Katina's POV

"Katina?" asked a timid voice, coming from the doorway of my cabin.

"Yeah?" I said absentmindedly scrolling through the designs that Annabeth had made so far for Olympus.

"Can I ask you something?" my best friend Michal said as I heard the creaking of footsteps enter my cabin and come towards me. I lazily looked up from Annabeth's special laptop. My eyes bulged when I saw what my best friend looked like; a mess. I know this might be cheesy and all since Annabeth and Percy are going out, and he's a son of Poseidon, but ive known my son of Poseidon ever since I was born. Hence the term best friend. His jet black hair was a bit more aroused then usual; it looked like he had been running his hands through his hair more often. His forest green eyes shone, but they had a nervous glint in them. See, that's the difference between Percy and Michal. Percy's eyes were sea green or emerald green. But Michal's eyes were forest green; a darker version of Percy's. I immediately knew something was wrong, so I closed the laptop and patted the bed beside me.

"What's wrong Michal?"

"Niki broke up with me." he said as he sat down with a humph! Beside me, and leaned his back against the wall.

"What? Why? You two were perfect for each other!" I exclaimed.

"I thought so too."

"Then why did she break up with you?"

"Because she saw me looking at another girl the way I looked at her when we first met."

"Another girl? Michal! Did you cheat on her?" I said, getting ready to smack him upside the head.

"No. but I can't shake the feeling this other girl gives me." I was starting to get a bit jumpy.

"Well who is she?" I asked pathetically.

"You know her."

"Is she pretty even?" I asked kind of doubtfully.

"Beautiful. Hey, you got a mirror in here? Or do we have to walk all the way to the Aphrodite cabin. Because I don't see one behind all these blueprints." He said smirking and motioning to the covered walls.

"Yeah, duh." I said pulling a pocket mirror from a drawer in my nightstand. I opened it up.

"Look in it." he instructed. I did as I was told.

"And?" I asked curiously, my ADHD was getting to me now.

"See the girl looking back?"

"Yeah …?"

"That's her." He said quietly. I froze for a moment.

"I gotta go." He said quickly getting up off the bed. I didn't know what to do, so I just continued to sit there, and look in that little piece of reflective glass.

"MICHAL! WAIT!" I yelled getting up off my bed after unfreezing. I ran out of my deserted cabin and chased after the son of Poseidon who was walking with his head down and hands in his pockets. When he heard his name being called, he looked up, and then looked back towards me. Everyone in the training arena and archery range were starting to stare now. I could feel their stares burning through the back of my head.

"Do you mean it?" I asked sort of out of breath.

He was about to speak but we got interrupted.

"Michal! Hey I was just loo- is this a bad time?" said Percy stupidly, walking up behind Michal. I stood up straight from the position I had been in trying to learn how to breathe again.

"Um, yeah. A bit." I said annoyed.

"Why? What's going on?" he said looking around like a group of empousai were going to jump out and attack. Michal was still frozen in place.

"He'll talk to you later ok Percy? Go make out with Annabeth or something." I said pushing him on the arm. He got the look I was trying to give him, and ran off down the path again.

"Hmm. Ive never met anyone who could scare Percy so badly until I met you." He said with a small smirk on his face.

"Natural born talent is what my mother tells me." I said smiling proudly. I dropped the smile remembering why I had chased him down the path towards the beach.

"So … really?"

"It's stupid. Just forget I said anything."

"No, I won't."

"But everything's going to get complicated, and when things get complicated, they never work out. And this friendship means too much to me to screw up."

"Im glad you feel that way, but it won't change anything that I feel for you." I whispered taking sudden interest in my scuffed up black Puma sneakers. I felt his icy cold hand touch my cheek lightly, almost as if to make sure I wouldn't run away.

"I promise I won't let anything hurt you." He said bringing his body closer to mine, but still keeping that hand on my cheek.

"I promise I won't run away if I get scared." I whispered back, still looking at my shoes.

"Look up." I did as told and looked up at the sky that was beginning to become dark.

"Apollo's going back to Olympus. Artemis is taking over. I like night time best."

"Why is that?" he asked curiously searching my eyes.

"Because, when I think of all the stars, and all the constellations, I think of all the things that are out there, all of the possibilities to find." I said in awe.

"Well the only possibility that I want to find is the one standing right in front of Me." he said bringing his lips down to mine. Suddenly I was engulfed by the smell of the sea; salt water and seaweed.

That was two years ago.