I jolted awake, a stinging sensation in my face.

"Owwww." I whined.

"Alice, you need to wake up." My annoying brother snapped.

"No." I stuck my tongue out, and hid under the covers.

Nico yanked the covers off and yelled.

"Nico!" I shrieked at him.

Why were we screaming? I was in a pair of bikini panties and a black tank top. Don't you judge me, it was freaking hot! (No I do not mean the "outfit", I mean the weather)

"Nico, give me back the covers, it's cold." I whined. I decided it didn't matter anymore. He's not going to unsee me in underwear, right? At least I wasn't wearing a tiny thong like most the girls in the Aphrodite cabin do. In fact, at least I was wearing any at all. A lot of them don't.

"No. You need to get up."

"Why?"

"Because you've been sleeping since yesterday at noon. And it's 5 o'clock right now." Nico said firmly.

"Ughhh." I groaned and flopped back down in bed.

"1…2…."

I merely ignored him.

"3!"

Nico grabbed my feet and yanked me off the bed, beginning to drag me towards the front door of my cabin.

"Nico!" I screamed, clawing at the floor.

I desperately pressed my hand to the floor, and cried out a call in greek.

"Η κόρη του θανάτου κλήτευση των νεκρών." (The daughter of death summons the dead)

All of a sudden, two skeleton warriors popped out of the floor, and dragged Nico away from me.

"Ok, bye bye." I clapped, and the skeletons went bye bye.

"Now, can you get out?" I put a hand on my hip, and pointed to the door.

Nico sighed, and moodily walked out the door.

I went into my closet and got changed into ripped black jeans, converse, and a ripped black skull t-shirt that I stole from Nico. Not even bothering with my hair, I quickly applied a bit of eyeliner, bit of mascara, and headed out.

What I saw next really hurt. On a rock where I usually sat listening to music, (which tanner knew), Tanner and some girl I didn't know sat. Know what they were doing? The same thing Conner had done to me, loaded up to the max. Like, they weren't just kissing, he was feeling her up and everything, I'm talking going up under the shirt, butt touching, all of that. In my spot. With the boy I liked.

Tanner caught sight of me, and started snogging the chick even harder, somehow

I scowled furiously, and caught sight of Conner just a few steps away from me. He was looking at something in the ground, when I yanked on his shirt.

"Quick. Make out with me." I muttered.

"Um, what?" he asked, surprised.

"I'll tell you later. Just make it look sexy." I hissed.

He rolled his eyes, but followed me over to the door of my cabin, a few feet away from Tanner.

I signaled with my head for him to push me against it, which he happily (bit too much enthusiasm if you ask me) did, and pressed his mouth against mine. Conner at least did what I asked for. He made it look sexy. I rolled my eyes internally, silently laughing.

And you know what Tanner does? He actually gets up and leaves, clearly furious.

The chick that I didn't know just got up and walked the opposite way. I'm guessing he was doing the same thing I was doing with Conner…trying to make me jealous, which quite frankly, is really unfair, because I never wanted to make out with Conner in the first place. It's not my fault he's a perverted teen, who has a crush on me!

I break apart from Conner and walk into my cabin, leading many guys to whistle, and both girls and boys say things like "Ooh Conner gon' get some." And the like.

Conner shut the door behind him, and sat next to me on the bed.

"As much as I would like to believe that you just made out with me because you wanted to, I know that's not true. Why'd you do it?" he asked.

"Because I wanted to make a boy jealous…" I muttered, my cheeks burning.

Conner laughed loudly. "Which boy?"

"The one that was making out with the brunette on the rock by my cabin." I answered.

"Oh! You mean the emo guy that was making out with my ex!"

"Oh that was your ex?"

"Yeah she was all mad at me 'cause I found her making out with Luke, and broke up with her. Guess she was trying to make me jealous." Conner shrugged.

I nodded. "But it's different with Tanner because I really liked him, and I was gonna go to the fireworks with him, and he's mad at me because you made out with me the other day, and it's all your fault, because now he hates me for something I didn't mean to happen, because I only went to you and Tanner because I wanted to prank the Aphrodite cabin, because they made me uglier, and-" I was crying now.

"Hey, hey." Conner hugged me to his chest, which I didn't even care about at this point, I just clung to his shoulders and sobbed my heart out. He gently rocked me back and forth, just like Thalia did when I was a little girl. I started dozing off, tired once again from my crying.

Then the door was flung open. And my new daddy figure walked in.

I was roughly pulled away from Conner, and I opened my eyes. Nico was standing there, fuming.

"And just what in the hell are you doing Alice?!" he yelled.

"Talking to Conner." I answered coldly, ignoring the fact that my lipgloss was a bit (ok a lot) smeared on my face.

"In his lap?"

"Yup."

"While snuggling."

"Yup."

Nico glared furiously(he was kind of scary looking actually), and threw a picture at me.

I bent down and picked it up. There were two pictures as it turned out, taped together.

One was the first time Conner made out with me, which was not my plan. The second was when Conner snogged me just a few minutes ago.

I looked directly at Nico, trying to hide my guilt.

"And?" I asked calmly.

"And you're grounded." Nico smirked angrily. It was the weirdest expression ever.

"Ha! Yeah right." I rolled my eyes.

"You can't just go around making out with people Alice. People are gonna think you're a slut." Nico said.

"By the way, it was one guy. And also, they already think I'm a slut, which makes no sense, because I've never screwed anyone, and I only made out with one guy, yesterday."

"All the more reason not to make out with him." Nico snapped. "You. Are. Grounded. I don't care what you think, you're not making out with him, people already think you're a slut."

"That's a very mysterious looking f-….that I do not give." I retorted.

Conner snorted and laughed behind me. Which resulted in him getting a death glare from Nico. No pun intended.

Nico scowled, and picked up the pictures.

Then out of nowhere, the guy grabs my arm, and runs through a wall with me.

I find myself with Nico walking through the underworld.