Sure enough, both the paper and pencil rose up and flew to Thalia, who caught it. You might say demigod note passing is a little different from normal mortal note passing.

I saw her read the note, and she pointed to Annabeth.

She began writing, and soon I had the note in my hands. It read:

You forget, Annabeth does actually like me. I didn't tell her the pencil was so we could pass notes though. So yeah, pencil's from Annabeth, boat ride is pretty good. Better than yours, anyway.

I rolled my eyes. It was true, Annabeth did like Thalia. Something about history with each other. Annabeth only hated me. Literally. She didn't hate Clarisse as much as she hated me.

"What's that?" Percy turned back to look at me.

"Nothing," I snapped.

"Passing notes…how immature…" Percy said condescendingly.

"You're one to talk, aren't you?" I retorted.

Percy chuckled. "Defensive, aren't you?"

"Shut up." I muttered.

"Absolutely not! It will be a sad, sad day when Percy Jackson stops talking." he gasped.

"Will it?" I asked.

"Yeah, it will." He assured me. I merely rolled my eyes, and stuffed the note in my pocket. I didn't really have anything else to say to her.

"So who're you going with to the fireworks?" Percy asked.

If I'd had water in my mouth, I probably would have spat it out. "Excuse me?" I asked my eyes wide.

Percy shrugged. "I was just wondering. Everyone's saying that Connor's gonna ask you, I wanted to know if it was true." He said. "Although…" he paused. "What boy would want to be with you?"

Luckily for him, I knew he was just teasing. "Nobody has asked me yet, if you must know, and actually, I hadn't planned on going. " I said.

"Oh." Percy nodded.

I thought about who I would go with, if I were to go. Connor, Travis and I were best friends; I could go with one of them, as friends of course. I made up my mind. If asked by one of them, I would go…

"Come on paddle faster! Annabeth and Thalia are winning!" Percy urged me.

"Just make the water faster." I frowned.

"I will not. That's cheating." Percy stuck his nose in the air. "Besides, if I won by cheating, Annabeth would never let me hear the end of it. And if I lose because you won't paddle fast enough, she'll never let me hear the end of it. And you will have some extreme plumbing problems. So go FASTER!" Percy said.

I groaned, and moved my arms faster.

Annabeth, Thalia, Percy, and I all crossed the line at the same time.

"It looks like we have a tie!" Chiron yelled.

"Who gets the money?!" Thalia yelled back.

"I will equally divide the money between the 4 of you, so you will each get 15 drachmas." Chiron explained. Everyone else docked the boats, and followed us out of the boats. Annabeth, Thalia, Percy and I stood in a short line.

Chiron went along the line, starting with Annabeth, and ending with me. I held my bag, slightly smug.

"Alright, it is free activity time, all cabins will join at the woods, for a game of Capture The Flag, taken place at 5:30 pm. Dismissed!" Chiron ended the game.

The class dispersed, going off in different directions, some in pairs, some in groups, others walking solo. As for me, a most people drifted away, except for my best friends. Well, one best friend. Thalia. The others were just people I've hung out with.

The people who drifted away from me gave me uneasy looks, like I made them nervous, or something. I guess that's understandable. I'm not exactly a social butterfly…I wear gothic style clothes, my outfits usually consisting of band tees, ripped skinny jeans, and black converse. My makeup is heavy eyeliner, black eye shadow, and dark red lip gloss. And several people have told me that my deep, dark, black eyes are creepy and startling. They say that it's like I see inside of people, pulling out all of their thoughts, and they feel like that they're being analyzed. All I want to say to that is: "Look, I'm not a freaking psychic, alright?"

"Just ignore them." Thalia murmured, noticing that people were very obviously staying away from me.

"Do you think I have the cheese touch or something? Will you get cursed if I touch you?" I taunted the crowd. Some of them chuckled, others just walked away faster, and the rest gave me nasty looks.

"Well, you never know." Said a very familiar voice.

"Ah, is that the fakest girl in the world? What's your name again? Botox? Liposuction? Weird Nose Job?" I laughed quietly at my own joke. What can I say, I crack myself up.

"The name's Drew." Drew said.

"Oh my Gods, you're dumb. It was a joke, idiot. I was calling you half of the surgical corrections you've gotten." I explained.

Drew got kind of a glazed, confused look on her face.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Were those too many words? Was the phrase surgical correction too complicated? My god, there are too many idiots in the world. I'm leaving." I rolled my eyes, and started to walk away.

"G-Get her! We'll make her the girliest camper here! She shall bear the shoes of shame!" Drew cackled.

"Drew, stop it." Piper, the only Aphrodite camper I liked, said.

"Shut up, Pipes." Drew narrowed her eyes.

"Don't call me Pipes. And, I'm the Cabin Counselor, so shut those shiny pink lips." Piper said cheerfully.

Drew curled her lip. "Fine, whatever. This isn't over, though, weirdo." She shot at me.

Once again, I rolled my eyes.

"Why'd you help?" I asked. I didn't mean for it to seem rude; I genuinely wanted to know why she helped me.

"Well, I didn't want you to suffer the girly curse too, so I just told her to leave you alone." Piper shrugged.

"Oh…Thanks." I said awkwardly. I wasn't exactly used to Aphrodite kids helping me out.

"You're welcome." Piper responded, giving me a beautiful smile.

I stood there, kinda awkwardly. "Er…I'm still wet, I gotta go get changed…see you around Piper…"

"Bye…what's your name?"

"Alice." I half-heartedly smiled, and walked away to my cabin with Thalia.

"She was nice." She commented.

"Yeah. It's always a surprise to have an Aphrodite kid be normal." I grinned.

Thalia laughed.

"Alright, I'm gonna shower, wake Nico up for me, would you?" I asked.

"Yeah sure." Thalia agreed, walking over to a sleeping Nico.

I walked into my bathroom, grabbed some clothes, Vanilla Spice body wash, and Cinnamon Apple shampoo.

I washed up, so in a few minutes, I smelled amazing, rather than smelling like a slightly dirty river. I quickly dried myself off, and got changed into my favorite outfit….Black skinny jeans with a Black Veil Brides T-Shirt. I ran a brush through my long, dyed black hair, and started to line my eyes. I had a lot to do, as I had pretty much skipped my morning routine, because I slept in.

So I continued to carefully do my eye makeup, and finally finished, adding the last touch of lip gloss. I looked at myself in the mirror.

'I look fine.' I thought. Feeling refreshed, I walked out.

Thalia was waiting for me in the bedroom. "Where's Nico?" I asked.

"He just left. He had fallen asleep in his clothes, and didn't brush his hair or teeth, or anything!" Thalia frowned.

I sighed. My brother often did that. "Just ignore it, it's not our problem."

"Hey, have you been asked to the fireworks yet? It's coming up in a month." Thalia asked.

"No, not yet. Have you?" I asked.

"Yeah, I few times." Thalia said, a faint blush creeping up her cheeks.

"Really?" I laughed. "Who?"

"Um…Well, there was Leo, I said no, um, this guy from the Apollo cabin…and…um…Nico…" she said Nico's name quietly.

"What?!" I exclaimed.

"Um…Nico asked me, as friends, to the fireworks…" Thalia was definitely blushing now.

"What'd you say?" I asked, grinning.

"Well, I politely told him I wasn't going." Thalia explained.

"Ah." I raised my eyebrows, and laughed.

"Yeah…"

"Alright, come on, let's go hang out, ok? Maybe some boys will ask us." I said sarcastically.

"I hope not." Thalia snorted.

She and I laughed, and I nodded in agreement. Then we walked out the door, ready to have some fun, no responsibilities at all.

(I'm really sorry if this chapter sucks, I really am! Review to tell me what you think, and/or how I could make it better, maybe? Thanks!)