Connor

After a long day of working at the Athena Cabin, we had just enough time to go bug Katie. We were heading to the Demeter Cabin. I suddenly felt Travis smack me.

"OW! What was that for?"

"I told you to shut up, but you never listen to me." He said.

"At least we know now that Malcolm wasn't interested in Katie so you shouldn't be mad at me and besides, you don't listen to me either."

"Still. We wasted a whole day that we could be using to be pranking Katie!"

"Of course." I rolled my eyes. We knocked on the door of cabin 4. No one answered the door. "Maybe no one's here." I said. Travis simply shrugged and opened the door. He walked in and I followed him, to make sure he didn't do anything stupid, at least not without me.

"Hello! Anyone home?" Travis called out loud. Silence. "Where could she be?"

"How am I supposed to know? You're her stalker not me."

"Hey! I don't stalk her." He said, looking offended. "I just observe her from a far away distance so she doesn't notice."

"Whatever, what now?"

"Now I remember!" Travis said suddenly, "Today's Wednesday and she has Arts and Crafts at five."

"And you don't call yourself a stalker because...?"

"Never mind that. We have that class today too. Come on, let's go before someone sees us," and he dragged me out the cabin.

We entered the Arts and Crafts class late as usual.

"Mr. Stolls, late again, I see," said Jackie, an uptight daughter of Apollo. She wasn't very fond of us but that was probably because we messed with their chariot. It was a joke! She didn't have to take it so seriously. "That's three times this week. One more time and you fail this class." We hurried to our assigned tables of three. It was very convenient that Jackie would put us both in the same table with Katie, not that either of us were complaining (except Katie, of course). As soon as she saw us, she glared at us as we sat down.

"Hey, how's my favorite farm girl?" Travis asked her, giving her a cheeky smile.

"I was fine until you walked in the door," she muttered.

"Don't be so cruel. We're a team!"

"I still don't understand how I got stuck with you two," She said annoyed.

"Listen up, class!" Jackie interrupted. She started talking about the project that we were working on about making some 3D model of a symbol to represent a god or something, but I was too distracted by Katie. That was mostly because she was hissing at Travis to stop poking her. "Okay, get your materials and start working," Jackie said.

"Okay, I'm captain of this team and I say we're making Hermes' flying sandals," Travis announced.

"You wish," Katie argued, "You're not going to be the captain. I will and I say that we're going to make a garden with different exotic flowers."

"No way am I going to do something so stupid."

"And flying shoes aren't stupid?" She asked angrily.

"Those are cool and they can take you anywhere," Travis countered, "Unlike flowers. They were made to be decorations to make things look pretty."

"How dare you! Flowers are living things! They're satyrs that had died and became incarnated into different kinds!" They kept arguing but Travis didn't look like he minded. I kept out of the argument because that was their thing. I sat there in silence for a while until Katie said," I'm right! Ask anyone."

"Please, I'm right!"

"Alright then," Katie looked at me, "Connor who should be captain, me or your stupid brother that will probably make us fail the class if he becomes captain?"

"Connor, who should be captain, me or this uptight girl who has no idea what she's doing and has a horrible sense of humor?" Travis asked.

"Connor, who?" Katie demanded.

"Hey, don't get me mixed up in your arguments!" I said, but in truth, I didn't want to pick between them.

"You're part of this team, too so like it or not, your vote counts too!" Katie told me. I sighed, knowing full well that Travis would beat me up later.

"Fine, I think Katie should be captain. Happy?" Travis stared at me, shocked. Katie on the other hand looked pleased with my answer and turned to Travis.

"You heard him. I'm captain, now go get a lot of paint because the garden's going to have a lot of color. I'm glad at least your brother isn't totally brain-dead like you."

As soon as class was over, Jackie dismissed us and she practically ran out the door. She really didn't like her last class since me and Travis were in it. I was heading out the door when Travis held me back. He waited 'till the classroom was empty and smacked me again.

"OW! Okay, seriously? Quit doing that."

"I thought we were brothers." Travis said angrily.

"Last time I checked, we are. Your point?"

"Why did you choose Katie over me?"

"Look I have a perfectly good reason for it," I smiled at him, trying to distract him because I couldn't come up with a good excuse. He looked confuse for a moment. My mind started working over time to come up with something.

"Really? What is it?" He asked.

"Well," then it clicked, "To help you with winning Katie over, duh."

"How is you being a horrible brother going to help?"

"Well, she hates to take orders from anyone, even more if it's you." I explained.

"In case you haven't noticed, dear brother, I also hate taking orders from her."

"True but you like her so suck it up. If I had picked you, she would've just hated you more."

"That makes sense," He smiled at me and put an arm around my shoulders guiding me out the door, "Thanks, bro. It's a good thing you're the smart one."

"Yeah so that means you owe me."

"Ha, you thought."