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Ch 7- And I Thought Hades was Emotionally Unstable
POV Clarinha
"Um, dois, três, quatro, a Aninha é um barato! Cinco, seis, sete, oito, ela sempre tem biscoito!"
The day started really normal, we were jogging like we did every morning and singing like we did all the time so I had no idea it would be the greatest day of my life.
"Gente! Pera ai!" Called Le at the back. I turned around to see a figure coming towards us and the figure turned into Jake.
"Ai deuses me esconde!" I whispered hiding behind Malu.
"Ta maluca! Vai lá garota! Se joga, se joga joga!" She sang and pushed me towards the boy.
I stumbled and almost fell face down but for some miracle I managed to stand up to find Jake Mason some steps away. I looked back but the girls had run and were too far for me to make up any excuses.
"Hey Little Clara!" Said Jake when he reached me. That was it. My legs turned to jelly and I couldn't speak. I loved that nickname! As soon as Jake found out that "Clarinha" meant "little Clara" that's what he started calling me.
"Hum... Hi. Uh... Jake." Can I be more ridiculous?
"Hey! Uh... Can I talk to you for a sec?" I didn't understand why he asked that, seeing that we were already talking but, as usual, I didn't seem to be able to say anything more than "uh..." So he grabbed my hand and pulled me along to somewhere.
He pulled me along to the edge of the woods and we ran along it 'till we reached this big rock and he somehow managed to make me climb it. The scene was beautiful. Beautiful sunrise. Beautiful view. Beautiful boy.
"I have something for you." He said fumbling around with his coat pocket. I almost had a fit when he pulled out a beautiful, huge red rose. "For you."
"Wow, Jake." Don't ask me where my voice came from. "It's, uh, it's beautiful. I - uh - how did you know I like roses?"
"What girl doesn't? Besides that's not just a rose."
"It's not?"
"No. It's a metal rose."
"Metal rose..." I repeated. As soon as he said it I realized it was true. The rose was so delicate and light it couldn't possibly be made of metal, but if you squeezed it, it was indestructible.
"Yeah! It never dies, never withers. Just like my feelings for you."
I drank that in and felt myself get red. My heart was tap-dancing, my knees were trembling, my belly felt like a whirlpool of feelings and my eyes just couldn't leave his face.
"Your- your what?" Leave it to me to be stupid.
"My feelings."
"You- you have feelings for me?" Duh! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
"Yeah, and every time you stutter or laugh or get that beautiful shy look with those cheeks, red like that flower I fall more and more for you."
I was dreaming.
"Clara... Little Clara... Will you be my girlfriend?"
"G- g- girlfriend?"
"Yeah."
"Me?"
"Yes."
"Be your girlfriend."
He laughed. "Yeah!" he started to lean in. Oh my gods!
"I- I-" why do I get tongue tied? Why? I don't know how (me and my idiotic self) but I managed to slip. Don't ask me how I slipped sitting down but I kind of almost fainted so when I regained consciousness my small self was being held by two huge, muscular arms.
"Oh gods! Sorry! I didn't mean to- I mean I- I didn't answer- but I- I'm so silly- I- I don't-"
"Yeah" he said with a big smile on his face. "I get it."
Leave it to him to shut me up (or stop me from embarrassing myself even more) with a kiss.
Better: the best kiss.
"So, what are we doing later?" Asked Le.
The group of girls were sitting at the base of a tree at the edge of the woods, protecting themselves from the blazing summer sun, still up on the sky even though it was already evening.
"I don't know" answered Rachel. "This is so good. Can't we stay here for the rest of the day?"
"For the rest of the whole day? Won't that get boring?" Asked Clarinha, who was already getting restless with this calm atmosphere, that was understandable as her morning was slightly exciting.
"Clara se você quer tanto ir chupar a cara do seu namoradinho só vai, não inventa desculpas!" teased Malu
"Yeah we should do something!" Said Thalia as if nothing had happened. "What do you think Annabeth?"
"I don't know... I told you I have a date with Percy later so..."
"So you're ditching us to have a romantic night out with Mr. Seahorse, am I right?"
"Well I'm not ditching you because I did say I was going out."
"Yes but you are still going out"
"Well yeah, but-"
"There we go! Case closed! We stay here while you and Kelp Head go have a wonderful and romantic... Night"
Thalia and Rachel started laughing as Annabeth's face was priceless.
"Wait a sec! You guys are sleeping out?" Asked Bibi.
"No! I mean, I don't know! Honestly I don't even know where he's taking me or how we're getting into the city as Percy's bike is fixing"
"Bike? You mean a bicycle or a motorcycle?" Asked Ana.
"Motorcycle"
"I didn't know Percy had a motorcycle!" Said Malu.
"Oh, he does" said Annabeth, she looked as if she wasn't particularly fond of the thing.
"Yeah, we call it the Moving Oyster" said Thalia.
"Why?" Asked Le.
"To make Percy mad, why else?" She answered smirking.
"So, you don't know where he's taking you this time?" Asked Rachel, eager to go back to the previous conversation.
"I told you I don't" Annabeth answered, wanting the exact opposite.
"Well you did say his parents are out of town so you would have the apartment to yourselves..."
"Thalia!" Annabeth couldn't have gotten redder. All the girls laughed at the look on her face.
"Come on, Annabeth!" Said Bibi. "We're all girls! You can tell us what you and Percy-"
"What about me?"
All the girls looked back quickly to find Percy and Nico walking towards them.
"Nothing" said Malu, a smirk still playing on her lips.
"Girl talk" said Rachel.
"Well, actually-" Thalia stopped once she saw Annabeth's deadly stare.
"Anyways," said Percy, obviously oblivious to what was going on. "I got us a ride!"
"A ride? You mean someone is gonna drive us?" Annabeth asked.
"No! I mean I found a transport!" He looked so pleased with himself. "Nico lent me his ride!"
"You mean we're ridding the Deathcycle to New York?"
"Yeah!"
"Great! When I thought I got rid of the motorcycle he finds another one!"
"You know you like it!" He said, kissing her cheek.
"Wait a sec" said Ana turning to Nico. "You drive a motorcycle?"
"Yeah" Nico answered.
"Why?"
"I don't know... I like it? Because it's cool?" he said, confused.
Then things got out of control.
"Are you out of your mind!?" Ana shrieked. "Did you know around 4 thousand people die in motorcycle accidents per year in the US!?"
"Um... No." The boy replied, completely taken aback by the sudden reaction of his new girlfriend to his most loved possession.
"Yeah well those things are not safe! You should seriously consider changing your means of transportation if you plan on driving ME anywhere!" She finished, storming out.
"I didn't know she wasn't into bikes" said Nico after a few seconds.
"That's kind of obvious now!" Joked Bibi.
"If you want to sell the bike Nico, I'd be more than happy to-"
"Don't even think about it Seaweed Brain!" Said Annabeth. "One is good enough!"
"But-"
"No, Percy!"
"Fine! Sorry, Nico, I guess I can't buy it"
"Well good, because I'm not selling it!" Said Nico. "Excuse me, I'm going after Ana. Here Percy," He tossed the other boy the keys. "Not one scratch!"
"Okay" the son of Poseidon was grinning madly.
"I mean it! Last time you brought it back in pieces! I had to wait for two weeks before the Hephaestus kids managed to fix it!"
"I promise! Not one scratch!"
"Alright. Bye then" and with that he left, muttering under his breath why he still trusted his precious bike to that clumsy Octopus Brain considering he'd already broken both bikes before.
"So!" Said Percy, turning to his girlfriend and clearly enjoying himself. "Are you packed? Can we go?"
"Yeah" she answered, blushing a bit. "I'll just go and get my bag" she gave him a quick kiss. "Bye girls!" and she ran off to her cabin.
"See you girls tomorrow then!" Percy called back as he started to leave.
All the girls face-palmed at his silliness.
"Tomorrow?" asked Rachel. "Seriously, Percy? Biggest red flag ever!"
"What are you talking about?" he turned back confused.
"Nothing." She said giving in to his stupidity, he would never figure out what she meant. "Just go have your little date."
When he left Thalia turned back towards the group of remaining girls, a triumphant look in her face. "Told you so!"
Nico found her sitting on a boulder, knees to her chest and sobbing into her arms.
"Ana? Love?" He asked, reaching a hand nice and slowly towards her shoulder, before a cult had flung itself from the boulder to his arms.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't want to snap at you like that Nico, but if anything happened to you…" she trailed off, kissing his neck, his cheek and clinging to him desperately.
"It's fine, I mean I get what you were saying." Nico stammered, holding her and rubbing her back awkwardly.
"You know she actually took it pretty well." Clarinha said, laying with her legs propped on the tree trunk.
"Are you kidding me? She nearly tore off his head!" Thalia half-yelled.
"Exactly. If she was really mad, she wouldn't talk for three hours straight and would just sit facing him, burning a hole on his skull with those eyes of hers." Malu explained, sitting up.
"Besides, that girl's hatred for bikes is like Annabeth's love for architecture. I was surprised she didn't even threaten the bike's health." Bianca mused.
"Besides, poor thing must be sobbing her eyes out just about now." Le stated with approving nods from the other three girls.
Thalia settled against the three again. "Why?" she asked.
"Simply because she has this amazing skill to keep an amazingly cool, or admittedly angry, head in the heat of the moment, but after she completely breaks down. There was this once when we were at a party and this kid started having an allergic reaction to something he ate. Ana has taken a ridiculous amount of first aid courses, so she literally threw the kid down whilst someone handed her a phone to call an ambulance. She did some weird thing to keep the kid breathing. Paramedics say she saved his life, but the second the ambulance left, she fainted." Bianca recalled.
"Yeah, she just fell straight backward. Just like" Clarinha interrupted her story to click her tongue, making a 'falling back' motion with her hand.
"So basically Nico's girlfriend is emotionally unstable?" Thalia asked.
"Oh no, she's stable. Just don't freak her out. She'll either kill you, yell at you until she starts crying or stab you in the gut and twist." Malu supplied.
Thalia eyed them warily, but then a certain unblinking son of Hades stumbled close to them, neck covered in bruises and coated with what looked like Ana's strawberry Chapstick, with trails running up his cheeks.
"So Nico, how was she?" Malu asked with a smirk. The only response to her question was a blush that crept up his neck, causing the five girls begin laughing when suddenly Ana walked up. "What's so funny?" she asked, eying the girls that were clutching their sides.
"Have you taken a look at what you did to your poor boyfriend?" Le stammered between laughs. Said girlfriend took a look at Nico and 'ohed' before giving him a peck right on the lips, causing him to sputter.
"I'm awake!" he commented, looking like he was on the receiving end of a blast from Thalia.
They were sitting in the cabin doing a 'massage circle'. Well it was more of a line because Ana did not like getting a massage, but that girl had sinful hands. Clarinha was almost moaning as Ana'a slim fingers trailed down her spine When they heard sobbing out side and saw two female campers passing by, both smiling but also one sobbing out of her mind.
"I'm so happy Liz! I mean I used to think maybe, he, he loved me, but now…" they watched as Liz and her sobbing friend went out of side, biting her lips.
The second they were out of sight, what they had been holding back left at once. "baby I'm sure! And I just can't wait 'till the day, when you knock on my door!" They sang happily. "I'm walkin' on sunshine! Who-oh. Walkin' on sunshine! Woh-oh!" They chimed.
"That is so funny considering we're daughters of Apollo." Le chuckled, rubbing a happy tear out of her eye. "And on a totally unrelated note, who else is with Drops of Jupiter in their head?" asked from where she was laying, using Clarinha's legs as a pillow. Four hands shot up, followed by laughter. "Hey guys, we have archery practice." Bianca called, checking her watch.
Getting up from the floor where they were laughing, they left the golden Apollo cabin, singing to themselves happily. "Tell me, did you sail across the sun, did you make it to the Milky Way the lights all faded and heaven is over rated."
"Fire!" WIll called as ten arrows flew from the bows five splintering the arrows before them. Said arrows belonged to his new sisters, excellent marksmen if he's ever seen one. They reminded him of his predecessor. Michael Yew had been an excellent archer, an excellent councilor and an excellent brother. He, Lee Fletcher and Will had been quite close when they were at camp, and the closeness he had seen with the two previous councilors was repeated in the five girls.
They were a strong squad of archers, a stronger group of friends and they shared a very strong relationship as siblings. Half of the time, they complimented each other, physically and mentally, picking up where the others slacked without being very conscious about it. He wondered how it could be that such unique personalities fit together so well.
AN. yay! Triple post part three! And now I sleep! Goodnight! See ya around! Just kidding, I promise we won't take this long to post again.
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