Hi guys! I just finished editing this chapter once more! Ugh, it felt so childish, in a VERY bad way!

Chapter 2: In the light of the rooftop

Theresa got up quickly to get dressed. She slipped out of her slim pink nightgown that went just below her knees. Quietly she tiptoed to her dresser, careful not to take to hard steps because she knew that Atlanta was a light sleeper and slept in the room next to her.

Quickly and silently she pulled out her clothes for the day. Her usual outfit of course, for it was her favorite out of all she owned. She sighed and looked through her large wardrobe once more. The cupboards, closets, shelves and hangers were filled with dresses, jeans, mini skirts, regular skirts, t shirts, long shirts, short shirts, sleeveless shirts and many others of many different colors. She still did not know why out of all of her outfits, this outfit had to be the most plain one she owned. Maybe that was why she liked it some much?

This outfit consisted of a red sleeveless shirt that perfectly outlined her mid waist red hair, a pair of white, comfy sneakers, and plain blue jean jeans that fell to her ankles. She sighed as she slipped the plain yet comfy outfit onto her small figure and gazed at her figure in the mirror.

Theresa had been told many times that she was beautiful. From the many boys in the schools she had attended in the past and present had told her that many times. She had received many comments on her looks, some of them very vulgar. But despite the fact that she was beautiful, rich, and popular to whomever she met, she never felt any good. She never felt truly beautiful before. And no matter what people told her, she never felt beautiful.

She sighed as she picked up her wide hair brush from her oak vanity desk and ran it through her long red locks. With every brush though, she ran through her mind once more, the frightening dream she had experienced moments before. Usually for some odd reason, brushing her hair always made her feel better, but right now, nothing was stopping her from almost throwing up when she thought about Cronus slitting the young man's throat.

She had to hold back her vomit as thought about the rest of the dream as well. She looked at her pale face in the dim light and sighed as she opened up her makeup kit. She took out her cover-up and put it under the dark circles that went all around her eyes.

It was dreams like that which had kept her awake for many nights. Theresa has had six dreams in all, but none have ever been in such detail as this.

She was not sure if she should tell anyone about her nightmare because even though she only had dreamt it moments ago she could already fell danger lurking around the corner.

Maybe I should just forget about the whole thing Theresa thought as she stretched and slipped on her sneakers. These dreams cannot be real. I am imagining things, just imagining.

But even as she thought that she felt the danger seep into her skin like humidity. She shivered once more and walked towards the window. She closed the half open window that was allowing the cool fall air to seep through the window. But immediately she felt contained and opened it once more, gasping in mouthfuls of soft, and light air.

I need to get out of here. She thought desperately as she walked towards her door and walked out into the hallway. She looked down the hall where she saw a separate, smaller hallway that led to the roof top. That would be the best place for her to go. She quietly walked back into her room and grabbed a jacket before starting quietly down the hall.

She went down silently yet swiftly and in one swift motion. But as she was about to climb the first of the seven dark stairs that led to the roof, she heard another pair of footsteps behind her. She turned her head slightly to the side, but saw no one there. She shivered for a moment. What if the dream was real? What if, that assassin who was supposed to be watching them, was stalking her right now.

She tried not to think of him as she climbed up the remaining six stairs and into the orange, red, yellow and pink lighted roof. She held her hand up to block the large amount of light that shined into her eyes. But as she moved her hand down and looked at the beautiful sky before her, she felt her entire world melt away.

She allowed herself to be evolved into the rays of beautifully colored lights and she surrendered her senses to the sharp music of the city below. She took a deep breath of the air and dug her hands deep into the pockets of her tightly zipped up jacket.

Soon she got tired of standing and she sighed once more. She sat down on the cold brown bricked roof and allowed her thoughts to run wild.

She started rolling over in her mind, the events of the last seven months that had started all this tension and discomfort. It had all started when they had returned back to Olympia High with Echo. Theresa felt something when she was around Echo, but it was not danger like she usually felt. And she soon began to get suspicious of the young nymph. From then until now there had only been a few problems they have had with Cronus.

And the last time they ever saw Cronus, was on New Year's Eve.

From then on, Cronus had made less and less attacks on the city or anywhere else in the world. Leaving the seven teenagers able to relax and enjoy the remainder of the school year. They began to worry though, when they had not seen or detected Cronus or any of his giants for two whole months. That is when Jay started to get, over worked.

Jay suspected something was up; he thought Cronus was planning something big and important. And he knew that Echo had completely destroyed Cronus's old hideout. Meaning that he needed to find another one. With no other place to go in the god's worlds, he would have to find a place in the mortal world to hide. And Jay was going to stop at nothing until he found where Cronus's new hide out was.

Jay had them search everywhere; every inch of New Olympia had been thoroughly checked by the seven teenagers. And every few days, Jay would have them search it over once more. This angered the resenting six teammates of his, but they obediently listened to their leader. When ever Jay ordered this though, they all felt a twinge of anger and almost none of them could stop themselves from mentally cursing their leader when his back was turned.

Theresa however, did not blame Jay for his actions. She knew that Jay must be feeling awkward because of all the mixed emotions inside of him at that very moment.

He was obviously feeling disappointment in not finding Cronus's lair yet, anger because he is making little progress and a lack of patience because of his need to succeed. Theresa guessed he was also scared, although he tried so hard to keep his emotions under the solid, emotionless mask that had become his face. Theresa did not need her clairvoyance powers to guess what her leader was feeling.

But that was all they were, guesses. Theresa really had no truth as to what Jay was feeling at the moment. He hid his emotions so well now days. He hardly ever smiled when he actually showed up for a meal or school. He never laughed, and his face was as emotionless as ever, until someone got on his nerves, then he would get angry and begin to yell at the unfortunate person once more.

That was it. No other emotions were shown from her leader. Either anger or nothing at all.

She sighed as she thought about her leader.

"Jay," she whispered out in the open. Although she was not really talking to anyone. "Why? Why do you do this?"

"Because of you. All of you." She heard a deep and calm voice say to her in a light tone.

She winced a little, not expecting a reply. But she could tell just by the sound of the mans voice that it was just Jay.

She turned around slowly and saw Jay leaning on the edge of the pine oak frame, his arms crossed across his muscular chest as his coffee bean eyes poured into her.

Theresa felt herself blushing as she thought back to her thoughts that she had spoken out loud. Had he really heard her?

"Do you mind if I join you?" he said in a polite voice. Although he was gazing at her intensely.

Theresa felt her face heat up slightly, and was forever glad that it did not show in the gleaming sunrise. She smiled at him politely and waved him over.

"Sure it was lonely up here anyways." She said smiling at him.

Jay smiled back at her and walked out of the dark doorway so that he was standing next to her.

Jay and Theresa did not speak for many moments. And out of the corner of his eyes Jay was looking at Theresa, and admiring how her complexion shined in the rising of the morning sun. But soon his eyes averted so he was gazing at the sunrise once more. He heard Theresa sigh in content as her eyes shone as bright as the lights that were flooding the sky with a rainbow of color.

"Why are you up so early?" Theresa asked him, turning her head slightly to look at him.

He did not really know how to answer her. He knew that if he told Theresa that he hardly had gotten any sleep and had set his alarm clock for this time even though he only went to sleep two hours ago she would never forgive him. Also, she would get mad if he made up some lame excuse that they both knew was not true.

But he always knew it was better to make up an excuse then have her never talk to him again.

"I uh thought it was a good time to wake up?" he said in a sheepish voice as he looked away from his girl companion awkwardly.

Damn, he thought as Theresa raised an eyebrow at him questionably, I never was good at lying, but I thought I had gotten better over the years!

"So you always wake up at 5:30?" she said sarcastically. After giving off a dry laugh.

Jay smiled at her sheepishly once more. "No, not really." He smiled at her once more until she began to smile back softly.

The two teens then turned back to the slowly rising rhythm of the sun as it danced across the sky in joyful and wondrous colors.

Jay did not speak for a while as he tried to find the words which where slowly forming in his mind.

"I……meant what I said." He began slowly, "What I said earlier."

Theresa looked back at him. "You mean when you said, you did it all for us?" she said in a low voice. She did not even have to wait for Jay's responding nod before sighing. "I feared as much." She whispered angrily, barley managing to control her emotions.

Jay looked at her weirdly but as soon as he turned his head to face her, Theresa's hand went flying up and smacked him on the head.

Both Jay and Theresa were surprised by the beautiful red head's actions, but Theresa did not regret what she did.

"You idiot!" she exclaimed angrily, her usually happy emerald eyes narrowing down to slits.

"What do you mean?" Jay asked quietly, surprised by the teenagers harshness.

"That has to be the lamest excuse I have ever heard! 'I do this for you'! PUH!" Theresa snorted angrily. "Do you think we cannot protect ourselves Jay? Is that it?"

"No!" Jay said raising his hands up defensively. "That is not really what I meant!"

"Then what DID you mean?" she said quietly, her anger dying down slowly.

Jay sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Terri, you know that, well," he sighed; he really didn't know how to say this. "Theresa, you guys are my friends, my best friends. You're all like a second family. How am I able to be a good leader if I can hardly protect you guys?"

Theresa sighed and she slowly felt her hand go to Jay's shoulder. "Jay, we don't need you to protect us. I thought we already went through this."

Jay let out a dry, yet some how emotional laugh. True, Theresa had told him that many times over the last few months.

"Ya, I guess we did." He muttered quietly, a small sad smile creeping up onto his face.

"You are a pain in the neck." Theresa muttered in a quiet voice.

Jay did not see the girl smile and instantly feared the girl was still angered by him. But she soon laughed and looked up at him smiling.

"But I don't regret having you up here as company." She said smiling at him slightly.

Jay gave a small smile back and stretched his arms. "Well it may be a little early." Jay said in a quiet dismissive voice, "But I think I am going to go to the school, you know? Get some research done."

Theresa's head whipped around so she was starring straight into his brown eyes.

"It's the weekend!" she said angrily. "You don't need to go to the school today."

Jay shook his head. "No, I don't. But I am going to. I need to start searching again. Besides," he said quickly and loudly before Theresa could protest more. "Hera said she needed to see us today anyway."

As Jay turned around and began to walk away, Theresa grabbed his arms.

"If Hera wants us, we will ALL go ok? But first, we are getting breakfast which I know you haven't been bothering to get for the last few days, and then, we are waiting for the team to wake up. And THEN, only THEN, will we go to the school." She stared at him ferociously, but her eyes and words were soft.

Jay had to smile as she made her arm relax and forced her hand to move off of his arm.

"Alright." Jay said in a quiet voice, smiling at her softly.

Earning a dazzling smile from Theresa that seemed to shine brighter then the rising sun to Jay.

Glad that was done. Hope you liked it and thanks again to the only two people who reviewed. Now I got a Question for you:

Which pairs should I focus on in the next chapter?

ArchiexAtlanta

Or

JayxTheresa

U choose and vote in the reviews. I'll put the results in the next chappie!

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