms, you call!

Ojay: We were planning to screw Jat real professionally, but it had too much overhead.

Cypher: I am not going through all this shit just to screw someone.

Dude: Whatever guys, lets watch the movie.

[Everyone stares at the monitor. The curtain falls.]

--== Next, we will have how Photon was had. Check soon! ==--