This is a three part story thing. Just saying
I could not believe what Travis did right then and there, and with another Apollo girl! If you are just joining my thoughts you might be thinking 'What the heck happened?' Well I, Zaidy the marvelous, will take a step back and start from the beginning, where most stories begin.
I was up at the crack of dawn, a little earlier than usual and I was strolling around camp grounds thinking of yesterday. Yesterday, Travis and I were dancing in the forest late at night, but the memories were much more than a dance. I was so into my thought that I didn't see my dad sitting on a bench near the lake.
"Early as always my young Zaidy," Normally when you think of Apollo, you think this supper chill dude that lives in the moment and doesn't really think things through. But as he said those words, his character changed from a Tom Cruise kind of guy to an actual father.
"I couldn't sleep. I was happy I guess,"
"Zaidy, take a seat." I sat next to him and it looked like a father-daughter moment. Uh-oh. "Are you having fun at camp?"
"I'm having a wonderful time,"
"Made any new friends?"
"Yeah. Not to sound vain but I have yet to find someone that thinks poorly of me,"
"Just like your mother. Not taking all the attention to her head, but loving every minute of it,"
"I wish I could have gotten to know her as my mom, not my aunt,"
"Well she basically raised you when both of your other parents were working," there was a somewhat awkward moment before he spoke again. "The reason I come here today is to give you an offer,"
"What kind of offer?" I asked
"Have you seen the Oracle at camp?"
"I have heard stories about how she is a mummy and what not but I have never met her in person,"
"She is a mummy. She is practically dead, but can still say prophecies. It is creepy to go up there and get a quest from her, but if you become the next Oracle, it will no longer be creepy,"
"Wait, you're asking me to be the camp's new Oracle?" That would be so cool
"All you need to do is repeat what I say and your done," I was so excited that I almost accepted immediately, but needed to make sure.
"What happens when I do repeat everything you say?"
"Your small future telling will get focused into one and it will be stronger,"
"Anything else?"
"Youwillhavetostayamaiden," he mumbled
"What, say that one more time? With spaces between the words,"
"You will have to stay a maiden," he said clearly.
"Doesn't that mean to not date or marry?"
"Well, definitions change over time but, um, yeah," Oh great, he is still a dad no matter how cool he is, wanting me to stay away from boys.
"I'm already going out with Travis, you know that,"
"Well, would you rather get him or the power to see the future,"
"Dad, I know I'm young, but I can say this with full honesty that I love Travis, and a superpower won't change that," he got a little mad
"You don't know what love is," he was probably thinking about my mom
"Yes, I do,"
"How!"
"When you came to visit, while my mom was still my aunt and you were my uncle, you were so giddy to see her. Nothing else mattered except the fact that you two were together. You didn't even bother to see me spying in the doorway. I would always tell myself that my guy would be like you. And sorry to say Travis is that guy."
"How did Athena fit all that brain into such a young mind?"
"Probably the same way you fell for my mom. It was easy,"
"You're a good kid Zaidy and I would hate to see that Hermes kid get hurt if for some reason he dumps you," his face didn't agree with his words.
"I don't have to be the Oracle to tell you that nothing bad is going to happen between us," Boy, was I wrong.
(A/N: Dun, Dun, Dunnn! Zaidy's and Travis' relationship might not be as stable as you think. Or is it? What do you think was the major problem? And unless you can read people's minds from a distance, you will probably be wrong.)
