I woke up and my cabin didn't notice, like usual. I did my daily routine, like usual, no one cared. I did this everyday until once I stopped to think in the strawberry fields. Did anyone care about me, no one noticed me. I was just Katie, in the background. No guy wanted to be with me, I had dry ugly hair and my grass green eyes no one noticed, I had thick eyebrows that looked horrible, my clothes were big and worn, my glasses looked horrible on me. I looked around, no one noticed I had stopped picking strawberries. When people ate these, they didn't stop to think, who grew these for me? No one cares about the outsider. I realized that camp didn't need me. Once back to my cabin, I packed my things, some clothes and all that, no one even looked at me. Once everyone was asleep, I wrote a letter to leave on my bed.
Dear, Whoever gives a fuck
I'm Katie Gardner and I ran away from this life, I'm starting a brand new one, one where I have people who care about me. I want a life where I don't have to scream just so people can hear a whisper. Bye camp, one thing I won't miss is Travis and Connor, constantly pranking me to no end. I can make my own business or something. I won't stay in the state. Maybe Kansas or Seattle. That'd be nice. It's probably like three years from right now, it's June 12th 2013, I hope someone remembers that girl who was in the background.
Love,
Katie Gardner, daughter of Demeter
I put the note on my neat bed and grabbed my bag and went to the border of camp. I looked back at it, so many memories. Ones that no one realized that I was there with them. I grew a Rose then put a spell on it. It could never die and the first person to touch it would remember me and figure out where I am. I grew it in the place I loved the most. Right next to Thalia's pine tree. I walked out the borders of camp.
It's been a year since I ran away and I went to Kansas where there was farm land for me to make a business. I started one and am very successful, we grow tons of different things. I make lots of profit off them. I've become rich. Aphrodite, my patron, gave me a makeover so now, I look beautiful.
My hair is now thick and has a pretty wave to it, I grew it so it's maybe 4 inches from my waist and is silky at all times. My eyebrows are plucked whenever Aph thinks I need it. I have no glasses now, no need for them. I have form fitting clothes that are also stylish. My teeth are now straight. I'm currently working on my farm alone. Did I mention that no one else works with me. Yeah I prefer it that way, I get more work done and can use my skills when I want to. Leaving camp was the best thing that ever happened to me. I felt so free, I never felt the need to have a boyfriend or anything like that. I finished farming for the day and went back to my cozy house. It was a two story and modern. The first floor had glass walls and partly the second floor did too. I could do what I wanted because I was in the middle of no where. When I needed to get food that I didn't need to grow or anything else like that I had a truck that I got from my first amount of money earned. I would drive in town.
I dicided to take a vacation and go see camp again, I would use the invisablity necklace Aph got me, of course. But I wanted to know if anyone found that letter, it had bugged me for the past year, I packed my things and put the plants on automatic growth until ripe then pick them into the huge baskets I had, I mean they were huge! And the growing would be about 100 per day so it wasn't much. I drove back to New York, when I got to camp I parked my car and pressed my necklace, when I looked down at myself, I could see a thing, I looked in the mirror, invisible, perfect. I got out of the car and carried my knife on my light pink skinny jeans. I walked into camp quiet, I looked at the rose by the tree, no one touched it otherwise it would've died. I walked to my old cabin, when a camper opened it I snuck in and looked at my old bed, nothing had happened to it, the letter was still there, covered in dust. I got angry, angry they didn't notice me, they didn't care.
I ran to the forest and to a clearing area. I pressed my necklace and screamed so much that around the clearing it created a dome kind of thing. It blocked me off from the camp that I used to love.
"SCREW THIS DAMN CAMP! IF THEY DON'T NOTICE ME, I'LL GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO NOTICE!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.
"I noticed…" a voice said, I turned and saw a pretty woman with dark blonde curly hair and hazel eyes, Aphrodite.
"I know and that's why you're the only person I love, not like relationship but like friends, you're my only friend, when I was down you were I only one to pick me up" I told her, she smiled and gave me a hug.
"I know a great way to get revenge, I'm going to make them notice me" I told her. She smiled.
"I could help with that" she told me with an evil grin on her face. We waited until it was dark. Just like the time I left. When everyone slept we went back to the cabins and I grew my name in vines on everydoor with a message.
Ignore me, then be locked up!
I then grew rose vines all around the doors making it hard for them to get out, I then made the message and my name never disappear even if they put up a new door, it would appear. I waited until one person woke up and they couldn't get out, it was from the Hermes cabin, I walked over to them. It was Travis Stoll.
"Who are you? Help me!" he yelled. I shrugged.
"So know you notice me… when you need help, that's all, funny" I mused.
"I've never met you before in my life!" he exclaimed. I raised one of my perfect eyebrows. After Aph gave me a makeover she died my hair to a almond brown.
"Katie" I told him, putting my arm in one of the holes in the vines.
"I used to know a Katie, she actually used to go here, she left though, no offence, but she was way prettier than you. I never knew what happened to her" I narrowed my eyes at him as he took my hand.
"Why don't you check her cabin" I told him and grabbed his hand then because I had the power over this, pulled him through the vines. He was half a head taller than me and his curly brown hair was messy, he had no shirt on, just pants, his blue eyes were wide and alert.
"How'd you do that?" he asked.
"I grew them, only the person who grew them could've known how to pull another out" I told him. Aph came up to us.
"Another one who ignored you… shame" Aph slapped his face.
"Aphrodite?" he asked. She beamed.
"Present" I smiled at her.
"Travis, this is my patron" I told him.
"How'd you know my name?" his eyes were now curious.
"I've met you before, you were a total bastard back then"
"When was the last time I saw you?" he asked. Pulling his sword out.
"Last year" I told him. He had his sword in hand.
"Why don't I remember you?" he questioned, he pointed his sword at my neck. I rolled my eyes and kicked his stomach then took his sword and my daggers then pointed them at his neck, stomach, and balls.
"I don't know why?" I asked him. My grass green eyes were glowing.
"Katie… Gardener?" he asked. I nodded.
"Why are you here?" he asked.
"Revenge, no one noticed me so I moved away and created my own business with Aphrodite's help, it's one of the most successful farming groups and I made thousands. Built my own house and live there with Aph visiting sometimes" I told him.
"I'm here because… I wanted to see if anyone knew I was gone, no one did, my bed still has the note, same place I left it and the-" I cut myself off. He'd look for me then.
"The what?" he asked, more intent.
"A rose" I gave up, "a rose that tells the person who touches it my story and a way to find where I am, it's at my favorite spot in all camp"
"Why, if you never wanted anything to do with us anymore why did you leave the rose?" he asked me. I still had my daggers and his sword pointed to him while he was on the floor. I was aware other people were waking up, even if it was Chiron, I did the same on the big house door.
"I wanted to know if anyone would know that much about me to find where I am" I admitted.
"What happened to your face!?" he said, it looked like he wanted to get it off his chest.
"Aph hated how I looked, so she gave me a makeover"
"Who knew you would have curves under all that baggy clothing, and is that a four pack I see?" I was wearing a form fitting tank top and pink skinny jeans, with a black northface on.
"Yes" I growled at him. He shut up.
"Can you let me go now?" he asked after a long time. I raised his sword and threw it to the ground by his head. Then took my daggers back into the holders I have on my thighs.
He got up and looked around.
"Won't they just cut your name off?" he said looking at my name in vines on every cabin door.
"They can try, but it won't come off, even if they get a new door, they'll have to remember me then" I told him, I was standing next to him looking at what I did to the place I hated so much.
"Why don't you come back?" he asked looking down at me. I looked up at him.
"I have no love for the people I hate" I replied coolly.
"So you hate me? Everyone?" he looked a little sad.
"Yes, you are all bastards-" I guess he hated when I call him that because he pushed me to a cabin wall with a sword to my stomach. I laugh at him. Throwing him off.
"Never call camp that, Katie" he demanded.
"I will, they did nothing when I lead them to battle in the titan war and saved all my cabins lives, they never even looked at me, they just walked away!" I screamed at him, then took his sword and flipped him to the ground.
"Where did you get that training, we never got it" he asked me. I smirked at him.
"I had a year to do what I wanted, I grew plants but I had to fight a lot of hard monsters by myself without ambrosia, so I used what Aphrodite gave me, beauty and something her children don't usually have, wit and strength" I told him.
"So right now, your using your beauty against me? Well that explains why I want to kiss you!" he said, I rolled my eyes and grabbed his hand.
"I use it to survive, not against people, I would only date someone if they knew something about me without me telling them and liked me before" I told him and dragged him to his cabin and picked him up and threw him in, it took strength, he didn't exactly weigh nothing. He got up and looked through the vines.
"But I did…" he told me. Then I remembered what he said earlier, that he thought I was prettier before. My anger released from my body and my eyes stopped glowing. People were banging on doors, No one but Travis was awake in his cabin.
"There's a cabin leader meeting today, they want to get out and go there" he told me. I sighed and took went in his cabin, I grabbed Connor and Travis's hand, I dragged Connor out of bed and out his cabin, he was awake now.
"Woah! Not everyday a hot girl drags you out of bed" he said. Trying to flirt with me. Without even turning I kicked his face. I dragged him and threw them in the house, then went and got everyone else when I got Miranda, my sister, I threw her in and walked in after her. Everyone was seated. I sat in the Demeter head seat, Miranda tried to kick me out, still not knowing who I was, but my dagger in her face changed her mind. I was always the only one of us who was good with everything, archery, sword fighting, ect.
"What do you guys talk about now a days?" I asked them, they were staring at me.
"Who are you?" Clarisse asked me.
"Silena's evil twin sister!" I said sarcastically. Clarisse got up and took a sword out. I grew a large vine to pull her back in her seat and take her sword and point it at her.
"Now now Clariss, I was a close friend of hers, she was so kind…" I said thinking about my dead friend. "Yes… one of the only ones to notice me" I mused. "So kind… I cried so much when she died" I said.
"You were there?" Clarisse asked me. I nodded.
"Of course! I made her shroud, the Aphrodite girls were to lazy" I explained.
"Oh…" Clarisse said.
"How come we've never seen you before?" Percy asked. I snapped my fingers ad they were all vined to their chairs.
"I don't know I was at camp before you were even here. You should remember me, Percy" I said walking around the demigods in the room.
"How do you know all our names?" Annabeth asked. Children of Athena have to know everything.
"Travis knows, but he won't say a thing, sorry Annabeth, but this is one thing a child of Athena doesn't have to know" I said.
"Why did you lock us in our cabins?" Piper asked, putting charmspeak in her voice. I huffed.
"Don't even try that Pipes, I've spent so much time with your mother, I can resist charmspeak, she uses it everytime she visits, she's a nice person, love her, she remembers me, one of the only ones…" I said.
"Can we at least have you answer one question?" Leo asked.
"Fine, shoot" I said.
"What's your name?"
"Katie, Silena used to call me Kate, Aph calls me Kit-Kat sometimes." I told them. It didn't click in any of their heads.
"I knew no one remembered me, or would know who I am, Travis did… Funny the only one who made contact with me, when he pulled pranks on me" I said. I walked over to Jason.
"A roman! Awesome! Lovis filium hmm ... Id aliter quam suus Reyna? Locutus sum ad extremum ... paucis mensibus retro dolor puella Perci non vidi, non utique memor miser memoriam amiserit ... expertus sum vobis est? me cogitare ... No! non quod iam sugit ... Piper bene vel dormientes occidit pater eius!" (Son of Jupiter hmm... That's different, How's Reyna? last time i spoke to her... was a few months back, nice girl, I saw Percy there, of course he didn't remember me, poor boy lost his memory... i have met you before right? let me think... no! i haven't that sucks... be good to Piper, or else her father will kill you in your sleep)
"You know latin? You've been to camp? Percy doesn't remember you? Shocker" He said. I punched his face, his nose started bleeding.
"OW! Hey…" He said.
"Stop being so stupid!" I demanded him. He shut up.
"You said something about Percy! How is he!?" Annabeth said. He eyes were full of hurt.
"Fine, Reyna is too, Jason, don't worry!" I said. Piper's eyes got intent.
"Jason…" she said.
"Now! What do you guys usually talk about?" I said making a chair at the head of the table out of vines and there were roses on it, without the thorns.
"Katie…" Travis looked at me. I sighed.
"Percy's on another quest and is in good health, he just can't remember anything, like Jason, he remembers one thing, you should've been there, it was great! His face when he carried Juno in! Perfect! Man I loved it!" I exclaimed.
"How is it when Travis says or asks you something, you tell them?" Lou Ellen asked me. I walked over to her. I grew a lavender flower by her hand.
"He knows who I am, he can remember me… he payed attention to me before, even if it was through pranks…" I told her. She nodded.
"You say you lived here before, where do you live now?" Miranda asked me.
"The U.S." I replied. She rolled her eyes.
"Where in the U.S.?" she was using her stare.
"It won't work… anyway, You'll have to figure it out! I told Travis, basically" I said.
"Katie Gardner…" He said. It clicked in Annabeth's head.
"You used to be the head of the Demeter cabin! You look so different" she said. I glared at Travis.
"Yes, I left a year ago and no one noticed." I said and pressed my necklace. No one could see me now, I walked over to Leo's chair. I went to his ear. While everyone else was looking around the room.
"Bunker 9 is a great place, I found it years ago" I whispered. His eyes got wide. No one payed attention to him. I went over to Piper.
"Tell your dad, I said hi, he'll remember me, just say my name" I told her. I walked over to Annabeth.
"Percy's fine… He isn't dating another girl…" I told her. I walked over to Travis.
"Remember the rose…" I told him. I pressed my necklace again. I was behind Travis now.
"Katie, we do care about you!" Annabeth exclaimed, I guess she figured out why I left.
"Then may I ask you a simple question?" I asked. She nodded.
"How old am I?" I asked her. She looked ready to answer, but was unsure.
"16, you skipped three grades, because you were so smart" Travis said. I smiled.
"See! He knows me! None of you do!" I screamed. Most people cringed. I had a scary voice when I got angry.
"I'm done" I said. I snapped my fingers and they were released. Clarisse walked over to me with a sword and swung it at my neck, at the last minute, I blocked with one of my daggers then used them to take her sword and throw it across the room and I took one of my daggers and stuck it next to her neck, less than a centimeter away.
"Don't test me, Clarisse" I told her, I clapped my hands and the vines on the door disappeared.
"I'll be going now, just remember, no one noticed" I told them.