Victoria was the consummate tease, she would dress provocatively but really never acknowledged any of us, no matter how hard we tried. Maybe it was because we were geeks, if we were jocks we would have had her attention. Becky, her sister was part of our group and even she didn't get any respect from Victoria.
Victoria was the long blonde hair cheerleader type, 5' 7", trim and athletic, she could pass for a Dallas Cowboy's cheerleader. Becky was the complete opposite, short, slightly dumpy, small breasted and wore black horn rimmed glasses.
Our geek squad members are all seniors studying engineering at the same small town college. Our group was formed in our sophomore year out of necessity, part study group and partly because we needed friends.
Andy, Becky, Bob, Don and myself all sat in Don's kitchen one evening in March having a few brews and brainstorming about doing a April Fools day prank. Andy, our chubby resident alien follower, wanted to do something with a UFO but that didn't seem like enough for our senior year prank, it sounded too much like a Halloween idea. Bob, who was short and thin wanted to do something that didn't require much physical work. Don who was 6' tall lanky guy, who loved working on cars and my average self had no preference to what we decided to do. This was to be our last big hurrah, the grande event that would have people talking about it for years. The last big campus prank was moving the Dean's sports car to inside the gym's basketball court, we wanted to do something better, even grander.
Becky wanted to prank Victoria because she was such a bitch and completely "dissed" all of us. Everyone tossed out their ideas, some had possibilities, but Andy kept wanting to do something alien. Andy had more money than the rest of us, so if it involved buying something, we had to get him involved.
"How about an building a UFO in Don's cargo van? That would make it portable and we could take it around for multiple pranks." Said Andy.
"Here is my idea, We make the back of the van look like the inside of a UFO, you know, lots of flashing lights, silver paint and lots of electronic stuff. We park the van someplace, leave the back doors open and let some fool look in thinking they saw the inside of a UFO ... maybe get some of those Greys masks. We could make it look like we are conducting experiments on earthlings."
That sounded like more of a geek project than painting the top of the local water tower with a class year..
Andy said "Fuck the class, this is our prank. It's got to be all ours."
Maybe it was drinking the warm 3.2% beers that guided us towards the UFO van idea, but thats the one we all finally agreed on and to prank Victoria.
That weekend we all started working on converting the van. Andy got some sound equipment and eerie sci fi sounds. Bob picked up lots of gauges, lights and flexible dryer tubing and I found some silver pvc sheets to line the inside. It was starting to come together, Becky found a smoke machine and some alien costumes at a Halloween store a few towns away.
We worked all that weekend and the next on completing our UFO, when Becky turned on the smoke machine, it covered up the small details we didn't complete. Now we had to figure how to get Victoria into the van.
Becky found out that Victoria was going to the bar Friday night which was March 31. Victoria was going with a fake id, since she was not 21 yet, she would sneak into the back from the back parking lot like she had done in the past. No one ever carded her anyway, she was the bait to draw more guys in to drink, so the bar owner looked the other way.