This one is kinda informational, but I have the idea for the next chaptterr, woohhoo! well, enjoy!

I realized that hiding your feelings for someone to your…best friend is a lot harder than I assumed it would be. Every time I looked at Zach, I just didn't feel the same way I used to. As we were heading East, all I could think about was how I could tell Zach without breaking his heart, and getting him to not tell the rest of the group. Maybe I can just tell him after? No. Emily if you keep this up you're going to go crazy. He'll think the same way I used to and think everything's fine, which it's not. Even though I was going through some tough stuff in my head, I still had to at least act as if I was still in order, and the leader of this quest. I stopped my dolphin and spun around to face the rest of them, keeping my eyes away from Percy. "Okay, I think here's a good place to stop."

They all looked around them, barren sand everywhere. An underwater desert, if anything dangerous swam by, we would be spotted in seconds. I realized this just as I had suggested we stop. I was too caught up in my own thoughts. Annabeth looked at me questioningly, "Um, are you sure? I'm sure if we kept going we could find some coral to hide behind…" The rest of them nodded agreeing.

"Right…coral. That would be better than this…" I had already lost my mind. I mean, who would care if I got swallowed up by some random loan shark? We kept going for some time and finally found a large piece of rock to hide behind while we rested.

The water had gotten dark by then and I couldn't see a yard ahead of me. "I think it would be good to set up camp now." This time nobody piped up to question me. I was already in a bad mood, I had kept silent the whole ride here.

Zach stretched as he walked over to me, "I'm not tired at all, I think I'll take first watch." He winked, hoping I got the clue. No butterflies in my stomach. Not even a twitch. I just lowered my eyes and turned away.

I bumped straight into Annabeth and sputtered out, "Hey, I'm super tired, would you mind taking first watch with Zach?" She agreed, as if nothing was wrong. Truth is, I actually wasn't tired at all. I just wanted to have watch with Percy and so I wouldn't have to worry about Zach bugging me.

I laid down in the tent that we had staked to the ocean floor, wide awake listening to Annabeth and Zach's conversation. Of course I knew it was bad, but what did I care? 3 months ago I would have opened a crevasse in the ground to swallow Annabeth up if she annoyed me.

"Wait, where's Emily?" Zach asked.

"In the tent, why?" Annabeth replied.

"Oh, nothing. I just thought she was taking watch with me…" His voice sounded small and sad.

"Odd, she told me she was super tired and asked me to take it for her."

"Really?"

"Yeah, have you noticed she's been acting really strange lately?"

"She has hasn't she," He agreed. "She didn't even glance over at me today. Something's up. Why don't you ask her about it?" Right, like he really cared that much.

Emily! What the hell are you DOING? You're turning back into you're old self. The one with no friends and a hatred for everything! No. I can't sink back into that hole again. I also can't stay out of this hole. I can't go the rest of my life doing this either. I sat in the tent, not getting a wink of sleep, just thinking of a way I could get myself out of this mess. Ugh, I feel like that Bella chick from Twilight. (A/N Teehee I just realized how much this is alike to Twilight.)

"Do you think our watch it over yet? I can barely keep my eyes open." Annabeth said for the first time in hours. Well, at least it seemed that way. I've been getting lost in my thoughts a lot the past 3 days.

"Should be…it's been 4 hours."

I heard shuffling of feet, so I laid down and pretended to be asleep. "Wake up you sleepyheads, we're tired and it's your turn. So, get out of bed!" What a great wakeup call Annabeth!

Percy yawned and sat up, stretched and swam out of the tent. Dang, for someone being actually asleep he gets up pretty fast. I decided to take my time so it seemed like I didn't want to get out of bed but eventually I dragged myself out into the sea with Percy.

Next chapter will be up ASAP, but for the meantime would you be my bestfriend and review to tell me how i'm doing and possibly message me on how i could end the story cuz i have no clue...haha, well obvivously nico will be saved buttt yeah, ive got an open mind to ideas! well till the next chapter!

-Mskickasschick