This Tratie was asked for by a guest. I don't know your name, but I hope you like it!
"Connor!" shrieked Travis, bursting into their cabin. It was unusually empty except for his brother.
"Connor!" he yelled again, this time right in Connor's ear.
"What!?" Connor yelled back.
"It-It's terrible!" cried Travis. He was practically in tears. "I . . . I think I'm in love with Katie!"
"Uh, okay?" said Connor stupidly.
"No!" wailed his brother, "Not okay! Connor, I'm in love with enemy!" Travis slumped on the bed. "My life is over," he moaned into the pillow.
Connor rolled his eyes. "Katie isn't the enemy, Travis. I mean, the whole reason we annoy her all the time is because you have a crush on her, right?"
Travis gaped at him. "It is?"
"Well, yeah. Isn't it?"
"Well I wish someone had told me that!" snapped Travis. "Really, Connor, for this relationship to work, we have to communicate!"
"You're right," agreed his brother. "Maybe we should see a marriage counselor."
"Yeah. I don't want to give up on Us yet."
"Divorce would be so hard on the kids."
Travis gave a little laugh through his tears.
"What am I going to do?" he whispered hoarsely.
"Aww, wittle baby Twavis is in wove!" cooed Connor. "Leave it to me, my brother. I have a plan." And he grinned wolfishly.
"Hey, Katie!"
Katie gasped and spun around.
"Connor! What are you doing here?" she hissed.
"Well, do you mean 'here' as in earth? Because scientist aren't really sure yet."
"I mean 'here' as in my cabin!" said Katie, glaring at him ferociously.
"Ah, that . . ." Connor nodded in understandingly.
" . . . ."
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" . . . . . . ."
"Well?" Katie prompted.
"Well what?"
"What are you doing in my cabin?" she asked through gritted teeth.
"Oh, well, you see . . ." Connor rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "My brother's, uh, he's about to do something - nothing bad, I promise!" he added, noticing Katie's expression. "But I'd really like it if would just hear him out, okay?"
"Okay . . ." said Katie, crossing her arms suspiciously.
"So, just, come out here," Connor gestured for her to step outside.
Katie raised an eyebrow.
"Please?" he begged. Katie conceded with dignity and went outside.
In the center of all the cabins stood Travis, in his ratty camp shirt and jeans, on a large, raised marble dais. As Katie came out, the Apollo cabin picked up their instruments and started to play.
"Would you like to dance?" Travis asked nervously, holding out his hand.
"Sure," said Katie, startled.
Travis led her up onto the dais. There was some awkward fumbling while they tried to figure out where their hands went, until Connor had to come up and help. Then he stepped back and attempted to blend in with the shadows.
"So, is this a prank?" asked Katie as they spun in a slow circle. Neither of them could dance.
"Nope," said Travis, shaking his head. "Not a prank."
"Really? No egg whites in my hair or crabs down my shirt?"
"Nah, we can do that tomorrow," said Travis easily.
"So . . . What's all this for?" asked Katie curiously, and Travis flushed.
"Oh, ah, well, you see, the thing is, um, it's a funny story . . ."
Katie watched as he stammered. She saw Connor in the corner with his fingers crossed. She saw the blush on Travis's cheeks and how he wouldn't meet her eyes.
"Travis?"
"Yeah?" he asked nervously.
"Shut up." And then she leaned forward and kissed him.
Connor whooped.
Katie pulled back, her face almost as red as Travis's.
"Oh . . ." he seemed to have run out of words.
"Yeah," whispered Katie.
They just kind of stared at each other goofily, until Connor got sick of it.
Splash!
"Connor!" shrieked Travis as Katie spluttered. They were both soaked and shivering. Connor was cackling with an empty bucket in his hand.
"Get him!" cried Katie. She and Travis chased him all over the camp until they cornered him on a pier.
"You can go in the easy way or the hard way, brother," said Travis, cracking his knuckles.
Connor looked at his bother, then at the lake, back at his brother, and then he turned around, pinched his nose and dove into the water.
Katie barely had time to feel smug before Travis grabbed her hand and jumped off the pier too, pulling her with him.
She rose to the surface, gasping for air and wiping the water from her eyes. Connor laughed at her, floating lazily on his back. Travis yanked her ankle underwater. Katie yelped and dunked him. This led to a splash fight of epic proportions.
But Katie didn't mind. It was the most fun she'd had in a long time.
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