Chapter Twenty Nine: Thalia
I decided to have my class camp out tonight, so we could study the stars in person. I decided to have it like sixty feet in front of our dorms, in case they needed something. I told them about a legend of Artemis, where her lieutenant died in fighting and she became a constellation. The constellation is named the Huntress. Of course, they didn't know it was real, and that Zoƫ Nightshade actually existed. Or that I was the new lieutenant.
I was looking up at the stars when a guy named Dwight sat next to me. Too close. His hand is right next to mine and just as he picks it up to hold mine, I scooch away. He moves toward me and I move away again. Everyone else is either sleeping or looking through a telescope. The dorms were sixty feet away. I was alone.
"What are you afraid of?" Dwight asks, trying to make his voice soft and romantic. It doesn't work. I shake my head in disgust.
"Nothing." I say, standing up.
"Then let me kiss you." he smiles.
"Umm no. No thanks." I pretend to consider his stupid offer,
He moves closer, but now I'm backed up against a tree. So he kisses me on the cheek, dangerously close to my mouth. Now I'm angry. I punch him in the mouth.
"How DARE you? I said I don't want to kiss you AND YOU STILL KISS ME?!" All my students are watching. All of a sudden I lose control and lightning strikes him on his ugly mess of hair, so hot, it burns off.
"Class, return to your dorms." my voice trembles dangerously. "Dwight you're in the time out room for a week." I run off into the my dorm and lock the door. Artemis appears.
"I am disappointed in you Thalia. I did not think you would kiss a boy."
I blink. "What, Milady?"
"Do not play innocent with me. You kissed a boy."
"I - I kissed a boy? I would never do that. He kissed me!" I say. "I tried to back away, but-"
"Apollo." she growled. "He told me you kissed him." Now Apollo appeared.
"Chill, Little Sis, I was joking."
"Apollo! You shouldn't joke about these things! And call me 'little' one more time, and I'll be saying stupid haikus at your funeral."
"Calm down, Sis! You'll never get a good husband with that attitude!"
Artemis yelled and attacked him. It was a whirl of silver, bronze and nasty insults in Greek. At the end, her knee was on his chest with an arrow at his throat.
"You guys remind me of me and Percy!" I say laughing.
They get up. "Good." Artemis and Apollo say together. And they disappear.
