Use 11 of the following vocabulary words to complete the story below: ancient, bounty, civil, crouched, feuding, fondness, locomotive, pestering, pledged, ratcheted, riled, scowl, spindly, wager, withered

I behind the sofa waiting for my brother to walk into the room. He had pulled a prank on me yesterday and I had to get revenge! He had a for pulling pranks on me, and it was driving me crazy! I usually tried to be when dealing with him, but this time, I had had enough. I was going to get even. Later that evening my brother and I sat at the kitchen table. Our mother had a on her face as she looked at us. She said she was tired of us each other. She understood that between brothers was an tradition, but that it needed to stop before one of us ended up getting seriously hurt. We both beneath her angry look and words. We hated disappointing our mother! We both promised to stop pulling pranks on each other. At the time we meant it, but I that one of us will end up pulling a prank before too long. After all, we get so up with each other that we sometimes forget how to behave!