Hurrah for staying home sick!
I own nothing… yeah…
P.S. I SUCK AT SPEECHES. I was hoping to just skip the speech part and move on to another 'scene', but I had way too much time on my hands so I gave it a shot. I compromised and made it short and crappy. :3
"…We address you, nation, as just people. People who want nothing more than cooperation between our population and yours. We wish to exchange your understanding and friendship with protection we can provide. We will continue to protect mortals like we have always done, but now we request understanding and cooperation between our two…species. All of us here," my father motioned to everyone sitting around the table, "wish to live enjoyable lives. we hope that the nation can accept these changes in everyday life. Thank you."
The little red light clicked off. Gods, that speech was long.
"well," Mr. D said, "I will be leaving now. Places to go, people to see."
Chiron patted me on the head. "you three better follow him. It would be advisable to stay at camp for a week or two, wait until things smooth over." We all nodded numbly. We sat off to the side, we got minimal screen time. But the world did get a shot of us. And if you had vampire vision, you definitely got an eyeful of me.
Mr. D had a blue van waiting for us, with a rather monster-ish looking man in the driver's seat. He smiled at us, but that just made the effect worse. His driving wasn't much better than his face.
When we arrived, our fellow campers crowded around us, pestering us with questions. Annabeth grabbed Percy, and the rest of us followed until we got to the Poseidon cabin. We all claimed a bunk, Annabeth and Percy on his, Connor and Clarisse on the one across from them, and Travis and I sitting on the one bellow Clarisse and Connor. Travis was the first to speak.
"Wow." Well, maybe he wasn't much of a linguist, but he voiced basically what everyone was thinking. "Yeah." Percy said, kicking a post on the bunk bed with his heel. "Everyone in Forks is gonna flip." I said, my eyes tracing the patterns of the peeling blue paint on the wall. Percy definitely needed to re-paint this place.
I heard some grunts and mutterings coming from my fellow campers. We were all a little shocked, I guess. The silence was interrupted by my cell ringing…
Lock eyes from across the room
Down my drink while the rhythms boom
I quickly grabbed my phone without looking at the caller ID.
"Bella?!! Where are you?!! Its Alice, we just saw…you on TV… With…"
"eh…what? Sorry Alice…I…uh…." I fumbled. Travis was rolling on the ground laughing his butt off while Connor was hanging off his bunk—the only thing keeping him from falling on top of Travis in a painful way was Clarisse, who was gripping a laughing Conner by the hair. I was blushing a rather dark shade of red, which got the brothers laughing harder. Travis got to his feet, still appearing to be incapable of breathing, and got real close to the phone. As in, I had to pull my head away or he would have… you know. Anyway, he do up real close and practically yelled into the tiny silver phone:
"JIZZED IN MY PANTS, BELLA? REALLY?!! YOU PERV, YOU!" Now Percy and Clarisse were in on the laughter. Which, I may add didn't bode well for Connor. Let's just say he will have an interesting assortment of bruises for awhile, and the Poseidon cabin will have a couple of interesting scratches and footprints.
"TRAVIS?!!," I yelled, covering the phone, "NO, ALICE!! ITS NOT WHAT YOU… oh never mind. I'll call you later." I said, giving up near the end. She heard every part of that conversation, as well as whoever was within 30 feet of her.
I muttered a string of curses (which I am proud to say I cultivated during my summers, bored in the Fork's police station) and stormed out of the door. On my way I bumped into Lucy. (*)
Her full name is Lucy Penvellyn. She has black hair like Percy's, cut so it was just under chin length, with soft green eyes and black-framed glasses. She was discovered and claimed by Poseidon a short week after the god's promise to Percy. So far, I'd only seen her once. But she seemed like a nice girl. Quiet, but cute and nice enough. She stopped me and motioned to the 4 (I won't count Annabeth, she wasn't as juvenile as the rest) goofballs clutching their sides. Before she could ask anything, I rolled my eyes. "they're being immature. Don't let them rope you into their stupidity." I said.
"Oh," she said chuckling, "well, I was just going to grab my towel, I'm going for a swim… I'll try not to be influenced." She said with a smile. I laughed and walked a ways further, over to a grassy hill that overlooked the Archery range. I could feel a little voice inside my head, yelling at me not to call Alice back. But I couldn't do that to her, so I sifted through my address book until I found:
Alice Cullen rox mai sox!!!1!!!!!!!!11!!!!! 3 3 3 :D :D
I could hear the phone ringing… why wasn't she picking up?
Finally, I heard the click. "Hey Alice, sorry about hanging up. And the weirdness. I have some friends I guess I haven't introduced you to yet…" there was a pause.
"Bella?" damn. That was Edward's velvet voice I heard on the other end. Gotta think fast…
And then something dawned on me. "Edward… how are you able to call me?"
There was another pause. "Bella, I don't think now-"
I cut him off, getting worried (and near hysterical) "Edward…Edward no one is supposed to be able to call me! This is camp.you can't… " I stopped my babbling for a second, trying to process what was going through my head.
Not. Good.
yayy! another short chapter ^^ huzzah!
(*) = ok, so for anyone who has read my other twilight fic, this isnt the same lucy (obviously) my friend was playing a nancy drew video game, and this was the name of one of the ppl... hehe
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