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Chapter 2: Not knowing, maybe falling

Two weeks later.

Emily

It's been 2 weeks since we arrived at Camp Half-blood, and things are going pretty smoothly.

Well, for me they are.

Lyric's having trouble adjusting, I mean, first day she picks a fight with the toughest girl in the Camp. Then she gets claimed as the daughter of Poseidon. And her brother, Percy, hasn't exactly rolled out the welcome mat.

They've been arguing about any and everything.

"He's just… Ugh! He hates me." Lyric said sitting across from me on a workbench while I made weapons for Capture the Flag.

"He doesn't hate you. He has no reason to." I said, sandblasting a piece of wood.

"Oh, he doesn't need a reason. My existence is enough."

"I can see why that would bother him." A voice said in the doorway. I turned and saw my half-brother, Leo. Lyric's blush deepened as he sat down next to her. "He's been through a lot. Surviving 2 wars, only to find out he has a sister who his dad was keeping safe this whole time so she wouldn't become a child of the prophecy. I'd be pissed too."

"But it's not my fault. I mean Poseidon did it. It's not my fault my mom got knocked up and gave birth to the greatest person ever." She joked.

Leo laughed. "So, Emily, do you have a weapon for Capture the Flag?"

"Yup, making it now, but that reminds me." I pulled a box from under the table with a turquoise bow. "For you." I said to Lyric.

She eyed it for a second. "I'm not going to get blasted with flour this time, right?"

"Of course not." I laughed.

"Shit! Did I forget our friend anniversary thing?"

"No! It's just a gift! Open it!" I stood there, excitedly while she pulled it out the box.

"Hairclips?"

"Press the bottoms." I instructed. She did and they grew into two massive curved knives, which looked almost like waves.

"I call them τραχύ ρεύμα" I smiled. "I figured since Percy has riptide, I'd make you something cooler."

"Rough current." She translated quietly as she thumbed the knife's handle. "Geez, Emmy I don't know what to say."

"Try thanks." I suggested. She rolled her eyes.

"Thank you, Emily." She said almost mockingly.

"No probl—" I started to retort when someone walked through the door of the workshop. He looked like the boy who took care of my when I first came to camp only his hair was shorter and he was way more muscular. His eyes we're blue but instead of the baby blue they we're an Electric type of blue. He wore a half smirk and when he saw me the grin widened.

Fuck.

Lyric

Emily was under the table.

"Look at you, the social butterfly." I whispered to her while Leo was talking to the guy that just walked in. she held up a middle finger from under the table. I chuckled.

"Oh, Jason. This is Lyric, Percy's sister." Leo introduced me.

"I'm just Lyric. I don't like it when people connect me to someone I barely know."

"Understood." Jason nodded.

"Where'd Em go?" Leo asked me.

"I don't know, but she's supposed to be making weapons instead of hiding." I said loudly, putting emphasis on the last phrase. She bit my leg under the table. I kicked her.

Jason stood up. "I'm going to go find Piper. I'll catch up with you later. It was nice to meet you, Lyric." I waved as he walked out.

Emily came from under the table.

"Wimp." I fake coughed.

"Fuck you." She responded.

"Someone care to explain what just happened?"

"Just Em being the socialite she is." I smirked. She punched me in the arm.

"I'm just a little socially awkward."

"We're all socially awkward. Its just Jason, he's not that bad."

"Yea Em, its just Jason." I said, putting Emphasis on his name mockingly. Her blush deepened.

"Lyric, as much as I love you, if murder we're legal. I'd shoot you first."

"Geez, Love you too." I said sarcastically.

"What are you guys talking about?"

"Yea, it's hard to keep up with us, I see. Well, basically Emily thinks your friend is hot and she can't talk to hot guys. That's why she was under the table."

"She can talk to me though."

"You're setting yourself up for a sarcastic remark, buddy." I laughed.

"Lyric, shut up." Em said hitting me upside the head. "It's because you're my brother and I know you. I don't know him." She sighed.

"Your not going to know him if you keep Turtling every time you see him."

"Turtling?" Leo asked.

"It's what Lyric calls it. When I see a hot guy and I hide like a turtle in its shell." Em explained.

"That's a sad life." Leo said Emily just shrugged. "If you want I could talk to him for you."

"Didn't he just say he was going to see a girl?" I asked.

"Him and Piper are just friends. I mean, she did like him before but he didn't feel the same way."

"So she got friend-zoned." I clarified.

"Basically, Em, do you want me to introduce you guys or—"

"As much as I love you guys playing matchmaker. If I really wanted him then I'll do it myself on my own time." She said. "Now I have to finish this before tonight." She turned back to the machines, Leo looked at me but I just shrugged.

"Well, I'm going to go sleep in the bottom of a lake." I said getting up. Emily turned, wide-eyed. "Quit worrying. I can breathe underwater. Anything's better then being stuck with Percy Jackass. See you later."

XXX

"Your mom sent your stuff." Percy said, not moving from his bunk. He pointed to the far wall where a suitcase, a box and a guitar case laid on a single bed. I opened the box and pulled out things like a seashell crusted digital picture frame (that Em made for me), my surfing medals, and pictures of the horses I raised from birth.

"Do you play?" Percy asked a little force. I rolled my eyes.

"Yes, but it seems like you don't want to know about it so I won't talk." I said looking through the box again. "Where is it?" I said to myself.

"Where's what?"

A blush crept up my cheek. "None of your business." I said grabbing my guitar, and walking out the cabin.

"Upon the hill across the blue lake,

That's where I had my first heartbreak.

I still remember how it all changed.

My father said,

"Don't you worry, don't you worry, child.

See heaven's got a plan for you.

Don't you worry, don't you worry now."

Yeah!

Oh, oh, oh!

Oh, oh, oh!" I sang and strummed quietly as I sat on the pier of the canoe lake. I heard slow clapping behind me. I jumped and heard a roar in my ears. I turned and saw Leo soaked from head to toe.

"Oh gods, I'm so sorry." I said, trying to dry him as much as possible. "I scare easily and I didn't even know I could do that. Shit! I'm sorry." I continue to rub his stomach. "And what the fuck am I doing? This isn't going to help—"

"Lyric, its just water. I'll be fine. But you could stop rubbing me, its getting kind of weird."

"I'm sorry." I said moving my hand. "I'm usually not this awkward."

He chuckled. "So I gather. It's funny how you make fun of Em because of how she is around guys but around me," He moved really close to me, so much that I could smell him. He had a very warm vibe to him and he smelled like how it smelled when you sat in front of a fireplace. "You're the exact same way." He whispered in my ear, in a way it made me feel inferior.

I don't like that.

So I pushed him into the lake and ran.

Emily

"As I move my feet towards your body

I can hear this beat it fills my head up

And gets louder and louder

It fills my head up and gets louder and louder

There's a drumming noise inside my head

That starts when you're around

I swear that you could hear it

It makes such an all mighty sound" I sang silently and danced around the workshop. I was the only one in there so I had no reason to be embarrassed.

Plus I always listened to Florence + the machine when I'm working.

"Louder than sirens

Louder than bells

Sweeter than heaven

And hotter than he—" I stopped when I saw him in the doorway.

Someone up there hates me. I figured it was the God of stupid, makes-you-want-to-die-in-a-hole utter embarrassment.

And if I couldn't be more embarrassed, I slipped on motor oil. Trying to hide. Jason ran to my aid.

"Ow." I said, pointedly.

"Yea that's a horrible gash." He said pointing to my head. "Where's the first aid kit?"

I pointed to one of the cabinets. After he got the kit, he began cleaning the cut with rubbing alcohol. It stung but I've felt worse.

"You don't talk much, do you?" He said, smiling. Gods, even his smile is perfect. I thought to myself. He sat on the floor next to me, extremely close. He smelt like a soft breeze. Which is weird because you can't really know what a breeze smells like; I mean a breeze is going to smell like whatever it's near. Which in his case was probably a meadow. Soft grass, maybe some flowers. Possibly daisies or daffodils, though my favorite flower is the dogwood, which is Virginia's state flower. Virginia's really nice this time of year…

Sorry I tend to overthink around guys, ADHD sorry.

"I guess I don't." I answered after a while.

"Your not going to run under a table this time right?"

"You saw that?" I blushed.

"It was hard to miss. Why was that anyway?"

"I'm socially awkward and I can't talk to guys that are… you know."

He grinned wider. "That are what?" he asked mockingly, I rolled my eyes.

"Are you really going to make me say it?"

"Naw, I got the general idea. If it's any constellation, I think your kind of cute too."

"And who said I thought you were cute?" I said in a flirtatious tone. Oh my gods, I'm turning into Lyric! I thought to myself.

He blushed crimson. "I-I, uh—"

"I'm kidding." I said laughing. "Calm down, thanks though."

"For what?"

"Bandaging my head." I said pointing to the newly bandaged wound.

"Oh, no problem. Have you seen Leo?"

"He's in Bunker 9 last time I saw him. If you'll excuse me I have jars of Greek fire to make."

"Oh, I'll uh, I'll see you later." He said before backing out of the room. I waved.

That was the first time I had a real conversation with a guy I really liked.

Oh, I'm so gonna rub this in Lyric's face.

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