Hi! Thanks for all the reviews I received, I love them! But keep those suggestions coming, I only got two. Now everyone's saying "Thalia needs to get pregnant," but I don't think that would work with my ideas. But since everyone wants that I might write a story just on Thalia getting pregnant when she's 17 or 18. But not till later when this story is almost or already done. Tell me what you think, should I?
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Thalias pov
Today was, officially, the last day of summer here at camp. Everyone was leaving early this morning to catch a flight, a cab, or a pegasi to wherever home was for them. Everyone except a few younger campers, me, Nico, Clarisse, and Chris. The four of us were being made stay here for our senior year of high school.
"This represents our great summer. I think everyone will remember having campfires while Hestia kindled the huge bonfire. And not to mention the baby born the first day of camp here. He's grown so much these last few months its incredible. You all have improved so much in each activity, I know you will go home and be as safe as anyone can be. Enjoy school and I hope I will see you guys at Christmas!" Chiron made a quick announcement and he handed out charms for this summers necklaces. These had fire being kindled by Lady Hestia and a small baby on the back as well. Each cabin had a different color bead, like Zeus' was the color of my eyes, Hades was black, and Aphrodite's were, of course, bright pink.
We all tuned him out once again and said goodbyes among ourselves. "Bye guys, have a great year at Georgetown!" I told Annabeth and Percy.
"Oh another year at that school." Percy complained, "You guys enjoy senior year while it last because next year will be hard, trust me."
"Thanks and have fun being a senior! Chiron really gets a heavy heart this year because he knows this is the last." Annabeth said, ignoring Percy's comment all together.
"I know it's gonna be hard to go to college," Nico added. We gave them hugs and they disappeared in the crowd to say goodbye.
Sammy and Athan came walking up, smiling and waving.
"Hi Athan!" I cooed to the little boy in her arms. He had gotten so big and really was the cutest baby. He giggled and reached up for me, doing this every time we met. I picked him up and Sammy smiled, helping me take him.
"Bye Athan," Nico chuckled as he watched Athan play with my hair.
"Bye guys. Me and Athan are headed back home to Chicago. Mom hasn't even seen him yet and she will absolutely fall in love," she mentioned.
"I know she will," I said, watching Athan grab for Nico. I handed him over and Nico started playing with him, "Are you going to your old high school?"
"Yep, I miss my mortal friends even though when I get there I'm just gonna start missing camp again. Will is staying here to work in the infirmary and take classes," she sighed.
"It's okay. I'm sure you'll have lots of help and you guys will talk all the time," Nico assured her.
"Thanks guys," she laughed. Nico gave back Athan and after one last goodbye, they were gone too.
We talked to a few more friends of ours, including the Stoll's who were both upset. Connors Aphrodite girlfriend apparently broke up with him and Travis was leaving Katie behind. Oh how happy I am to be staying with Nico.
Since school wasn't starting till tomorrow morning, today being a Sunday, me and Nico were left to be by ourselves. We went to the arena to sword fight, but it just wasn't the same without kids screaming and laughing everywhere you turned. We did a few matches, but we called it quits when our hearts really weren't into it.
"So what's on the agenda now?" Nico asked me.
"Well we could go to my cabin and hang out," I suggested. Since neither of us had anything better to do, we decided to relax one last day before school.
When we were inside the cabin, I sighed and fell on the couch. Nico followed in pursuit, plopping down on my left.
"I think we have post camp syndrome," I complained.
"Yeah. I miss everyone now that they're gone. I've been doing this for years now and it just doesn't get any better. Except these past couple years I haven't been totally alone," he replied.
"Maybe we could invite Clarisse and Chris to watch some pointless movie with us tonight."
"Sounds good with me. I can go walk over to there cabins and ask them I guess," he said and before I could reply, he was gone. I rolled my eyes and picked up the top packet in a large pile my dad gave me; a grey one with black writing on the front.
Georgetown University, Home of the Bulldogs
Utraque Unum (both into one)
Established in 1789
My dad is all about me going to college, he even said he would pay tuition no matter the price. I smiled when I thought of Annabeth seeing this. She told me that me and Nico should come down there with her and Percy so we could be like a family. But even though I love them, I wasn't sure about going there. I didn't want to follow Annabeth and Percy, I wanted to make my own paths but I didn't know how to tell her that.
Flipping through it, it really didn't look to bad. Their were people smiling and studying on steps, pictures of kids and teachers in the classroom, and lots of student life stuff. I closed it and picked up the next one. This one actually looked really cool.
NYU, Your Home of the Bobcats
Established in 1831
It was ultra modern, black with neon purple thrown all over it. I opened it up and saw it was in the heart of Manhattan, not to far from camp and near Olympus if needed. It was older and kinda reminded me of Annabeth and her architecture stuff. I put that one in a stack all by itself and glanced at the others I was given.
About ten minutes later, Nico came back saying that they would come tonight. He saw what I was looking at and came to sit by me.
"So, glancing at colleges are we?" he questioned.
"Yep. I think I narrowed it down to either NYU, Georgetown, or just a community college."
"Community college? Our dads promised they would pay in full for our education and you want to go to community college? Listen, I'm applying to where you do so maybe we can get accepted to at least one of the same. Chiron says it's a good idea to apply for at least three, so I'm thinking four or five for us. What do you say?"
I responded, "Yeah, I guess that would be smart. So are we deciding tonight?"
"Well," he began, "we can send them out soon, beat all of the teenage procrastinators."
"Yeah, so where do you wanna go?"
We talked though the 30 or so packets and decided on four really good colleges; NYU, Georgetown, Long Island University, and Cornell. I'm glad money wasn't an issue, because these colleges could give us a huge jumpstart to our lives.
"So your okay with these?" I asked, wanting him to feel included in this big decision.
"Yep. As long as you are. I haven't really been thinking to much about college, I just know what I want to major in."
"And that would be?"
"Social work."
"Social work?" I wondered in disbelief.
"Yep. Seems daring and a son of Hades needs something to keep them entertained," he replied, "what do you wanna major in?"
"Well, I was thinking meteorology," I answered.
"Figures," he joked with his famous smirk. I took the four packets and sat them on the coffee table, making sure they were noticeable. Hopefully I would see them and remember to contact my dad about our decisions.
"C'mon, lets order pizza illegally," I commanded. I called Pizza Hut and ordered two large, pepperoni pizzas for tonight. They told me it would be ready in twenty minutes, so Nico turned on the TV and watched the news while I tried to find a movie to watch.
"Okay," I began, sitting beside Nico "We can either watch 'I am Legend', 'National Treasures', 'Spider-man 3', or 'Vampires Suck'.
"So action, Disney action, or comedy? I want to want 'Shrek'," he responded in the most serious voice.
"Really, Nico? Why don't we just ask them?" I groaned. He reluctantly agreed so I decided this would be a good time to call my dad. I dialed his number, which weirdly started with 555, and it went something like this:
Me: Dad?
Zeus: Oh Thalia. Sorry I was- never mind. Did you need something? Did that Nico kid leave you and you want his death sentence?
Me: Uhhh not quite dad. I just wanted to tell you what colleges w- I chose.
Zeus: Right, right alright and you choose?
I told him my choices and explained the reasons and such. He seemed pleasantly surprised, I guess he thinks I'm a slacker or something. He then told me he had to get back to his duties, so I let him go do whatever he does.
That night we ordered pizza (which isn't the easiest thing to do), popped up some popcorn, and watched 'Shrek' with our frenemies. I have to admit, Chris is pretty cool and so is Clarisse when she's with him. I guess he calms her anger management problems. But either way we did have as much fun as you can on the last day of camp.