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Charlie

So we finally after a long time of waiting, playing pranks on the bullies at camp, and making fun of a nerd a little ways ahead of us that had syrup stuck to his ear (he didn't know), we got our showers.

I came out with my towel around my neck, fresh wet hair that was coming a little ways into my eyes due to being pressed down by the water and goose bumps from how ice cold the water was. That's what I get for being in the back of the line though. I just hoped that Luna wasn't grumpy from the cold water. When she gets grumpy, you don't want to be within one hundred feet of her.

So when I stepped outside the bathroom, Cloud and Davey were both out. Of course Luna was taking longer, she's a girl.

"Wow it feels so good to have syrup out from in-"but Davey stopped dead of his sentence. "Never mind," he blushed.

I just laughed, and then looked at my watch. "It's about one thirty guys, we better go to the cabins." I suggested. We all nodded in agreement, then Luna came out.

"Holy fudge those showers are cold!" she complained. Her long black and blue hair was not so curly, and sticking to her back because of the wetness. She was holding her towel over her like a shawl, and she was carrying her converse in one hand, so she was bare foot.

"Well were actually just heading to the cabins now." I explained.

"I don't have time to dry my hair!" she complained while shoving a black lock of hair in my face.

"It's not my fault, just like, air dry it or something." I offered. She gave me a dumb look, and then replied. "Oh yea, because Zeus is just going to make huge breeze and my hair will be instantly dry!" she exaggerated, then peered at the sky as if expecting a huge wind to come, thanks to Zeus.

Davey was twitling his thumbs and staring at Luna, then the ground, then Luna, then the ground, on and off.

"Ok," I chuckled still staring at Davey," let's go." I pointed my arm forward as if I was an army general. I then started chanting "Left, left, left right left," and they marched off in line, sarcastically saluting me as they passed by.

We marched through camp looking like we had just come from military school. Everyone stared, but none of us cared.

We reached the cabin area. When we all stopped marching, we began laughing from how crazy we were. We then humorously saluted each other one more time, and separated into our own cabins.

Just as I suspected when I walked inside, everyone was getting the cleaning equipment we owned. A mop here a scrubber there.

I looked over and saw my half brothers, the Stolls, pretend sword fighting. While everyone else helped collect the cleaning utensils that we would need, they were busy "sword fighting" with a mop and broom. Travis had a mop being held by the end, and Connor was holding the broom by its bristles.

"Guys will you please stop being so immature, and help us with this stuff." Pleaded Alex, hefting a large box of cleaning equipment from an old closet.

Connor and Travis both stopped fighting in mid-air, looked at each other with evil faces, then both hollered "BOMBARD!" at the same time.

"NO!" screamed Alex. Both the Stoll brothers jumped at Alex with broom and mop flying. They started to fight them with their "weapons". Connor hit Alex on the back, and Travis hit his legs. They both went to work hitting at Alex every which way. I was cracking up at the door of our cabin, still propping open the screen door with my foot.

"Ouch, ow, stop!" demanded Alex. My other half brothers and sisters had stopped getting supplies, and started to stare at the big fiasco the Stoll brothers were causing.

"Never you tyrant!" bellowed Travis. They were hitting his feet, arms, back, and even his head. I kind of felt bad for him, so I decided to step in. I looked over at the wall, and saw a swifter wet jet leaning against the wall right next to me.

"ON GUARD!" I hollered and jumped next to Alex, who was still holding the box of cleaning supplies. I held up the swifter, and started to fight.

"AWWWW!" screamed the brothers in sync. They screamed with delight when I decided to jump in.

Alex was trying to balance the box in one arm, and fend off the attackers with the other. I didn't see how that would work considering he didn't even have a weapon. I on the other hand was swinging my swifter in every direction, trying to hit my half brothers. Connor hit my back, and I hit his legs, tripping him. Travis was too busy fighting Alex to realize his brother was going down.

"So…" I started twirling my swifter in my hand, showing off how I was going to finish it all. Connor was on the ground, looking anxious to find his weapon, which had skirted out of his hands across the floor. I paced around him, rubbing my chin as if deciding how to finish him off. "It has come to this, any last words?" I questioned.

He wouldn't look me in the eyes, then turned away scowling at me.

"Have it your way," I smirked. I held up my swifter, the head of it facing down towards Connor on the floor. "Goodbye, brother!" I pushed the button on the end of my swifter wet jet, and out came the cleaning liquid. It sprayed his clothes, and apparently got into his eyes as well.

"Ah!" he screamed in pain and jumped backwards, holding his hands over his eyes. He rubbed frantically trying to clean them.

"Ah, dude I'm so sorry!" when I leaned over him, totally off guard, he looked up at me, spat out his tongue and jumped to grab his weapon.

"TRICKERY!" I hollered at him.

"Did you really think I would give up that easy?" he smirked. He now had his broom in hand. We started pacing the floor in circles. I was right across from him, going round and round, trying to let no open spots for him to charge.

Our whole cabin was now watching. They were standing on the sidelines, chanting for who they wanted to win.

I peered over to see how Alex was doing. He had now totally gotten in on the fight. The box he was carrying was to the side, against the wall. The cleaning supplies that were in it were scattered out everywhere. 'That fiend!' I growled in my head. Alex had dropped the box, all due to Travis attacking him. Alex, as a weapon, had a dust buster. It was a small and portable. He had it on full blast, for extra sucking power.

I scowled back at Connor, ready to finish it all, when something started beeping. I looked over at Alex, and it was his watch. He looked t it, and then his eyes grew huge.

"Holy crap guys we gotta go!" he threw the cleaning supplies that were on the floor, back into the box. Everyone grabbed something to use. I just kept my swifter wet jet. I saw one of my half-sisters carrying out a huge box full of yellow rubber gloves for us all to use.

We all headed out of the cabin door, while Alex held it open goading, "GO, GO, GO!" we all ran as fast as we could to the dining pavilion, hoping we wouldn't be late. I was sprinting pretty fast considering I was carry a swifter wet jet. Connor still had his broom, and Travis with his mop. I saw Alex running behind us all, still carrying his mini vacuum.

We reached the dining pavilion just in time. Everyone was just starting to show up. With everyone carrying some kind of cleaning supplies, we saw the mess from the food fight quite well. Everything had dried now. Dried oatmeal hung on the walls, along with jelly and a few waffles. The ground was still slippery with coffee, milk, and varieties of cereal here and there. Not to mention all the others foods that covered the tables and the stereo system. We all looked around with our jaws dropped. We had caused quite a mess.

Chiron started directing us to whatever we had to clean.

"Ares, clean the tables, Aphrodite, clean the food bar, Hephaestus, clean the left wall…" that was Carters cabin. I also saw Anne, from the Apollo cabin.

Carter had a bandana in her hair and a sponge with a bucket of water. She looked adorable. Anne had on yellow rubber gloves and was carrying a towel and a bottle of Windex. Leo was of course at her side, holding her close to him. He had a broom in one hand and a wash cloth in the other. Leo whispered something to her, and she giggled then leaned up on her heels and kissed his cheek. I was hoping that someday, maybe soon, that would be me and Carter. I felt like Anne was my sister, but I guess we were still family, sort of. Even though I had only been here three days, she was always being so nice to me. Not to mention she had a great taste of music!

My half sister Lindsey came over to me. She had very light brown, almost blond, hair. Her eyes were a mixed shade of blue and green. With a bucket of soapy water in one hand and a window cleaner (that looked like it would be at the gas station by the pumps for anyone to clean their car windshield with) she came over to me. She wore a camp T-shirt and a pair of jean shorts. She also wore flip flops on her feet and her hair was up a messy bun. She loved to smile, and she was a sweet sister.

She came over to me, and right then Chiron reached our cabin on the list.

"Hermes cabin, clean the stereo and sound system." Lindsey looked at me with big eyes.

"Gees, we have A LOT to clean up!" she exclaimed, examining the stereo table from afar.

"Tell me about it," I sighed.

"Well," exclaimed Alex. "We better get started." We all headed off to the stereo table, which was in the corner of the dining pavilion.

"Oh, and before I forget children, you might want to hurry with your cleaning," everyone looked at Chiron expectantly. Then he chuckled. "We have planned a surprise capture the flag game tonight!" for those who hadn't already heard, they were excited. I was already told this. Chiron went on. "So if you don't want to be late, you're going to have to hurry!" we all got excited expressions on our faces, and I could see people starting to hurry.

"Ok, let me assign you a section to clean I guess," added Alex.

"Wait!" called out Anne before anyone from any cabin could start cleaning. "Hold that thought," she ordered, and then bounded over to Chiron. We all watched her go up and start asking him something. She obviously asked him something because she held her hands together as if pleading. He nodded his head and laughed. She bounced over to us, very excited.

"Well, what did you ask?" wondered Alex.

"Well," she started out very happy," Chiron said I could put on some music as long as we keep working!" she finished excitedly. We all got happy and started shouting out different songs that she could put on. Then she announced "I have a really good song to put on!" she jumped over to the stereo, and scraped away eggs from the equipment. She fiddled with some wires, before a song popped on. I recognized it; it was "Headphones" by Britt Nicole. For some reason, I thought this was a pretty good song. I mean the lyrics did fit all of us pretty well. She gave it her best, she tried to fit in, she tried to be cool, but she never could win. Her mom said she's great, the kids think she's weird, honestly she wished she could disappear. I guess it didn't work for everyone, but a lot. Demi-gods never really could just live a "normal" life in the world. Something always happened.

Everyone looked up from their work. They stared at the stereo, and then started cheering and yelping. Everyone liked this way of work better than listening to the sound of dried oatmeal being pulled from the wall, and kids slipping from spilled coffee.

"Ok, now I can assign you parts to clean," he looked at Anne sarcastically, and she waved then headed back over to her own cabin.

He named off some of my half brothers and sisters names, "Connor you clean speaker number one, Charlie you clean speaker number two, Lindsey you clean speaker number three, Travis you clean the wires and buttons…" he kept going on with his list, which he hadn't really planned out.

Before long, everyone had on a pair of yellow cleaning gloves, some kind of cleaning equipment, and soap or Windex. I had my swifter wet jet, but couldn't exactly use that on the stereo speaker, it was about five feet tall. We had to be very careful cleaning this, because one wrong move and we could get electrocuted.

I started by getting a rough sponge, and soaked it in water. I next started scrapping dried syrup and jelly from the side. I had A LOT of work to do. I guess it was ok as long as I had music, and my friends.

"You know," it was Travis, "We were just letting you win in that battle back at our cabin." He teased.

"Psh," it was Alex, while he was cleaning speaker number four. "Charlie and I could have taken you down if it wasn't for the time." He joked back. I was actually wondering who would have won. I was pretty sure it wouldn't be me though; I only had about three days, if not less, days of training.

"Whatever you say," Connor said sarcastically.

Apparently Anne had put on a Britt Nicole CD, because the next song was by her as well. It was "Welcome to the Show". At first everyone was confused at the beginning of the song, because a bunch of campers looked at the stereos suspiciously. The beginning started out sounding like a carnival, but soon started jamming into a much cooler tune. After it started getting cool, everyone went back to their work.

I couldn't help but dance a little while listening. I know, make fun all you want, but it was a very catchy song. As soon as I started to dance, and I was only doing it ever so slightly, I saw Carter staring at me. I glanced over, and she was laughing at my horrible dance moves. Instead of getting embarrassed though, I just started dancing more. I began doing "the shopping cart" and pretended I was holding a shopping cart, and was grabbing food from the isle and putting it in my cart. She started cracking up even more.

She was shaking her head and snorting so hard that a laughter tear came to her eye. I loved it when she laughed. I could tell that her "snort" embarrassed her, but I thought it was unique. At least it wasn't my laugh. My laugh sounds like a donkey.

I stopped dancing, because more people started looking. I glanced at Carter and she was still smiling and was red from laughing. I finally turned away from her so I could do my work, but I couldn't get her smile out of my head. She was gorgeous and amazing in every way possible (probably even more!).

I was almost done cleaning the stereos side, and was happy too because I was super excited for the capture the flag game tonight. I had never played it before, but was excited to learn how. I had played the normal version, but never in the woods with weapons and danger crawling around each corner.

I looked over at Luna, who was assigned to clean the doorway with her brother, Nico. Since Jason was the only person in his cabin, he was assigned to help them. I could see Luna yelling at Nico for something, because he annoyed her very much (from what Alex told me).

I then turned towards Davey's cabin. They were assigned to clean the right side wall. It was pretty easy for them to reach the top too. All they had to do was use the potted plants that were inside, and made them grow. They made them grow to the very top; they even reached the very high ceiling. Then they would climb them and clean what was needed. Their power was AWESOME!

Next I looked over at Cloud and Anne. They were assigned to clean the back wall, along with their cabin. Cloud was up on a ladder, cleaning some dried waffles off of a window. Anne was under the ladder (bad luck!) cleaning some jelly stains from the wall. Suddenly, Anne bumped the ladder. Cloud was still on top, and then the ladder started swaying one way, then another. "AWWWWW. AHHHHH!" he screamed either way he went. Anne screamed "Oh crap!" then grabbed onto the ladders leg. "Sorry Cloud!" she hollered up to him. He was shaking and still holding on for dear life. "S' ok," he shakily replied. I just chuckled.

I looked over at Carter again. A loop of her black hair had come down through her bandanna, and into her face. She looked beautiful, just like she did before. They had been assigned to clean the left wall. Carter was kneeling on the ground with her sleeves rolled up. She was cleaning the very bottom of the wall. The crack that touched the floor was where all the nasty liquids would fall from the wall. I felt bad for her.

She was using a scraper and was getting dried up cereal from in the crack between the bottom of the wall, and the start of the ground. She had a small smear of jelly on her cheek, and she suddenly looked at her elbow, which had oatmeal on it. I could see her sigh, and she got up to grab a towel. When she got up she saw me, brushed the loop of hair from her eyes, and waved at me. I waved and smiled back. I don't know why or how, but everything she did was cute. Even watching her wipe oatmeal from her elbow was cute.

I was almost finished cleaning off all the sides of the speaker, and was going to move onto the top. Alex came over to inspect my work. He looked at one side, then another, pondering for just a second. Then he scowled at me.

"Say something!" I goaded. Then he grinned.

"I was just kidding, sheesh." He teased and humorously pushed my arm.

I shook my head and went back to my work. I looked over at Kat, who was busy cleaning the floor around the stereo and large speakers.

She also had a bandanna in her hair like Carter, and was wearing yellow gloves, along with the rest of us. The weird thing was her bandanna matched Carters. It was obviously from the Hephaestus cabin. So I decided to ask.

"So, Kat?" I asked.

"Yea?" she replied, not looking up from the floor.

"What did you do when you got done cleaning up?" I questioned trying not to sound anxious or anything.

"Oh, Carter was helping me pick out a longbow for-"but she stopped talking, and started thinking. "For, a friend" she finished.

Carter was so sweet. Everything a clumsy, dancing, idiot like me could ever want. I was lucky Carter even wanted to talk to me, let alone be my friend. I was just hoping that tonight's capture the flag game wouldn't end as badly as the monster hunting contest.

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