Thalia set her pack down on the grass, and slumped over, lying staring up at the stars.
"LUKE!" she yelled, "Get your behind into action, I want to go to sleep!"
"Wait…up…" came the heavy reply, as Luke limped over the top of the hill, and practically fell down it, landing in a kind of crumpled up position. Thalia laughed, as she unzipped her pack and took out a couple of apples and a squashed looking sandwich.
"You look lively." He glared at her, but she bit into her apple and ignored him completely.
"Hey, we've been walking all day." He opened his own pack, took out a chocolate bar and ripped off the wrapper. "And we're not exactly going anywhere. If we were actually going somewhere then there would be a need to walk so far, but as we're not-"
"Luke," Thalia interrupted, "shut up."
Luke scowled, and glared up at the sky. "I hate monsters. Minute we get settled somewhere, bam, we're being attacked by a three headed pig or something."
"There was no three headed pig."
"I KNOW!" Luke threw his pack at Thalia, who dodged neatly and grinned. "I'm just making a point!"
"Luke, we were camping out by a bog in New Jersey. Don't know about you, but I certainly wasn't settled. "
"Yeah, but…oh, whatever."
Thalia tutted, as she threw her apple core away and tucked into her second. She dug around in her pack again, and withdrew a walkman, jammed the headphones onto her head, and switched it on.
Luke scowled at her again, then laid down on his back and stared at the stars, muttering and pointing to each. He got bored when Thalia got out her music It was depressive stuff, too. All about not fitting in and drugs and stuff. As if he needed more misery in his life.
And speaking of misery-
"Oh, my gods," He said, trying to keep irritation out of his voice. "Thalia."
There was no response. Thoroughly cheesed off now, he whipped of her headphones and yelled in her ear, "THALIA, minotaur, ten o'clock."
Thalia sighed.
"Not freaking AGAIN."
"Freaking again."