Hey… *smiles awkwardly* so, SO sorry for not updating in a while…:P. But here it is… Leo asks Drew out on a date! Well, sort of… read and find out… And, the thing you've all been waiting for has come! FINALLY! Fluff is slowly coming into play… obviously not real fluff, but whatever… I am officially in serious need of ideas, so PLEASE pm me of leave some ideas in a review. Thank you!

*_*_DaughterOfAphrodite_~Drew~_DaughterOfAphrodite_*_*

It was lunch time when Leo walked up to Drew's table. He plopped down next to Drew, earning him a glare from Chiron and Mr. D, and turned to Drew.

"Leo, what…" Drew began, but Leo cut her off.

"Hey Drew, sorry to interrupt your lunch," Leo said, smiling at Drew. Drew sensed a mask coming on, and she almost snickered. "I was just wondering if you would like to go to the fireworks with me…?" Leo smiled at her, and Drew threw on her own mask.

"Oh my Gods, LEO!" Drew swung her arms around Leo, smiling like she was crazily in love. "I thought you were never going to ask!" As Leo sat down next to Drew at her table, earning them another evil eye from Mr. D and Chiron, Drew practically sat on Leo's lap with her arms around his neck. For once, she was barely bothered by his musk. He must have worn deodorant that day.

Leo smiled at Drew. "So, did you want…"

"Of course I want to go with you!" Drew hugged Leo even tighter, making all her sisters gasp and start muttering about how cute the two were. Drew hid her smug smile when she saw how Piper was glaring at them with a hatred Drew had never seen before.

Leo lightly touched Drew's shoulder, motioning for her to get off of him, and Drew let go, with a huge—and incredibly fake—smile plastered on her face. Leo smiled his warm smile at Drew, and Drew made a fake giggle to show how 'excited' she was. She personally thought she was doing great. Acting like a love-addict Aphrodite girl. This was her life—and she knew exactly how to play it.

"Well," Leo said, semi-awkwardly detaching himself from Drew. "I'll see you tomorrow night then, okay?" Drew nodded vigorously and Leo walked away.

As soon as she sat back down, she looked at her sisters, who were all smiling.

"Drew, you and Leo are such a perfect couple, you know?" said Katrise, one of the newer girls to the cabin.

"Yeah, Drew."

"You two are so in love!"

"It's adorable!"

Yeah, Drew thought to herself. If only it was actually real.

"You guy's aren't actually in love." Everyone stared at Piper, who had broken the cute moment. She was glaring at Drew with such hatred it completely ruined her pretty face. "You two haven't even kissed yet." All the girls gasped and began gossiping, Piper's frown turning into a smirk. Drew glared at her, her face mirroring Piper's glare. None of the other girls seemed to notice Drew and Piper's stare down.

When their table was dismissed, Drew walked right up to Leo, grabbing his curly hair and dragging him behind a pine tree so no one would see them. Normally, this was her spot for making out with other campers, but not today.

"Nice going," Drew muttered to Leo, who was holding his head in pain and looking completely astounded.

"What on earth did I do?" he asked.

"Really? Asking me out to the fireworks the day they're happening? Good thing I pulled all that improvisation out of my hat!" Drew practically yelled at him. "And, you haven't even kissed me yet! Your genius friend Piper decided to tell my entire table at lunch! It's totally rousing everyone's suspicions!" Leo glared at her, still holding his head.

"It's not my…"

"It is TOO your fault!" Drew cried. What the hell did he mean it wasn't his fault? "It's totally your fault! In a real relationship with a boy like you and a girl like me, you need to be the bigger man and kiss me first, and ask me out on a freaking date before the day the event is happening!" Drew was fuming. Leo snickered. "NOTHING IS FUNNY! WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?"

"Just because, in a real relationship with a boy like me and a girl like you, the boy like me would have broken up with a girl like you the day he asked her out. Just saying." Leo's dark eyes flashed in the light at her, and she bit her lip to keep from laughing as she punched Leo in the arm.

"Shut up, Fire Boy," she said, and Leo grabbed her face and tilted it up to face him.

"I could kiss you right here, right now," he said, and Drew almost blushed. No, she thought. He was no different than any other boys she had dated. Well, he was obviously a virgin, but besides that, he wasn't any different than the other boys. "Just so everyone could see."

"No, it's fine," Drew replied. "It'll look like I just came crying to you after what Piper said, and that'll cause all kinds of rumors." Leo let go of Drew's face.

"When should I do it then?" he asked.

"During the fireworks," Drew replied. And before he could answer, she cut him off. "And that's what she said." Drew giggled and Leo blushed, hitting Drew in the arm.

"Shut up, Princess," he said.

A few hours later... at the time when Drew was getting ready for the fireworks…

Drew had all the cute outfits she owned that had passed under Leo's inspection laid out on her bed. She didn't know why she felt the need to dress up; it was only the fireworks, not anything really major, but she still felt like she needed to impress Leo. Lacy walked up behind her and put her hand on her shoulder. Drew jumped.

"Gods, Lacy, you scared the crap out of me," she said, turning to glare at Lacy. Lacy jus smiled.

"I think you should wear the light blue one with the cream stripes and trim," she said, pointing to a skirt Drew had completely overlooked. "And then you have to wear than cute loose shirt, the cream colored one, and those cute blue flowered sandals. The blue brings out your eyes." Drew didn't even have time to thank her before she walked over to her bed and completely pretended nothing had happened.

Drew decided to trust Lacy's judgment and wore the skirt and shirt, which looked really cute. She put on a thick rope belt and loaded on the mascara so her eyelashes looked a foot long. She settled on a clear lip gloss, and put her dark hair in a thick fishtail down the side, her curls uniting at the bottom to make it look like one curl. As she looked at herself in the mirror, she actually felt beautiful for once.

*_*_SonOfHephaestus_~Leo~_SonOfHephaestus_*_*

Leo had settled on a plain green T-shirt and some dark grey shorts, and a boatload of cologne from Damien, a boy in his cabin. He knew Drew hated his normal musk, so he tried to hide it. Wait, since when did he actually care what Drew thought? As he thought on it more, Leo realized he was kind of antsy. He was going to be kissing a girl tonight, which, very strangely, was going to be his first kiss. And it wasn't even going to be real. Or was it?

He pushed the thought out of his head. It wasn't going to be a big deal really, was it? He had no idea what the heck it would be like, but hopefully Drew would help him out and not completely embarrass him. But, it wasn't a big deal, so he shouldn't worry at all. This was a completely fake relationship, with fake kisses and fake hugs, and it didn't matter what Drew thought about him. Or did it?

Once again, Leo tried to push the thought out of his head, and focused on the outcome of their relationship. It actually did seem to be working. Leo had caught a few of his cabin mates chatting with an Aphrodite camper, and he had felt really good about it. Maybe Chiron's plan really was working. Maybe Chiron would let him and Drew break up soon.

As soon as the thought hit him, his stomach almost sank. That would mean they would start right back where they were before; enemies. Drew would go back to being a bitch and a whore, and Leo would go back to being the lifeless builder. Great.

But, he also did feel something kind of special, just for Drew. It wasn't much, but whenever Drew accidentally touched his hand, not when she did it on purpose, he felt a bolt of electricity run through him, like Zeus was stabbing him with the Master Bolt. And whenever he stared into her blue eyes, the ones that had just recently gone from steel cold to blooming like flowers, he felt the same feeling. He didn't really know what to call it. He defiantly wasn't in love with her. He liked her, sure, but he would never, EVER let her know that. Or anyone else.

"Leo!" Nyssa called, breaking off his thoughts. "We have to go! You're going to be late to get Drew!" Leo sighed as he ran out to meet Nyssa at the door. "Dude, you didn't even take the time to look nice?"

"Nyssa, this is as close to 'nice' as I get," Leo said, jabbing his half-sister in the ribs. Nyssa rolled her eyes.

"Look, all the boys are already at the Aphrodite cabin, picking up their girlfriends," Nyssa pushed him. "You'd better go get her before someone else gets her." Leo sighed and began walking down to the Aphrodite cabin.

There was a lot of commotion outside the Aphrodite cabin. Tons of girls with makeup caked on their face and skimpy dresses were running around, and there was a whole lot of kissing going on. Leo almost turned up his nose in disgust, until he saw Drew.

She was leaning against the corner of her cabin, biting her nails and looking around nervously. She was dressed in an outfit that looked like the sky to Leo. Leo just gaped at her until she laid her gaze on him and smiled, running over to him. He had really never noticed how pretty she was without makeup. She actually did have a lot of natural beauty.

"Hey," she said, and slipped her hand into his. Leo was still dumbstruck, so he decided to cover it up with a joke.

"Whoa, no," he said, stopping her. She looked at him worriedly, and un-hooked her hand from his.

"Did you not want me to hold your hand?" she asked. "Was it wrong? I mean there are people around here, and we're in love, so we have to…"

"No, Drew, you have to take off those heels," said Leo simply. "You're taller than me with them on, and I feel like a shrimp." Drew burst out laughing.

"You are a shrimp, Valdez, get used to it," she said, and tugged at one of his curls. Leo snickered.

"I'm gonna have to take them off for you," he said, laughing. Drew laughed too, and grabbed her shoes and threw them into her cabin. She walked out of the cabin with no shoes at all.

"Now, give me yours," she said, reaching down to grab his tennis shoes.

"Whoa, no," he said again, back-stepping so she wouldn't take them off. She laughed.

"Fine, I'll just leave it to you to lead your bare-footed date to the fireworks then," said Drew. Everyone was already gone, so no pretending was needed, but Drew slipped her hand into Leo's once again, and Leo felt as if the firework show was erupting inside of him.

When they finally reached the fireworks, which were being held at the chariot race track, everyone was already settled in with their blankets and such. Leo let Drew over to a nice patch of grass that seemed to be practically reserved for them. They sat down, hands still linked together, and waited silently for the sun to go down.

When all the light had finally gone, the first firework was launched into the sky. Leo felt as if he should have been one of the ones helping, but they had excused him because of his work on the Argo 11, and because he had a girlfriend who he wanted to watch the fireworks with.

The first firework was a welcome to the firework show. They then began to shoot off random scenes from camp, as well as from the war with Gaea. The fireworks were brilliantly engineered, and he caught himself looking at Drew throughout part of it. Her face lit up with joy and the light of the fireworks filled him with happiness, something he never thought he'd truly possess again.

Just then, Drew turned to look at him, and Leo blushed and looked back up at the sky. Drew tilted his chin back towards her with a finger and smiled at him. Her eyes seemed to be flashing with all the different colors of the fireworks, and Leo smiled back at her.

"You know how we need to kiss?" Drew said. "Now would be a great time." Leo nodded as a thousand thoughts buzzed through his head. He had had no idea how to kiss. He didn't know what was going to happen when he kissed Drew. He didn't know if when he didn't kiss Drew right, if she was going to completely ruin his reputation. All the same, he slowly leaned in at the same pace as Drew. 'Here goes nothing,' he thought, and he pressed his lips against hers.

Nothing really happened except for the fact that their lips had met for a few seconds when Leo pulled away. Drew smiled at him.

"You do know that I just wasted my first kiss on you," said Leo, and Drew playfully glared at him.

"Just because I've kissed other boys doesn't make it a wasted kiss," she replied. "And, for your first time, that was pretty good." Leo smiled triumphantly. "But, let me show you how it's really done." Drew placed her hand surprisingly gently on the back of his neck. "This is all for show, you know that, right?" Leo laughed and nodded. Drew smiled in return. "Now, put both of your hands on my back," Dew instructed, and Leo followed. "Now lean your forehead on mine." Leo did. "Now, kiss me." Leo really didn't care at this point how much Drew liked his kissing. So, he kissed her, locking lips with her perfect ones. He looked at Drew, whose eyes were closed, the lights of the fireworks still lighting up her eyelids. Leo closed his eyes, too, and he felt Drew's hand on his shoulder. Their lips—his chapped ones, hers soft from lip balm—seemed to fit together perfectly.

Note to all of you who actually think that they are truly in love; you are so WRONG. Just letting you guys know, even though Drew is a great kisser and Leo enjoyed it a little, as well as Drew, they have only microscopic feelings for each other. Just throwing that out there. But, you'll have to read on in the later chapters to see if their feelings stay the same… hehe :P ANYWAYS… review, favorite, subscribe! I love people that do that :P. THANKS FOR READING!