Hello my dear readers! I decided to do a little one-shot about ClarisseXChris or the official ship name (as internet says) Chrisse! To Neverland...er I mean To the story!
Clarisse was on her bed, knees on her chest and head between them. She was covered by her sheets. She tanked that it was holiday season and most of the camp (and all cabin 5) were in their homes with their mortal families. Clarisse wasn't sad, no, she wasn't sad about not being with her mom and the rest of her family on Christmas Eve. She already knew how her mom was with the family X-Mas party and she didn't want to be her doll, again. Clarisse had decided to go until the 24th's dusk, when the party was almost over. But first she had to do something, something that (at least for her) seemed impossible. She managed to took her "Things-To-Do-Before-Go" list that was on her nightstand.
Tell Chiron: Check
Tell Mom: Check
Pack Everything: Double Check (Twice revised)
Give X-Mas Gift: Blank
Now, that was the perfect definition for 'lame' in Clarisse's world; how could she, Clarisse la Rue, head of Cabin 5, leader of the quest to find the Golden Fleece, survivor of the Labyrinth was scare to give Chris Rodriguez a bloody X-mas gift? It was just Chris Rodriguez for Olympus' sake! The same Chris that accepted everything including his half-brothers' pranks! The same Chris that she rescued from the Labyrinth and that returned to sanity that same summer! But, Clarisse was afraid that Chris would reject her, she wasn't pretty like the girls of Cabin 10 or smart like the ones in Cabin 6, why would he accept her gift?
Although, Clarisse was everything but a coward, so she pull off the sheets, put on her shoes, got out of bed, took the package from the nightstand and went out of her cabin. It was a beautiful view, with all the snow that cover the grass and that was falling. Clarisse just took a quick look and headed down to Cabin 11. She stopped at the door, took a deep sigh and opened the door to enter.
Luckily, no one was there, well at least not another person because Chris was there. He was on the floor (well, on his Sleeping Bag) and he seemed to been doing something. He hadn't even notice her, and deep inside she feel sad, but she was already there so she cleared her throat. It helped, Chris looked up and smiled but he covered with the Sleeping Bag whatever he was doing.
-"Hey, Clarisse"- he said -"What's up?"-
The daughter of war felt her throat rusty and her cheeks hot, but she wasn't going to give up, not now.
-"I...I"- perhaps she was catching a fever, yes that must have been, she couldn't be experiencing shyness, would she? -"I...just w-wanted..."-
-"Clarisse? Are you okay?"- Chris approached to her and she felt her cheeks burn even more -"Do you want water? I can..."-
-"Here"- said Clarisse as she handed him the gift and cut him, at that point she felt like she could faint and that wasn't an option -"Your Christmas gift, I hop-know you'll like it"-
Clarisse was waiting for the rejection or the cruel laugh (followed by a punched guy) but it didn't come, instead, she saw Chris' sincere smile as he accepted the package.
-"Thanks, Clarisse"- he said as he went to his "bed" to leave the gift, then he returned from his so-called-bed and came back with another wrapped box -"Be sure to don't open it 'til Christmas"-
"-"Yeah, okay"- she said, although she had problems with hiding a smile -"Same to you"-
-"Oh, but don't worry, I've got you something that you can receive today!"-
-"Chris, you didn't have to..."-
Clarisse couldn't finish her sentence because Chris shut her with a kiss, and not a kiss in the cheek, no, a real kiss.
-"Merry Christmas, Clarisse"- he said -"You must go now or Chiron will think you go missing"-
-"What?"- Clarisse thought she was going deaf -"You're joking!"-
-"Nope, he's been searching for you a LONG time, it's almost night"-
-"Damn it! Ehm...see ya!"-
-"Perhaps it IS going to be a good holiday season"- thought Clarisse as she ran to Thalia's tree to met her mother.
So? How was it? I know that is something that I usually don't do, but I wanted to give it a try, so yeah! Here it is! Please review: tell me what did you like, what you didn't, tell me if I need to improve in something, all your comments are really important to me as an author :)