For three seconds, nothing happened.
Then Pepito, dressed as a giant chicken, waddled in and handed her a cupcake with a single candle. “For you,” he said, voice shaking. “Because you deserve to laugh more than anyone.”
One afternoon, Pepito’s best friend, Lola, found him behind the school’s avocado tree, staring at a mushroom. Naughty Adventures Of Pepito Book 2
“There’s a first time for everything,” she sighed. Pepito discovered the Snortlepig’s weakness: it hated genuine laughter. Fake laughter made it stronger. But real, belly-aching, tear-streaming laughter made it shrink.
Pepito had no idea. But he knew who would: Don Ramón, the 97-year-old retired prankster who lived in a windmill on the hill. Don Ramón had false teeth that clicked when he laughed and a pet iguana named Chaos. For three seconds, nothing happened
Ever since the Incident of the Unstoppable Giggle Powder (Book 1), the town of Villa Sorpresa had been quiet. Too quiet.
Pepito grinned. Book 2 was closed. But deep under the fountain, the Snortlepig rolled over in its sleep and whispered one last thing: “Because you deserve to laugh more than anyone
“That was two years ago!” Pepito yelped.
“Exactly,” Don Ramón said. “You’ve reached Level Two funny. The Snortlepig just woke up. And it’s hungry for the biggest embarrassment of all: the prankster’s own.”
It rolled back under the fountain, snoring softly, a smile on its ugly face. The mayor declared Pepito “Official Town Prankster, Level Two.” Señora Gonzalo started telling jokes in math class (they were terrible, but everyone laughed anyway). Don Ramón gave Pepito his iguana, Chaos, as a sidekick.
He poked the mushroom. It didn't just squish. It squeaked . A loud, wet, rubber-ducky-in-a-bog squeak.