My cousin Laura and I were really close growing up. She lived in the posh suburbs that I hated (ironically I live there now lol) and I was a city kid with crazy parents. My grandma used to come get me from my moms house every weekend and we would go see my cousins. My cousin was bullied a lot in school about her weight and I had a terrible home life. This made us even closer.

Laura’s grandparents lived next door to these 3 girls and their mother. My cousin who was desperate for friends would hang out with them a lot. When we’re about 10 years old and we would go over to her grandparents house the girls would invite both of us to come over. I didn’t like going over because when we did I could tell they weren’t really her friends. They would always try to take me off to the side and talk about her or laugh at her when she would do something in a mean way. I talked to her about it and she didn’t want me to say anything. One time I actually told Laura’s grandma and she called the girls mother. The mother of course said it wasn’t true and even suggested that I was lying. It was dropped and I was told not to say anything else about it.

Fast forward 5 years and my cousin, the girls, and I are all teenagers. The girls were having a huge slumber party and I just happened to be at my cousins grandparents staying over with her. Had I known she was going to their slumber party I would’ve never came over but I was there and I was forced to go. The girls acted like they really wanted us to go but they didn’t.

The Slumber Party:

There were a lot of kids there from the girls school maybe 15 kids in total. Everyone was talking and eating pizza. I knew something was up because the girls made it like I was their really good friend and my cousin was the tag along. Everyone then decides to get their makeup out. We picked a partner and did each other’s makeup. Of course I picked my cousin and when I was done with hers she started doing mine. One of the sisters came over and said “This looks awful you know you can’t do makeup Laura” and kind of pushes her out of the way and starts doing my makeup. I didn’t say anything but I was mad. I didn’t want to ruin their party and my cousin kind of gave me the “don’t-say-anything-it’s-okay”look so I stayed quiet. The girl went on and on about her “expensive makeup” and how it was so much better than that “other stuff” we had. She even had some permanent eye liner. When she was done she then wanted to do my hair. Everyone was standing around watching saying how great I was and how pretty etc. After it was over it was really late we changed into our pajamas, put on a scary movie and we got out our sleeping bags. The sister who did my hair called me into the back room to fix my hair. There were probably 4 girls in there with her who were still slathering lip gloss and her “permanent eye liner” onto their faces. The girl said to one of her disgusting friends“let’s do a prank.” Of course they were all for it. I didn’t say anything just say there with my eyes closed as she caked more makeup on me. They were then trying to figure out who they were going to do the prank on. Of course they picked my cousin Laura. They were going to take her all of her clothes and wet them and put them into the freezer. I didn’t say a word. I let them finish the makeup and went back out and got into my sleeping bag.

I tapped Laura on the shoulder and told her their plan. She looked really sad but tried to laugh it off. I was so pissed. The fact they said it in front of me and expected me to turn against my own family and best friend showed how stupid they really were. So I came up with a plan. We were going to act like we were asleep and let them take the clothes and freeze them then when they went to sleep we would get them. Just as they said they would they came in giggling and took her stuff. We heard the faucet and the shut of the freezer door. Then their mom came in and said “everyone was to go to sleep right now!” So they lay down. It was like 4am at this point and everyone had been there since 3pm the previous day so they were tired. I never could sleep in other people’s house so it wasn’t hard for me to stay awake but my cousin had fell asleep. I woke her up and said “Let’s do this!” We crept around the house and got the makeup and started drawing on their faces lol mostly we used lipstick but then I saw the “permanent eye liner.” I took it and started drawing on their arms, faces, legs, whatever I could. I still to this day don’t know if they were really asleep or not. I don’t know how we got away with it. When we were done we grabbed our stuff and left even the wet stuff out of the freezer (it wasn’t frozen yet). We even put some makeup on our own faces to make it look like we got “pranked” too. We lay back down but I were scared so we ran like hell to my cousin’s grandparents next door and got in bed: a fatal mistake….

The Next Day:

We didn’t get to sleep very long before Laura’s grandma came in and said loudly “Wake up! What did you do??” We were exhausted because we had had no sleep but we got up. The grandmother started asking all these questions “How did you get make up on your face?” “Why did you come home?” “What happened?” We tried to lie and say I wasn’t feeling good and “we don’t know how we got make up on our faces someone must of pranked us etc…” it didn’t work at all she knew we were lying and then she said “The girls are over the crying. They can’t get some of the makeup off. The eyeliner you used was permanent and it also got all over the new carpet their mother just had installed.” We then told her the whole story and showed her the wet clothes. Nobody moved for about 1 very long minute. The grandmother got calmly off the couch and went to the phone. We didn’t move a muscle. She called the girls mother and said “Ask your daughters and their friends about my granddaughter’s clothes.” You could hear the mother screaming through the phone to which my cousin’s grandmother hung the phone up in her face.