A/ N OK it's about 2:16 am here so yah.
SHOUT OUT:
Well just to all readers!
Here's a robot :|]
It was stuck in my head, it was his voice not mine. Then an earthquake shook the arena (not caused by Poseidon). I fell to the ground and somehow got an arrow lodged in my calf. I'm in immense pain now. I didn't, however, cry. I don't cry in public, no matter you that public may be. Apollo came running up to me (he had backed up as soon as I hit the ground behind me in one miss) and asked if I was okay, um HELLO there's a arrow in my calf of course I'm not okay. Retard. After he healed it (well for some reason he couldn't heal it completely so he just made the skin grow over the hole so it wouldn't get infected) he helped me stand. Yah, that went soooo well (note sarcasm). I had to stand on one leg!
" Kiss make better?" Apollo joked after I had complained about a million times, at least I think he was joking.
" Not joking." He said, he has really pretty blue eyes. They remind me of ice. Or Ice Breakers the gum. Ha ha.
So instead of talking I just raised an eye brow as if to say " oh really?". And then he kissed me. It was sweet and soft. Also, it was interrupted...again. By the same person.
"APOLLO!" Poseidon yelled. Apollo pulled away and shifted to where he could face Poseidon and still support me, he was, of course, smirking.
" Yes uncle?" Apollo asked innocently.
" This girl is supposed to be training and you're distracting her by kissing her?"
" No what distracted her was the sudden earthquake that hit the arena, uncle."
" I don't recall summoning an earthquake you liar."
" Yah well I have to go get my sister so she can help me heal Emily."
" Why would you need to heal her there's nothing wrong?"
" When the earthquake happened she accidentally lodged an arrow in her calf, I couldn't heal it fully, so I just let the skin heal over the hole to keep her from getting infections." Apollo stated as if to say 'see I'm not completely useless'.
" Fine, then you take her straight to her housing." Poseidon ordered, Apollo just smirked and poofed us to his sister.
You know, I don't quite like the concept of travel poofing. One reason is, it sounds really the weird, I mean, Travel poofing? Second, I just don't like bright light! When you travel like that, all you see is a bright flash and you're there. I absolutely ficking hate it! It's so stupid. I opened my eyes and realized I was now being carried by Apollo.. And he was shirtless? Why? Oh, he had to use it on my leg...that's right. Wow I'm stupid, Omigosh! He has abs! Oh, great. I forgot about the whole mind reading thing again didn't I? I looked up at his face to find out he was nodding.
" Yes, yes you did." Apollo said, but his own face was turning red, so I decided to invade his privacy just this once...maybe.
' She's thinking about how hawt I am and now that got me thinking about her! Gods dang it! She is pretty though.' I could practically hear the command thought to make his eyes look down at me. ' Her eyes, they changed to gold, kind of reminds me of Kronos but oh well they're still beautiful. Her hair caresses her face perfectly too, and okay I give up she's just hawt!'
I decided to play this up a bit.
" So I'm 'just hawt'?" I asked, and had the success of making him blush again.
" Um...Uh.. I-well- uh... Wait, what are you doing in my mind?" Apollo asked, dang he's playing it up too.
" I don't know how to control it. It was an accident."
" Sure it was."
'Liar.' he thought.
We were in public now, well public of Artemis's hunters, so we continued this banter in our heads.
'That's just insulting, I don't lie.' he looked down at me funny after I thought that. 'okay I was lying when I said that but still!'
' Ha! Knew it, you like me.' Apollo thought back triumphantly.
' Well...Uh. You like me too!' Isn't that a great comeback.
' Well.. I … Uh... Hey look my sister's here! Gotta go.' What the heck? It's not like we were texting each other.. That probably would've been much easier conversation if we had been. You can lie in texts.
" Brother what have you gotten yourself into this time?" Artemis asked.
" It wasn't my fault this time! It was Poseidon's and hers too." Apollo said gesturing down to me.
" How was it my fault I fell and got an arrow lodged in my leg?" I snapped.
" You were the one holding it."
" You actually trusted me with it!"
" You're supposed to be trusted with things like that godling."
" What? It was my first time!"
" Was not!"
" Was too!"
" Was not!"
Artemis just kept looking back and fourth between us. Right when I was about to admit he was right, she cut in.
" Will you two stop it already?" Artemis shouted over our banter. " So Apollo, I can tell your crushing on a new girl."
" I am not..." Apollo muttered. " I'm falling in love with another girl." He continued in a voice so low I suspected he only wanted Artemis to hear. But then again, what was normal about my senses. I'd bag him about it later.
Artemis just chuckled and looked at me in pity.
" Let's get this girlie fixed up and ready to go." Artemis slipped me out of Apollo's arms. Apparently he tried to protest but she silenced him with a glare and walked off with me in her arms, leaving Apollo in the dust.
" You should know, if you fall for him, since he is a god he will manipulate that and soon after break your heart." Artemis warned.
" Figures." I muttered, she just smirked. Once we got in what I was guessing her tent she lay me down on a cot and began to work. As she worked we talked, about life and stuff I really didn't pay attention too, but then she offered me something that jolted me out of my daze.
" W-what?" I stammered.
" I'm offering for you to join the hunters." Artemis stated, while cleaning up the supplies. " Since I know you'll say no right now because of my brother my offer will stand forever, unless you lose your maiden hood, if my brother breaks your heart, since all men do. You can swear off men forever and join us."
" O-okay." I said. " After my chance."
" I understand, kind of." After she had put the last thing away she stood up straightly. " You can stand and walk fine now."
Artemis walked me out to Apollo and gave him a nod in greeting. I walked over to his side knowing he was my "ride" home. When I got there he put his arm around my shoulders lazily, I shifted uncomfortably, but only enough to where Artemis noticed, and Apollo, I'm guessing was too blind to notice.
" My offer still stands Emily." Artemis told me after we had said our goodbyes. I swear I saw Apollo's face pale.
" You invited her to join the hunters?" Apollo asked appalled. Ha-ha that's kind of funny, they sound the same.
" Yes, but she decided to take her chance before accepting. No need to worry, until you break her heart."
And with a poof we left right then and there. Bright flash! And we were in my room I had gotten assigned to me earlier. The walls were pink and brown, not in an ugly way but an awesome way. Two walls face each other were pink and the other two brown. Henna stencils were across the center on each wall, pink on brown and brown on pink. My bed was queen sized and had a brown comforter with pink polka dots on it. Yes, there is a lot of pink and brown but that's just because they are relaxing and remind me of chocolate when they are together. I looked to my right to find Apollo still there. And staring at me. When he realized I had caught him he just blushed and looked down at his feet.
Okay, so besides me ranting about how hawt he was I understand that you don't really know what he looks like besides his hair and eyes. Well, we'll start over. He dresses like skater. Skinny jeans (might I add he looks really good in them), logo shirts, and skate shoes. Pretty Similar to the way I dress, well no it's the exact same. He's about six foot one. He has long sandy blond hair that covers his eyes, and somehow his ice blue eyes still pop through, and he has tanned skin. This time he caught me staring. And it was my turn to become very interested in my shoes. Which were black Airwalk skate shoes, with ironically, Hot pink hearts surrounded by barbed wire and a crack down the middle. What Apollo did next shocked me, curse Aphrodite and messing around with peoples hearts, he lifted my chin up and practically forced me to look into his eyes. So I tried hide my face in my hair as soon as he dropped his hand. I had known him for maybe, like, a day and I was already falling in love with him. Curse godly charm. It was like that song I was heard. It spoke about falling hard and fast and they ended up crashing. But, it also said they had no control over it.
" Don't hide your face." Apollo said. " Please?" He asked when I still hadn't removed the hair from my face. He sounded kind of sad so flicked my hair out of my face.
" Curse Aphrodite." I growled aloud, I'm pretty sure we had been standing here for an hour just staring at each other until he spoke. Had, as in past tense.
" I really like you Emily." Whoa there, what?
" Um, OK?" Wow ain't I brilliant? He moved closer, We were almost the same height, I was only two inches shorter than him, about 5' 11". So he could easily make it where our foreheads touched. Which of course, he did.
" And I want to know if you like me too." there was barely a centimeter between our lips. So, of course, I had an awesome retort.
" You're the god of prophecies, you should know." He smirked and close the space between our lips. For the second time that day he kissed me. And my heart pounded just as hard and fast as the first time.
It seemed like forever before he pulled away. Apollo looked at me and smirked.
" I promise I won't break your heart." He swore before kissing me on the cheek and Travel poofing out. He left before I had time to doubt it. Curse Aphrodite...Again.
I happily got ready ready for bed. Since we had lost all my clothes on the way here they fully stocked my closet, I got into a skimpy pair of shorts and tank top (it was really hot okay?) and crawled into the big poofy bed and as soon as my head hit the pillow I fell into a dreamless sleep.
When I got up in the morning I actually tried to look good, one reason was because I finally had the kind of clothes I wanted, the second reason was because today was my first day off training even thought I had only been training one day and I knew Apollo would be up to see me. So I climbed into the shower, of course it was like six am so the water was nice and cold when I first got in (note the sarcasm). Then it warmed up to the perfect temperature, so I think I stayed in there for about an hour. When I got out I wrapped myself up in a towel, and my hair for that matter and brushed my teeth, then I took to my closet. I picked out a pair of flattering black skinny jeans, a sKiP logo tee, and of course my usual skate shoes. Then I attacked my hair with a brush, a blow dryer and my Greek fire powered straightener.
In case you didn't know redheads hair does not style very well, thus the need of a Greek fire straightener. Right as I walked out into the hallway of the guest housing I was staying in I ran right smack dab into Apollo, of course I didn't know it was him until after I apologized a few billion times and finally let him get a word in since I was staring at my feet...again.
" No need to be sorry sweetheart, my bad." Apollo chuckled, that's when I found out it was him.
" Oh sorry I though you were someone else or I wouldn't have apologized." I joked.
" Oh really?"
" Mhm."
" How about we talk about that over lunch." Wow I hadn't realized how much time I had taken, it was noon!
" Okay." I agreed.
He snaked his arm around my waist and started walking me to where he had already set up a picnic. Aw I kept him waiting. My bad. It was set at a beautiful misting fountain, then I wondered why wasn't he driving his sun chariot across the sky?
" I let the old owner of the chariot drive it for a few days." Apollo answered, well crap stay out of my head.
" I'm sorry." He apologized, apparently hearing my complaint, he swung me around to the front of him and just like he said the first time 'Kiss make better'. Ha! Cliché.