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At the last second Will decided to go with us. Nico drove, Will sat shotgun, while me and Damian were stuck in the back.

I saw Damian glance over at me from the corner of my eye. "Are you okay, you look nervous," he said.

"I'm not nervous, just guilty. I knew I shouldn't have rushed in like that and I paused dearly, so did everyone else."

"Hey don't beat yourself up about it," Will said, "you did what you thought was right."

"You guys are great but I should've just stayed on the streets when you found me, none of this would've happened," I said.

"Huh?" Damian said, "Why were you living on the streets?"

"My family died when I was 14, I was living on the streets of New York when they found me. To be honest I was only at camp for what, a month?" I said, "Even though I was in that ice for five years, it felt like yesterday that we were fighting those giants. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that every single day for me has been a crazy demigod filled adventure or whatever you want to call it. I haven't been able to rest since you guys brought me to camp. I miss just being able to relax."

"Yeah I understand, I've only been at camp for about as long as you were gone, even I had time to rest some, well as much as a demigod can rest," Damian said.

"Well no demigod is like Trish," Will laughed.

"And I'm not even a demigod!" I laughed even harder.

"Wait, you're not?" Damian asked, confused.

"Wait, you didn't tell him?" I said, still trying to recuperate from laughing.

"Didn't tell me what?" Damian asked.

"I'm actually mortal," I explained, "I was cursed by my mother Hera, but don't worry I don't blame her."

"Wait, Hera's your mother too?"

"Well not technically, she adopted me as her own. How much did you two tell Damian about me?" I asked Will and Nico.

"Not much, no one really talked about you much after they thought you were dead," Will explained.

"Thanks," I said, rolling my eyes, "anyways are we almost there?"

"Maybe eight minutes," Nico said.

For the next eight or so minutes we sat in silence until we arrived.

"So wait, how are the Stoll's your brothers?" Damian asked as we got out of the car.

"They aren't my real brothers but I once said that they reminded me of my younger brother when he was alive so the Stoll's just started calling me sis."

"Oh."

"So where are they?" I asked Will excitingly.

"Well we're not actually allowed on campus but I know what building Connor lives in, they might be there." Will said.

He led us to a large brown building with several windows, I'm guessing they're the dorms.

"He's in that one," Will said pointing to a window at the corner of the building.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I visited him once, he thought he had a ladybug stuck in his ear and he doesn't trust any nurses here so he made me come all the way out here to check it out."

"Yeah sounds like something Connor would do," I laughed.

"How can you stand the Stoll's, I can't stand those two," Damian said.

"Hey those are my brothers your talking about," I snapped.

"Sorry, but they were always out of control. It was crazy."

"Heh, you should see Trish work here magic them, you'll be surprised," Nico said.

"What?" Damian asked.

"I have a way of controlling those two," I said with a smile.

"How? They listen to no one."

I just shrugged my shoulders. "So, are we going to go in or what?" I asked.

"Oh, you can't go in, they'll have to come out," Will said.

"And how do you suppose we are doing that?"

"Like this," Nico said as he picked up a stick, he threw it and I stopped it.

"No, we're not doing that, it might damage something. I have a better way." I picked up the stick and floated it up to the window Will had showed us and simply tapped the stick on the window.

I silently said a little prayer that they were in the room. Thankfully they were. I saw someone stick their head out the window. "Hello?" They yelled. It was Travis. He started looking around confused for a second until he saw me.

His face lit up and it looked like his eyes were going to pop out of their sockets. He disappeared for a moment before looking back out the window like he didn't believe it was real. I saw him disappear once more until the Stoll's were running out of the front doors of the dormitory.

I couldn't help but giggle as I watched them trip over themselves trying to get to me. They hesitated in front of me for a second before hugging me so hard I thought my ribs would explode.

It wasn't until I told them I couldn't breath when they finally let me go. I backed away to see tears in their eyes.

"Hey," I said soothingly, "don't be sad, I'm back now."

They smiled at that and gave me another hug, this one not as tight.

"What happened?" Travis asked with a sniffle.

"And how did you get out?" Connor asked.

"I-,"

Then I was bombarded with questions like, "who saved you?", "where's Coral?", "Why are you here?" And a bunch of others I couldn't understand.

"Whoa, settle down," I said with a laugh.

Damian spoke up. "I-I saved her," he mumbled, raising his hand a little.

The Stoll's looked at him with questionable faces then rushed over to him and squeezed the living day light out of him. I couldn't help but giggle a bit.

"I think you literally just broke my ribs," Damian gasped for air as the Stoll's let him go. I started laughing as I walked over and put my hand on Damian's chest.

As I began to heal him, (his ribs weren't broken but I could still take most of the pain away), I saw the Stoll's glance at each other and looked back at us. They got a grin on their face I've never seen before.

Then it hit me, they thought Damian and I liked each other! "Travis, Connor, noooo," I said, Damian confused on why I said that.

"Yeeessss," they chimed.

"Nooo."

"Yeeeessss."

"Seriously, no," I said as I took my hand off Damian.

"Seriously, yes."

"Guys?" I said, raising my eyebrows.

Ye Stoll's look at me with like 'what?'. "What's going on?" Damian asked.

The Stoll's smiled their mischievous smile and walked away saying. "Don't worry, we ship it," They then winked at us and I buried my head in my hands.

I peeked out of my hands and saw Damian blushing. Really, I thought.

"Wait, where are you going?" I yelled as I watched them walk off.

"We don't know!" They yelled. I rolled my eyes and lifted my hand. I floated them back to where we were standing.

"We just thought that it would make it more dramatic if we walked away," they smiled, I face palmed.

"So," Travis said turning to Damian, "how did you get her out?"

"Well, once I found her it was pretty easy being the child of Hephaestus and all, but it made it easier that it looked like someone had already started to crack the ice. I think maybe Jamie was actually trying to get Trish out of there when he was attacked…" his voice trailed off once he realized what he said, he looked at me with concern.

I looked away not wanting anyone to see the tears that had come to my eyes.

"Trish-," Connor started to say.

"No, just… stop," I mumbled.

"Why can't I just take you to see Jamie?" Nico said.

"What?" I asked.

"Well my father seems to like you and I'm sure he'll let you see Jamie," Nico explained.

"I-I don't know," I said.

"Oh come on sis, it'll be good for you," Travis explained.

"M-maybe, but I want to see Coral first," I tried not to choke on her name when I said it.

"You haven't gone to see Coral yet?" The brothers yelled.

"I, uh, I kinda felt guilty for, you know, leaving her for five years."

"You didn't leave her Trish," Will comforted.

I stayed silent. "Well if that's all sorted out," Travis said happily.

"Let's go get Coral!" Connor finished.

"You know it's weird how you two finish each other's sentences," Damian said. I gave him a light punch to the arm.

"Fine," I finally sighed, "let's go."

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed, I still haven't figured out how to see how many pages this is using my iPod but I think it's longer than usual.

-Lou Ellen and Sydney