~Seth P.O.V.~
"You're kind of putting me in a tight spot here, Seth." Jake sighed, running his fingers through his hair.
"C'mon, man. It'll only be for a few days." I was practically begging.
"It's not you being gone that freaks me out. It's that you'll be alone with Katherine and Dave. What if something happens?"
"I'll take someone with me then. I'm sure they won't mind." I said.
"I don't know, man." He replied.
"If this was Renesmee, you'd be doing the same thing." I snapped.
"Can't argue with you there, man. Fine, you can go. Make sure to tell your mom and see if Quil or Embry will go with you. When are you leaving?" He asked.
"Seth, are you and your friend ready to go?" Katherine poked her head out of her hospital room.
"Yeah. He should be here any second with our stuff." I looked at her, smiling.
"Great." She smiled before disappearing back into the room.
"Embry already agreed." I said, looking back to Jake, who looked dumbfounded.
"And you guys didn't think to talk to me about this sooner?" He replied, crossing his arms tightly across his chest.
"It crossed my mind don't know about his though." I shrugged as I walked past him.
"Do your moms know?" Jacob asked following me.
"Of course they do. Em's mom is the one that talked him into coming." I explained as I rounded the corner into the waiting room. "I need a favor though." I looked at him.
"What?"
"Tell Leah for me?" I peeped.
"Hell no! She'll rip my head off." He replied, laughing.
"I know! That's why I didn't tell her." I snickered.
"Is he cool with it?" Embry asked as he approached Jake and I, cautiously.
"Yeah, I am. But thanks you the heads up, guys." Jake grumbled as Em handed my backpack to me.
"You're welcome, man." Embry chuckled.
"Let's go, boys. We have a plane to catch." Dave told us as Katherine was rolled out of the front doors and into a cab.
"Later, Jakey" Embry smiled and dashed to the car.
"Bye, Jake." I said before squeezing in the backseat with Embry and Dave.
About an hour later, we were on flight 231 to New York. Embry had passed out about an hour ago, around the same time the kid behind me started kicking my seat.
"Can I get a newspaper, please?" Katherine asked the flight attendant from across the aisle.
"Yes, ma'am. Here you go." She replied.
"Thank you." She smiled. "Dave, look at this." She mumbled a second later.
"Hm?"
"'Early morning on Saturday, October 3rd, an explosion rocked the small town of Aspinwall, Iowa, taking the life of Donald Miller, a semi-truck driver of twenty-five were no witnesses to the crash, but based on evidence from the sight, investigators predict the trailer tipped and the driver of a late model, Dodge Dart swerved to avoid it, causing the vehicle to flip. A stick punctured the gas tank and a spark caused the blast,'"
"That's the rental car…" Dave whispered. My eyes widened.
"'The driver and passenger of the car still have not been found…'" Her voice cracked.
"What if-"
"Don't. Okay, Dave? Just don't. They're fine." Katherine barked.
"Kathy…"
"Stop it. Our kids are safe." She growled. Dave just nodded.
Evelyn, you better be okay.
~Evelyn P.O.V.~
"'The driver and the passenger of the car still have not been found. A statewide manhunt has been issued until further notice and there is a reward for any information on the suspects.' Jesus, they make Eric and I sound like fucking criminals!" I hissed, looking up from the screen as I sat crosslegged on a log.
"Relax. Neither of you did anything wrong." Clarisse grunted, panting, viciously attacking a training dummy. "Wanna try?"
"What? No way." I said quickly, knowing well enough what violence plus my clumsiness would lead.
"C'mon, Evelyn." She stopped and turned to face me causing the sun to hit her already glowing skin and cause it to shimmer. "If you don't start doing something soon, that tattoo is gonna start sagging." She smirked. I sighed and reluctantly sliding her phone into my pocket. "Good girl." The daughter of Ares snickered cockily, as I uncrossed one leg at a time and trudged as though I were on a death march over to her.
I got into my fighting stance and her laugh made me instantly regret it.
"Holy shit, Ev." Clarisse gasped for air between fits of laughter. "I'm glad I'm the only one here. If anyone else saw all of this," She gestured to me, "They'd know you're not a grandchild of Athena. What are you go noodle-arm your opponent to death?" She finished, still chuckling.
"Fuck this. I'm just going to go to my cabin." I mumbled pitifully and started walking away.
"Hey," She caught my arm. "Let me help you." She added, smiling in a tantalizing way. I nodded, seeing a sincere look in her eyes. "Come here." She pulled me gently back in front of the dummy. I got back into my stance, starring the dummy down. She pushed lightly on my shoulder, causing me to stumble. "Spread your legs a little wider. It'll help with your terrible balance."
"Hey." I grumbled, glancing over my shoulder to look at her.
"What? It's true." Clarisse replied, innocently. I shrugged, knowing she was right, and took her advice. She pushed on my shoulder again, harder this time. "See? Isn't that better?" She asked when I didn't budge.
"Yeah, thanks." I snickered.
"Don't thank me yet. We still have a lot of work to do." She replied. "Square your hips." She said, placing her hands on my hips and straightening them. Her fingers lingered at the pockets of my jeans, and I could feel the warmth of her breath tickling the exposed skin of my neck. I turned around to face her, my breath catching in my throat when I noticed how close we were.
"Clarisse,"
"Hm?" She mumbled, her eyes falling from my eyes to my lips. I tugged hard on my bottom lip with my teeth before whispering:
"Kiss me." She didn't hesitate, pulling my body against hers in a split second before crushing her mouth against mine. I threw my arms around the taller woman's neck, pressing myself against her and deepening the kiss.
"A little impatient, are we?" She chuckled, her arms locked around my hips and her hands resting on a...lower region...in my back pockets...
"You're just so gods damn irresistible."
"Oh, baby, you haven't seen anything yet." She purred as a warning before her lips were back against mine. I couldn't stop the moan from escaping my mouth when she pushed me against the training dummy and kissed a path down to my neck, nipping and sucking the sensitive skin as she went. I dropped my hands from her hair and to her stomach, lingering at her rock hard muscles as she attacked my neck.
A few agonizing minutes later, she finally kissed back up to my mouth, running her tongue across my bottom lip. I opened my mouth and our tongues battled for dominance, which, of course, she won.
I felt her cool fingers press against the warm flesh of my stomach as her lips turned demanding against mine. One of her hands slide up my front, lingering at my chest, before cupping my face gently. Her other hand slid around to my back.
She was a lot rougher with me than Seth was…
Seth!
"Fuck!" I snapped against her mouth. "I'm a horrible person." I mumbled, pulling back with eyes wide.
"What's wrong?" Clarisse asked, confused. "Evelyn, talk to me." She demanded when I pushed out from underneath her. "Hey," She caught my hand and pulled me back to look at her.
"I can't be doing this." I mumbled.
"Doing what?" She asked, her face falling.
"Falling for you again." I peeped, looking up at her.
"Why not? You seemed to like the idea a minute ago." She smirked, playfully.
"There's this guy…"
"Is he your boyfriend?" She asked before I could continue.
"Well, no but-"
"Do you like him?" She asked quickly.
"Yes. No. I don't know. It's really complicated." I answered.
"When did you meet him?"
"Two days before you picked Eric and I up."
"Oh, boy! Two whole days? You two are definitely getting married!" She said, sarcastically.
"Just stop, okay?" I barked, crossing my arms tightly.
"What? Come on Evelyn, do you even know him?"
"Well, not entirely but-"
"What's his favorite color?" She asked.
"What's mine?"
"Blue."
Wrong."
"Sorry, light blue." She sighed. "Do you even know his last name?"
"Clear-something…" I murmured. "Okay, so I don't have all the details…" I added, feeling defeated.
"Then I don't see a problem with this." She purred, running her hands down my arms, uncrossing them and then picking up my hands. "I mean, I guess I could back off." She snickered as she pulled me into her familiar, comforting embrace. I wrapped my arms up her torso and laid my head against her shoulder. "But you don't seem to want me to." She whispered into my ear, tightening her hold on me. I didn't reply, instead I just closed my eyes, feeling content.
"How come you're such an asshole when you want to be, but also the realest, strongest person that I know? I muttered a couple minutes later.
"The same way you're a know-it-all, sarcastic bitch when you want to be, but also the smartest, most down to Earth person I know." She replied, pulling back to look at me.
"Touche."
"Touche?" She laughed.
"Yeah." I giggled. "Someone's coming." I looked up and pulled my hands away.
"Put your hair down. You have a couple hickies." She chuckled, running her fingers over the now tender skin.
"Fuck you." I snickered and pulled out my hair tie.
"Evelyn, there you are!" Eric came running over the hill, raising an eyebrow when he saw Clarisse next to me.
"What's up?" I asked, jogging and meeting him halfway.
"Chiron wants us to meet him at the house." Eric explained, panting.
"You need to work out more, buddy. What'd you run, ten feet?" I replied.
"Asshole." Eric grumbled.
"Wait, you two got summoned?" Clarisse asked. "By Chiron?"
"Three, actually. He wants to see you too." Eric spat, clearly not happy to see her. "He says it's important." He added, turning back to me.
"We'd better go." Clarisse said, walking past Eric and I. We followed, trailing a few steps behind her.
"Evelyn, are you crazy?" Eric barked.
"I hope not. Why?" I looked at him.
"Clarisse, again. Really?" He asked. "Are you two, like, back together?"
"No. And even if we were, it's not really any of your business, little brother." I snapped.
"Then why do you spend every waking moment together?" I looked at him. "Yeah, I noticed." He hissed, meeting my eyes.
"Because she's the only one I know in this entire camp besides you. She's a good friend, Eric." I explained.
"Yeah, a good friend that broke your heart last year." He grumbled.
"You know I can hear everything you're saying, little boy?" Clarisse growled, looking over her shoulder at him, who now looked like he was about to wet his pants. "You should probably learn to whisper."
"She has a point." I sang, amused.
"Shut up." He replied as the three of us met up with Chiron.
"Thank you for meeting me so quickly." The centaur said. "Come with me." He added and led us inside of the house.
"What's going on?" Clarisse asked from behind Eric and I as we walked into the living room.
"Oh my gods." I whispered when my eyes fell on Katherine, who threw her arms around Eric and I.
"Are you guys okay?" She asked, pulling back to look at us.
"We're fine, mom." I said quickly without thinking.
"Oh, babies," She pulled us back into her embrace, swaggering slightly.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
"I'm fine, just a bit jetlagged is all." She whispered, smiling at me. "Thank the gods you two are okay. An explosion? How in the hell did you manage that?" She exclaimed, scolding now and glaring at me.
"Actually that was my bad." Eric snickered. "Evelyn let me drive while she slept for a little while."
"Remind me to never let you borrow my car." Katherine whispered, a small smile on her mouth. "Chiron, thank you for keeping them safe." She looked at him.
"It was no trouble, my dear." The centaur smiled at her.
"Hey, where's dad?" Eric asked.
"He and Embry got held up at the airport. They lost our luggage." She told us.
"Embry?" I asked.
"He came with me." A very unforgettable voice spoke up.
"Seth?" I peeped, looking around Katherine and seeing him.
"Hey." He smiled. I dashed to him and threw myself at him, unable to help myself. He wrapped his arms around my waist, tightly, and spun me around.
A wave of confusion and guilt hit me like a train when I saw Clarisse's face.
What the hell do I do?
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Seth or Clarisse?
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