"Call 911!!!"

When my brother, my sister and I were younger...we would always come home from school and pull pranks on my mom. My sister is much older than Ben and I so she had the responsiblility of "watching" us but in hindsight I think we watched her. We would always do things like crazy glue her shoes together, or decorate the outside of the house with her bras.
My next door neighbor was in high school at the time and was looking to pursue a career in special effects, he worked at a haunted house and did make up for plays and things like that so he was pretty polished in his trade. So one day we decided to take advantage of his skills and use them to mess with my mom. After school we walked home and headed over to Sean's house (the neighbor), and let him get to work. I was a very good fake crier so I landed the role to be the victim in our prank. Sean began to make a huge gash across my face with blood running out, at suprisingly for a non-professional, looked pretty professional. My mom would come home every day right at 5 o'clock so we knew exactly how much time we had. Sean finished with about 10 minutes til 5 so we got into position. Sean had a long set of brick stairs that lead up to his house so we decided that the story was, I fell down the stairs and split my head open....
Just then my mom pulled on to the street and I quickly laid down and let the crying begin. My mom hearing this slammed on the breaks right in front of Sean's house and ran up to me, so I screamed louder. She saw the cut on my face and looked to my sister Kim, yelling at her to call 911. Kim who knew that the whole thing was fake had her face burried in Sean's shoulder laughing but the way her shoulders were bouncing one could easily mistake it for crying. My mom was still going nuts, I think she thought the severeity of the wound might have been life threatening. So Kim went over to her and told her it was fake and the cut was just make-up. This didn't registier with my mom yet, who was looking for her cell phone to call 911. So I got up and started to wipe the cut off, laughing saying it was just a prank.
My mom did not find this funny, she without saying a word marched across the street to the house and locked all the doors. For about 24 hours, I was locked out of my house with a huge gash across my face.