Prompt: Flowers

"Piper!" Jason called loudly. He was all the way on the other side of the cabins, and, considering there are eight cabins between us, he was yelling pretty loud. I don't bother to yell back, I just run until we meet at around cabin five. I can see the mischievous faces of some of the Ares kids peeking out the window at us, so I motion for Jason to walk with me to where the dock in the lake starts. Now, it was the beginning of the summer, so the water level was pretty high from all the rain we got during the spring, so we had to take our shoes off and walk through a couple of inches of water until we reached the dock.

"What did you need?" I ask him.

"I wanted to see if you were okay. After what happened last night at the campfire, you seemed kinda... upset." It was true. I was really upset about what happened last night. We had this huge campfire for the first day of summer, which was yesterday. Everyone was coming into camp from being away at school in the mortal world, and everyone was having a blast. I walked over to the fire and sat down next to Jason, taking in the heat of the fire. I heard people talking and laughing all around me, and it seemed like everyone was having a great time. The laughing that I heard, though, it wasn't regular having-a-good-time kind of laughter. It was like snickering. Evil snickering. I turn around and see my half-sister Drew and her posse of my other half-sisters holding a book and laughing. That should've been my first clue that something was up. Here's a little something about Drew, she never laughs unless what she's laughing at has something to do with public humiliation.

"'I've never known anybody like him before. He's kind and sweet and nothing like that creep Donte from middle school. I think he could be the one.'" Kate, my drew wannabe sister read from the book, laughing. I recognized the words that she read. They were my words. That was my book. This wasn't good. I quickly got up and snatched the book from Kate's manicured hands and smacked her across the face. Drew was behind me, giggling. I turned around, praying that she couldn't see how deep the red in my face was with embarrassment.

"How dare you, Drew? How dare you do this to me? You're the lowest, most self-absorbed bitch that I know!" I screamed at her. For emphasis, I stomped on her foot and ran away, hoping that I stomped hard enough to leave a bruise or something.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just suffering from staying up all night plotting revenge is all. I'm exhausted. The only thing that could possibly wake me up is freezing water." I tell Jason, realizing that I never answered him.

Jason gives me this smile. It's the kind of smile that makes you wonder if the person giving you that look has planned a cruel joke on you. "I think I can help with that, Pipes." He tells me. See, this is what I mean. If I was fully awake I probably would've realized what he was doing to me when he picked me up and threw me in the lake. The cold water jolted every nerve, vein, and bone in my body awake. I rose to the surface, smiling like an idiot.

"What was that for?" I ask Jason when he jumps in himself.

"You said that freezing water was the only thing that could wake you up!" He said defensively. We played around in the water for a little bit; splashing each other and getting rides through the water on each others backs. When we were done, we swam back to the sandy area and sat down at the edge of the water. The sun was still up in the air for another four hours, what could we do?

"What do you want to do now?" Jason asked, practically reading my mind. He looked over at me with his blue eyes and I practically melted right there in his arms.

"How about we take a walk." I tell him.

"Sounds good." He says. We got up and started taking a walk. I honestly don't think either of us knew where we were going, but we got there anyway. We ended up in the strawberry field. Nobody was around so we started going through row after row of strawberries until we came to a clearing towards the end that I never noticed. There were flowers and blueberries everywhere. We sat down in the middle and Jason picked a flower, a lily, and tucked it behind my ear. I lean against his chest and look up into his beautiful blue eyes. I lean up and kiss him.

"I love you, Piper." He tells me, as he tucks the flower back behind my ear when it falls.

"I love you too." I tell him as I lean in to kiss him again.

How was that? Sorry it took so long for me to upload, it's been a while since I've gotten a long time to myself. Thanks for reading and reviewing guys!

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~Becca