I could still feel him laying next to me. But now in my life, everything was all of the sudden different. I felt as if a part of me was gone, yet there with me everywhere I went. How does someone get over death? How am I supposed to feel now that he is gone?
I was standing. Everything around me was crisp color of pure white, The walls were white, with carved details of Greek paintings into them. There were white chairs in front of me, and people in white dresses and suits filled them. There were white pillars at the end of every row, with white Jasmine's around them. There were even white petals on the floor. The floors were glass and looking down, they were so shinny the sun from the absence of roof reflected on them, beaming pretty rainbow colors. But I could see my refection in those white floors, I was in a white gown.
It had extensive beading covering the top, in crystal white diamonds that shone like the glass floors did. Then the bottom was white and ruffled down all the way to the floor. My hair was curled, and out with delicate glass crown placed on my head, a thin white sheet was covering my face. I was holding white flowers in a white bouquet. Looking up, I noticed a face through the vail. He was wearing a white suit, with the cutest white smile I had even seen. I realised, this was my wedding that I would never get to have.
"Tess come on we're going out for breakfast and we've decided your coming!" I heard a voice in my dream, which was depressing, yet touching. I was pretty sure though, that Kaleb's voice was not supposed to be interupting my wedding. I moaned, and sat up as Kaleb came through my door.
Kaleb and I, we had been through a lot together. To be honest, I consider him my best friend. Even know he was annoying at times, I loved him. He was my first official boyfriend when I had first arrived at camp, and my first real kiss. Kaleb had always been there for me, and I was the one who dumped him. Another thing I was sorry for Luke, I'm sorry for being such a b***h to your best friend.
I put on a fake smile for Kaleb, deciding now Luke was gone I was going to try and be a better person. The girl I should've been for him. Maybe if I was better he would't of left me. Maybe his death was my fault.
"Fine fatty, whatever you want." I said getting myself out of bed and kissing his cheek. Two things, one me calling Kaleb fat was kinda our thing. It was an inside joke we had had for a while. An another thing, Kaleb had a girlfriend but would probably date me at the drop of a hat. I guess I had put him in the ultimate friend zone. I'm sorry Luke, for friend zoning your best friend.
Kaleb smirked, hitting my butt. Like I said we were flirty best friends, but at least on my side, nothing more. "Go get dressed, that's what I want" he said to me. But I knew he wanted more. One of those things was cheeseburgers. Kaleb had a weird infatuation with them, don't ask. Another thing he wanted, was to do it with me. But since Luke's death, everyone had been really nice being sensitive to my feelings, because this was hard for me and the last thing I needed was one of the many boys who trailed me in camp to try to steal my heart when it was already shattered. So Kaleb was getting neither of the things he really wanted, at least not from me.
"Fine, be that way!" I called to him teasingly, grabbing a pink towel as I went into my bathroom. That was another one of my lines, I had used a lot. Especially when Luke and I were fighting.
"You know what Tess I have had it with you and your stupid whining!" He yelled at me in a mix of frustration, defeat, and exaushtion. He ran his fingers through his sandy blonde hair, that was starting to gray. I figured it was stress...but that didn't mean I was going go stop stressing him out. Pissing him off was my job, and I loved my job.
"You know what Luke? Fine be that way!" I yelled back, storming away. I crossed my arms that were perfectly tan from tanning on the deck of the Princess Andromeda. If he wasn't going to help me then Kaleb was. I didn't need Luke.
I made a playful face to mask my pain of reliving another memory of him, and me being a terrible person to him. "See you when I get out" I said with a wink. There would be none of Kaleb coming in with me. Those were the old days and now I was't sure where I stood with the concept of love anymore. I know I loved Luke and I thought that he loved me. But then did that love die with him?
I was 11, and beautiful. I was probably the most beautiful child in Janae, no one could argue. Well, they couldn't argue because it was true, but also because who really wanted to argue with the princess of the richest country in the world?
My blonde curls were bouncing as I carried my shopping bags out of the American shopping centre me and my sister were at. Our dad, the King of Janae, had let us fly out because I saw the most adorable pair of shoes and I wanted them. And when one of his daughters wanted something, we got it. I wasn't really up for debate, I had saw them and within a 2 hours me and my older sister were on a plane flying to America.
I made sure my sunglasses were on, because I didn't want to be recognized. I didn't feel like being interviewed on why I was in America, I just wanted to get my shopping and then leave and go home to our castle. The problem was Aira had went outside the store a few minutes earlier and left me to shop, which was so lame because she was the oldest and she should've been looking out for me. There could've been kidnapper's inside and if there were, she was the one to fight them not me. But once I was done, I opened the back door of the store and I climbed down the steps into the back ally. I was pretty smart and figured our where Aira had left me to pretty fast.
"Aira?" I called out urgently, turning and walking to the left of the outside of the building. I was hoping she was just sitting around, being Aira. But I found her all right, In an ally holding a blonde boy at sword point.
The blonde boy was amazing, literally the most amazing guy I had ever seen. I thought I was in love. Like seriously, all of the crap about love at first sight was starting to feel so real to me. I swore I could hear angel's singing in the background and wait...were those wedding bells? He must've only been a few years older then me, and His hair was sandy blonde, like a warm beach. And his eyes were blue, dancing with mischief...though right now they looked like there was a bit of panic because a 13 year old girl smirked at him like she was about to kill him.
"Woah woah Aira! What are you doing killing random hot guys on the street?" I asked her, delicately walking down the ally, making sure not to step on anything because, ew this was gross.
Aira rolled her eyes, which were blue and striking like the ocean. "He tried to rob me Tess" she explained like she was complaining to me, then she turned back to the boy with a smirk.
"No stop Aira!" I protested, my sister was violent. And I had no doubt in my mind she would kill the kid, I couldn't let that happen he was the most amazing boy I had ever seen. If he died, my heart would be broken. Even though I had only known him for like, maybe 30 seconds.
I laughed, letting the clear water run through my hair from my swaorski crystal shower head. Being filthy rich had its upsides, like unneeded bling on anything you could imagine. Memories of my younger self made me smile, because even when I first saw him I was convinced we were getting married. Ok maybe it really was a 11 year old crush, like when a girl crushes on a singer of a boy band. But still, it was so sweet that I loved him from the beginning. When I still believed in true love, I called it destiny.
Sitting down back in the ally which was still gross, The hot boy, Luke, exchanged glances between the two other girls he was with. One had spiky hair, she looked goth, she was Thalia. And the other was small blonde girl, with wise gray eyes, Annabeth.
"How did you two?" Luke started in confusion, because moments before a huge, and I mean huge ugly looking beast came up and tried to attack us. Somehow Aira, Luke and Thalia fought it off. Annabeth looked like she didn't want to get in the way and me? I don't do fighting. Actually, I was the one who had suggested running in confusion.
"See the monster?" Thalia finished, making up for Luke's inability to complete his sentence.
I turned my ice blue eyes to Aira, because I had idea's but I wasn't sure if I could mention them to anyone. We weren't just princesses of a country, we were special. I mean where to begin? We were super genius's was the most normal of them, Aira graduated at 9 years old, me at 9 and a half. And I guess on the less normal side, we were Cadets.
What's a Cadet? Well its when a greek god or goddess, and a titan get together and then some magic happens and poof, a baby girl is born! We were more powerful then gods, but less then titans. I guess that was the other abnormal thing, our parents were from greek mythology, except it wasn't myth, they existed.
I heard Thalia faintly whisper something to Luke, so I looked at Aira with an eyebrow raised. Aira sighed and took a breath.
"Do you guys know anything about Greek gods?" Aira said quietly, and if they said no I figured she would take the comment back. But instead, all three of them looked at us surprised, until Luke smirked.
"I knew it" He said crossing his arms in satisfaction.
Thalia studied me, "Hmm...she's Aphrodite for sure." She said to me, and I gave a faint nod. I was like the most beautiful little girl ever right now, and it would've been an insult if she guessed anything else.
"Ares?" Luke asked Aira, who shook her head with a smirk. You would never guess Poseidon for her. But the combination with Gaea made her vicious. Though I guess she was raised by Ares for a year I think so he had some of it correct.
"What about you two" Aira asked back
"Zeus" Thalia said sharply, in what I wasn't sure was disgust or hatred. Maybe she was impartial.
"We don't know Annabeths, but we have an idea" Luke said for Annabeth, who was looking at her knife. "Hermes" He said in clear hatred. A daughter of Aphrodite with a son of Hermes, who would've guessed. I wouldn't of, but I was sure we we're perfect for each other.
I got out of she shower, wrapping myself in a towel and opening the door to go back into my bedroom, because my closet was on the other side of my room. Kaleb was still there and I smirked. "Creeping on my showering?"
Kaleb laughed, "What else" I guess he was probably here to make sure that I actually came out of my room. I had been sulking lately not wanting anyone to come in.
I crossed to my bedroom, grabbing a short tight black dress with a white and green ribbon, the color of Luke's shourd when he died. I came back out of the closet looking at Kaleb with a bored expression.
I could tell he wanted to compliment me, but then again he didn't know how I would take it. So he went with critiquing me. "You gonna do your hair or makeup?" He asked me cautiously. Usually being an daughter of Aphrodite, it was something I did on a daily basis. Since Luke's death I had no one to impress, and there for no reason to look hot.
"Shut up," I simply said back, but he had a point I had an image to uphold. I couldn't go around sulking forever, it had been a month. People we're probably expecting me to get over myself now.
I walked over to my makeover table, putting on black eyeliner and straightening my hair. I used my Aphrodite magic to add some black streaks to the tips of my hair and I smirked back, "Happy?"
Kaleb laughed, figuring my new look was actually sexy. But he said nothing grabbing my hand. "Lets do this then." Even know his hand grabbing was probably just a casual hand grab or whatever, it meant a bit to me. I felt almost strength from the grip if my best friends hand for me to go out and be the girl everyone knew and loved. I felt safe that if I started to break down, Kaleb would be there to cover me. I was like a fragile little scared girl facing the world, but I knew that he would be right next to me. So much came from such a simple gesture.
I nodded, biting my lip and walking out of the Aphrodite cabin with him. I passed through the rest of the beds in the cabin, and some of my half siblings gave me encouraging smiles and nods, so I smiled back. Tess was back, at least everyone had to think I was.
We got outside, and went to where the popular people were eating breakfast. We didn't eat with everyone else, we had our own spot.
"Hey guys" I said to them grinning. I had a lot of friends. My sister Aira smiled at me. Aira was Aira, and she was dating my brother Keegan, and another guy I dated after Kaleb, Jordan. Don't ask why she was dating both of them, but they both loved her and so she couldn't choose. And just to clear it up, Keegan was my real brother, Aira was my adopted sister.
The rest of my friends consisted of superficial barbie dolls and stupid sexy boys who got drunk and had sex. I guess that was the blunt way of describing them. I mean no doubt I loved my friends to death, but standing back and looking at them for a month...we were not the brightest bunch.
Everyone grinned and said hi back and Charlie motioned for me to sit net to him and I gave him a smirk back and went over. Charlie was one of my hot guy friends, I think he was a son of Apollo or something. And he was single, single, single. I honestly don't think he had plans to ever really be in a relationship. All Charlie did was flirt with us hot girls and then cross his fingers and pray he got lucky. So me sitting next to him and whispering something sexy in his ear made him grin with glee that I was back, and available, and that he could flirt back, cross his fingers and pray yet again that he would get lucky. It was almost as if everything was beginning to be normal. But it was never going to be normal again.