Road Trip

I was laying in my bed looking at the ceiling. I can't believe that I screamed Up yours to Travis after he really wanted to help me. I suck. I haven't been able to get that out of my mind for a whole day.

" Katie? I need your help!" I heard my 11 year old sister Delia yell from the bathroom. I walk in and see her wearing short white shorts with a dark brown tank top with lace she was also wearing some khaki-ish colored sandals.

" Katie will you do a fish bone braid please? I just can't get it right." She held out her thick light brown hair for me to braid.

" Of course Delia! Why are you all dressed up?" I asked wondering if she has a date or something.

" Oh, so you know Garrison from Apollo? Well I've liked him for a while and yesterday while I was trying to breed roses and lilies together and he came up and picked them both. I got really mad until he leaned over and said even if I did breed them both together the new flower still wouldn't be as beautiful as me! Then he asked me to go to the party with him tonight! I am so excited!" She practically squealed.

" Oh Del that is so romantic! But remember that if he doesn't treat you like a goddess tonight talk to me okay? I will set him straight." I told her being my overprotective self. She laughed and said she was glad she knew me. I tuned out after that remembering last night and my conversation with Wes.

Knock

Knock

Wes walks in looking amazing in a gray button up shirt with a camp half blood shirt under it and a pair of cargo shorts.

" Hey! Whats up?" I say

" Oh nothing I just wanted to ask the most beautiful demigod other than me to go to an off the chain party tomorrow night?" He asked while picking his nails.

" Oh well I don't know Wesley..."

" What? What do you mean?" He was standing above me now with his hand raised.

" I just mean I don't know if I want to go to a party."

" So you're saying you don't love me?" He said raising his arm a little higher. I flinched remembering the last time I had rejected him and making him mad. I had to tell everyone that I sprained my ankle while tripping down stairs.

"No no Not at all I'm just saying that I have other things I have to do." I lied

" Katie I think that you just lied to me. I really don't like liars. I think I might have to remind you what happens when bad little girls lie. And after that I plan on leaving you crushed and broken hearted." Wesley says as he lifts up a shovel.

" No, Wes. Please don't leave. I love you." I barely choke out. Feeling my heart break a little bit. Wes just smirks at me.

"Katie? Are you okay? Katie? Katie? KATIE!" Delia was screaming at me.

" Oh yeah I'm fine. Ha ha I just have some stuff on my mind that's all." I say continuing to braid little Delia's hair.

" Good. Are you going to the party?" She asks making me a little uncomfortable.

" Oh yeah Wesley is taking me." I say trying to sound overjoyed. Delia had a huge smile on her face.

" Oh Katie! You are so lucky you have the most beautiful guy at camp just drooling over you!" She says obviously ecstatic about my situation. She just thinks that her older sister is happy and so is she. All she knows is that a hot guy actually likes me while the hot guy's almost as hot younger brother likes her. What she doesn't know is that I will have to try to find an outfit that hide the dinner plate sized bruise on my stomach. What she doesn't know is that during the whole party I am going to be silently crying or screaming in my head. I don't try to tell her. It will only worry her and then she will go and make Wesley even more mad. I want to protect her but deep own I also want for someone to protect me. I want a knight in shining armour to come to my rescue. I want someone to sweep me off my feet and take me somewhere safe. I want my knight to come and slay the horrible dragon that keeps me locked away.

"Dude this is gonna suck for you." Connor had said making me feel so much better about situation. I had told him about everything that had happened with Katie. He just me and just quietly told me that I was brave for trying to tell her and stupid for not fighting for her.

" I know, man." I just said and nodded my head while looking in the mirror at my reflection. We were changing for the party. Opal chose my blue striped Abercrombie V neck, Khaki cargo shorts, and some crazy comfortable Italian shoes. My chocolate brown hair was slightly wet which gave it a sexy just-got-out-of-bed look.

Connor was looking exactly like me except he was wearing jeans and a blue button up shirt with a Kings of Leon band shirt under it.

"Lets go." and we walked out into the warm night.

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"TRAVIE!" Opal DiRomeras screamed as she waved from the pink tinted Aphrodite cabin. She was wearing a short sky blue strapless dress with a brown belt. Her nude pumps matched her spider-like long legs. Her long blond hair was sleeked back into a high ponytail.

"Well don't you look good! Good thing too! I can't be having you embarrassing me now, can I?" She said while she bent over to get her pocketbook well let me just tell you that her dress was really short. I grabbed her arm and stomped to the beach party. This was going to be the worst night of my life.

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This was going to be the worst night of my life. I was waiting in the garden with Delia for the two Apollo boys to pick us up. I was wearing a short, satin, violet dress with silver beading and silver drop earrings. My shoes were black lacy heels . My hair was in little ringlets around my face. Okay I know I look like a slut but I wanted Travis to see me and remember how he felt. I wanted him to save me from Wes. I was smelling some calla lilies when I felt a warm tear run down my cheek. Who knew my love life would be so screwed up? I slowly sank down in the flowers and thought about what would've happened if Travis had come earlier that day or if I had told someone about Wesley.

"Oh Katie! What in Hades are you doing in the flowers? We have an important event tonight and I don't want you to screw it up for me okay? Can you do that for me?" I stood up and looked at Wesley straight in the eye he smirked and turned on his heels.

"Good. Let's go."

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The party was in a huge gazebo area on the beach. The sides of the white gazebo was covered in lattice work that some vine thing had crawled up. There were twinkling lights all around the beach. The place looked great. Right now some Britney Spears song was playing and everyone was dancing out on the floor.

Opal had grabbed my arm and was dragging me towards the dance floor. The song had changed to some sad John Mayer song. Opal had me with my arms around her waist and her sucking on my neck. It was really awkward. I looked down at Opal. When I looked her hair was thick and strawberry blond and her eyes were a beautiful chocolate brown. this wasn't Opal. Opal had her long blond hair in a ponytail. and her eyes were sky blue, not brown. No I was fantasising about Katie. Katie and her beautiful wavy strawberry blond hair. I was going crazy. I shook my head and realized that now Opal was there, not Katie.

"I-uh I-I have to -um- go get some air." I murmured. I ran away sweating and panting thinking about Katie. I needed to talk to her.

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"Gimme Gimme More Gimme More Gimmie Gimmie More" Britney Spears sang over the speakers, while Wes was dancing his ass off with an Aphrodite girl whose name is something terrible like Lovely or Beauty. ugh. My life sucks. I am sickly in love with this boy who is just an abusive body of nothing. No emotion. No warmth. Just a frozen wasteland.

Wes turns and looks into blah blah's eyes and kissed her. All i could do was stare as his lips like a wave crash onto hers he absorbs her, he eats her up.

I stand waiting for him to push her away or to slap her and for me to realize that I cant be with him and be happy. All I can do is run and breathe. Oh and cry ,don't forget the crying.

I ran all the way to the shore I kicked my shoes off and stumbled into the sand. I Looked up in the sky.

" Oh Aphrodite! Why do my feelings have to be so screwed up ?" I asked with tears pouring down my face. I knew I loved them both. But why did they have to hut me so much?

You only really love one of them, Kathrine. And one of them really loves you. You were made for each other. Seize the moment, while it lasts. says a beautiful voice inside my head. I gasped.

"Katie? Is that you?" I heard a familiar voice. He's here I thought and turned around.

END OF PART ONE