CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE CHAPTER WITHOUT A NAME

I AM SO TIRED. YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO GET BORED WITH THIS CHAPTER. I CAN TELL. I KNOW I'M GONNA BE BORED. I CAN FEEL IT IN THE AIR... ACTUALLY, NO I CAN'T THAT WOULD BE CREEPY.

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LEO VALDEZ'S POV

I had woken up this morning (It was actually about four in the afternoon) a complete grouch. Then I thought about Piper and Jason and I grinned from ear to ear. Blackmail.

They had thought that I had left them in peace, but that isn't 100% right. I had left at first, resisting the urge to eavesdrop. Eventually I gave into the temptation and walked back to the alley.

I found them standing really close to each other and I thought, 'Why didn't I bring any popcorn?'. Then Jason kissed Piper and I was like 'OMG!'.

So, yeah. I can guarantee that I'll use this against them.

I ran away before they could see me. If they had seen me who knows what they would have done. I would probably be dead right now.

The only thing that upset me was the fact that I was going to be a third wheel. If they became a couple, then I was either going to need new friends or get a girlfriend. Both options were pretty unlikely. I was the weird kid that everyone stared at unusually. Don't worry. You get used to it after sixteen years.

I walked out of my borrowed room into the sunlight. I winced as the sun pierced my eyes. Squinting, I saw that everyone else was up and going around doing their business.

"Hey, awake now are we?" I heard Annabeth ask form behind me. She was wearing her hair up and she had a pair of shorts on. She was wearing a purple and orange shirt which I assumed was to represent the unity of Greeks and Romans.

"Yessir," I yawned and rubbed my eyes.

"Leo, it's four. Everyone else has been up for like, eight hours," she told me.

"Yeah, well everyone else hasn't had a rough night. They slept in comfort," I defended.

"Rough night? Well lots of people have been investigating some forest fire. It started in the middle of the night and ended about an hour later. It's the weirdest thing," she mused.

"Uh, right, about that," I started, rubbing the back of my neck.

"Do I want to know?"

"It depends," I said slowly, "How mad will you be?"

"It depends," she said in the same tone that I used, "What did you do?"

"I may have, maybe, possibly -not saying that I did- created a wildfire with my super awesome powers," I told her, bracing for the pain.

"LEO!" she shrieked, "How could you?"

"I said maybe."

Annabeth was pacing now and she looked really worried. Surprisingly, she didn't smack me off the face of the Earth.

"We come to the new camp trying to make friends and keep peace and YOU nearly jeopardized our chances by almost setting their camp ablaze. We would be standing in ashes right now if the fire hadn't stopped! We might even be ashes!" she stopped for a second and turned to me, "How did the fire stop?"

"Uh, Percy," I said.

"Percy! He knew about this and didn't tell me!" she cried.

"Well, I'm guessing that he went to sleep once he locked Octavian up somewhere," I told her.

"Octavian?" she asked.

"Do you want the long version or the short version?" I asked.

"Long, you can explain over... breakfast," she told me.

"That's the first time I've ever heard someone want to listen to the long version," I mumbled to myself.

"Come on, let's go," she said dragging me towards the city.

PIPER MCLEAN'S POV

I had woken up completely and utterly exhausted. Yet at the same time I was absolutely... I can't even describe the feeling. Is there a word for when you feel so happy your head's about to explode, but at the same time you feel as light as a feather? All my worries had melted away last night. But I'm not a morning person, so I was still... irratable.

It was sunny outside today at eleven. Yes, I woke up at eleven, even though I went to bed at like, six. Five hours is enough, right? Who am I kidding? I only woke up because I need to find Annabeth. She was usually the one I had "deep and heartfelt" moments with. I need to tell someone about Jason.

I walked over to the baths to freshen up. Unfortunately, I had been tired enough to go to bed without a shower.

Once I was clean and nearly odor-free, I went to a café to buy breakfast. I paid for my delicious breakfast and sat down at a table so I could start digging in. I felt someone tap me on the shoulder.

I was a little grouchy from lack of sleep so I -may have- answered a little rudely, "Can I help you?"

"Yeah, actually, I was looking for my very pretty friend. She's a brunette, multi-colored eyes, apparently loves blueberry muffins," the person behind me said.

I dropped my delectable blueberry-filled brakfast. That person had just, kinda, described me. Whoever it was doesn't have the right to call me 'pretty'. I put my best 'you better scram' look on. I whipped my head around to tell the jerk to get lost, but instead came face to face with Jason, "Oh, I didn't know it was you."

"Did you not want me here?" he asked.

"No!" I said a little bit too quickly. My grouchiness disappeared just to be replaced with embaressmant. I felt my face heat up, "Uh, why don't you sit down?"

He took a seat across from me, "Enjoying breakfast?

"No, you interuppted me," I told him.

"Should I leave?" he asked.

I bit my tongue to keep from blurting out 'NO!', "No, you can keep me company."

"Why are you up so early, Pipes? It must have been at least six by the time you fell asleep," he said.

"You're up too," I said.

"Touché."

"Well, I really smelled and there's a chance that the stench woke me up," I told him. Not the whole truth, but good enough, "Why are you up?"

Jason looked down and I saw his cheeks flush pink, "I, uh, wanted to see if you were awake."

Aww, that was sweet.

"I was also checking up on Reyna," he told me. And it wasn't as sweet anymore. Why did he have to go see Reyna?, "She's doing worse."

Suddenly I felt bad for being jealous. I was getting ticked at the fact that Jason went to go see Reyna, but she was in the infirmary in a critical condition. I was such a jerk.

"Jason," I started, "We need to-"

"-Talk?" he finished.

"Yeah," I said.

"Finish your breakfast, I have some place that I want to show you," he grinned.

DON'T KILL ME! SORRY THAT IT WAS SHORT AND SLIGHTLY BORING. JUST TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW I ALWAYS UPDATE ON THE WEEKEND :). AND FOR MY "THE NEW GENERATION OF DEMIGODS" STORY, I DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO UPDATE. BUT I JUST MIGHT SURPRISE YOU...