Skyler's POV

As soon as I entered my room, my phone buzzed. I found a text from Dylan, saying, Meet me at the ice skating rink? I decided to go cuz I didn't have anything else to do right? I sighed as I texted back, Sure, meet you there in 20 mins… I quickly found something to change into. I wore a purple strapless top with a black cropped jacket and black skinny jeans. I wrapped a purple scarf around me because it was cold outside. I pulled a headband up on my hair, behind my front bangs and zipped up black high heeled boots. I left a note for Jacob when I didn't see him in the living room saying that I'd gone out and that I'll be back later. I didn't tell him who I was meeting up with though. I didn't need him questioning me more about Dylan. I wondered where he got the idea from. I called for a cab and told him the address after I hoped in. No matter how much Dylan said that none of the things he said would affect our friendship or making it more complicated, it did and it hurt to think that he thought I would just get over it. Lately it's always been a contest in my mind. Who would I choose? Dylan or Jacob. It's been hard the past few days, especially after Dylan told me that he was in love with me. Practicing with Alice and the girls helped me a little. Singing had always been a passion of mine so it brightened up my spirits. Although, now whenever I look at Alice, I think of how Dylan just fooled me into thinking he was in love with Alice the whole time. On the other hand Jacob was confusing me too much. One time he'd whisper compliments in my ear and the next he'd be sucking faces with Trudy, whom he claimed he was with just to make my life easier. I agreed that I'd meet Dylan because I needed someone to talk to. But then again it doesn't exactly help if he was a part of the problem itself.

"Eight dollars miss." The driver in front of me said. I took out eight dollars from my pocket and handed him the money. I stepped out into the chilly winter air and walked inside the building in front of me. I saw Dylan standing in front of me grinning with satisfaction.

"You came!" He declared.

"Of course I did. Why would you think I'd not show up?" I questioned.

"Well, I thought you'd bail on me after the whole…you know…incident." He said, scratching the back of his head.

"Well as you said, that doesn't change a thing of our friendship right?" I declared. He just grinned and motioned for me to follow him. It was even frostier inside the arena. I sat down in one of the bleachers. For a second Dylan and I just stared at each other, then he broke the gaze by looking down.

"So how's life been treating you?" He said, grinning. I missed that grin. I badly just wanted to pour out everything to him, but I knew that I couldn't.

"Oh, you know the usual. Guys announcing that they have a crush on me, Jacob being confusing, practicing for the annual road wire bang thingi majig." I said, grinning back. He laughed and immediately started defending himself saying, he wouldn't have announced it if I hadn't been so darn attractive. It kinda felt good talking to him again, but hey, it still wasn't like the old times. We both kept on talking and laughing and cracking jokes the rest of the evening. We both ordered some hot cocoa. I let the hot marsh mellow taste devour in my mouth. Oh and get this, you'd never imagine who walked through the doors next. An insanely hot dark haired dude, with a skinny beautiful brunette walking next to him. That's right, Jacob and Trudy walked into the doors of the arena, not noticing me or Dylan yet. Dylan was about to speak, but I quickly put a finger to his lips, motioning him to follow me. He nodded and I lead him to a far away bench and crouched down. He gave me a questioning look and I pointed to their direction. Dylan followed the direction and saw them. An understanding passed between our eyes and then we crouched down even lower so they wouldn't see us. Jacob and Trudy sat on a bench not so far away from us.

"So…" Trudy said, puckering her lips. Jacob moved away from her a bit, avoiding the kiss. I wonder why…

"Yeah, okay so why did you wanna come here?" He asked.

"Well, you know, just thought this would be a romantic place…" She replied, her eyes scanning the arena.

"Who are you looking for?" Jacob asked.

"Oh no one. Don't be silly Jackie. I wasn't looking for anyone." She said, drawing lines on his arm.

"Alright then, can I go home now then?" He asked, looking uncomfortable. I winced because I almost got up to help Jacob, then Dylan pushed me down.

"I'm having a pretty good idea who told Jacob that me and you were going out." Dylan whispered to me. I raised an eyebrow, but he just nodded. We watched as Trudy tried to scoot closer to Jacob, leading Jacob to back away again. Jacob was almost gonna fall of the bench when I stood up.

"Wait!" I shouted. Both of the heads turned to look at me and Dylan gave me a 'Are you INSANE?' look from where he was crouching down.

"Skyler?" Jacob looked surprised, but Trudy just grinned knowingly.

"Is anyone else come here with you?" Trudy asked innocently. I looked down and Dylan shook his head vigorously.

"As a matter of fact no, it's just me." I said, straightening out my shirt.

"Is that so?" Trudy asked, almost dying with curiosity.

"Yea." I replied.

"Well then. What are you doing here? Were you following me and Jacob? Were you trying to sabotage our date?" She interrogated me.

"Enough Trudy." Jacob told her, but he kept his eyes on me as if he was trying to think of a reason why I would be here other than what Trudy said.

"No, no. I wasn't trying to follow you. I just came here because I was bored." I explained. Trudy huffed as if that wasn't a good enough explanation. I was stuck their looking like some kind of emotionally drawn stalker when suddenly Dylan's head popped up.

"If I may say Trudy, I think it was you who was trying to follow us." Dylan challenged her, Jacob's eyes looked like they might pop out of his head as he stood up. Trudy grinned with pleasure, but at the same time she looked kind of fearful.

"It is NOT what you think Jacob." I told him, trying to get him to listen to me, but he kept on eyeing Dylan like he couldn't believe he was here…with me.

"You tell me Skyler. I can't believe you've been lying to me all this time." Jacob said softly.

"Listen man, we're not dating. Whatever that brunette bitch put into your head is not true." Dylan said pointing to Trudy. Trudy gasped and held on to Jacob's arm.

"This brunette bitch is his girlfriend so back off you bastard!" Trudy shrieked. Even I raised an eyebrow at her. Jacob looked uncomfortable again and was eyeing me down nervously. We all had a staring contest for about a minute until I couldn't take it anymore.

"You know what? This is crazy. I'm leaving. I'll leave it to you three to sort it out." I said, waving away.

"Of course the scared blond leaves just to get out of her situation, because that's how stupid she is." Trudy scoffed. I turned around and glared at her icily. Let's just say, if looks could kill she'd be long dead by now, because no one, I repeat no one calls ME a STUPID BLOND.

"You better watch your mouth next time freak, because you don't know just exactly what this blond can do to you to screw up your face." My voice sounded deadly with ever word, dripping with venom. Then I turned around, heading for the door. The boys behind me both had shocked expressions on their faces until finally one moved.

"Wait up Sky. Want me to drop you home?" He asked with concern. I smiled at him and was about to say that I can go home when Jacob stepped in, "I think we live in the same apartment. I can drop her off."

"Alright man, you got it. Hands off your girl." Dylan said and backed away. I glared at Dylan and Jacob.

"I can go by myself. I do have arms and legs. Besides you have to drop your girlfriend off Jacob." I said, referring to Trudy. Finally Trudy recovered at the mention of her name and stepped beside Jacob.

"Yeah Jackie. You should drop me off instead of this freak show." Trudy said with disgust. I ignored her and walked on heading towards the doors. Dylan was walking beside me in no time.

"Sorry I invited you here." He whispered, while I called for a cab.

"No problem. She would probably follow us where ever we went anyways." I said smiling.

"Alright then. I'll see you tomorrow." He waved me a bye as I hopped into the cab. I sighed and leaned back into the comfortable seat. I just felt like stuffing my face into a pillow and screaming it all out. It always stabs me in the heart when I see Jacob with Trudy. The way she always flings herself on him, it sickens me. I glared into the empty air until the driver finally said, "Where to?" I told him the address and he drove on in silence. It would be ages before I get enough of drama, I thought to myself. Jacob clearly didn't look comfortable with Trudy, but maybe it was just my imagination. He didn't even tell his stupid girlfriend to shut up or defend me in anyway possible. Huh, friends what are they for- my point is being lousy. As the car stopped to an immediate halt at a red light I looked to the left side of the car. It was Jacob's car. He had his hands on the steering wheel and was looking straight ahead. Trudy was fiddling with her hair. I sighed and crouched down so they wouldn't see me. The second time I had to do that on that same day. It kinda did suck, seeing Trudy in the shot gun when it should've been me. I grimaced as I remembered the time we went to the beach. We laughed and laughed like we didn't have a care in the world. Where did those days go? Why do they suddenly just disappear? His car followed ours the whole route until he made a different turn to drop Trudy off. I paid the cab driver and headed for the elevator. It felt like my legs were carrying me and the rest of my body wasn't responding me. It was probably because I was numb all over. Just as the elevator doors were about to close Jacob, along with a woman with her pet rat… entered. Jacob looked at me and I looked back at him, not wanting to, but somehow I just did.

"Hi." He said stupidly.

The woman in a big puffy pink dress with a big butt replied, thinking he said hi to her, "Why hello darling." I had to stifle a chuckle at that one and faced the walls of the elevator again. The woman got off on the second floor, probably going to visit her daughter/son who studied at GTH. When the elevator doors opened to the third floor I got out first, pulling my key out my back pocket.

"If I say something totally inappropriate promise not to scream at me?" Jacob said as I desperately tried to open the door. It was jammed.

"It depends." I muttered back, still trying to get the door open.

"Your ass looks good in those skinny black jeans." He said, wincing as if though he expected an outburst. "Oh and, can't get that door open can you?" he desperately said trying to change the topic, but I wasn't gonna let him go for that…. It's just the way he said that made me feel like a hopeless little girl so I growled back that I was doing just fine. He smirked at my failed attempt to get the door opened. He came up from behind me and lightly loosened my hands from the door knob and tried to jerk the door open. He played with keys a couple of times then he pushed the door with all his force. It was my turn to smirk, "Can't get the door open can ya?" I mimicked his voice. He scoffed at me then let go of the door knob.

"Okay, let's do this together. On my count of 3…1…. 2 and…" He started, but by that time I already fidgeted with door knob and jerked the door open finally. I grinned at his shocked face. He quickly recovered and entered the room.

"I loosened it up for ya." He murmured.

"Oh and I know my ass looks good in these jeans." I winked at him and walked to my room leaving him standing there dumfounded.

"I was just kidding!" He tried to say, but I just laughed. It was then I realized I was supposed to be mad at him…why does he confuse me so much? My heart wrenched as I picked up a picture on my bedside table of me and him on my bed with him tickling me making me laugh like a hyena. Don't ask me how he took that picture. I smiled and wiped a tear from my eye. Where did the old times go? I sighed and set it down on my bed. Suddenly I heard a window crash. I swung open the door and ran to the living room. I gasped at what I saw. A… thing was standing beside the TV. The upper half of her was human, except she had scales all over her body. She had fangs sticking out from her lips. Down her waist was the most strange thing I saw. She had one metal leg and one…scaly dragon type of leg. I stood there paralyzed, then Jacob just had to come in on that moment shirtless. When will this boy ever wear a shirt in the flat? The… thing hissed at us and licked her lips. As quick as a snake she made her way over to me. Her claws would've dug into my flesh if I hadn't acted on instinct. I ducked and swung around dodging her moves. Jacob kept screaming my name as he… threw spit balls on her? Really Jacob, really? She finally got annoyed and turned to look at Jacob. She purred then went to jump on him. He dodged, then ran around the living room screaming like a little girl. Finally he shook his head, then dived into the kitchen. My mind was far away from reality and I was thinking, 'What is this boy trying to do? Kill both of us?' Then I saw him come out of the kitchen with a knife in his hand.

Finally a genius plan out of his head. The thing…. Cackled as he tried to attack her with his knife. He aimed for her leg, but when he stroke her in the thigh, the knife just harmlessly bounced off.

"You fool. Normal weapons can't hurt me!" She hissed. Suddenly my head over whelmed with memories. Just for a minute I could remember everything. I saw a vision of me when I was twelve…running from a bull. Then I saw large dogs barking at me and I kept running. I put a hand to my head and then I was blank again. Jacob, realizing a knife wasn't gonna hurt this thing tried the old fashioned way. He kicked her and punched her. I knew he couldn't do this by himself so I stepped in. I slid under her and kicked her butt, then I jumped on her while Jacob grabbed her leg. Her claws were centimeters away from my face every time she moved so I had a pretty difficult time dodging them. I screamed and kicked her everywhere I could. Meanwhile Jacob hugged her leg like the world depended on it. Finally someone banged open the door and people were staring at us like, 'What the heck is going on?'Finally the principal came through and stared at us for a long time until he said,

"What are you two doing? Let go of that cheerleader immediately or you'll be in detention!"

The thing stopped struggling then me and Jacob made our eyes over to the principal. COULD HE NOT SEE THIS FREAK THAT WAS TRYING TO KILL US? Then again I didn't need more detention so I jumped off the… cheerleader? When I saw her again she looked like a normal human cheerleader. I gasped and I felt dizzy. Jacob, seeing me followed my example and let her go.

"B-but sir she was this monster like thing just a m-…" The principal hushed Jacob and told us to stay where we were. He escorted the….cheerleader out. Jacob caught my glance and his face said the same thing mine did, 'What the heck?'

"I hope this will not happen again." The principal said, straightening his tie as if it was him who just tried to strangle a monster. "However, I will call both of your guardians for the damage of… the glass." He said referring to the shattered window.

"B-but how could you not see the…" Jacob was again silenced by the principal. He left not saying another word. Almost a million students were standing in front of our apartment and the principal dismissed them all.

I closed the door behind the principal and took a deep breath, then slumped down against the door. For what seemed like forever both of us couldn't speak.

"You saw that too right?" Jacob finally said, referring to the… thing?

"I definitely wasn't imagining it." I replied.

"Good, because I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't either." He said. After that both of us didn't speak for the rest of the night. We simply went off to bed without eating dinner and I engulfed into nightmares again.

In Olympus

"Great, now monsters are after them too? We need to get them to camp Poseidon." Athena exclaimed.

"We can't Athena. First they have to discover themselves." He replied calmly.

"How can you be so calm about this? It is usually I who is calm." Athena said hopelessly.

"Do not fear Athena. I will let nothing come to harm them." Poseidon replied.

"How long will it take Poseidon? What if we did this all for nothing? He's getting stronger, what if he rises before…" Athena was interrupted by Poseidon.

"No, he can't. It won't take long Athena, do not worry. Do not worry…." Poseidon said, although he was basically trying to convince himself. For the love of all nature, what is he going to do now?

A/N: Hola amigos. I haven't been getting reviews and I'm really sad. Wawawa. :P But really. I want more reviews! I hope ya'll are enjoying!

Signing off, Wisegirl08