Every time

Michael's POV:

I was sitting in the Hermes cabin, watching the pouring rain when I saw the Ares cabin jogging to the Arena. Don't those kids ever get tired of training? Soon, I spotted my favorite Ares girl, Kale Manix. I can't get her out of my head, not for one second. Not since that night, two years ago, when I first met her…

It was 3:00AM, and, as an ADHD son of Hermes, I couldn't sleep: my mind would doze off to possible pranks to pull on the Ares cabin, or ways to steal the Hope diamond; yeah I've big dreams. Soon, I decided I'd sneak out of my cabin, it was getting extremely boring and if I didn't do something, I'd start jumping up and down on my bunk, even if it meant hitting my head with the top bed.

I walked out of my cabin and found myself walking towards the beach. My blood froze when I saw the silhouette of a girl sitting on the sand. I slowly walked up to her and tapped her by the shoulder.

I felt her heart stop, but resumed normally when she saw it was only a teenager. Maybe she thought it was Chiron or Mr. D, who knows. She let out a sight, and then glared at me, "Who are you and what are you doing here?" she said, holding, I think, her knife.

"Whoa, no need to get aggressive, I'm Michael Jones. Son of Hermes," I said, and took out my hand, she only glared at it, though.

"Kale Manix, daughter of Ares." She said.

Someway or another, we ended up talking about or lives, how we got here, about our parents, everything until the sun came up and we decided that we should go back to our cabins.

As soon as she stood up, I felt something. It felt like a small pinch in the arm, but it changed me. I decided it felt like an arrow. An arrow… then, I realized that I hadn't only met Kall (I just decided that that'll be her nickname); I also fell in love with her.

It wasn't like I fell in love after two seconds; I spend three hours talking with her non-stop, getting to know her, heck, we even cried.

I sighed at the memory and secretly wished for it to happen again. Ever since that night, I started pranking her; stealing her stuff, use pick-up lines… I did everything to get her attention, but she started to secretly hate me (well, I think) because, I was pretty much a pain in the ass for her.

Every time I saw her face or when she looked at me, it's like it all falls into place and everything feels right. Ah, I'm just being a fool. Why would a girl like her like someone like me? She can have any guy she wants!

Today, Christmas Eve, I decided to man-up and ask her out, maybe we'd walk under mistletoe if I got lucky. I walked up to Allison; she was the sister I got along with the best.

"Allison?" I said walking towards her. She was talking with Connor about the Katie incident (A/N: Yes, chapter two).

"Yeah? Michael?" She said, turning to me. She immediately read my thoughts when she saw a big, goofy grin in my face. "Go for it." She winked, and went back with her conversation with Connor.

I walked out of Cabin Eleven and noticed that it had stopped raining so I didn't have to go get my forgotten coat. I walked to the arena, with all the courage I could muster.

"Kale?" I yelled, once I got to the arena. She immediately looked up from her sword too see who was calling her. Her unknown stare turned into a glare when she saw me. Remember that courage I talked to you about earlier? It's gone.

"What do you want Jones?" She said walking towards me.

I looked up and saw mistletoe growing a few steps away.

I walked towards it and Kale naturally switched her direction. Ha, she hadn't noticed the mistletoe that was on top of us. I heard some campers stifle a laugh they had noticed my plan.

"Kale, would you go out with me?" I blurted and kissed her before she laughed or walked away.

I've never, ever, kissed her before but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to before.

"Yes, but consider this your gift." I smiled; I knew that she meant that if I messed up, I'd never go out with her again.

"I must go train, see you later." She said, walking away leaving me standing there, dumbfounded.

Ah, the joys of mistletoe.

Hi guys. I lost the challenge. I got writer's block with this chapter. I had no absolute idea of how to end it. The writer's block lasted 15 days, to be exact (three times eight is twenty-four, then we subtract the first nine days, which leaves me 15). Actually, it was going to be a songfic to Crushcrushcrush by Paramore, but I could only get myself to write the first few lines, so no. I switched the title to Every time, a song by Simple Plan. I was in the car, listening to my iPod, when suddenly this idea struck me. I literally screamed of joy, and mom thought that there was some weird, lethal bug in the car.

So, Kale Manix and Michael Jones belong to Noel Anderson, thank you very much for letting me use them. I hope you liked this chapter, I admit it's not one of my favorite (though I like the couple a lot), because I had difficulties writing it (mostly because of the subplot of the story).

Hope you guys have a happy Christmas, enjoy, and I will be continuing this fic (just to let you know). Heck, I literally woke up, stared to my bedroom for about fifteen minutes, took my computer, and uploaded the chapter. I promise that even though I don't have to finish this, I want to and I promise I won't procrastinate :)

I hope you can forgive me,

Piper-Weasley