"I will pat what I want, thank you," Irene replied with a cheeky smile, though she was eager to get to the trebuchet-ing of it all. "It's certainly the best trebuchet I've ever worked on, personally, even if it doesn't work."

It wasn't the pumpkins you chucked, of course. It was the (hot) friends (with benefits, and maybe inconvenient feelings) you made along the way!

But also. "But I'm sure it'll work," she added, a little hasty on that front.