A Chaotic Camping Trip! (Hermitcraft 8 Highschool AU)

Chapter 10 - Flowers and Ferns

"I'm sticking my head in that!"

"GRIAN NO!"

"Did you bring a change of clothes at least?"

"Of course he didn't. This is Grian we're talking about. He's only responsible in front of adults."

"The more adults trust you, the more you can get away with!" Grian grinned as he started to walk towards the waterfall at least a little more carefully.

The ground was wet and mossy, making it super slippery. The stone wall next to it was enough to balance mostly safely, but the most falling would do was scraping your knee and soaking your clothes in the pool of water below anyway.

"Alright, small groups at a time can get behind the waterfall. Just be careful and don't slip please, we didn't bring extra clothes for the walk back." Xisuma announced.

"Also for eating, please pick up your trash!" Joe added. "We have bags to carry trash in if you need."

"Enjoy your flight! And thank you for choosing Hermit-Airlines!" Cleo announced formally, mocking the two leaders.

The group that heard it laughed or stifled one, and Ren gave Cleo a high five, to which she bowed dramatically after.

Xisuma sighed, but smiled, and let the hernits all run off in different directions. Mumbo, Iskall, Scar, and Cub followed Grian towards the waterfall a little more cautiously and Xisuma chuckled. It seemed like the two groups had gotten over their business rivalry a year back.

Hypno and Wels were walking around the rocks they could, trying to see how far they could get before one inevitably fell on a wobbly stone or slipped on moss. Meanwhile, xB and Jevin were skipping stones, and Wels had called it an extra challenge when one got a little too close to his face as he was balancing. Hopefully the med kit had bandaids when one eventually fell.

"Pearl," Gem whispered, nudging her arm.

"Huh?" Pearl looked at Gem with a raised eyebrow. Gem slyly tugged her arm in a direction, and the two slipped away from the group unnoticed before everyone separated. No one probably cared, because they were all doing their own things, but sometimes being extra sneaky was fun. In all fairness, this was a secret too good to let spill so easily either.

"What is it?" Pearl asked.

"Those flowers!" Gem continued to whisper. "They're the same from the small patch back at camp, the ones that glow in the dark. They're everywhere here!"

"Woah, I bet that looks incredible at night then." Pearl scanned the area, and tried to imagine what it would look like.

"Yeah, too bad the camp is so far away. I think X might explode if we asked to leave at night." Gem said in a hushed whisper.

"Hey guys!- er, girls! What are you two whispering about?" A voice sprung up behind and they both spun around, faces with guilty smiles.

"Uh nothing!"

"The weather!"

They said at the same time.

"Uh huh, sure." Impulse chuckled.

"The weather is so nice-" Gem said, going with Pearl's excuse.

"Nothing out here!" Pearl said, going with Gem's excuse.

They both internally facepalmed.

"C'mon guys spill! I wanna know the gossip." Impulse pleaded, dropping his shoulders and clasping his hands.