I've received a review that she was rather confused about the Korean and Englishdialogue. And I just wanted to let everyone know everyone is speaking Korean. There are times when they'll speak english but I usually indicate it.
Of course Raven heard about the school trip. Everyone was going, everyone except her. She didn't want to go anyways. She needed to be back at Camp by Saturday to finish strengthening the borders. Annabeth needed help in convincing some lawyers about the land they were building upon. It would be a nuisance to have some mortals butt in with their affairs. She had to manipulate the Mist to make the construction site look like a mansion in progress. Later that day, she was once again being tormented by the wannabe girl group 2. Ginger apparently was too afraid to approach her now after the whole stab the ball incident.
Raven was busy relaxing, feeling the cold breeze at one of Shinhwa's extravagant gardens. The place was nice. All sorts of flowers surrounded the beds, there was a tall hedge adorned with red flowers that she had no idea of the name. The garden smelled roses. There was crystal clear pond on the center. It was peaceful.
The two chimps were taunting her on how poor she was that she couldn't even afford a school trip. Raven scoffed. She didn't need money to travel the world. All she needed was her Mistalicious teleportation powers. She could go anywhere she liked with her Mist travel. She'd get tired of course but still, she could beat those rich kids in their expensive travels. Raven can travel for free. She had enough already and she decided to take out her lucky sharp pencil. The two girls ran like their lives depended on it.
She smirked. Raven heard footsteps approached the garden. She jerked her head to face the mystery guy and saw Jihoo, carrying a violin. She arched an eyebrow.
"You again? You're not stalking me are you?" she said
Jihoo didn't answer her. He looked at the place with a despondent expression. "This place just got noisy." He said. "I was here first by the way."
"I could just leave…but It seems like the horrible insults those two chimps gave me 5 second ago were so agonizing they gave me a stomach ache. So yeah, I can't hardly stand" she shrugged.
Jihoo snickered, "You're really funny, and do you know that?"
"I know a lot of things like the earth revolves around the sun and pizza prices hiked up 2% since I left New York" she joked. "Are you going to play something?"
"I don't play when other people are around." He said.
"So why are you still here?"
"Because this is my spot."
Raven howled with laughter, "hahaha.. You sound like Sheldon Cooper."
"Am I supposed to know who that is?" Jihoo asked, squatting beside Raven.
"You should if you want to keep up with me in TV references." She looked at him. Jihoo was once again wearing all-white attire. "I've been meaning to ask this but what on earth is up with your wardrobe?"
"I guess it makes me look cool and mysterious."
"Hmm..well it's definitely working." She told him.
"Do you know the time difference of France and south Korea?" he asked.
Raven shrugged, "Nope. Why don't you look it up on the internet?"
"Maybe I should. Anyway, are you going to the school trip?"
Raven snorted, "You know I couldn't afford it. I have better things to do than sail around the world."
"Oh yeah, like what?" he asked.
Raven smiled, "I'm going couch-camping. It's a fun activity, you should try it."
Jihoo laughed, "You certainly are different."
Raven grinned, "I'm a special girl." She said. Her gray eyes twinkling. Jihoo didn't know what he was experiencing right now but he had a sudden urge to just stare at her misty gray orbs forever.
Raven pedaled back to Jandi's dry cleaning service. Fortunately, there was something good that came out of having a job. She managed to make a friend. Geum Jan Di, a feisty teenager about her age with a loud mouth. She was fun to hang out with sometimes. It was nice to have someone to share her frustrations with the F4 to.
"If I was there, I'd give them a back kick to the head. That would show them" Jandi would say. Today, she had nothing to do and frankly she was bored. She already finished the problem at camp. All she had to do was snap her fingers, smile sweetly and with Piper's help they managed to make the lawyers back off their property. Jandi apparently invited her to go on a fishing trip along with her friend Ga Eul (she decided to call her Gaile). She wanted to say no but her dad forced her to go. They were on a small fishing boat. Frankly, she was rather enjoying the experience even though she only caught one fish. Raven went fishing before with some friends at camp. Unfortunately, they couldn't catch a fish. What they could catch however was a thirty foot long sea serpent.
It was nice to be mundane sometimes. Though she was annoyed that she could only catch one tiny fish while Jandi and Gaile had like twenty.
The three dozed off. She was having one of those normal dreams where she was a rockstar or a serial killer.
"Hey, galgamagui." She scrunched up her nose. Since when did that curly haired bastard invaded he dreams?
Raven groaned, "Jandi, please tell me I'm still dreaming. I'm hearing that pretty boy's voice in my head."
"No..." Jandi faltered.
Raven shot up. It was then that she realized that there was a cruise ship the size of Princess Andromeda right in front of their small fishing boat. Jandi and Gaile gaped at the ship.
Junpyo was carrying a megaphone, he spoke into it saying, "I heard the bird went to sea. Look at yourself."
Raven fumed. Was he following her?! I swore there was a megaphone here somewhere. Aha! She had no idea why a fishing vessel would have a megaphone but she didn't care. She spoke through it and yelled, "Hey! Why are you guys here? Aren't you supposed to be at Europe or Scandinavia?!"
"It's not like it's going to be our first time there, I'm sick of it, you know? I told them to go find somewhere original, and they suggested this place. Isn't this a coincidence! I really didn't know you were here." Junpyo replied. Even from this distance, Raven could see the smug smile on his face.
"Oi! Are you paying someone to stalk me, you creep!"
"Don't flatter yourself, bird. Why does a fishing vessel have a megaphone anyways?"
"The hell if I know that!" this was seriously one of the weirdest conversations she had in her life. And Raven had conversations with Cyclops or dracaena for crying out loud.
"I knew you were stalking me!" she accused.
"Am not!"
"are too!"
"Am not!
"Are too." She sang.
"You know what, this is ridiculous!" Junpyo wasn't smiling anymore.
"Yeah. Just Like your curly hair and Cover girl lipstick!" She mocked.
"…Its not lipstick. Its Chanel lipgloss!" Did he just say that?
Raven howled with laughter, "...could you. Did you just…hahaha…hey, repeat that one more time? I want to record it." She wheezed. Junpyo flushed with embarrassment. He sounds like an Aphrodite kid.
It wasn't going well as Junpyo planned. He wanted to embarrass her and impressed Raven with his cruise ship. Instead they just began a megaphone argument on sea. He noticed that his friends were already snickering behind his back.
"Yo, pretty boy! Why don't you just go on your own path? I will thankful if you just ignore me." She said cheekily.
"You know what, FINE!"
"FINE!" she shot back.
"Let's move out!" Junpyo commanded. The ship's horn tooted and they were off, not before splashing the 3 girls wet with seawater.
Raven tossed the megaphone aside, muttering "Great Just great" under her breath.
She was so going to drown him the next time she sees him.
The three girls docked at the port, shivering with cold. Raven was planning to go home, have a nice warm bath and force her dad to make her some of her dad's horrible hot chocolate. But the curly haired bastard and her class were there at the port like they were waiting for her to arrive.
A sleek white car arrived at the sidewalk. Raven saw Jihoo approached the car, opening the door; the woman from the ad Jihoo was kissing stepped outside. She was even prettier in person. She could pass off as an Aphrodite kid.
"That's Min Seo-Hyul." Gaile and Jandi both said. The two were obviously star-strucked. A crowd then formed around Sherrol and Jihoo.
"Come on guys, let's go. You can come to my place. I'll force my dad to make some hot chocolate." She offered the two. They nodded and were about leave when Junpyo blocked her path. Again.
"Hey, galgamagui." He greeted.
"What now?" she said calmly.
"Honestly, you're actually glad to see me here, aren't you? Say it, you were bored like hell in that stinky fish-boat before I came, right?" Junpyo claimed.
"I wasn't bored." She lied. Raven wouldn't admit it to his face but she did have a bit of fun yelling an argument with the curly haired bastard.
"No matter what, since you're a student of our school, come if you want to." He turned his back.
Raven fumed, "I have no intention to go!" she yelled at him as he continued walking.
Suddenly, Jihoo approached her, "there's a welcome party for that person. It'll be fun." He said. He looked rather blissful like his world was perfect now. Maybe because the love of his life was here. "You should come too. You'll come right?" he beamed at her. It was so cute. Like a little child receiving his presents on a fine Christmas morning.
But Raven frowned. She decided to say no it the most polite way possible, "…would it be alright if I say no?" Gaile elbowed her on the side, mouthing what is wrong with you.
"Sherrol doesn't take no for an answer." He said.
"You're not going to let me live that down are you?"
Jihoo shook his head, "So, you'll come?"
Raven shrugged. She glanced at Sherrol's smiling face, "I'll think about it. Formal parties aren't my thing."
"I'll expect you to be there." Jihoo left by doing a little whip from his hair.
Then the 3 chimps approached her, "I know what you're going to say. I'm not going." Raven has been invited by tons of people to a lot of parties before. But she has this unwritten rule wherein she would never ever attend a party for mortals. It's boring compared to demigod parties.
"Come on." Ginger said in accented English. "JiHoo and Junyo extended their invitation. You have to go. And besides, you wouldn't even need a dress. Jeans will be just fine." Raven rolled her eyes. She knew that skank was lying.
When Raven arrived home together with her two new acquaintances, they blurted out about the party to her dad. Maxwell, of course wanted to be one of those cool dads so he forced Raven to go. She grumbled and glared at Gaile and Jandi like it was their fault that she was forced to suffer that horrible party.
"I don't even have a dress, dad." She said.
"But the girls said that it was alright if you wear jeans?" said Jandi.
Raven rolled her eyes, "Don't be so gullible, Jandi. There is no way those people would host a jeans party. Those girls were obviously lying." She said.
"I'm not going. And you can't make me!" Raven exclaimed angrily then she stomped towards her room.
Her room really wasn't that much. It was smaller than the one she had at New York. But it was cute and she rather liked it. Raven plopped herself on her bed and sighed heavily. Living a demigod lifestyle was so much simpler. Why on earth did she had to involve herself in the affairs of rich people. They're worse than gods. And that's saying something. Mortals are too complicated and annoying. Monsters were so much easier. They could be like 'don't like me? Okay BOOM! Youre dead.'
She wasn't going to the party. She didn't have a dress. She had no idea how to put make up on. She didn't even know how to tie her hair properly. It would take Aphrodite to fix her up. Realizing what she just thought of, Raven winced. She really prayed to her mother that the nosy love goddess didn't hear her. She didn't want to jinx anything. Sadly, she could almost hear fate taunting her saying, HAHA! LOL NOOB!
The world paused for a second. And then suddenly a burst of dove feathers and roses engulfed Raven's body. They were gone in 5 seconds. The world played again. Raven then realized that she was no longer in her room. She was in front of Seo-Hyun's house. Raven glared angrily at the sky, silently cursing Aphrodite's name from her mind.
She exhaled, "Might as well." And then she went inside.
