Through the day I didn't think of him as much, but I knew I was over him and just wanted to let out my anger on him, so you know, I was perfectly fine for a girl who had been manipulated and had her heart smashed, I was handling it better than when it happened to a sister of mine, Jade. She almost went crazy, she went into depression and had to check into a mental hospital, they later found that she used cloth from her sheets and ripped it into a strip then pushed the bed on its side with the cloth around her neck and she slowly died from lack of oxygen, the boy who broke her was her best friend from her childhood, I remember seeing him at the funeral, after everyone left, I saw him bend down by her grave, I was so angry at him that I made vines grow around him and I heard he was stuck there for a day or two.
When I finally got home I dropped the keys on the counter of our kitchen table and slouched down on a couch. I groaned and kicked my shoes off.
"Honey! I'm home!" I yelled sarcastically from where I was laying down, I didn't hear Miranda, so I figured she went out, I was right, I saw a paper folded in half hot dog style so that it was partially in the air. I made a vine get it for me and bring it to me, I don't know why I was so tired but I was, I think Hypnos was messing with me. The note said she went to the grocery store, it was written in her neat hand writing, I sighed, no one could forge her signature, it was way to hard, it had many loops and funny turns, almost like another language, most likely she was writing in English and greek at the same time.
I watched Harry Potter and the halfblood prince on TV. I feel asleep right after Harry and Ginny put the book back. In my dream I saw Travis swimming, some girls, most likely Aphrodite ones, were giggling, pointing, and swooning over him, he didn't seem to notice this, he just did laps away from them. I thought of him as a sorta friend. He hopped on the beach nowhere near the girls who were staring at him. He seemed lost in thought.
"Miss her so much, damn brother" he muttered. Wait… he was talking about me. Even though he couldn't see me, I blushed. I don't know why, I had never had romantic feelings towards him, well maybe once or twice… but that wasn't the point.
Travis got up and walked back to his cabin. I didn't see why he wanted to be with me, I mean those girls who were drooling over him were wayyyyy prettier than me. I had frizzy/curly hair and they had natural silky hair. Those girls had perfect bodies. I- well didn't care if I was fat or not, as long as I was happy, but working with plants so much made me have an okay body, but compared to them I had the body of a fat man. I didn't have nice clothes like them, my family wasn't that well off.
As I thought of this, why did I ever think Connor liked me? I mean- wait, what was that? I heard a noise, it sounded like it was from my apartment, I was slowly waking up, Travis must've finally been able to see me, he turned and once he saw me got up and grabbed my hand and when I woke up he was on top of me, staring into my eyes his arms were on either side of me, he still in his swim suit.
"Katie?!" he asked/yelled. I pushed him off me and took out my twin daggers, I brought one to his face as he was against a wall.
"How'd you do that?" I asked him. My green eyes staring into his blue ones. The longer I looked the more attracted to him I got, damn Aph!
"Do what?" he seemed confused.
"Get here" I growled at him. I moved the dagger to his neck.
"I just grabbed you" he told me.
"Do you know where you are?" I asked him. He shook his head.
"We all thought both of you died, Nico talked to your ghosts, they told him that you two died in a tornado" he told me. I was half a head smaller than him, but could handle him just fine. I was starting to want to kiss him.
"Aph…" I mumbled and warned her. Travis seemed confused.
"What?" he asked. My focus came back to me.
"Shut up" I growled at him. Just then my door opened and a few snake ladies came in. I sighed and ran over to them and while I fought one, the other went over to Travis who was still in shock.
"Fight dumbass!" I yelled at him. He tore off his thin string like necklace with a shark tooth on it, a gift from his father, it turned into a sword and he fought the other one. Mine swung at me, so I ducked and landed on one of my arms and hopped up then in a swift move I cut its head off and gold dust replaced it. I ran over to Travis's monster and made an X over her with both my daggers. After she turned into dust Travis and I looked at each other.
We started fighting. He swung his sword at my leg. I jumped over it and kicked his chest successfully. He got up quick and swung his sword at me, I blocked it with one of my daggers and with the other disarmed him and made the sword go up and I grabbed it with one of my hands and made it back into a necklace and put it on my neck fast. Then I jumped on Travis and he punched me in the face. I made my daggers return into two thin simple bronze bracelet.
"So that's how you want to play, fine" I kicked him where the sun don't shine. He groaned and leaned over. I used all my anger to pick him up with one arm and I pointed one of my daggers I got out at him. I made it go to his neck. I put him down and held him down on the couch so now we were in the same position as before, just with me over him and I was holding him down with more force. I kept one dagger at his neck.
"Katie…" he said, a sad look in his eyes.
"Don't go there! Are they looking for us anyway?" I asked him. He shook his head.
"No, Nico seeing you two in the underworld made us think you died, but how'd you do it?" he asked, amazed. I wanted so badly to kiss him, it was only willpower that made sure I didn't do it.
"Good, Travis, promise me you won't tell them, anyone at camp anything I tell you, swear on Styx" he sighed.
"I swear on the river Styx that I, Travis Stoll, will not tell anyone at camp or from camp or going to camp or just anyone who doesn't already know about Katie Gardner or Miranda Gardiner" He said. Thunder boomed outside. I smiled and removed the dagger from his neck.
"Katie?" he asked. I was still on him.
"Hmm?" I was distracted by something happening outside.
"Can you remove the one from um… down there?" he asked. I looked at my other hand and removed the dagger.
"Afraid Travis?" I asked him. I returned my daggers to bracelets.
"No, just uncomfortable" he said. I smiled.
"Well, get used to it" I said. He smirked and flipped our positions over. Now he was on top of me. His face was half an I;nch from mine. He blushed and got off me. He put his hand out, I grabbed it.
"So I was thinking of staying here… in Savannah, right?" he asked. I went to the kitchen and sat on one of the bar stools we had while he looked around our apartment.
"Yeah, it's Savannah" I told him while I was spinning around on the stool.
"Can I stay here?" he asked. I laughed.
"Well, I wouldn't be much of a friend if I said no, so yeah, of course, the guest room is the one with the door sawed in half, before you ask, Miranda accidently did that last night" I told him after his weird expression. "I'll show you, come on" I grabbed his hand and showed him his room, it was simple and small, a bathroom attached to it.
"It's nice, simple, but nice, watch out for the lower part, it likes to stay in" I told him. He nodded and got moved in, he only had his swim trunks on and his necklace, so not much there. "I've got this" I put my ring finger on the glass door knob. I blacked out, it was fine with me, I made it this happen on purpose.
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, my exams were during the second to last week and last week of school, so I was a little busy, but I made honor role so I'm happy. So review if you want, oh! Remember, Love ya guys!
~JasperAndPercabeth
