"You understand me, children, right?"
The Demeter children shuffled their feet and looked to their counselor in expectation. Katie wondered how this all ever happened. That's right, when Nico and Will got together with some godly help. She didn't mind the duo getting together, in fact, she was on of the many followers of the Demigod Solangelo Club. What she didn't mind was what happened while that occurred. The Demeter cabin has a hole in the roof and their mother was getting moody about Persephone and Hades again. All the Demeter children were gathered inside the cabin to check on the damage when Demeter came in.
Katie sighed in exasperation. "Mother, we completely agree, but please hold of this problem of yours for a different time. Please? I need to concern about the Demeter cabin's roof."
Demeter huffed and waved her hand towards the hole in the roof. The green grass started to move as if they were growing. The 5-foot diameter hole immediately disappeared with only the wood being the missing part.
"There, it's practically fix! Now help me!" Demeter pouted and crossed her arms in impatience.
Katie stared and the roof and shook her head. "Mother, we need to fix the wood, too. Now, we'll just fix it by oursel-"
HONK!
Katie took a step only to find a bike horn on the floor, it was moved with her foot and a well-concealed string became visible. Katie looked at the strain gliding the wall and up to the roof's hole. The clank of metal was heard and white flour steady flowed down from the holes with in the grass on the roof. As if by some unknown force, a couple of fans that were left in the corners of the cabin roared to life and the flour flew through the cabin. All the Demeter children and Demeter her self were hit with a gust of white.
"TRAVIS!" Katie growled loudly as she covered her eyes from the onslaught of the grind wheat.
Laughter roared from outside the cabin and Katie made a run for the door. There stood the Stolls in all their prankster glory with other Hermes children behind them. Katie glared at him and stretched her hand out to him. She willed the grass to keep them still and soon the pranking children were stuck in place by grass wrapping around their ankles.
Travis huffed with a grin still on his face. "Awww, c'mon Katie! That was an awesome prank!"
Katie glared at him. "We have to worry about this hole, not you're pranks, Stolls. Now I'm going to let you go and don't bother use for the rest of the day or you'll be finding plants in all the wrong places."
Travis and Connor were still snickering about the prank, but nodded to the deal. Katie called off the grass and the Hermes kids headed back to their cabin with loud whoops and cheers. Katie sighed in frustration and surveyed the mess. Demeter was staring at her ever since her conversation with the Stolls and the kids were moving around and cleaning the place as best as they could. Katie decided to ignore her mother and went on telling the Demeter kids how they were going to get all this flour out of the cabin.
"Miranda, go get some more feather dusters from Chiron or some other cabin. Half of us will clean the beds and their sheets. The other half will split into two groups, only will clean all the dressers and the other half will sweep the floor. Don't bother with spots that are too high, just ask someone else for help. I'll grab a trash can so we can sweep the flour into somewhere. We'll probably be washing the sheets tonight. I'll go ahead and grab the trashcan now, you guys do your jobs okay?"
" Okay," the Demeter cabin chorused and set off to work.
Demeter blinked. "Oh."
"Oh, what?" one kids asked.
A smile creeped up to her face. "Oh."
Another one of her children looked at her strangely. "'Oh', what mom?"
"OOOOOHHHHHHHHH."
"Mom, why are you saying oh?!" the kids huffed in irritation.
Demeter smirked at her kids. "Katie likes that Travis boy, doesn't she?"
THUD! BANG! CRASH!
"Mom!"
"Who are you and what have you've done to our mother."
"Aphrodite, are you pretending to be our mother?"
"I guess they're almost as obvious as Solangelo."
"I have to admit, Tratie is pretty cute."
"Oh gods, we're turning to the Aphrodite kids! Soon we'll be painting out place pink!"
"It's the Aphrodite apocalypse…"
Demeter rolled her eyes and waved them off. "Nonsense! I am most definitely not Aphrodite. I am simply concerned with your sister's life, that's all. I must say, I feel like I ship it."
POOF!
"Did someone say 'Ship It'?" Aphrodite appeared with a wide grin on her face.
She had a giant chart right behind her with a teacher's pointing stick on hand. It was pink with a heart at the end of it. She had her hair tied up and fake glasses on to look serious. As serious as the goddess of love can be.
She tilted her head and gave Demeter a knowing look. "Let me tell you about Tratie."