OH my goodness gracious! I checked the story results and I have gone from 600 something views to 2000 views! thank you all so much! And to anyone who is still interested I do need OC's! I need more guys! and hunters! OC's in next chapter YAY! Heres a long one for me taking so friggin long. By the way thank you all so much for being patient with me and not sending me flames.

THE PARTY part two

" Oh gods. She is beautiful." I thought as Katie quickly tried to hide the obvious tears that were streaming down her pretty face. It hurt knowing that she probably didn't want to see me, much less talk to me. Either way I was going to be here for her.

"Katie, What happened? Are you okay? What did that Ass Bastard do to you?" I said completely serious even though I had no idea what an ass bastard was. I look over to see Kate smiling through her tears. I know that Katie can really defend herself and that she is a real tough cookie I mean,I would know right? I've had to face the Gardner Wrath many a time myself. Like the time last summer when I used up a favor from a Hecate girl , Misty. She went and put a spell on the Demeter whole cabin pretended to be donkeys for two weeks they even ate flowers. It was HILARIOUS. But It isn't as funny anymore when you wake up three weeks later naked …..in a bed of poison ivy. The rash spread everywhere, I was scratching for the rest of the summer.

" I dont get it Travis. How Do you do it?" She said slowly wiping the tears from her eyes and looking at me.

" Do what Katie?" I was seriously confused, did I hurt her?

"Travis, you know you are always...so,so forgiving. No that is not the word. You just get it, You are so understanding." She said while pulling in her knees. I just stared. No one has ever called me understanding. People have said I am cool, a jerk, awesome. Hell they have even said I was Scrumdiddlyumptious. Never ever has someone said that I ,Travis Stoll ,was understanding. This was very confusing.

" Gods,I know this is weird I mean I absolutely hate you ,but in a way I admire you. There I said it so now you can loose the stupid grin." She said with a snarl. I dropped the grin and dropped down on the sandy shore.

" Thanks, I think. What happened? Are you okay? Did you fall or something?" I asked putting my hand to her forehead. A small strand of hair fell into her eyes. It was all I could do not to grab it and pull it behind her ear.

" Travis, I-I don't know what will happen If I tell anyone. He might-"

" Who might, Katie? Wesley? What would he do? Has he already done anything to you?" I was almost screaming now.

" No T-travis he really hasn't done anything honestly. You need to calm down you're scaring me." Katie whimpered and touched my cold hand felt like white hot flames licking my skin. I pulled away.

" Katie I really want us to be friends but friends trust and are honest with other friends. You aren't being honest with me. I can tell." I wanted her to talk to me and be honest. I truly wanted to be friends, at least.

" Travis I'm scared." she says not meeting my eyes.

" What are you scared of?" I ask totally flabbergasted. Who says flabbergasted anymore? Is it still considered a word? UGH! Curse my ADHD!

"I'm scared of people knowing. Knowing how ,how, how weak I was! How I couldn't stand up and-and fight back!" she finished panting with tears rolling down her face.

" Katie what happened?" I ask confused and kind of scared. For several moment she says nothing and just looks at me. I look her straight in the deep chocolate brown eyes of hers and I felt at home.

" We should probably go back to the party." she says brushing herself off.

"Yeah alright." I brush of the pesky little grains of sand. I look down to Katie and she that her short violet dress and been shoved up a little higher from the sitting. I reach my hand out to her. She lifts herself up and in the gleam of the moonlight I see something on her tanned skin. I let go of her hand and back away.

"H-h-How did you get that? What did he do?" I say with a shaky breath. She looks at me not understanding. Then her eyes glance to the spot on her upper thigh. She quickly pulls down the hem of her dress to cover the bruise. It was too late though. I had already seen.

" You don't understand. I just fell down some didn't do anything!" she was screaming.

" So you fell down stairs this time. What about next time? Did you slip in a puddle? Got hurt while training? When will you get over him! When will you get over your awful fear of what people will think of you! You of everyone here I thought was better than that!" I was in her face yelling. "Don't you understand that soon it won't be a couple of bruises? It will sprained ankles and broken bones. Then only Gods know what he'll do! I can't stand it Katie!" I turned and walked towards the gazebo that held the drunk, disgusting, pig of a demigod.

" Please! Travis please listen to me! If you touch him he will know I said something and it will just get worse. Earlier you said you want Ed us to be friends well if you were really my friend you would leave it alone. Please Travis for me." she was crying again. I Knew he deserved it. Any man who would go around treating her like some kind of dog. He deserved to be beaten so hard that he would wish that he had never thought of Katie before. I knew that I really could make all that pain go away all he had to do was teach Wesley a lesson and Katie would be free. But it would hurt her to know that Wesley was hurt even though Wes had beaten her without second thought. I couldn't stand to think that I hurt her in an almost equal way that he had. But on the other hand I am doing nothing. I am letting her get bruised and broken by a monster who I have been trained to kill and she says she loves him and If I do anything than I would be nothing to her. I am too selfish to not have her around.

"I won't do or say anything but I swear on Hermes that if I see another hurt hair on your hair I will torture him in ways no one could ever imagine." I had stopped walking and was looking at Katie who was looking at me in the eye. She nods.

"HE-E-E-E-Y TRAVIS-S-S-S KA-A-A-A-TIE C'MON TODD IS ABOUT TO DO SIGN -UPS!" We looked over to see Leo Valdez from Hephaestus yelling at us.

" Who is Todd?" I ask. Now that the Gods claim all of their kids I can't keep track of all their names.

" Todd Pritchett is from Hecate. He is tall and has that crazy black hair, he also has the purple eyes. His mom was thought to be mentally deranged so they put her in a hospital after she started complaining that her son could make things appear and how big monsters visited them." Seeing that none of these things reminded me of anyone she sighed and said," He's the one you and Connor put orange hair dye in his shampoo and after he found out it was you too he put a spell on both of you so that every time you tried to say something it came out backwards."

" Oh yeah him now I remember him." It took weeks for that spell to wear off. Anytime I would try to flirt with a girl I would end up looking like an idiot! So embarrassing.

I look at Katie and we start walking towards that gazebo. The lights that were strung around the gazebo looked like stars in the night. I was pretty impressed that the Aphrodite cabin worked this hard for the party. When we stepped inside and see a group of kids in a kind of semi circle around a pedestal Todd was standing behind the mahogany pedestal wearing some dark jeans with a blue buttons up shirt. I push myself through the crowd to get to the front. Katie was right behind me.

" Hey guys and girls! I'm Todd Pritchett from Hecate. So I was thinking, We need some sort of vacation. Us demigods work so hard to protect the camp. So the Aphrodite cabin, Chiron, and I have decided that we will take about 50 demigods on an all expense paid cross country road trip. You will be put into pairs the Aphrodite cabin and I choose the pairs. I want everyone who wants to go to get in a single file line here." he says pointing right behind me. I step into the line. Of course I'm going! Who wouldn't. I was right everybody thought the same way so almost everyone from Camp-Halfblood was lined up behind me.

" Wow that's a lot of people! The requirements to sign up are as follows: You must be 14 or over! " once he says that a large groan sounds and about a third of the line sulks away.

" You cannot be on probation!" One or two people leave.

" You cannot be a satyr!" Grover sighs and walks away.

" To sign up you must have done all of your classes, done your chore, and your cabin must have gotten decent marks in the past month!" The only ones to leave now were the few left from the Hypnos cabin. I was really excited about this until Todd opened his mouth again.

"And just because you sign up does not mean you will make it!" he says giggling.

"What do you mean! You said we just have to sign up!" I shout. How was I going to get to go because Todd definitely doesn't like me and if he chooses the recipients of the award then I am out for sure.

" I will draw out the names of people who sign up the first fifty drawn out will be the ones who way it is somewhat fair." he looks at me and shrugs. Slowly I write my name down on the sign up sheet. Next was Katie then Thalia, Nico, Katie Knapp*,Will Solace, Opal, Connor, Lucy Fairchild from Hephaestus, Percy, Annabeth, Wesley, Leo, Piper , and lots of other people. I went and leaned on the side of the gazebo, waiting for the names to be drawn.

" The list of who will be going will be up tomorrow morning on the big house front door! " Todd says asking the sign up list and folding into his back pocket. Why does he have to do that? We all just want to know if we can go or not! It isn't like some gameshow! There won't be a commercial break or a word from our sponsors! For Olympus sakes!

" While y'all wait," says LuLu Somers, a semi-hot 15 year old from Apollo,"we could play a little game of spin the bottle?"

Oh,tut-tut, LuLu! You should know not to suggest a innocent game of spin the bottle when Travis Stoll is in a ten-mile radius. Who knows what will happen...?

END

Yay! It took me so long! Well congratulations to gogreen216! She was the first of many whose OC was chosen! I am almost done with the next chapter! I dont think it will take as long as this one! Bye for now

Colette