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Chapter Three- Apollo's Children and The Beach
Miri's POV
When Nico took my hand during one-on-one combat, I swear I felt a little electricity go up my arm. It was a shock, really. Hey, I'm not being dramatic. Nico just makes me feel… good; even when he totally beat me in the rematch. I've only known him for a day and a half, but he's already the best brother in the world to me. Not that I have any other brothers, but…
"MMMIIIIRRRRIIIIII!!!!!" A voice yelled into my ear. A jumped a few feet in the air, and broke off from my thoughts to see my new friend, Lena. The pretty, angry, crazy and happy Lena Clipse, daughter of Apollo. She put her hands on her hips and stared at me. "Miri, what are you daydreaming about? I asked you if you're going to the beach tomorrow with me!"
"The…beach? I really… I'm…" I tried to make up an excuse from the top of my mind. "Uh, I can't because I'm… busy."
Lena crossed her arms and flipped back her auburn hair. "Busy with what? Everyone's got the day off tomorrow."
"I'm not going anyway," I huffed. Lena gave me a puppy dog look.
"Nope." I confirmed, tearing my eyes away from the cuteness. Lena's the kind of girl that has looks… and anger issues.
"You're coming!" I looked up and saw an arrow inches away from my face, Lena holding the bow.
"Okay!" I whimpered, raising my hands in the air.
Lena smiled and lowered the bow. Crazy daughter of Apollo! I thought to myself.
I must've looked a little depressed about going, because Lena whispered, "I heard everyone's going, even Percy. And you know what that means?"
I blinked. "Um… no, not really."
Lena rolled her eyes. "It means, Percy's gonna convince NICO to go!"
Suddenly, I remembered this morning, when Nico was only in his boxers. Although he looks skinny, he's not scrawny. He's got really lean muscles and…
"You're drooling." Lena commented before skipping happily away, her long hair trailing behind her.
I shook my head, trying to clear my thoughts. I do NOT have a crush on my half brother. I do NOT!
That is just plain GROSS! And that's so stupid, falling for someone you only knew for a day. I don't like him in that way. It's like… incest!
But what if I do?
DAMMIT! SHUT UP, MIRI, SHUT UP!
Nico's POV
There was a knock on the cabin door. I rolled off my bed, ruffling up my hair. If it was Miri, I had to look good. Oh, wait… Miri wouldn't knock, would she? This is her cabin,too, right?
I'm an idiot.
"Nico!" Percy said once I opened the door. He looked really happy... but also like he was going to ask something from me. Uh oh.
I groaned as his green eyes sparkled. "What do you want from me, Percy?"
Percy's eyes glittered even more. They literally looked like emeralds mixed with sea water.
"Hey, man. Do you want to go to the beach?"
I slammed the door in his face.
Later that night
I couldn't sleep, so I decided to have a loooong conversation about weapons with the ghost of an old army general. It wasn't fun, though, when we woke up Miri.
She immediately gave me a piercing glare and rolled over in bed when I explained I couldn't sleep. "Shut up. It's your own fault you took a nap in the middle of the day. Do you usually do that?"
"Hey!" I argued. "I didn't get enough naptime anyway! Percy woke me up!"
At this, Miri turned around to look at me. "Really? Did he mention anything about… going to the beach?"
I was surprised. "How did you know that?"
She shrugged, and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you… Are you going?"
Miri had a tint of hopefulness in her voice, and I wondered if she was going.
"Are you going?" I asked. Miri laughed and said, "Yeah. I better, or Lena's gonna kill me with her archery skills. What about you?"
I looked at her. She looked hopeful, and she somehow reminded me of when I was with Bianca.
"I… Um…" Why was my mouth suddenly very dry? "Sure, I'll go."
Miri smiled, then pressed her face to her pillow and said—voice muffled— "You rock, Nico!"
And, after that, I fell asleep.
Miri's POV
Yes, I do have a crush on my half brother. You're thinking,EEEWWW!!!, right? But it's not really incest, I think. Gods don't have DNA, so we're practically… not related. I really do like Nico…
I woke up early, because I had to find that black one-piece I had. I rummaged in my backpack, which I hadn't bothered to really unpack. All I took out before was my pajamas, my hoodie, a pair of jeans, my eyeliner, and Ribcage, my teddy bear. Now I dumped the whole bag over. Shorts, jeans, another hoodie(I don't get hot in the summer), liquid eyeliner, pencil eyeliner, two shirts, socks, flip-flops… all that stuff and more. I wondered how it all fit in that backpack. Finally, I found my... bikini. I stared at it for a long time, before sighing and slipping it on. Then I put on shorts and a T-shirt over it and headed out the door toward the Apollo cabin.
I knocked on the door,and waited for Lena or one of her siblings to open up.
And a hot guy answered.
My mouth dropped open as I stared at him. He had blond hair, dark blue eyes, and a smile as bright as his dad's.
"I answer the door
There is a hot emo girl
Hi, I am Aaron." The guy ticked off in haiku. The poem was bad… and he was hitting on me!
"Hey, I'm Miri." I said, forcing a smile. "And I'm not emo, I just like dark clothes. Plus, I'm Hades' daughter."
Aaron's grin faltered a little when I said Dad's name, but he regained it quickly. "You're cute. Who are you looking for, babe?"
"Lena," I answered.
Aaron winced. "My scary sis, huh? Come on in, cutie."
I entered the cabin. Lena was sitting on one of the top bunks, painting her nails orange. "Lena!" I called out to her. She looked up from her self-manicure and grinned at me. "Hey, Miri! You ready to go to the shore?" She blew on her pinky nail and jumped off the bunk.
"Are you ready?" I asked her. Lena nodded, then frowned. "Sorry, but Percy said he couldn't convince Nico," she said.
I smiled. "Yeah, but I convinced him!"
Lena squealed, and for a moment she sounded like a daughter of Aphrodite. "He must really like you," she breathed dreamily.
"Who?" Aaron interrupted.
"No one!" I said quickly, glaring at Lena, who promptly ignored me. "No one but her one true love!" she sang. Aaron narrowed his eyes, and I inched toward the door, kind of creeped out. "Uh… See you guys later!" I left immediately.
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Nico was already up when I got back to Cabin 13. He was in swimming trunks and a T-shirt. He looked great, and so much better than Aaron, I realized. But he was also scowling.
"Hey, Nico, what's up?" I asked, wiping up my drool and wondering what was wrong.
He looked at me and smiled. "Nothing much. But… do we have to go to the beach?" he seemed annoyed, but didn't even wait for my answer. "Whatever. Anyway, you look great."
I blushed at the unexpected compliment. "Thanks, you do too."
I opened the door and we both headed off to breakfast.
I sat at the Hades table, sipping orange juice. Next to me, Nico scarfed down some bacon. For some reason, he looked really pissed. There was a crack on the floor that was growing and growing… flames were coming out of it. I stared hard at the crack, and willed it to close up again. The black fire died down, but the crack was still there. I clenched my fist, and a wall of black stone filled it up. I looked up, slightly tired out, to see what Nico was glaring at.
Aaron was smiling at me from the Apollo table. Uh, ew!
So I faked a smile back and grabbed Nico's coffee. I had to stay awake if I wanted to have a perfect day.
When we arrived at the beach, I closed my eyes and breathed in sea air. Mmm… It was salty. Percy looked like he was in heaven. He could've just went into the water without getting wet, but no... he took off his shirt anyway, so he could show off his six-pack.(Annabeth was salivating, although sh was trying to hide it.)
And Nico... Nico...Nico...
Yeah, that's how good he looks.
Aaron's POV
Okay, that Miri chick is pretty cute. I haven't really taken any serious interest in girls lately—because I'm too busy worrying about her, back home—but maybe I'll make an exception. Whenever I mention it, though, Lena's all, "Oh, she already has a one true love." Then she muttered something about "insects" or whatever.
So I'm at the beach, looking good as usual, hitting on the Aphrodite girls. I'm really just looking for Miri.
"LENA!" I scream. My red-headed sis with the anger issues skips over.
"Whattaya want, hot shot?" she asks.
"Find me Miri. Now."
Oops. I shouldn't have been so demanding, because Lena's pulling out her bow and arrows…
"Gods, Lena, I'm sorry! Just tell me where Miri is!"
Lena glares at me still, and jabs her finger toward a random direction. I follow her finger and… there's Miri! Holy Apollo, she looks hot in that bikini!
"Thanks. What's she doing?" I ask, too lazy to look myself. Hey, she's far away.
"Are you blind?!" Lena yells.
"Nah, just lazy." I answer, slipping on my shades, hoping my half sis doesn't kill me.
Lena just sighs in exasperation and says, "She's building a sand castle with Nico."
Uh… who's Nico again? I squint hard, trying to see them. Oh, Nico's that dude… who's the kid of… I forgot. Thanatos, maybe? Whoever he is, he shouldn't be with Miri. Suddenly, I felt like an over-protective brother. Or boyfriend.
I grabbed Lena's bow before she could stop me and took a good aim. I used the special arrows that don't injure people that much, but they do sting.
There… a little to the left… perfect! I pulled back, then let go. I watched the arrow soar through the air, getting closer to hitting my target… but at the last moment, Nico looked up. Damn his fast reflexes! He made a huge wall of black stone come in front of himself and Miri, and my arrow bounced harmlessly off. Miri turned to me.
I gulped, because her eyes were glowing a little black. Like, madwoman eyes. She looked pissed, really pissed. She got up and stomped toward me.
"WHAT THE HADES DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" she screamed. There was crazy fury in her eyes. I looked down and saw a crack. Yeah, a huge crack on the beach, with some sand falling into it. But when the sand fell, it burst into flames! I took a step back, because the crack was growing bigger and bigger.
"Miri?" I said weakly. Did she really like that Nico dude that much? Where was Nico anyway? Oh, he was still sitting next to the sand castle, staring at Miri with a look of confusion in his dark eyes. He didn't even seem that grumpy anym—Wait minute, dark eyes? I looked from Miri to Nico, from Nico to Miri. They had the same glowing irises, except at the moment Miri's were angrier. But they were the same, for sure. They were Hades' eyes.
Oh, gods. So that's who Nico's dad is. Nico and Miri are siblings, nothing else. Oops.
The crack was getting under my feet… and… OH SHIT! Yeah, I fell.
"AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!" I started shrieking like a little girl… before I realized someone was stopping me from falling to my doom. I looked up and saw… Nico, his hand locked onto my wrist. (How did he run over so fast?) He pulled me up, and turned to Miri.
"WHAT THE HADES WERE YOU DOING?"
"HE WAS TRYING TO SHOOT YOU!"
"I'M A BIG BOY, I CAN HANDLE IT MYSELF!"
"But Nico, I was actually worried about you…" A strange expression crossed Miri's face.
Nico smiled at her. It was strange to see that dark and scary guy smile like that.
"Thanks, Miri." He slung his arm around her shoulders, and the hurt look on Miri's face turned into a grin. "Come on, bro, let's finish our castle." They walked away.
Shit, what was that? I thought. Incest much?
That. was. Terrible. I want some aaaccttiioonn!
Travis Stoll: Yeah, me too!
Me: How the Hades did YOU get here?
Travis: I'm not really sure. You're on your own with that one.
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