IMPORTANT A/N! For those who usually skip the author's note, you shouldn't skip this one.

Hi, I'm Anastasia, friend of the original author (mi5hao, or Michelle). If you're wondering where she disappeared to, she went to Inner Mongolia for vacation so I'm writing around two chapters for her. My writing style is sort of different, with some curse words so sorry if you don't approve of it. Btw Michelle doesn't know what I'm going to write so she'll have to read it after she comes back too, hehe. Enjoy!

-ANASTASIA GREEN

"Hey," I greeted Will after the capture the flag. He nodded back.

"Thanks for this," I said, holding up my new bow. He just smiled. I smiled back and turned to congratulate some people, which was something you kinda had to do in modern society, you know, to show respect and blah blah blah that kind of stuff. People came over to congratulate me, but I waved them away. I mostly wanted to get rest after a game involving a lot of getting slashed etc. so I slowly sneaked away into the Aphrodite cabin. Most of the other kids were there already, dabbing at their mascara and stuff like that. I looked around. I couldn't see Piper, though I didn't really care because she was probably with Jason doing whatever, but I couldn't see Drew. Normally Drew was in the cabin 24/7, trying to make people follow her instead of Piper secretly. Lacey had explained to me that after the second Titanomachy, Drew had taken over and ruled the cabin like a dictator and nobody could challenge her because of her charmspeak, but then Piper came along and took over. Lacey made it sound like when Piper had taken over, it was as if she had finally escaped from endless torture, so Drew's ruling must've been pretty shitty for them.

I sat down on my bunk and took off my armor.

"Hey, where's Drew? I thought she got out of the infirmary a few hours ago," I asked Ellen, a little girl around nine that looked up to Drew like she was her everything, as casually as possible.

"Drew?" Ellen squealed, "Drew's doing her double rite of passages tonight! She's gone to meet Rylan and Mikhail already."

I stared at her. "What?"

"I-k-r!" Ellen said, pronouncing every letter clearly, "I can't wait to complete my own rite of passage!" I looked away from Ellen, anger boiling in my stomach and I felt a pull on my gut. A squeal sounded from the bathroom and a girl rushed out with a towel around herself. I could hear the water running.

"The toilet exploded!" She screamed. The tug on my gut loosened. Mitchell looked at me.

"I think I remember Sam receiving…" he trailed off.

"Uh…" I said. What was I supposed to say for making the toilet explode?

"Sorry?" I said. I didn't do it on purpose.

"I can't believe we let Poseidon scum in here," the girl grumbled. "Now what am I supposed to do?"

"Hey," I said, thinking for Percy, "Don't insult Poseidon. And I don't know what you'll have to do. I'm sorry, I didn't try to make the toilet explode." The girl muttered some more shit about stupid sea gods and turned away. I gritted my teeth. I obviously wasn't too welcome in here. I put my bow down, not needing it anymore and it shrunk back into a hairclip. The quiver disappeared as well and I picked up my hairclip and put it into my pocket. I didn't want to wear it, because then my extremely mismatched eyes would show.

I stood up, still thinking of Drew and her damn plan. I left the cabin and sat down on the cool grass. Then I made up my mind. I did warn Rylan, didn't I? And if he doesn't care, then why should I? But the problem was, I did care. I shook my head violently and ran my hand through my hair. Why would I care? I mean…gah! I can't be developing damn feelings for him…could I? I wanted to kill myself. I mean, Rylan still loves Drew. Even if she breaks up with him. I banged my head on the ground and immediately regretted it. It hurt like shit.

The pain subsided after a while so I got up again. It was well past curfew but I didn't really care. I seriously need to relax and sort myself out, I thought to myself. I took a few deep breaths and headed to the beach, where I could stare out at the beach and ponder that kind of stuff. I was about to settle down when I heard raised voices not far from where I sat. I stretched and peered over the sand dunes.

At first I thought it was the harpies. Then I realized that it was three people. To be specific, Drew with a boy that should probably be the other guy, Mikhail or whatever he's called. And Rylan. He was there too. But he didn't exactly seem heartbroken. More…pissed off. I leaned to hear what he was saying.

"…thought it was just a joke, Drew. But now here I am, and your damn plan is real. Sam was right. Fuck you, Drew. Go break Mikhail's heart or something. I'm gone. This damn game can finally end."

I sat back. That sounded harsh. I got up and headed back to the cabin, suddenly not in the mood for staring at the sea anymore.

I sat down on my bunk. All of the Aphrodite kids were in the cabin. We were waiting for damn Drew to get back so Piper could call lights out. I closed my eyes and yawned. I seriously needed a good night's sleep. One without any of those dreams. I heard the cabin door bang open and then slam shut. Wind whooshed into the room and a few other kids squealed 'cuz the wind was blowing their hairdos. I opened my eyes to see Drew storm in. Ellen squeaked a greeting to Drew. Drew ignored her, which she didn't usually do, and marched right over to me, her face so contorted with anger that it looked gruesome.

"You told him, didn't you," she growled in a very unladylike way. Piper seemed to just notice that something was wrong. She sat up and glanced at the two of us.

I looked Drew straight in the eye. "Yeah, I did. You got a problem, miss?" I said. Drew's nostrils grew so wide I bet Ellen wouldn't look up to her anymore. She looked so angry, her eyes basically shooting fire arrows out. Drew lashed out at me and slapped me on the face. "You-you bitch!" she screamed, "Don't you ever, EVER dare to ruin my life like that!"

That made me angry. "Hey, they didn't deserve to be used like that!" I retorted back, my voice rising too. I slapped Drew back, all my feelings, my feelings for Rylan and my anger, put into it.

Drew looked pretty shocked. She probably had never been slapped like that before. But I had. Being an adopted child of the La Rue family, yeah. Fifty times a day. Totally normal. Drew glared at me, her eyes wide.

"Guys, what's going on?" Piper asked cautiously, getting up from her bed. Everyone was staring at us in absolute silence.

"None of your business, hon," Drew growled forcefully, "Why don't you all go away?" For a moment, Piper hesitated. The other kids nodded and looked at each other in agreement. I realized that Drew was using charmspeak.

Drew turned to me. "This is what you get for ruining my life." And she jumped on me.

Hopefully my writing style was okay...

-Anastasia Green