I would hate me too if I were you, so to say I'm sorry I did another chapter about how you do not break promises especially if they're towards Zaidy. BTW I hope you had a nice Christmas, and if you don't celebrate Christmas then hope you had a nice average December 24th and 5th =).
Zaidy's POV
May.8.2004
Conner hasn't been doing well in anything lately. Jennifer and I are going away to this one half blood school all the way in Ohio, and he forgot about it for a while but the subject came back up and he still didn't like the matter. Jenny's helping him with his aim; Travis is sword fighting with him, and that's saying something since he once got hurt by the training dummies. I offered to help him with both subject (let's face it, Travis can barely hold a sword and Jenny isn't that good of a tutor) but he said it would be better to try and get used to not having us around. I have friends other than them, but I wouldn't feel right. Unless I make a new friend.
"Hi Katie!" I yelled from far away. She was working in the garden; hence her last name: Gardner
"Oh, hey Zaidy," she said not looking up from her strawberry plant
"Need help?" I asked bored out of my mind.
"Not really," Demeters are said to be nice and thoughtful but most of her kids now in days are just a bucket load of mean. Not all of them, all the guys don't really care but the chicks can be hurtful. Katie wasn't one of them I didn't know her much but of what I did know, she was alright; on a very thin line though. "You're going to HBS in the summer right?"
"Yeah, I'm going with Jennifer,"
"Wow, no wonder Conner has been down," she finally looked up and sat on the dirt.
"You've seen that too,"
"Yup, Travis doesn't seem too upset about you leaving though," It was faint but she kept crossing that line, going back and forth from good chick to bad
"Well since I'm not leaving till the summer we decided to put it off,"
"Oh," she looked away; it was driving me insane not knowing where she stands. "Zaidy, can I tell you something?"
"Sure,"
"Actually na, it's stupid,"
"Katie, if you're scared I'm going to say something, I won't,"
"Okay. I got here about 2 or 3 months before you, and the Stolls were already here. We didn't know each other that well back then, but… I had a crush on Travis… and I still kind of do," my mind was like 'YES!' not at the fact that she liked my boyfriend but that I now know what she's been thinking.
"Oh, well thanks for telling me?" I had no idea what to say
"You're not mad are you?"
"No, not at all. I guess it's something that can't be helped,"
"Oh, okay then," It was getting late so I started to walk away
"Wait," I just needed to get this over with "Promise you won't try anything while I'm gone? I don't take promise breakers lightly,"
"Oh, I promise," then she ran off for her cabin before I could confirm ha she was on the bad side or not.
May.7.2004
The next morning Jennifer and I needed to go to the orientation for the Half-Blood school. That was going to take place at Olympus, since we can't go from Long Island to Willoughby Hills overnight. We said our goodbyes to the boys and left using the camp van.
When we arrived we saw more than 3 dozen half-bloods in the room. Hera was the one giving the speech. She apparently was the one in who made the school. All she talked about was what we do there and how it's a non-stop place. If you drop out, you'll no longer be accepted at Camp, or be able to make contact with Chiron. The good part was that you can set how many years you want to go for; you can set until you graduate as well.
"You still sure you want to go to this school?" we were sitting in the van on our way back from the orientation
"I'm still 100% sure,"
"It's hurting the people around us,"
"We'll be back. The time will fly by so fast, and we'll make new friends too." We got out of the van and were now standing on the little hill through the entrance. Jenny went straight towards the lake and I saw a hint of Travis waiting for me near the big house.
Travis POV
I was waiting for Zaidy and Jenny to get back from the orientation near the Big House. Conner still didn't like the thought of them being away for so long so I made him go to the lake with Silena Beauregard. Silena and Zaidy are pretty good friends since she is one of the few from the Aphro cabin who doesn't mind being called an 'Aphro', and she think the pranks we do are more funny than rude. I just hope that he's having fun with her since once Zaidy's gone he's probably never going to have an Aphrodite girl willingly let him take her to the lake to swim.
"Hi Travis, waiting for Zaidy?"
"Oh hi...Katie," it took some time for me to remember who she was
"She's going to be away for some time huh?"
"Yeah, I still don't know how I'm going to handle all that time without them,"
"Them?"
"Yeah, Zaidy and Jennifer,"
"Oh, so you are going to miss them both equally?"
"I'm going to miss Zaidy a whole lot more-" she cut me off with a kiss. I pushed her off as soon as it happened.
"KATIE!" I know that voice anywhere. I hope Zaidy doesn't think I was doing anything with her while she was away; man she's going to hate me.
"I can explain!" I said trying to save my butt
"You don't have to! But this little wench does!" I was safe and Zaidy was mad. Her stance was stuck to the ground and her eyes would make me fear eyes for the rest of my life.
"What?"
"Don't you 'what' me! Why in the Hades would you ever try something like that after you PROMISED you wouldn't?" She growled
"He's a hot guy and he didn't say anything that would make me think he was your boyfriend,"
"Travis," she said in a light whisper "hold me back,"
"What?"
"Hold me back before I'll do something I'll regret later," I grabbed her arm and she was calm again.
"Backing of from a fight are we? Look-y here, Zaidy's a chicken,"
"Get me out of here," her voice was still soft
"Where should we go?"
"Anywhere but here," We ran towards the sword arena. Luckily no one was there and new training dummies were up. Zaidy used her purple watch that she got on her birthday to shoot at them. That's all we did for about 10 minutes, then she just fell to the floor with her head bent down. I honestly could say I was frightened out of my mind. Zaidy was scary when she was mad. Crazy scary! I had to go towards her though; it was the right thing to do. I bent down and placed my hand on her shoulder.
"How you doing?" probably the dumbest question ever but my mind was going blank.
"A little better," she had been crying and her voice was squeaky. I hugged her and she just wouldn't let go. "How long was it?"
"The kiss? I pushed her off as soon as it happened. She came on-" I let the hug go and told her straight to her face so she would know I wasn't lying.
"Good, I knew you wouldn't have kissed back. It's just not you,"
"So you're not mad at me?"
"I was never mad at you. It was that damn Katie who is a back stabbing, worthless-"
"Calm down," She was getting mad again
"Sorry. It's just that she broke a promise,"
"What was the promise?"
"For her not to try anything on you while I was gone, she likes you Travis,"
"Really? I don't really even know who she is, damn Demeters,"
"Promise me not to be friends with any Demeter girl until I say its okay," she was looking straight into my eyes. This was a promise
"I promise. Hey, you're not sleeping,"
"That is weird,"
"I'm glad that we're still together,"
"Every relationship ends in either a break-up, or a wedding. I just don't see a break-up for us," she smiled
"Well future Mrs. Stoll," she blushed as I held both her hands in mine. Zaidy never blushes! "Here is an early I do," I leaned in and kissed her, right on the floor of the sword arena. It's easy to forget that Zaidy and I are a couple since the only thing that has changed is the kissing and the hand holding, and we never do that in public. But I do love Zaidy, and I'm glad she knows that too.
(A/N: Wooohooo! I'm finished with this chapter. How did you like it? I, as a person, don't get mad easily. Just to get this somewhat 'mad' state I had to read A LOT of Tradie fics. This story is ending soon but don't worry, I have something else up my sleeve. Traidy all the way lol, I'm done =)
