C.O.T.T.: Camping
By: Jillian Kane
(I'm sorry if I'm confusing you in this story, I'm know in "Atlanta's secret" she had no parents and only had a little sister but this is another family story of hers, if I'm confusing you even more I'm sorry just read it and you will understand)
Chapter 1- The Drive
The seven teen walked into Hera's office, she was standing on the indoor gazebo, smelling some flowers, but stopped when she saw the teens come in.
"Hera what's wrong?" asked Theresa
"Why did you call us in, is it Cronus?" asked Jay before Hera could say a word
"Oh no no no, it's not Cronus
"Then what is it?" asked Herry
"Well I was thinking since, you all have been working very hard defeating Cronus , that you would like a break, a trip" she said, as soon as she said trip they all smiled and turned to each other excitedly, and started shouting out places where they thought they would go.
"Sailing trip" said Jay
"Buffet" smiled Herry
"Mexico" said Theresa
"Spa in Vegas" said Neil
"Children please, we are sending you camping in Canada" she said
Some fronded "WHAT!" they said not liking the idea
"YESSS Camping and in Canada…..I can do some hunting" Atlanta said happily
"You will leave tonight go home get packed and go" she said handing Atlanta a map
Atlanta opened the map and looked at it "we are driving by my house can we drop in and pick up my hunting gear?" asked Atlanta
"That night after dinner they through the luggage in Herry's truck including the tents and food coolers. They all jumped in, Herry was driving Jay and Theresa in the front Theresa in the middle, and in the back was Archie and Neil with the window seats and Atlanta in the center seat next to Archie and Odie on the other side of her.
"Are we all buckled?" asked Herry looking in the mirror and everyone gave him thumbs up "Ok let's Split" he said starting the truck
They drove and drove, Herry was driving, Theresa was reading a book, Odie was playing games on his laptop, Neil was admiring him self in the mirror, Atlanta and Archie both had there iPods in, Archie was tapping his and on the side of the door to the beat of his music, Atlanta had her head back towards the truck roof on the head rest with her eyes closes breathing deeply, jay was just enjoying the ride.
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A few hours later it was getting late and very dark out and Neil fell asleep leaning on the door and Odie fell asleep on his arm, Atlanta's head was still back on the head rest but she was sleeping and Archie originally had his head on the head rest but later at a turn and his body slid to the left and his head then rested on Atlanta's shoulder, in the front Jay fell asleep on the truck door, and Theresa fell asleep on his, with everyone sleeping that left Herry awake and driving, her could barely keep his eyes open and on the road, every once and a while his eyes would close slightly and head would drift but he managed to snap himself out of it shacking his head to stay awake, again his eyes would close and his body relaxed and drift to one side causing his arms to do the same and making the truck drift into the next lane, all the sudden they all herd a huge truck horn go off everyone jolted awake and Herry at the last second swerved back into his lane before colliding.
Everyone was freaked out and sitting up straight with dropped mouths and wide eyes, from there near death experience
"I think we should turn in for the night" said Jay still freaked out, everyone still with wide eyes including Herry nodded
Then Atlanta after the shock went to itch her shoulder but touched something gooey and slimy "EEWW Archie…. You drooled on me" she said with a gross face on wiping the drool on her pants, he just turned to look out the window like he didn't hear her
Finally they found a motel, they parked out side and Jay went into the office "A room for two and a room for five please" he asked a lady at the desk
She just looked at him with an unfriendly face, she grabbed two keys and gave him them" Thanks" he said walking out to the truck
At the truck everyone was just standing and waiting for him to come back "Hear girls' room 20' he said handing one of the keys to Theresa "And we are room 21" he said holding up a set of keys
Everyone took out there small backpacks and filled them with things they would need for the night then they walked to there rooms, at the doors to the rooms, they stopped "Ok girls we are getting up at seven o'clock so we can get going" said Odie
"Wow you just sounded like Jay" said Atlanta everyone giggled
They used the keys and unlocked the doors and walked into the rooms the rooms weren't fancy or anything like that they where simple very simple, the girls room hand two beds facing out the wall with a small side table in the middle and it had a TV and a bathroom and a small window bye the door, the guys room was the same except they had a couch beside the TV.
"WOW I guess we will have to share" said Archie wowed at the small room
"I will take the couch" said Neil pulling out an extra blanket from his bag, Odie and Herry slept on one bed and Jay and Archie slept on the other bed, Odie concluded that since he was smaller and Herry was larger and Jay and Archie are about the same size that it was perfect to get enough space. Finally they all fell asleep, the girls passed out as soon as they lied down, they where tired and comfortable, but the guys on the other hand had a harder time one they had to sleep in the same beds and two Neil snored like a rhino.
The next morning at exactly 7 o'clock jay got up after he got dressed Odie woke up, they both brushed there teeth then the walked out of the bathroom and stood starring at there still sleeping friends, Jay all the sudden had a great idea and whispered into Odie's ear, Odie chuckled then nodded his head, Odie walked to one side of Archie and Jay walked over to Herry, they both grabbed a hold of the sheets tightly and they looked up at each other with a grin, and mouthed "One…two….Three" together they pulled the sheets as hard as they could considering the two where double there size and both Herry and Archie rolled of the bed and fell to the floor.
Herry immediately stood up he was dazed "I'm awake, I'm awake" he said aloud with his arms up like a police was aiming a gun at him or something
Archie stood up slowly he rubbed his butt it really hurt from falling on Odie's Computer
Odie looked over and screamed startling everyone "MY COMPUTER" he screamed speed walking over to his Computer pushing Archie "Thanks I'm fine thanks for asking" he said sarcastically Odie just shrugged and gave Jay a high five
Then they all turned to look at Neil on the couch still asleep "wow it's amazing that he is still sleeping over all the sounds" said Herry
"Ya this is the perfect time to get him from all the times he has gotten us" said Archie grinning evilly
"Good idea" said Herry walking to his backpack and pulling out a can of whip cream
"You keep whip cream in your bag?" asked Jay puzzled
"You never know when you will need it" he said walking over to Neil who was still sleeping, it was perfect considering his arm was off the couch palm up
Herry sprayed a mountain of whip cream on his hand and walked back to his bag and pulled out a pepper grinder
"You have pepper in there too" said Odie stunned at what was coming out of the bag
"Ya I tack it everywhere you never know when you will want pepper on your food, and then he grinned some over Neil's nose, and very quickly jumped back when he saw Neil's nose twitch right after he sneezed and rubbed his hand on his face including the whip cream
The guys started to laugh and gave each other high fives finally causing Neil to wake up, when he saw everyone laughing he quickly pulled out his mirror "Ha Ha Ha very funny" he said sarcastically and glum
In the girls room the alarm went off
BEEP BEEP BEEP
"Atlanta turn it off" moaned Theresa, with her face in the pillow
"NO you turn it off" moaned Atlanta throwing her extra pillow at Theresa
"Heeyy" she wined throwing the pillow back at her both laughing, Atlanta through it back at Theresa causing her to fall off the bed
Atlanta's face went into a frown and stopped laughing "THERESA!" she yelled concernedly throwing her hand in front of her mouth, and walking over to the other side of the bed, when she turned wanting to see Theresa fine on the floor but she got smashed in the face by a pillow, Theresa laughed at Atlanta who had a serous face on then all the sudden bersted out laughing
"Your on" said Atlanta between laughs tacking a few steps backwards, Theresa throw another pillow but Atlanta ducked it and it smashed into the wall, then throw the other pillow and that hit the wall too, Atlanta picked up one of the pillows and throw it back at Theresa but instead of hitting her target it hit a lamp next to her and it smashed to the ground braking on contact with the floor.
The guys jumped they herd a bang then another bang then a loud crash.
"the girls" said jay with a panicked look probably Cronus, they all looked at each other and ran out side, the door was locked so Herry smashed the door with his shoulder and it broke off the hinges and fell forward flat of the floor, and they froze to what they saw
They saw both girls with pillows over there heads ready to hit each other but they froze when the door smashed open and the guys where standing there they had wide eyes both not shore what to say it was also awkward because of the fact they where in there pajamas, Atlanta's pajamas where a light blue tank top and silk light blue short shorts with green frogs on then, Theresa wore a pink nightgown with magenta flowers that went to her knees
"What….what do you want?" asked Atlanta stuttering awkwardly both girls lowering there weapons (a.k.a. pillows)
"Ahh…we….we…never mind" stuttered Archie also awkward, the guys started to walk away
"AH…..Herry" said Theresa loud enough for him to hear, and he walked back picked up the door and leaned it on the door frame
"Thanks" both girls yelled to him
Everyone packed the truck and waited for Jay to return the keys and pay for the door that Herry broke, Hera gave them a package of money just in case something happened, Jay didn't know if it was for in a fight with Cronus and things got damaged and people blamed them and they had to pay or just damages that Herry caused
Finally they where off again they where all rested and fed, and ready to drive another couple of hours
At about 11 o'clock they reached Atlanta's street, she was lunged over Archie looking out the window with a Ahhh loving being back in the neighborhood "There There There" she kept saying excitably pointing out the window "Home sweet home" she said happily
Herry parked the truck at the side of the road in front of Atlanta's house, everyone got out of the truck and stood in front of the house, it was a smaller brick home with a small wooden deck, they walked up on the deck and Atlanta knocked on the door, then it was open so they walked in. To the left was a stair case leading upstairs, straight ahead down a small hall was what looked like a kitchen they could also see another door through the kitchen to the right was an opening witch they assumed was the TV room
A couple walked out of the TV room, the man was tall with short brown hair, shorts that when past his knees, and a bright green shirt with a black DC logo on the front, the women had dirty blond hair past her shoulders, with a jean skirt past her knees and a pink blouse
"MOM.. DAD" she said happily and the parents smiled and walked over to hug her
Then up stairs all you could hear was banging and running, it sounded like baby elephants running all over the upstairs, everyone looked in the direction of up stairs and two boys came running down the stairs, they looked to be the same build as Jay they looked to de a few years older then Atlanta but a year apart
They ran down "I got the legs you get the arms" yelled one, they both had brown hair, jeans on, one had a purple Aropostale shirt the other had a red DC shirt on.
When they said that Atlanta's happy face turned to a frown and rolled her eyes with a OHH brother face like she knew what was about to happen
One brother grabbed her legs the other grabbed under her arm where her arm pit was and they walked her down the hall and out the door, Atlanta didn't look very happy she just sat there enjoying the ride "You two never grow up" she mumbled "Oh and bye the way I'm doing fine school great" she said wondering if they where even listening
The team shrugged and looked at each other confusedly, her dad twitched his head indicating go ahead back, so they all walked out of the house and into the back yard, it was beautiful, it had beautiful gardens, with a big pool with a hot tube connected, and in one area had two trampolines
The two boys walked down a path to the pool they stood at the edge of the pool at the head of the deep end, then they started to swing her like a swing at the same time they counted "One…Tow…Three" they said together on three they tossed her in SPLASH
When she came up she started treading water, and she spit out a fountain of water out of her mouth, and swam to the stairs to the shallow end, and walked up the stairs socking wet from head to toe
She smiled, but it wasn't just a smile it was like a devious smile like Ha ha jocks on you type smile, the boys stood at the side of the pool looking across at Atlanta. Then all the sudden the boys saw Atlanta sped off like a lightning bolt, she stood behind them and put her head between there's "Your turn" she whispered pushing them into the pool, when they came up Atlanta jumped in the pool after them, all three where treading water and randomly started to laugh. Atlanta looked over to where he friends and parents where standing "Come in, we will have a nice swim then tack off" she yelled to them "After lunch too" said her mom.
They swam and had a great time with Atlanta's family, her Mom, Dad, and both brothers Joel and Nate.
They sat at a large table outside and ate burgers that Atlanta's dad made, Atlanta told him to make lots her friends ate a lot, even though it was mostly just Herry.
"I didn't think the shrimp would make any friends" said Nate jokingly shoving a burger in his mouth
Atlanta rolled her eyes, Archie beside her chuckled "What" she whispered beside her "Shrimp" he chuckled again she elbowed him and rolled her eyes
"So does Atlanta have a boy friend, what a lucky boy he would be" asked Joel
"How about you" said Nate turning to Archie; he froze "you both have ugly coloured hair"
Atlanta rolled her eyes "Nate be nice…..to my friends at least"
"Fine then…..why didn't you bring teddy to your new school he has missed you soo much" said Joel in a baby voice then a kissy face at the end
Everyone tried to look away to giggle with out Atlanta seeing them, Atlanta's eyes narrowed "Ha Ha HA, no what guys both of you just... just shut up!" she said bluntly then taking a bit of her burger
"OHH little shrimp is using big words" said Nate and both laughed
Then she turned too her brothers "At least I'm not still living with mommy and daddy" she said smiling seeing there smiles turn up side down
"OHH what a burn" said Neil
"So what are you all doing up hear in northern Canada?" asked her dad
"Oh we are on a camping trip and we dropped in to say hi and pick up her hunting gear" said Jay
"Sounds like fun" said her mom tacking a sip of her pop
After lunch they all helped clean up, they found Atlanta's gear and put it into the truck, they all stood on the front lawn saying there goodbyes
"Nice meeting you all, you are good kids" said her dad giving them all a handshake
"Yes it was defiantly was" said her mom happily
"YA see ya kiddo" said Joel grabbing his sister around the neck and giving her a nuggie
"YAA OK" said Atlanta not sure what to say
"Ya it was we miss picking on you" said Nate
"Thanks…I think" she said and turned to her parents "Goodbye"
"We will miss you" said her mom
"Call us" her dad smiled
"OK" she replied getting into the truck
"Thanks for everything" yelled Theresa out the window and waving
"Ya lunch was great" yelled Herry, and they drove off to the camp site
