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.XIX

Sorry I left on such an abrupt note. Wait…why am I apologizing to a journal?

Anyways, over the last two days something weird happened. When I rushed out to help the screaming person, I found it to be Piper. She was on fire. Luckily, by the time I reached her, Percy was there to help.

We questioned her and all she could say was that one minute she was asleep and the next minute, she was in the field, on fire. Scared, but not willing to admit it, I dismissed her back to sleep and Percy and I talked the rest of the night. After all that talking, we didn't have an explanation for what happened to Piper. The best conclusion we came to was that somebody was trying to prank her and it went badly, but even that is ambiguous because Roman's don't 'pull pranks.'

The weird that thing that has happened over the past two days is the fact that Leo's gone missing. Not that my life is any different without him, I've just noticed it. I thought back to the incident in the sword-fighting arena where I first actually talked to him and then it clicked- Leo has some sort of ability with fire, and Piper woke up on fire.

Determined that Leo was behind all of that whether he meant to or not, I went searching for him. He wasn't very hard to find. The sword-fighting arena was the first place I looked and lo-and-behold, he was there.

When he saw me, he started running towards the opposite end of the arena.

"Wait, Leo!" I called.

I could tell he was really reluctant, but he turned around and waited until I jogged over to him.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Nothing, why?" he replied, too fast to be normal.

"Did you have anything to do with Piper?" I questioned.

"Why do you think?"

Realizing we were getting nowhere because we were just asking each other questions, I decided to take a leap of faith and try something different.

I sat down and crossed my legs. Leo looked at me weirdly, but joined me on the ground.

"I know you don't want to talk about anything with me, a stranger, so how about I tell you a little about myself so it's not as awkward?" I offered.

Yeah, maybe I was understating myself when I said 'leap of faith.' This was more of a jump across the Grand Canyon and hoping I'd make it to the other side alive.

So I ended up telling him a shortened version of my life story. After that he seemed a little bit more comfortable.

When I was done speaking he said, "Don't expect me to say stuff about myself, now."

"Nope," I smiled and left. I could tell I had confused him and it made me feel a little bit of pleasure on the inside. Considering the fact I had never told someone my story before, besides Jason, I've decided that I felt some sort of attraction towards Leo. Otherwise, I wouldn't have told him that.

But that doesn't mean I'm going to let him know.

Reyna