Six-Year-Old Girl Used Marker To Fake Chicken Pox In Attempt To Skip School

A six-year-old girl's hilarious attempt to get out of an upcoming spelling test completely backfired. Lily Schooley was worried about the test and decided that she would fake an illness so she could stay home from school. The young girl borrowed a permanent marker and used it to cover her body in red circles, telling her mother that she had the chicken pox.

When Lily's parents told her that she had to go to the doctor, she ran upstairs and tried to wash the spots off. After failing to remove the red dots, she came back downstairs and admitted what her parents already knew; she made the whole thing up.

"Me and my husband were aching with laughter, trying not to let on that we knew," Lily's mom, Charlotte, told the Mirror.

When Lily realized her plan had failed, she came up with another reason why she couldn't go to school. She told her parents that she was worried her classmates would make fun of her and asked to stay home.

Her parents sent her to school anyway, giving her a note explaining that she was not sick or contagious. Her teachers thought it was hilarious and Lily was forced to tell her friends what she did during gym class when everybody noticed the red dots all over her arms and legs.

Lily's mother believes she got the idea from a video she watched on YouTube Kids.

"She watches a lot of YouTube, and she'd apparently watched a video called '10 Ways to Get Out of School' - so there'll be another nine to come," Charlotte joked.

It took four days and some hairspray to finally remove all the red spots from Lily's body. Her mother did not say how Lily did on the spelling test she tried to avoid.

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