Sooo warning this is kind of sappy and romantic and all the stuff that usually makes me gag so I kinda suck at writing it. It just needs to be like this so the sad stuff is more heartbreaking. I'm a lot better at writing that...I have been told i have no soul.

Charlie's POV


So in my mind I had it planned out that I'd triumphantly burst into cabin 10, sweep Silena off her feet and we'd live happily ever after.
Boy was I wrong. Well I did burst in, with a little too much force. So much that I ripped off the cabin door.
Oops.
The residents of cabin 10 just stared at me in complete shock, gapping mouths and all.

"Umm, I'll fix that." I mumbled oh so intelligently. I quickly placed the door back on its hinges then ran away like my heels where on fire. Oh my gods, I think to myself, that was really embarrassing and I don't get embarrassed easily. Oh well, I wasn't about to let that stop me, I need to find Silena and fast while I was still filled with adrenalin. In my mind I divided the camp into quadrants. Number 1 would be the cabins, mess hall, climbing wall, amphitheatre and part of the canoe lake. The other three would follow suite. I'd look for her following that pattern that way I'll be productive. I was just on my way to start on the second quadrant when a large palomino pegasus flew overhead in the direction of the stables. Jeez why didn't I think to check there first?

I opened the stable doors with a bit more caution as to not have a repeat of the episode at cabin 10. When I stepped in I thought I had triggered some kind of trap because there was a huge explosion that shook the whole building. The campers who were already in here just sighed and went about trying to calm the frightened pegasi. Must be Jake testing the greek fire bombs. I was walking down the aisle looking for Silena when I ran in to Percy.

"Oh hey, have you found Silena yet?" I shook my head, no sadly I hadn't. "Well Blackjack here says he just dropped her off on the beach with…" I never gave him a chance to finish, I wheeled around and ran for the door. I wouldn't have heard him anyway because another earth shaking explosion ripped through the air. The campers let out groans and ran about trying to regain the state of calm they just had in their barn.

I got to the beach completely out of breath, I rested my hands on my knees as I ran through some scenarios in my head:
1) Hi, I bet you know this but you are crazily beautiful and I think I might be in love with you.
2) Oh h- *faints
*

I groan, neither of those is desirable. Then I hear the most beautiful sound, her laugh coming from my right. I turn to the hypnotic noise; all I see is her sweet silhouette looking in my direction. My legs were moving before my brain even told them to. I was no longer tired it was like my body was rejuvenated by her presence. I couldn't close the gap between us fast enough; it was like time was standing still. I could faintly hear a little voice in the back of my head, 'Oh dude please, stuff like this normally makes you sick. What's wrong with you?' I chose to ignore it. I didn't care.

I was snapped out of my daze when I ran right into Silena knocking us both over. I just laid there, my eyes hungrily examining her face. Her eyes are so blue it's like you are looking at the sky; her nose and cheeks are dotted with a couple freckles and a few tendrils of her long dark brown hair tickled my face. I could have stayed like that forever.

"…Can't breathe." She squeaked.

"Oh gods, I'm so sorry!" I quickly scrambled away and helped her up. She just stared at me, with those intense baby blues. At first I thought she was mad, but then she just started to laugh uncontrollably. Now it was my turn to be in shock, I didn't know what was going on and she just kept laughing. I wasn't sure what to do but I could feel myself start to laugh too, nervous at first but then it became that crazy uncontrollable laugh. We stood there laughing like idiots for… I don't know how long, but I don't care. As our laughter died off I grabbed her by the waist and pulled her close; I have never been so happy in my life.

"I have been looking for you all morning." I blurted. Oh gods, did I really just say that? Way to kill the mood. Just smile, pretend like you didn't just say that. I smiled nervously.

"I know…. Um I mean, oh really? How sweet of you… Wow if mother could only see me now, she'd be so proud... not." She let out like a nervous laugh. I think that is extremely mean of Aphrodite, goddess of love or not how could she NOT approve of this? Everything about this girl is absolutely perfect. This is how love should be commercialized, crazy, quirky and anything but perfection. At this point is where my instincts took over, and I'm grateful otherwise I would not have known what to do. I was pulling her in with one hand on the small of her back and with the other I was tilting up her chin.

"Well I do." Was all I said and I was kissing her. My stomach turned in knots, but an animal in my chest was roaring with triumph. Forget what I said before, now I have never been happier in my life. I wanted to live in that moment forever, sadly that is not possible.

"Stay with me today. Please." She says, slightly out of breath. I want to say "of course I will, I want to stay with you forever". Only I can't find my voice to speak so I just nod my head, grab her hand and lead her down the beach. I don't take my eyes off of her the entire time; I watch the way the sun reflects of her hair and skin it's almost like she is glowing. Every inch of her radiates beauty.

"Wow." I say under my breath. She stops walking and turns to face me.

"What?" she couldn't of looked more sincere, but I seriously don't know how she doesn't see what I'm talking about.

"You obviously"

"Oh, thank you." She looks away, hair in her flushed face. I chuckle and kiss her on the head.

We laid on the beach in the shade up till dinner time. We had talked about everything and nothing, we learned about each other's lives outside of camp, our hoped, ambitions, dreams. Plans for our future -she wants to go to college but it has been really hard for her because of her dyslexia, not just like the demigod dyslexia but she has the mortal dyslexia too-. I want to help her but I don't really know how, we never ran out of things to say which was nice. Being with this girl is so easy and feels so right. A couple times during our day my brain would try and tell me things to take me away from her like war, fire, explosions, I chose to ignore them. I never wanted to leave her side.

When the sun was setting we decided we should go back before someone sent out a search party. We walked to the mess hall hand in hand, passing some slightly shocked campers as we did. Some of Silena's siblings would run away squealing and other campers would clap. I felt completely out of place and I wanted to burry myself in the ground, but looking at Silena and seeing how happy she was reminded me of how happy I was and that all these people didn't matter.

Sadly we couldn't sit together so we broke apart and went to our designated tables. My head was in the clouds for the entire meal, I don't even remember hearing Chiron's speech because I was staring across the dining pavilion at the greatest thing that ever happened to me. One of my sisters had to shake me out of my trance for the offering, I had barely touched my meal but I sent the whole thing to the flames.

"Hephaestus." I say. Aphrodite, please accept some of my offering as a thank you too.
I have never been to a campfire that was as fun as the one that happened today. The flames shot up high into the sky, everyone was laughing and singing. Even me, I'm normally not that into it but I was today. I was completely intoxicated by her presence, I don't think anything could ruin this moment.
Well I guess I spoke to soon.

A couple campers from the Hermes cabin hoisted Silena up over their shoulders. Oh gods not this, I plead, I totally forgot about this. It is a tradition, almost as old as the camp itself. Whenever two campers make their relationship public they must take a nice frigid dip in the lake. The remaining members of the Hermes cabin had a harder time lifting me up so they had to ask Tyson, as soon as I was up off the ground we started marching toward the lake. Again I wanted the ground to swallow me up, but the look on Silena's face made me feel so guilty for ever feeling embarrassed. Her large, beautiful grin clearly showed that she was enjoying the attention and if she was I'd make an effort to. I put a smile on my face though it wasn't all that hard.

All too soon we were tossed into the icy lake; I looked around for Sliena when I was tapped on the shoulder. I spun around to the most beautiful sight; her hair surrounded her head like a halo, eyes gleaming. I grabbed her by the waist, kissed her and pulled her ashore. When we emerged from the water everyone was there cheering, even Percy and Annabeth. Silena put her hand on my cheek and whispered in my ear,

"Let's give them a show." I didn't know what she meant by that but next thing I knew she was kissing me and the crowd roared even louder.
Oh I see. So I decided to play along and spun her around in a dramatic dip. I'm not sure it was possible but the crowd got even louder, but I didn't really notice them. Everything in this moment, with Silena feels so right. Little did I know it was about to go all wrong.


So hopefully I did not make you sick. If I did please R&R. Fill my empty blackened heart with ideas of romance! .-.