So, this is the third chapter, co written by slcswimmer14! I was really upset when I saw that last chapter had no reviews, AT ALL. So, I'm literally begging for reviews. Please, you guys!


Jemma's POV

I walk into the dining room to see everyone sitting down and filling their plates, well except for Madison. She obviously was waiting for me.

Dinner goes normally until I hear Jayden start to murmur with Troy. Their heads are tilted together and when they sit in their seats normally, it all spirals down.

I go to take a bite of my quesadilla when a large spoonful of sour cream lands on my face. I let out a high pitched screech and I hear Ebony, Jayden and Troy laughing.

I grab a handful of my Spanish rice and shove it into Jayden's face. The rest of the house starts laughing then and we begin a full out food fight.

When Cedric comes down five minutes later, we all freeze, but Jayden and I know we are in trouble because we are the only ones with food in our hands when he walks in.

"You." Cedric points at Jayden. "And you." He points at me. "Clean up this mess. Now!" He stalks out of the room and we all look at each other and laugh. Madison has Spanish rice in her hair and a dollop of sour cream on her nose. Parker's face is covered in sour cream except for one line that looks like he ran his finger through it and plopped it on Madison's nose. Tony's light brown hair has speckles of Spanish rice and bits of avocados in it.

Sabrina's got shredded cheese almost braided in her long hair and has diced tomatoes as well, already beginning to stain her blonde hair. Ebony's dark blonde hair is coated in a layer of salsa with onions on top. If she had cheese, I could almost be tempted to eat her.

Troy seems to have missed most of the food even though he helped start it. He only has bits of salsa on his clothes and a little bit of sour cream on his face. Jayden, he looks horrible. His usually spiked hair is flat on his head and is covered with salsa. His face has a little bit of everything from the table on it, minus tomatoes that is. The white shirt that he had been wearing is stained with salsa, tomatoes, avocado, and Spanish rice, causing a red, green and orange pattern to be made on his shirt. As the rest of the house keeps on looking at each other, we laugh even more. The only reason we stop is because Cedric yells from upstairs.

The rest of the house is quick to leave and Jayden and I set to the task of cleaning up. We hear the two showers in the house running and we know that one of the girls and one of the boys are cleaning up. Jayden washes down the walls and floor while I pick up what food is left on the table. I scoop all the toppings into the garbage, seeing as all of our hands had been in them, and wrap the remaining quesadillas up and put them in the fridge. I walk in with a broom and begin sweeping the food off the floor.

I keep noticing Jayden looking at me from out of the corner of my eye, but I keep on dismissing it. Jayden finishes cleaning up the floor and walks into the kitchen. I hear the sink faucet turn on and I know he's washing dishes.

I sweep up what's left of the food and dump it in the rubbish bin. I walk up to his left and start drying the dishes he's already washed.

"Jemma." He says. I look up at him. He stops washing the dish in his hand and looks down at me.

"Yes?" I ask. The way he's staring at me with green eyes is unsettling to me. We stand in silence for another minute or two and then he looks away.

"Never mind." He mumbles. We finish washing the dishes in silence and then we walk together to his room, where I hear voices. He's about to open the door when I put my hand on his arm, effectively stopping him. We know Parker's in there, it's his room too after all. But we only know it's a girl because we could hear her soft whisper.

"I'm sorry Parker." I hear her whisper, and I know it's Madison. Jayden looks at me with a questioning look in his eyes and I pull him to my room. When I shut the door behind us, I find Jayden's already sitting on my bed.

"What was that about?" He asked me.

"I don't know. All I know is that the girl was Madison." Jayden's eyes drift to Madison's bed.

"Oh." Right then I notice that we're both covered in now dried food and almost snap at him to get off my bed when I see the look in his eyes. I sigh and take a seat next to him.

"What's wrong Jayden?" I ask.

"Jay." He says.

"Jay?" I ask. He looks up at me.

"That's what everyone back home calls me. Jay." We sit in silence.

"You still didn't tell me what's wrong Jay." Jayden sighs.

"Do you know how infuriating you can be?" I stand up in shock.

"And why's that?" I ask, fury leaking through my voice.

"Because you're so mean to me at times and then you're nice to me and then you act like you hate me and then we sit next to each other in every class we have together."

"And what's the issue with that? It's not like we had a choice!" I yell. He groans and he attempts to run his hand through his messy hair.

"You're just so confusing and that's what infuriates me!" He exclaims, standing up.

"Well I still don't-" And then he silences me by putting his lips hardly against mine. The kiss starts hard and slowly turns softer and softer. My hands wind up at the back of his neck and his slowly settle at my waist. I'm starting to knot my fingers in his salsa covered hair when the door creaks open.

"Oh!" We hear. We quickly pull apart and see Madison standing there, her dark brown hair pulled back, fully exposing the blush on her face.

"Well. I'll, I'll just...um." She shuts the door and we hear her quiet footsteps go back downstairs.

We turn to face each other. What just happened? Were we making out? Oh, this can't be true.

"Ummm" I manage to get that out of my mouth. Really, Jemma? A cute boy kisses you and you choke out that lame word.

"I'm still here." Jayden says while waving his hand close to my face. I snap out of my trance.

"What was that for?" I snap. Ugh, I am an idiot!

"What do you think that was for?" Jayden snaps back. "For making sure that you weren't dying because of my awesomeness?" He then keeps cocking about himself, and I drift off. I'm still super confused about what happened. Every second I glance at his green eyes, I would always remember that make out session.

"And right now you are a total idiot!"he screams, which snaps me out of my tranze. Me? An idiot? Even though I called myself that, Jayden just passed the line. I tackle him, but I sadly land on his lips. His lips on mine, again. I immediately jump up, and Jayden smirks.

"Couldn't get enough of me, huh?" she smirks. I sigh. There's no way I'm getting out of this.

"No." I answer. My temper was rising really fast. "Actually, I was trying to kill you!"

"If you want to kill me, just do it." He says, putting his hands up in surrender mode. I look at him. He was lying.

"No." I say. "I know your trick."

"There's no trick!" he snaps, but this time, his voice was more genuine.

"I give up!" I yell. Then, I burst out of the room, slamming my door behind me. It left most of the house in shock, because I heard everyone gasping. I just go straight to the shower to get out all of the junk on my body and in my hair.

'Shampoo. Check.' I think as I set it on the bed.

'Conditioner. Check. Soap. Check. Razor. Check. Hairbrush. Check. Pajamas. Check.' I think as I set my things on my bed and go through my 'Shower and Bed' checklist.

I have all my things piled in my arms when Madison walks in the door. She takes one look at me and blushes.

"You better be watching it there Wright. One these times that's gonna be you and Parker and I'm just gonna barge in on you two." I say as I walk out of the room. I turn around right before the door shuts and sees her face as red as a tomato.

I end up taking a twenty five minute shower, spending ten of that trying to get the smell of sour cream and Spanish rice off my face.

The rest I spend getting dried avocado and tomato out of my hair. I step out off the shower and dry myself off, quickly getting dressed after. I walk to my room, brushing the knots out of my hair as I go. I walk in and find Madison changing out her earrings. Both sets and her cartilage earring that were in before sit on the vanity and she is now going through all her earrings that hang neatly on an earring holder that is of course purple.

I stand in the doorway and watch her put in a pair of black peace sign earrings in her bottom holes. Above those go black studs, and then she puts in a purple cartilage earring.

"You aren't going goth on me are you Mads?" She spins around in her chair and gasps.

"Good God Jem, try not to kill someone before they turn seventeen would you?" I laughed and rolled my eyes.

"I'll keep that in mind for next time Mads." I sat on my bed and went to put my stuff from my shower back when I saw the box and remembered what I had done earlier.

"Oh!" I exclaimed.

"What?" Madison asked.

"Remember the box my parents sent me?" Madison walked over to my bed and sat next to me as I pulled out my laptop and notebook.

"Oh yeah." I opened the internet and typed in the first god's name. Zeus. Madison looked over the list.

"Hey. I know some of these gods. I've been learning them in history." I smiled.

"Good. That means we can get done quicker." Madison wrote down what information she knew about six of the gods, and I got the other six. When we were done, our list looked like this.

Zeus- King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus; god of the sky and thunder. Youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Symbols include the thunderbolt, eagle, oak tree, scepter and scales. Brother and husband of Hera, although he had many lovers.

Poseidon- Lord of the seas, earthquakes and horses. Symbols include the horse, bull, dolphin and trident. Middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. Married to the Nereid Amphitrite, although, like most male Greek Gods, he had many lovers.

Hades- Brother of Zeus. After the overthrow of their Father Cronus he drew lots with Zeus and Poseidon, another brother, to share the power of the world. He had the worst draw and was made lord of the underworld, ruling over the dead. He is a greedy god who is greatly concerned with increasing his subjects. He is exceedingly disinclined to allow any of his subjects leave. He is also the god of wealth, due to the precious metals that mined from the earth. He has a helmet that makes him invisible and he rarely leaves the underworld. He is unpitying and terrible, but not capricious. His wife is Persephone whom Hades abducted.. Hades is the oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea. According to myth, he and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans and claimed rulership over the cosmos, ruling the underworld, air, and sea, respectively; the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, was available to all three concurrently.

Hestia- Zeus sister. She is a virgin goddess. She does not have a distinct personality. Each city had a public hearth sacred to Hestia, where the fire was never allowed to go out. She is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state. In Greek mythology she is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea.[1]

Hera- Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage and family. Symbols include the peacock, pomegranate, crown, cuckoo, lion and cow. Youngest daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Wife and sister of Zeus. Being the goddess of marriage, she frequently tried to get revenge on Zeus' lovers and their children.

Ares- God of war, violence and bloodshed. Symbols include the boar, serpent, dog, vulture, spear and shield. Son of Zeus and Hera, all the other gods (except Aphrodite) despised him. His Latin name, Mars, gave us the word "martial."

Athena- Virgin goddess of wisdom, handicrafts, defense and strategic warfare. Symbols include the owl and the olive tree. Daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Metis, she rose from her father's head fully grown and in full battle armor after he swallowed her mother.

Apollo- God of light, knowledge, music, poetry, prophecy and archery. Son of Zeus and Leto. Symbols include the sun, lyre, bow and arrow, raven, dolphin, wolf, swan and mouse. Twin brother of Artemis.

Aphrodite- Goddess of love, beauty, and desire. Symbols include the dove, bird, apple, bee, swan, myrtle and rose. Daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Dione, or perhaps born from the sea foam after Uranus' blood dripped onto the earth and into the sea after being defeated by his youngest son Cronus. Married to Hephaestus, although she had many adulterous affairs, most notably with Ares. Her name gave us the word "aphrodisiac", while her Latin name gave us the word "venereal".[B]

Hermes- Messenger of the gods; god of commerce and thieves. Symbols include the caduceus (staff entwined with two snakes), winged sandals and cap, stork and tortoise (whose shell he used to invent the lyre). Son of Zeus and the nymph Maia. The second-youngest Olympian, just older than Dionysus. He married Dryope, the daughter of Dryops, and their son Pan became the god of nature, lord of the satyrs, inventor of the panpipes and comrade of Dionysus.

Artemis- Virgin goddess of the hunt, virginity, childbirth, archery and all animals. Symbols include the moon, deer, hound, she-bear, snake, cypress tree and bow and arrow. Daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo.

Dionysus-God of wine, celebrations and ecstasy. Patron god of the art of theatre. Symbols include the grapevine, ivy, cup, tiger, panther, leopard, dolphin and goat. Son of Zeus and the mortal Theban princess Semele. Married to the Cretan princess Ariadne. The youngest Olympian, as well as the only one to have been born of a mortal woman.

Hephaestus-Master blacksmith and craftsman of the gods; god of fire and the forge. Symbols include fire, anvil, ax, donkey, hammer, tongs and quail. Son of Hera, either by Zeus or alone. Married to Aphrodite, though unlike most divine husbands, he was rarely ever licentious. His Latin name, Vulcan, gave us the word "volcano."

Demeter-Goddess of fertility, agriculture, nature, and the seasons. Symbols include the poppy, wheat, torch, and pig. Middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea.

"It's 10 o'clock!" we heard Cedric's voice. "Go to sleep, you idiots." We both sigh and plop onto our beds. There has to be something hidden in this, I just know it.

Tony's POV

"I wish that my dad didn't like her, you know." Troy says. I sigh. We've been talking about our history. Well, my history's easy. Nina Martin and Fabian Rutter are my parents. They let me go to boarding school when I was little. I really don't mind it. I always meet the most awesome people. Troy, Parker, Jayden, Madison, Jemma, Drew and Sabrina seem nice. I don't get why Drew hates Jemma so much. She always says how much Jemma is a sinister girl. I talk to Jemma in French, and she's so upbeat and sweet.

"I understand." I respond to Troy.

"Yeah." Troy says. Something started beeping.

"Fire! Fire!" Jennie yells, holding a pan in her hand.

"Fire?" I ask. Troy nods as I grab my phone. There's no way I want that burned up. Then, I grabbed my jacket. Everyone was running out of their rooms in their pajamas with either an iPod, a DS or their phone, or possibly all of them. Looks like everyone wanted to save those. Outside was super chilly, and it was only six. Dew was still on the grass. Most of the population of our house sat on it, but Brina and I stayed standing.

"I wonder if everything is going to catch on fire." Brina says, still clutching on her phone and MP3.

"Yeah, me too." I respond. She smiles, but then I hear her teeth start chattering. She also started to shiver.

"Are you cold?" I ask. She nods slightly and I wrap my coat onto her. We're friends, right? Friends do these kinds of things, am I not correct? I look at Sabrina's face. Her teeth stopped chattering and her shivers were barely noticeable. Then, I put my arm around her. Hey, she needs warmth. She smiles a little bit and we both sit down. There were so many little chatters going around while we were standing. One was with Madison and Jemma. Another one was with Parker, Jayden and Troy. Drew was pretty much engrossed in her iPod touch. She was mouthing some words to a song, Super Bass I think, and she was playing Angry Birds. Brina and I sigh.

"Do you want to listen to some music?" I ask.

"Yeah, sure." She says. I put shuffle onto my iPod nano and it started to play Glad You Came. Brina snuggled closer into me so then she could hear the music better. Then, I decided to play Jetpack Joyride.

"Ooh, I love this game!" Brina squeals. We both took turns playing it, switching every time we lost. We were watching closely to each other. After about 10 rounds or so, I heard sirens. Yep, the fire truck was here. Everyone stood up and looked at Cedric and Jennie talking to the fireman. Then, they barged into the house, which wasn't in complete flames. I heard someone shout.

"Hey, those firemen are invading our privacy!" That was Jayden. Everyone started laughing until Cedric gave us a icy glare, which totally shut us up. After 10 minutes of complete silence, the firemen shouted the news to us.

"Hey kids! The house is actually in mint condition! Except for a few pots and pans… You guys have insurance, right?" the firemen shout. All of "the kids" looked at each other. Kids? We're 16!

"OK." Cedric says. "Now leave!" The firemen scurry into the fire truck, which sped out of here. Then, everyone went into the house. I was super scared to see something completely burnt, but everything was about fine. Even the glass chandelier wasn't touched! Everyone hastily went back to their room to get ready for school, which right now started to feel like torture. Are we ever ready?

Madison's POV

After the fire, everyone was frantic about school. Who wants to go to school? Jemma and I were running up the stairs to get ready. I heard Ebony slam her door shut, with Sabrina in it of course. We were about to enter our room until I looked at the attic's door. The doorknob was shining! I was positive that the fire didn't cause this. I nudged Jemma.

"Jemma, look." I whisper. I pointed at the door.

"What's going on?" she asks.

"You're about to find out." I say. We both head to the door. I opened it slowly; making sure no one would hear it. Then, I closed it shut. We both slowly headed up the stairs, which was creaking every touch we made. Then, at the top, it just looked like a regular attic.

"Oh, come on!" Jemma whisper-shouts. "We came here for nothing!"

"No, I'm absolutely positive that there's something in here." I said, scanning the whole room.

"Well, I'm leaving." Jemma states. She tries to leave, but she ended up tripping on something. A rock.

"Stupid damn rock!" she mutters. I come up to her and take a closer look at the rock.

"Jemma," I start. "That's one of the artifacts we're looking for!"

"Really?" She asks. I could tell that she was in shock. "Then, you're not stupid at all, rock." She then picked it up. The rock was reddish-brown, more like a gem than a rock. It was shaped like an arrow on a spear. We both race down to our room, not even caring about silence. We then pull out the briefcase Jemma's mom gave to her.

"Where would this go?" she asks. She held the rock on top of the briefcase. Something else started to shine. It was the stone container of Ares. Jemma placed the rock into the slot, which shined for a second. Jemma glances at her watch. Her eyes started to widen.

"It's 7:30!" she shouts. "We only have a half hour to get ready for school!" Then, my eyes started to widen.

"Then, what are we waiting for?" I ask. "Let's go!"


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