The one-year anniversary.

I sat at the front of the Demeter cabin tending to my rose bushes. I had my hair up in a ponytail and my Camp Half-Blood shirt on and some shorts. Today was my one-year anniversary with none other than the Hermes son, Travis Stoll. It's funny though because no one thought we would last this long, and to be completely honest neither did but we have and it's been the best year of my life.
"Katie!" I looked up at the call of my name and saw my brother, Jonathan standing at the front door of the Demeter cabin, "it's time to leave for breakfast "
"Ok" I said standing up and walking into the cabin to clean up, after washing my hands and face I sat down on my bed to braid my hair.
"So, Katie" Minnie said sitting next to me a smirk playing on her face, "it's the big one today got anything special planned?"
"I haven't seen Travis today so I don't know if he has anything planned, but I've gotten him a present that he should like" I reply finishing off my braid.
"Oh yes?" Minnie asks, winking at me.
"NO, you dirty girl, why would you even think that?" I ask incredulously hitting her in the arm.
"It's Travis, he's a hormonal teenage boy and son of Hermes", she shrugged, "What did you get him then?"
"This videogame he's been wanting for a couple months now."
"He couldn't have stolen it?"
"He stopped stealing after about our third month and besides it's not actually out yet" I say smiling proudly.
"I'd congratulate you on a job well done but I'm hungry, so let's get some breakfast".
We stand up from the bed and head out with the rest of the cabin towards the dining pavilion.

Travis's POV

I walked to the dining pavilion the next morning feeling extremely grumpy, my brother Connor woke me up at 4:30 by pouring freezing water on my entire top half, from the waist up, it took an hour long shower just to warm up and then I couldn't get to sleep. I also have this nagging in my head that I have forgotten something important.
"Travis!" Connor sings in my ear like the annoying twerp that he is.
"What?" I grumble, shoving my hands in my pockets.
"Do you really want Katie to see you like this on today of all days?" He asked seriously
"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask stopping and staring at him.
"Please don't tell me you've forgotten?" he asks staring at me wide-eyed.
"FORGOT WHAT?" I yell at him, throwing a hand in the air.
"It's your one year with Katie!" He exclaims at me
"Crap, crap, crap" I rub my hands over my face as I realize that's the important thing I was forgetting, I put my hands on Connor's shoulders and shake him "You have to help me Connor!"
Connor groans before responding, "I guess I can help, but you owe me" He points at my face nodding once.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you" I hug him tightly getting a few stares from other campers.
"If you don't let go I won't help", I quickly let go of him, "now let's go have some breakfast, I think better when there's food in my tummy" Connor rubs his stomach fondly before running off toward the pavilion.

As I made my way into the dining pavilion my eyes instantly went to the Demeter cabin finding Katie straight away, I could feel a grin coming on my face, she was laughing about something with one of her sisters and she seemed to glow, she was so beautiful and she was all mine. I sighed contently before walking to my cabins table.
"Here's your breakfast" Chris said passing me a plate of pancakes. I nodded at him in thanks and started eating. My cabin usually gets breakfast for me because I'm always late to get there same with Connor.
"Thought of anything Connor?" I ask around a mouthful of pancake.
"Yup" He says nodding his head.
"Well?" I say expectantly
"Oh right, you need to know the plan"
"No, really? I never would have thought" I say hitting him on the back of the head.
"No need to get violent" He replies rubbing the back of his head, "Well you are going to give her a picnic, yes, I know that's how you asked her out" He says cutting me off as I opened my mouth to argue, "but this time will be different" He smiles knowingly.
"How?" I ask feeling worried. By now there was only about a quarter of the campers left, I quickly looked over and saw the Demeter table empty.
"With this" he opens a box to reveal something very special to us.

1 hour later

Katie's POV

"Katie!" I whip around hoping the voice I heard was Travis. I'm not sure if I've done something wrong but he seems to be avoiding me, but as I whip around I see the wrong Stoll, it's Connor, Travis's brother.
"What is it?" I ask frustrated as he comes up next to me.
"That time of the month?" He asks, I know he's joking but I'm really not in the mood for him.
"Just tell me what you want Connor" I say getting ready to walk off.
"Oi, don't go running off" he grabs my wrist before I can leave. "Just go to the lake at 5:30 and you'll understand"
"I'm not in a mood for games Connor"
"Are you are annoyed with Travis?" He asks with a knowing look.
"Of course I am" I snap, "He's ignoring me and I don't know what I've done" as I finish my sentence I feel my throat get tight and a burning sensation in my eyes and I know that I am about to cry.
"Hey, come on" he says pulling me into his arms, "Don't cry" he rubs my back, "just trust when I say to go to the lake at 5"30, ok?" I nod my head against his chest and slowly push away from him.
"I'll be fine, I'll be there ok, but I have to go now, I have chores and stuff to do" he nods his head at me in understanding before walking off. I give my eyes a wipe before I head off towards my cabin, no need for the others to know I was crying.

Travis's POV

"TRAVIS!" I heard an overly familiar voice scream from the cabin door. I groan and roll off my bed and head towards the door only to see a very angry Connor Stoll standing there fuming.
"What?" I ask lazily walking back towards my bed, I hear Connor's footsteps following me, they are extremely heavy for a son of Hermes which leads me to the fact he must be extremely angry as of now.
"What have I done this time?" I ask sitting on the edge of my bed.
"What haven't you done?" He yells throwing his Hands in the air, "You've managed to make her cry! The girl who never cries!"
"Who?" I ask, thinking through the day trying to remember if I pranked anyone he cared about, but I couldn't think of anyone so I gave up.
"Katie you dimwit!" He screams in my face. I look at him with wide eyes trying to figure out of this is a joke and really hoping it was a joke, but by the look on his face I could tell he wasn't joking.
"How?" I whisperer, not knowing what I'm supposed to do.
"She thinks she has done something wrong and now you're ignoring because of something she thinks she's done, even though she hasn't done a thing!" He sits down next to me on the bed after his little rant. "You better hope tonight's a good night or she might never talk to you again" He says quietly.
"That can't happen" I say feeling as if I might cry, "I can't lose Katie" a few tears leaked down my cheeks and I buried my face in my pillow before Connor saw them. I fell him pat my shoulder and stand up from the bed, as I hear his now soft footsteps fade into the distance.

5:00

I roll over in my bed expecting to be met with more bed but instead I am met with the floor. I groan sitting up and staring around, I see the clock across the room and see it's already 5:00, CRAP! I internally scream, jumping up at the speed of light and racing towards the door, just as I'm about to open it, the door opens itself and standing on the other side is Connor, holding one of those bags you get from fancy stores. I look at him quizzically but instead of a response he just shoves it in my arms and rushes me towards the bathroom, I know what he wants me to do, get all fancy for tonight; I unzip the bag and see a plain black tuxedo, a white shirt and a dark blue tie. I quickly get dressed and do the tie the best I can. I walk out of the bathroom and see Connor sitting on one of the beds with a basket at his feet and a jewellery box in his hand, he shoves the basket into my arms and puts the box into an inside pocket of the jacket.
"Now run" He says pointing towards the door, I don't need to be told twice, I rush out the door and towards the lake as I reach the lake I am panting and have ten minutes to set up. I open the basket and pull out a green picnic blanket spreading it out on a flat patch. I pull out the containers, thank you Connor, I say mentally. I finish organising everything with two minutes left, since I don't know what to do whilst I wait for Katie to show up so I just stand there waiting, after several minutes I hear the sound of footsteps crunching through the trees, I turn around to face the noise and I am greeted by one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen. Katie walked out of the trees wearing a mint green dress that came mid-thigh, it had one strap and a diamante belt, but what made it completely Katie were the shoes, she was wearing her favourite blue converse, the ones I bought her for her birthday. "Katie looks up and sees me staring at her, she looks back down at the ground and walks towards me.
"You look beautiful" I say as she comes up next to me, she lifts her head slightly and I hear a small, "Thanks" escape her lips. "Shall we?" I ask indicating we should sit, she nods her head in response and carefully sits down trying not to ruin her dress. When we are seated she looks up at me and her eyes go over me assessing me, she lowers her head and giggles slightly shaking her head.
"What?" I ask looking down at myself.
"Your tie" She points at it giggling again.
"What about it?" I look down at my tie, "it's the best I could do".
"Come here and I'll fix it she says indicating at me with her hands, I shuffle forward closer to her so she can reach the tie. I feel her delicate hands touch my neck as she straightens up my tie and does it up properly.
"There" She says quietly, but she doesn't take her hands away, they linger at the front of my neck, as I look down at her, when she realizes I'm staring at her she goes to pull her hands away but I grab them and hold them there.
"I got you something special." I whisper into her ear, releasing her hands I reach into the inside pocket where her present was. I handed her the box and watched her as she opened it.

Katie's POV

"I got you something special" Travis whispered in my ear causing me to shiver slightly, he released my hands and reached into a pocket from the inside of his jacket and pulls out a blue jewellery box, I stared at him for a moment before slowly opening it, I gasp lightly and cover my mouth with my hand, inside is his mothers locket, it is a medium sized round one with three birds flying down the middle and surrounding the birds is a bunch swirls. I feel tears pricking my eyes and look up at Travis, I set it down on the blanket and I can tell Travis is worried about my reaction, but he doesn't need to be, I know how special this locket his to him and Connor and I know I must mean a lot to him for him to give it to me. I bring my hand away from my face and I can feel tears run slowly down my cheeks but before Travis can respond I tackle him to the ground planting kisses all over his face before I gently press them to his lips, I can taste the salt of my tears during our kiss but I don't care and I don't think he does either, I feel him smile against my lips and slowly pull away slightly breathless from the unexpected kiss.
"I love you" I whisper against his lips. I feel him tense up under me and I start getting worried that I shouldn't have said that but then I feel him relax and lean toward my ear and whisper into it.
"I love you too" I smile and give him another peck before sitting back up, he sits up next me and reaches for the locket taking it out and putting it on me.
"Thank you" I say touching the locket gently, "I was hoping I would be seeing you tonight and this wasn't just one of Connor's pranks so I brought your present with me" I reach behind me and see the quizzical look on Travis's face as I pull the dinosaur wrapped present from behind me and hand it to him. He slowly unwraps and stares at it for awhile.
"I have the most amazing girlfriend in the world!" He exclaims peppering my lips with a dozen kisses, "how did you get this it doesn't come out for like another week?!" he asks excitedly gesturing to the GTA V game in his hands.
"Let's just say I had some help" I grin cheekily.
"You" he points at me, "are the most amazing person ever."
"I do try" I say as he pulls me into another kiss, after a couple minutes we pull away. "Now, how about we eat?" I looked down at the food set out on the picnic blanket.
"Sounds like a plan" He responds reaching into the basket and pulling out plates and cups.

The End