Mystery

Leo couldn't believe it, there he was, sitting in his hotel room with a girl he didn't even know, passed out and lying on his bed. Just great. He'd carried her to his room on the 3rd floor, she was actually light, but he wondered why she'd fainted like that. Was it because of him? He smiled to himself, girls just had to appear, don't they? But how did she know him? Maybe she'd seen him on the beach, hiding from her, but that didn't explain how she knew his name. Taking some gears and wires out from his toolbelt he started making a miniature car.

He looked down at her light-tanned face and her flushed cheeks, her locket by her side. While the locket had been glowing, somehow the chain had snapped, but he had fixed it (that girl will thank me) and it was quite easy for him being a kid of Hephaestus. Looking over at the girl's slim figure he noticed the shoulder bag laying by her waist. Leo was getting quite restless, having ADHD, so he gently slipped it off her shoulder and turned it over in his pale hands.

He could sense a hidden pocket somewhere and after searching a little bit he found it. He simply had to pull a key ring and a little bit of cloth came out, under a hidden flap was a zip, which he unzipped, then he took out a small key. Unzipping the main pocket, under another hidden flap, was another zip with a lock, he put the key in the lock and unzipped that pocket. He knew he shouldn't be doing this, but hey, that girl owed him, he'd only saved her from bonking her head twice and fixed her locket.

Reaching in, he felt the cover of a small book, which he took out and looked at. The front and back were a thin layer of soft plum felt, in the front were written two words in silver cursive. He tried to read them, with his dyslexia acting up it took him a while, but finally he read: Mika's Notes.

Opening the book to a random off-white page, he saw in bold print royal blue lettering, his name! There it was, his full name, Leo Valdez, under it was supposedly some notes, he didn't feel like reading them, but he could catch a few words here and there: Esperanza, Piper, Dylan, Camp, Jason, Festus, Fire… The next few pages were all about his life, then came Piper and after that, Jason. Flipping closer to the beginning he saw Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and some others!

How did this girl know about everyone? If she went to camp, then he would have remembered her and if she had talked to him, he definitely would! He put her book back, put the lock back on, put the key back and zipped all the pockets. He set her khaki bag back on the white silken sheets of the wooden framed bed. Getting very restless, he stared at the white ceiling, the dark blue and green carpet, the cyan walls and out the window at the beautiful view.

Then he looked back at Mika, she was pretty, her dark-brown glossy hair was messy, her capris had sand on them and there was a little bit of tomato sauce on her t-shirt, yep definitely pretty. Suddenly her eyes fluttered open and she saw Leo staring at her, she smiled. But her expression changed to confusion as she took in her surroundings, she sat up.

"Where am I?" she asked.

"On Earth," joked Leo.

She smiled "Yeah, well I know that, but who's room is this?"

"Mine"

"Oh… You're alone?"

"No, there's another person right in front of me, asking me questions"

"Leo!"

"Ok, ok yes I'm alone"

"But-"

But Leo cut her off "First I need answers, then you ask me whatever you want"

"All right…"

"How do you know who I am and my life? Where did you find out about demigods and Camp Half-Blood? Are you a demigod? Who's your godly parent? Where are you from? Are you like a seer? How do you know almost everything about Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, Jason, Piper and the others?" He paused to take breath and Mika seized the chance.

"Whoa, whoa slow down there, have you been looking in my bag?

He had a guilty look on his face "Um, maybe"

"Right, ADHD and super sensing powers"

"Yep, that's me, but can you answer my questions now?"

"Ok, well I know everything about demigods, you, the others and Camp Half-Blood, through a book. I don't know if I'm a demigod and about my godly parent, because I'm adopted. I am not some crazy seer! I live in Germany, but I don't know where I'm from, my parents said I appeared at their doorstep."

"A book?"

"Yes, have you heard of Rick Riordan?"

"Um… Might have, I don't have that much of a memory"

"Well he wrote the books and there is a lot of info there, so I wrote some in my notebook"

There was a silence as Leo took this in "So there's some dude who somehow knows about my life and of other demigods and wrote down all the quests and prophecies?"

"Yes, but he actually told the whole story and put them in"

They were quite for a while and Mika noticed that she wasn't wearing the locket anymore.

"Leo?"

"Yes"

"Have you seen my locket?"

"It's right there, while it was glowing, the chain snapped and I fixed it, but now

it's shorter, so I put a clasp on it"

"Thank you!"

"Welcome" He picked it up and asking Mika to hold her hair up, he put the chain around her neck and fixed the clasp on. As his fingers brushed her skin, she blushed, but he didn't seem to notice.

"Thanks!"

"Welcome again"

"I owe you a lot"

"Yep, you do" He liked that.

"What can I do for you?"

He thought for a while and finally decided "How about your name?"

Mika laughed, "Lets do this formally, Hi I'm Mika Kennedy"

"Hello, I'm Leo Valdez, pleased to meet you" with an English accent so false, that Mika cracked up as he shook her hand.

When she stopped laughing, she said, "How about you come to dinner with my family tomorrow night, I won't owe as much, right?

"Sure, if your parents agree" Blushing, she'd just invited him out!

"I'll just tell them that I owe you and you might know something about my real family"

"Thanks!"

"Um, just a question, do you still like Thalia?" she asked

He fake-coughed, to cover up the laugh that had escaped his mouth "No"

"What happened?"

Should he tell her, would she think he was completely worthless? No she wouldn't, he could trust her, there was something about her…

"She, um, pushed me off a canoe and Percy had to come save me"

"Ouch!"

"You said it"

"Sorry, Leo, but I have to go now, my parents should be worrying" she got off the bed and straightened her clothes.

"That's ok, sorry for keeping you" he stood up, too.

"That's fine, you saved me after all and thank you so much for everything!" she headed for the doorway. She turned around while opening the door and looked back at Leo. "Bye, Leo"

"Bye, Mika"

They looked in each other's eyes for a moment and blushing Mika stepped out of the door and closed it behind her. Yep, Leo definitely liked this girl, he sat down on the bed, thinking of her shining chocolaty eyes.