To be honest, I really hate my life sometimes, like today, for example. Where should I begin? When Percy suggested that we go to the Goode Prom I thought – great, - but clearly the gods weren't feeling generous enough to grant me two hours of luck. I'd pray to Hephastus and inform him that it would be nice to see a fine woman and not wonder if she is a monster in disguise, but I doubt he'd be very understanding, and most likely squash me into a grease spot. Oh, here I am, getting sidetracked again, an insight to ADHD, people. Anyway, it all began when I was walking into the Goode hall flanked by Percy, Annabeth (naturally), Jason, Piper and Coach Hedge, our chaperone. Don't ask, he just felt the need to accompany us, grumbling incoherently, but I got the gist. This may have been to do with a certain incident on the Argo 2 when we were fighting Gaia involving Percabeth. Sigh, I digress once more. Ok, focus Leo. Right, well there we were, about to start dancing in the hall, when I saw an aforementioned fine woman, of whom I promptly approached. As she saw me wander towards her, her eyes glinted with a malevolence that I misguidedly, ignorantly, disregarded. I know, I know, signs like that would get me kicked out of demigod school for ignoring in hindsight, but hey, live and learn, and if not, go out with dramatic balls of fire. When I got closer I noticed that a pungent smell of rancid meat greet my nose. I must say, it wasn't a pleasant greeting. As I prepared to wow her with both my good looks and charm, she spoke, pretty much exiling all of my cheesy pick up lines and jokes to tartarus. 'Hello Leo Valdez' spoke a tinny voice echoing in the back of my head. Again, I didn't stop to wonder why she knew my name, I was more interested in reading her visiting students pass, and saw that her name was Stephanie, and thought what a beautiful, elegant name it was. In fact, I was so caught up thinking about the name that I didn't notice that Stephanie had now got a metallic leg and another, - furry leg? As she clunked towards me, I was so stunned that I stood still and said something really confident and powerful, like 'uhhhhhh'. Yep, I'm ever proud of that moment. Finally, after several minutes, I squeezed out an eep sound that alerted Percy to the situation. Snapping out of my revere, I summoned a sphere of fire and distracted the Empusa while Percy sliced her head clean off. It landed with a sickening thud at my feet, and Percy, seeing that his work was over, walked over back to Annabeth, as if this were a common occurrence (which of course, it is). I stared down at the spoil of war I had been left with, and said, 'you know its your loss, Team Leo doesn't fall for just any girl.' After that witty (if I say so myself) comment I turned and promptly tripped over a plastic party cup, at the feet of another fine woman. Apparently I can survive Gaia, monsters and fire, but not a plastic cup, discarded on the floor at prom. Thanks Dad. Oh well, there's another girl that hasn't met the wonder that is, Team Leo. Here we go again.