Last year on April Fool's day one of my brothers changed the water pipes on the sink and I burned my hands, so this year I wanted to prank my brothers by doing something to their computers.  On the internet, there were many different things I could do, but most of it would be too mean. I was very afraid they would get me in a ton of trouble for anything I did to their computers. A few years ago my brother, Hudson, pranked my brother, Reed, and Reed got so mad he started ripping the cables out of his computer,so he fried his computer. After that  my parents said that we could not do computer pranks. I finally decided to simply shut down their computer. If their computers shut down, they would think their computer had crashed, so it would be less likely I’d get in trouble.  I  was all ready to  start, then... my mom and dad came up with a new rule ,“You cannot use your computer's Monday morning thru Friday after school.”  This new rule was really unfair. This was very unfair because i'm very afraid of  getting in trouble. at school i've been sent to the office twice and both time I was so scared that I was shaking when they started talking.

I was hoping that after a week or two my parents would forget this new rule like some past rules. Then a few weeks later my parents decided that it would be a great idea to only let us use our computers on Saturdays from 10 am to 5:30 pm. That was the last straw. I had enough of their rules! I was very angry but my brothers were going crazy from not using their computers.Before these rules they would be on their computers every second of the day. With this new rule I wanted to prank them more than ever. It was very funny to think of the look on their faces  when their computers shut down. There is one day a week that my brothers would not be around so I could put this on their computers, but… that day is Tuesday.

When I was working on making the computer program my parents started to get suspicious. They noticed that I was up to something. Because they thought I was up to no good they made it even harder to use the computer. They said ,“We are gonna try something else. You can only use you computer for homework.”. Now I would have to only work on this In the middle of the night.

I got the  program working.I just needed to put it on their computers. I just needed to get a usb flash drive. I have three flash drives, but I don't know where they are because my room is so messy that my parents once thought that I've been robbed. Finding a flash drive could be a major problem. Part of my room being very messy is that it's very small but I don't have to share it. My brothers have a medium sized room, and it's a little bit cleaner , but they have to share it. When I finally found a flash drive it was completely full. It had no space for  anything, and I didn't want to delete any of the files on it. Then I remembered that I had left one flash drive in my grandma’s house in Florida, and I wasn't going to Florida until the spring, and fall had just started. When I finally found my last flash drive it was broken. The adapter had been crushed, so it was unusable. So with one full, one in Florida, and one broken I had hit a roadblock.

Now I needed to find a way to get the files from one computer to a different one. I didn't want to use Google Drive because, I didn't want to sign into Google on their computers. Then I remembered that I have an external hard drive. After two weeks of searching for the hard drive I found it. It was under my my bed. It must have been there a long time because it was covered in dust.I plugged the drive into my computer and loaded the files on to it. The file that I loaded was a .bat file that I would later change to look like the icon for Google Chrome.

Finally my chance came. At 2:34 in the morning I crept silently into my brother's room. I was very dark. Slowly I crawled to Reed’s computer. Reed’s computer is farther from the door ,so I started with it. I started his computer. It's fans purred, and it's lights glowed. I loaded the files ,and setup the files. I tested it and it worked. then I crawled to hudson’s computer and started it. Unfortunately for me Hudson has speakers built into his computer monitor. When hudson’s computer started it plays a tone, and he keeps his volume on full blast. The tone was so loud It woke everyone up.

I tried to run, but Reed saw me. I tried to pretend that I just woke up too, but My dad was already in Hudson and Reed’s room. I heared Reed say that he had saw me in his room. I heard my dad coming down the hall. He entered my room. I tried to act like I just woke up. My dad didn't buy it. He  believed Reed ,and he said, “GO BACK TO SLEEP! I WILL PUNISH YOU IN THE MORNING!”. I was so scared that I couldn't go to sleep.I had no idea how bad the morning would be.

The morning had arrived. I left my room for breakfast with my heart pounding. I was so scared I just wanted to disappear. When I got to the kitchen both of my parents were there. Waiting for me come to the kitchen. I got there and they started yelling at me. My dad said “ What on earth are you doing sneaking around at three in the morning!” I could make up a lie or tell the truth. If I lied I could get in even more trouble, or possibly less trouble and get my brother in trouble too. My parents also said that if I tell the truth  I won't get in trouble. This probably wasn't a case of tell the truth I don't get in trouble. I had done too much to get away free.

I decided to lie. I had a better chance of not getting in trouble if I lied.

I lied and said, “I was in their room because they had taken my wireless mouse. I was in there to steal it  back, but when I was taking the receiver I bumped the power button by accident.His monitor was on because he forgot to turn it off.”.
My dad didn't buy it and he said, “Why are you lying? I saw Hudson turn off his monitor.” 
Then he said, “ You are already In big trouble. What were you doing in their room at three in the morning!?”
I decided to lie again, ”I wanted to print something in color.”
I have my own printer but it's black and white, but Hudson’s printer is a color printer.
  “Why couldn't you do this during the day?”
I wasn’t ready for this question, but I quickly came up with something.  “ I did this during the night because during the day Hudson is glued to his computer. The only way to get his attention is to disable the wifi. With Youtube and computer games, he will never leave his computer.”
At this point my dad started to believe me. “Why didn't you ask me for help then?”
“I didn't ask because I didn't think of It at the time.” Then they said I could go. They were going to question Hudson.

When they finished they called me back in. I knew I would be in big trouble.  I got there and they went crazy yelling at me.  They were red in the face from yelling and from anger. Then… it happened. They punished me. They grounded me for the rest of the year. The rest of the year would be three and a half months. Two months for lying,1 month for sneaking around at night,and a  Half a month for waking everyone up.

During the first two weeks I was very bored. Then after week three I found something to waste time. To waste time I worked on cleaning my room. Cleaning my room was very boring, but it had to be done, and now I had the time to clean.  When I was cleaning my desk I realized that getting in trouble as bad as I thought it was.  Getting in trouble  is an opportunity to do stuff you don't have time for.

My punishment was almost over. My room was almost clean, but Reed came into my room. He took the garbage bag I was using, and started throwing garbage everywhere.
I told him ,“GET OUT RIGHT NOW!” I was so angry at him, but he just stood there and did nothing. I got angrier at him.
I said to him getting very angry,“ clean this up right now,and GET OUT!” He did nothing so I tried to shove him out of my room. He was wearing socks so it was easy you just slid. When I got to my door he grabbed on to the door frame.  I kept pushing and finally he slipped fell, and started crying. He fell so hard he made a loud noise which made my parents came running. When my parents came I tried to explain but they didn't want to hear it. They punished me for  one more month. I wanted to kill Reed was so angry at him.

Luckily for me my parents made read finish cleaning my room. The Reed was also punished for three months for throwing trash all over my room, and for annoying me. I was in trouble because I pushed Reed. So with no cleaning left to do in my room I had nothing to do. I was bored out of my mind. Being punished gave me lots of time to think. When I was thinking  I realized that only using the computer one day a week was better than not using it at all.

I hated not using the computer, but being in trouble wasn't the worst thing in the world. Only using the computer once a week was better than never using it. With deciding that, this punishment wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Being punished is an opportunity to do things I don't have time for. Having time to clean my room left my room cleaner than I've ever seen it before. Not using the computer made me realize that fun doesn't have use electricity.