Okay, Helios Spirit pointed out to me that she/he thought that Jay had already met Rachel. Well, if you're confused then here is the explanation. Jay already met Rachel but didn't know who she was, Thalia mentioned something about Rachel's name but Jay didn't know what she meant. So Jay hasn't met Rachel while knowing her name yet, she still thinks that she's just a creepy figment of her imagination and she hasn't really remembered about Rachel until now. Okay I think that's it. Thank you Helios Spirit for pointing that out. If any of you find any other mistakes TELL ME. :)

Chapter 19

The answer is dirt and danger.

It really is a small world after all, isn't it? Nico seemed to notice that something was up so he grabbed my hand and I was shocked back into reality. I noticed his hand on mine and couldn't help but blush. Rebecca frowned, "What's up?" I opened my mouth and said in one breath, "It's-that-creepy-girl-from-my-singing-class-that-froze-all-my-classmates-and-now-she's-here-to-haunt-me-for-life." Rebecca and Nico stared at me in complete confusion. Rebecca asked in a hushed tone, "Are you okay?" While Nico just stared and said, "Wha . . .?"

I let out a sigh, "That girl," I said pointing to her, "I've seen her before. She walked into my Singing Ed classroom when I was still at Alter Wood and told me some . . . things." Nico looked over at the girl and raised an eyebrow, "You mean Rachel? Rachel found you in your school and told you something?" I frowned when he said her name, "Rachel's her name? Well, then yeah. Rachel came to my school and said stuff. She made the entire classroom freeze except for me. It was . . . weird."

Rebecca nodded and then looked me in the eyes, "Are you sure it was Rachel? Because she's the Oracle and if she came to you it probably wasn't for a good reason." I nodded, completely sure of myself, "Yep, that's her."

The girl, Rachel, looked back at me again and then said something to Percy and Annabeth that I didn't catch. Once she was done she started walking over to me with Percy and Annabeth following.

One part of my mind told me to run away and hope she didn't find me. The other part of my brain said this situation was inevitable. So of course I stayed – although I'm not sure if that would be a good or bad idea. Once the three of them reached us Annabeth and Percy sat down comfortably right next to Nico while Rachel sat in an awkward cross legged position. I waved slightly and smiled unsurely. She responded with a bright grin.

"Hello, Jay. I haven't seen you in a little while. How are you adjusting to Camp HB?" I opened my mouth and quietly said, "Hi, I'm doing fine." I said, cutting off the sentence so it would be harder for her to open a conversation.

She smiled politely, "So, um . . ." I decided I don't like awkwardness. Who does? It's only funny when it happens to someone else. So I mentally rolled my eyes and broke the ice, "I can just feel the awkwardness." I said while waving my hand through the air, as if trying to catch something. Rachel smiled brightly and said, "So I heard you guys are dating." She pointed to both Nico and I. We both instantly turned red and Rachel laughed, "I'll take that as a yes."

Percy laughed at Nico's reaction while Annabeth smiled. Rebecca was furrowing her eyebrows and looking at Rachel, "So you, like, really spit out prophecies? Like just one minute you're like "Ooh it's an alpaca!" and the next minute you're all like "Creepy mind stuff – KA-POW!" Rachel laughed, "That's one way you could put it. Take now as an example. I could be talking about something random – yes like alpacas – and then suddenly I could be going all "Oracle Powers" on you all and start chanting random prophecies."

Rebecca nodded while Annabeth laughed at Percy who was trying to do an impression of Rachel having a prophecy. He looked like a drowning chicken – not that I know what that looks like.

A sentence that had been nagging at the back of my mind found its way to my mouth, "So, it was you that froze all of my classmates then. Does that mean you can freeze people?" Rachel shook her head, "I can't freeze people but Zeus manipulated the Mist. Your classmates weren't really frozen – they were more like in another dimension for a few seconds. But they totally forgot about it – or at least the Mist was strong enough to make them forget about it."

I shook my head in confusion, "What is this "Mist" everyone keeps talking about? Thalia said she would explain it to me but she never got to it." Annabeth answered, "The Mist is something that gods – and sometimes demigods – can use. Mortals typically don't know about the whole Greek-Gods-still-alive thing so when weird things happen like a Cyclops attacking New York mortals see something different. They could see something like a terrorist attack – pretty much anything but the truth."

My eyes squinted in concentration, "So the Mist covers anything involving the Greek world so to keep mortals from knowing about us." Annabeth nodded and Nico smiled. Suddenly Rachel yawned, "Well," she said, "I'm going to sleep." I raised an eyebrow, "You do know that it's like 11am, right?" Rachel shrugged, "Hmm, I've just been feeling tired lately." I frowned but nodded. She walked off and Rebecca said bluntly, "I'm gonna go stalk Owen." I smiled and she nodded with purpose.

I was left with Nico, Percy, and Annabeth on the beach. Percy was the first to make things awkward, "So, you guys are dating?" A smirk pulled on his face. Annabeth smiled at me, asking me to explain stuff. Too bad for her I wasn't in the mood for explaining. Apparently neither was Nico because he frowned at Percy and pushed him into the dirt. Annabeth, Nico, and I laughed as he bobbed back up with dusty dirt on his face. Percy narrowed his eyes and threw a handful of loose dirt at Nico's face. I laughed at him and said, "You look like you've been cleaning chimneys!"

Nico raised an inquiring eyebrow, "Oh and you've cleaned enough chimneys to know what a chimney sweeper looks like?" I shook my head, "Nope but I've seen Mary Poppins and "Chim, Chim Cheree" was one of my favorite songs!" Nico and Percy frowned, "Huh?" Annabeth just raised a confused eyebrow. I sighed, "You know the one that's like: chim-chiminey, chim-chiminey chim-chim-cheree. A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be. Chim-chiminey, chim-chiminey chim-chim-cheroo, good luck will rub off when I shake hands with you. You know – that one?"

Nico just stared at me with his mouth open while Annabeth clapped and Percy threw another hand full of dirt at Nico. I laughed even harder than before when he got some in his open mouth. Nico grumbled and tried to spit all the dirt out while Percy laughed hysterically. I smiled and dropped a handful of dirt in my hands. I then threw it at Percy and Nico laughed as he literally flipped over trying to dodge it.

Nico tried picking up more dirt to throw it at Percy but it hit Annabeth in the jaw instead. Nico opened his mouth, "I am so . . ." He didn't finish because Annabeth got some powdery dirt and threw it at his face, except this time she missed and hit me in the forehead. I smiled evilly and grabbed some dirt to throw at both Percy and Annabeth.

It turned into a full out dirt war with Nico and me VS Percy and Annabeth. I'm not really sure who won but in the end we were all powdered with dirt, looking like chimney sweeps. We sat back down in the same spot breathing heavily. Nico lay on his back with his eyes closed. I don't know why but I suddenly found my dirt covered fingers drifting over his face. I smiled widely and drew a dark, dirt mustache on him. He opened his eyes and raised an eyebrow. I turned it into a goatee before he could get up. When he did he looked at Annabeth and Percy who were trying not to laugh, I couldn't help it and started loudly laughing. Annabeth was red in the face, "You look great with a goatee, Nico."

Nico furrowed his eyebrows and grabbed his iPod from out of his pocket and looked at himself in the back. His mouth tightened as he saw is dusty colored face with a dark goatee drawn on it. He smiled in a rather frightening way and then in one fluid movement had my hands behind my back. I kicked at him but his dirt covered fingers found my face and he started doodling.

When he was finished I grabbed his iPod and looked in the reflective part. I smiled widely when I saw that he had made me look like a cat with a dark nose, whiskers and curvy lines connecting my nose to my mouth making it look like a cat's mouth. I laughed and circled my fingers around his eyes, making him look nightmarish. He did the same to me and I covered his eyebrows and overlapped them to make him look angry. We both laughed and I looked up to see Percy and Annabeth smiling in a knowing way, "What?" I asked. Annabeth shrugged nonchalantly, "Nothing – nothing at all." But I could tell by the gleam in her eyes and her smile that it wasn't "nothing."

My mouth opened to say something but suddenly a conch horn sounded signaling lunchtime. Percy sighed, "Hey Nico, can you go wake up Rachel? She'd probably kill us if she found out she missed lunch." Nico sighed, "Yep, sure." He then looked at me, "You wanna come?" I nodded and jumped up on my feet, grabbing Nico's hand to help him up.

Once we were both up Nico led me to where Rachel stayed. I posed like a superhero, "Kitty Girl and Satyr Man to the rescue!" Nico stopped me, "Okay, Kitty Girl I get but Satyr Man . . .?" I shrugged, "It's Satyr Man because you have a goatee and satyrs are half goat half . . ." Nico rolled his eyes with a smile as he interrupted, "Yeah I get it." I smiled and followed Nico.

After walking all the way to the Big House we walked inside and stepped up the stairs. Nico pointed to a door that must've led to Rachel's room. I sprang forward and put my hand on the handle. I knocked with the door cracked and waited for an answer. I didn't hear one and knocked once again. No answer.

My feet led me inside and I looked around a room decorated with artwork and posters. Nico stayed behind me, leaning on the doorframe. I stepped forward until I could touch the bed when suddenly the door creaked. I assumed it was Nico and didn't move. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder. I whipped my head around to look and see a hand clenched onto my shoulder. I felt the skin bruise and yelled in pain. I heard Nico's footsteps and his voice shouting, "Rachel STOP!" I turned my head a little more and saw Rachel's familiar red hair and the hand on my shoulder leading to her body.

My gaze landed on her eyes which before were a dark green but now shone in a glowing bright jade. What have I gotten myself into now?

A/N: Okay Chapter 19 is finished! :P same as last time but I want to thank anyone and everyone who has reviewed, PMed, alerted, or favorited because I really appreciate it! I can't help but smile when I see a good review thank you for your support and your comments! XD HERE WE GO

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Thank you again for reviewing, PMing, favoriting, alerting, and giving me feedback :D also that danger part is more funny when you remember that Jay still looks like a cat and Nico still looks like Satyr Man. :3