Wednesday.
At seven o'clock in the morning, everyone starts hearing a loud noise that makes them all wake up and go to their meeting point to check what's happening, only to find someone they did not expect to be there: Joe Hart.
"Oh my god, Joe! What the hell are you doing here and why the hell did you wake us up!?" Santana says really mad at him, you can tell she's just really not a morning person.
"What she means is that she's glad you're here but isn't really pleased with the timing" Quinn says politely before slightly hitting Santana, trying for it to pass unnoticed but failing completely.
"Well, sorry for coming at this time but I'm an early riser and today I have a lot of activities planned and we must have as much time as we possibly can to get them done unless you're pretty quick and manage to do them all quickly" Joe started saying, pausing for a moment, letting everyone wonder what are the activities he planned "But first you need to make two teams of five girls and five boys, the two captains are Kurt and Artie so start picking girls"
"Rachel!" Kurt said quickly, although he knew Rachel would not be Artie's first choice.
"Kitty" Artie said patting his lap, as a sign for her to join him.
"Santana" Kurt said to everyone's surprise, but he had bonded really well with her now that they shared an apartment.
"Okay Kurt but you must pick my two girls too" She warned him.
"Mercedes" Artie said after thinking about it a little bit.
"Brittany" Kurt said knowing he had to do what Santana had told him.
"Tina" Artie said smiling at her.
"Quinn" Kurt said.
"Unique" Artie said, thinking that maybe Kurt would pick Marley and he would be able to avoid his girlfriend fighting with her.
"Sugar" Kurt said much to Artie and Kitty's dislike.
"Marley" Artie said defeated.
"So now we get to pick boys?" Kurt said and after getting a nod from Joe he screamed "Blaine!"
"Mike" Artie said.
"Finn" Kurt said smiling at his brother.
"Sam"
"Puck"
"Joe"
"Ryder"
"Jake" Artie finished.
"Okay so Artie's team is: Kitty, Mercedes, Tina, Unique, Marley, Mike, Sam, me and Jake and Kurt's team is: Rachel, Santana, Brittany, Quinn, Sugar, Blaine, Finn, Puck and Ryder, pretty balanced"
"Well, what's the activity teen Jesus?" Sam said curiously.
"Oh, there are many like, challenges, the team that wins more of them, wins the whole activity" Joe said.
"And what's the first one?" Rachel asked impatiently.
"Swimming, running and at the end, thinking" Joe started saying, then explained himself "You gotta pick your two best swimmers, two best runner, not just in speed though, resistance as well and the two most intelligent people you got in your team, the swimmers will cross the lake, give a hand to the runners, who will get to the cottage I'm sure you've seen, where all of the team's going to be waiting, then each answer the 10 questions you'll be asked by some staff Sugar paid for" he finished.
"Okay, for two best swimmers I'll say Britt and Rachel, runners Santana and Puck and as for intelligent I'll have to say Quinn and me" Kurt said looking at his team, when they all nodded he told Joe his decision.
"As for us, Jake and Mike are gonna swim, Sam and Kitty are gonna run and Tina and me will answer the questions" Artie said.
"Okay so Britt, Rach, Jake and Mike will stay here with him" he points toward a tall man in a boat that no one had seen "who will be next to you all the way across the lake in case something happens, the rest come with me, I'll drop the runners where the lake finishes and the thinkers and the ones who won't do anything will accompany me to the cottage, the guy in the boat will tell you when to start" he finished before going to the suburban he had arrived in and told them to go in too.
After dropping everyone where they had to be and arriving to the cottage, Joe glanced at his watch and said "It starts… Now!"
Swimming:
"Go!" The guy in the boat screamed and they alll jumped to the water except for Rachel because she was still afraid of doing it even though she had already jumpen once, but her competitive side made her jump only seconds after them, letting her catch up pretty fast and actually outflank them all after a while, but even though she was on top, if Brittany wasn't right behind her, it wouldn't matter because they both had to arrive, she wanted to know who was in second place but if she looked back she would lose time and she really wanted to win, so she decided that shw would wait until she was almost there to see.
When she had swum more than half of the lake she was feeling too tired, she could barely feel her legs anymore and realized that she should've started slower and then start speeding, but when she had decided to stop and ask the man in the boat for help, she felt water splashing in her face and saw Mike was slightly ahead of her so her competitive side took charge once again and she continued after seeing that Jake was in the last place so if she and Brittany hurrried, they could make Puck and Santana have some advantage over Kitty and Sam.
Running:
Kitty knew that Santana and Puck left only seconds earlier than them but it felt like hours and she couldn't feel as confident as she normally would, because even if she was a cheerleader and Sam a football player, Santana had once been a cheerleader and Puck had been a football player as well, so she was aware that they ran pretty fast and had an excellent condidtion, but what she had that they didn't was practice in irregular ground because her father used to take her to places like this very frequently, so she knew what to do to keep her energy and arrive on time, she also knew that Sam was able to do it as well, he was excellent with anything that had to do with exercise.
In the exact moment that Jake arrived, she and Sam started running, not too fast as to outrun the other guys, but well enough not to get to far from them, they had discussed what to do in order to get to the cottage first, and had decided that they would let Puck and Santana think they would win, and at the end accelerate to win, which was exactky what they did, when they saw the cottage was not far, they looked at eachother and ran fullspeed, leaving Puck and Santana behind them and getting to the place first, but only about 5 seconds before.
Thinking:
"So for now you are tied 1-1 in THIS activity, there are many missing, whoever wins this, gets a point so, Kurt, Quinn, Artie, Tina, enter the cottage please" Joe tells them, they all look scared about it because the cottage seems old and abandoned but do what they were told, when they'rre inside, there are two guys, one is tall and ugly, with scars akk over his face, and seems moody, and the second is short, good-looking and seems nice, he starts talking to them.
"Outside a room there are three light switches. One of switch is connected to a light bulb inside the room.
Each of the three switches can be either 'ON' or 'OFF'.
You are allowed to set each switch the way you want it and then enter the room, but you can only do it once.
Your task is to then determine which switch controls the bulb"
He looks at them and them takes Artie's wheelchair and tells Tina to follow him, he takes them to one side of the cottage, and the other guy tells Kurt and Quinn to follow him to the other side.
"Do you think he's going to stab us?" Quinn says worriedly in Kurt's ear.
"I hope not, this clothes are too good to get damaged" Kurt says, earning a punch in the arm from the blond girl.
"In that case I'm too pretty to die stabbed" Quinn says.
"We're here, start thinking in what to do to answer the puzzle" the scary guy told them.
"But, aren't we going to see the light under the door and know when it's on?" Quinn asked him.
"The door's not here, it's on the other side. If you're the smart one, I wonder how the other guys are" He said.
"Well, I'm sorry, but I go to Yale, YOU tell me if I'm smart or not" Quinn told him and look ready to start a fight, even if she had no chance agains him.
"Let's just focus on the riddle, okay Quinn?" Kurt told her.
"Right, sorry" she said and stopped to think about it, after a few minutes, Kurt spoke.
"Well, we have the right to enter the room once, we have to think when to use it... If we enter and there's light, it's obviously that switch, also, a bulb after being on, it's hot"
"So, we could turn the first one on and wait a few minutes, then switch it off, turn the second one on and enter the room, if the light's on, it's the second, if not, we touch the light bulb and if it's hot, it's the first one, if not, the third" Quinn said and turned the first switch on, after five minutes, she turned the second one on, took Kurt's hand and led him to the room, they saw the light was off and knew the second one wasn't the right one, and as they were about to raise their arms to try and touch the lightbulb, they saw that the ceiling was higher in that room and that they wouldn't be able to reach it like that, and knew what they had to do immediately, thing Kurt didn't like that much.
"So I suppose I'll have to carry you to see of you can reach it like that" Kurt said.
"Yeah, but don't worry, I won't fall, I was a cheerleader after all" Quinn said, clearly not noticing that Kurt was worried for his own sake, not hers.
"Okay so, umm, how?" He asked.
"Well, just stay where you are and let me jump on you, you're not that tall so I guess I could reach your shoulders and like, climb until I'm standing on them" she said and placed him underneath the lightbulb, then ran a little bit and jumping on him, managing to do what she said, the only problem was that she still could't reach it.
"Dammit Kurt, why aren't you taller?" She said frustrated.
"And why aren't YOU taller? Do you think this is fun for me, you're heavy" Kurt answered in his old diva way.
"I'm not, I'm thin, and also, I'm not short, Rachel's short and I don't see you complaining about that" she said jumping to the floor.
"Well, I may not be tall but I'm not Blaine so don't complain either and let's find a way to reach the bulb because if it is hot, it must be getting cold, so I'll go outside to ask that guy for help, he will carry you because apparently I'm a short little hobbit" Kurt told her getting out of the room.
"No! What if he lets me fall in order to kill me?" She said panicking.
"He may be tall but I don't think falling from that height will kill you so calm down" He said giving her one last serious look before leaving the room and returning seconds later with the tall guy.
"What do you want me to do? Make it quick" He said.
"Just, carry me on your shoulders so I can touch the light bulb" Quinn told him and waited for him to nod before approaching him and letting him carry her, then she just made sure she was balanced before standing up and touching the hot light bulb with her hand, then she jumped just like the first time and took Kurt's hand to lead him out and seeing that Tina and Artie were already there, they thought they had lost.
"So this helped for nothing? We lost?!" Kurt asked them yelling.
"No, we gave up, we figured how to solve the riddle but we couldn't reach the lightbulb to touch it, I mean, I'm in a wheelchair, Tina's not very tall and neither was that guy so we just came here" Artie told them.
"Well, in that case, it's the first one" Quinn said happily.
"Correct! The team... What's you team's name?" Joe asked them.
"Team sexy except for hobbit" Santana said earning a mad 'hey' from both Blaine and Rachel "I wasn't talking about you Anderson, I was talking about the other hobbit" She said.
"Team awesome" Finn said uncomfortable, trying to change subject.
"Okay so team awesome is ahead of us 1-0, winning the first game" Joe said and everyone in Kurt's team cheer and high-fived.
"So, in the next game, we're going to return, while you were doing this activity, some guys hanged water balloons in different branches of the trees that are from here to the lake, what you gotta do is run from here and find at least three balloons per member, head back to the meeting point by boat and place them all in the big tray that has the name of your team's captain, but you cannit pass the line that will be marked in the floor, you will have to throw them from that distance, the team that manages to finish first, will throw the balloons to the other team" Joe said.
"What about me?" Artie asked.
"I forgot, team captains will be waiting there, you job will be to try to make the tray more, like, soft, so that the balloons don't break" He answered "so you will go back to the meeting point with the guy in the car and wait for us there"
"Okay, see you" Kurt said and helped Artie to get in the car and they left.
"So, we got five minutes to make a plan, then the competition will start" Joe said and reunited with his team to plan somethingL but apparently everyone thought that yhey just had to do what he had said first and weren't in the mood for any 'stupid planning'.
"Well, prepare, we start... Right... Now!" he said and everyone started running and looking for the balloons.
They ran about 10 meters when they found the first couple of balloons, making them think it would be very easy, they just didn't know what would happen.
"Fabray! Go away, these are my balloons" Santana said and pushed Quinn away.
"Oh c'mmon Lopez, we're in the same team!" Quinn said and pushed her back.
"But I found them first, go find your own!" She shouted.
"Well, you got your own already, they're on your chest!" Quinn shouted back.
"Well, then you're just jealous 'cause you have none!" Santana said and slapped her.
"Oh no you didn't!" the blonde girl said said slapping her back.
"Girls! Stop it, let's just focus on winning and then you can fight" Puck said.
"Yeah, you're right" both girls said at the same time.
"Now, let me get those and bye dumb-asses!" Puck said and started running away from them with the balloons they had been fighting for.
"Of course, it had to be Puckerman" Santana said giving Quinn one last glare before running again and looking for more balloons.
After half an hour, each team was missing one balloon, no one could find the balloon and they wouldn't be able to leave until they found it and they were all losing patience.
"Hey! Look up there, there are the two missing balloons" Kitty said.
"She's right, but how will we reach them? Even Finn isn't tall enough to reach them" Ryder said.
"Well, three of us here have been cheerleaders for at least one year so we could try to get it by doing the small pyramid and throwing whoever's on top to try and do it" Kitty suggested and looked over at Quinn and Santana, who nodded in agreement.
"I think we should lift you because we're heavier" Quinn said and the asked her "Are you okay with that?"
"Yeah, sure" Kitty said and then Santana and Quinn grabed her feet and lifted her.
"In the count of three... One, two, three!" Santana yelled and in that moment, she and Quinn threw Kitty in the air and she reached the balloons, they catched her and left her on the ground.
"So now give us the balloon" Quinn said.
"Quinn, you know I idolize you, but... I don't like losing so, I'm sorry but I won't give it to you, bye!" She said and ran away from them, all of her team following her, Kurt's team staying in shock but running to catch them after two or three seconds, stopping them before they reached the boat.
"You little bitch give us that NOW!" Santana yelled at her.
"How about, no?" Kitty yelled right back.
"Dame eso en este instante o juro que te enseñaré cómo se hacen las cosas en Lima Heights"(1) Santana yelled and tried to get to her to hit her but was stopped by many of the boys.
"I don't get anything you said so, if you want it, catch it!" Kitty said and threw the balloon, Puck immediately started running in its direction and catched it seconds before it reached the ground.
"Think you forgot I was the main wide reciever!" Puck yelled but when he turned around, he realized that they were already ahead of them.
"Whatever, I did what I wanted!" Kitty said.
"Come on, we gotta reach them!" Rachel said, obviously wanting to win, she was Rachel after all.
They all ran to the next boat and turned the motor on and in full speed, though it was still not enough to reach them.
Artie's team arrived seconds before Kurt's team, but it was enough advantage for them to finish throwing the balloons in the tray and winning the second activity.
"Ha, we won! Now let's throw them the balloons" Kitty yelled and reached for the first balloon in the tray, but was hit by one that Santana had thrown.
"What the hell? We won!" Artie said in an attempt to defend her girlfriend.
"Yes, but your little girlfriend cheated" Puck said pointing at Kitty.
"So we won't let you throw us your balloons" Santana said.
"Ha! But guess what? I don't care what you say" Kitty said and started throwing the balloons at them, soon everyone from both teams were throwing them and everyone was soaking wet, they stopped until they could not throw more because they had used them all.
"You little bitch! You ruined my clothes!" Santana said and pushed Kitty so hard she fell to the ground, which was more like mud because it had gotten wet, but of course Kitty wouldn't give up without a fight and made Santana fall too and they started fighting on the mud.
"Mud fight!" Finn yelled and pushed Kurt, Blaine, Mike and Puck to the ground.
"You ruined my clothes! You will pay" Kurt said and, with the help from Mike, Blaine ands Puck, made Finn fall too.
After about 30 minutes, they decided to stop, get changed and go to sleep.
"But, where will I sleep?" Joe asked, clearly he hadn't thought about it.
"You can stay with us" Sam said.
"Thanks!" Joe said and followed him to their tent.
Finchel & Klaine's tent:
"I hate you Finn!" Kurt said clearly mad at his brother.
"Love you too bro" Finn said giggling.
"I don't love you! I love Blaine" Kurt said.
"You love Blaine but you love me too" Finn told Kurt.
"No, I love you, he loves Blaine, now come with me, let's go to sleep" Rachel told Finn.
"Okay... But he loves me too!" Finn said.
"Yes, he does, whatever" Rachel said and dragged him to where they slep to cuddle.
"Don't be so mad at Finn, I'll buy you new clothes when we go to Ireland, plus, you looked cute, and like, dirty cute" Blaine said.
"We can't, we are sharing with them" Kurt told his boyfriend
"I know... I love you, a lot, you know?"Blaine said lovingly.
"First dirty, then your cheesy self" Kurt said teasing him.
"Ouch, I expected an I love you too" Blaine said acting hurt.
"Do I have to say it, I thought you already knew that" Kurt said.
"I do, I just like hearing it" Blaine said.
"Well, I love you Blaine"
Sorry! I'm so sorry for updating so late, I've been busy, but here it is! Hope you like it But I'll try to update more frequently.
(1) Give me that immediatly or I swear I'll teach you how things are done in Lima Heights!
Love you!
Review, tell me what you think!
Andrea.