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"Look, it's not that big a deal," I went to say, but the Stoll's cut me off.

"Trish, we're not serious often," Connor said.

"But when we are, it's… well serious," Travis finished.

"You were away for five years. Five years, everyone thought that you were gone. Five years of our lives that our sister missed out on. You may only have been in our lives for a few weeks, but you became family to us in that time then you disappeared for a while. So if this is some kind of prank, I don't like it." Connor said.

I walked up to my brothers and placed a reassuring hand on their cheeks. "I would never joke about death, especially to you guys. You're my brothers, I care about you and I know you care about me so I can't even imagine how hard that time was for you. It may have been five years, but to me it was only about five minutes. It must have been so hard for you."

I pulled them in for a hug and since I was so short I ended up hugging their torsos. "Speaking of pranks," I whispered, "I have a good one."

"We're listening," They giggled.

"Damian, I need you to step out of the room for a moment," I smiled mischievously.

I gave a small laugh and then slowly walked out of the cabin with his hands in his pockets.

"Okay here's what I came up with," I said as I turned back to the Stoll's, "we need something that makes it look like it wasn't us. Soooo… I was thinking we can set off a trap that releases at a certain time, I'll be gone and you guys have to make sure that you are around people when it happens. What about at noon? You guys will be at lunch so you will be seen by plenty of people."

"Why can't we just do something simple?" Connor asked.

"Because, think about it. It's the only day I'm back and a prank happens, that makes me seem suspicious."

"I like it," Travis exclaimed.

"Fine," grumbled Connor.

"Now," I said as I placed my hand on my chin, "which cabin?"

The three of us just stood there thinking about which cabin we should do. "We could tape a bunch of spiders to the ceiling of the Athena cabin and eventually the tape will come off," Connor suggested.

"Nah, I don't like messing with people's phobias," I said.

"Do the Hephaestus cabin," Damian said in the doorway.

"Hey this is a super secret meeting," I frowned. Damian just laughed.

"Your boyfriend has a point," Travis said, "the CTT hasn't done that cabin yet."

"He's not my boyfriend," I said.

At the same time, Damian said, "I'm not her boyfriend."

"I got it!" Connor yelled. "The Hephaestus kids aren't exactly a fan of pink and glitter are they?"

"No?" Damian asked, suspiciously.

"Okay, we have it so that a pink paint bomb goes off inside the cabin."

"Good good. Now for how we're going to set it up." I said.

"I can let you guys in the cabin during lunch," Damian said.

"It would be too obvious if all four of us went in at once," I said.

"What if you and Damian go off during lunch, we'll follow a few minutes afterward and we can meet up in the cabin?" Travis suggested.

"That could work, but we need a reason for why you two would get up and leave lunch." I thought for a second, "oh! I have an idea. You guys can set up a different prank and when that one goes off everyone will think you guys went off to set up that one."

"Okay, but what other prank would we set up?" The Stoll's asked.

"I've had an idea for a while, it's for a special goddess of love cabin. Do you guys have glitter?" I asked the brothers.

"You know we do!" They smiled. "What color?"

"Brown, blue, black?" I asked.

"Mhm."

"Perfect. So what you do is, at lunch, halfway through, you two disappear. Go to the Aphrodite cabin and put a bunch of glitter in the shower head in their bathroom, when they turn the water on, instead of water, out comes glitter, and glitter sticks to everything. Then near the end of lunch, Damian and I will go off to the Hephaestus cabin and you guys will meet us there. We will set up the paint bomb and ta da, set it for noon tomorrow."

"One question," Damian said, "where are you getting this paint bomb."

The Stoll's looked at each other and smiled. "We have our ways."

"They mean Hermes," I said.

"You know I don't like it when you guys smile like that," Damian said.

"Well we don't like you," the two scolded.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed. Stay safe!

-Lou Ellen and Sydney