Percy's POV

I woke up in a forest. I wondered how I got here and the events of last night coming back to me, the heartbreak, the pain of loss and betrayal. But then I remembered that I loved Clarisse. I feel like I'm forgetting something about last night. Oh yeah, Clarisse kissed me after she told me she loved me. Me, being a seaweed brain, forgot to tell her I feel the same. I'll have to thank Aphrodite for helping me get over my heartbreak. Over the next few months, Clarisse has been meaner and distant. Every time I try to talk to her, she has an excuse to leave. I had to talk to her so I waited at the arena for a couple of hours training my ass of, trying to hide my problems behind my training. Soon, I gave up thinking that she just said and did that so that she could save my life. I soon fell into a deep depression. I barely talked anymore and spent most of my time in my room. The only time I left my cabin was to train and to eat. I eventually stopped talking and over time, I forgot how to. Every time I left my cabin, the Ares, Hermes, Apollo, and Hephaestus cabins would throw taunts at me. But the ones that hurt the most came from the one I loved, Clarisse. My once happy, cheerful sea green eyes lost their mirth and happiness. All you could see was the pain of betrayal, loss and suffering. I decided to leave here and go where they wouldn't and couldn't find me, and a place where monster attacks were rare. I would leave and go to Canada. I packed my bags with ambrosia, nectar, my credit card (from the lotus casino because it never runs out of money), and some extra clothes and sugar cubes for blackjack. I headed towards the stables. I found Blackjack and told him the plan. I left after petting Peleus and walked away hoping to find a better life.

Clarisse's POV

After the little stunt happened, I avoided Percy. I had let myself go and forgotten my evil ways. I showed him affection. I kissed him for Zeus' sake! He's tried talking to me but I always found an excuse to get away. Then after a few months, he started giving up, training more, and less interaction. I wanted to go back to the way things used to be so I started taunting him with the other cabins again. Every time I would say something to him, I could see the pain that flashed through his eyes. His once beautiful, happy, carefree eyes lost their mirth and replaced it with pain, loss, and betrayal. For some reason, making him even more beautiful. He stopped coming out of his cabin for long amounts of time. Then, he just stopped talking and having fun. His life the same boring routine, wake up, go eat breakfast train till lunch, eat lunch, train till dinner, eat dinner, train till bedtime, than go to bed, every day for the past 6 months. But it paid off, his muscles became more toned and chiseled, his 12 pack toned and his tan skin shining in the sunlight. His hair always messy and his eyes that bore into your soul and he didn't even have to say anything for us to know that he was depressed. But I knew I was the cause of it. But, there was nothing I could do. After a month or so, I noticed I haven't seen Percy but I didn't say anything I waited for someone else to say something. But it wasn't until next month when all the cabin leaders that assisted in the Titan war were given immorality did anyone notice he was gone and to make it perfect timing, we had a new threat. One we would need Percy's help on.