Eyes

"I can't believe you Travis!" Katie said stomping out of the laughing Hermes cabin with milk dripping from her wet ponytail. A hysterical Travis followed close behind her.

"Oh come on Katie!" he said holding his sides. "You have to admit that it was a little funny. The milk was supposed to go with your obsession with cereal." She shook her head and kept walking. "Really Katie, you need to learn how to get a sense of humor!" She abruptly stopped walking, like she had been electrocuted, almost making Travis bump into her. She slowly turned to face Travis.

Her eyes were shrunken into slits. You could no longer see the whites of her eyes. Her eyes as green as grass, were now darkened into a shade of green that could be easily mistaken for black. Her nose was scrunched up like she smelled something foul. Her lips were set in a thin, hard line. She was breathing slowly, trying to calm herself into not hitting him.

"Funny?" she spat out the word. "You find humiliating me in front of your entire cabin funny? You embarrassed me in front of everyone!" she said trying to sound mad. Against her will, her voice cracked at the end. She quickly turned back around and started stomping away. Travis followed like a lost puppy.

"Katie calm down! Why are you getting so worked up about this? I've done worse you know!" he said. She spun around so quickly, milk droplets from her ponytail hit him in the face.

"I honestly don't know, Travis!" she said. "Maybe I'm just tired of you doing all of this to me. Maybe I'm tired of you humiliating me!"

"It was just a joke, Katie," Travis whispered.

"A joke?" she said slowly. "No, that was not a joke. Jokes are supposed to be funny. What you did was not funny. Every little joke you've ever done to me was not funny. You think that you're a little harmless boy just doing pranks, but let me tell you, you aren't funny. You're just mean." Even though she wasn't yelling, the sharpness in her voice made him flinch. Katie turned back around and stomped back to her cabin. This time, Travis didn't follow. Travis just stood there where she left him, acting like he just got slapped in the face.

Katie sat in the woods after she washed up from the incident with the milk. Her hair was still a bit wet from her shower. She sat leaning against a tree playing with her cuticles. She was so mad at Travis. He really didn't care about her feelings at all does he? The dryad in the tree thought it would be funny to drop a bunch of leaves on Katie. It was like it was autumn, in the middle of summer.

"Stupid dyads," Katie mumbled while picking leaves that were sticking to her wet hair. For that comment, she earned a bunch more leaves in her hair. She took a deep breath. Today was not her day.

All of a sudden, she heard a bunch of twigs and leaves crunching behind her. She slowly got up and reached for her sword. She lifted it up, ready to fight. The crunches got closer. Katie readied her stance. The maker of the sound came from behind the tree and it was… Travis?

"Gods Travis! You scared me! I thought you were a monster!" Katie said, not putting her sword down.

"Sorry," Travis mumbled. "I was looking for you." Katie just nodded, still showing no emotion.

"Well you found me," she said.

"Yeah well, could we talk for a while?" he asked timidly. He looked at the ground and kicked a leaf aside. Katie sighed and put her sword away. She sat down against the tree and patted the grass beside her for him to sit.

"Well?" she asked. Her eyes were narrowed and her lips were set in a thin line.

"I umm- I thought about what you told me and I- could you stop looking at me like that?" he asked.

"Like what?" she asked.

"Like you're about to chop off my head and throw my remains to some hellhounds in the underworld," Travis said.

"Well I'm still mad at you," Katie said. But despite that, her glare softened into a hard stare. Travis exhaled nervously.

"Well, that's better- I guess," Travis said. Katie cracked a small smile and Travis relaxed just a bit more.

"Well?" Katie beckoned for him to go on.

"Oh right! Well, I wanted you to know that I wasn't trying to be mean," he said. "All of the pranks I've done before were just supposed to be jokes. I never meant to hurt you."

"Well you could have fooled me," Katie mumbled under her breath. Travis heard.

"I know, and I'm sorry. I just-"he paused, "The reason I do all of these pranks to you is because- I like you," Travis said.

"Wh-"

"Wait, let me finish, then you can beat me up," Travis said. Katie bit her tongue, nodded, and sat patiently. "I really like you. I-I get nervous around you. And when you look, or glare, at me with those big green eyes, I just- I forget how to speak. If it wasn't for pranks, you probably wouldn't notice me. I do pranks to you just so I can, I don't know, talk to you… or yell at you, either way. And I really like you Katie; I just wanted you to know that. You could yell at me, hit me, or tell me I'm lying but I just wanted for you to know the truth," he said. He sat waiting for her to respond.

Eventually, after Katie soaked all of this in, she looked up at him. She leaned in close enough to his face that she could see every little eyelash of his.

"You like me?" she whispered. He smiled. He stared into her green eyes, getting lost in them.

"Yeah," he said. She leaned in closer.

"Good," she said getting lost into his bright blue eyes. "Because I like you too." He smiled and she smiled back. He leaned in a bit more and closed his blue eyes. She also leaned in and closed her green eyes.

Eventually, their lips touched and they shared a wonderful kiss.

Well wasn't that sweet? REVIEW!

~ xhiddendreamx