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Leo's POV

PIPER WAS REALLY GETTING ON MY NERVES.

"Are you sure you are okay?" She caught my wrist, just as I was heading back to my cabin.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I lied, hoping she didn't notice the faint dark circles beneath my eyes, or maybe that my hair was disheveled and out of order... more than usual, or maybe she would pick up on that my eyes were blood shot from the lack of sleep, or the fact that I was three pounds... oh who am I kidding me ten pounds lighter than last week. To sum it up; I was a mess... no not a mess, a train wreck that was blown up with a nuclear bomb, and stomped on by a herd of Elephants. Piper looked at me skeptically, her eyes glinting, telling me that she did not believe me.

"That's BS Valdez." She pronounced, dragging me off towards cabin one. I groaned, not this again, I dug my heels into the ground, offering myself some kind of resistance, maybe just enough to get back to my cabin. But Piper wasn't going to have it, she looked at me with a spark of evil in her multicolored eyes.

"You will come with me." She charm-spoke, and my limbs went limp, letting her drag me along.

When we got to our 'destination' a certain son of Jupiter looked none to pleased. I scanned my brain for some sort of an excuse of my less than proper appearance... but found none, so I decided to keep my mouth shut; like all reasonable people would do.

Jason glared at me, a glare that could match the one that the Zeus statue gave anyone who came into the cabin, "You've lost weight." He pointed out, I mentally face palmed, and thank you captain obvious, I thought to myself, looking anywhere but the glaring son of Jupiter's eyes. The cabin had this certain aura to it, it almost made me want to spill my guts completely to my two friends. Almost. I shrugged my shoulders, looking up a few inches into the blondes icy blue eyes.

"Yep." I stated, keeping it simple.

If looks could kill, I would be six feet under. Piper looked like she was going to rip out my throat, her eyes narrowed into a glare, the corners of her lips turned firmly downwards, and her eyes had almost shifted to an angry red. "VALDEZ!" She exclaimed very exasperated, "YOU. NEED. TOO. EAT." She yelled, pinning me against the Zeus statue... I was pretty sure we would have an angry god of the sky coming down any moment. I brushed Piper off, making my way towards the door, when Jason grabbed my shoulder.

"Leo... please?" For once, the blonde's voice was soft and gentle, a high contrast to his usual commanding tone. He looked at me sadly, Piper standing in the corner, crying silent tears, and I shook my head slowly.

"I-I-I can't. It's just not the same without her." I stumbled out, taking one last lingering look at my friends, I exited, and headed back towards the forges.

The day was bright, warm, the air sweet, filled with the succulent smell of ripe strawberries; and it was an insult. The whole world should be dark and gray. Nothing was right without Alison. I dragged my feet as I approached my work table, to see there were tiny fingers already working there. Bending down, I saw a petite girl, my sibling Celiste. She looked at me with her warm brown eyes, a lock of her honeysuckle blonde hair falling into them, and giggled. Now Celiste was about three, being abandoned by our wonderful father, and her mother dying during child birth. None of the foster homes lasted to long for the poor girl, many of the foster parents would be to scared to take the child in. Cause trouble followed her like a moth to a light. And that is pretty much it, eventually a satyr found her, and brought her here, where she was pretty much instantly claimed.

"Hey Ce, what got you giggling?" I put on a fake smile, trying to keep the little girl entertained.

"Your hair is meeeessssssyyyyy!" She giggled even more, as I turned red, trying to run my fingers through to straighten my hair. Celiste than pointed to my eyes. "They aren't supposed to be red." She somewhat accused, than pointed to my sides, "You aren't supposed to be so skinny!" She finished, with a screwdriver in her hand, tightening screws on one of her toy cars. Celiste than dug into her pockets, for a while, than thirty seconds later, her eyes lit up, and she pulled out a little snack cake. "Here," She thrust the cake in my direction, and I must have looked confused, cause she giggled for a few seconds than told me, "Twinkie." and walked away giggling. For the first time in a week, I sincerely smiled, unwrapped the Twinkie, and took a bite... of what I considered to be, Heaven on earth. Of course Hera would disagree...

OMGS! ME LOVE TWINKIES! Yay! I finally update, and don't worry, the action will start up again soon! I just needed this, like bad, like really bad. R tell me who's POV, if you like Celiste, and if you guys like TWINKIES! Well that be all for ya! Mandy0817 OUT!