Connor's POV
"Are you sure Katie will like this surprise?" I asked as Travis and I walked up to the two story house. Ivy grew up the brick paneling along the side of the house. The grass was a bright and lively green even though it was late October. Each window had a lively flower bed; this was most definitely a child of Demeter's house.
"Yeah! She'' think I'm being cute and spontaneous and will love me" he replied as he wiped the mud off his converse. His dark blue eyes seemed darker under the grey clouds of St. Louis.
"Are you just trying to get in her pants?" I asked, knowing how my older brother worked with most girls.
"No! I actually love Katie bro! But some lovin' wouldn't be that terrible" he replied defensively before knocking on the door. Some feet pounded on what sounded like a staircase inside and the door slowly opened.
"Travis!" Katie squealed as she jumped and straddled her legs around Travis. Travis smiled and slid his arms around her waist, holding her close.
"Who else would it be?" he replied before kissing her. Katie very softly moaned, kissing back; oh joy…these two will be going at it soon. I cleared my throat, causing the two to separate. Travis sighed as Katie dropped down, exposing a growing friend popping out of the front of Travis's jeans. Katie turned beet red yet Travis didn't seem to notice or care. I quietly snickered at the two until Katie gave me a death glare.
"So why are you guys here?" Katie asked as she moved some of her chocolate brown hair out of her eyes.
"Chiron let us come by since we were causing too much trouble at camp" I replied with a slight smile. Katie rolled her eyes but gazed at Travis with a smile on her face.
"Well you actually came at a bad time. My dad was going to take me to look at colleges in the area" Katie said with her smile somewhat depleting.
"Aww…can't you guys just do it later? We are only here for a few days while they clean up the camp" Travis pouted with his puppy eyes that made girls do whatever Travis wanted; well everyone but Katie.
"Sorry but this was the only time off my dad could get and colleges will need to be picked by next year…and yeah" she replied before kissing his cheek.
"Besides, we could go down to the Loop or something" I suggested, trying to scrape up memories of this town from when we went on vacation here years back.
"Yeah that's only a few miles away from here. Dad said we should get back around 4 so we could hang out afterwards" Katie replied with a small smile.
"Alright, alright. I guess we should probably go" Travis said before kissing her forehead; gods I hate being the third wheel. I muttered teleport under my breath and appeared in the middle of a busy side walk. I moved closer to an empty story to get out of the flow of people passing by. Within seconds Travis was standing next to me, a stupid grin on his face.
"You guys are gross, just sayin'" I said before walking into the current of people and walking down towards a large unnamed building. Travis rolled his eyes but reluctantly followed. This part of St. Louis was busy even though it was a Sunday afternoon. Bodies were constantly walking down the side walk, some continuing down the path while others broke out of the pack to go into stores. We passed Fitz's, the smell of root beer drifting into our noses, and came to the end of shops; all that was left was a large parking lot filled with guys. From the side of the lot came two large looking guys. The one on the right had blonde hair that looked a bit like Luke's before Kronos took over. The guy on the left however had a black crew cut. The looks on their faces seemed like both a sneer and a glare that was locked on us. Both were wearing black muscle shirts and jeans, exposing a SPQR tattoo with 5 lines and the mark of Mars on both of their left biceps; of course we were dealing with Romans.
"Looks like we have a couple of Greeks crossing into our turf Kevin" the one on the left growled through a wolfish grin.
"You're right Danny, looks like we better get rid of them" the one allegedly known as Kevin sneered while cracking his gorilla sized knuckles. My hand instinctively went to my sword on one of my belt loops, but Travis reached over to stop me.
"Now boys, let's not be too rash about this. I thought Romans were more diplomatic then this" Travis stated, hoping to smooth things over; but by the looks on their faces, they weren't going to be diplomatic. Without warning Danny swung a hard punch and nailed Travis right in the jaw. Travis recoiled and the bottom of his cheek began to bruise. I drew my sword but before I could do anything, an Iris message appeared. Kevin looked like he was ready to stab me in the gut he had drawn, but did not move a single muscle. I put a drachma into the mist and a picture of Chiron began to formulate. He was sitting outside the Big House and boy did he looked pissed beyond belief.
"Travis and Connor Stoll, what do you think you are doing?" Chiron demanded as he glared into our souls.
"They started it!" I said while pointing at Kevin and Danny.
"It doesn't matter! We are trying to create between the Greeks and the Romans dang it!" Chiron retorted; gods I had never seen him so angry before. Travis scoffed in disbelieve while Danny and Kevin just folded their arms across their chest.
"They sure as hell don't want peace with us" I growled under my breath.
"Just go back to Katie's before I have you two brought here by your ears!" Chiron demanded before waving away the mist. We all exchanged glares but slowly backed away from each other.
"This isn't over Greeks!" Danny sneered; little did I know he was right.