As the hideous Gorgon approached us, wielding dual scimitars in each hand, I looked warily towards the others, hoping one of them had a plan. But of course, Zach always does. He ushered us backwards, while telling us orders.

"Alright Stefani , I want you to hang back with your bow and shoot Stheno, while protecting us with you ice if you see our guard down. Susanna, I want you to distract her while I try to go in for the kill. Ready? Go."

Stefani brought her bow out and notched an arrow, eying it down and hitting the gorgon in the head, causing the arrow to explode into a patch of ice. That really pissed off the monster, but it seemed pretty funny to me. Although it was hard to laugh when the monster with half of its head an ice cube was charging at you with really sharp swords. I blocked both the swords with my shield, and readied my sword for her next attack.

Zach was trying to flank around Stheno, while she didn't let up on the fury of attacks at me. I did my best to block or parry most of the blows. But occasionally Stefani had to form an ice wall to protect me from the attacks. I didn't like her having to protect me much, but it was either that or get my head slashed off. Soon enough though, the Gorgan exploded into dust, and I saw what made me blush.

Zach was wearing black cargo shorts that showed off his manly and to die for calves. And then he had on his gray long sleeveshirt with numerous rips in it from the Hellhounds, showing off just peeks of his torso muscle, worked to perfection through numerous years at Camp. His head had his shaggy mop of brown hair all messed up through fighting, yet still looked perfectly messed up. And his beautiful, deep, lovely stormy gray eyes were looking at me intensely, like we had a secret only we know.

Yeah, again, he is just my best friend. Nothing else. At all.

By the time we cleaned up a little and put our weapons away, it was evening. So like the Miss Smarty pants she was, Stefani suggested that we get a hotel and eat there, and continue our search tomorrow. So of course Zach agreed. We went into the nearest hotel there and Zach went up to check us in. When he came back, he was bearing bad news.

"Guys, they only have two rooms available. So the only logical thing in this situation is to have you to take a room because you are the girls and then me to have a room. So lets each take a half hour to get ready to go out to dinner." I gave him a glare that could've stopped snow from melting, but he pretended not to notice.

Stefani and I found our room which was right down the hall from Zach's and went in. Stefani immediately went and picked out the outfit she was wearing, a light blue blouse and matching skirt. I for one hand, couldn't decide to wear either a hoodie and jeans, or a hoodie and jeans. Its hard being a girl sometimes. I just took off the shorts and shirt I was wearing, and put on my favorite pair of jeans. Then, I just put on the plain black hoodie over my sports bra. I then brushed my hair back and put it in a ponytail. Yepp, I am the epitome of girlyness.

Zach of course, came and knocked on our door looking like a true gentleman. He had on a white t-shirt with a black button –up over it, with the top few buttons undone. He had one one glove to cover up his silver hand, and then was wearing jeans like me. His hair was hidden by a black beanie. He looked amazing, as always.

He escorted us down and outside the hotel, where we went across the street to some Italian restaurant. After about 20 agonizing minutes of listening to Stefani tell us everything to know about Hollywood, we finally got a table and ordered our food. Stefani of course ordered just a glass of water with lemon in it and a salad. Zach and I decided to order a medium Italian pizza with no toppings on it, just cheese, and a couple diet cokes. Just like we did back at home.

After we were nearly done with our meals, Stefani struck up a conversation with Zach about the weather or something like that. I could care less, because I ordered a slice of cheesecake as desert and was savoring it. But I quickly grew jealous of how easily Stefani got Zach to smile a laugh. So I wasn't in the best of moods when we got back to the hotel and I had to share a room with her.

In our room, I decided to get comfy and put on a pair of shorts and take off my hoodie because it was so hot. I was just lying on our bed, reading a pretty good book called Eragon when Stefani came in from the bathroom. She had just been changing and washing off her make-up and she still looks pretty. She was wearing a light blue tank-top with a pair of white short-shorts. Even her bedtime apparel looks girly, in contrast to me. I expected that, but I didn't expect what came next to happen.

Now, I wouldn't exactly say I punched her in the nose without reason. But I will say I did it without a GOOD reason. She made a smart remark about me making as much effort as possible to avoid Zach getting to like me. She obviously said that to make me jealous of their conversation at dinner.

Raving mad, I stormed outside in the hall without my keycard and no way to get back in. Stefani had rushed to the bathroom right after I punched her, probably to stop the bleeding long enough to make sure her pretty face wasn't damaged. And I also realized that I was just in a pair of short shorts and a sports bra. In a public hallways where anyone can see me…

Rushing toward Zach's room to avoid any perverts, I quickly knocked on his door, waited a second, then banged on it. It finally opened and I rushed inside not even looking at Zach, and I demanded he shut the door. He did and he locked it, then asked me what the matter was.

Now once again, the sight of him made me blush a little. He as in the same white t-shirt as earlier, but this time, the only other thing he was wearing was a pair of dark red plaid boxers, which looked amazing on him. And the t-shirt showed off his lovely figure. So I didn't really notice when he first asked the question, and he had to repeat it.

"What the matter Susanna? Is Stefani okay?" At the mention of her name by him, I burst out crying, which is an odd thing for me to do. He quickly went over and wrapped one arm around me, and held my hand in his silver one. Between tears, I told him what happened between me and Stefani, but somehow failed to mention the fact that I had a major crush on him and I was jealous at her.

He got me to calm down and he tucked me into the one bed in the room, and said he would take the couch only after I tried to switch with him. He is such the gentleman. I quickly fell asleep and had a horrible nightmare.

I was in this creepy room with all sorts of mangled animals were strewn about. If I could've smelled, im sure it would have been awful. In the middle of the room was the Lampedes, cutting of various parts of animals to throw them into this big cauldron, which was this horrible shade of blue, almost like Stefani's shirt she was wearing. I could hear the witch mutter to herself "This is coming along nicely, it will be ready by tomorrow." before I woke up, all sweaty and afraid.

I got out of the bed and went towards the light of the T.V, which showed Zach sleeping on the couch. I gently nudged him on the shoulder and he woke up. "Susanna, whats wrong? Did something happen?" he said, rubbing his eyes.

"I…I just had a bad dream… Can I just…um…sleep here with you… I need someone" I said, more scared then I was letting on, but I think Zach noticed it anyways. The guy was probably getting his own dream come true, a hot girl wearing barely anything asking to sleep next to him. But that was his dream, he showed no sign. He nodded his head and I slowly laid down ontop of him, just like we did one night in the woods. We fit perfectly together, my head on his amazing chest, and his manly legs wrapped around with mine. And his biceps were right next to my face as he put his arms around me, his hands coming together just above my butt, and leaving me wishing for more contact with him then that.

But of course, I was too scared to notice any of that. At all. I swear.

So please leave a review if you liked this chapter. Its probably the longest one so far. And yay for two chapters in one day. Hope you enjoyed. Once again, please review, it means a lot to me.