How to steal a heart

How to steal a heart...part 6!

Katie's pov.

I don't know why I'm still mad during breakfast. I've never been one to get jealous, heck I've rarely even liked a boy. I finish the rest of my food and start cabin inspection. Cabins 4, 6, 7, and 10 are spotless, like usual (Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite) but 3,5, and 9 need a little work (Poseidon, Ares, Hephaestus) but when I get to cabin 11, I pause. My eyes sting as I open the door. I'm immediately surprised when I walk in. It's...clean. Beds are made, clothes are put away, and no garbage is on the floor. "You like?" Travis asks me. "you win a world record?" I mutter. "What's the occasion?" "Oh, you know, just trying to impress the inspectionist." He says and gives me his smirk. "excuse me?" I scoff and run out...

I ask Miranda to finish inspection, and I run to my cabin. Luckily no one else is in there so, I sit in my bunk, letting the tears come. After a few minutes I hear a knock at the door. "Come in?" Valentina steps in. Great, just what I needed. "what do you want?" I ask, sounding ruder than I meant." "sorry its just-" "Katie it's okay. What's wrong? Miranda sent me here to help." "I think you've helped enough." I mutter under my breath. "what?" "you know what, don't play dumb," "Katie, I don't know what you're taking about-" "well you knew that I liked Travis Valentina! I trusted you and now you two are secretly meeting up? Am I just some joke to you guys??" my voice raises with every sentence another burst of tears come. Katie, Travis and I aren't meeting up, well technically we did once but that wasn't a date." She laughs to herself. "what?" "I told him I wouldn't tell you, or anyone for that matter, but we were meeting up because of you." "I don't understand." "I don't like him; he doesn't like me. He likes... you. That's why we met up. I gave him some pointers on talking to you. But wait, how did you know that we snuck out?" "Oh, I kinda followed you guys..." I tell her the story. "So, it wasn't a squirrel..." she says laughing. "uh what?" she laughs again. "nothing." Then it hits me. "Oh no." "What?" "the reason I was mad, it was Travis..." I tell her about earlier. "ohcrapohcrap." I say. "I didn't know! I thought he was being rude!!" "hey, it'll be okay... why you don't go find him? He's probably really confused." "yeah. And Valentina? Thank you." I give her a hug and run out the door...