Leo Valdez isn´t one for falling in love easily.
Okay, there had been this encounter with Calypso, but now they are broken up for almost two months. She kept cheating on him, and also insulted his dead mother, so he thought it was the easiest for him to break up with her.
She had been screaming and weeping, but now he is sure it was for the best.
Also, she is now with Jake Manson, and he thinks that maybe Calypso is happier than ever before now.
He doesn´t know about himself tough, because he can´t help but stare at this girl, right infront of him.
Currently, he is staying at New Rome with Piper, because here it is still hot and warm, while in New York, they already have stupid fall weather, and he doesn´t like it when it´s all rainy and wet and cold outside.
And now there was this girl.
This, this, this girl with brown hair, straight, and the colour of hazelnuts. Brown eyes, as well, half dark, but somehow light. She turned around to him, and he stared at her face.
One half was beautiful, with the eyes he just had seen, and the perfect skin tone to him, like ivory, her brown hair floating around it in soft waves, even if it was straight.
The other half was humilated and red on some parts, serious burns trailing up and down all over it, along with some cuts-
" Why are you staring at me like that?" She asked, and he shook his head, coming back into reality very fast. Her voice was higher than Calypso´s had been when they first met, she looked around fifteen, about one year younger than him, maybe?
" I´m...I´m not staring at anyone" He says, and the girl nodds, and he gains his old self back really quickly. " Anyways, how come I never had the pleasure of meeting you before? What´s your name, gorgeous?" He asks, and the girl rolles his eyes.
" You´re Leo Valdez, huh?" She asks, and smiles a bit. Well, one part of her face does. The not burned part. On the other part, her lips just do a weird curl. It still looks nice, though. " I´m Judy Morstan" She says, and nodds at him.
" You heard about me, Judy Morstan?" He asks, and laughs. " I guess you heard how hot I am? How...special? But, believe me, all these girls that told you were just sad that I didn´t choose them to be with me."
" I heard many things about you" She replies, and he twists his head. " For one, that you were part of the seven, for one that you were the one killed Gaea and then disappeared..." She says. " People talk a lot when the day is long, Leo Valdez" She says, and he nodds, smiling again.
" Well, at least you heard about me already. Sad to say, but I have never heard your name before. I will try to remember it, though. It would help me if I knew where you live" He says. " Are you on the School here? What dorm and what´s your room number?" He asks, and, to his relief, she starts laughing.
" Smooth, Valdez, smooth" She says, and the not burned part of her face looks beautiful, like it is shining, glowing, shimmering.
The burned part just looks kinda sad, but he burns girls often enough to know not ask about it right now if he doesn´t want her to run away.
" I´m great, and you just don´t know it yet." he says, and laughs. " I´m great, Judy Morstan. so, where do you live now?"
" The Aurora Dorm, Room 423" She says, and he nodds, smiling at her. Finally, after he grew last summer, he is taller than most of the girl´s, with about 6'0, he wis almost as tall as Jason or Percy. Heaven, he is proud of that.
" The Aurora Dorm, mh." He says, and smirks. " Well, maybe I´ll be around sometimes, if you want me to or if I want me to" He says " I´ll be in New Rome all the Winter long, and it´s only the start of September. I´m sure I will see you again, Judy Morstan"
She smiles. " I´ll guess so, Valdez" She says, then asks "Is your girlfriend here with you?" She asks, and smiles at him. " I´m dying to meet her, everyone says she is so beautiful and kind"
He bites his lip. It´s cute how she thinks of Calypso, clearly because she hasn´t met her yet, but he won´t lie.
" I´m not with her anymore" He says, and watches as her face drops. " She...cheated on me, so I decided to end this whole affair" He says.
Is it weird talking about such personal stuff with a girl he barely knows? It´s something everyone at CHB knows, though, so he guesses it´s okay.
" Oh no! Gosh, that´s horrible!" She says, and he just waves it off. " I´m so sorry for asking. Oh gods, why did I even start this conversation? I am so sorry, Leo Valdez"
He likes the way she says his name, though. It´s like a melody when it comes out of her mouth. It´s like a song she will start singing at any minute. He smiles down at her.
" It´s okay. If I may ask so, who is your godly parent, or a you a legacy?" He asks. " I´m a child of-"
" Vulcanos, I know. Um...Hephaistos, I mean" She says, and he noddy silently. " I´m a child of Apollo. Same in Greek, I think?" She asks, and her whole face scrunches up in a adorable gesture. Well, not her whole face, maybe, but the not burned parts do so.
He smiles, because she still is pretty in her own odd way.
Leo Valdez does not believe in love at first sight, but this could make him overthrow everything he believes in.
Judy Morstan smiles at him again.
" Eh, don´t look at me like that. Not all children or legacies of Apollo do have to be stupid." She says. " I´m nothing like Octavian"
((A/N: OCTAVIAN IS DEAD IN THIS REALITY, FOR ALL OF YOU WHO WANT HIM ALIVE READ MY OTHER STORY ORACLE OF DELPHI. Sorry Silverhuntresses for killing him here))
He laughs and tilts his head. " Well, you´ll never know. I´m nothing like all of my siblings, as well." Yes, because none of them has your crazy Firepowers, Leo.
" Nice to know that, Valdez" She says, then looks at her watch. " Oh, it´s getting late. I should probably go, or I´ll be late to my Spanish class" She says " And I´m already not that good in Spanish, I don´t need Ms. Freeman freaking out at me" She says, and he smiles a bit.
" Okay...see ypu around, Judy Morstan" He says, and she nodds shortly, walking away, and throwing him a smile over her shoulder.
" See you, Valdez" She says and smiles again.
And from where he stands, it looks like she is smiling with her whole face, not just the not burned part.
He hesitates for a moment, then smiles back fully.
In her own way, Judy Morstan is pretty.
In her own, odd way, she is right way up to throwing over all his believs.
In her own, odd, weird and crazy way, she managed to sneak into his heart, his head, his thoughts.
He doesn´t know if this is good or bad yet.
Maybe it´s both.
LadyHazellyn is back.
Dedicated to Silverhuntresses and Lizzy Dane.
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