"So why do we always pull pranks on the Demeter cabin?"
"Easy target."
"The only thing that you like easy are your girls."
"I do not!"
"So you admit you like a challenge, like a certain daughter of Demeter."
"I am going to make you eat this tree."
Travis adjusted his grip on one of the many pine trees they had stolen from some guy selling them down the road from camp. Stupid Connor and his stupid theories about stupid feelings for some stupid girl.
Who cared if he liked her any way? She didn't like him and that was that. He wasn't going to make her date him. "Lets just get this done." He told Connor.
"So you can get her attention?" Connor asked, poking his head around his side of the tree and rising his eyebrows up and down.
"No!" Travis said, looking his brother in the eye.
"Geeze no need to get defensive." Connor said, going back to his side.
"I'm not getting defensive!" He yelled.
"Shut it! We don't want to wake them up."
"Right. Okay on three…1…2…3" They dropped the tree into the right spot, made sure it was secure in the ground, then stepped back to admire they're good work.
48 full sized pine trees lined the permitter of the Demeter cabin, leaving no room to get out unless they pushed through some thick branches.
"Ready for phase two?" Connor asked.
"I was born ready." Travis pulled out a hidden box of lights, ornaments, and tinsel from under a bush. "Let's do this!"
They put the different Christmas balls and tinsel all over the trees, making them trees worthy of the North Pole, in Travis's opinion. Then they wrapped the one continuous string of lights around all the trees, effectively tying them together. Then (because he lost the game of Rock Paper Scissors) Connor climbed under the trees and did the same to the inside.
"3… 2…" Connor said before pugging in the lights and getting ready to run, "1!" He quickly made it under the trees and they ran away as they heard the Demeter cabin groan and get up.
They had been "hiding" on the beach for ten minutes, sharing in the victory, when they heard the voice of the devil herself.
"Stolls!" Shit.
"Katie my love," Travis said, standing up trying to look cool. "What brings you out here at this time of night? Especially in… those." He gestured up and down to her Cookie monster pajamas and pigtail braids.
"I am going to drown you two." She said curtly. Travis felt a shiver down his back.
"You wouldn't hurt us kitty-cat." Travis teased. Katie's already dark expression darkened.
"If you do not move those trees by morning…" She said through clenched teeth.
"You'll what?" Travis egged her on. He turned to look back at Connor who had, intelligently, run away.
Katie lunged at him and tackled him to the ground. "I'm so sick of you and your stupid brother Stoll!"
I should be scared, he thought, but there is a girl on top of me. Sure she is hitting me repeatedly, but an insanely beautiful girl is on top of me.
"You know if you do kill me," He started. She paused for just a second. "I just wanted to let you know that you're the most beautiful girl at camp. You know, in the middle of no where farm girl sort of way." Adding that last bit hadn't been one of his smarter ideas.
It took three days to wash all the sand out of his mouth.