Sophia


TYLER

She was gone almost as soon as she'd come. The girl beside me, Allison, put her hand on my shoulder and gave it a light squeeze. I didn't need her reassurance, I needed Samantha's. I also could have settled for Brandon's, Katelynn's, Jason's, Jacob's, Perry's or Tony's- or anyone of my real friends, but not her. I looked to River, who was just moping around and staring at the empty space in the air where Samantha's image had been just moments ago. I looked down and took a deep breath. This was all my fault. If only I'd told them that I'd have to go, they would have understood that I had to do it alone, but I didn't. I just left all of them during the very beginning of our most important quest.

The stress of being a demigod was really getting to me.

"Hey, it's going to be okay." Allison said, her pale hand giving my shoulder another squeeze.

I nodded and attempted to politely shake her hand off of my shoulder. Her hand fell but I could tell she thought it was rude.

"Yeah." I mumble, "It'll be fine. But we have to go now. I need to get my sister and I need to see Samantha."

"Who's Samantha?" Allison asked, cocking her head to the side.

"The girl that was in the image. If I remember correctly, I'd called her name." I said, with a sigh.

"Oh, yeah." she said, looking away, "who is she, though?"

I looked down.

"Someone really important to me."

"Oh."

River snorted behind me.

"We have to go." I said, in agreement.

"Okay." Allison sighed, packing up everything.

I mounted River and Allison copied my example. Her hold on me was lighter this time. River ran and then shot into the air, leading us straight to the Parks Hotel. I couldn't believe it. I would be meeting my sister and seeing Samantha for the first time in months. Things could finally go back to the way they were. As I thought about what I hoped to be a happy ending, River sped up in his flying. Once we were finally at the hotel, I left River outside and Allison followed me into the hotel. We sneaked into the elevator and I pressed the button. As soon as we got on floor two, I led the way to room 143. I quickly picked the lock, as to not disturb anyone who'd be asleep.

As I opened the door, I was met by complete darkness. I turned on the light and a figure shot out of the couch, sword in hand. I grinned against my will.

"Jason." I mumbled.

He stared at me for a moment and a glare plastered it's way on his face.

"Tyler. How'd you find us?" he asked, putting away his sword.

"Samantha Iris Messaged me." I said, confused.

"That's great. That means she's gone." he snapped.

"What do you mean?"

"If she told you where we were, do you honestly think she'd stick around long enough to see you, Tyler? Use your empty, tiny brain." he spat at me.

I stood there, laced in shock as Allison gasped.

"Hey, you don't need to speak to him like that!" she snapped.

Jason glared at her, as though he was going to say something, but he didn't.

"Why are you so mad at me? Why are you taking her side? I left because I had to!" I snapped.

"You don't get it, do you? There are no sides! I'm mad at you because you left all of us. You left everyone, Tyler. You left your two best friends and your girlfriend. How could you do that? Do you know the hell Samantha has gone through just to try and forget about you?" he said, calming his voice to a whisper.

"Forget about me? Why would she want to forget about me?" I asked, breathlessly.

He only looked between Allison and me and shook his head.

"Because it's clear you've forgotten about her." he said.

Before I could respond, I heard a door open. Jason and I both turned to find a girl with dark brown hair staring at us.

"Jason, why are you-" the girl began with a yawn.

"Sophia, this is Tyler." Jason said, exhaling deeply.

"That's Tyler? That's my brother?" she asked, shocked.

"Yep. Congratulations, you've got a prized keeper." Jason said sarcastically whilst he rolled his eyes.

"Seriously, Jason? You're going to bag on my job as a brother now?" I snapped.

"Might as well since you're doing such a shit job." he spat.

I figured it'd be best not to argue with him. I turned to my sister who stared at me, blankly.

"Come on, Sophia. I have to get you to camp." I said, exhaustively.

"No." she said, shaking her head.

"What-"

"I'm not going with you. I want to go with Jason and Saman- where's Samantha?" she asked, looking around.

Jason walked over to the counter and picked it up.

"She's at camp, so we all might as well go. Sophia, go get Trevor." Jason said.

"Trevor, who's Trevor?" I asked.

Jason chuckled.

"Brother of the year." was all he could say.


Sorry it took so long! I've just been trying to catch up with Supernatural and whatnot. But please review! :)

xGabby