Katie Gardner

Katie knew smiled as she watched Jasmine trying to teach Nico to surf. It felt like it was just yesterday when Jasmine rambled about how much she hated him. It looked like the younger version of Herself and Travis. Katie was happy that Nico was able to keep Jasmine's mind away from the depressing truth. Jeremy made it clear to everyone. 'keep her as happy as can be'. Tomorrow she would be in the most depressed state as she will ever be. Tomorrow would be October 15. Her mother's death anniversary.

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It was six in the morning. Katie made her way to Jasmine's bunk. Most days, Jasmine woke up before Katie, but on the 15th of October, Jasmine thrived to do only one thing; sleep.

Katie began jumping on Jasmine's bed giving her a taste of her own medicine.

"Katie… Stop." Jasmine quietly begged.

"No, get up"

"I don't want to…"

"C'mon. I'll take you shopping." Katie bribed. 'Travis is starting to rub off on me.' Katie thought.

"I don't want that…" Katie stopped jumping and plopped on top of the younger girl.

"Don't make me get, Jeremy" Katie threatened

"Go ahead."

"C'mon, Jasmine. Please."

"Okay. Okay. I'm up. What do you want?"

"Albany got the whole day off and Chiron is letting us go anywhere and do anything."

"I don't want to go..."

"We'll take Nico."

"What does he have to do with anything?"

"Why do you have to be so difficult?"

"I'm a Hermes' kid. It's sort of my job."

"C'mon. We'll go anywhere you want for breakfast. Jeremy will treat us."

"Let's go McDonalds"

"Really? you get to choose anything and you choose McDonalds?"

"You're forgetting that I am still twelve."

"Fine get up and get dressed"

"Ma'am, yes, Ma'am" Jasmine saluted. Katie rolled her eyes as Jasmine went to the bathroom to get ready. Katie turned around and noticed Travis and Connor sleeping, both with wide smiles. Katie rolled her eyes again.

"I know you guys are awake, Stoll. If you want to come, all you have to do is ask..."

"CAn we come?" they asked. Both so confident that Katie would say yes.

"I don't know. Ask your sister." Katie answered with a smirk.

"That wasn't nice, Katie-kat" Travis pouted.

"Hey, you get what I give..."

"Why didn't Albany tell me?" asked Connor.

"Because I told her not too"

"But i'm her boyfriend." HE argued

"But i'm her best friend. Best friends rule; boyfriends drool"

"I take offense to that" commented Travis. "And I'm still waiting for my morning hug" he pouted and spread his arms. Katie rolled her eyes.

"Later. Go get ready."

"For what?" Connor questioned

"You wanna come or not?"

"So we can come?"

"Yeah, I was suppost to invite both of you because Albany was busy planning the day, but i forgot too." That was all the explanation Connor needed to bolt into action. Katie turned to her boyfriend who was still pouting. "Shouldn't you go get ready too?"

"Not without my morning hug" Katie rolled her eyes but went into the embrace her boyfriend held. After a second or two, Travis started to squeeze a little tighter.

"I don't get you guys..." The couple turned to the younger girl who had spoken. "Sometimes you bicker like an old married couple, sometimes you guys act all lovey dovey like you guys are high school sweethearts, Then you guys act like kids."

"That's the thing with us,Jazz."Katie started to explain. "We can act however we want but we know that we'll always care about each other."

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Nico kept close to JAsmine the whole day. When the group returned to camp, it was 3 in the afternoon. Once the group had dispersed, Nico decided to give Jasmine his gift. It was a known fact that Nico and Jasmine spent a lot of time together. Nico had found out most of Jasmine's secrets and although he made fun of a few of them. There was a secret that stood out from most of them.

Jasmine Bays was a fangirl...

When Nico found out he laughed so hard he fell off the bed he was sitting on. Who knew that the calm, cool, collected, smart, carefree girl that was Jasmine, was secretly obsessed with singers like Justin Bieber and One Direction. Nico would joke around with her and call the members of One Direction the wrong name, just because it would pissed her off. But then Jasmine made Nico listen to one of their songs. Little Things. Nico figured it out. Jasmine was insecure. The fact that Drew puts her down a lot really hurts her self esteem. 'Little Things' , made her feel beautiful. Music saved her... from herself. The person who put her down the most was herself. Nico hated it. His gift to her? A DVD of Nico's cover of 'Little Things'

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A/N: I am so sorry about the late updates. I recently got obsessed with 1D and well, it took over my mind. I promise I'll update later this week for a Christmas chapter. Take this as a late Christmas gift and please don't hate on 1D. I still can't stop crying every time that song comes on.

-DeanDean