I decided to put up another chapter, because I was bored, and because I want to get this caught up to In His Shadow and In the Light of Zeus. And unfortunately, those two things might not be updated for a while, although my friend Xander(AKA The God of Rain) is back again after leaving us for a few months after getting into a really bad car accident where he broke an arm and a leg….depressing, I know. I was really sad about it, but now he's back and I'm happy, and everyone is updating like crazy from now on to get all of the stories up to the same place. I don't know if any of you are liking this story or not, but if you are, please review….I have 1. It's making me sad. But anyway, pretty please, read and review, and if you like it, add it to your favorite stories and alerts. I'd be really appreciative if you did. Alright, enough chatting from me. Let's get on with the story! Enjoy.
2 Weeks Later:
Things had been normal the past two weeks….last you heard from me I had already had sex with Lucas, right? And I had told you about Xander and I at the lunch table offering the food? Sorry about that. Just wanted to make sure, so I can tell you what you don't already know.
Xander and I went to our usual activities, though I did trade my free time to train some more, just as an added stress relief, and in addition I was sleeping a lot to, to increase my energy…and give me a reason to not have to be out and about and in the camp public. And none of the time of my day was spent with Lucas.
Lucas. That boy might as well have erased me from his life the way he treated me now. You've heard of the silent treatment? Imagine that, times like….ten. The usual silent treatment was not talking to the person. The Lucas Greenfield version of this treatment was to not only not speak to me, but to not look at me, not help me, even if I needed it, not talk to Xander either, not work with me on the things that we had worked on previously, and all in all not even acknowledge we truly went to the same camp. Or that we even lived on the same planet.
I missed him. I wanted him. Bad enough to just…..I don't even know. I wanted him back. I thought giving up my virginity to him would be enough to give him motivation and incentive to make me his girlfriend again. It didn't. He got my virginity, and what did I have to show for it? Nothing. Gods I hate my life.
I sit on my bed, holding a magazine in one hand, a bottle of water in the other. I'm looking down at the magazine, but I know it's just about time for breakfast, and if Xander doesn't get up soon he'll be late for training, and so I sigh and coax my brother out of bed.
"Hey… hey Xander? Time to get up." I say without looking up from my magazine.
"Umm… Katie if you haven't noticed I'm already dressed and up." I look up at him, seeing that he is in fact awake, out of his bed, and dressed, standing over me smiling.
"Ohh… sorry I'm just so used to waking you up." I admit.
He rolls his eyes at me. "Whatever sis."
I'm not in the mood to deal with him right now, so I just punch him in the chest. His chest is harder than I expected. My head starts hurting like crazy and I can't help but clutch my injured hand and start jumping up and down. I probably look insane, but my hand is hurting so much.
"Owww! Gods! I hate you, Xander Blake!" I scream, in so much pain. I don't think I have ever screamed that at Xander. Oh well. I guess there is a first time for everything.
"No you don't. You can't hate your own brother!"He points out.
"Yeah whatever." I mutter. "Come on Xander everyone's already eating breakfast."
I walk out of the cabin, not even waiting to see if Xander is following me. I know he will eventually. We go to the dining pavilion and I load up my plate with French toast sticks and fruit salad. I normally would eat more, but I don't feel like eating a lot today.
Out of the corner of my eye I see Xander getting his breakfast and then walking over to the fire, where he scrapes about half of his food to burn in an offering to our father. I see the sad look on his face and know it didn't work again. As he comes over, I can't help but talk to him, even if I am mad.
"Nothing?" I ask. Poor Xander. He tries so hard to make contact with our dad….and our dad just doesn't answer back. It's unfair really. And Xander wants it so bad.
"Yep… nothing." He replies, clearly disappointed. He looks down at his half full plate.
"Don't worry… you will meet our father one day." I say soothingly.
Xander looks up from his plate at me. "You really think so? The gods don't care about their children," He mentions.
"Are you so sure?" I ask, raising an eyebrow. I know he doesn't know. But I want to hear him say it.
"Yes… I'm sure." He insists.
Dang it. Not the response I thought he was going to say.
"Xander… If our father didn't care about us….if all of the gods didn't care about their children…. then why would they claim them?"
He hesitates, probably not sure what to say to me. "I guess you're right." Is what he decides on.
"Xander… I am always right… you better learn that." I laugh.
My brother starts laughing with me, and we're having a pretty good brother/sister thing going on here. That is, until Travis hops up on top of the Hermes table and starts shouting at everybody.
"Everyone! Luke is back!" He announces loudly, looking pretty excited.
I didn't know Luke was missing. When did he go missing? Where did he go? Why did he go? Quest? No….a quest would take longer. School? Puh-lease. Luke is too cool for that, or at least, in his own mind he is. I don't know why he was gone. But apparently he's back now.
"Xander? Aren't you happy? Isn't Luke your friend?" I ask Xander.
"Yeah I'm happy… just thinking."He replies.
"He's with a girl!" Travis continues, shouting again.
Connor jumps up on the table with his brother, looking equally excited. "And she's hot!" He says.
Wow. We have some pathetic guys here. I'd say at least three quarters of the guys in the dining pavilion look up at Travis and Connor at the mention of the 'hot' girl Luke brought with him. I look around, unable to help seeing if anyone I know is paying attention.
Just my luck, Lucas is. Are you kidding? Are the Fates totally trying to make me miserable? What did I do to piss off Aphrodite enough to make this happen to me? I don't think I've done anything wrong!
Xander gets up and walks away, and I see him approaching closer to Luke. Yeah, they are friends. If they weren't, it would be weird for Xander to be going over to him. That would be weird, right?
I get up, throw my paper plate, most of my food uneaten, into the trash, and go back to the Apollo cabin to skulk a little. I'm annoyed. No! I'm beyond annoyed. I want Lucas. Want him bad enough to kill. And he's making googly eyes after the new girl…ughhhhhh. Kill me.
I grab my sword from its spot under my bed, slip under my blankets, and keep that sword clasped in my hand, so I remember to go to do some sword lessons when I wake up. I am going to need to get rid of some major stress and anger.
I know this chapter wasn't very long, but I promise, it will get longer as the story progresses. Please, review and let me know what you think, and check out all the stories in the Forgotten Demigod series(I'll list them down below), because things are being updated soon, and it's going to be awesome. Thanks so much for reading this, guys and girls! I was just going to say guys, but I know there are girl readers that wish to be acknowledged, so there you go. I'm weird. I know. J
