Chapter 4: Bacon
I was just about to sacrifice some of his bagel when I saw a figure dash into the pavilion. What? Was that... no, it couldn't be, I concluded as I scraped a decent portion of his bagel into the brazier. Going back to the Hermes table, however, I saw that the mysterious person was in fact who I originally suspected. Katie Gardner. Wearing only a slim tank top thingy and some shorts. No shoes on, hair wild and untamed, she tossed a juicy piece of bacon into another brazier at the opposite end of the pavilion. More fire pits had been added now that there were so many more campers here. My heart skipped a beat when he saw her, but I blamed it on post-breakup depression (of which he had none, the back of my consciousness added.)
With a grin, I snatched a piece of bacon off the brunette's plate and bit into it triumphantly.
"Hey!" Fiery green eyes locked onto mischievous brown, filled with anger.
"That was mine!" Katie set her plate down on the Demeter table and crossed her arms.
"I wanted bacon. You had bacon." I smiled wider. This was all too easy.
"So? You could've gotten your own, but no. You had to take mine!"
"Why don't you have shoes on?"
She huffed. "Don't try to confuse me-" After looking down, Katie flushed but showed no other signs of emotion besides rage.
"I am wearing no shoes," she said, steely-voiced, "Because of none of your business." And with that, the daughter of Demeter sat at her table angrily.
I smirked and wheeled back towards the Hermes table, but wondered why she let him go without a fight. Usually we did this every day, I steal her food (Hey, son of the god of thieves), she gets mad, we fight, I win, mostly. But today? No fight. Just anger. I knew I should be glad, but a little part of me enjoyed the excuse to spend part of the day with Katie. This part, of course, was dismissed as well by the fact that Katie had a secret from me. And I did not like it when certain daughters of Demeter might possibly have something over me. Which she did. A secret. And with this, I decided that I must know that secret.