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Aphrodite - Deenie Perister
Athena - Sofia Panolia
Artemis - Misty Velosa
Hera - Amelia Agelada
Demeter - Kristin Sitaria
Ares - Noah Kapros
Hephaestus - Mason Amoni
Hermes - Blake Kleftis
Zeus - Shane Aetos
Poseidon - Nicholas Trian
Hades - Diego Skotadi
Apollo - Aiden Kyrarma
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Hermes
The Fates were not on Hermes' side. There was a Capture the Flag game tomorrow, and Hermes had been put on Demeter's team.
He had been avoiding her ever since the incident at the bonfire.
That didn't do much though. He couldn't actually get away from it. Aphrodite kept throwing him smiles and squeals every time she saw him. The endless teasing kept going on, from her, Apollo, Ares, and Poseidon. At least the rest of them had the decency to not care.
But he did not like Demeter, right?
Wow, this was frustrating. He had to give credit to the demigods, this whole true love deal was harder than it seemed.
He walked over to the pavilion for breakfast. The first thing he saw was Demeter brushing her hair out of her face. She looked pretty… Wait. Please tell him he did not just think that.
He sighed, and of course his timing was perfect, since Aphrodite was walking past him at that exact moment. "Awww, that is so sweet!"
He groaned. "It isn't what you think, Deenie."
She only winked in response. "Don't worry. Your secret is safe with me."
In other words, she would tell her cabin, who would then proceed to tell the entire camp. How wonderful.
Despite the embarrassment flowing through his veins, Hermes was starved. It would take 10 meals of mortal food to compare to a bite of ambrosia. He filled up his plate with a mountain of bagels, fruit, and more food.
As he got to his table, he caught the end of Travis and Connor's conversation. It was just the two of them at the table.
Hermes wasn't sure if he'd heard Travis right, but the last thing he'd said was, "love Katie." He had a somewhat sad, somewhat confused, and somewhat frustrated look on his face, but it immediately went away as Hermes sat down.
He really hoped there was another Katie in camp besides Demeter's daughter.
"So what about Katie?" Hermes asked.
His eyes widened, and he tried to maintain his poker face. "Uh… nothing. Just about the awesome prank we're going to pull on her, and how mad she's going to be." He plastered on a fake smile.
Hermes raised an eyebrow. "And where does love come in with that?"
Travis just had to be drinking something when he said that. He did a spit take over Connor, who yelped and jumped up. "Come on dude!" he whined. Connor grabbed his last muffin and walked out of the pavilion back towards the cabins.
Hermes laughed. "That was classic."
Travis gave a weak nervous laugh in response. "Yeah… I should go, um, check on Connor." Before Hermes had the chance to say anything, he sprinted in the opposite direction of where Connor had gone, which happened to be the strawberry fields.
"All alone, are we?" Aphrodite said, sliding in across from him at the table.
Hermes groaned. "Go back to your table."
"I'm here to help you, really. As surprising as it may sound, I haven't told my cabin about what I saw a while ago," she said, smiling bigger with every word.
"You didn't see anything. It wasn't because of Kristin," he replied, getting annoyed, mainly with himself, since he didn't know whether that was the truth or not.
She rolled her eyes. "Stop trying to argue with me. I'm the lov- I'm the daughter of the love goddess, after all."
He stood up, holding his plate of untouched food. "Well I don't need your help. Just leave me alone from now on."
Hermes stormed out of the pavilion, and to the cabins. He really wished he hadn't done that after he reached there though. The reason? Demeter and Apollo were standing there. Apollo was smirking as Demeter blushed. He said something Hermes couldn't hear, and she blushed even harder.
Hermes couldn't look at this, especially not now, when his feelings were already so messed up. He went inside his cabin, and sulked on the couch.
He still didn't want to go ask Aphrodite for help. She would turn this into a whole soap opera, and play with their feelings until they crashed. Then she would make them fall in love and build them back up, only to make them crash again.
Even she didn't have a real relationship. She constantly cheated on her husband with his brother. She could turn families, friends, and the world against each other for a simple relationship, and she did. Helen and Paris? Romeo and Juliet? That would be the work of a certain love goddess.
He needed help, from someone who wouldn't destroy everything.
Just then, his daughter Skylar walked into the cabin. Maybe…?
"Hey Blake, what's up? You okay?" she asked, walking to her bunk and getting her laptop out. Hephaestus had created a special model that didn't attract monsters.
"Uh… it's nothing, really," he replied.
She looked at him. "This wouldn't have anything to do with the bonfire incident yesterday, and the fact that Kristin and Aiden are talking out there, would it?"
"N-no. Of course not," he said. Despite the fact that he was the god of lying, it wasn't very convincing, since he was distracted. Skylar saw right through it.
"You're going to have to do better than that," she smirked.
"Ok. You got me. I admit it, I'm am absolutely in love with Kristin," he said, trying to add an edge of sarcasm to his voice.
"That's still not working," she said, as he groaned.
He glanced around, and saw that nobody else was in the cabin. "Help?" he asked.
She shut her laptop and looked at him. Eyes sparkling in amusement, she said, "I'm guessing that it's time for Operation Twinkie."
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Edited on 8/30