Twelve-year-old Cooper had a problem: his older sister Lily was impossible to prank. She saw everything coming. Fake spiders? She laughed. Whoopee cushions? She rolled her eyes. Jump scares? She didn’t even flinch.
But then Cooper discovered something special in his dad’s online shopping cart—a realistic-looking rubber snake attached to a nearly invisible string with a clip.
“Dad, can I have this?” Cooper asked, eyes sparkling with possibility.
Dad looked at the snake, then at Cooper’s mischievous grin, then back at the snake. “Your mom is going to be so mad at me,” he sighed. “Yes.”
Three days later, the package arrived. Cooper spent an entire afternoon practicing in his room, learning to control the snake with tiny tugs on the string, making it slither convincingly across the carpet. The secret was in the wrist—gentle pulls made it wiggle like it was actually alive.
Operation Prank Lily began on Saturday morning.
Cooper clipped the string to his belt loop, hidden under his shirt, and let the rubber snake rest innocently on the hallway floor. The string was so thin you could barely see it. Then he waited around the corner, heart pounding with anticipation.
Lily walked down the hall, scrolling through her phone, not paying attention. She was two steps away from the snake when Cooper gave the string a gentle tug.
The snake slithered toward her.
“AHHHHHH!” Lily jumped backward so fast she nearly dropped her phone. “SNAKE! THERE’S A SNA—wait.”
She looked closer. The snake had stopped moving. She looked at Cooper, who was trying very hard not to laugh and failing completely.
“COOPER!”
“IT WORKED!” Cooper doubled over laughing. “You actually screamed! I got you! I FINALLY got you!”
Lily tried to be mad, but even she had to admit—it was a pretty good prank. “Okay, that was… actually kind of clever.”
Word spread fast. Cooper’s best friend wanted to try it at recess. The snake “chased” three kids across the playground before they realized it was attached to a string. Even the gym teacher did a double-take when the snake mysteriously slithered toward her during dodgeball.
“Cooper, that thing better not be real,” she called out, already backing away.
“It’s not! It’s just rubber! See?” He held it up, dangling from the string.
The best pranks happened at family gatherings. Cooper would set the snake up near the snack table, wait for Uncle Mike to grab some chips, then make the snake “come alive” at just the right moment. Uncle Mike’s reaction became legendary—he jumped so high he nearly knocked over the punch bowl.
“That kid’s a menace,” Uncle Mike laughed afterward, ruffling Cooper’s hair. “A creative menace, but still a menace.”
Cooper’s little cousin wanted to learn how to use it, so Cooper became the official Snake Prank instructor. “You have to make it move naturally,” he explained seriously. “Little tugs. Make it look like it’s really slithering. Timing is everything.”
Even Mom got pranked once—though Cooper was grounded from using it indoors for a week after that. (“My heart can’t take it, Cooper!”)
The Sneaky Slithering String Snake lived in Cooper’s backpack, ready for the perfect pranking opportunity. It worked at the park, at family barbecues, during camping trips, and anywhere Cooper could find an unsuspecting target and a good hiding spot.
“You know everyone’s going to see this coming eventually,” Lily warned him one day.
Cooper grinned, gently tugging the string so the snake wiggled convincingly. “Maybe. But until then? This is the best prank ever.”
And somewhere in the distance, someone shrieked, followed by Cooper’s unmistakable laughter.
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