Travis POV
I've like Katie Gardner for the longest time now. I've never told anyone, not even my twin brother Conner. I play a lot of tricks on her but its only to get her attention. She doesn't even notice me. Katie has beautiful brown hair and pretty green eyes to die for. She has semi- tan skin from gardening all the time. The other day I caught myself staring at her, I'm glad I snapped out of it before anyone noticed.
Katie's POV
Travis Stoll is getting on my last nerve. Don't get me wrong though I've had a gigantic crush on him for at least 4 months now. But he always plays these jokes on my cabin, especially me! Like that time he put chocolate bunnies on the roof of our cabin! He makes me want to scream sometimes. Then he tries to deceive me somehow by staring at me in archery. I remember the Titan war when I thought I'd have to pull an Annabeth to get him to notice me. I don't think he ever will.
Travis POV
My secret is out. Today I was passing by two Aphrodite girls gossiping when she asked me and Connor who we thought were cute. Katie I thought madly. Then Connor looked at me funny. Had I said that out loud? The girl squealed, "OH MY GODS STACEY WE LIKE TOTALLY HAVE TO TELL HER!" she said. Stacey giggled and they scurried off. Oh no oh no oh no! Katie couldn't find out! I realized Connor was still looking at me weird. "Ummmm" I said. "Come on man Katie?" he said unbelievably. I blushed madly when he said her name. He just sighed and shook his head.
Katie's POV
This has got to be the worst day of my life! Some Aphrodite girl came up to me today and started blubbering about how Travis Stoll thought I was totally hot. I blushed in bewilderment. "OH MY GOSH YOU DO TOO!" she yelled at her sidekick Stacey. My blush just deepened. "We like totally have to go tell him!" Stacey said happily as they ran off. Uh oh. What if they were just kidding? Aphrodite girls had the tendency to fib just to get a secret from others. Then the truth would be revealed, and Travis would be the first to know. Why me?
Travis POV
I was walking back from lunch when those Aphrodite girls from earlier cornered me near the Hephaestus cabin. "Guess what we dug up?" one said excitedly. "W-what?" I stammered. "Shes totally into you too!" squealed Stacy. I just stood there stupidly. Had I just heard what I thought I had? Katie Gardner actually liked me? No way. "Are you sure?" I asked accusingly. The girls just rolled their eyes. "Really? You know it would have gotten around sooner or later you guys have sooo got it bad" she said. I just blushed. I guess that was all I was good for nowadays, blushing and acting stupid. They walked away sensing there job had been done. Now I have to talk to Katie. And that would be scary.
Katie's POV
I was walking to my cabin alone when I saw Travis coming towards me from my side. I just stood there and blushed wildly. He looked just as embarrassed as he suggested we sit down on the bench over to our right. I nodded and sat. "Well I just wanted to straighten a few things out that have been going around..." he started. Here it comes I thought depressed, at least he was going to let me down easy. "those things that you heard about me liking you... well their kinda true" he said turning red. I just looked at him, bewildered. "Sorry I-" he started looking apologetic. But I would have none of it. I just went forward and kissed him before I could change my mind.
Travis POV
I caught Katie walking to her cabin and asked her if we could talk. I imagined I was completely red. She nodded and sat down. I stared talking about rumors of me and how they were true when she started looking at me funny. Here it goes I thought, she was going to yell at me and never talk to me again. But I was completely wrong. Before I could register what was happening she was kissing me. Whoa.
Katie's POV
When we broke apart Travis looked like he was going to faint. I thought I was going to die. "So I'm gonna go off a limb here and say you don't totally hate me either..." he said cautiously. "You guessed right" I smiled. He looked down and blushed. I took his hand. "Well it took us a ridiculously long time to find out" he said timidly, staring at my hand. I just smiled more. I was to happy to respond.
Travis POV
I was pretty sure I was going to pass out. When we parted she looked at my expression looking like she was trying to decode me. "So I'm gonna go off on a limb here and say you don't totally hate me either..." I said hesitantly. She just smiled and replied, "You guessed right". I thought if I looked at her any more I was gonna explode, so I looked down. She took my hand. "Well it took us a ridiculously long time to find out" I said slowly, still surprised that she was holding my hand. Just then I heard some people walk up in front of us. "About time" said Connor grinning at us. Katie and looked at each other and smiled. "Really honey, we've been waiting forever!" commented Daisy Jones with a southern accent. There was a lot of nods and little snippets of congratulations from the mixture of Demeter and Hermes campers. I hugged Katie. It was a great feeling to know she was finally mine.
Katie's POV
We were interrupted by Connor, Daisy, and pretty much the rest of our cabins. "About time" Connor said grinning ear to ear. Travis looked at me and smiled. "Really honey, we've been waiting here forever!" added one of my cabin mates Daisy. We got a lot of congratulations and positive comments from our friends. Connor hugged me. I was so happy we were finally together.
AN: Well I got a lot of positive comments from this one, in fact it was my most viewed story out of all of them. Big surprise. Reading back on it though it actually makes sense, this is one of my favorites now. YAAAY FOR TRATIE!