ABC Caleo
A. Asteroids
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! Leo was drawn into this new arcade game Hephaestus Cabin made for the new rec room near the big house. Onscreen, Leo looked for asteroids in the black sky and blasted them into smithereens with a laser gun. The thing was, though, you could change the settings, so now Leo was on the Argo 2 destroying Gaea lookalikes. He had a lot of stress on his mind, and he had to relieve it SOMEHOW. In the middle of completely killing a giant Titan, Leo felt something a little wet and distinctly nice on his cheek. Someone kissed me! I hope it's Calypso! He turned around and his heart did jump around because Calypso was there.
"Lunchtime," she intoned, voice laced with ice.
"Did you kiss me?" Leo asked.
"No." Calypso tried to make it sound convincing. Leo bought it like a sucker, or at least she thought.
"Oh, OK. I was hoping it was Evie Styson from the Aphrodite cabin. Man, she's hot!" (Of course, Leo didn't mean any of this, he had eyes only for the girl in front of him, but mentally started to laugh when he saw a flicker of disappointment in Calypso's seemingly unfeeling eye.) "Do you think you could introduce me? Please?"
She felt like crying. She was the one who kissed Leo, and she liked him so much you cannot imagine. She loved him, so she wanted him to be happy. So against every screaming instinct in her body, she said, "Yes, of course." Anything for you, she thought inwardly.
Leo's eyes widened so much you could see almost two inches of white from each side of his iris.
"Close your eyes," he said.
"Why?" Calypso asked. "Don't tell me you want to run away from me, huh?" Her voice carried a little bit of hurt, that he immediately identified, and winced. Does she think I hate her that much?
"No, not at all," he replied. Never could I ever do that, he added silently in his head.
She obediently closed her eyes and she felt something on-not her cheek, but...her lips?