"There's method in my madness," Ayame heard from the kitchen as she started to wake up.

    "Man dude, you're gonna be a sorry sight when she realizes what you did," another male responds to the former. This, catching her attention, gets her to leave her room heading towards the sound of the voices. "

   There's no way she will even notice for at least a few more hours, you know that when she's asleep she's essentially as dead as a doornail."

   She hears, realizing that the first voice was Aremes, one of her close friends. She continues sneaking down towards the kitchen trying to give them no indication of her being awake. She reaches the entranceway to the kitchen and makes sure to stay far enough back that they cannot see her. Looking in she sees 3 people, Aremes (obviously), Myles (who she realizes was the other male voice), and Lulu, who was looking at Aremes like he has a death wish.

   Ayame decides to keep hiding and try and figure out what stupid thing he had done to cause her best friend to look at him that way. "Your loss Aremes, just don't expect any fair play from her." Lulu scoffs at him, hints of annoyance in her voice. He just chuckles at her while emitting strong vibes of smugness from the confidence in his plan. In the twinkling of an eye Ayame enters the room, annoyed. But seeing as how her 3 friends weren't expecting her to be there, nor awake before 11 am, they all jumped out of their skin.

   Seeing them freaked out in such a way put her in stitches. Once everyone had mostly calmed down, her annoyance returned, and she glared towards Aremes. "Now, are we gonna do this the easy way, or the hard way?" Lulu, sensing the oncoming drama, pulls herself a seat.

   "Awe come on princess, why do you assume that I've done something? I'm most certainly innocent. You wear your heart on your sleeve much too often." He replies, leaning onto his elbows that are resting on the cold countertop.

   Lulu rolls her eyes, "Come on Ame, you should send him packing."

   "Is that so Lu? Should I make him vanish into thin air?" Ayame giggles in response.

   Laughing at the two girls, Myles interjects, "Come on you two, we can't have too much of a good thing."

   Aremes glares at the three-laughing friends, "Myles, I'm sure that you know mum's the word." Even though it was through grumbling, Myles gave a response resembling an agreement.

   This of course piqued Ayame's interest. Leading her to wonder what Aremes had on Myles to keep him compliant. "See princess? I'm innocent, just like I said" he smirks at her.

   "Well, if I find out that you're lying, you can bet that I'll find a way to make you a laughing stock throughout school." She throws back at him confidently. She and Lulu share a knowing look, smirking at each other.

   "Well Lulu, do you have any idea what he did?"

   "Sadly no, these two were up seemingly scheming before I was," Lulu sighs.

   "Whelp, I thought I would at least try, and seeing as I'm getting nothing neither here nor there, I'll have to try other ways." Smirking, she gets up and stalks toward the trickster.

   He, thinking that he knows what she wants, says to her, "Oh? I don't set your teeth on edge, do I?"

   She giggles, "Only sometimes." Reaching her target, she discreetly signals Lulu to come over.

   He, unknowingly falling for her trap, leans towards her and whispers, "We both know I'm innocent until proven guilty, beautiful."

   She pretends to agree, as Lulu comes up behind him and gently pulls his phone out of his pocket, as Ayame leans in towards him, and... *Snatch! * Lulu jumps away giggling after handing the phone off to Ayame. He flips around in surprise trying to figure out exactly what happened, and which mischievous girl had his phone.

   Realizing what the girls had pulled off, he facepalms and groans aloud. "Well, handsome, looks like you're in a pickle now doesn't it." He looks at her through his fingers realizing that he may have lost.

   She giggles lightly watching the realization go across his face, and he, knowing he lost, puts in one last word hoping to confuse her, "At least I never got eaten out of house and home."

   She deadpans at his strange response. "Speaking gibberish to me won't keep me from learning what you did."

   "Eh, thought I may as well try." He responds shrugging. Now with everyone calming down, she realizes the lack of her little companion.

   Starting to get both annoyed and worried about this, she angrily asks, "Aremes, what, did, you do with her." She puts her phone into her back pocket and walks towards him, glaring.

   Chuckling nervously, he starts rubbing his neck backing away. "Uh- wha-what *ahem* do what with who?" He tries clearing his throat mid-sentence to show more confidence about being innocent.

   Myles and Lulu, expecting something like this to happen, sit together at the counter eating popcorn that they found who-knows-where. "So, Myles, how long do you think till he gives into her like usual?"

   "Eh, probably only a few more minutes. We both know he pulls stuff like this on her all the time, but never gets away with it because she's his weakness and he always gives in to her." He responds by rolling his eyes. "True, true, but she doesn't know that yet, now does she?" Lulu responds with the utmost confidence in how well she knows her best friend.

   "Wait, what? She hasn't figured that out yet? I thought it was obvious?"

   The redheaded girl giggles at his dumbfounded expression. "Nope! She might be normally perceptive with things like that if it has to do with others, but you know how she is. She refuses to even think about the idea that someone might like her." She smirks at the boy.

   "Wow, I didn't think about that. Oh well, we should make sure no one ends up dead or something." They giggle together in agreement and look back at their friends that are most definitely made for one another.

   "What did you do to Roseabella? I swear if she is in any sort of danger-"

   "Fine! You got me! But she is absolutely safe I promise." He interrupts when he notices how worked up, she is getting over this. "You know that I wouldn't do a prank that would harm you or her, right love?" He continues to get more worried.

   "You better be telling the truth, for your sake." She threatens him by pointing her finger at his chest, getting more worked up by the second. He, feeling slightly bad, puts his hand on her shoulder rubbing his thumb to try and calm her down before he has to deal with the max extent of her wrath.

   "Told you so!" Myles interjects from his spot at the counter.

   Aremes glares at him before looking back at the girl in front of him starting to get increasingly worried about her little pet. "Of course I'm telling the truth, she is with my sister. Anna stopped by around 8 and offered to take Roseabella for a walk around town". After hearing this Ayame looks up at him (still very much annoyed)

   "See? That wasn't too hard to admit now, was it? Meanie." She huffs out, annoyed.

   He chuckles and pats her head, "I guess it wasn't that hard. But where is all the fun in just telling you?"

   She of course rolls her eyes at him scoffing, "Next time, don't prank me with my dog, or any animals."

   "I won't, I won't, I promise." He reluctantly promises.

   "Good." she pouts at him.

  
   The End

A/N
So! For this story I simply I had write anywhere from 800-3000 words, take 30 mins, and use 8 of the 16 idioms below, i wrote about 1300, took 2 hours 30 mins, and I used all of them

• in stitches

• in the twinkling of an eye

• mum's the word

• send him packing

• set your teeth on edge

• There's method in my madness

• too much of a good thing

• vanish into thin air

• laughingstock

• sorry sight

• as dead as a doornail

• eaten out of house and home

• fair play

• wear your heart on your sleeve

• in a pickle

• neither here nor there