Author's Note: Hey guys! Sorry it took me so long! I'm FINALLY writing the next chapter. I hope you guys like it!
Evelyn walked past the Hermes cabin and noticed almost all of them whispering to each other. Oh no.
Evelyn just walked on, hoping they weren't planning a huge prank. When the whole cabin worked together, it usually ended up being cruel instead of funny.
Suddnely, Evelyn heard shouting. Evelyn turned to see Louise standing outside with Clarisse. They were arguing pretty bad.
"You're such a softie!" Clarisse shouted.
"If that means I'm not cruel, then okay!" Louise replied.
"You never hurt anyone! You are a disgrace to the Ares cabin!"
"Well then let me be! At least I have friends who like me!"
"What, the Hermes weirdos and the garden freak! You even hang out with the dumb Jackson twins!"
OH NUH UH!
Suddenly, Evelyn was water-traveling over to them. She appeared in front of Clarisse and sprayed a stream of water in her face… hard.
"JACKSON!"
"Never. Mess with my friends."
Louise and Evelyn walked away.
"You didn't have to do that, you know."
"Yes I did, Louise. We're friends. That's what friends do."
Louise smiled.
"Thanks. I'll see ya later." She ran off.
A few moments later, Ben ran up.
"Come with me." He grabbed her hand and dragged her over to the Hermes Cabin.
She walked in with him and sat down next to him on the edge of one of the bunks. The entire Hermes cabin was there… except Travis.
"What's going on?" Evelyn asked.
Mary stepped forward.
"You know how when we were playing Truth or Dare you said Dalia and Travis were going to get married?"
"HOLY CRAP, THEY'RE NOT GETTING MARRIED ARE THEY?!"
"No, no, no." Mary said.
"We're going to plan them a fake wedding." Ben said.
Evelyn looked confused.
"Why?"
"It'll be funny." Mary said.
Evelyn was skeptic. But it sort of seemed sweet. Sort of cute.
"Okay."
"Okay?" Mary asked excitedly.
Ben smiled at her.
"Yeah. What do I do?"
And so the plans were made. Ben and Evelyn would work together to get all the wedding information out of Dalia. Even if the wedding was fake, Dalia should make the decisions. Mary and Connor were the masters of the operation, overseeing everyone and ensuring the wedding was kept secret from Dalia and Travis. The other campers were put on hold, seeing as they needed Dalia's information to do anything. It was up to Evelyn and Ben now.
Evelyn walked out of the cabin with Ben in tow.
"So, we have to help her plan her wedding… but make sure she doesn't know the wedding exists." Evelyn said.
"Yeah." Ben said.
"And we have to convince everyone to come."
"Yeah."
"And they have to bring dates."
"Yeah."
Evelyn looked at Ben and they both started cracking up.
"Can you imagine," Evelyn said through laughs, "Nico or Jade in bright floral colors, with DATES?!"
After Ben and Evelyn were finished nearly dying, they headed over to the Demeter Cabin.
"Stay inconspicuous." Evelyn said.
"Please," Ben replied, "I'm the master of inconspicuous. Prank-master here."
Evelyn rolled her eyes as she tapped the door of the Demeter Cabin with her fist.
Dalia opened the door and smiled when she saw them.
"What's up bros?" Dalia said.
Evelyn rolled her eyes at Dalia's bad attempt at an American accent. She was the only kid at camp from over-seas.
"Hey Dal, come with us for a minute." Evelyn said,
Dalia shrugged and followed Evelyn and Ben over to the beach. The three young Demigods sat down on the rough sand.
"Okay," Evelyn said, "you know how in Truth or Dare I said you and Travis were going to get married?"
"Yeah…" Dalia said.
Ben gave Evelyn a "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU'LL GET US CAUGHT!" look. Evelyn simply carried on:
"Well, I suppose I should start planning your wedding now, if it's going to be absolutely spectacular."
Dalia looked at her.
"Are you kidding?"
"Nope."
"Well… okay then."
"FANTASTIC!" Evelyn shouted. Ben fell down a sand dune at the loud noise. This made Dalia and Evelyn crack up. Ben climbed back up the sand dune, and sat back down, shaking tiny grains out of his blond hair.
"Okay," Evelyn said, summoning a clipboard and pen from water, "let's start with the obvious. Maid of Honor?"
Dalia hardly hesitated.
"Mary. She's my best friend." Evelyn jotted that down on her clipboard, while stealing an amused glance at Ben. Funny that Mary, the one planning this would be the maid of honor.
"Okay, bridesmaids?"
"Evelyn, are you honestly serious-"
"Bridesmaids?" Evelyn interrupted, giving Dalia a stern look.
"Okay… let's see. You, Elizabeth, Louise, and Amy."
"Peeeerfect." Evelyn said, writing down the names. "Now we must think color scheme. Luckily, all the bridesmaids you picked have brown hair. So does Mary, actually. How delightful. That's actually great, because brown hair goes great with floral colors, and I expect that's what you'll want, being you and all."
Dalia took a moment to take in all the information.
"My favorite colors are poppy red and leaf green…"
"Oh PERFECT!" Evelyn shouted yet again. She was having a hyper, non-sarcastic day. "That'll look absolutely darling. We just have to make sure we don't look like elves. Oh, I'll take care of the dresses, don't worry!"
"Um… I won't." Dalia said.
The three kids talked and talked, deciding on flowers and hairstyles and almost everything you would ever need for a wedding.
Once they had finished, Evelyn smiled at her clipboard.
"Thanks Dalia."
"You're welcome." She replied smiling.
Evelyn and Ben walked away, smiling at each other. They had gotten the information.
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The Hermes Cabin, Evelyn, Amy, Sicomba, Elizabeth, Emerson, Louise, Jade, Nico, Sierra, and a few mismatched campers from other cabins whispered quietly in the shadows of the forest. Sierra had set up magic boundaries so neither Dalia nor Travis would walk in or hear them.
"I still don't get why, though." Emerson said. The entire Hermes cabin groaned. They had been trying to explain the "wedding" for over an hour. The Hermes kids weren't used to sitting still for so long.
"Because it's cute." Evelyn said. "And you all have to come."
"Why?" Sicomba asked.
"Because," Ben explained, "it's Dalia and Travis, and they're your friends."
The Demigods looked at each other, and shrugged.
"Yeah," Elizabeth said, "we'll come."
The Hermes Cabin cheered.
Evelyn smiled.
"Oh, and also," she added quietly, "you have to bring dates…"
"WHAT?!" they all shouted.
The Hermes Cabin went back to groaning.
"We want it to be just like a regular wedding." Mary said.
"We are NOT all bringing dates." Jade said.
"Oh yes you are!" Evelyn shouted in her most demanding voice. The river splashed up behind them.
Everyone was quiet for a moment.
"Fine." Sierra said.
Jade and Sicomba opened their mouths to complain, then shut them again.
"Perfect. You guys can figure out who you're taking. Jade, Nico, you can't go as siblings." Evelyn said.
Jade looked rather disappointed, but didn't object.
Mary then looked over at Evelyn.
"Oh Ev, I forgot to tell you. I want you to figure out the dress."
"What dress?" Evelyn asked distracted.
"Dalia's dress." Mary said.
Evelyn looked up, shocked. At first she looked surprised, then honored, then thoughtful, and then horrified. Everyone stared at her.
"What's wrong?" Nico asked her.
"HOW THE HECK AM I GOING TO MEASURE HER FOR HER DRESS?!" Evelyn shouted. Sierra cringed, obviously working hard to keep the sound barrier in place. Birds took off from the trees, but no campers came running in with swords.
"Oh come on Ev, you'll figure something out," Louise said, "you're smart."
Evelyn closed her eyes.
"Yeah. You're right. I'll figure it out."
"Great!" Mary said. "Now, the wedding will take place in the courtyard outside the cabins." She looked over at a couple other Hermes campers.
"Would you tell the Hephaestus kids the pergola plans?"
The two campers nodded and walked off with two Hephaestus campers. Mary then looked at Kate Gardner, one of Dalia's Demeter sisters.
"Evelyn says we'll need red and green petunias for floral arrangements. Poppies can also be used to decorate the pergola and for bouquets. Can you take care of that?"
Kate smiled.
"That wedding will be a flower wonderland."
"Awesome. Evelyn, please take everyone to get fitted for dresses and suits." Mary said.
"Okay," Evelyn said, "aren't you coming? You are the maid of honor."
"Oh, I'll be along. I need to talk to Connor." Mary said with a strange look in her eye.
"Okay…" Evelyn said, slightly nervous. For some reason, she felt like this wedding had something deeper than what she thought going on.
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"SICOMBA THORSON, FOR POSEIDON'S SAKE HOLD STILL!" Evelyn shouted.
"I'm sorry, this is extremely uncomfortable!"
"Honestly, you are worse than a girl."
Louise was cracking up at this exchange, and Amy and Jade were cracking smiles. Evelyn was currently getting everyone fitted for their wedding attire.
"Why can't us guys just wear what we want?" Sicomba asked, "I mean it's not like we're bridesmaids."
"If I let you boys wear what you wanted you'd wear jeans and t-shirts, now HOLD STILL." Evelyn retorted.
"Besides," Elizabeth said, "you might be one of our dates."
This made Louise crack up again and Amy did as well.
"Wait," said Jade, "if we're not bridesmaids, what are Sierra, Emerson and I doing here?"
"You can design your own dress if you want but it has to be flower themed. I'll have one of the Aphrodite girls make it."
"I have to wear a FLOWER?!" Jade exclaimed.
Evelyn looked at her.
"I'm not super ecstatic about that bit either, but that's the theme, okay?"
"Fine." Jade muttered.
"No black flowers."
Jade just mumbled what was probably something extremely rude here, but Evelyn couldn't make it out. She went back to Sicomba.
"Ow!" he said as she poked him with a pin… again.
"Fine, I'm DONE!" Evelyn shouted. Sicomba walked away eagerly.
Everyone stood there a bit awkwardly for a few minutes, looking at Evelyn. She finally looked up.
"You may disperse." She said, waving them off. Sicomba walked off talking about art and swordplay to Louise, and Jade went off laughing with Jade, while the other sort of wandered off aimlessly. Only Ben stayed.
"What's up?" Evelyn said. She had noticed the usually loud, cocky, sarcastic boy had been more quiet and reserved lately.
"You have a minute?" he asked her.
"Barely," she answered with a smile, "Mary's laying a lot of this wedding stuff on me."
"Yeah well that's what I want to talk about."
"If you're asking me to go with you, the answer is yes since no one else is likely to ask me, wow that sounded rude. Plus, you're one of my best friends."
Ben was inarticulate. Evelyn looked at him, then got a sad look.
"Oh! Did you take a ton of time planning what you were going to say? Sorry I wasted it."
"That's… fine."
"Great! TO THE APHRODITE CABIN!" Evelyn shouted, holding her pen up high and rushing out of the door heroically. Ben just followed her, laughing.
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Evelyn knocked on the door of the Aphrodite Cabin. Silena answered. Silena was one of the few Aphrodite kids Evelyn actually liked.
"Oh hi Evelyn, Ben. What's up?"
"We seek a dress maker." Evelyn said formally.
"Right away." Silena said with a bow, disappearing into the cabin. She returned after a few seconds with a blonde girl of about 15.
"This is Angie." Silena said. "She is a fabric miracle worker."
The girl blushed.
"Hi." She said.
"We need your help." Evelyn said.
Evelyn explained the bridesmaids dresses to the girl, Angie. Evelyn had designed them to resemble flowers with their petals facing downward. The tops and skirts were the red color of poppies, separated by a leaf green sash that fell down the skirt in the back. The skirt came flowed down in the shape of petals. The dress was strapless, the top resembling the middle of a flower. The boys had tuxes, but in a leaf green instead of black. Mary's maid of honor dress was the same as the bridesmaids, but with the colors reversed so the skirt and top were green with a red sash.
Angie smiled.
"These should be easy. But what about the bride's dress?" she asked.
"Well," Evelyn said, "we can't measure her without her thinking something's up."
"Oh, that's okay!" Angie said. "I can take someone's measurements just by looking at them."
Evelyn smiled and turned to Ben:
"Don't tell Sicomba. He'll kill me."
Author's Note: AHHHH! The wedding is in the next chapter! And the next chapter will end in a giant cliffhanger! MUHAHAHAHA! I'm so excited! What'd you think of that chapter? I hope you absolutely LOVED IT! Don't worry, the characters personalities will be shown more in a couple chapters.