Seond chapter. Hate summer. So f-ing hot. So many ideas so little time.

Two months later

II was meditating in my crib when a sudden light broke me from my trance. I turned my head, looking over, not expecting anyone to visit me late at night since Martha and my dad found out that I usually kept quiet when I take my 'nap' or when I'm sleeping at night. I mostly meditate or go out to the backyard and practice some of my skills that doesn't cause too much noise nor any flashing lights.

'Why did Martha turn on the light?' I thought, annoyed, gathering my mana, ready to use the mist to make her go away, but what I saw made me stop. I turned my head, finding Athena standing there instead, not my nanny. I stopped gathering mana once I saw her and stayed perfectly still, hoping she didn't sense me use any mana.

I blinked a few times in surprise because, after the photoshoot and the breastfeeding, she never visited, nor did Aphrodite. When I checked the relationship meter for them both, nothing changed for Athena nor Aphrodite. It displayed the same info as before.

[Currently Aphrodite 82, Athena 30]

Although I am happy to see her, I looked around to see if Aphrodite would be with her, but much to my disappointment, she's not. For some reason, that hurt my feelings a little, but I ignored it. At least Athena won't pinch my cheeks when she sees me, unlike everyone else. It hurts when people do that, but it does raise my physical resistance.

'Why is she here? Did she need something?' I thought, confused, watching her moving up to my crib and snapped her fingers, causing the baby monitor to do something before turning off. I used to observe on the baby monitor.

Baby Monitor (turned off)- Allows anyone to hear when an infant wakes up. (Currently not working)

As she walks towards me, I do what any normal baby would do in this situation. I suck on my thumb while looking up at the ceiling. She finally stops at my crib and looks down at me, finding me awake. She gave me a small smile.

I waved my left hand at her while my right thumb is in my mouth. She reaches down for me as I took my thumb out of my mouth.

She picks me up, cradling my head, and laid me on my back as her arms support my head. She carried me, walking toward the rocking chair.

I made baby noises, pulling on her hair, happy to see her as she sits down, looking at me seriously. I slowly stopped when I noticed the calculating look she has on her face. I slowly patted her face, giggling, trying to make her smile, but I failed.

We stared at each other for a few minutes before she soon gained a sad look in her eyes; she started rocking back and forth. She sighed while speaking, ''I kept going through the calculations in my head whether you're my best friend Pallas, who reincarnated. It's one trillion to one chance that you could be her. Even though I know that it's impossible and improbable for it to happen, it still gives me hope. Even if it's false hope, I don't care. I miss her so much.''

I stayed silent as she started talking about the good and bad times they had together. I soon learned how they met; her father Zeus gave her to Triton to look after her because he had a daughter similar in age to her. They didn't like each other at first, but they soon became friends when they noticed they had a few things in common.

She went on with how they had crazy adventures. How one time she'd egged Pallas on by telling her dolphins are faster than seahorses, which was true in her opinion. When Pallas disagreed, Athena persuaded her to race throughout Atlantis to prove her wrong.

They stole a dolphin and a seahorse, racing throughout the city, knocking things down, and almost running over some minor gods, mermaids, mermen, and nereids. She almost won the race, she just needed a few more feet, but the dolphin stopped suddenly, which caused Athena to fall off and land on her butt.

Pallas cheered in joy, thinking she would win, but she widened her eyes when the same thing happened to her, but instead of landing on her butt, she landed on her face.

When they looked up, they found Poseidon standing there, tapping his foot with a scowl on his face. They realized what happened. He used his power over the sea creatures and ruined the race by forcing the dolphin and the seahorse to stop.

In the end, they got in trouble. They were forced to clean the dolphin's and the seahorse's stables for two whole months. Since then, Athena has hated Poseidon. If only he kept his big beard out of it, then she would have held it over Pallas's head for a long time.

"You know, one time...'' She trailed off, thinking of not telling him the embarrassing memory, but she figured it would be fine since Ben's a baby. It's not like he would remember it anyway.

She continued after moving me to her other arm, ''Well, one time we overheard some teenage mermen having fun by pretending to be pirates looking for some booty in the city. They had a spyglass, an eyepatch, a pirate hat, and a treasure map.''

Athena shook her head at the memory with a small laugh, ''It got us curious, and after dealing with the poop, we wanted to do something fun. Pallas went up to them and asked what booty meant. They stammered and said it was just treasure. They gave us the map and ran away.'' Athena shrugged her shoulder. ''We got excited and planned our adventure to explore the ocean with handmade pirate costumes looking for booty. We even asked Lord Triton for a ship and a crew to help out.''

''Oahhaa, '' I spoke, wanting to laugh, but I stopped myself. She smiled down at me and pinched my cheek. I grabbed her finger and held it. Hopefully, she won't do it again.

''Aww, does the baby likes me? I like you too, but don't tell your mommy, m'kay? It'll be our little secret.'' Athena winked, booping my nose. I giggled, and then I heard the familiar ding in my head.

*Ding*

1 relationship with Athena

(Athena 27--28 Cute baby)

Athena continued, ''When he asked why we needed a ship and why we're dressed like that, I proudly told him we were looking for...'' Then she hesitated for a few seconds as she coughed before gathering her courage. She gained a slight flush on her cheeks as she spoke while swinging her arm up, ''Some, some booty matey."

Everything went quiet all of a sudden. Nothing made a sound as Athena looked away from me. Which was a good thing because I felt my mouth wavering, wanting to open in laughter. 'Must not giggle. Must... not... Want to... live.' I thought, desperately, panicking. Why the gamer mind is not working, I would never know. Sadly, my body betrayed me.

"Gav aha." I started laughing, and then I stopped by putting my thumb in my mouth and closed my eyes, waiting to be killed or preparing for something worse.

'Well, I lived a good few months. I sucked on a goddess's nipples and saw two really hot women taking a bath. It was fun, farewell world.' I thought, waiting for the pain.

When nothing happened for 10 seconds, I slowly opened my eyes and noticed Athena's staring at me. I waved at her, hoping she would remember that I'm a helpless baby that won't remember anything.

We stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity until she suddenly started laughing, "Hahaha. Yeah, I guess it is funny. Though in my defense, I didn't know most pirates don't talk like that. Just the crazy ones.''

She wiped a tear from her eye and shook her head at the memory, ''The look on Triton's face as he did a spit take was the best. He then rolled on the floor, laughing out loud, pounding the floor as tears going down his face. We stood there giving him confused looks, and each time he looks at us, he would laugh again. It took a few minutes before he calmed down enough to tell us what the other meaning of booty meant. We couldn't look at him for some time.''

She then went on how they traveled throughout the ocean, but most of the time, they trained. It was hard and painful at first with the swaying and rocking of the ship, but they learned. It was not as fun as they thought it would be. They didn't find any treasure, nor did they find any pirates. It was boring.

When she got to their dreams for the future, she lost some of her happiness. She spoke about how they wanted to fight in epic battles where everyone in history would remember their names. She went quiet after that, lost in thought, her sorrow radiating around her.

I could feel her emotions, such as anger, sorrow, and regret. It's making me want to cry. So I did the only thing I could do to pull her out. I reached up to Athena's hair and pulled it down to make her focus back on me. I think I know a way to distract her, but will it work? Well, it did with the nanny, so maybe.

''Mmme nnm,'' I moaned.

''Hmm? What is it?'' Athena asked, moving me up to her face.

I scrunched up my face, about to cry, ''Waah, uhh, waah.''

She started to panic, ''Hades. Shh, shh... uhh, do you need to be changed?'' She moved me around to smell my butt. I wanted to laugh, but I get the feeling it'll be dangerous for me if I do.

''No, um, are you tired? No, that can't be it.'' She said, rubbing my back, trying to calm me down.

I felt my Gamer's Mind activating, but I pretended to cry still, wondering what she'll do.

''Oh! You must be hungry. Ok, uh, let's go to the kitchen for some milk.'' We soon left my room, with me whimpering instead of crying. I wonder why isn't the nanny or my dad going outside from my whimpering and Athena's trying to soothe me? Maybe she used the mist to hide us?

After a minute of walking, we soon reached the kitchen, where Athena held me in one arm as she turned on the lights. She opened the fridge to look for the milk, but she couldn't find any.

''Where could it be?'' She asked herself. She then moved to the cabinets to look for the instant baby formula, but there was nothing, just regular adult food, and junk food.

She wouldn't find any of it. I took the last of the milk that Aphrodite left for me a month ago, which she stopped refilling, sadly. I was lucky to have put it in the inventory whenever the milk appears in the fridge; if not then, I wouldn't have any left.

The instant baby formula tasted like cardboard, but it does refill my mp by 5 per second for each gulp I take. I used the mist to make Martha or my dad make it all and give it to me. I still shudder at the aftertaste when I first tried it.

''Balab,'' I spoke, bring Athena's attention back down to me as I looked up at her, and I used my ultimate skill, Baby dog eyes.

Skill activated

Baby Dog Eyes

Won't work on the same person again.

Only one time per target.

Lowered targets inhibition instead.

I slumped down in defeat, but I shouldn't be too surprised. It'll be too easy to raise the reputation points to a high enough number in a few months, and bam, they'll do anything I want. Though, I do wonder what does lower targets inhibition mean? I'll find out later.

Athena sighed in defeat, ''Sorry Benjamin, I couldn't find it. Maybe I could make some milk...'' She trailed off, mid-sentence. She soon remembered something, as her gray eyes brightened before she became nervous and looked around herself.

After not seeing anyone appear, her whole body relaxed. Athena closed the pantry softly, which she then turned off the lights and left the kitchen. They soon went back to Benjamin's room, where she locked the door. She started walking back and forth in a straight line.

She decided to do something that made her curious, which is an excellent opportunity to try it out. Although she had read many books about breastfeeding, it would be her first time, so she's a little nervous. No one could fault her for remembering the last time he sucked on her finger.

The feeling it gave her still makes her shiver everytime she thinks about it, though she doesn't know if it's out of fear or something else. She tried to spend a few minutes to get it out of her mind, but it didn't help. What made her go through with it is when she heard Benjamin whimper and opened his mouth, ''Uwuwa.''

She finally sat down on the rocking chair, making sure she has one arm holding Benjamin firmly with the other hand clasped around the top of her toga. Athena hesitantly unfastened the string holding a part of her top. She let go, feeling the top part of her toga loosen up and stopped there, ready to pull it down. She is gathering her courage with her eyes closed; about to take the final plunge, if she does this then, there is no going back.

''You can do this. Just do it once, and you can get back to normal. You can finally stop thinking about it,'' She said. Before she could lose her nerves, Athena quickly pulled down one part of her toga, showing off one of her naked breast, the other still hidden inside her toga, though barely. If she looked down, she would have seen something a baby wouldn't be able to do.