Leo POV

I hummed a little song as I started making the lights for tonight's date with Piper. I was a bit nervous, but with Drew, Lacey and Katie's help I knew the date wouldn't be a complete fail. All morning I screwed in the bulbs and strung the wires together. By the time I was done I realized I had missed lunch. I decided I would sneak one sandwich from the picnic basket. I whipped my mouth clean before someone knocked on the door. I shoved the lights underneath my bed in case it was Piper and answered it. It was Drew.

"Leo, before I go on to my afternoon activities I just want to go over your outfit."

"My outfit?" I asked. "It isn't prom Drew."

"Yeah but it's your first date idiot," Drew said, annoyed. "Girls like it when guys look a bit cleaned up."

I tried to mumble a protest but Drew pushed me away and marched off to our closet. She was in there for about five minutes when she came out. She was holding a white button up shirt and blue and green striped shorts. She also had a blue tie over her shoulder.

"Try it on Valdez!" she said, shoving the clothes at me.

I walked to the bathroom and slipped on the clothes. Before I let I caught a quick glimpse of my reflection. I had to agree with Drew that I did look a bit nicer with the clothes on.

"Good, now turn," Drew demanded. "Hmmmm, we'll have to do something about your hair but besides that, you look fairly decent."

Knew it was a compliment coming from Drew, so I smiled and pulled the lights from underneath my bed to show her.

"These are perfect!" Drew said. "Now be at the beach around, 5:30 ish. I'll have the picnic stuff along with the flowers. Don't be late Valdez!"

I nodded and started to rip off the white button up shirt after Drew left. White shirts reminded me of church. Considering I didn't even go to church, that wasn't a great sign.

At the beach, I waited for Drew. I got there a little early so if I was late I wouldn't be in trouble with her. When Drew came, she had her hands full. I helped her laid out the blanket and prepare the basket along with the necklace. We hung up the lights together and even put our feet in the water.

"Look Drew," I said. "I need some help with how to talk to her."

"Of course you do," Drew said. "And before I can forget, here are the flowers."

Drew handed me the bouquet. The flowers made my nose tingle and I sneezed. She laughed. I chuckled a bit.

"Now, when you see her, stand up and give her a hug. Don't kiss her yet," Drew informed me.

"Okay, hug don't kiss," I said out loud.

"Then invite her over to sit and give her the flowers. Explain about the picnic and dinner. After you guys are eating, say you have a surprise for her and put the necklace on her. Then you can kiss her."

"Okay, flowers, eat, necklace, make out. Got it," Leo said.

"Don't make out you just ate!" Drew snapped. "Kiss!"

"Alright," I said. "But I'm too sexy to just kiss."

Drew slapped me on the arm, "Don't try flattering yourself. Afterwards take a walk with her along the beach and then do your Leo moves or whatever. Pick her up and swing her around. Pretend to throw her in the water or something. Make her laugh and smile."

"Got it, making girls laugh is my specialty," I said.

"Yeah, because you're so stupid!" Drew laughed.

"See, calling me stupid made you laugh," Leo winked and got up. "Now, I have to go to my cabin and wait for Piper. She's meeting me there at six."

"Six!?" Drew gasped. "It's six thirty you idiot!"

"What?" I said, shocked.

"She's probably wandering around looking for you," Drew snapped, standing up and running in the direction of the cabins. I follower but fell and tripped over something in the sand. A pair of gold sandals.

"What are you doing on the ground?" Drew asked, looking back at me.

"I tripped over these sandals," I said, holding them up.

"What!?" Drew ran back to me and gasped. "Oh no!"

"What's oh no?" I asked, brushing the sand out of my hair.

"Those are Piper's sandals. I would know because I got them for her. She must of seen you here with me and thought…" Drew's voice started to quiver.

I knew what Drew was thinking, I quickly started at a run. Drew following me. I raced through the trees and bushes and made it to my cabin, where I nearly nocked the door over in frustration. I saw Harley sitting at the desk and Chrisopher laying on his bed lazily.

"Leo!" Harley jumped up. "About forty minutes ago Piper was looking for you. Said something about meeting you here."

"Yeah I know," I mumbled guiltily. "Do you know where she went?"

"I think she went to go look for you but I don't know where," Harley replied.

"Thanks man," I said, running out of the cabin, Drew waiting outside the door.

"Where is she?" asked Drew, jogging behind me, panting.

"I don't know, but I'm going to find her-" I knocked into someone. Malcom, son of Athena.

"Sorry," I mumbled, getting up.

"Look man, I don't know what you did- but she's upset," Malcom said.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Piper, she's with my sister and Percy in the cabin right now. Crying about you and her sister Drew," Malcom replied.

"Thanks," I said.

"What… is…. Going… on…." Drew panted behind me.

"Piper's in the Athena cabin. I think it's best if I go there by myself," I said, now fast walking towards the Athena cabin.

"I am coming no matter what you say!" Drew gasped.

We headed towards the cabin. When we arrived, I nervously opened the door. I saw Piper curled up in a ball crying. Annabeth was sitting on the bunk next to her, patting her back sympathetically. Percy was standing next to the bunk, agrily chewing his nails. When Percy saw me, he charged and slammed me against the wall. My head felt like it was going to explode, but I opened my eyes.

"What did you do Valdez?" Percy asked. I had never been so afraid of Percy. The only other time he had been this angry with me was when I had fired Camp Jupiter on the Agro II.

"Look Percy," I managed to say. "It's a whole misunderstanding."

"Two boys in only two days," Annabeth looked at me. "First Jason, now you. I really expected you to be different Leo."

"Look," I said, trying to get out of Percy's arm lock- boy was he strong. "You don't understand Piper. I didn't cheat on you. Drew was helping me set up the date. She was helping me practice what to do with you. We didn't realize it was past six. What you saw was her helping me. Nothing happened. I don't have feelings for her."

"That's a load of bullshit!" Percy yelled.

"He's telling eh truth," Drew finally stepped out of the corner she had been hiding in. "Look Piper, I would never try to steal Leo away. I know he's important to you."

Piper stopped crying for a second and looked up at me. Her eyes were red and her hair was sticking up everywhere. Her lips trembled as she tried to say something.

"I believe you Leo. But this experience made me realize that I made a mistake. I don't think this relationship is going to work out," Piper stood up. "I moved on from Jason too quickly. It was like I lit one marshmallow on fire and started to burn another one."

The analogy about marshmallows was a bit weird, but I kind of got it. I couldn't believe Piper was breaking up with me. If she knew what she had seen was a mistake- than how come she was still mad?

"Piper," I said, a huge lump in my throat forming. "What do you mean."

"I mean Leo," Piper let more tears trickle down her face. "We aren't a couple anymore. My heart shattered at the last couple words. I felt like crying myself.

"Don't do this Piper," I said, my voice cracking. "Please!"

"I'm sorry Leo," She put a hand on my cheek. "I really am."

"Sis!" Drew looked at Piper. "This was my fault, not Valdez's. Don't break up with him!"

Piper softly kissed me and then walked out of the door. Horrified and stunned, I fell to the floor. I sat up and just sat there, like my life was over.