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Hazel's POV

I'm beyond happy. Beyond happy. Elated. Exuberant.

Because I was with Frank again. It hadn't even been a day back and I'd fallen for him again. And he'd fallen for me.

Not Khione. Me.

And now, it was time to see the look on her face when he told her that.

The End Of The Day

Frank took a deep breath as we walked out of music with Mr Apollo, which, by the way, I think the Demigods aced. I think Mr Apollo was beyond happy when he saw us.

I took his hand. He smiled at me. The smile that few people had on their faces these days. A sincere one.

"Let's go tell Satin's apprentices what's what," Frank said reassuringly.

I looked over at the girls and they nodded. Thalia was actually smirking.

Then, those walking piles of Minotaur dung walked over to us. They had seen Jason's arm around Piper's shoulders.

"Babe," Drew started. "What are you doing with this bitch?" I could feel my blood starting to boil.

"Like, yeah, like, why are you, like, hanging out with these losers when you could be hanging out with this?" Khione asked and I scowled. But the boys were already on it.

"Actually, Khione," Frank said angrily, "Hazel is the most beautiful, talented, kindest person I've ever met." I blushed.

"And you guys couldn't get out of a paper bag without help," Jason pointed at Reyna, Drew, Rachel, and Khione.

"Neeks, are you just going to let them talk to us like that?" Reyna asked sweetly, but fake sweetness. Thinking that Reyna would act like that makes me cringe.

"Why, no I'm not, Reyna," Nico replied, just as fake-sweet. "I'm going to join in. You. Are. A. Terrible. Person."

"And we're not going to let you push them around anymore," Percy announced. "Or us for that matter," he added as an after-thought.

Rachel turned her attention to us. "Well, sweeties, don't forget. They are the ones that turned their backs on you. They are the ones that left you."

Thalia stepped forward and punched Rachel in the stomach. Sorry, Rachel. "Yeah, but at least they've apologised." I heard her whisper in Rachel's ear. Now, I don't usually like to hurt people. But today, I've decided to change that policy to not hurt good people.

When Thalia turned back to us, Annabeth high-fived her.

Reyna turned and spat at us. "You guys are going to regret this." I had a feeling that was directed to all of us.

"Well, now that that's out of the way..." Percy started cheerfully.

"We can catch up," Jason finished.

Our little group started to walk towards Central Park That's what it's called, right?. "Let's split up. Meet back here in 2 hours," Nico suggested.

"Alright."

"Fine by me."

"Sure."

"Ok."

"Why not?"

"Roger that."

"Good enough."

We all agreed. Or course, we split up with our boyfriend/girlfriend.

2 hours alone with Frank.

Frank brought me to a little ice cream place on the corner of a street.

We went in and sat down at a table after we'd gotten our cones.

I licked my chocolate as he licked his peanut butter.

I finally broke the silence.

"Thank you." I started with. Frank looked surprised. "For what?" His eyebrows were scrunched up and I couldn't help but think, 'He looks cute that way.'

"For apologising."

"Oh. I still feel like I owe you more than that," Frank confessed. I took his hand and made him look up at me.

"I love you, Frank. And I believe you love me too-" Frank nodded his head vigorously- "And that's all that matters."

"Haze, you're sweet. But sometimes... sometimes... it's like I want you to be mad at me. Like, sometimes I just wish you would be angry with me. Or that you would yell. I just feel like you deserve to be mad at me," Frank clarified.

"Frank, I'll admit. I was hurt." His face fell. "And," I continued, "I was mad. And while I don't fully understand why you did what you did, I still love you."

I kissed him, that put a stop to his rambling.

We spent the rest of those 2 hours talking and catching up. Frank looked down at his watch.

"Well, time to meet back up with the crew."

"The crew?" I raised an eyebrow.

Frank blushed and shrugged. "I don't know, just came out."

"No, it's cute. I wanted to tell you, we have a concert on Friday It's Monday."

"I'll be there. And so will the other guys," Frank said immediately.

"I wouldn't miss it for the world," Frank repeated. Then he leaned down and kissed me. I blushed.

When we saw the others, they looked different. Annabeth was leaning into Percy, Nico was smiling and Thalia kept blushing, and Piper kept looking at Jason's mouth, looking at Jason, and Jason would shrug sheepishly.

I raised an eyebrow. "So... what's happened here?"

"Oh, nothing."

"Nothing much."

"Really nothing."

Everyone scrambled to assure me that they were fine. "But what's going on with you and Frank, huh?" Thalia smirked.

I looked down and realised our hands were intertwined. "What?" Frank asked. "Is it a crime for me to hold my girlfriends' hand?"

He seemed to realise what he said and blushed and looked at me as if to confirm that we were dating. In confirmation, I stood on my tiptoes and planted a kiss on his cheek. It made him blush deeper and the rest of them smile/smirk.

"You guys wanna come to our house?" Piper broke the awkward silence abruptly.

"Uh..." Jason trailed off. He looked at Nico, Percy, and Frank. Each of them looked at their respective girlfriend. And each of us nodded.

"Let's go!" Percy said energetically.

Not the best of cliffhangers, I know.

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