Chapter 6: A Date

Phoebe's POV

That night, I fell asleep thinking about the kiss, and I had a dream about Connor. The next day, I hopped up out of bed and ran to the bathroom. I took care of my hygienic needs, then I got dressed with a set of clothes I had laid out the night before. I put on a pair of jeans, some converse shoes, and a Camp Half-Blood T-shirt. Then I pulled my hair back in a ponytail, made sure I looked okay, and left the bathroom. As soon as I walked out, there were dozens of girls staring at me in shock right outside the door.

"What?" I asked.

"Your clothes." Chloe stared at me.

"You know, we've been banging on the door for half an hour." Fiona growled.

"No actually, I didn't know. And I'm planning on going into the mortal world, so I figured it wouldn't be a good idea to dress like I was from my time period." I replied.

Then I pushed past them all and ran to the Hermes cabin. I knocked on the door. Chris answered.

"Oh, hi Phoebe. Connor she's here!" He yelled the last part.

Then he went inside and was replaced by Connor.

"Hi." He greeted.

"Hi." I blushed.

Behind him, I saw Travis arguing with Chris about something.

"He can't go into the mortal world. It's too dangerous!" I heard Travis argue.

"He can take care of himself, he's been trained his whole life just like everyone else, including you." Chris scolded.

"Lets go before he makes me stay." Connor smiled nervously.

"Okay." I agreed.

Then we headed up to Half-Blood Hill. We walked past the border, and I saw a car waiting. Travis looked nervous, but he walked up to the car and the driver rolled down their window. A pretty woman was in the drivers seat and she looked pleased to see Connor.

"Hey sweetie." She greeted.

What?

"Hi Mom." Connor sighed.

Did he just say mom? She kissed him on the cheek and smiled at me.

"You must be Phoebe." She grinned.

"Yes." I didn't expect to meet his mom on the first date.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just driving you two to the movies." She giggled.

Connor and I got in the back seat.

"How does she know my name?" I asked.

"I needed her to drive us, and she demanded an explanation." Connor explained.

"How much?" I was curious.

"She doesn't know you're a Hunter." He elaborated.

"So what are you two going to go see?" Connor's mom asked.

"Ghost Rider." Connor answered. (A/N: The Titan's Curse was released in 2007, so I picked a movie from that year.)

"Cool." She grinned.

She has the same mischievous grin as Hermes' kids. I guess it didn't just come from Hermes.

"Who's your Godly parent Phoebe?" She wondered aloud.

"Athena." I said nervously.

That's one reason why Artemis likes me. She and Athena are closer than the rest of their siblings (except maybe Apollo) and their both respectable maiden Goddesses. And that's also how I talk to animals, one of Athena's owls taught me how to understand and communicate with other animals.

"Interesting. What's the square root of 144?" She asked.

"Even without being a daughter of Athena, everyone knows it's 12." I arched my eyebrow.

"I know, I was just teasing you." She grinned.

Connor rolled his eyes and pretended to choke himself. I giggled.

"You're so funny." His mom was sarcastic.

"I learned from the best." He acted innocent.

Now she rolled her eyes, but she was still smiling. I think I heard her whisper "show-off." but I'm not sure. She dropped us off at the Sunshine Theater in New York City.

"Have fun." She waved goodbye.

"Bye Mom." Connor said.

"Bye." I waved.

Then we walked into the theater and bought the tickets. Instead of buying popcorn, we bought Sour Punch candy, and we also bought sodas. After everything was bought, we went to our theater and sat in the back row. We were watching the previews when a good looking teenager sat next to us. Wait, I know that good looking teenager.

"Apollo?!" I was now nervous.

"Hello Phoebe." Apollo greeted with humor.

"Apollo?" Connor seemed surprised.

My Lady's brother is in the same movie theater as us on our date. I'm so screwed.

"I'm incognito, call me Fred." Apollo grinned.

"Fred... What are you doing here?" Connor questioned.

"I own this theater. That's why it's called the Sunshine Theater, duh." He was sarcastic at the last part.

"Oh." I guess that makes sense.

"You know my sister has a no dating rule, right? So I don't think she'd appreciate you being out with a boy on a date. Although another girl might be an exception to the no dating rule..." Apollo trailed off.

"Do I need to remind you of how many Huntresses you've gotten to break their vows for you? Because the number is so large, it could be over a whole generation's worth of girls, and Artemis wasn't very happy about it. Not to mention, you've recently convinced Fiona to break her vows for you..." I reminded him.

"Okay, fine. Besides, even Artemis has fallen in love before, so why not you?" Apollo cut me off.

What does he mean by that?

"Orion?" Connor asked.

Was it Orion?

"No. It was the original Per..." Apollo was cut off by a woman who looked like my mother slapping him.

"Athena?" Connor looked a little nervous.

"What are you doing in my theater?" Apollo looked shocked.

"Stopping you from exposing Artemis' secrets while she's gone and ruinning my daughter's date." She looked really annoyed.

Apollo took a quick glance down at another row and grinned.

"Or maybe it's so I won't ruin YOUR date." Apollo teased.

I looked down a couple of rows and saw someone who looked like Percy Jackson. Wait, is that Poseidon? Mom grabbed him and threw him through a portal. It looked like the portal headed to Olympus.

"I forgot it was his theater." She looked nervous now.

I held my fingers to my lips and she smiled as she did the same. We won't tell anyone about each other's dates. I guess this explains why she doesn't approve of Annabeth and Percy, it would just be too weird for her. It's not that bad though. We watched the rest of the movie peacefully, except when we giggled about the parts having to do with Hell.

"They don't know what Hell is." Connor laughed as we waited for his mom.

After the movie, we went to a couple of other places including a McDonalds, and it was nightfall as we waited for his mother.

"I know, right?" I giggled.

I looked up and saw Orion's Belt, which showed me where Orion was. He looks like he's facing the moon. Lady Artemis would find that funny. Then I saw two constellations I've never seen before. I suddenly rembered two of the prophecy lines.

One shall be lost in the land without rain.

...

And one shall perish by a parent's hand.

Atlas is Zoë's father, and the other constellation could be Bianca, our new Huntress. I suddenly got really cold.

"Here, take my jacket." Connor offered.

I accepted, but that's not why I was cold. Connor's mom came and drove us back to Camp, and Connor kissed me goodnight before we went to our cabins. I hope tomorrow doesn't bring bad news.