Katie bumped into Miranda on their way to breakfast.

Literally.

"Sorry about that," Katie apologized as she leant a hand to Miranda, who was on the ground.

Miranda took her hand and pulled herself up, saying, "No big deal." Katie gave a friendly grin and walked next to Miranda. Miranda couldn't help but notice that this event felt natural and comforting, as though Katie's always walked by her side.

"I think you might have squashed some flowers with your butt," Katie jokingly adds. "I wouldn't mind helping you plant some more flowers, if you don't, uh, mind."

Miranda laughs, even though she can't help but wonder why Katie's being so…so…Demeter-like suddenly. "Don't worry, they were weeds. But, we do need some help decorating some of the cabins outside."

"Isn't that like some huge Demeter cabin tradition?" Katie asked, referring to the embellishment of flowers around of all the cabins in honor of spring. "You wouldn't mind me screwing around?"

Miranda nodded and replied, "We always need some extra help. Besides, I've seen you in the strawberry fields; you have a very special connection to the earth. It's kind of weird. Are you sure you're Hermes' daughter?"

Katie shrugged as they walked into the dining pavilion, "He claimed me. Maybe it's you that's a daughter of Hermes!"

Miranda awkwardly chuckled before replying, "Um, that makes no sense."

Katie shrugged once more, grabbing a plate and handing it to Miranda. "None of this makes sense."

Even though it was a rather vague response, Miranda understood it. Katie's weird change, Travis's weird change, and how she felt Travis begin to lean away from her as Katie becomes closer to her.

"Well, have a nice morning," Miranda decided to say as she begins to fill her plate.

"Yeah, you too."

()()()()

"Is that a squirt gun?" Connor heard a voice behind him ask.

Connor was hidden behind a tree and he turned around. Oh shoot, Gardner caught him. Connor lifted his hands over his head after dropping the squirt gun. "You caught me! Just don't take my baby squirt gun away, okay?"

Travis laughed and picked the gun up. "I wasn't gonna report you or take it. Actually, do you have another one?"

"What?" Connor gasped.

"Do you have another squirt gun? They seem pretty sweet. Would you mind letting me-" Travis stopped speaking and positioned the squirt gun at some Aphrodite girls then sprayed them with what looked like water.

"My hair!" they all screeched before running off. Travis and Connor laughed and Connor high fived him.

"You have amazing aim! Here, I have another one. It was for Katie, but she ditched me to go hang out with your sister," Connor said, revealing another squirt gun from underneath a bush.

"Thanks! What else do you have under there?" Travis asked.

Connor pulled some whoopee cushions and some water balloons yet to be filled along with some joke books. "It's not too much, but they're my babies. You're a lucky man, Gardner, only few eyes have even seen this treasure."

"Wanna go to my cabin and test these babies out?" Travis asked.

"Are you serious?" Connor questioned him. Travis Freaking Gardner wanted to go prank his own freaking cabin with him.

"Yeah. Besides, your sister Katie's over there. Wanns get some revenge for her ditching you, eh?" Travis said with a twisted grin, one that Connor often wore.

"I love you, man! I really do!" Connor answered, before embracing Travis. "It's like we're brothers from another mother!"

"Yeah, it is. C'mon let's go soak those bitches!"

"I love you."

()()()()

"Katie, how are you doing that? The daisies never respond to me like the way they're listening to you…" Miranda asked in awe.

Katie shrugged and said, "I have no idea. Pretty cool, huh? It's weird all I'm doing is touching the soil beneath them and they're like, um, talking to me."

Miranda shook her head in disbelief. "This is just…amazing. Hey Rosie, come check this out!" Miranda yelled over to her sister.

"Yeah?" Rosie asked, pulling Miranda aside. "What's Stoll doing to our daisies?"

"She's speaking to them!" Miranda answered. "Look, they're growing for her!"

Rosie's jaw dropped. "That's so weird. Are you sure she's not pulling some illusion?"

"I'm positive. Besides, have you seen her in the strawberry fields? She's a boss!" Miranda praised Katie.

"What the fu-" Katie cursed as she felt something hit her head before she soaking wet.

Miranda called out, "What's going on?" as a water balloon landed by her feet.

Rosie ran off to take cover from the foray of water balloons coming from the roof of their cabin.

Katie was soaking wet as long with Miranda, but at least some of the flowers got some water.

Once the ambush of water balloons was done, two figures hopped down from the roof and sprayed Katie mercilessly. "Stop it!" Katie demanded as the two figures cornered her against the wall of the cabin. "STOP!"

The spray died down as the water guns ran out of water, and once Katie realized it was safe enough to open her shielded eyes, she grimaced. "Connor! Travis! How dare you! I'm freaking wet!"

"Aw, I love knowing that I get you wet, dearest Katie," Travis shot back with a smirk. Connor smothered a laugh his sleeve. Miranda ran inside to get some towels.

"Well, screw you both!" Katie yelled and she tried to shove through them like in a game of Red Rover, but she failed.

"What we were only having some fun!" Connor objected. "No need to get that upset! Besides, it's a hot day. You needed to cool down a bit!"

"Yeah, because Katie you're smoking hot!" Travis said, realizing he had just said those words after they left his mouth. Surprisingly, he wasn't shocked. He felt like he always spoke like that.

"Oh, go step on a lego," Katie retorted, pushing Travis away. He caught her by the wrists instead.

Then, before he could tell himself not to, he fucking leaned in and freaking placed his freaking mouth of Katie's freaking lips. And she was freaking kissing him freaking back holy crap.

"Holy crap!" Miranda shrieked upon seeing Katie and Travis liplocking. She was more offended by the fact Katie was being kissed by Travis, rather than being shocked that her brother was making out with a freaking Stoll.

"Yeah, man!" Connor praised. Nope, he wasn't offended that his sister was making out with some goody two shoe. He was actually saw it as his brother making out with some goody two shoe.

And then, time stopped. Literally, nothing was moving nor were Katie and Travis.

Jill had been watching with a bag of popcorn. "Aw, cute. OTP for sure." Then Jill, reached into her pocket and pulled out a small book of Redo Spells. After finding the one she needed, she chanted a new spell. "There, that should fix everything. Thank gods, I just want everything to go back to normal. Here let's see if it worked." She snapped her fingers and time resumed.

Katie pulled away abruptly and slapped Travis's face, leaving a nice red mark on his cheek. "Try that again, Stoll and I'll rip your arm off!" she threatened.

Did she just call him Stoll?

"Oh come on, Gardner. You liked it. Here, I'll give you another one," Travis said, leaning in again before he was pushed away by Katie.

Did he just call her Gardner.

"Next time, I'll report you for sexual harassment if you touch my sister again!"Miranda gritted through her teeth.

Connor fistbumped Travis, "Nice one, dude!"

Jill shrugged. Yeah, everything was back to normal.

"You can be so piggish, Stoll!" Katie spat at him, but deep down she knew she didn't mean it. Travis knew she didn't mean it either.

Travis rolled his eyes and replied, "Look, I'm sorry. I feel like I know you or something, though. And you know me pretty well, it seems. I just figured YOLO and…" Katie was the one who leaned in this time.

After a ten second 'peck' Katie broke away, reminding herself that she had just been destroyed with water by Travis. "You're such an idiot," she told him, and then poison ivy began to come out of the ground and wrap around his legs.

"Um, Katie," Travis began nervously, feeling the ivy coil around his legs. "I'm sorry."

"Yeah, you better be," she laughed and then let the ivy sink into the ground. And then they just smiled at each other for a few moments before Travis walked off.

Katie looked at him a different way though. Much differently. So when Miranda said, "wow what a crack case" she couldn't help but reply, "No, he's not. He's perfect."

And Travis looked at Katie differently to the point that when Connor insisted Travis hook up with some other girl, Travis would reply, "No, Katie gets me."

Fin.

Oh my gods, I finally finished it. I know I've slacked off for a bit, sorry. Put your torches and pitch forks down though. I plan on making up for my bad hiatus by writing up some new material and adding to my other stories. Hehe.

Thanks for sticking around with this story, and please leave a review to say goodbye!

Goodbye!

(I don't own PJO or any of the characters, so please don't sue me, I'm just a teenager.)

:D

~Bubbles