I donated bl00d to save my boyfriend after his friends told me he had been in a serious ac:cid:ent. As I was leaving the hospital, I heard someone behind a door say, “I can’t believe she fell for it again.”

“Which prank are we checking off with this one?” Mason asked while howling with laughter.

Wyatt raised his fingers and counted. “That makes ninety-six.”

The room exploded with laughter, and I felt the ground disappear beneath me.

“The one with the silver bracelet was peak entertainment,” someone recalled with a grin. “We told her Brendan dropped his anniversary gift in the park, so Chloe spent half the night searching through a torrential rainstorm.”

“She ended up collapsing with a high fever the next day,” Wyatt added.

“And yet she still