Maddie was just positioning herself on a front-row branch and adjusting the lens on her camera when Wes wandered into the clearing with wet hair and in nothing but boxers.

"Yeah, that's good. Now give me a little attitude," Maddie said while snapping pictures.

"Oh, I'll get you for that," Wes said approaching the tree where Maddie was perched.

Maddie automatically climbed to a higher limb when Wes hoisted himself up near where she had been sitting moments before. He seemed intent on destroying the camera.

"Yeah that's good," She said climbing higher. Wes hastened to follow, but she was much more agile and experienced at climbing these trees. After scaling a few more branches. Wes found it wasn't worth the effort to try to follow. For every foot higher he climbed the further away she seemed to get.

"Alright, I'll let you off this time," he eventually announced.

"Oh, how sweet of you," Maddie responded sarcastically.

"You know, if you wanted pictures all you had to do was ask," Wes called up to her.

He half hoped she would deny it, or at least give him a blush. But he was sorely disappointed when she just laughed.

"Who says they're for me?"

"Well, who else would they be for?"

"Oh, I don't know. I was thinking they might make for nice blackmail, or I can post them on YouTube or something. That'd be interesting. I wonder how many hits you would get. I guess if all else fails I can always blow one up and use it as a dart board...hum, that would be fun."

"Alright, you do that," Wes said as began his descent. It was better not to indicate that any of that would bother him. It would just make her more likely to follow through with it.

"Hey, I thought you said it was time for dinner?" Wes added as an afterthought.

"Did I say that?"

"Yeah, you said Jim wanted us to come 'pronto...' Ah, I see now. A lie for dramatic effect."

"More of a fib I'd say. It's not my fault you're gullible. Besides 'pronto' should have been a dead giveaway."

"Right, I'll remember that for next time," Wes said.

"Next time?" Maddie asked.

"Oh, I'm sure you have something planned already. You've got to be on the top of your game if you want to mess with me."

"I've messed with you? You're the one that started it."

"Hum, I don't recall, was that me?"

"You can't have forgotten the hair already," Maddie said with an uncharacteristic flick of her hair.

"Oh, that was so yesterday," Wes said in a very bad imitation of a drama queen. He did get the accompanying hand flip fairly accurate though.

"Yesterday! It wasn't even six hours ago."

"Good point. How easily I forget," Wes said.

"You say that now."

Despite all of Maddie's tough talk, she had yet to find a suitable punishment after spending the entire evening and dinner brainstorming. She did have an impressive list to show for her effort though.

After dinner, she took her chance to claim the altered shampoo as her own when the boys were busy fighting over dessert yet again. Boys. More direct plans of revenge would need to wait until morning.

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