During dinner Nico asked about my cello and I explained that I like to play classical music but with a creepy twist in the notes. After dinner we went over to the sing along. It wasn't really... my cup of tea I guess. I met some of Nico's friends. They were all nice but something told me to be careful of the Stolls, I chalked it up to be that they're sons of Hermes. Well if they decide to prank me then a prank war shall start. After awhile I noticed that Nico keeps glancing over to this one guy. I think he's a son a Apollo because he was singing along with every song. That and he looks like his man-whore of a father.
Time for bed finally. It's been a long day. Who was that though. The voice. It's so confusing. I put my headphones on and turn on Centuries by Fall Out Boy and fall asleep.
A nightmare of the voice plagued me all night. Flash of a face. A face that i could trust. A face with eyes that you could see the universe in. But... Who was it?
I wake up to Nico shaking me. I take off my headphones and look towards the window with my roses to see the sun is up. "What time is it?" I sit up and look at my pajamas which are a pair of blue and red flannel pants and a T-shirt that says how I see the string section and how other people see it. "8am." I flop back on my bed not wanting to get up but as the mortals say for some stupid reason yolo right? "Why don't you get dressed and we'll go up to the pavilion to get breakfast." I nod my head and Nico leaves the cabin and I get changed into a dark gray long sleeve shirt with two cloud bubbles on it saying okay in each, a pair of dark blue skinny jeans, black combat boots, and just because I can, my pokeball knit hat. Before I exit the cabin I grab a book off my shelf that has a homemade paper bag book cover on it.
Why does it have the book cover? Well if anyone saw what it is, well it would ruin my rep as the goddess of horror due to it being a romance novel. How did I get into it? Well a certain daughter of Aphrodite and Hephaestus made me read it and this would be about the twentieth time I've read it now.
The whole burn food for the gods doesn't make sense for me to do because I am a goddess so... yeah oh well. Reading my book and eating breakfast at the same time is actually not as hard as I thought it would be. I laugh at one of my favorite parts and some girl pops up in front of me. "Yes?" I ask glancing up at her. "Your a fan of The Fault in Our Stars," she states. "A fan of what?" "Oh come on you know what it is or you wouldn't have that shirt," the stupid girl says pointing at my shirt. By now everyone is staring and I'm glaring at the girl. "Who are you?" I ask accusingly. "I'm Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite." So that's why she's being so annoying. Whatever. "Im sorry but why in hades would i read a romance novel?" I ask. "I don't know. You tell me," she says while taking the book out of my hand. "Hey!" "Liar," is all Piper says as she gives me back my book. As she walks away. I shake my head and go back to finishing my breakfast and reading my book. "So you read romance novels?" Nico asks quietly. I sigh before answering. "Yeah but not at first. A certain goddess friend of mind got my into some. Like the one I'm reading and some others. Oh and don't you dare make fun of me for it 'cause i know something about you that i don't think anyone here in camp knows," i threaten at the end of my explanation. "And what would that be?" He asks. "That your gay and that you have a crush on some son of Apollo. Oh and don't worry about it i still like you," i whisper with a smirk and then a soft smile at the end. He just looks at me in complete and utter shock. I sigh and just smile.
"Well whats todays game plan?" I ask while twirling my ring that turns into a stygian iron katana with a bright teal blue handle. "Uh... Well... Uh... I guess I'm going to see how well you sword fight?" Nico says well more like asks. "Sure I'm up for that," I say with a smirk. Nico nods his head and starts to finish his breakfast.
Once breakfast was over I followed Nico to the fighting arena. Once there i looked around for a bit and saw typical stuff you would see in a practice arena. Of course. "So I want you to attack me with your... Wait do you have a sword?" Nico starts but starts to ask a question instead. I don't answer but I take off my ring and swing diagonally from left to right with it in my right hand. After swinging the ring turns into a katana style sword. "Oh... Um.. Well that answers that question... Uh..." "I'm just going to attack you with what i got," i say before starting towards him with my katana in one hand. Nico pulls out his sword right as i swing down at him and manages to block. This goes on with swing at each other and blocking each other for awhile before i decide to finish this because I'm bored. I feign to the right but switch to the left last second and end with my sword a centimeter from his neck. "Yield?" I ask. Nico nods and i pull my sword away from his neck and transform to back to my ring. "Your really good at that," Nico says awkwardly. "You get bored in the underworld after awhile and need to learn something, I guess," is all i say on the matter. After than Nico's friend Percy came in and started to give us pointers and stuff. As Percy and Nico were practice fighting i look at what they're doing and started yelling at Nico ways to make him better. Soon enough he starts to listen to what I'm yelling at him and is doing better. Three minutes later Percy beat Nico. My turn.
Percy and i start off just circling each other for a couple minutes until percy decides to attack first. With my katana it was easy to block. But i have to hand it to him, he is pretty strong. I attack this time and we end up locked sword to sword. I tilt the blade of my katana just right to slide the blade and knock Percy off balance and into in dirt. With my katana stabbed into the ground an inch from his head, i say, "yield." "How..." Percy trails off in shock. "Practice. How else?" Is my only replay. I help him up to bring him out of his shock. Nico looks just as shocked. "Again, Percy?" I ask. Percy nods. We start off again and this time i can't find an opening to finish this. Five minutes after we began Percy disarmed me pretty easily. "I guess it was just luck that you beat percy, Alex," Nico says with Percy nodding. I roll my eyes and transform my katana back to its ring form. "Im going back to the cabin to take a nap. Later guys," I call walking away. "Kay," Percy calls waving. I roll my eyes again. As i walk to the Hades cabin i see the Stolls pranking the Demeter cabin, i think. I decide to listen to music on the steps of the cabin with my IPod. Searching through my music I decide to make a new playlist. The playlist includes song from Imagine Dragons, Pierce The Veil, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, Nirvana, Simple Plan, Green Day, and more. I put the playlist on shuffle and "The Only Exception" by Paramore comes on first. I turn the volume all the way up and watch the campers walk by chatting to each other, holding hands, some flirting, and so on and so fourth. By the seventh song I decide to go inside the cabin and actually take the nap I said I would.
I wake up with a cold sweat from the dream I... Don't remember. That's... Weird. Whatever it almost time for dinner anyway. I get up brush my pitch black hair and put it in a 'Katniss braid.' You know the side braid Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games has through out like the whole trilogy. I then grab a book from my book shelf. This one is The Book Thief. I find this one ironic because it's in 'death's' point of view basically spying on this little girl who is the book thief. Im not going to say any more about it or it would be spoilers sweetie. Just as Nico comes in the cabin I'm ready to leave. "Oh good your up. Uh did you have a nice nap..." Nico says awkwardly. I nod and follow Nico out of the cabin. I guess Nico just doesn't talk much with people. Oh well.
A/n: yeah 2nd chapter! And this one is the longest one i wrote so far. If any of you get any of the references please tell me in the comments. Bye!