"We got to do something really, really awesome," Yuzi said to Kuldeep once they were back from the beach, and the two of them were hanging around in Yuzi's room.

"Kuldeep nodded in fervent agreement, staring at the carpet on the floor thoughtfully.

"It's a nice mat," said Kuldeep. "Isn't it, Yuzi?"

Yuzi sent him a glance. "Go tell Sunny," he teased. "He'll go off about it's material values!"

"I'm not going to Sunny," said Kuldeep, getting angry just by thinking of that goat.

"I didn't mean it literally Kul," said Yuzi, still more teasingly. "Ok, now you admire the carpet and lemme come up with a good plan worthy of avenging Bhuvi bhaiya."

"I'm thinking, too," said Kuldeep earnestly.

"No, don't waste your efforts," said Yuzi, genuinely kindly. "You won't be able to come up with a good plan, leave it to me."

Kuldeep frowned.

"I'll think anyway," he said firmly.

"If you want to," said Yuzi understandingly. "It's ok if you come up with a boring idea...we can try to develop it into something good." He sounded utterly patronizing, albeit with the best intentions.

Kuldeep's frown deepened as he wondered why Yuzi had such a low opinion of him.

Neither of them got any inspiration just then, and after dinner, when they were climbing up the stairs again, Kuldeep asked, "Did the others look like they're ahead of us?"

Yuzi smiled amiably. "I think so, Kul, but we have nothing to be ashamed of. Our team has only one working prank brain, so..."

It took a while for Kuldeep to realize what he meant.

"...naturally we'll need a little longer than the others, and there's no reason the last prank wouldn't be the best prank..."

"We have got two working brains, Yuzi," cried Kuldeep. "I'm not a--a--"

Yuzi smiled sympathetically. "Ah."

Kuldeep scowled and screwed up his courage.

"I'm not pairing up with you," he blurted out.

Yuzi's smile vanished.

"Wh-what?"

"I'm not pairing with someone who doesn't even give me a chance," said Kuldeep, turning his back on Yuzi and stalking away.

"Kul!" said Yuzi, running after his little brother. "KUL!"

"Find someone else!" shouted back Kuldeep, running faster.

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME KULDEEP," howled Yuzi.

Kuldeep, flying into a frenzy seeing that Yuzi had nearly caught up with him, burst into the first door he saw and slammed it shut behind him and bolted it.

"KULDEEP, KULIYA, KUL, KULLU!" Yuzi hollered every variation of his name, hammering on the door.

"Heavens, Kuliya! What happened?" said Jinks in alarm, taking in Kuldeep's flushed face.

"Yuzi will catch me!" said Kuldeep, terrified.

Jinks stared.

"Are you playing lock and key?" he asked tentatively.

"No!" said Kuldeep, horrified at the dilution of his plight.

"Sit down," offered Jinks.

The banging hadn't stopped, nor had the shouting.

Kuldeep, quaking at his own daring, poured out the sob story to Jinks, his words tumbling over each other.

"I want to do something for Bhuvi bhaiya too," concluded poor Kuldeep.

Jinks couldn't hide his smile.

"KULDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!" wailed Yuzi.

Kuldeep's resolve wavered.

Jinks suddenly remebered Virat's words earlier today: it'll be the boringest plan ever.

He made up his mind swiftly and walked to the door.

"Yuzi!" he called. "Kuliya and I are partners now, go find someone else!"

"But Jinks bhaiya-" spluttered Yuzi.

"I'm serious, Yuzi. Go, now, we need to discuss."

Jinks turned back to see Kuldeep's eyes wide with wonder. He offered the kid his hand. Kuldeep shook it eagerly, hardly believing that someone had wanted to pair up with him.

Outside, a very, very dejected Yuzi slouched away from the room which hid his brother, wondering if he would ever get over this bitter betrayal.

And bumped straight into Rahul, who was carrying a big bag, evidently having retunred from outside.

"What's up?" Rahul asked, noticing that Yuzi's trademark grin was missing from his face.

"I've been double crossed, Rahul," said Yuzi misreably.

"Er," said Rahul. "How?"

Yuzi told him.

"Don't you think you're overreacting?" suggested Rahul.

Yuzi stared at him in disbelief.

"Rahul-Kuldeep betrayed me!" he cried. "KULDEEP," he added for good measure.

"Ok, ok," said Rahul quickly. "Never mind, you can help me...I have a great plan."

"Oh," said Yuzi, still morosed. "Do you? What is it?"

Rahul smirked and led Yuzi to his room.

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Within a couple of hours, Yuzi had completely forgotten his misery; he and Rahul had been hard at work. With the majority of it done, Rahul straightened up and said, "Let's call them."

Calling 'them', as in their whole team, was by no means a very easy job.

Jaddu and Bhuvi seemed to have disappeared altogether, and after 15 minutes of intensive search by the others, were found kurking on the terrace--goodness knew why--add Jinks and Kuldeep seemed reluctant to open the door in case Yuzi came to abduct the latter, and Rohit needed a whole half-hour to be woken up.

Finally they were gathered in Rahul's room, the atmosphere one of deep anticipation.

"What've you planned Rahuliya? What've you planned?" demanded Virat for around the 59th time.

"Why have you moved the bed?" asked Jaddu, his eyes quickly spotting the change.

"Ah," said Yuzi with relish, thoroughly enjoying the attention.

"What is this?" asked Jassi, picking up a saw from beside the wall.

Rahul was rummaging in the fridge and came up with a huge bucket full of--

"Ice cubes...oh my god," said Shikhar, starting to laugh.

"Shh," said Rahul reprovingly. "They'll wake up!"

That made everyone start laughing uncontrollably.

Bhuvi knelt down beside Yuzi and poked his finger through the holes on the floor where the bed had been standing. There were six of them, carved jaggedly with the saw.

"Genius," Rohit told Rahul warmly.

"Rohit bhaiya, I'm here too," reminded Yuzi.

"Oh, shut up, we all know it was Rahuliya's idea," said Virat.

"Virat," said Rahul, thinking that his awesome plan deserved to give him sime respect in the very least. "Don't call me-"

"You cant possibly come up with an idea like that," continued Virat, pretending not to hear Rahul.

"He could, Virat bhaiya," said Kuldeep from the farthest corner timidly.

Yuzi looked up at him swiftly.

"I'm sorry," mumbled Kuldeep.

Yuzi pushed everyone separating him and his Kul and flew to hug the life out of him.

"What happened between those two?" asked Rohit, confused.

"Tell you later," said Jinks and Rahul.

Yuzi would not let Kuldeeo go, and Kuldeep would not let Yuzi go, and everyone groaned.

"Stop this PDA!" yelled Hardik.

"Maybe we can pair up next time," said Yuzi comfortingly, oblivious to their audience. "I wouldn't ask you to ditch Jinks bhaiya now..."

Kuldeep was overwhelmed at this generosity and grew still more reluctant to break the hug.

Rahul cleared his throat.

"It's two o' clock, Yuzi," he said pointedly. "Will you help me do the honours or..."

Yuzi hastily gave Kuldeep a last squeeze and released him and knelt down again.

"Right," said Rahul, taking command. "Yuzi and I'll push down the cubes through this hole. You can use the other four holes to look into Sunny's room."

It was a mistake, because it led to a prompt fierce fight to occupy the holes.

Jassi reached one and Hardik pushed him away violently, yelling. Jassi pushed Hardik back (not yelling, but very indignant). Virat and Rohit were fighting over one; Jinks, and Bhuvi, by virtue of being the nicest people got the other two with no one trying to push them away, as the tussle continued over Hardik/ Jassi and Rohit/ Virat's hole. Shikhar joined in helping Jassi push Hardik away; Jaddu, roaring battle cries, shoved Rohit and Virat with all his tree-climbing sword-fighting horse-riding adept strength.

Rahul buried his head in his hands in despair. Why didn't his stupid teammates seem to realize that the entire prank would fail if Sunny woke up? Why the hell didn't they also realize that the ice cubes would melt by the time they'd sorted out their peephole issues?

Bhuvi leaned over and whispered intp his ear, "Start quickly...they'll settle down."

That was actually a worse idea than Rahul inviting them to choose their holes, but seeing no better choice, Rahul complied.

He started off the proceedings by dropping the first cube down the hole, and peeped down himself.

Jinks, who had the best view, saw the cube falling straight on Sunny's belly, and he sat up bolt upright, looking around in confusion,

"What happened, what happened?" hissed all the unfortunate men who had not managed to secure a hole.

Yuzi dropped the second cube, which landed on their victim's foot.

"Ow!" he cried. He looked up in absolute confusion, but the holes were too tiny to spot on the ceiling.

Virat grabbed an ice cube and dropped it from his hole-it hit his shoulder. By now, of course, the whole team was convulsed with silent laughter (they had enough sense to realize that they couldn't laugh loudly). Sunny's expression was priceless and he rubbed his shoulder, blinking around in increasing horror.

A very excited Hardik hurled the biggest ice cube down his hole, and he was lucky enough to hit his head.

"OOOH! WHO'S THERE?" spluttered Sunny.

After that, they let go of all order and there was a wild rush for the ice cubes, and a storm of them descended on every part of Sunny's body. The team kept shushing each other when someone let loose a bark of laughter, and by the time the bucket was three fourth empty, Sunny finally realized what was hitting him.

On an impulse, Yuzi grabbed the bucket (now mainly filled with melted water) and overturned it on the floor.

The result was instantaneous—five streams of ice-cold water splurged down onto Sunny's body. Sunny yelled at the top of his voice and jumped off the bed, staring up at the ceiling fearfully.

"WHO'S THERE?" he roared furiously, making for the door.

"Quick!" cried Virat. "C'mon!"

They rushed pell-mell out of the room, choking with laughter and bolted round the corridor. Just as Bhuvi, the last one in the row—since he had had the sense of locking the door from outside—disappeared out of sight, a drenched Sunny came barging into the corridor and marched up to the room.

He stood staring at the locked door in disbelief for a very long time. A most unremorseful team observed him solemnly from the bend in the corridor.

Yuzi had his arm around Kuldeep's shoulder, of course, and Bhuvi had a cautionary hand on Hardik's mouth lest he started laughing loudly.

"You make me prouder every day, Rahuliya," said Virat, once Sunny, finally giving up, trudged downstairs.

"I hope he catches his death of cold," said Rahul viciously. "And—don't—call—me—Rahuliya!"

A/N: Look I'm back. (Even I can't believe I'm back). I'd better finish this story before IPL starts because I can't see kindly to any ICT member barring my KKRian Kuliya once it starts. Please vote and comment-it's been ages since I got to read Wattpad comments.