Hey guys! So this may be an especially fluffy chapter (as promised my dear friend). Also, yes, Ace is Isla's brother. Also, I've always said She-ron. Which, okay, small pun. If women are supposedly always right, than why is it pronounce She-ron, like She wrong? Ha, ha, yeah bad joke I'll stop now. Maria Bearnas belongs to TheShadowAuthor21. Review and stuff! - Queen

Sam's POV

"Wait, what?" I asked. Percy and I were eating breakfast together.

"Exactly! Then she just walked away!" He exclaimed. "I don't have a clue as to what I said wrong."

"Wait, hold on, they kissed?" I asked. After the story Percy had just told me I was very confused.

"Yeah," He said.

"Holy Hades! And she said I was the one with the crush!" I yelled.

"Who is it?" Percy asked, wiggling his eyebrows like the weirdo he is.

"Dallas Core," I mumbled. I was staring at my plating hoping no one would hear that.

"OOOOooooh," Percy teased. So this is what having a brother is like.

"Oh shush," I retorted, taking a bite out of my pancakes.

"Fine, jeez," Percy said, stuffing his face with his famous blue waffles.

"Can I have a bite?" I asked. No one had ever gotten the true recipe for the waffles. There were several imitations, but no one got Sally Blofis' original recipe.

"Uh, sure?" He said. I took a bite, and now I understood why Percy loved these waffles so much.

"Wow," I said.

"Yeah," He said, digging back into his waffles.

"It's nice to finally taste the real thing," I said.

"What do you mean?" He asked, talking with his mouth full.

"Your blue waffles are famous, man, but nobody ever found your mom's true recipe," I explained.

"Well, maybe I'll get her to give it to you," He said.

"Really?!" Holy frick frack snick snack! He'd actually give me the recipe?! I was still wrapping my head around the fact that Percy Jackson was even my half-brother, let alone that I would get to know his blue waffles recipe. It may sound stupid, I mean, it's just a recipe right? People have been searching for that recipe for years, and I am the first one to have it!

"Well, yeah, if you liked them so much you should be able to make them at home. Do they still have Bisquik in your time?" He asked.

"Ha, yeah," I chuckled.

"Okay cool," he said. After that the conch blew, signaling the end of breakfast. I decided to try and go swimming across the sound with a couple of kids from Nike cabin.

"I am going to beat all of you!" Yelled a girl with long, dark hair.

"Not today, Maria! Go Sam!" Cheered Chloe from the sidelines. Her ankle prevented her from doing much, but she did bring her new sketch pad.

"Sam, you better win, or you owe me 20 bucks," She called to me.

"Sure thing, Missy," I called after her.

"Alright, This is a race to the dock and back. No pushing, pulling, or cheating in general, Maria," Said a girl with blonde hair.

"That was one time!" Maria retorted.

"Whatever. Anyways, swimmers, on your marks, get set, GO!" The girl blew the whistle, and I dove in. I could still breathe, in fact, the water didn't even get me wet. I was still totally dry. I sped ahead of Maria, swimming without even coming up for air. I was back in record time.

"Dang, you even beat Percy's old record," Said the blonde.

"Ha! Beat ya!" I yelled victoriously at Maria.

"Di immortales," She said under her breath.

"Pay up," said Chloe, holding her hand flat waiting for money.

"I don't have any on me," said Maria.

"Don't worry, I know where your wallet is," Chloe said, a mischeivious smile plastered all over her face.

"Ugh, fine," Maria said, digging in her duffel bag and passing Chloe the 20 dollar bill.

"Ha! This is enough to pay Casey back," Chloe said, passing the bill to the short blonde.

"Yes!" Casey said.

"Anyways, I'm gonna go change," I said, leaving.

"THIS AIN'T OVER WATER-BOY!" Hollered Maria after me.

"I know!" I yelled back. After I changed, I ran down to the forges. Sure enough, Dallas Core was there, wating for me.

"Hey, how did you know I was coming?" I asked as we started the same circle we walked yesterday.

"Well, I didn't. Just figured you might want to take another walk," She said, blushing a little, which then made me blush. Soon we were both laughing.

"Why are YOU blushing?" Dallas said in between laughs.

"Because you were," I said. I could feel an idiotic grin spread all across my face like peanut butter on a PB&J sandwich. But if I was the peanut butter, she was the jelly.

"I guess it's contagious," She laughed.

"Guess so," I smiled even wider, if that's possible.

"So, how was your day?" She asked. We continued our circle around the camp. We stopped toward the Sound.

"It's beautiful, isn't it," She said, looking out onto the water.

"Yeah," I agreed. We kept walking. Around and around the circle. She showed me spots where all sorts of things happened. The spot where she was claimed, right by Zuess' fist.

"So, this is where you were claimed?" I asked.

"Yeah. During capture the flag, of course," She said, rolling her brown eyes at how cliche it was.

"Cool. I was claimed in front of my cabin," I expained. We walked past the fist, going around the camp again. We stopped by Thalia's tree.

"Hey there Peleus," Dallas said, petting the dragon. She looked so innocent, it was adorable.

"What does Peleus do?" I asked, standing next to her and petting him.

"He defends the Golden Fleece, but mostly he just sleeps," She explained.

"Lucky dragon, I would sleep if I could all day too buddy," I said, rubbing him behind his ears.

"It would be so cool to be a dragon," said Dallas.

"It would," I said.

"Then I wouldn't need Leo to light the fires at the forges," She said, laughing.

"Yeah," I laughed with her. She was still staring at the dragon, petting it. She looked so cute. I put my hand on her shoulder.

"What's up?" She looked at me. Then I kissed her. Am I crazy? Yeah, maybe.

Dallas was the prettiest, funniest, sweetest girl I had ever met. As we kissed, I thought about all the silly jokes we had, all the things we had talked about. Everything was okay, it was great. We broke apart.

"Uh." Is all she said.

Dallas' POV

He kissed me. What do I do? What do I say?

"Uh," Woooooow. I'm so dumb.

"Are you… okay?" He asked.

"I… yes?" I said it like a question. Peleus nudged me, waiting for me to pet him again.

"Okay? How about we walk back to the forges," said Sam.

"A-alright," I was practically star-struck. The entire walk back was quiet. We looked around. Finally, I decided to break the ice.

"Okay, Sam, this isn't going to be awkward," I said.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"I mean, if we are gonna do this, no more 'Walking in awkward silence'" I said.

"Alright, deal," He laughed, holding his hand out. I took it, and we walked back to the forges.