Hey, there! This is a new Leyna story. It does not follow the plot of Unexpected. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HoO.

.XIII

Jason came back today with a daughter of Venus. How could he betray me like that? I thought we had something going on, I really did. I guess he just finds her more appealing than me. I'm just not good enough. Or maybe he never liked me in the first place. I was just imagining all the unsaid feelings between us that I believed were mutual.

Oh, the irony is killing me. The one time I open up to someone he stabs me in the back and rejects my feelings. I have a philosophy Love is for insecure, foolish people. I talked myself out of my philosophy when Jason and I became really good friends. I told myself that he was meant to be in my life so I could open up to at least one person.

Apparently he doesn't like me like that. I now swear that I will never ever love someone like that way I loved Jason again.

After dinner, I was sulking in the sword-fighting arena. One of Jason's gang walked in. I stared at him curiously as I slid down on my stomach so he wouldn't see me. He had messy, curly brown hair and somewhat pointy ears. From the way he was stomping his feet, I could tell he was angry about something.

He stopped walking in the middle of the arena and sat down. For five minutes, I stayed perfectly still, not wanting to disturb him. He had his head in his hands and was muttering to himself. I felt awkward intruding on his personal breakdown but I didn't want to reveal my presence.

Eventually he took his head out of his hands and placed his hands palms-up on his knees. Whatever he was doing was seriously weird. In the blink of an eye, two balls of flame erupted from his hands. I shrieked and ran down to help him. When the boy saw me the fire disappeared. I wanted to turn around and go back and hide in the seats but it was too late.

"What are you doing here?" he asked me.

"I could ask you the same," I said, crossing my arms, giving him the trademark Reyna glare.

"Nothing much," he shrugged. "I'll see you around," he said and proceeded to walk out of the arena. I stood there for a little bit, trying to make sense of what just happened but gave up and came back to my cabin.

Now, here I am, sitting in my favorite chair and writing in this journal. I don't know why I decided to start writing down my feelings, but it helps. Especially with the whole Jason incident today. I barely said anything to him but I feel like there's nothing much to say when it's obvious to the entire camp that he has moved on and I haven't. I got so excited the other day when I realized he was coming back. All the campers laughed at me but I didn't care because I kept thinking how awesome it was going to be with Jason back at Camp Jupiter with me.

Well, I guess I'll call it a night because the only thing I can do right now is rant about Jason to you, journal. And you probably don't want to listen to that.

G'nite.

Reyna