HI GUYS! I'm back from my trip! Which was a lot lot lot of fun, bee tee dubs.
Thanks to all that reviewed! You guys really do make me happy :)
SO! On my trip, I tie dyed like twenty shirts with my aunt, uncle, grandma, and cousin. It was soooooo much fun! Anyone who doesn't think tie dying is fun clearly doesn't know how to have a good time. SO anyway, I got my hands all blue from the dye and so now I'm part Smurf, yaaaaay! ( I really don't think that's a good thing, crap.) Having blue fingers makes it very scary to put in and take out contact lenses; I'll have you know. Just for the heads up, in case you were wondering (which you totally were).
Also, I was at Barnes and Nobles the other day, and while helping my cousin pick out a book, I noticed that that there was the Dr. Seuss book called One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, except that it said "Party Edition" on the cover in gold letters. I'm not sure how a Dr. Seuss book can partay, but whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Anyways, on with the chapter! Enjoy! :D
After that painful break, Drake stood up to make an announcement.
"Alright, Multisport!" Drake screamed. A few campers looked over at him. He yawned. "We're gonna try something new. Everyone up for a game of hockey?"
All the kids screamed their approval. Drake grinned, pleased with himself.
Artemis, however, was not as happy to be playing hockey. He had read about hockey, and it did not seem like a game that people played leisurely. It seemed like a game that people played to settle important issues, like, who gets Alaska.
He had read about the hockey players who only had one tooth left. He thought about the YouTube video he had seen a while ago called "End of ze World", and he remembered the hockey player in it. Dead on the ground with a leg chopped off.
Yeah, Artemis was really looking forward to this game of hockey!
Drake waved his arms towards the building. "Everyone, let's go get the equipment!"
A slightly chubby kid in a muscle shirt named Stalker said, "What's equipment?"
Drake chuckled and shook his head. "It scares me, Stalker, that you can come to sports camp for multiple weeks at a time for a few consecutive years and NOT know what equipment is. It just makes me a little nervous for your mental health."
At this, Stalker looked a little put out but followed Drake and the rest of the kids to the building.
Artemis fell into step with Holly and Juliet. Holly kept shooting him evil looks and Juliet kept nervously looking over shoulder for Cat. Artemis chose this opportunity to really talk to Holly.
"Look, Holly," He began. Holly looked scornfully at him. "I'm sorry for what I said before, I really didn't mean it. Please forgive me." Holly stared at him for a few more seconds before dropping her angry face. She took his hand.
"It's okay, Artemis. I know you're not the greatest person at social interaction." Artemis accepted this with a nod.
He was happy with this development for a few seconds before thinking to himself, Oh my god, Holly is holding my hand! Oh wait, I sound like a lovesick 14 year old. Crap.
They must have realized that Holly was still holding his hand at the same time because they let go of each other very fast, both not looking at the other.
Juliet, not realizing the little moment that just went on right next to her, turned to the other two. "I wonder if that kid's real name is Stalker."
Both Artemis and Holly shrugged. Juliet decided they were being boring and ran to catch up with Stalker.
Juliet fell into step beside him. "So, is your name really Stalker?" He looked up at her.
"Yeah, Stalker H. McFinden!" he said, sounding confused. "Why?"
Juliet was taken aback. "Honey, do you know what a stalker is?" He nodded proudly.
"Yep! It's a person who never gives up on what they want and their dreams. They just keep going even when things are tough. That's what my mom told me." He smiled sweetly.
"Juliet blew out her breath. "This kid's mom has a way with euphemisms," she muttered.
"What?" Stalker asked.
"Nothing!" Juliet said, then ran back to walk with Holly and Artemis. They looked strangely awkward with each other, but Juliet paid it no attention.
When they finally reached the building, Drake called everyone into order and made them stand in a single line side by side, like in the military.
"Okay guys!" Drake called, clapping his hands together in a get-up-and-go kind of way. "We're gonna need everyone to carry something, so get ready to lift heavy stuff!" He walked towards them, but they could all hear him mumble to himself, "That was horrible. I need to work on my motivation speeches."
Half-hour later, all the kids were carrying hockey equipment out to the fields. Artemis found himself holding two pairs of roller blades. Holly was carrying shoulder pads, and Juliet had blackmailed a poor 15 year old who had a crush on her to carry her equipment, which had been both goals. Poor guy.
When Multisport got back underneath the tent, Drake once more called for attention.
"Okay guys! Put on the equipment and then meet me down at the field." He walked away towards the field and started juggling a soccer ball.
It was complete chaos for the next 20 minutes. Kids were trying to put the skates and ending up wacking others in the face, people were having sword fights with the hockey sticks, kids were trying to light the pads on fire, and Rabid Rickey was threatening those actually trying to put on the equipment.
"If you think you'll get away with spoofing Bugs Bunny, you're wrong!" He squeaked and foamed at the mouth. As usual, no one knew what he was talking about.
When everyone finally got the equipment on, about an hour later, everyone started down the hill to where Josh was lying on the ground, probably passed out from the heat.
Most of the kids were ready to pass out themselves in all the heavy padding and skates.
About half of multisport were still trying to have hockey stick wars. One kid got hit in the face and his nose broke. He had to be carted off by the lunch lady, who brought him to the nurse's office.
When everyone managed to roll down the hill in their skates (some kids simply rolled down on their bodies; it was quicker anyway) Drake got up blearily.
All the kids glared at Drake. He looked confused as to why. He started making teams. Artemis and Juliet were on a team with Adam, Stalker, and a bunch of other kids including the kid who had a crush on Juliet. He kept sending her pining looks. Holly was on a team with Rabid Rickey, a cute little kid named Geoff, Dressgirl, and a bunch of others.
When they managed to get to either side of the field and Drake had lugged over the goals and set them up, Drake threw the puck in the middle of the field.
"Play ball!" he exclaimed. No one moved.
"What's wrong?" Drake asked.
"You're a complete idiot, that's what happened. We can't play hockey on the grass in skates, genius." Juliet scowled. Drake scratched his head, and then looked bummed out.
"Well, I guess that wasn't a very well thought-out plan. Crap." Everyone nodded angrily.
"Play anyway!" All the kids rolled their eyes, but started moving around anyway. Holly, who had been trained to deal in this kind of heat, quickly moved towards the ball. Juliet had also been trained to handle this. In a second, however, Holly had scored.
Juliet scowled again. Artemis rolled towards her, fell flat on his ass, got back up again, and finished rolling over to Juliet. "It's okay Juliet. We'll beat them into the ground soon enough." Juliet rolled her eyes.
This went on for a while. Once, Artemis tried to block a goal and ended up being smashed in the face by a rogue hockey stick. The kid followed up the assault with an "Oops!" and a goal. The kid rolled off, hooting like an owl. It didn't actually seem like a victorious celebration though, just an impersonation of an animal.
Another time, Artemis thought he'd try to be useful and score a goal for their team. He had successfully gotten the puck from Dressgirl and was traveling up the field towards the goal (albeit awkwardly and slowly). Holly, not wanting Artemis to have more satisfaction that came with winning in sports, moved to block him.
However, she moved too quickly and her stick came up too high. It all happened very fast. For about 2 seconds, life for Artemis was a blur of sticks and rolling and Holly and pain.
Turns out Holly had knocked out his two front teeth!
Charming, he thought blithely. Oddly enough, he didn't even let out a cry of pain, a whimper, or any other sign of physical discomfort. Holly wouldn't have even noticed anything was wrong except for the fact that Artemis hadn't gotten up and was currently crawling around on the grass, scrabbling through the grass and periodically spitting out mouthfuls of blood.
Holly immediately dropped to his side. She grabbed his chin and turned his face towards hers. She caught sight of the white face, dark blue eyes, and the pupils dilated with pain. Artemis wrenched his chin out of her grip and spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Oh my god!" Holly exclaimed, slightly hysterically. "Artemis, what happened!" Artemis looked back at her, finally stopping his frantic searching. He was holding something tightly in his right hand, which he had ripped out of the protective gloves immediately as he had gone down.
"You 'ocked ou' my thwo fron' 'eeth," Artemis tried to say, his words messed up because of his lack of front teeth. Holly gasped loudly and started to reach for him and say something when she was suddenly interrupted by an extremely loud voice. Doug. Holly groaned, not this guy again!
"WHAT IN HELL IS GOING ON HERE, DRAKE? ANY KIND OF HOCKEY AND LACROSSE ARE NOT ALLOWED AT MULTISPORT BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENT TENDENCIES THAT THE KIDS SHOW! REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN A KID BROKE ANOTHER KID'S COLLARBONE WHILE TRYING TO GET THE BALL IN LACROSSE? THE KID'S STILL IN A NECK BRACE! AND WE WERE ALMOST SUED!"
Doug's screamed speech had little effect on Drake, as Drake was once again passed out in the blistering heat, along with half of the kids at multisport. Doug scream-sighed and looked over at Artemis.
"OH MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!" YOU NEED TO GO TO THE NURSES OFFICE!" Doug shrieked.
Before he could haul Artemis off to the nurse, Juliet stepped in. "You know what Doug? That sounds great, but I think we're just gonna leave early." Ignoring Doug's hollers of protest, Juliet, Artemis and Holly started back up to the multisport tent. Juliet quickly called Butler and he was on his way to pick them up already.
They all got all their equipment off, and Holly decided to look at Artemis's teeth again.
She watched as he spat out yet another mouthful of blood. She was amazed that he hadn't complained about it yet. She watched him as he went over to the water container, washed out his mouth, and sat back down.
"Artemis, let me see," She ordered. He looked up at her, and opened his mouth. There was a huge gap where his two front teeth had once been.
"Now, smile," Holly said. He grimaced at her, and then smiled. Strangely enough, he looked younger with his smile absent of teeth. He looks cute like that, Holly thought, and then shook herself mentally. She did not just think that.
"I' 'hurths," said Artemis. Juliet looked at him sympathetically. Holly ran her hand down his arm.
"I'm gonna try to heal them for you, Artemis. I'm so sorry about this, I can't believe I did that!" Artemis once again smiled reassuringly at her, even though all the smiling must have hurt a lot.
Holly once again stared at him, looking at the unexpected sweetness of the appearance of the smile. Artemis must have been one hell of an adorable child, she thought. If he had smiled at all when he was a kid.
"'On't worry a'outh ith, 'Olly," Artemis tried to say.
After that, they sat in silence until Butler came and picked them up.
Okay, I know that wasn't as funny as usual, so sue me. :S but there was HxA, so yay! :D I hope you guys enjoyed that.
By the way, do any of you actually read the author's notes? Just out of curiosity, cuz they're so much fun to write lol.
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