Josh
We were sitting in Kelly's car breathing heavily as Kelly drove us to Rhode Island. Kelly had a death grip on the wheel but the rest of us were sweating through our clothes and panting like dogs.
Alissa was passed out in the back seat next to Anthony who was digging through his back pack trying to find some nectar or ambrosia. I, for one, was staring at the back of Gaby's head. Although she was in the seat next to me she refused to look at me.
I couldn't help thinking about how she was really cute when she was tired. Although she had just been running, her chestnut hair was still up in a perfect pony tail, and her face wasn't even red from the monster fight; it was just slightly flushed. As if she sensed I was staring at her, she whipped her head around and glared at me with narrowed eyes.
"You know this is your fault, right?" she asked me as her perfect blue eyes bore into me. "If you hadn't tried to call your mom you wouldn't have attracted the Anemoi that attacked us! You know Alissa could be dead right now, right?"
"Well, were alive now, and we have Sunshine over there to fix up Ali," I said not wanting to complain too much.
"Hey!" complained Anthony.
"Ugh…You're so self-centered!" Gaby yelled at me. "Alissa had to shadow travel after summoning an army of the dead! It takes a lot out of her!"
"I'm not self-centered," I replied.
'Oh, you totally are," she shot back. "You don't think about anybody but yourself."
"Fine," I huffed crossing my arms over my chest, like a four year old who didn't get what he wanted.
Normally I wouldn't admit to being wrong, but with Gaby it was different. It was as if she could command me to do anything like a daughter of Aphrodite who could charm speak.
Ali
It was dark and the smelled of rotting food and mildew. It reminded me of the time Addy, Matt, and I spent with Daphne in San Francisco. The city was still alive during the night time though it was a different kind of alive than during the day.
We were waiting for our bus to show up so it could take us to Connecticut. Unfortunately, our bus was late so we had to call a cab, but before it came something else decided to go wrong.
Standing in front of us was the one of biggest Cyclopes I'd ever seen. It looked down at me and gave me an ugly smile. Its teeth were rotting and its gums were black. It really grossed me out.
Mostly because of my phobia of Cyclopes', I was shocked and I was scared out of my mind and yet I couldn't help but think about how these damn monsters kept on showing up.