Part 2: Athena or Aphrodite?
Chapter 1: Aphrodite.
I'm doing part 2 a little different, I'm doing chapters. So here's chapter 1, its only like 950 words.
I sat on the beach. The sun was rising and I was just sitting there staring at ocean. The scene just kept passing through my head. Over and over and over again. Thanks. She had said. For what? I had said stupidly. Everything. She answered. Then the kiss. Her sweet strawberry flavoured lips placed against mine. Then she had gone to our cabin. So many things had been wrong with that picture, but at the same time just as many things had been sooo right. My brain raced a million miles an hour. I stood up trying not to fall over. I stared at the ocean, the view not much different from when I had been sitting. I walked about two feet forward so my feet were just barely covered in water. I sighed and realized I should go back to the cabin when the air in front of me started shimmering. I knew it was an iris message I waited for the image to form and when it did I stepped back.
"Dad?" I said looking at my father smiling at me.
"Yes hello, Percy." I was wondering why he was phoning me.
"is something wrong?" I said and he scratched his head as if lost for words.
"I just heard about that girl, Penie?" I sighed and looked down. "just to let you know, Aphrodite has always liked to stick her big nose in heros love lives." Something hit my dad in the head, it was a blue plastic hairbrush. I laughed wondering how many other people used hairbrushes as weapons. He stepped out of the picture and started yelling at Aphrodite. All I heard was. Mess with my son… surgeon in Athens… Tartarus! Then he walked back into view. I scratched my head.
"So your point is?" he brushed some ash off his shirt and waved his hand across the image. Just before it disapered he said.
"I think you know." And then I found myself walking towards my cabin.
When I got to my cabin it was 530; Penie was sleeping in her bunk. I went over to my bed and looked at the minatory horn which was still hanging on my wall.
The next day I walked out of the cabin feeling really awkward. I walked down the camp looking for Annabeth, I had no idea what I was going to say but it just felt like it was the thing I needed to do. I circled the auditorium, almost got nailed in the head with an arrow in the argery range. We had lunch, I almost caught fire on the climbing wall took a walk around the field and then finally I spotted Annabeth sitting with June and May on the hill. I went over to them and asked May and June if I could talk to Annabeth alone they walked off and I sat next to Annabeth.
"Annabeth," I said and she looked at me. I fiddled with my pen. "It's about, Penie." At that point I kind of expected her to get really defensive; which at the moment she had the rite to. But she just blinked.
"ya." She said. I was trying to think of something to say when I heard someone behind me say "Percy!" I looked behind me and saw Penie walking towards me waving. She noticed Annabeth. "Annabeth!" I couldn't help notice it was less enthusiastic then when she said my name. I sighed king of disappointed I didn't get to talk to Annabeth alone. After talking for a while on many different subjects the conch sounded for dinner.
After dinner I went to the Athena cabin to wait for Annabeth. I leaned up against the side wall and yawned. "were is she?" I said to myself as camper after camper entered the cabin. The moon started to come out so I decided I must have mist her so I just headed back to my cabin. As I passed the Aphrodite cabin I wondered if I should tell Chiron I knew Penies parent, I kept walking and realized I kind of liked having Penie in my cabin; I wasn't alone anymore. i walked to my cabin but then I heard someone scream from the ampatheater. I guessed one of the first years had just discovered Mrs. O'Leary, and trust me, meeting a 2 ton black hell hound in the middle of the night was not something I suggest. I ran towards the screams. When I got in the theatre I gasped. Mrs. O'Leary was standing on top of someone. I whistled just as she threatened to lick the frightend girl.
"Bark!" she said and bounded over to me. She lowered her head and I scratched her ear.
"Don't eat the new campers," I scolded. She turned on her side. "Good girl." I stepped over to the girl in the middle of the court. Her hands were in front of her face and she was shaking uncontrollably. I put out my hand.
"I'm sorry Mrs. O'Leary just likes to-" I stopped, lying down underneath me was Penie. Her eye's big as dinner plates; She looked terrified.
"Penie, are you okay?" I asked. I helped her stand up on her shaking legs.
"You own that- that thing?" she asked. I brought her into a hug and she stopped shaking. "Percy?" she pulled back. Then she noticed something behind me and kissed me. I placed my arms around her neck subconsciously when I heard someone behind me call my name and then it die down slowly. (Perrccyy…?) I realest from Penie and turned around. Standing in the Ampatheater entrance was Annabeth.