But when I saw her removing a crumb from his beard, something inside me finally snapped, and I was ready to deal with the embarrassment of making a scene!
I marched forward, determined to confront the truth, no matter how painful it might be. But as I walked past the cake, decorated with the words “Happy Birthday, Matt!” in bright frosting, everything changed.
Someone intercepted my path and led me to the cake, which was now being lit with colorful candles. My determination melted as I leaned into the hope that my birthday would come with positivity, making one wish: to go back to my real family.
I blew out the candles with my eyes closed, and then, to my shock, Erica walked up, kissed me square on the lips, and said, “Let me guess… you wished for this, didn’t you?”
And at that moment, everyone around started cheering, laughing, and yelling, “Surprise!”
Shocked, I realized what was happening.
It was all a prank.
I stared at my wife, stunned wanting proper clarification that I wasn’t going crazy. “What… what is this?”
“It was a prank,” she confirmed, laughing. “A crazy, elaborate prank.
You and Michael joked about swapping lives once, remember? Eliza and I overheard and couldn’t resist.”
“So, none of this is real? I didn’t hit my head and forget?”
“Nope, everything was planned, from you getting super drunk last night, to you ending up in bed with Eliza, to her children and husband getting involved, and even your mother!” Erica said with a smile.
Relief and disbelief washed over me as the truth sank in.
I looked around at the grinning faces of my friends and family, and for the first time all day, I laughed.
“I hate you all,” I said, shaking my head. “But this… this is one birthday I’ll never forget!”
While the prank on Matt played out well in the following story it ended in heartbreak. A married woman tried playing a prank on her unsuspecting husband, but the joke ended up being on her and not him.
Source: amomama
