Adventures of Alexander the Great(er)

iii

iii. pranks

Four demigods sat at the fountain of New Rome, sweets were in Kaden, Imogen, and Chalie's hands and Mallory had her eyes closed. The morning was fairly warm and the four were hanging out, totally not skipping Latin class.

"Okay guess this one," Imogen placed a candy in Mallory's open hand and watched her pop it into her mouth, chewing.

"Yellow sweet tart," she said almost immediately after the candy touched her tongue and opened her eyes.

"How do you do that?" Kaden asked, amazed. "I can't even taste the difference between chicken and steak."

"Okay 1) that is really sad and 2) I can apparently make it look like my eyes are closed all the way when they aren't and I'm just squinting." Mallory laughed.

"You cheater!" Charlie yelled, standing up and pointed an accusing finger at Mallory, "I can't believe you!"

"Take one to know one, Mr. I Got The Exact Same Answers As You On This Latin Quiz, Wow What a Coinkydink. Who even uses the word coinkydink?" Imogen yelled at Charlie.

Charlie was about to respond, but got cut off by Jett running past them. "Hey if Alex come here cursing my name, tell him I went the other way. Okay bye!" Jett took the left path at the fork in the road, laughing as he ran. His black hair flopped into his eyes as he ran and he pushed it back. As he ran down the path towards the training pavilion he turned and yelled over his shoulder. "Oh! You guys should take out your cameras, too!"

Kaden, Mallory, Imogen, and Charlie watched Jett run away, confused looks on their faces. Everyone in camp carried cameras with them for times when Jett pulled one of his infamous pranks. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to blackmail Alex, the group pulled out and turned on their cameras while they talked.

"I wonder what prank he pulled this time," Imogen asked. She thought of the time he put hot sauce in her ketchup and when he drenched Kaden in syrup. "I hope it's good."

Mallory thought of the pranks he pulled before. Him taking off her eyebrows after she ate half of his candy stash was a prominent memory of his pranks. Also the time he drew sharpie words like 'hot stuff' and 'I'm so fire' Charlie's face after he accidentally stepped on part of the grape patch Jett grew in his room. "It's definitely not sharpie drawings or shaving off eyebrows, Jett wouldn't pull the same thing twice."

"Maybe he took some long lasting makeup from the Venus kids." Kaden suggested. Jett had just asked the child of Venus about the makeup yesterday. Kaden had told Jett how hard it was to get the stuff out. "Jett asked me about those and hasn't experimented yet."

"JETT!" They heard a shrill yell from down the path. The 5 demigods turned their heads, trying to see which of their ideas was right. An angry Alex came into view and even from the distance they could see what Jett had done.

"Oh this is great!" Charlie laughed. Alex looked ridiculous. His once dark hair was now vibrant shades of every rainbow color and his eyebrows were gone. "See Mal, he did shave Alex's eyebrows."

"Where's Jett? I know you guys talked to him! You wouldn't have your cameras out if you hadn't!" Alex spat at them furiously. He looked ridiculous, spitting at them with rage while his hair was painted bright colors and his eyebrows weren't there. Even some campers that were walking by took pictures of the boy, laughing loudly. And Kaden could've sworn her heard jokes about rainbow brite, unicorns, and eating too many skittles.

"Did you do something different, Alex? I feel like something has changed." Charlie played dumb while trying to hold in a laugh. "Kaden doesn't it look like he did something different? I just can't put my finger on what it is."

Kaden looked him up and down, going along with Charlie's act. The others took pictures as the two talked. He looked down to his feet and gasped, "Alex did you get new shoes?"

Alex looked at the two and rolled his eyes. "You're all on clean up duty after war games if you don't tell me where Jett went in 5 seconds. 5, 4, 3-."

"Okay, okay, we'll tell you. I hate clean up duty." Imogen spoke up. She brushed the blonde hair out of her eyes and put her camera back in its bag. "He went that way," she pointed right, remembering the Jett asked them to tell Alex opposite of where he went.

After Imogen put her hand down he ran past the group to the left. While running he yelled something over his shoulder, "Imogen's on clean up duty!" As he disappeared down the path the group turned back to look at each other and Imogen crossed her arms angrily.

"How did he know I was lying?" she huffed angrily. Stomping away, muttering about how clean up takes forever. The other 3 demigods watched her walk away, laughing at her unfortunate fate.

Once Imogen was out of range Kaden, Mallory, and Charlie high-fived in triumph. "She should really make sure that we're all pointing the same way next time," Mallory laughed. While Imogen told Alex the wrong way, Kaden, Mallory, and Charlie stood behind the blonde and pointed in the other direction. Mallory tucked her hair behind her ear and looked back down the left path. "I hope Vinny or someone records Alex killing Jett, I'd be great in a birthday video or something."

"I hope someone records Imogen killing Jett for getting her clean up duty," Charlie says. "Poor Jett, he has to die twice today. But back to our previous discussion, I can't believe you cheated at the candy game! I really thought you were that good! You were my idol!" he exaggerated.

"Get over it," she shoved him playfully. "At least I don't cheat on my Latin quizzes! That's why your grade is so good, but you can't understand me when I insult you."

"You insult me in Latin?" Charlie gasps dramatically.

"We all do," Kaden piped up. "You don't get offended so we always do it. Now we know why you don't get offended."

"Oh I see how it is," Charlie dramatically walked off and the two chased after him, laughing and insulting him in Latin. "I know those are insults you losers!"