Chapter 2

The way Percy said it was terrifying. He was wondering if Percy had come to the conclusion Leo was worthless and he deserved to be thrown off the Argo II, literally though, when Piper elbowed him in the ribs.

"Ow!" he yelped. All eyes turned to him.

Leo knew he should be used to this. I mean he's known and actually liked these guys longer than he's known and liked anybody in his life, but the attention made him uncomfortable. He blushed and glanced at Piper who was supressing a smile. Maybe a laugh.

"Ohhkaay..." Percy said.

Everyone smiled. Except for Jason, who was staring at him and Piper strangely. All eyes finally returned to Percy and Piper grinned. She still supressed the laugh though.

He didn't know why, but everytime she laughed, smiled, or just whenever he was around her, his heart seemed to race. He couldn't help it. He started to notice how beautiful her braided brown hair looked all of a sudden. He liked that unlike every other child of Aphrodite, Piper didn't care about what she looked like. Her kaleidoscope eyes twinkled happily and Leo wondered when the last time she'd smiled was. Ever since she and Jason began to fight, she begun to seem less like herself. Always gloomy and unhappy. He felt that even though Jason was his best friend, Piper deserved better.

"So guys..." Percy stated. Leo didn't know if he had been talking before, he'd been too busy thinking about Piper. He turned to look at Leo.

"So?.." he said with a shake of his head. Everyone turned to him again.

"Umm...sure?" He answered. Percy grinned, eyes twinkling with delight.

"Alright then! Everybody, go!" he waved his hands in an upward movement and all around him the water exploded up too. Percy blushed.

"Uh...sorry?" everyone burst out laughing. Even Jason this time.

They got up and went to their duties, except for Piper who followed Leo.

"Sup Beauty Queen. Need somethin?" Piper blushed but looked at Leo puzzled.

"We're supposed to be together, remember?" The way she said it made Leo's heart race faster than it already was. Man, he needed to fix that. Still, it hurt to know she didn't mean it.

"Uh..about that...I kinda spaced out, care to explain?" she giggled and told him Percy wanted to stop at a place called Konya in Turkey because of a dream vision he had. Leo nodded and got to work. Too bad he didn't know that at the orders of Percy, he had led them straight into an accidental trap.

KKKK. So there's a little cliff hanger and I know I haven't uploaded for like a million years except for uploading the updated first chapter,-still don't get it, still good.- so I will upload one more chapter tonight, Chapter 3, and then I won't upload until tomorrow. Okay. Dat all see y'all latah. Payce!

Sincerely,

realnickiip