Scout Polly

Polly had finished some concerts last weekend and she was able to watch her sister’s squad videos that she had missed premieres on. She invited her squad over to react to Saturday’s content. She had first watched a video from the Rock Squad about the Rockerton challenges that they had done. What she found interesting is that the four letters are the same as her sisters. The squad name and the challenge’s name. She found that unique in a way and that her name seemed special in a way. She thought that either Piper or Emily would win, Jamison thought that Elliana would win, and the rest thought that one of the rock members would win, but Jamison was right and the person she chose won. Jami was a fan of Elliana due to her dancing and the way she can flex her back.

After Piper made a video about the scouts, Polly wanted to do the same thing, so she asked her sister what to do and some ideas. She would use the Squad World play area due to it has two areas of play. When the group arrived, they immediately went to the area without even saying hi to anyone which surprised the cooks. After talking to Piper about the suggestions, they started making a video.

First, Polly had teamed up with her bestie and the other girls and Duncan teamed up with his new bestie, Cody, and the other boys. They did a race to see who would get fruits and sticks first. They had a total of 99 seconds. After the time was up, Jamison had the most items so her team won the first round.

Then, they had to make a poster in ten minutes. Piper was the judge instead of Frank because he wouldn’t be fair to them. The winner was Jamison and Polly; they didn’t have any words misspelled, and Piper chose them as the winners.

The next challenge was to do good deeds. The time was ten minutes longer than when Piper did it. So some had helped to pay for the food for the customers and Jamison helped with putting the buns on the patties and filling the cups with a drink of the customer’s choice. The cooks thanked Jamison’s group for helping them with their work and making the process quicker. The same goes for the ones that paid for the orders. The customers were shocked but excited at the same time that they’d saved a bit of their money for that 20 minutes. A total of 178 orders were paid off in the 20 minutes and over 500 burgers and drinks were put together in also that amount of time. The winner was determined by how much they did in the amount of time that they did with each of the stuff they did. Hunter counted how many times a person gave money or helped the cooks with the food. From the data, Jamison’s group had paid 60 orders and the other group had paid 118 orders. So, Jami and Polly had won the challenge and got a few bucks for it and badges.

Since the day was almost ending, they decided to finish the challenge the next day and instead for today to go camping. Polly made this decision and she used the sticks from earlier for the fire to be. The tents were part of the area so no one had to get extra tents unless anyone wanted to invite anyone to the camp. Piper decided to stay for a while in case anyone needed any further guidance. Piper had said stories about what some of the members did in the past. Then she left after the group got sleepy and went to their tents. She told them that she would return at noon for the last challenge to do and announce the team winner  Polly had a prank that she was thinking about while she was sleeping.

The next morning, Polly woke up early and woke everyone else up. She told the group about the prank and she told Harry to take them home to get the prank started. They had about five hours before Piper shows up so they had plenty of time.

They snuck into Piper’s house to get the food for the challenge. The cookies were made by Emily and some candy was from Cameron. Cameron was told by the squad that the Pollyinators were going through the same challenge and he gave some of his candy back to Piper for the challenge. With the help of Hunter and Tiffany, they took the food away without Piper noticing and put them all in the van. Polly thanked everyone for their help and they left to sell the snacks. They had to however find a way for Piper to not know about the missing food. But, Hunter told her not to worry and he had that under control. Polly was relieved and the group went back to Squad World. Polly’s team made a stand there while Duncan’s group went house-to-house starting at the same street. In the 30-minute time limit, all of the food was gone by only 25 of the time, so they thought they had won. After the 5 minutes were up, Polly’s group returned to Squad World to receive the overall results.

It was 11 o’clock when the challenges were all put on a chart, and Matthew was about to announce the winner when one of the cooks noticed the jeep and told them to hurry up. Matthew reviewed the data and he announced the winner was Jamison’s group. The other group cheered for them as Piper had come for the results.

“What’s so funny?” Piper asked in curiosity.

“Oh nothing,” Polly lied. “I just laughed at a joke that Jamison made up that’s all.”

“Ok,” Piper chuckled. “What was the joke?”

Polly then studdered to think of a joke. “Um, about why was 6 afraid of 7 and it 8 9, I mean 5 afraid of 6 because 7, 8, 9.”

“I already know that one,” Piper said raising an eyebrow. “That joke’s too old.”

“Well, it’s still a joke right?”

“I guess. Well, anyway y’all ready for the last challenge?”

“Yes!” exclaimed all of the group members. “We're ready!”

Piper then told them what they were going to do, which the group had already done. Piper went to the back of the jeep to get the food. But when she unwrapped the box, she saw that there were no snacks and she freaked out. She asked Hunter what had happened, but he just shrugged his shoulders which didn’t help change her feeling. She walked back to the group to tell them about the missing snacks, but she saw that they’d already found a winner and was very confused and disappointed.

“What’s this?” she asked looking at the data. “So y’all just did this without me?”

“Maybe,” Polly snickered. “The winner is Jamison’s team, so you can give them the award and give us the special consequence.”

Piper then facepalmed and then looked back up in anger. “I’m the judge and I make the rules. How dare y’all just do me like that! Where did you get the food from huh?”

“Um.”

“Y’all took mine didn’t y’all?”

“No, we had our own.”

“Are you sure? Because I don’t have any of the snacks in the box.”

“We’re positive!”

Piper had somehow then caught Matthew filming her reaction and he was busted. He tried to lie out of it, but Piper knew that she was pranked, and Matthew admitted it and explained everything that had happened that morning. Piper was still not amused at the group taking the snacks and taking over the last challenge, but she was happy that they had fun and that the winner would enjoy their gift. The other team’s consequence was doing 100 push-ups. Cody did that in style and kept at a good pace and bet everyone much to Duncan’s annoyance due to the latter boasting about it. The other members had done between 30-56 push-ups until they gave up. Cody blew raspberries at the losers and he thanked the judge for the punishment.

“I’m gonna start exercising again due to this. Thanks, Pipes!”

“It’s not a problem Cody,” his judge responded. “Ok y’all, that's it for the challenge! I hope y’all had fun with the awesome challenges that we did yesterday and today!” Then she raised an eyebrow and went close to Polly. “Despite that little prank that was pulled and I didn’t take over the last round.”

“Yeah sorry about that,” Polly said quietly and shook in the process. “I promise it’ll never happen again.”

“I’m not mad at you,” Piper smiled. “I was just surprised that y’all would do something like that.”

“Well, when you are in prank mode, you don’t know what’s going to happen!”

“True,” Piper exclaimed. “My friends never know what’s going to happen when they come in.”

“Is there a time when they don’t get pranked?”

“Yeah! Do you think that we just prank each other every second? It would be a bit boring and weird if we just prank each other 24/7. I wouldn’t be hanging out with Emily as much as I do and I and Lev wouldn’t be dating if we just are pranking each other nonstop. We are family and a strong one at that.”

Jamison joined in and changed the subject. “Piper, I just love how y’all have helped the community in that scout video. Y’all gave people food, y’all did good deeds for them, wow. We really don’t have that many people our age that do this stuff nowadays. All they do is get on their phones and either do nothing, have attitudes towards others, or just don’t care about anybody but themselves. But you Piper are a legend and are a positive example of what teens should be. You have a very good heart and you always make people feel good about themselves. I’ve listened to your newest song on repeat ever since it came out, and I’ve been talking to Polly about how people shouldn’t be making rumors about y’all and sending hate for no reason. They should instead be showing appreciation to y’all for doing good in the community even if it's just in a small area. I’m so proud of you Piper for everything that you do!”

Piper loved the kind words. “Thanks and the hate doesn’t really bother me though. Keeps me in the algorithm!”

“Same thing that Polly was told.”

Jamison’s mom Laura had heard of what her daughter said and was also pleased about Piper.

“Right, and those donations will definitely help in the long run! I’ve also seen older videos where y’all helped out others and gave snacks and I just can’t thank you and the squad enough for just being here for others and other teens should do the same thing. Even if it’s simple as helping someone lift a heavy item to someone’s vehicle or giving out a friendly gesture, you're putting a positive light into this dark world. I really hope that what y’all do doesn’t die out ‘cause we totally need young people like you to help spread the power of love!”

Piper smiled at the comment. “Right? Well, we ain’t stopping that anytime soon. It feels so good to like help people around us!”

“This is why we love you so much, Piper!” Jamison exclaimed jumping. “Keep it up!”

They then gave Piper a huge group hug and took a picture with her. Rachel wanted to add this to her podcast titled, “Teenagers should help the community.” She would talk about Piper’s girl scout video and summarize it along with reasons why other teens can do the same things. Piper loved the idea so Rachel wrote the title in a notepad on her phone. Then Piper and Lev had to leave due to her group winning her challenge and she had to go to a special place to donate the money to the organization. Jami felt like she had taken a lot of time away from the donation

“Sorry Pipes, we didn’t mean to interrupt that.”

“It’s fine,” Piper said. “We have plenty of time to give away that. There’s no rush.”

The Pollyinators had said bye to the bigger group while they were getting packed up to return to the Pebble residence. They once again thanked the employees for letting them use the play area and then Harry drove the squad back to their houses.

When Polly returned home, she couldn’t stop thinking about the prank she pulled on her sister. “Her reaction was so priceless,” she said to herself. Then she wanted to know exactly what Rachel’s podcast would be about, so she walked upstairs and saw that Rachel was making a script.

“Hey Polly,” she said. “So, I decided to move the podcast to August as an appreciation event for your sister’s birthday on the 21st.”

“Good grief,” Polly reacted. “It seems like she was just 14 like yesterday, and now she’s turning 15?” She then did a gesture symbolizing that she would be able to drive since she would be old enough to get her permit. “Lev will be a good instructor. He mastered the test and impressed Jenna!”

“He did!” Rachel replied. “Now it is his turn to teach her. I hope she does well!”

“Me too. I mean, she has a bestie bond with Emily and Lev is her boyfriend, so it's definitely a win right there!”

“Sure is! Imagine that!”

After talking about Piper’s 15th birthday, Polly then helped Rachel with planning what to say in the podcast. The rest of the day, they were both tired from the consistent writing and then ate dinner and went to sleep.