Nico actually took me on a riveting tour of the cabins. The orb cabin belonged to the goddess Tyche. She was the minor goddess of good luck and fortune. The orb represented something that had to do with you not always having good luck. I couldn't tell you, to be honest. As the tour went on I found myself getting more and more distracted. First it was by the other cabins. Then it had been by the campers, who all looked at me curiously but didn't come any closer. Eventually it had been Nico.
I kept studying the way he talked, or how he gestured, or how his hair fell back into place after he pushed it out of his eyes.
I tuned in just long enough for him to show me his own cabin. It was, go figure, the black one with the green torches. Yeah, it was just a tad bit creepy, but the place was actually pretty cool once you really looked at it.
The only time anyone decided to talk to us was when we were just outside Malibu Barbie's Vacation Cottage. I'm not even exaggerating.
The place was all pastels and frilly stuff, the colors coordinated and plants in the open windows. Nico gagged a little bit when the door of the cabin opened in his face and a cloud of perfume escaped out into the open. I put a hand over my mouth, trying miserably to hold back laughter. He glowered at me, but unlike before, their was no threat behind the look. He was just annoyed.
The two girls that walked out of the cabin might as well have been Malibu Barbie, live and in person, and her faithful, perfectly made-up sidekick. They stopped when they saw us: Nico rolling his eyes and me grinning. Then they broke out in an intense, whispered conversation, shooting furtive looks at us every now and then.
Nico rubbed the back of his neck and grimaced as if he knew this wasn't going to be as pretty as the cabin. I looked from the two girls to Nico and back. Just in the nick of time too, because they had moved toward me, grins plastered on their faces.
One of the girls was gorgeous, Asian, with perfectly straight hair and a sly smile. The other was pretty too: blonde, green eyed, and so tan I was sure she'd had some help.
"Drew, Melanie," Nico greeted them unenthusiastically.
"Nico, hon, don't be rude. Introduce us to your friend," The Asian girl said, smiling at me. The smile did not reassure me, however.
"She's not exactly my friend," Nico muttered, but I raised my voice to talk over him.
"I'm Andi," I said, sticking out a hand for the girl to shake. She smiled at me in an, "Oh, how nice, but no thank you," kind of way, leaning back a little bit as if I had a contagious disease.
"Pleasure," She responded, looking me up and down with an half-amused, half-pitying expression. "I'm Drew, head counselor of Aphrodite, Cabin Ten."
I looked over at the other girl, Melanie, waiting for her to say something, but she didn't. Actually, she was kind of creepy, looking from me to Nico and back again. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I wondered if this was normal for her.
"Well we really must be going," Drew said as if she were telling a joke. "Have fun, you two."
She and Melanie turned and walked off toward the Canoe Lake, their heads together like they were hatching a plan.
"What exactly was that?" I asked, staring after them.
"I don't exactly want to know," Nico told me dryly, looking at them as though they were atomic bombs ready to drop.
A/N: Gods, this is even shorter than the last chapter. What is up with me? And this is kind of pointless, just a fun little chapter to introduce Drew-who I honestly don't like-and *foreshadow!* Gee, I wonder what it's *foreshadowing?* :) Happy New Year everybody!
