Uhgg, it was Camp Activity Day (CAD) again. Who even thought of this stupid idea? It was so pointless. I mean I don't need to make any more "new" friends, I'm fine with the ones I have! But the part that sucks the most is that groups are boys only or girls only. And if it's not bad enough yet, this year I'm old enough to be a CAD leader. Oh well, I better get this day over with.
I got out of bed and walked down to the bathrooms to take a shower. After my quick shower, I put on my camp shirt and a pair of shorts. I then brushed my teeth and walked back to my own cabin. There was never a point in brushing my hair because it would never work. After I cleaned up my cabin for cabin inspection, I walked down to the pavilion for CAD's special morning breakfast.
I saw my girlfriend, Annabeth at the Athena table glumly eating her "special" breakfast. She hated this day too, she thought it wasted a perfectly good day where she could be practicing, making strategies, catching up on her homework and all that other educational stuff. She looked up from her food and smiled when she saw me.
"Seaweed brain!" she said as she came over to me and gave a hug and a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Hey Annabeth, ready for CAD?" I asked and she gave me a look that could kill. She was relatively known for that.
"Oh sure! I would love to do fun activities with little pests and have completions with other groups when I could be studying!" she said in a sarcastic tone and I couldn't help but chuckle.
"Oh really? Maybe I should cancel our date tonight so we can help younger campers with archery lessons" I responded.
"Don't you dare, first of all, I haven't been on a date with you in a while, second off all, who knows when you will get the urge to be romantic again? And third, have you seen your aim? I don't want to die at 16 years old." she said and started laughing while I glared at her.
"Percy, Annabeth! Stop flirting and come down to the big house, the CAD leaders are getting activity schedules!" Thalia said. She was visiting with the other hunters and even though I was glad to have her here, she could be annoying sometimes.
Annabeth and I grimaced. We walked down to the big house hand in hand, enjoying our pest-free environment while it lasted.
"Ahh, Annabeth, Percy glad you could make it" Chiron greeted us as we entered the meeting room. All the other eligible CAD leaders were there. This year they were mostly the cabin leaders because they all were old enough to be CAD leaders. I scanned the room and saw Travis & Connor from Hermes, Katie Gardner from Demeter, Nico from Hades, Thalia from Zeus and Artemis, Pollux from Dionysus, Will Solace from Apollo, Jake Masson from Hephaestus, and Clarisse from Ares. The only exception was Sarah from Aphrodite because Drew was sick. Sarah was not your average Aphrodite girl. Sure, she was super pretty, her nickname was beach blonde, because of her blonde hair, slightly tanned skin and her bright blue eyes. But she was also down to earth and into sports, especially volleyball. How do you think she got her beach body? But the thing that surprised most people was that she had never kissed anyone or dated anyone, also she was the sweetest girl alive and wouldn't harm a fly. This year we had two rule breaker CAD leaders. Nico and Sarah, they were both 2 years younger than the age requirement but I guess Chiron made an exception.
"All right, now that everybody is here, let's get started" Chiron said after we all got seated at the big table.
"Group 1 with Thalia"
"Group 2 with Percy"
"Group 3 with Nico"
"Group 4 with Katie"
"Group 5 with Clarisse"
"Group 6 with Annabeth"
"Group 7 with Will"
"Group 8 with Pollux"
"Group 9 with Jake"
"Group 10 with Sarah"
"Group 11 with Travis & Connor"
"Hey, how come Travis and Connor are together?" I asked after he was done listing the groups.
"Let's be serious Percy, these two dimwits can't do anything by themselves!" Nico said and everyone except Travis and Connor started laughing.
"Hey!" they both yelled and Nico just shrugged.
"Children, children! Settle down, we have a lot to discuss! There is a lot of pressure on this year. We have a new twist for the day." Chiron said excitedly while everyone else groaned.
"But let's not get to ahead of ourselves here, let's start with the basics! This years theme is water" he said and my eyes lit up. Finally, a good theme! CAD always had terrible themes, one year it was gardening, another it was strategies and last year it was beauty, ughh…that was the worst.
"That is so unfair! Water boy over there will have a total advantage!" Travis yelled and everyone quietly agreed. I guess he was right; I could win these games more easily than they could any day.
"Hmm, you state a good point there Travis. Okay, this year we will have an Activities Supervisor, who will watch over the activities—"
"Sweet! I don't have to do anything!" Travis said excitedly.
"Actually Travis, I meant Percy would be the Activities Supervisor (AS) since he has the advantage which you stated and you would be the one to be Group 2's leader" Chiron said and everyone started snickering.
"What?" Travis yelled and fell of his chair which caused more laughing to occur.
"Okay so now that we have dealt with that, there is a twist to the year's CAD! Each Group will have a brother or sister group depending on the gender of your group leader. In previous years, we have had one gender groups, but we soon learned that the children prefer to have the other gender as well. So, this year each group will have a partner group to do actives with."
"Uhh, Chiron sorry to interrupt be we have 11 groups, that means one group won't have a partner group" Annabeth stated.
"Oh, very true…Travis you will be with Connor and we will eliminate group 2" Chiron said and Travis high-fived Connor.
"Okay so the brother-sister groups go as Group 1 with Group 9, Group 4 with Group 11, Group 5 with Group 8, Group 3 with Group 10, and Group 6 with Group 7" Chiron said.
"What? I'm with the two dimwits?" Katie yelled.
"Well yes, I suppose you are" Chiron said a little thrown off.
"Okay, I think we should all stand with our partner's to see who we're with" Thalia said a little confused. Everyone agreed and started to find there partner. After 5 minutes, everyone was standing with their partner.
Thalia was with Jake and they seemed to get along pretty well.
Katie was with the Stoll's and she didn't seem too pleased about that.
Clarisse was with Pollux and they apparently had a mutual agreement to get along for the day and then forget it.
Nico was with Sarah and they seemed to really like each other, they were talking and I think she was flirting with him as well.
Lastly, Annabeth was with Will and they were like brother and sister already. They got along but they had no interest in each other what so ever.
"Now I want everybody to listen to the brother-sister rules. You must follow these rules and if broken, you will have to be punished. Rule 1 – Brother-sister groups must stay together at all times. Rule 2 – At no point in time must one leader take a "break" and leave the other leader to do the work. Rule 3 – You are not mother-father, you are brother-sister, I do not want any of the CAD leaders taking advantage of this situation. Does everyone understand? " Chiron said and we all nodded our heads in agreement.
"Okay good, now grab your CAD schedules on your way out, first activity starts in 5 minutes" Chiron said and we all walked out of the big house.
"Dead boy, beauty queen! Didn't you hear him? No mother-father business now! We don't want you to have an extra kid in the group!" Clarisse yelled once we got out of the big house and I couldn't help myself but chuckle while Nico and Sarah blushed and took two steps away from each other.
"Good one Clarisse!" Connor said after his laughing fit was over.
"I can't believe you pushed me into the mud!" Katie yelled coming from the other side of the big house covered in mud.
"Hey, you started it" Travis yelled back walking with her covered in mud as well.
"Oh gods, this is going to be a long day" Connor mumbled.
"Why?" I asked him in a hushed tone so no one could hear us.
"Because I'm going to end up looking after all the kids while those to flirt and fight all day" Connor said rubbing his temples while I started laughing.
"Connor you look like someone who has to deal with mental patients everyday" I said.
"That's because I do" Connor said and walked away while I laughed.
"What's so funny Seaweed brain?" Annabeth asked while walking up to me.
"Oh nothing, Katie and Travis just amuse me" I said pointing towards them and Annabeth started to chuckle as well.
"So, what's your schedule?" I asked her.
"Oh uhmm, well first we have water balloon fight, then sprinkler station, then swimming, then lunch, then water slide, then water tag and then we have the break station and then we have canoeing and boating and then lastly we have dinner" she said while reading her page.
"Why do you want to know?" she asked.
"Oh well, since I'm an AS, I have to supervise but they didn't say where I have to supervise so I think I might be supervising where you are all day" I said with a smirk and she smiled.
"Oh well then nice to have you along Mr. Jackson" she said very professionally and then it was my turn to laugh.
"Guys, we have to go to the pavilion to get our groups now!" Will said to all of us and we followed him down to the pavilion.
When we got down to the pavilion, Chiron had already given his speech. He introduced us to the campers and put all off us in our groups. I just tagged along with Will and Annabeth the whole time.
Everyone had relatively small groups this year. Annabeth's and Will's group had about 15 people and all the other groups ranged from 13-16 campers.
"Annabeth, why are there so many little kids? And why do all the groups only have 15 kids?" I whispered into her ear.
"They changed the age for CAD to ages 6-12" Annabeth whispered back into my ear. Really? The year I have to become a CAD leader, they change it?
"Daddy says it's not nice to keep secrets!" a little boy yelled from the group. He looked to be about 7 and he had blonde hair and grey eyes. He was definitely Athena.
"It's not a secret little boy" I said to him but that just made him upset.
"My name is not little boy! My name is Noah!" he yelled back to me.
"Okay then Noah, how about you stop yelling?" I asked as calmly as I could.
"I'll stop yelling when you start using you brain, wait that means I'll be yelling for a while now, doesn't it?" he asked and Annabeth and Will started laughing.
"Noah, that's not how we speak to Percy, can you apologise please?" Annabeth asked after she lowered herself down to his level.
"Sorry Percy" he said and I smiled.
"It's okay, sport" I said and realised that I made a big mistake.
"My name is Noah! Not sport!" he yelled and Will and Annabeth started to snicker.
This was going to be a long day…