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Derapchu sat upside down on the couch, his derp-pikachu onesie wrapped around him, giving him an extra layer of warmth, since the heater inside the house had broken. The heater had broken after Yung Will had been throwing a gold ingot across the room to other people a week ago, before he decided to toss it at full speed at Derapchu’s head, to which Derapchu had ducked, and the ingot had completely broken the control panel to the heater, which was the only controller for the heater. So for the last week, the house had got progressively colder, to the point where Derapchu was constantly wearing his iconic onesie no matter what he was doing.
Similar to last week, there was a small group huddled around the tiny portable heater that Jumper had, plugged into the nearest power outlet, and Pentar had decided to hog 90% of the heat coming out of the heater, stretching out his body to take up the maximum surface area possible to stay warm. There was also Rekrap, who was hunched over a massive puzzle on the cold tile floor, pieces sprawled out all over Derapchu’s dining room floor, Yung Will, who was currently scrolling on his phone and Woogie, who had taken to making cookies for the group, but each attempt came out worse than the last. From burning the cookies, to using salt instead of sugar, under-mixing so the ingredients were clumpy and weirdly tasting and accidentally using Derapchu’s Vegemite instead of chocolate spread to stuff the cookies with (which weirdly Rekrap ate all of the Vegemite stuffed cookies with no reaction whatsoever).
After hours of the friends just sitting in silence, doing their own activities to their own enjoyment, Derapchu decided to speak up.
“You know, I’m so bored. Mate, we should do something.” Derapchu spoke into the empty room, the silence pierced by Derapchu’s words.
“Maybe you guys should get me some help with making the cookies if you keep complaining about the quality!” Woogie yells from the kitchen, flour all over his face, hair and apron.
“I’m fine right here by the heater, I think,” Pentar replied, nuzzling himself closer to the lone source of heat in the whole house.
“Maybe we could watch a movie?” Jumper suggests, “I was thinking, maybe the Truman Show?” Derapchu’s body had a tense reaction, yet he wasn’t sure why to that movie suggestion. Oh well.
“We could all do puzzles together!” Rekrap calls out, eyes still glued to the massive puzzle that he was working on.
“What about a prank call?” Yung Will answered, eyes looking up from his phone. Derapchu’s eyes light up at Yungy’s idea.
“That’s actually a good idea, Yungy,” Derapchu says, pulling out his phone from his pocket, and scrolling through his list of contacts that he has. Surprisingly, Derapchu has more friends than the people in this room right now.
The name “HANDSOME PANGI” catches Derapchu’s attention, and he clicks on the profile to call the number. Woogie had gone back to cooking, and Rekrap to his puzzle, so it was Jumper, Pentar, Yungy and Derapchu who were huddling around Derapchu’s phone, about to call Pangi.
The phone number rings out for a moment before Pangi calls out, “Hello? Derap?”. Pangi’s voice rings into the echoing living room, and Derapchu takes a second before responding.
“Is your refrigerator running?” Derapchu asks, his voice completely monotone as he asks Pangi the question.
“…yes?” Pangi replies, confusion evident in his voice. He quite clearly hadn’t understood the joke.
“THEN YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT!!” Yungy interjects, beating Derapchu to answer and finish the joke.
Silence rings over the call until Derapchu tries again, saying another joke. “Pangi, want to hear a joke?”
Pangi continued to sit with a confused silence on his end of the phone call, clearly still confused as to what Derapchu was getting at. Before Derapchu could even finish his joke again, this time, Jumper interrupts.
“A JOKE!!” She yells into the microphone, hurting Derapchu’s ears in the process.
Derapchu sighs, trying again to tell Pangi a joke, and complete it without an interruption. “Pangi. I have a story. A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says: Why the long face?”
The heaviest silence rings out on the other side of the call, Pangi now bewildered at Derapchu’s attempts to make a joke for a prank call. Being honest and true to himself, Derapchu decides to just yell whatever brainrot he can think of into his phone, just to confuse Pangi even more than Derapchu already has.
“SKIBIDI TOILET SIXXX SEVEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN AMONG US DID U VENT I JUST SAW RED KILL CAMERA MAN SLENDER MAN MINECRAFT PARKOUR TUNG TUNG TUNG SAHUR-“
Little did Derapchu know, as soon as Derapchu had started screaming brain-rotting into the microphone, Pangi had ended the call, a release from Derapchu’s antics.