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I'm the kind of person who can create worst case scenarios for everything. If I'm called to the principle's office I imagine test grades, stupid pranks on tape, or graffiti. So I'm not the model student. I blame the twins and Arissa. Really it was a minor misdemeanor. That is if you call punching a kid minor. Well he had it coming, okay?

So as I walked to my designated tent in the dusk, thousands of idea flitted through my head. My gods I need help. I reached the white shimmering tent and slipped inside. Arissa sat by a warm fire slowly roasting marshmallows, muttering to the point were one might question her sanity. So nothing new there. The twins were sitting by the fire side, staring at the fire. Sadie, Shane, and, Nathan were all asleep from a long, exhausting day.

Hero smiled at my entrance "Hey, kid."

"So," Arissa interrupted fiercely, "Did she try to recruit you?"

"Yeah," I said vaguely taking a seat beside the fire.

"Luna, you're not…are you? Please…" Arissa's eyes went wide with shock until her façade of being fazed by nothing return. She rarely lost it around anyone but me.

"Are you joining?" Damon asked slowly.

"I…I don't know… It's my mother…" I stuttered.

"What are we? Ugly step sisters?" Damon demanded.

"No, guys-" I tried.

"You know, Dee I always did believe I was the handsomer twin." Hero smirked but couldn't hide the look in his eyes of uncertainty.

Damon shook his head and adopted his twin's tone with a peevish twist "Do you think if I got a scar it'd make the girls go crazy?"

"No they'd still hate you," Arissa said distractedly, "Luna Celestine Di Pirreo you cannot be serious. Join the hunters? Can you stand that long with Colette?"

"No, I'd try to kill her." I admitted sheepishly.

"What about the rest of the hunt? Do you even like them?" she continued.

"Not really…" I said twirling a strand of hair.

"What about guys? I know you like them.' Arissa grinned.

I blushed and stared at the fire. Yeah, I do. Not that I'd say so aloud.

"I don't need to here this about my baby cousin!" Damon screeched clamping his hands over his ears.

Hero had already inserted his hands into his ears and was chanting: "La, la, la, la, la!"

Arissa muttered something about "immature idiots," but was giggling all the same.

"See, you're meant to be with us" She concluded. I smiled, for once, she was right. I'd never felt more…complete and happy then when I was joking around with my friends. No Hunt could ever measure up to that.

"Plus," Hero added, "We're talented! Who else do you know who can name twenty-six different ways to say puke?"

"Only you," I laughed, "Trust me. Only you guys…"

Next morning came all too soon. Soon Hero was shaking me awake and I was forced to slip out of my silver sleeping bag. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and shouldered my back pack.

Then Colette entered our tent without notice. She scowled at Arissa who looked as if she might vomit. Colette eyed the twins wearily, and then turned to me. "Lady Artemis wants you."

I nodded and brushed past her to head to the main tent. When I entered in large tent Artemis was seated on a silky silver upholstered chair stroking a snow white timber wolf's head. She looked at me contently then spoke.

"Do you have an answer?" She asked evenly.

"Yes I do," I cleared my throat nervously; "I must decline your invitation to join the Hunt."

A look flashed across Artemis's face. Pain? Anger? Hurt? It was so quick I never knew.

"I'll respect your privacy and won't ask why." She said briskly.

"May I ask a question?" I blurted out.

Artemis nodded, her arms crossed.

"Was I a mistake?" I whispered staring at my shoes.

"I was a maiden goddess so yes in that sense you were a mistake." The goddess said curtly, "I was drunk and Aphrodite was out to get me."

That wasn't the answer I'd hoped for. Maybe 'Sorry and I love you'?

Artemis regained her composure and gave me a distant smile. "You'd have made a good huntress."

She pushed past me and into the sunlight. Outside huntresses and my gang were milling about but snapped into attention when Artemis appeared. She ran a tight ship and we'd learned to be on our toes.

"Goodbye. I wish you the best of luck on your quest." Artemis said as sincerely as she could. Colette glared at us; the rest of the hunt followed her example. Arissa turned on her heel and strode to the truck. Hero and Damon trailed after her towing the Barrows and Shane behind him. I took one last look at my mother. Her silver eyes were hard and she wouldn't look at me. I sped to the truck stinging my eyes.

So? Short-ish I know...Sorry about that. Click the button, chickadees! Sorry Ms. M got to me…