This Can't Be Real Life! (Ch. 7)

"THE RED TEAM WINS! YES!" some random person yelled. I smiled and jumped down from my tree and observed the scene before me.

Annabeth was scolding her teammates for not following the plan. Celia was dragging Percy into view with some other Hephaestus kid and that knocked Annabeth out of her ranting mode. She ran over to Percy and she grabbed Percy while the Hephaestus kid let him go. The people she was getting mad at looked relieved. I looked to my right and saw Dria coming into view, rubbing her eyes.

"Where have you been?" I asked her.

"Um…well…ha funny story, actually. I-I got bored with this 'capture the flag' business and leaned up against a tree. You know, because the armor is SO heavy. I made a glass of wine, Pollux showed me how to do that by the way, and drained the glass." She began starting her story, slurring her words. I have no doubt it was because of the wine.

"I felt tired after the alcohol set in and took a little nap. When I woke up, I was in enemy territory…in their jail. Yeah. No one came to save me, so I just sat there; I drank another glass, and went back to sleep. Yeah, and here I am now." I rolled my eyes. She stumbled off, making her way towards her cabin. The hang-over she was going to have in the morning.

I slowly walked toward my cabin to store my stuff before I went to the campfire sing-a-long. I walked into my cabin and slipped my armor off gave it back to Celia. I didn't know where to put the stuff. After all she's the one who got it out. I put my bow and quiver on my bed. I'll need to get someone to get me some hooks for them.

I slipped into the bath room and freshened up a little. Turns out playing capture the flag makes you a bit grungy.

"LILA! Hurry up! We're gonna be late for the sing-a-long! And we sing in that!" I heard one of my sister's yell.

"Coming!" I rolled my eyes and sped to the door. They had already left without me. I see how much they care about me. I ran as quickly as I could to the fire. I got there a little late and they had already sung like two songs. I sat down softly on a random log.

I looked across the fire and saw Damon. He was staring down at the fire apparently deep into thought. His soft, chocolate brown hair draped down in his eyes a little, which caused his eyes to look really cool, with the fire reflected in them. He looked up and caught my gaze. Smiling at me, he waved lightly and went right back into his deep train of thought.

"Hey, people! Any song requests?" Will asked with an excited glint in his eye. Damon perked up at this. Before he stood up to tell Will his request he flashed me an impish smile. My eyes narrowed in suspicion. What was he up to?

"I've got one." Damon said in a devilish voice.

"Well…what is it?"

"Dirty Picture by Taio Cruz and Ke$ha."

"You gonna sing the male lead?" Will asked him while he searched his iPod touch for the song. Being a child of Apollo if you had any iPod you had almost every song ever written on the thing…and extended memory.

"Yeah. There's someone specific I want to sing the female lead." He eyed me suspiciously. Oh no. He wasn't…no. He nonchalantly walked over to me, stuck a hand out, and smiled at me cheesy.

"Well, Lila?" Damon requested me. I decide to humor him. I softly slipped my hand in his and we made our way back to Will.

Celia grabbed two headset microphones; One for me and the other for Damon. We both snatched one and put them in. I stood on one side of the fire and he stood on the other. We gave Will thumbs up and he started the music. Damon began. I felt my foot to slowly tap to the beat and I closed my eyes.

I could dream of ways to see you

I could close my eyes to dream

I could fantasize about you

Tell the world what I believe

But whenever I'm not with you

It's so hard for me to see

I need to see a picture of you

A special picture just for me, yeah

Now it was time for me to jump in, right where it sped up. My hips started to rock to the quickened beat. I hadn't noticed until now, but Damon was right behind me. He put his hands on my swaying hips and I…liked it.

So take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture
Take a dirty picture for me

Take a dirty picture
Send a dirty picture to me
Send a dirty picture
Send a dirty picture to me
Send a dirty picture

He let go of me and we started dancing around to the music. Some of the other campers had gotten up and started to dance, too. It was like a club at the campfire. I really got into it and started to tease him while he sang.

Snap! Snap! Oh!

Whenever you are gone, I just wanna be wit ya
Please don't get me wrong, I just wanna see a picture

Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture
Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture

He stopped at his part and let me sing mine. The weird thing about singing this with him is that it all seemed like a TV show where it's all random on the show but it's really rehearsed. That's what this felt like.

Whenever you are gone, I just wanna be wit ya
Please don't get me wrong, I just wanna see your picture

Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture
Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture

We sang the rest of the song together and we even danced together as a pair for it. I slipped my right hand in his left and we danced, slowly at first then faster as the song got faster.

I could dream of ways to see you
I could close my eyes to dream
Fantasize about this with you

But the way it's never seen, oh

Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture
Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture

Just send the dirty picture to me
Send the dirty picture
Send the dirty picture to me
Send the dirty picture

Snap!

Snap!

Snap! Oh!

Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture
Take a dirty picture for me
Take a dirty picture
Just send the dirty picture to me
Send the dirty picture
Send the dirty picture to me
Send the dirty picture

Snap, uh
Snap
Snap
Click, click... snap!

When we finished our strangely organized, yet not organized dance my arms were draped over his shoulders. He had an arm around my waist and the other on my thigh holding it to his. We were both staring into each other's eyes deeply. He let go of my leg and we slowly got closer. I was so close to his lips that they barely brushed together. Then, all of a sudden, we heard Chiron coughed and we both let go of each other. Yep, that wasn't awkward at all.

"I'm glad to see you've made a friend Lila, but something urgent has happened." Chiron said with deep worry in his eyes.

"Attention, campers! I have some dreadful news." There was complete silence and the only sounds you could hear were crickets chirping and the occasional cough.

"Um…L-lady A-Athena. She…she has been…kidnapped." Chiron told us, tears welling up in his eyes. The fire turned blue and sunk down to five feet. This is not good.

A/N: Hey! Yes I did use Dirty Picture though that isn't the best age appropriate song for them… I love that song. Oh yeah I don't own it by the way (I hope you already know that!) However I did edit the song a little because it was just way too long. Hope you people loved it!