Geronimo! (Alaric)

[Kevin Cook]

No school like the old school Kevin thought to himself as he crouched down while on top of the Hephaestus cabin roof. His siblings were trying to pull elaborate pranks, but sometimes the best ones were the simplest ones. That's why he had a bucket of water balloons right beside him as he crept across the roof. The only hard part about this prank was getting onto the roof, but after that it was simple.

But now came the waiting. He crept over to the edge of the roof right over the door to the cabin. He was waiting for someone to come out and get showered by his water balloons. He heard the door creak open and he readied himself with his bucket. Once he saw a figure underneath him, he dumped the contents of the bucket down onto the poor unsuspecting person.

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There was no way to deny that the Hephaestus cabin was one of the emptier ones in the Camp. Alaric wasn't sure if he just didn't have that many siblings or if they just weren't at Camp right now or whatever, but he knew that he would find out. He was the new kid, there were many things to be discovered by him and that couldn't be accomplished by spending all of his time in the scaringly empty cabin. Putting away the parts he'd discovered and - how could it be different - started messing around with them, trying to build something that made sense.

He pushed his goggles up, so that they sat on his hairline as usually and opened the front door; just to get a bucket of water balloons emptied on his head. First Alaric didn't really know how to react, then he jumped back and let out a high-pitched screech before he realised that it was really just water balloons. Not something scary - like ducks or monster. Water balloons. He had to be the crappiest demigod ever and couldn't help but laugh before looking up to the person who'd given him a heart attack. "Was that a new kid thing or just random....?", he asked just because he wanted to be sure why somebody was pulling pranks on him. At least the guy on the roof was funnier than the guys in High School.

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[Kevin Cook]

The high pitch screech caught Kevin off-guard so much that he started laughing and hard. He caught a glimpse of the victim and saw it was a boy, but he never imagined that a boy would make that kind of noise. He set his bucket down as he wrapped his arms across his stomach. It was hurting so much from the laughing. Yeah, he totally gave away his position, but that really didn't matter at the moment.

He calmed just enough to hear the boy call up to him. He laid down on the roof and peeked his head over the side with a mischievous grin on his face. "More like I'm teaching my siblings how to prank properly. They don't understand that the simplest pranks are the best."

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One of those instances when Alaric noticed that he was still wearing his goggles because they were filled with water. He pulled them off of his head, together with shred of one of the the balloons. Apparently he didn't have to tell him that the prank was funny because he seemed to know that himself. Was it weird that he was relieved that it wasn't a thing because he was the new kid? Because that would have sucked.
A smile crept on his face, while the boy ran his fingers through his hair and giggled softly because the situation was pretty funny, he had to admit that. "Lemme guess... You're from the Hermes cabin?" It wasn't hard to figure that out because from what he knew by now Hermes was the god of pranksters. He was quite bad at remembering things excluding anything that included his tinkering, so he would have a hard time remembering all the gods. But well, Hermes seemed memorable. Maybe it was because he started with the same two letters as his dad. "And I wouldn't call this prank really easy, how the heck did you get up there?" He only now realized that there'd been someone on his roof for some time now and he hadn't realised... In the evening he'd check the chimney twice, no matter what his siblings would say.

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[Kevin Cook]

"The one and only," Kevin said with a wide smile as he pulled himself forward so his head and shoulders were over the edge of the roof. While he was up there, he admired the beauty of his prank. There was bits of balloon pieces all over and this target was soaked. Kevin quickly noted that the boy was kind of cute all soaked. Maybe he would have to pull another water-related prank on him soon.

Kevin smiled bigger when Alaric asked how he got up there. Truth be told, he found a ladder that was too short and had to scale the cabin the rest of the way to get to the room. "I don't think I should tell you," he said with a smirk even though the ladder was still behind the cabin. "I don't want you getting any ideas to prank me back."

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And this was about as much of a conversation Alaric needed to realise that the dude on the roof didn't plan on rejecting him. A fact that made him kind of happy because this was his home now. He wanted others to like him for once in his life. The smile on his face grew a bit more, if that was possibly and he shook his goggles in attempt to dry them though it just looked plain weird.
"By saying that you already gave me the idea to prank you back", he noted with a big grin on his face. Now he would have something to do... He wasn't a prankster, but he was an inventor and he would come up with something. "But don't worry I will not climb on cabin roofs, I can't even climb on chairs without falling down and I don't think anyone would appreciate new kids falling from their roofs", he explained and took a few steps back, away from the front door to take a closer look at the dude on the roof. "I'm Alaric Oswald, by the way, just in case you wanna add me to your 'people who scream like banshees when pranked'-list or something." Yep, he was talking too much. Nope, he couldn't care less.

[Kevin Cook]

"Oh really?" Kevin chuckled as he cocked an eyebrow at the boy down below him. "I would like to see that happen. I haven't been pranked by a Hephaestus kid before." He pushed himself up to his elbows before he decided he enough of this roof business. He stood up right as the boy introduced himself.

"Alaric, huh?" he asked as he gauged the jump before he jumped off the roof onto the ground next to Alaric. He steadied himself before he straightened up and brushed himself off. He grinned at the boy before extending his hand. "And you can call me Kevin Cook, the one who made you scream like a banshee." He chuckled to himself, liking the double-meaning of it.

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"Oh, Sir, that's because you're lucky", Alaric stated and cursed himself in his head. He was bad at pranking people because he'd always been the victim of pranks and when he acted as if he'd pull the greatest prank ever he'd just end up embarrasing himself. But he didn't have much time to worry about that because as he introduced himself, Kevin suddenly leaped down from the roof and landed next to him causing him to screech once more and stumbling a step back. At least he managed not to fall over.
His introduction made Alaric blush in a bright red color and he it took him almost a minute until he noticed that he was awkwardly being silent while Kevin had extended his hand. Instead of doing the thing most people would have done - like shaking his hand or something - he put his own hand up and high fived himself, something he'd picked up home with his best friend. "Now you made me scream like a banshee twice and I-" Nope. Stop. Talking. What the hell!? He'd been about to say that he wouldn't mind if Kevin made him scream like a banshee again. No. Just. No. "Maybe I should just call you Kevin Cook the guy who made me wet." Gods. He had to stop talking for real because this was getting beyond awkward.

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin smirked to himself as he managed to make Alaric shrieked again. He wondered to himself that shrieking would happen in a different situation. Like a situation involving a bed. He chuckled to himself at the idea as he looked at Alaric. He didn't fail to notice the blush on his cheeks, which caused the smirk to widen just a bit. He chuckled again once Alaric gave him a high five instead of the handshake he was going for.

"The guy who made me wet?" he repeated as he let out a loud laugh. "I know that's what all the girls call me." He gave Alaric a wink for extra measure so the boy knew what he meant.

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This was totally getting out of hand and it was awkward and the fact that Kevin flirted with him made everything even more awkward. Next thing he knew was that he looked the other dude up and down. Alaric had to admit that he really was hands-. That he really had to stop thinking about that. He wasn't sure if he was straight but he'd really prefer that so he shouldn't be thinking like that. His cheeks were still hot from the blush, hot and bright red. He fidgeted with the strap of his goggles.
And the next statement and the wink was too much for Alaric, he opened his mouth and closed it again, not really knowing what to say. A few syllables that didn't form real words escaped his mouth and he tried to think straight. Or at least think. "R-right... I should get changed." Of course he liked talking to people and making friends but this was ust totally awkward and embarrasing and he didn't know how to deal with this kind of conversation so he quickly went back inside his cabin. "S-see ya around." Hopefully. One last look at the son of Hermes before he slammed the door shut and leaned against it from the inside. "Oh. My. Gods", the boy numbled to himself and closed his eyes for a few second.

Kevin Cook

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin raised his eyebrows as he noticed that Alaric seemed to get very flustered all of a sudden. Kevin was about to make some sly comment about it when Alaric made an excuse to go change and immediately slammed himself into the cabin. "Well... see ya," Kevin said to the door, a little disappointed. He stuck his hands in his pockets and started walking around to the backside of the cabin. He still had that ladder he had to put away before anyone was any wiser of where it went. As he collapsed the ladder and picked it up, he glanced the cabin one last time. Maybe he would have to prank Alaric another day.