Part 2. Chapter 1.

The Silver Rose

I felt squeezed tightly in the afloat boat. Some guy already set of the flare and I had no clue where the whistle went to. We had some stupid people in our boat, they were all curled up screaming, "I'm going to die!" and whining. Seriously, we weren't going to die if they were smart enough not to throw everything out of our boat to make more room. I admit though, I did dump my shoes and rip the dress Percy had given me.

I looked over at Jake, he was staring out of the boat and into the water, his eyes looking like they were filled with worry. "How could you forget?" I moaned. I looked at him harshly as his look dashed at me, his eyes all shifty as though he were hiding a secret. "Look, if you can't even remember my birthday, then we can't be together anymore…plus," my voice faltered, "I'm with Percy now," I looked around and saw nothing but water still, I wanted to send him an Iris Message, make sure he was alright and not trapped under the sinking boat or something. But the problem was, I couldn't send him an Iris Message if I didn't even know where he was.

"Him?" Jake clenched his teeth together, acting as though I was the one who killed his father. "And so what if I forgot your fifteenth birthday? It's not like your sweet sixteen, or your thirteenth, eighteenth, or twenty-first or some important number like that," he rolled his eyes and looked back into the water, dragging his hand underneath the surface.

"So What?" I yelled. "I didn't forget your birthday. And speaking of that, you never even told me your real age. You told me you were fifteen, but I know that your seventeen!"

"I thought Percy already had a girlfriend," Jake lamented, "That Brittney girl."

"Actually, I was just texting her and she laughed at the story, she said that she had a huge crush on Percy, but she was never really with him. Now let's stop this subject and get back to the fact that you lied to me about your age, and forgot to celebrate one day with me."

"Celebrate something with you? Oh, well sorry for never being around at Christmas time," I looked out at the sea at that one. I couldn't tell Jake the truth about my mother, and how I only ever got three days home to see my dad before I went back to camp, "Sorry for always being away during summer."

Finally I reached for my hairpin, but Thalia grabbed my wrist, and I had completely forgotten she was there. I turned from Jake and shook my head, "I just want to make sure Percy's okay right now. But I'm not sure where he is anyways. Even if I did, there's no motor on this boat, I could never make a rainbow."

"Look," Thalia started to fool around with a ring she was wearing, apparently it was some worry ring, it had two rings, one that was against your finger and a smaller one on the outside that you could move around without bothering your skin, she started to fiddle around with it, "When we find shore, we'll send an Iris Message to Chiron, maybe he'll know something about him." I nodded, and Thalia gave me a hug in promise.

I turned onto my side and closed my eyes. See, when half-bloods dream, we don't have normal dreams of singing beside the Jonas Brothers at a live concert. We have visions of our friends and our enemies. I'm not sure if I was fortunate or upset to be able to see what I did.

Percy was in his cabin, pacing back and forth, "I knew there was something wrong about him," he was shaking his head, "He was so different, so much like them," he sat on his bed. Being the only son of Poseidon; besides all of his Cyclopes brothers; there was only one bed in the whole room which he had.

I looked around the room and saw a couple of familiar things that reminded me of each year we'd known each other. A minotaur horn hung, which he had pulled off the side of the bull's head himself. A shield that one of his Cyclopes brothers named Tyson made. Tyson loved me like I was the best thing ever, it was kind of sweet. Tyson had scripted things that the three of us had done together in the Sea of Monsters. On his side table was a little Hades figurine that Bianca had given to Percy to give to Nico. But Nico was severely mad at Percy for letting Bianca die. Nico loved this game called 'Mythomagic' and collected these figurines of the gods, and he didn't have Hades, and threw the toy back at Percy when he gave him the news of Bianca's death, he obviously kept the little toy. And finally, there was a feather on the wall, from last year. Deadaleus had given us some wings so we could fly away from his crumpling tower of doom. Percy must've grabbed one of the feathers off of the wings and kept it with him.

Then, I noticed something from this year already. Beside the Hades figurine was a silver rose, the one off of his tux that matched my dress. And though I wasn't able to speak in his dreams, I could walk around, and I moved towards the rose and almost wanted to cry. I also noticed on the floor was my Yankees hat, which Percy must've grabbed before the boat sunk. See, this hat was able to give anyone who wore it the power to turn invisible. My mother, Athena gave it to me on my birthday.

I jumped back as Percy pounded his fist on the nightstand, clenching his teeth together, "Why'd I come back to camp? Why didn't I follow them!" he started to yell at himself. I placed my hand on his wrist, and he pulled back, maybe to him it was just cold air. He stared around in horror trying to figure out.

He then pulled Riptide out of his pocket and threw it on the ground, stomping out of the room and slamming the door shut behind him, and the silver rose fell onto the floor.

I think someone needs a hug! (And maybe a tampon) ROFL

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-Dj