Percy's POV

The rest of the kids were at the Mess Hall when we returned from the woods. Clarisse and some others were pointing at me and Annabeth, and I wondered why. Then I suddenly remembered that I was holding Annabeth's hand and was swinging it back and forth, like a couple. Which we were.

I sat down when Thalia came by and sat down next to me. I stared at her until she answered, "Gods Percy, I just came by to tell you something."

I answered blandly. "What is it?"

"Well, William, my new half-brother, told me he has a crush on-"

"I feel like you should be telling Annabeth this stuff."

"Ugh, would you let me finish?"

"Fine."

"Okay, well William has a crush on Jeanette, and it's so cute! There's just one problem. He doesn't know how to talk to her. He's way to shy, and he doesn't like writing notes. He just wants me to ask a guy friend how to talk to a girl."

"Okay, I still think you should tell Annabeth, and I usually don't talk to the girl, I text her. Which is dangerous for demigods, so I don't recommend it. Sorry, I can't help him."

Thalia nodded. "It's fine, I'll go ask Grover."

"Good luck with that."

And so Thalia walked back over to Zeus's table. She yelled something out loud, and Grover clopped past me to get over to her. Wow.

Jeanette's POV

During dinner in the Mess Hall, I noticed that Thalia was walking around, asking all the guys -who were probably her friends- something. She kept on looking at me and then at William. I wonder…

Sometimes I feel clueless and stupid, so I have no idea!

After dinnertime, everyone went their separate ways except for the gang. We all sat together, and then Annabeth and Percy came by.

"Hey guys," Annabeth said. " I still haven't been introduced to all of you, so do you mind if we stay here? Percy loves the beach."

Percy smiled. "No doubt about it! Son of Poseidon over here!"

Annabeth rolled her eyes and sat down next to me, Percy sat in the other side of her. We all moved into a circle, so we could see each other. Milo -a guy with short brown hair and is real skinny- spoke up first.

"Hey, I'm Milo. I'm a son of Hephaestus. I like to make tiny copper Hippocampi, this guy named Tyson showed me how, just last week."

Percy perked up. "Wait, Tyson's here!?"

Milo shook his head. "Sorry Percy, you just missed him. He left yesterday."

Percy looked down. His head shot back up when Rosina started speaking. She is short and has long black hair, a round face and tan skin.

"Hello, I'm Rosina, daughter of Demeter. You both have already met my boyfriend, Conner."

Conner scowled at Annabeth, and she smirked. Percy put his arms around Annabeth and pulled her closer. How cute. Rosina continued talking.

"I like to grow strawberries in the field, and to grow bananas. Those two were always my favorite to grow, I guess they're my strongest crop I've grown all year."

Rayne and I tried to stop giggling. Back home in Chicago, when we were 6 and weren't full developed demigods, we were friends with a boy named Gabriel who dressed as a banana on Halloween. Every Year. He soon became neighborhood famous as 'Banana Boy'.

Rayne, William and I were good friends with him, and it broke our hearts when we told him that we had to go. And even worse when he watched us walk away, head down. It was terrible, he was such a happy and cheeky guy, and he would've been a great hero. We even discussed that he would be a great son of Hermes.

Then all of a sudden Percy said, "Wait, I need to ask Chiron something." He jogged away.

We were still laughing when Percy came back. Annabeth looked at him, "What is it Percy?"

Percy smiled. "I asked if the camp can stay up a little longer since we just came back… and he said yes! So let's swim you guys!"

Percy, Kris, Milo, and Conner took off their shirts and dove into the cold water. Annabeth, Sami and Rosina ran to the bathrooms to get their bathing suits on. I chose to stay on the beach with William, Rayne, and Henry. Rayne then suggested,

"Hey guys, why don't we play some volleyball? Anyone have one? Because we can probably just use a beach ball."

"Yeah, I don't have one, Rayne." I replied.

"Don't got one either." Henry said.

"Uhm, I have a beach ball back in my cabin." William said. He ran back to grab the beach ball.

Rayne came up to me and whispered, "You so have a crush on him. My mother's telling me."

My eyeballs just about fell out of my head. Then I tried to act cool. Of course it didn't work . "W-w-why would you think that?"

Rayne smirked. "Why wouldn't I know? I'm your best friend, anyways. Oh yeah, you oldest friend, too."

I was all like,"Kindergarten Isn't THAT long."

Rayne smiled. "Is it?" then Rayne walked over to the shore.

I pouted and stomped behind her. "Oh come on Rayne! You and I both know that I don't like to admit things like that!"

Everyone turned around to me. Annabeth smirked. "What kind of stuff, Jeannette?"

My face burned. Rayne laughed and someone came up behind me. I freaked out when he moved, and then I saw it was William. He smiled, "Everything all right?"

My face burned again. "Yeah, I'm fine," I straightened up. "But stop sneaking up on me. I don't have ninja skill like you do."

"Thanks," He turned to Rayne, "Here's your requested beach ball."

Rayne grinned mischievously. This is going to be fun.

Williams POV

This Volleyball game was intense. Rayne insisted that I be on Jeannette's side, so that it be even. I didn't like the idea coming from an Aphrodite girl, but I had no other choice. Rayne was bossy like that, and part of my family. So it's kind of confusing on how our little group came to be. Let's get this story straight.

In Chicago, my mother had me with Zeus, and coincidentally her brother had Rayne with Aphrodite. We both lived by and went to school with Jeanette.

But when Jeanette turned 16, she told us that it wasn't safe here. That her dad was a god. That it's even more dangerous for her because of her age. Our parents soon explained to us too that we were demigods as well, so our parents let us take off. On the way to Camp, we had monsters attack us here and there.

When we reached Indiana, we met Sami, Kris and Maple, a satyr. We also met Henry -and his older sister, Meg- in Ohio. After that, in Pennsylvania we met Rosina and Connor at a small kiosk selling the supplies we needed. We lost Meg, she was killed by a Hydra on her birthday. She had just turned 19. Our trip to Camp was the worst any of us could ever endure. That's why we can never stand to think about battle.

When the game started to get rough, we just started to keep the ball in the air, by kicking, hitting, and setting the ball. It was fun, kicking the sand around. But then Rayne kicked the volleyball a little too hard.

"Rayne!" I yelled.

"I'm so sorry William!"

"Aghh! I can't see I can't get this sand out of my eyes!" I yelled again, rubbing my eyes furiously. "Really Rayne!?"

"I said I was sorry, okay cuz?"

Then Jeannette spoke up. "Hey, stop fighting you too. And here, let me help you. Just open your eyes."

I removed my hands from my eyes to open them. When I did, I saw Jeannette kneeling in front of me, holding my shoulders to keep me looking at her. Okay, this is a little weird.

"Uh, Jeannette I don't think-"

"Just look at me and don't close your eyes," She said moving closer. Then she blew at my face, making the sand go away. "All better?"

"Yeah, thanks."

"Sure. No problem William." She helped me up.

Rayne squealed when I just noticed how close I was standing to Jeannette. Jeannette was looking at Rayne weirdly as if she was mentally saying shut up, Rayne. Boy, could you say that again.

Henry spoke up, "Hey, I don't want anymore sand kicking, and it's getting cold out, so why don't we go to someone's cabin?"

"Yeah, sure let's go to my cabin, there's not many people in there except for me and Thalia." I replied.

Annabeth splashed out of the water yelling, "It's getting cold out, so why don't we go to someone's cabin?"

"I just said that!" Henry yelled back. "We're going to Zeus' cabin!"

"Alright, let's go William." Rayne pushed me.

"Okay, okay. Let's go everybody!"

And just like that, after the girls came back from the bathroom, there was a little train of people behind me. I opened the cabin door.

"Oh my gods." Percy said, his eyes almost popping out of his head.