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I was a year rounder at Camp, go figures, I visited my mom some days throughout the year but at that point, CHB was so familiar to me I didn't feel safe anywhere else. Percy was coming down to camp earlier since he started the winter holidays earlier but I couldn't really care less, he visited my mom way more than I did to the point every time I went to her home he would be there with Aunt Sally. I had nothing against it. Aunt Sally brought blue cookies and sometimes even purple ones because purple was one of my favourite colours. (Unnecessary information but ok.)
Anyways Percy was supposed to be here soon. That's great yippee. But I had a major issue. My mom was in the hospital, she was sick, I didn't know what it was but it was serious, Percy said that he'd take me to the hospital when he arrived. I was pacing back and forth in the Hermes cabin to pass time and... I couldn't sit still.
The Hermes Cabin was considerably cleaner than when I first moved in. It was also quite stuffy here back then but times change, people move, they get claimed, people die, people (me) get forgotten. I'm babbling. So as I said, I was walking back and forth until someone called my name. Obviously, it was a trick, I heard Connor and Travis call out, living in the Hermes cabin for about half of your life you'd think I'd know better but I don't.
"Elena come out. Percy is here." One of the brothers called.
"I'm coming!" I shouted back, putting on a pair of shoes.
I had just gotten to the door when it happened. So obviously let me explain, the door was very not closed (does that make sense?) but I'm blind to the fact that a large pail was on top of it wobbling precariously as I flung it open
"Finall-" I didn't get to finish because as the door opened down came the bucket falling on my head showering me with flour. I threw down the bucket, flour falling gently to the ground, that was probably the most gentle thing about me at the moment as I glared at the Stoll Brothers calculating which one to murder first. Laughter erupted from various sources as I ran towards the Brothers, mind you, I'm not the fastest runner or the steadiest, I think I managed to catch up pretty quickly. I grabbed them by their collars trying to drag them to take them up to Chiron to be punished before I murdered them.
"Hey Ele- what happened here?" Percy. Perfect now he shows up. He looked me up and down. He must have figured it out pretty quickly because he started laughing along with the other campers. This was not the first time I was pranked but it did get pretty embarrassing, over the years all of the campers were hijacked by the Hermes Cabin at least once so, over time we gathered a lot of nicknames such as Toilet Water (take a guess), Salt Fish (I can't eat fish anymore), Paper Skeleton (Nico said it was amusing!) and now...
"Hey Flour Girl need some water to rinse off?" Percy said, wheezing slightly. I nodded grumbling as Chiron came down to see the commotion. Percy bought up a bubble of lake water as it burst over me and the Stolls. I got cleaned pretty quickly but it was obvious the Stolls weren't expecting that as when the water stopped, they came out sputtering water. Chiron looked expectantly as I mouthed to Travis.
