"Travis, stop it! Stop it! You're going so fast!"Her breath was shaky.

"I like the pace I'm going at!"

"Travis, is it supposed to hurt like this?"

"If it's your first time it might,"

"Ow! Oh my gods! Oh my gods! Stop Travis!"she begged.

"Why, we were finally going strong!"

"My body hurts like Hades! How do you do this all the time?"

"Well, that girl from Aphrodite…we do this a lot together. She's really good at it too,"

"Oh! Oh! Ow! Okay…stop. Travis stop. Right now. We're going too far. I don't like you enough to do this with you, and my body is killing me!"

"What? Tons of girls do this with me and love it!"

"This is painful! What if I get all knocked up?"

(silence)

Travis stopped running and let the panting Katie behind him take a break.

"Katie, if your knees hurt that badly…just sit down! But your knee won't get screwed up if you keep running!"

"How…the….Hades…do…you…do this….every…freaking….morning?" she as she tried to catch her breath.

"It's fun! You think I got these legs of steel from sitting around all day?" he questioned her.

"Yes…" she said with her hands on her knees.

Katie had been forced to run a few miles with Travis as an agreement to a stupid bet she lost. He insisted he had done it with a ton of girls before and they loved it, but those girls were freaking track runners! She spent her time planting strawberries!

"Travis, I hate you so freaking much. My lungs are gonna freaking collapse, I swear! My knees won't stop shaking!"

"I'm guessing this is your first time running a mile, huh?"

"I've ran a mile before, but not twenty thousand jillion miles!" Travis shook his head at how terrible Katie was at running. Then he spotted the long raw, red mark on Katie's knee.

"How long has that been there?" he said pointing to the bleeding gash on her knee cap.

"This? I've been telling you my knees were hurting ever since I fell down! I've been telling you I was in pain. But no! I just had to 'suck it up' and keep running!" she crazily stated.

"Why didn't you tell me about your cut then? I would have stopped!"

"Well, you were too busy telling me to run faster or we'd have to do it all over again!"

"We should take you to the clinic…it looks really bad. What did you fall on?"

"Some rock…"

"KATIE! You really should have told me about this!"

"You really should have shut up and let me stop running."

Touché.

"Come on; let's go to the clinic…"

"No, it's not that bad! Just let it heal itself…"

"I beg to differ…"

"What are you? Some kid of Apollo now?"

"Yes, I am. Now come here, I'll carry you there…"

"NO! I am perfectly capable of walking there myself, thank you very much. I just ran a billion miles with it killing me, I think I can walk a billion miles back,"

"No, it'll just get worse. Now come here, I'll pick you up-"

"No, you won't. I can walk there myself…"

"You can't be tough all the time, Katie. I know you are a little feminist, but you are seriously injured."

"I'm still not-HEY!" Travis stooped her up and was carrying her over his shoulder.

"Don't you say I didn't warn you, Katie."

"Travis, let me down!" she said, hitting his back.

"You're acting like a little kid, Katie! And it's me that's saying it…"

"You could at least be gentler then," she scowled after giving up.

He put her down then carried her bridal style.

Katie was fighting the blush on her face by replacing it with fake anger. She really didn't mind him carrying her, but what would her friends think when Travis, that boy they've been teasing her about, is carrying her in his arms around the camp?

"Are you sure you're strong enough, Travis. Because the Big House is about another half mile from here," she observed.

"Why, don't think I'm that ripped out? Or do you think you're too heavy-"

"You calling me fat, Stoll?"

"You calling me weak, Gardner?"

Touché.

Bahaha, bet yall didn't see the running part coming, all you dirty little minds out there! In case yall haven't noticed…I'm a naughty little PPgirl. :P

I think this was the most fun chapter I've ever written. At LAX practice they had us run a mile today, and I was inspired to do this. I can't run to save my life…damn you short legs…but my friend's a freaking track first place-er. So I got my inspiration from her. :)

You guys have been telling me to get more touchy and romantic with these two…but you didn't say how. :P

Thanks for all the reviews, favorites, alerts, and all! They mean so much to me with all the support! I know I promised my 215th reviewer a role…but she had already been in my story before. And the ones around her were anymous so…: (

I'm thinking about updating every weekend and Wednesdays, but I'm having exams coming up next week and I wanted to inundate you with as many chapters as possible to make up for my lack of focus for the next week. Since I love yall like that :)

But, thanks for the sugar!

(PS- I don't own PJATO and its characters…just this story. So HA!)

Love you guys a tons!

Loves,

~Bubbles