The Gardener and the Idiot - A Tratie Fanfiction (ON HOLD UNTIL JUNE 20TH)

Chapter 25

Connor's POV
I groaned as I sat up on my bed. The cabin was dark, with the curtains drawn and not even a peep was heard. It was nerve-wrecking to say the least. The Hermes Cabin was usually the loudest one, filled with unclaimed kids or pranksters in action.

"Maybe its another prank," I tried to convince myself as I pulled the blanket off of me. The cold air hugged me as I slowly walked around the nearly empty cabin. "Wow guys, you almost got me this time. You can all come out now." I said quietly. When no one answered, I looked through all of the prank ideas under Travis's bed, wishing he was here with me right now. Who knows where he is these days?

A faint rustle was heard behind me, and I whipped around with a can of shaving cream, ready to shave the heck out of this person.

Karlos's POV (this is a new one)
I slowly eased myself out of the window as my cabin mates distracted Val. I didn't want to face her. Not now, not ever. That girl was really scary when she wanted to be. Or when she wanted something.

In my case, she wanted this potion. She had told me her fake sob story, weaving up her web of lies that I had found myself caught in, unable to get out. And now, I'm going to get dragged down with her and there's nothing I can do about it.

Chiron has been missing for days, and I've been around the Big House, peeking through the windows and trying to unlock the door.

I didn't want to be in this mess. If it were up to me, I'd confess to Chiron and get that Val girl in trouble. She deserves it. But unfortunately, Chiron decided its time to become a magician and just disappear.

Great. Just great.

I headed into the woods, ready to hide when I heard shuffling sounds and low groaning.

I slowly creeped towards the noise, hands ready to shield my eyes in the unfortunate case that it was just two campers going at it.

When I pushed through a few bushes, I saw two campers on the ground, one straddling another.

I shielded my eyes and exhaled. "Come on guys! Seriously? There are younger kids in this camp too!".

I peeked through my eyes to see the two campers staring at me with their eyes glazed over. One of them had red lipstick stains all over his face while the other camper started to get off of him, slowly heading towards me.

I put my hands up in surrender. "Wait! I don't want to do whatever you're doing! I just want to hide from Val! You guys get it, right?"

Their mouths turned up onto a grin as they slowly started coming towards me. I turned around and bolted. Kids at this camp were super weird, without a doubt.
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Just to clear up some confusion: Val is trying to find Karlos to make more of the love potion since it's going to wear off soon, but Karlos doesn't want to be involved anymore, so he attempts to hide from her and in the woods, where he finds two victims of the disease, one of them newly infected. He mistakes them as a pair of horny campers and runs away.

Questions for this chapter:
1. Do you think Val will find Karlos or get infected first?
2. What do you think the disease is called?
3. What's going to happen to Connor?

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