I'm Sami, Sam or Samantha. I've been here for three years. Where is here? Camp Half Blood, cabin 7 to be exact. Like most kids here I have never met my father but apparently look like him. I have long wavy dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. Unlike most kids here I have actually never met my mom before. I grew up with my grandmother just outside of NY city. My grandmother adopted me after my mother gave birth at seventeen. My grandmother said that when my mom became pregnant her boyfriend just packed up and left. She was heartbroken and was going to give me up for adoption but my grandmother took me instead. Neither I or my grandmother know where she went after that. When I was 11 my grandmother died of a heart attack. I was bounced from foster home to foster home for a year before I decided I'd had enough. I ran away. I just simply packed up and left. Just like my father. I didn't really know where I was planning on going, maybe I thought I might find my father.

That morning I woke up to the usual laughter and loud speaking. My bunk was the top of a small bunk bed in the corner of the room. I don't have much to keep at my bunk, just a guitar with its case filled with clothes, my bow and arrows and a wrinkled photo of my grandmother and I at the fair. I will always remember how happy I was when she let me ride the ponies. In the photo I'm sitting on a cream coloured pony waving and smiling with my grandma standing next to me grinning the widest I'd ever remembered seeing her smile. I flipped my legs over the side of my bunk just as an arrow flew by my head and impaled its self in the wall beside my head.

"For the love of gods" I yelled, "You're going to kill me one day!"

"Good morning beautiful." Brett said as he sauntered over with a mischievous grin on his face. Brett is a typical swimsuit poster boy. He has floppy golden blonde hair that always looks perfect along with a perfect tan and a body that would make any girl melt. Except me. I've known him for too long plus he's my technically my brother, even down to the annoying part. I didn't think it was possible for your brother to be your best friend, that was until I met Brett.

"What do you want Brett." I sneered as I pulled the arrow from the wall, "You know I will kill you if you hit me."

He smiled, "I just want my arrow back." As I shoved the arrow toward him he put his hand on my head and shook my hair around. "Sorry to leave you but I've got business to go take care of."

"You just go ahead and find your Aphrodite fan girls while I try to fix my hair." I said, not even trying to hide the sarcastic under tone in my voice. He just winked and walked out the door.

During breakfast I sat in between Jessie and Brett. Jessie is a short girl with pin strait hair and bangs that cover her forehead. She has a cute giggle and laughs at about anything. I looked around at the other tables. The Aphrodite girls were pointing and whispering. Then there was Piper, she sat at the end of the table stealing glances at Jason who sat alone at the Zeus table. The Hermes kids were throwing food at each other and laughing hysterically. When I looked to the Hephaestus table I saw Leo talking really loud with exaggerated hand gestures. He was different from the rest. His was small compared to the others with their big bulky bodies. I don't know why I found him so interesting... I pulled my glance to the next table. The Athena table was quietly chatting and the Ares table was the noisiest. Then there was the one girl at the Hades cabin, she was a little different. Brett then flicked my ponytail and it hit me in the side of the face.

"Hey!" I said as I smacked his hand away.

"Chiron is coming" He replied.

Chiron trotted up and stomped his hoof. We all settled down as he began to speak, "I know we haven't done anything exciting in the last few weeks and I've been over hearing that some cabins would like a game of capture the flag. You will continue your training for today then we will play capture the flag tomorrow afternoon. Dismissed" As we got up to start training I noticed Leo looking at me. I caught his eye and I think he might have blushed...

Author's note: Hey! This is my first story, hope you like it! I'm co-writing it with Scarpelt18, you'll meet her character next chapter! I guess that's it.

~ CaitCait12