I was nothing but lonely, and I needed something new. Annabeth could tell. She was really nice about it too. It wasn't either of our faults, we just lived different lives.
Chiron allowed Annabeth and I on Saturday nights to have sleep overs. It helped keep our nightmares in check. But once we were over them, we kept it up. But now we weren't together. And it was one of those nights where I was just feeling really lonely and- being young still, a little... bored, if you catch my drift. So when I finally slept, I dreamed.
I was in a canyon. A guitar was playing, and it was echoing of the walls making the rocks feel alive. I felt something building in me, like a fever. And It just kept building, but I never came and I woke up.
This kept on for several Saturdays. The same dream. Do you know what it's like, all revved up with No place to go? Finally, one steaming night, I'm tossing I'm my sleep. And in the middle of a red-eyed dream, I saw him coming, and he was coming on to give it to me. Something shifted in me. And I needed to know him.
So like a son of a jackal, I went on the prowl to the arena. And he was like a dream come true. We were two lonely people. And I felt the fever grow. And this went on for a couple more weeks, every Saturday sill having that fever pitched dream. Then I got the prophecy.
I knew he liked to go to the forest this time of day, so I was a hunter in the dark of the forest. I stalked and tracked him down, cruising up and down the main creek. When I finally found him, I asked him to go to the beach with me. To stand at the top of the world instead of sinking further into the mud. But he told me to go hang with Annabeth. I don't think he realized we had broken up, she and I still hung out almost as often as before. We went round and round about my evening plans. Someone's got to draw first. I'm gonna have to draw first blood. I'm the one out on the prowl. He's my dream come true, and that dream is just gonna continue every . I felt the fever grow, and I was so revved up again. I told him we were gonna hang out and that's that.
He caved and we went to the beach. We talked, and made it back to my cabin. And that fever that got me all revved up with no place to go, was spent.
