Jealous James

"You have got to be kidding me," Katie said, bumping Travis with her shoulder. He laughed and put an arm around her.

"What? You have to say, that joke was pretty funny," he said, his cheeks hurting from the smiling.

"Are you kidding me? No it wasn't! 'No idea'? What kind of ending was that?" Katie asked, sitting down on the grass. Travis sat down beside her.

"No, it's not 'no idea'," he said lamely. "It's 'no ideer'! It's part of the joke!" Katie just shrugged him off and sighed.

Katie and Travis have been dating for a little over two months. Most of the camp was confused at first, but embraced the idea of the couple. The Aphrodite cabin absolutely freaked when they found out about them. They dubbed them Tratie: Lovers who sometimes hate each other- which actually, couldn't be truer.

However, not everyone was ecstatic about Tratie. For one, some of Travis' ex-girlfriends were horrified when they found out that Katie Gardner was dating their precious Travie. Another person that noticeably didn't like the couple was James. Yup, James. The guy who dumped Katie in front of the entire camp. James. The guy who dumped Katie for a daughter of Aphrodite. The guy that broke Katie's heart, which caused Travis to be the one to comfort her.

But, if he was the one to break up with Katie, he shouldn't care less about the couple, right? Wrong. See, James is something you would call… a douchebag. He wants what he can't have. He's never committed in the relationship after he gets what he can't have. Travis used to wonder why girls even dated him, even if they knew about his sucky personality. Well, the answer is that he's attractive. He can charm your socks off. And did I mention that he's attractive?

Anyways, now that Katie has Travis, she could care less about James. She let him go a long time ago. The thing is, James wasn't ready to let Katie go.

"I'm going to get a smoothie from the Mess Hall. You want one?" Travis asked.

"Yeah, but I'll just come with you," Katie said, starting to stand up.

"Don't worry, I think I can handle getting a drink for my lady," Travis said, stopping her. Katie raised an eyebrow, but humored him.

"Alright then," she said. "I'll be waiting."

"And I won't make you wait long," Travis said, winking at her, and then jogging away. Katie smiled, watching his figure run towards the Mess Hall. She truly was happy with Travis. He made her laugh, and he made her feel special… sending butterflies into her stomach every time she smiled.

"Hey Katie," a voice said, pulling Katie out of her trance. She looked up to see her ex-boyfriend, James.

"Oh, John, was it?" Katie asked, folding her arms and looking away. She may have gotten into the habit of calling James by the wrong name. A habit she learned from Travis.

"C'mon, Katie. You know my name," James said, sitting down next to her. Katie tried to scoot away, but James wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"Jesse, let me go before I seriously hurt you," Katie said, her voice getting dangerously low.

"No," he whispered in her ear. Katie gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, ready to break his nose. Before she could, James' arm around her got tighter, stopping her arms from moving at all. He put a finger to her chin and turned it towards him.

"Jimmy. Let. Me. Go," Katie growled. James purred back at her and Katie rolled her eyes. How did she even fall for this guy in the first place?

"I don't think so," he whispered, looking down at her lips. Katie started panicking. How could she get away from him? His grip was hard and his other hand was keeping her face from turning away. Please, Travis, she thought, Please come back now.

"James, I have a boyfriend," Katie told him, slipping up and saying his real name.

"Who? Travis Stoll?" James asked. Katie nodded stiffly. James' face remained expressionless for about two seconds. Then, he broke out into uncontrollable laughter. His grip around her shoulders loosened and she took that opportunity to jump up from the ground and move away from him while he was still laughing uncontrollably.

"What's wrong with Travis?" Katie asked, folding her arms.

"Well, how can you," James said, motioning towards her, "date a guy like Travis?" Katie guessed that he was giving her a compliment, but Katie got even madder.

"Travis is a great guy!" Katie said, blowing up. James hooted from laughed and Katie gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. "He's actually nice to me. He cares about me. He's also funny- or he tries to be. He tells stupid jokes, but that's what I love about him! He has a great personality, and though he gets in trouble all of the time, I like laughing at him, watching him shovel the Pegasus Stables," Katie said, her glare slowly softening, thinking about all of the things she loved about Travis. "He really cares about his brother, no matter how much he tries to tell me otherwise. He's dorky- but in a sweet way, like opening the door for me, or getting a smoothie for me. But you know what? He also argues with me, and isn't afraid to tell me when I have a stick up my butt! Even though he's wrong half of the time, he isn't afraid to get in a screaming match with me. Besides, we always make up in the end. And to top it all off, Travis hot!"

"Hades yeah I am," Travis said cockily, "Hotter than you will ever be." He stood at a safe distance from Katie and James, holding two smoothies in his hand. James, upon seeing Travis, stiffened and stood up, keeping his eyes on Katie.

"Katie," he said walking up to her and grabbing her by the shoulders, "I want you. I need you." Travis stomped his way over to the two, until he saw Katie's eyes narrowing. Travis smirked. She can handle James.

"You'll want me until you have me," Katie said, pushing him off, "And then you'll dump me publically, again. James, you need to go away." James glared at her for a second before smashing his lips onto hers, holding onto her neck to keep her from moving away.

Now, Travis wasn't usually a jealous person, but when it came to Katie, he could get nasty. Setting their smoothies on the ground, Travis walked up to the two and split them apart. He then turned to James and punched him in the stomach as hard as he could. James crumpled in half, holding a hand to his stomach, but a stupid grin was still on his face.

"Get away from my girlfriend," Travis snarled. He was about to send another punch, but Katie grabbed his arm. She picked up a smoothie from the ground and threw its contents on James' face.

"Get away from us, "she said, putting an arm around Travis' waist. Travis picked up the remaining smoothie from the ground and the couple walked away from James, not looking back.

"So," Katie said, "Did you hear my speech?" Travis nodded and kissed her on the cheek.

"Yeah," he said, "I'm going to have to write the things I love about you, aren't I?" Katie shrugged.

"If you want," she said nonchalantly. "Can I share your smoothie? Mine is… elsewhere," Katie said.

"Of course you can," he said, pulling out two straws from his pocket. The two sat down on the porch of the Demeter cabin, watching the day go by, sipping on a smoothie.

Ha ha. So, it's been more than a year, huh. Oops. Well, here's a short story for yah. I hope you like it! Remember to review :D

If you want to know the Joke Travis told Katie, here it is: What do you call a deer with no eye? No ideer!

Yeah... cheesy.

Hopefully it won't take as long for my next update… and trust me, this won't be the last you've seen of James!

~ xhiddendreamx