Inside, Outside.
Please tell me he's going to be early. Please be early. It so lonely in here. Please, please, please be early. Come on, be early! Then, I hear a knock on the door. As I am slowly walking over to the door, I compose myself. As soon as I open the door, I am swept off my feet. Literally. I am being held like a mother holds a baby.
"J, I have missed you so much!"
"I have missed you too Trill!"
Jeremy is my boyfriend, and he has been for five years. We all call him J for short. He has been on a quest recently so I havn't seen him in two months and that is a long time as we both all years rounder's at camp. He is a son of Nyx which means we go quite well you know like Night and Death, both pretty well suited to each other. Dark and usually feared.
We plant a kiss on one another's lips and hold it there until two of my other friends turn up. The two Ares kids in our little group. Rachel and Seeley. Rachel is a tall, slim, muscular girl with long brown hair. She is probably the strongest in her cabin. Although she is one of the youngest. She is 17 so one of the oldest is out group of friends. Seeley is 16. He is very muscular but doesn't like to hurt people ironically. His short brown hair is a few shades darker than his skin. He is very protective, especially over Rachel as they are both children of Ares and they are very close friends.
"Jeremy! You're back! Wait, does that mean Mikey's back aswell?" Rachel exclaimed. Rachel has been dating Mikey a son of Hestia for about 2 years now. They complement each other perfectly. Mikey has a very short temper but when he loses it, he tends to just shout however, Rachel only loses her temper over something that is worth it like if someone hit one of her friends or a fellow child of Ares and if she loses her temper because of you well, good luck mate. But the rest of the time, she is fairly calm so she can usually calm Mikey back down again. They are both tall however Mikey is slightly taller that Rachel and I think she likes that as not a lot of people are taller than her.
"Yeah he's back and he is all in one piece!" Jeremy says as he is putting me down. Then Rachel runs off, presumably to find Mikey.
"Nice to see you again mate!" Seeley says as he wraps his arm around Jeremy's torso, for a Ares kid, he is very intimate!
Then we heard shouting over the hill. We can tell who it is straight away. There are two people shouting, one in a high pitched happy shout, the other a very moody shout, probably shouting at the other person. It is Temperance and Hayley daughters of Hestia. They are total opposites of each other. Temperance is the typical daughter of Hestia, loving and caring. She is also very hyper, a lot of the time. However Hayley is the owner of the very moody shout. She is the stereotypical teenager. Moody. But she can be nice and funny once you get to know her!
We see Temperance first. She is running up to us and Hayley is trailing behind. Temperance's ginger, long curly hair stands out among Hayley short brown hair. Temperance runs up and jumps on Jeremy's back so he essentially giving her a piggy back.
"J! Your back! Yay! I saw Mikey before! Now the whole gangs back together again." Temperance starts shouting.
"Tempy get down! J must be tired he really doesn't need you climbing on him!" Hayley shouts, "Good to see you though J!"
"Yeah missed you both too! Now I think we should all go to the sword training area an meet everyone there!" We all agree on that and start to head down, me on Jeremy's back, Hayley scuffing her feet and Seeley and Temperance running in front.
When we get there we see two girls and two boys. It is Rachel and Mikey and Lance and Bliss. Lance and Bliss are both children of Aphrodite. Lance is a pale boy with blonde hair that sits perfectly in a quiff on the front of his head safely wrapped in a coat of hair gel. Bliss' light brown skin makes her bright blue eyes stand out like a huge stuffed bear in a toy shop. Her shoulder length dark brown hair is platted down her back. Lance tends to get on the nerves of Rachel and Seeley, its partly because of a cabin rivalry but mainly because he can be very irritating and self indulged!
Once all the congratulating and hugging is done, we all sit round in a circle and just talk like old times. I am holding Jeremy's hand when Thalia Grace daughter of Zeus walks past. My whole body stiffens and my grip tightens of Jeremy's hand. I start shaking.
"Trill, Trill are you okay? Trillare! Trillare are you okay? Trillare Stansie Brunetta Vita Di'Angelo are you okay?" Jeremy begins to shout. Tears run down my face but I don't move. I am too scared to move. Once Thalia has gone all the way down the path and entered the big house I relax.
"I'm... I'm okay... I'm sorry... so sorry." I say wiping away my tears. I feel a hand on my shoulder but I don't know who's it is. All my friends are in front of me. When I turn around I see him. The murderer. The person who took away my last relative. Percy Jackson son of Poseidon.
"Trillare are you okay?" He asks me but I smack his hand away.
I stand up and back away from him.
"Don't ever touch me!" I shout to him. He seems shocked. "Just, just, don't ever come near me again, ever." I start to cry and I run away back to my cabin. I hear Jeremy telling Percy he doesn't know what that was all about and that he is sorry. I think to myself, don't say sorry to him, he doesn't deserve it! There is a knock on my door and it is Jeremy.
"Trill, what the Hades was that all about, why did you flip!" He shouts.
"Jeremy you don't know what everybody else knows. Or the extra thing I know." I shout back through my tears. I walk over to the door and just hug him as soon as the door is big enough for us both to get through, which isn't very wide since we are both very scrawny. We go and cuddle on my bed for a bit in silence. Then Jeremy breaks it like a hammer hitting a piece of glass.
"Trill? Where is Nico?" He says very slowly and suspiciously. And with that I burst into tears. I cry for about 2 hours and then I finally tell Jeremy what happened.
"Well Nico, Percy, Annabeth and Grover all went on a quest to help your quest as you had been away for a long time. They went on a boat and something on that boat caused it to explode. That is most of what everybody else knows however Grover told me everything, he felt I deserved to know. Percy grabbed everyone bar one person. And took them too shore. But he forgot someone and only remembered when he got to the shore and it was too late by then." I say through tears.
"And that one person was Nico?" Jeremy says suddenly realising what happened. I nod and tell Jeremy not to tell anyone as nobody else knows. They just think he is missing. Nobody wants to tell them and Percy doesn't want anybody to know it was his fault. Jeremy hugs me again and we are both crying. We were all very close. Present tense. Because although he is never coming back, I still love him so much. When we have both consoled each other. We step back outside and run back down to the others playfully pushing each other pretending nothing happened. The other guys all obviously assume we made out but are pretending they don't think that. They are not exactly children of Apollo when it comes to acting! We all get up and walk to Zeus's fist. We follow our usual route to our secret spot. It is a beautiful cliff overlooking a clean lake that shines like a diamond in the sunlight. We have dived off it before and we have missed. But I hate everything about it. Water and heights. Heights because its Zeus' domain, we will come to that later and water because I have never been taught to swim and now my twin has drowned! I always sit as far from the edge as possible. Today is no different. We sit as normal. With me as far away from the cliff and the Ares kids as close to the cliff. But before I know it, two other kids I don't know are dangling me off the side of the cliff whilst some others I don't know are holding my friends off. They are all masked so I can't see them. Suddenly my friends break the two other kids off me without realising they are the only people that are holding me up. I don't know if I am happy or not that I missed the water. It was a harder more painful landing but to be honest, anything beats water for me right now!
Red spots are dancing in my eyes as I hear distant shouting. I hear footsteps getting closer. I just want to shout for them to leave me. That this is what I want. But I can't speak. I manage to shake my head but nobody gets the message. They pick me up and carry me back any way. I hate it. It hurts but I can't tell them that. They must think I am unconscious but I am not. Why can't they see that. I put all my will power into saying these three words, "Leave me please." But they all ignore me anyway and the spots in my eyes slowly take over.