Hello! I know it's been awhile, but I've had Science Olympia, tests, horse shows starting up again (for me anyway), failing Algebra 1, the snow finally melting, my jobs babysitting and getting ready for detassling, art classes, and trying to make time for my new boyfriend during all this. So, please excuse the lateness!!

sea. of. stars. 41 - Yeah, I love that line. I'm not even sure where I got it, but I like it. Thank you for the reveiw!

mallisa - Why would I get creeped out by such a amazing compliment? At least, thats how I took it anyway. And I will continue to write this until I get to the end of the very last book, because I'm a freak and I love writing that much!

I only got two reveiws last time, so please reveiw! And this chapter is dedicated to the New Moon DVD (which I totally forgot came out last night, but my dad got one for me thank the gods!)

~Hayden

I know I was being unfair, but I avoided West. He tried to talk to me, but luckily, most of Apollo's cabin had classes with Hermes'. I mostly hung out with my cabin, Aphrodite's cabin (for Silena), and Hephestus cabin. Lee had never like West anyway, so it was all good.

Finally, I was giving Travis a guitar lesson when West lost it.

"Yeah," I was saying. "If Lily ever is nervous about meeting anyone in Julliard, have her call me. I've got tons of brothers and sisters going to college there, I could introduce her to some people."

"Does every Apollo kid go to Julliard?" Travis asked, strumming the guitar randomly. I have to admit, Travis was catching on pretty quickly...for being a Hermes kid.

"Um, it's pretty much all of our career paths. Everyone of us wants to have a career in music and poetry, and thats pretty much Julliard. And sometimes our dad randomly shows up there. I mean, it's a school full of talented artistic people - he loves it there."

"What about you? Are you going there?" Ah, the corny yet cute sentimental moment.

"I don't know yet. I'm only a freshman, but I'm pretty sure that I'm set on going to an art school, one with a really good sketching class. What about you? Where do you want to go?"

"Come on," West said, walking up. "You know that Hermes kids don't have an education. Or a brain at all for that matter."

"Excuse me?" Travis said, glaring at West. Connor, sensing something, started walking across the room.

"I said that no bottle blond little girl that has daddy issues and only lives to pull lame pranks has no intellectual knowlage at all."

Oooh!

"Um, boys," I said, watching Travis stand up, looking angry as hell. "Don't make me ground you both."

"Hey man," Connor said to Travis as he walked up. "Whats going on?"

"Well, Connor, I was just about to show daddy's boy here that he shouldn't mess with people that have bigger muscles then him."

West only had time to raise his eyebrows as Travis's fist went flying toward his face.

West was knocked back by the force, holding his face with his eyes closed. I gaped at them both, until West's eyes opened in they looked so dark and filled with absoloute hate and rage, I was terrified.

West threw a punch back, catching travis in the chest, and while Travis was kneeled over holding his stomach, West kneed him in the face.

"Hey!" I shouted as Connor, so angry, went flying at West. Luckily I caught him, and the other Apollo counselors, hearing the commotion, came over to help. My brothers Lee and Austin grabbed West and pushed him back as he was about to his Connor. Sadie was kneeled next to Travis, trying to look at his face to see if she could heal it, since she was one of the doctors of the Apollo cabin.

"Back off!" West shouted at Lee and Austin, who were blocking his way to Travis and Connor.

"Let go, Keira!" Connor said, breaking away, but I grabbed his arm.

"Hey, right now, you and Travis won't get in trouble since it was provoked, but if you go and punch him, it'll be your fault to. And I don't think you want to clean horse crap out of the stables for the rest of the year!" I hissed.

Connor breathed deeply then went over to Sadie and Travis. I glared at West before following them.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked him. Sadie was cleaning out a cut on the side of his face, and Connor had a hand on his shoulder.

"Um yeah. Besides that fact that the left side of my face is in immense pain, I'm great."

"What, is there no blow to your ego?" Connor asked. "No reputation you will have to rebuild over again?"

"Maybe you should pull a Percy Jackson and try to drown West with toilet water," Sadie suggested.

"Yeah!" Connor said enthusiasticlly, his anger already subsiding.

I smirked, but on the inside, I felt terrible.

"Kiera, GET UP!" Lee said.

"Lee, it's two in the morning. Leave me ALONE!"

"C'mon, there's a cabin leader meeting in the Big House. It's an emergency."

"How would you know?"

"You know what? You're right. They called a meeting at two in the morning just to talk about fuzzy teddy bears and gossip about how cute Miley Cyrus is."

"You think Miley Cyrus is cute? Lee, that's downright desperate. Can't you be like most other teenage boys and have a crush on Megan Fox or something?"

"Keira, there is a differance between cute and utterly stunning. Megan Fox is utterly stunning."

"You are such a guy."

"Well, I would hope so, or else I would be one messed up girl."

"Why do I have to go?"

"Because if something happens to me, you have to know what to do since you're second in line to be cabin leader."

"Oh joy." I snorted and pulled myself out of bed.