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And So it Began

Fourteen year old Katie Gardner was confused. Apparently, her mother had not died when she was a baby as her father told her, but was, in fact, a goddess. Why would her dad lie to her like that? A girl who said her name was Nyssa had shown her around camp, and eventually showed her the Hermes cabin, where she would be staying until she was "claimed."- whatever that was. All of this and more went through her head as she sat on her sleeping bag.

After a while, Katie noticed two nearly identical boys who looked about her age whispering to each other in the corner of the room, occasionally glancing her way. At first she just ignored them, but soon it began to get on her nerves.

"Hey, why do you keep looking at me?" Katie called out. Despite her trying to appear calm, Katie's annoyance at the two boys still showed.

The boys walked over to her and one of them, who Katie noticed was slightly taller, leaned down towards her and grinned impishly. "Oh, we were just discussing something."

"Discussing what?" Katie shot back. His vague answer made her all the more irritated.

Ignoring her question, he continued, "By the way, I'm Travis, and this is my brother, Connor." He stuck out his hand for her to shake, bending down a bit so Katie could reach it from her position on the cabin floor .

"Katie," she replied, still eyeing him wearily.

She took his hand, and instantly felt something zap her. She shrieked and the brothers fell back, laughing.

"Oh, you should have seen your face!" Connor exclaimed.

Katie shot up from her place on the sleeping bag and stepped closer to Travis. For a moment she could only stand there feeling a little bit dumb. She spat out the first thing that came to her mind. "Why can't you just go be annoying in front of someone else!"

"Because, Katie-kat, we haven't finished welcoming you to camp yet!", replied Travis with a cheeky smile.

"Don't call me that!" she snapped, before storming out of the cabin, feeling a bit flustered. 'They are so annoying! Can't they find something better to do than bother people?' she thought with disgust. 'But... Travis did have a really cute smile. Wait, what?!'...

And so it began.

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