A/N: Hello, I am so tired but I have been trying to get to the computer all day, and I wasn't able. I finally got here! Happy Easter everybody.

Charles POV:

Eliza and I walked to the dinner pavilion, just by ourselves. We were kind of late because when I walked there, everybody was there, eating from their plates. Silena sat at the Poseidon table with her food. Eliza shoved me as we separated ways.

"See you soon." She walked away to her table where her one brother sat sulking among the many nymphs who were eating berries and drinking water.

"Finally you're here." Silena emphasized "finally". She forked around some peas and hid them in her mounds of mashed potatoes.

"Yeah, I was catching up with Eliza."

"I would mock you, but I have been catching up with Tyler" I groaned. Someday, I was going to kick that kids ass all around camp. Silena said that they weren't dating but I could tell they were flirting a lot.

Since I was late, I was the only one in line to sacrifice a portion of the meal to the gods. I stood in front of the campfire and didn't know who to thank. Poseidon? Athena?

Then I thought of it. Poseidon, thank you for um… giving me the power to breath under water. After experimenting this year, we found out that this trait had passed onto all of his grandchildren. Athena, thank you for my intelligence. Silena, Bianca, and I are very smart. Bianca learns things early, I have kept straight A's, and Silena is a perfectionist.

I started to dump a fluffy roll into the fire when I thought about another Goddess to thank. Demeter… Thanks um… fo-

"What did you wish for?" I jumped in the air and spun around. Eliza was right in my face with her grin a mile wide and her eyes big and eyebrows bouncing up and down on her forehead. She laughed and closed her eyes. I smiled and threw the roll into the fire. I leaned in to her ear.

"Nice one, Eliza. Scared me halfway to the underworld." She smiled and continued to say her thanks to the Gods. I sat down to eat with Silena.

I shoved some buttery mashed potatoes in my mouth and watched Eliza sit down at the Demeter table. She smiled and laughed with Bethany and her other friends. Eliza poked her brother and he made her happy with a chortle but then began sulking with the green nymphs sitting around him. I think his name was Daniel or David… Daniel, that's right.

I finished dinner and we were excused back to our cabins to prepare for campfire. Even in the summer, nights get cold. I shrugged into a hoodie and waited for Silena to fix her hair and jacket.

"Ready?"

"Yeah, coming right now." Silena emerged from the cabin and we made our way out to colorful flames that licked the pine tree's limbs. I took a seat with James and Emily who were snuggling together. Silena went to sit with Tyler who were laughing and singing along with everybody.

Everybody was here. I was searching the crowd for Eliza. I was feeling like a loner, sitting here with only James and Emily, who were to busy holding hands and kissing.

Someone sat down in a hurry next to me and I started to refuse the seat, hoping Eliza would come soon to kick them out, but I looked over. The warm glow from the fire brightened up the face of just the person I wanted to see.

Eliza grabbed my wrist and put it on her knee. I stopped singing the song one of the cabin councilors were leading. Butterflies whirled in my stomach and I saw her wrap around a small green bracelet on my arm. She tied it in a tight knot and twisted it around for me to see the front. It said "Recycle!" Eliza had a similar one. It was made out of a light and dark green embroidery floss. Eliza told me that she made these for her friends and family.

"Thank y-" I didn't get to finish because Eliza grabbed my hand, stood, and lifted it in the air, high above our heads. She started to scream and cheer. Campfire was over, and we ended with one of the best songs. People started yawning and filing back into their cabin.

"Sorry I was late." I looked at her in disbelief.

"You're fine." She squeezed my hand and pulled me out of the arena of campers. We walked back to the Demeter cabin and she told me about what camp would be like. We reached the cabin and I let her walk up the stairs. She opened the door and turned to say goodnight to me. I smiled but then her face turned to worry. I scrunched my eyebrows and turned around to where she was looking at.

A boy about my age, followed by two others, a boy and a girl, came strolling towards the me. I put my hands straight on by my sides. The boy in the front had dark brown hair and beefy arms. The demigods brining up the rear.

"Hey, heard you were back at camp. Just thought I would say hello." I clenched my fists. The boy who spoke was the front boy. "My name is Ed, son of Ares. This is my brother and sister, Alex," The other grunted. "and Savannah." Eliza took her place next to me, our arms touching.

"What do you want, Ed." Eliza said his name distastefully. I gritted my teeth.

"Just going to show your boy the ropes, Plant Girl." Eliza frowned and I took a step forward. I tried to speak bravely but it came out more as a squeak.

"What ropes?" He, Alex, and Savannah laughed at my supposed stupidity.

"This one."

He lunged at me and landed a punch square on my jaw. It stung and he came back for another one. I ducked and he was sent straight to the ground. Savannah decked one at me but I blocked it and took her down with one sweep of my leg. Alex tried to get me but I stopped him.

Then, from the ground, Ed kicked my knee causing me to buckle. I hit my head on the porch and felt something wet seep down onto my forehead.

"See you around, Washington." Ed hollered as he helped us his sister and made his way back to the Ares cabin.

"What's that supposed to mean, asshole?" He turned around and started running but Alex held him back. He sneered his teeth.

"You are only a quarter special." Eliza knelt next to me where I was laying down on the grass. She had some water from her gardening supplies inside and was washing out the cut on my forehead. Apparently, Daniel, her brother had a glass of ice water and she stole the ice and put it on my cheek. I spit out blood and felt my lip with my tongue. He had cut it with his fist.

"Thanks" I muttered. "Who-Quarter-What?" She helped me up and walked back with me to my cabin.

"That is Ed and his 'gang'. You could say he is the camp bully." So far, I could tell we weren't going to be great buds. "He called you quarter because you are only a quarter of godly blood. One half of you is mortal, but you have one quarter Athena, and one quarter Poseidon."

"Thanks." Eliza smiled. "I don't like the way he called you Plant Girl."

"Yeah, me either." She sighed and turned her head.

"How about tulip?" I remember her telling me in an email that of all the plants she grows, she loves the tulips.

"Yeah. Tulip." She pondered it in her head, looking to the sky. "Well, better get some rest, Washington."

I frowned, but then cracked a smile. The door was open so I pushed it.

"Night, Tulip." She smiled and I watched her run back to her cabin. Once she was safely inside, I lay on my bed, with my hand on my cuts. Silena was already back, and snoring in her sheets.

Tomorrow was a new day.

A/N: Good? The good part is getting there. I am so excited! Happy Easter!