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Recap
"Nice to see you too Katie darling, you look so nice." Kaitlyn mocked me in her southern accent. "May I ask, why you're even getting dressed up? I mean who in their right minds would ask you to the Camp Half-Blood Informal?" I just stared at her in shock, all day I had spent getting ready to look nice and here she was shooting me down, basically telling me I was hideous. I blinked back tears threatening to leak out. "I mean seriously who would ask you?"
Lucy looked ready to claw Kaitlyn's eyeballs out of her head, but she was interrupted by a voice, "I would ask her. I think she looks like a million gold drachmas." I looked up in shock to see Travis standing in the doorway glaring at Kaitlyn, his date, she was staring at him in shock. I had a feeling this would not end up pretty.
"Awww," interrupted the glares and tense silence, "that is so nice! You're so lucky Katie, I wish I had a guy who would say that to me!" Lucy really did not know when to keep her comments to herself.
"Are you sure?" Kristen asked Lucy.
"Sure of what?" she asked.
"That you're not a child of Aphrodite." Kristen said. It was kind of nice to have them arguing it made things feel less tense, but only a little bit. At the most it broke the silence.
"What do you mean that she looks like a million golden drachmas Travis?" Kaitlyn said.
Just a word about Kaitlyn, before we get back to the story. She and I have been enemies since day one. The short version was; I was at camp before her, my ex-best friend was a child of Aphrodite, she came, told some gossip, broke us apart, stepped in, and well ruined that part of my life. If I were to tell you the rest of our history it would take me 1,000 years to tell what with all her nagging me and rudeness and plain bitchiness. (please keep in mind I, Katie Gardner, do not like to swear. But I hate her so much.) She stomps strawberries, digs up grass, pulls up flowers, now that I think about it… she's the girl version of Travis and Connor, no wonder he asked her out. The thought made me sad all over again, Travis's response pulled me out of La La land.
"I mean," Travis said coldly, "she looks like she worked all day-"
"Only since 12:00." I cut in.
"Yeah whatever." He said waving me off. "Anyway, before I was rudely interrupted," he stopped to glare at me, I shrugged in innocence, "I said she looks like she worked all day to look this nice, and you just barged in here and told her she looked horrible, and guess what?"
"What?" Kaitlyn said, her face scrunched up.
"I don't date girls like that." He said, for a scary minute I thought he was talking about me, then I realized it was pointed towards Kaitlyn.
"Are you dumping me?" she protested.
"How dumb are you? Lucy I take back what I said about you acting like a daughter of Aphrodite, you have way more brain cells." Kristin said.
"Thanks, I think…" Lucy said. I glared at the both of them to shut up.
"Yes." Travis said, almost kindly, but his voice still had a cold sort of tinge to it.
"Fine." Kaitlyn said standing up straight. "Whatever, you'll regret this Travis Stoll."
"Probably will, because you'll do something to make me regret it, am I right?" Travis asked.
"Correct." She said, a smirk upon her face. I shivered; it looked evil. With that said she turned and stalked out of the cabin her tousled brown hair blowing in the wind.
"So," Travis said, he adjusted his jacket, "what's new?"
I slapped him.
"OW!" He yelled, "What was that for?"
"I know you had something to do with all of the dead grass in front of my cabin." I said etending my arm out to point to it, and then for good measure (not just because I wanted to), I punched him. In the stomach. I could hear Lucy and Kristen stifling laughs behind me.
"It wasn't me!" he protested, I raised my hand again, he flinched. "Okay, okay, it sort of was." I raised an eyebrow at him. "It was Connor. When I went to bring you the fertilizer for your grass in the infirmary-"
"Do you realize how stupid that sounds?" I said, he ignored me-of course- and continued on.
"Connor snuck by your cabin, because well all your siblings were at the infirmary watching you and giving me death glares." I turned to look at Lucy and Kristen suspiciously, the only two siblings of mine in the cabin right now, they shrugged sheepishly.
"Whatever, just remind me to kill Connor later." He shrugged which I took as a maybe.
"So then?" He asked.
"So then what?" I asked.
"So then Katie would you like to be my date to the dance?" Travis asked, I won't lie; I almost fainted on the spot. But Kristen pinched me. Hard. In fact, so hard I yelled, "YEEEESSSSS!" which must have sounded like yes, because Travis grabbed my arm and pulled me out the door.
I waved bye to Lucy and shot a death glare at Kristen who didn't even see, because she had gone back into the cabin.
Lucy called out, "We'll meet you there in half-an-hour!" Then she turned and raced bak into the cabin.
I turned and focused on Travis who had grown quiet, "So, what's new with you?" I asked just to break the silence, "Pull any good pranks lately?" I immediately regretted asking, because Travis got that mischievous look in his eyes.
"Yeah, today we played one on Athena-" I interrupted him.
"Wait Athena? The goddess?"
"Yeah, dad came and got Connor and me and we pranked her. Told her Annabeth was pregnant-courtesy of Percy-then we told her they were engaged, she completely fell for it."
I couldn't help but smile, it was a good prank, but I couldn't let Travis know that, could I now, "Oh, that's cool." I said trying to sound disinterested, he brushed it off.
"Hey look, we're here." I looked up and gasped, the pavilion looked gorgeous. Streamers were strung from one end to another, Aphrodite's Cabin probably did that, balloons were floating around with no strings attached but they were staying in the pavilion area -courtesy of the Hecate Cabin- Apollo kids were DJing up on the stage, they were probably taking turns being the DJ, so they didn't start fighting about it…again. My cabin and I had grown flower vines around the stage and tables, I thought it looked pretty good.
The Hephaestus Cabin had made a beautiful fountain with designs from the Athena Cabin. Percy had started the water fountain up with his and I quote 'stupendous water powers'. Dionysus had just helped with little odds and ends since it was a cabin of one. Even Rachel had helped out by making most of the decorations and she supplied a lot of nice clothes for the cabins by going into the mortal world and buying us lots of clothing.
Chiron hadn't allowed the Hermes Cabin or the Ares Cabin to help out, for fear they would steal something, or just ruin it completely; I can't really blame him.
Nico told Rachel not to make everything so happy looking, then he told her that on average that a demigod dies every minute. She told him to go be his miserable little self elsewhere, or he would be one of those demigods that die every minute. He obliged and shadow traveled somewhere, that's pretty much how Nico helped.
There were about twenty-five other people there so far, including Percy and Annabeth. When they saw us arrive or actually Travis, Annabeth's eyes gleamed with anger and she headed towards us. Travis saw her and said, "Gotta go, see you later Katie!" I watched him run off, I shook my head and turned to face Annabeth.
Travis POV
I ducked underneath the table to hide from Annabeth's wrath, a hand grabbed me and I yelped loudly.
"Chilllll dude. Whatsss yur problemo?" Connor slurred, crawling under the table next to me.
I looked at him weirdly and said, "Annabeth's here! We have to hide! She looks ready to skin us alive!"
"Ohh thatssss cooooll. Howwss Kaitlynnn? Smokinn hot tanight?" Connor said.
Something was wrong, Connor should be screaming with me about Annabeth right now, instead he's slurring and asking about Kaitlyn. "She's good, but uh actually Connor um… I'm not here with Kaitlyn…" I said nervously.
"Ohhh that's cool man who are ya wit. Ya know yau smell good, like strawberries and applesauce, yummm applesauce."
"Dude are you okay? I'm here with uh Katie." I said nervously.
"Uh that's coo- Wait WHAT!" Connor jumped up, which was not a smart move considering we were under a table, him jumping cause the table to flip over spilling everything on it. Also revealing us to the camp, and more importantly Annabeth.
"Uhh ohh. But herrr. Reallllly? She not evvem hot!"Connor said.
The camp pretty much turned away when they saw that it was just Connor and me, probably figured we were playing a prank, the only people that came over were Katie, Percy, oh and Annabeth.
"Listen Annabeth, I'm sor-" Annabeth interrupted me.
"Later." She said waving me off. "What's up with him?"
"Nuthingg," Connor slurred some more before turning to me, "howww coullld you dooo this to mee? Take our enemyyyy to the dance, you might asss weel have asked a monsterrr!" Katie must have figured out he was talking about her so she slapped him.
"Owww! See what III meannn dudeeeee." Connor said, taking another sip of his punch. After he took a sip he said, "Thattts gooood stuff, it makes meee feel all pretttttty inside."
I looked at the others and saw Annabeth's eyes widen, she reached out her arm and knocked the punch out of Connor's arm spilling it, then she stood up and shouted, "Nobody and I mean nobody drink the punch! I mean it, go throw it out, somebody do it now!" Nobody around here disobeys Annabeth (except for Connor and me and sometimes Percy). Some campers immediately grabbed the punch bowl and threw it out in the garbage.
"Connor," Annabeth said cautiously, "how much of that did you drink?" Now Katie's eyes widened in realization too.
"You don't think?"
"Yeah," Annabeth replied, "I'm pretty sure."
"Okay," I said, "am I the only person who has no idea what is going on here?"
"Nope." Percy said, "I have no clue and I'm pretty sure your brother has no idea either."
Katie looked at us and said, "Somebody spiked the punch, Connor drank it and is now drunk."
"Oh" Percy and I said simultaneously.
Annabeth peered into Connor's eyes and said, "How much did you drink Connor?"
"Uhhh, whooo are youuuu? Youuu puretty gurllll." Percy looked ready to murder my brother at this statement, but thankfully or unthankfully depending how you look at it connor slumped over and fainted.
"I'm going to take that as a lot." Annabeth said. "Percy, Travis carry him back to the cabin and make sure he stays in bed, we'll be here waiting for you when you get back." Annabeth ordered.
"Fine." I grumbled. I picked my brother up by one arm and Percy picked him up by the other and together we dragged him back to the cabin.
The ride back woke up Connor and it was a good five minute walk back to the cabin unfortunately so we got to hear Connor talk, the whole time, "Ouchie! This hurts!" Then he started to sing, "If I joined the circus I would be a clown I would, if I could I'd wear a ragged coat-Ouch- and patches all around I would, if I could I'd-Ouch- paint my cheeks with bright-Ouch- red rosey polda…" And that was how the walk back to our cabin went. How he even knew the clown song, I don't want to know but I couldn't wait to tease him about this tomorrow.
After we had gotten Connor settled we headed back to the dance, unfortunately we were stoped. By Kaitlyn none the less, I waved Percy on.
"You sure?" he asked as if afraid she would kill me or something, I nodded my head and he headed on. Then I turned to face kaitlyn, yeah.
"So Travis," she said my name with distaste, "are you regretting dumping me?"
"No." I said truthfully.
"You should be."
"Well I'm not, so bye." I said and started to move on back to the dance.
"Wait." She said and grabbed my arm tightly so I couldn't move.
"What?" I said irritably.
"This." Suddenly she pulled on my arm and pulled me closer and kissed me. My head was spinning, I had no idea what was going on, my thought process was to pull away but her nails were digging into my back and she wouldn't loosen her grip on my arm.
"Travis?" An astonished voice came from behind me. "What are you doing?" Now it sounded really mad. Kaitlyn let go and I turned around to see Katie standing there, her skirt and hair blowing in the wind. Her mascara started to run and I realized that itt was because she was crying.
Kaitlyn turned to walk away and as she did I could almost hear the smirk on her face as she whispered in my ear, "I told you I would get my revenge Travis." Then walked away, I wanted to call her a bad name but I could only focus on Katie standing in front of me.
"Katie-" I started.
"Just forget it Travis. I don't want to hear the excuses, I come looking to find you and find you kissing her. How do you think that makes me feel? You pretty much treated me like I was nothing just now."
"Katie," I said growing angry, she wasn't even letting me explain myself, "that's not what happened."
"It's too late Travis I watched for ten seconds before you finally pulled away and that was because I said something, just leave me alone. I was looking forward to the dance and you just ruined it for me, I should've just gone alone like I was planning on." Then she turned and ran away, I didn't even have time to call out after her.
"Connor!" I called walking into the cabin, I knew he was up I could see the TV lights flickering inside.
"Whatss up?" The slurriness was starting to wear off somewhat but it wasn't that much better, at least he wasn't singing again.
"Where's the iPod and book at?" I asked.
"Why do you careeee?" He said.
"I did something bad and I need to apologize to her and I need music to do it, and the book had something on this."
"Uhh no wayy aree you giving herr our iPod, that was the 500th item we stole!"
"I'm not giving it to her idiot, just give them here." he tossed me the book and said, "Hold on I'm doing something on the iPod."
"Whatever." I said and opened the book. Here we go;
A Son of Hermes' guide to apologizing to his Daughter of Demeter girlfriend
There is no written accounts of any son of Hermes having any romantic relations with Demeter's offspring. Therefore we have nothing to tell you, we have some advice though;
Avoid plants
Avoid Demeter's other children
Avoid flowers
Avoid anything that grows
We the writers of Everything a Child of Hermes Needs to Know hope this helps you.
Well that was no use, I thought and closed it.
Connor threw me the iPod and said "It's set to a song you can use to apologize to her."
"Cool Connor. Thanks." I said
"No problemo." He said tossing his jacket on and heading out the door.
"Wait a minute." I said, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Out." He replied and dashed out the door before I could stop him, I shook my head and wandered out to go to the Demeter Cabin and find Katie; then find Travis and figure out what in Poseidon's ocean he's doing.
"Katie." I called when I reached her cabin.
"Leave me alone!" she called out.
"Sorry no can do." I said, "I have to apologize." I muttered the last part to myself.
I turned around and put the iPod and speakers down hooking them together. I hit play on the iPod.
It skipped right to the refrain not even playing the beginning of the song then it sang;
When you see my face hope it gives you hell hope it gives you hell, when you walk my way hope it gives you hell hope it gives you hell if you find a man that's worth the damn and treats you well Then he's a fool, you're just as well, hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell.
A window popped open and Katie stuck her head out, "Travis, what are you doing?"
I quickly kicked the speakers over with my foot and said sheepishly, "See my brother told me that he would pick out a good song to play in the background for me while I apologized and instead he picked this out, andwellI'!" I gasped out of breath.
Katie looked at me a small smile forming on her face, and said, "Travis I didn't understand one word of that."
I frowned and repeated, "I'm very very very very veryvery very very sorry, and I want to know if you'll go back to the dance with me?"
A real smile formed on her face now, "See now that I understood, and yes I will go back to the dance with you, on one condition."
I groaned and said, "What?"
"You didn't think you Stolls were the only ones with conditions now did you? And speaking of that, my conditions are; we go as friends-meaning no kissing, no handholding no lovey dovey eyes at me- and we stay away from Kaitlyn."
"That's two conditions." I said.
"Shut up Stoll, now do you agree?" Katie asked.
"I guess, though I'm a bit upset about the friends part though." I said.
"You'll live." was her reply.
Together we began to walk back to the danc, then an explosoion filled the sky and we heard Chiron's voice boom from the pavillion, "Ladies and Gentleman I give you tonight's fireworks, presented by the Hephaestus Cabin."
"Lights streaked across the sky and the fireworks created a message;
TRAVIS STINKS
CONNOR IS THE BEST PERSON EVER
I'm so going to kill Connor later, I thought as Katie giggled next to me. 'Yep' I thought, 'Connor is most certainly dead.'
So you likey? Here are the translations for Connor's Drunk talk;
"Chilllll dude. Whatsss yur problemo?"
Chill dude. What's your problem?
Ohh thatssss cooooll. Howwss Kaitlynnn? Smokinn hot tanight?"
Oh that's cool. Hows Kaitlyn? Smoking hot tonight?
"Ohhh that's cool man who are ya wit. Ya know yau smell good, like strawberries and applesauce, yummm applesauce."
Oh that's cool man. Who are you with? You know, you smell good, like strawberries and applesauce, yum applesauce.
"Uhh ohh. But herrr reallllly she not evvem hot
"Uh-Oh. But her, really? She's not even hot!"
"Nuthingg"
"Nothing."
"howww coullld you dooo this to mee? Take our enemy to the dance, you might asss weel have asked a monsterrr!"
"How could you do this to me? Tske our enemy to the dance. You might as well have asked a monster!"
"Owww see what III meannn dudeeeee"
"Ow, see what I mean dude!"
"Thattts gooood stuff, it makes meee feel all pretttttty inside."
"That's good stuff, it makes me feel all pretty inside."
"Uhhh, whooo are youuuu? Youuu puretty gurllll."
"Uh, who are you? You pretty girl."
So what did you think of the chapter? Was it good, bad, wonderful, terrible, great, trashy? You know… how was it? Review and tell me! Please!
I do not own Gives you hell or The Clown Song or PJO.
I started this chapter at 3:00 today and it's about 6ish now so that's pretty good, I think considering it's pretty long again (16 pages). That's pretty good for me! *Smiles go all around* So who's excited for summer? I am! It means LOTS OF UPDATING LIKE THREE TIMES A WEEK WOOO! WHOS EXCITED?
Alright I can't keep continuing this A.N. because I am SUPER HUNGRY it's 5:41 and my parents have yet to feed me, and I'm not allowed to make my own food because I've almost burnt our house down three or four times to many… it's still standing thank God! So maybe I'll tell you about that in my next A.N.!
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Be prepared for the next chapter there will be'
Twice the laughs
Twice the pranks
Twice the book
Twice the drama
And of course;
Twice the tratie!
Peace love Annabeth,
~Wisegirl~
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