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Skylar POV

I ran out of Will's cabin, tears streaming down my face. I didn't know where I was going, I just had to get away from there.

I saw Leo walking towards the Bellona cabin with a determined look on his face, mixed with something that resembled… guilt?

I ran into my cabin and crashed down onto the couch in the front room. I didn't want to do anything.

I dug my iPod out from my pocket and put on my headphones. As I pressed shuffle, the first song that came on was Stereo Hearts.

That was our song.

I tore my headphones out and threw my iPod at the wall across from me, nearly missing Travis, who came stumbling in. It didn't break though; it was a gift from Hermes so it couldn't.

Travis looked at me and suddenly got an outraged look on his face. "What happened?" He asked, coming and sitting next to me.

"W-will…" I broke down again, crying harder than before. Saying his name out loud only made it worse.

He stood up suddenly and clenched his fists together. "That's it. I'm gonna go and-"

"No!" I squeaked. "Don't do that." I looked up at him. "Wait, why is your cheek all red?" I hadn't noticed that before.

He bit his lip. "Gardner…"

I stared blankly at him. "Hold up. Katie did this? She wouldn't hurt a fly!"

"Well, I may have said… some things." He said nervously, as if worried about my reaction to all this.

"Like what?" I said, eyeing him. Katie was one of my best friends. If he hurt her, he knew I would never let him live it down.

"Um, not that much… just-that-the-camp-would-be-better-without-her…" He said quickly, flinching at the end.

I felt the anger build up inside of me. But I forced myself to calm down. "Well, fix it."

He stared at me in shock. "Wha…?"

I rolled my eyes. "What? Did you expect me to slap you too?" He slightly nodded. "I'm going to pretend I didn't see that. Now go and fix it."

I spun around and walked out of the cabin, fully aware that I still had tear marks on my cheeks and puffy red eyes.

I started walking around aimlessly until I realized I was at the beach. And so was Will.

This was the place where we'd had our first kiss, where we'd finally gotten together, where he'd told me he loved me…

He was staring out at the waves crashing onto the shore. He sighed and turned around to see me standing there.

He winced upon seeing the hurt look on my face as well as the tears.

"Skylar…" He said, his voice thick with guilt.

I felt hot tears sting my eyes. I couldn't do this. I just couldn't.

I started running the opposite direction.

I stumbled into the woods as I heard him yelling my name. He was running after me, that much I knew.

I kept going deeper and deeper, past the creek, until everything became unfamiliar. Finally I broke down against a tree.

After a few minutes, I stood up and looked around. I had never been in this part of the woods. It was getting darker every second. I heard some rustling noises and the hoot of an owl.

I began walking in the general direction from which I'd come.

I felt a sudden chill behind me. I spun around, grabbing onto the hilt of Aoratos.

The shadows were moving around taunting me. The wind was blowing through the trees, creating a wailing sound that chilled me down to the bone.

The shadows started collecting up and then they shot towards me. I barely had time to let a scream pass through my lips before they washed over me and I fell unconscious.

Seph POV

To say that I was agitated would have been an understatement. I was comforting McKenna and considering what to do next, and the solution that I had was to take some of my frustration on Zach, then possibly James. I couldn't, though, because I had a crying younger sister to take care of.

"McKenna," I said quietly, and she stopped her sobs for a moment, "I am going to go and grab Piper, she would probably be the best person to talk to."

She looked up at me with tear filled eyes, and I was ready to murder the person that did this. She nodded, and I got up from the floor and walked out of the cabin, and what I saw made me want to run back inside. It was James, and he was looking at me. I felt the tears welling up in my eyes again, but I refused to let them fall.

That brought back a painful memory.

We were about to fight an army of powerful demigods, they'd gotten their power from Gaea, and there was a very good chance that we were going to die. James and I'd just made peace, and I was telling him to be careful. The very thought of losing him made me want to cry.

A tear traced down my cheek, and he wiped it off, and made me look him in the eyes.

"Hey," he whispered, "you ever heard that saying 'no boy is worth your tears'?"

I nodded, confused about where the conversation was going.

"Well then don't cry over me," he said quietly. Then he leaned down touching his lips lightly to mine.

I snapped out of my flashback, and I walked off, refusing to acknowledge him. My breaths were coming out in ragged gasps, as I tried to stifle the tears, but eventually I managed to bring down the hysteria. I continued my search for Piper.

Finally, I saw the daughter of Aphrodite walking, more like stalking from the general direction of the climbing wall. I walked over to her and she stopped, staring at me questioningly, her eyes were a deep shade of grey, and she seemed to glow animosity, not toward me, but I could still feel it. "Is there something wrong?" I questioned.

"Yeah," she sighed, "Jason is being a complete jackass, and now he is my…." She trailed off, and her eyes were starting to become shiny, oh gods. One tear fell, then two, then ten, until she was sobbing uncontrollably.

Automatically, I walked up, and hugged her tightly, hoping to every god out there, that her and Jason were still together, we'd had enough heartbreak that day.

"He accused me of cheating, Seph, I-I was so lucky to have him, and he thought that I would cheat on him," she managed between sobs.

The term cheating made my heart pang, but I ignored it. "Don't worry, Piper, Jason is too smart to think that you would cheat on him."

She was shaking uncontrollably, whether from sadness or anger, I had no idea, all I knew was that she was seriously shaken up over it.

"Looks like all sons of the big three are being jackasses today."

She looked at me with wide eyes, "What do you mean by that?"

So I told her what happened to McKenna, but I kept the part about James to myself, I didn't really want to think about that at the moment, it hurt too much.

"I'll go and talk to her." Piper looked at me again, this time questioningly, "What are you going to do?"

I didn't feel like lying, so I said, "I have a certain son of Hades to find."

I thought that Piper was going to stop me, but she just nodded, and walked off, leaving me to my own devices.

I took a deep breath and started a new search. There was just one problem with my brilliant plan, everywhere I looked; I was hit with a memory of James. Some good, some bad, but all made me want to crawl somewhere and cry my heart out.

The last spot that I checked was in the forest, and that was the place that hurt the most. When I was halfway thought, I saw a large knobby tree and that brought back a memory that brought me to my knees.

The battle that we fought against the demigods was in the forest. We'd won just seconds before. I was at the newly recreated Zeus' fist when I spotted James He was cut up and bloody, but he didn't seem to be seriously injured. He was alive.

Without thinking about it, I ran over and jumped in his arms, completely ignoring the wolf whistles and whooping that I heard behind me. He touched my forehead with his, and started singing my favorite song softly to me, rocking us both backward and forward.

I stumbled over to the tree, and touched it; hot tears fell out of my eyes. I turned my back to it and slid down, putting my head in my hands crying my broken heart out.

I don't know how long I stayed like that, but Zach was wiped out of my mind, so was everything other than James, everything about him was running through my mind, from his way of speaking, to his smile.

When I thought I would explode from misery, I started to feel sleepy, which was strange, considering that it was still pretty early. But I just ignored it, and concentrated on the ache that I felt, trying to get rid of it.

The sleepiness was becoming too much, but it was also inviting, as if it would wash away all my worries, that I could do with, so I sighed and let the darkness wash over me, pulling me under in to blissful unawareness.

McKenna POV

I shouldn't have been crying right now…

I turned over in my bed, making a cocoon with the sheets.

Life sucks…

The door creaked open, causing me to tense up.

"McKenna?" I heard someone call out.

"Go away!" I softly yelled.

The door closed and footsteps came over to Seph's bunk (which I was currently using).

Arms wrapped around me and pulled me into a comforting hug.

I looked up to find Piper, her eyes looking at me, a clear gray color.

Unwrapping my arms from the sheets, I returned the hug, my heart still in my throat, choking me.

"Is it always this painful?" I asked her.

"I'm afraid so, but everything will get better"

She hugged me tighter, rocking me slightly.

A yawn escaped my lips, causing Piper to stop rocking me.

"Sleep, soundly," I heard her say, as she softly got up, heading towards the door.

I laid down, my eyelids slowly closing, the blackness engulfing me in peacefulness.

Piper POV

I left McKenna in her cabin, it was clear that she was tired, and I figured that maybe she would feel better after a nap.

I closed my eyes, and fought off the ache in my chest. Jason meant so much to me, then he went and questioned the way that I felt about him, apparently he didn't feel the same way.

I couldn't help it; a tear broke out of the dam and trailed its way down my cheek. I needed to be alone, and my cabin was not an option. There was a secret spot that only Jason and I knew about, but I doubt that he would look; he was probably too busy fuming about me 'cheating'. I quickly made my way to the outskirts of camp, refusing to look at anyone, I was pretty sure that I passed Jason, but I kept walking, I wanted to be alone.

When I made it to the miniature clearing at the very end of the camp, I sat back and closed my eyes, letting a memory take me.

I was out on a walk with Jason. It was past curfew, but Jason said that he wanted to talk, and who was I to argue? We decided to walk away from the cabin's area and close to the forest in case the harpies decided to snoop around. We were talking about trivial things, but I knew there was something more important that he would want, so I decided to question him.

"Jason," I said, "I believe that you didn't bring me out after curfew just for idle chit chat."

He looked at me for a moment, and then said, "You're right, I just don't have the nerve to say what I want to yet."

"Well," I laughed, "Spit it out, Jason, before the harpies find us!"

"I-I-I," he stuttered, he was red in the face and he wouldn't look at me. "I, um, like you, Piper… a lot."

I was in such shock, that I just froze, did he just say what I thought he said. I didn't say anything I didn't trust my voice. I was trying to form words coherently when I heard a gleeful cackle. Jason grabbed me by the arm and he flung the both of us sideways into the forest, with his son of Jupiter powers, he was able to make us go farther. When we stopped rolling, we were at the same clearing that I was currently in.

One thing was slightly awkward; I was on top of him, looking straight into his blue eyes. Without even thinking about it, I leaned down and pressed my lips to his. When I pulled away, he was staring at me in shock, and I just smiled. "Guess that means that I like you too."

Sleepiness shook me out of the memory, and maybe a small nap would do me good anyways. I closed my eyes, and drifted off, hoping to wake up to something more pleasant.

Reyna POV

After I finally stopped crying, I decided to go to the arena.

I found a few training dummies in the back that still were new. I started slashing at them, letting out all my pent up emotions towards that idiot, Valdez.

He was so frustrating (slash), insensitive (kick), annoying (stab), stupid, arrogant, strong, cute- wait. No. No, no, no.

Valdez was not cute. He was a jerk.

Ahhh! I sliced the dummy's head off. The training dummy, not Leo.

I looked around. Wow. Everything was in shreds. I must have been really upset…

A crowd had formed around me, watching me tear apart everything in sight.

"What're you looking at?" I snarled, and they all backed away and started doing their own thing. Except for one person that is.

Leo.

Ahhh! There was nothing else to fight so I chucked my sword at a wall. It lodged itself nicely there, and everybody now left the arena all together.

He smiled sadly at me. "Hey Rey."

I turned to him, my eyes blazing with fury. "Do not call me that, Valdez." I warned, threateningly.

His eyes turned steel cold. "Or what Rey? What are you going to do? I came here to apologize for before, but you know, maybe I won't."

I looked at him. "Then don't" I said softly. "My dad didn't either. He just left us."

He stared at me. I could see the shock that was evident on his face.

I slumped down against the wall. "Just leave. Please. Just go."

I would rather have him ignore me forever than hate me and pity me.

He turned around reluctantly and began to walk away.

And that's when I blacked out.

Annabeth POV

I couldn't stand being at my cabin; I couldn't stand him knocking on the door.

So after sneaking out of the back window, I ran over to the lake, one of the only places I could think at.

I sat down sighing, looking at my reflection.
Was I ugly? I took my hair out of its pony-tail and letting it shower down around my face.

No, it couldn't be that, I was fairly pretty…

Am I annoying? Sigh…

I placed my head on my hands, letting loose a few tears.

I found it soothing to swish my feet in the water, making circles… the peacefulness… birds softly chirping…

"Annabeth!" an all too familiar voice yelled.

I tensed and shot my head in his direction.

Standing less than thirty feet away was Percy, a relieved expression on his face.

My eyes widened and as I was about to run, something grabbed my ankles and started to pull me into the water.

I screamed, as Percy tried to grab my hand, but failed. I was pulled under water, falling unconscious slowly…

Thalia POV

This was the best day of my life… not.

I cannot believe he forgot my birthday! Does he even care?

I sighed. Why did this have to happen to me? Maybe I should have stayed in the hunt...

But then I wouldn't have been able to see my friends. I sighed again, turning over in my bunk.

I wish I could just escape all of this madness, I would have nothing to stress about… that sounded nice.

Getting a sleepy feeling, I pulled the covers over my head, snuggling into the nice fabric, drifting off to sleep.

Lou Ellen POV

How could he say that?

I wasn't proud of my decision to help Kronos, but try looking at it from my point of view. My mother was neglected as a goddess. She didn't have a throne, wasn't invited to the meetings, so you could see why she'd be a tad bitter.

And well, she was my mother. I didn't understand which side would be the right side to go on. Was there even a right side? It would be the same general concept if a daughter of Khoine had gone to Gaia's side in the Giant War.

So anyways, I kept running through the woods.

Suddenly, my foot got caught in something and the world flipped upside down. Or maybe that was just me…

I recognized the trap as one of the Stolls annoying pranks.

"Stoll!" I screamed, as tears started welling up in my eyes. I'd had way too much today. All I wanted to do was lie down in my warm bed and just go to sleep.

I felt the rope go slack and I fell hard on the ground on my back. My mind began to go fuzzy, and then everything went black.

Katie POV

I ran to the strawberry fields, hot tears falling down my face.

I hated Travis. I freaking hated him. And I never hated anyone.

He was such a jerk!

I kept running, past the fields, into a little clearing. Nobody knew about it, it was like my secret safe place to go to when I just needed to get away. The only ones who knew were McKenna, Seph, and Skylar. They had found me here one day after I ran away crying after Travis poured syrup onto me.

I sat down against a tree. The breeze was soft, blowing my hair away from my face.

Maybe I should just leave camp. All they knew me as was the bossy, uptight daughter of Demeter.

And to make things even better, I was in love with my best friend's half brother.

Also known as the one who hates me and thinks everything would be better if I was gone.

Also known as Travis Stoll.

On that happy note, I fell asleep, listening to the wind hum through the trees.

Hazel POV

I ran out of the Ares/Mars cabin, tears streaming out of my eyes.

I'd never felt such pain. And that was coming from the girl whose mother was possessed by an insane earth goddess.

I made a b-line for the Hades/Pluto cabin. As soon as I got there, I busted through the door, pushed past Nico, who was staring at the door in utter shock, and landed face down on my bunk. I thought about what Frank said, did he really think that I was only with him was because I felt bad for him? Was I really that bad of a girlfriend?

I heard the door open, Nico probably didn't want to be in here with me like this, and I don't blame him. No one would want to be around someone as horrible as me. I just can't believe that Frank would ever think that, he was my best friend as well as my boyfriend; I was with him because I loved him.

I saw darkness outside. I must have been in there longer than I thought. I curled up in a ball, wanting to be as far away from Frank as possible.

I couldn't stand it, I had to get away. I got up, and ran outside, and saw that it was still pretty light out; there must have been a shadow on the cabin.

I took off and ran into the forest, away from the camp, and hopefully away from my worries. After a few minutes, I figured out that I was hopelessly lost, but I didn't really care. I sat against the nearest tree and cried. I don't know what happened, all I knew was that I was falling apart. Frank was everything to me! I was so close to him and he was my only friend for so long, and he went and accused me of doing all that!

I needed a break and something was pulling me under, begging me sleep, and that was what I needed, I needed a good night's sleep, maybe in the morning, I could figure some way to fix all of this. Slowly I felt myself falling under a heavy veil of unconsciousness.

AN: Ta daa! What do you guys think? Review! Love ya!

~Nessa, Kayla, McKenna