Riley's POV

It's been two weeks since I was claimed, and so far things have been pretty uneventful except for training and practice with my powers which Percy is helping me learn how to control. Now I can create an air bubble around myself and go underwater, which I spend most of my time doing when I'm not training or hanging out with my friends. I am sad though because since getting here I have been seeing less and less of my friends. I never thought we would be able to drift apart, we were all so close. I guess that's what living in a cabin with your half siblings can do to you. The only person I have is Percy. Which I'm not saying I don't like him, he has been great to me. It really does feel like he's my brother even though I have only known him a few weeks. It's just, I have known my friends longer and you cant just get rid of that friendship. Or at least I can't. The worst thing is Maya. I haven't talked to her in almost two weeks because she has been so busy with her new friends. We can't sit in the window of my room and get involved in other people's problems anymore. Apparently the only problem here is mine. Because I'm losing my friends. Percy noticed that I wasn't acting like my usual perky self lately so one day he asked to talk to me at the bottom of the lake. Even though I haven't known him that long, he already knows my favorite place to be is at the bottom of the lake since it's the most relaxing to me and he figures I'll open up more easily if I'm down here. This is basically how the conversation went:

Percy: Why are you so down lately?

Riley: It's nothing. Just a little problem with my friends. Nothing you are involved in.

Percy: So, you're saying I'm not your friend?

Riley: That's not what I mean and you know it. It's just that they are all buddy, buddy with their siblings now and I hardly ever see, let alone talk to them anymore. Maya has been my best friend for longer than I can remember and now, I haven't even talked to her since I got claimed.

Percy: Ya. I think I kind of noticed. Have you actually tried to talk or hang out with them?

Riley: Well..Um…Not really, I guess. I don't know. They always look so busy.

Percy: Well, just talk to them and see when they are busy and when you guys can hang out.

Riley: Ya. I guess I could try that….I know this sounds stupid, but I'm kind of jealous and mad that they are hanging out with other people more than me, and that sounds so selfish and petty, but I cant help it.

Percy: It's okay. You can't help how you feel and you don't control that. You were really close and now they don't even talk to you. It's normal. It would be horrible if you felt that way and they did hang out with you a lot, but right now they really aren't even talking to you.

Riley: Thanks Percy. At least I got a good brother. Besides Auggie. He was awesome, I miss him…And my parents. I just realized how long it's been since I've seen them and I haven't even talked to them this whole time we have been here. Is there any chance me and my friends could go back home for a day or two? Just to give us a chance to see our families again and get close to each other again. Hang out in the bakery we always went to after school and sit in the window in my room and try to fix every one's problems.

Percy: I'll see what I can do. Honestly, I think it would be good for you guys, but the other campers would think it's unfair. I don't know though, for some reason I feel like your group is different. Special somehow, I just don't know why.

Riley: Well let me know when you figure it out. See you later.

And with that I returned to the surface to see if I could find my friends and see if they wanted to hang out. I really hope they can. I still feel like I'm being selfish though. I mean, why can't they have other friends too? You know what, I think I'm just going to go take a nap. I've been thinking a lot today and I really just want to go sleep for a little bit. I'm sure my friends won't even notice I'm gone. It doesn't seem like they have lately.

Lucas's POV

I've been thinking about a lot lately, but mostly about Riley. I love everything about her, and I don't know how any one could dislike her, but anything is possible. One of the girls in my cabin seems to hate her. She's always going on and on about how much she dislikes her, and she makes Riley look like the bad guy. Today, when she started talking about Riley, that was the final straw. "Why do you hate Riley so much? What did she do to you?" I asked. "I don't know, maybe because she's the one with all of the friends, her dad is Poseidon, everyone likes her, and she doesn't have a big ego about it." She replied. Her name was Cara, and she didn't have the best reputation around here. Last year, she was supposed to be watching the barrier and if any monsters came, she was supposed to alert someone. Ever since some kind of mechanical bull or whatever it was called broke through, people have been very wary. But she abandoned her post and someone died, after they walked past the barrier to do who knows what. Now, nobody really trusts her anymore. "So, you're jealous? Well, have you ever talked to her? Do you really know what her personality is like?"

"Well..No..Not really. But why would she want to talk to me, of all people? Nobody likes me and now I've been talking about her behind her back. Why should she like me?''

"She is a very understanding and forgiving person, I'm sure she will want to know you. I'm going over to her cabin to hang out. If you want me to put in a good word, I can."

"It's okay. You don't have to. See you later."

And with that I waved goodbye and went over to Riley's cabin to see what she was doing. Honestly, I felt kind of bad because I haven't seen or talked to her in a while, and I don't think any one else in our group has either. I got up to her door and knocked, waited a couple minutes and when she didn't answer, I knocked again. But, still no answer. So, I just walked in, and saw that she was asleep. She was probably tired from all of the training. So, I decided to just come back later and see if she was up. In the meantime, I could always go train! Even though we have only been here a couple of weeks, I have already started to get more muscular from all of the training.

Maya's POV

I was LOVING it here. I don't have to worry about anything, but training and I get to see my friends all day. I haven't seen Riley, Farkle, or Lucas in a while, but I'm sure they are fine. I mean why would they worry about me? I never did anything to deserve their friendship, but I don't think that's how they see it. That's cool with me though, in all honesty I don't know what I would do without them. Now I'm realizing how much I actually miss them. I'm also now realizing I haven't spoken to Riley in almost two weeks. I know her, and I know that she is probably really down. I found Lucas training with Percy and Annabeth and pulled him aside for a minute. "Hey Ranger Rick, you realize how long it's been since we saw or spoke to Riley right?"

"Ya, I went to go see her and she was passed out in her cabin, so I came out here to try and train my guilt away, but I don't think it's working very well. Now, I'm just waiting for her to wake up."

"I know Riley and I know that she's really upset about not hanging out with us in a while. So, when she wakes up we should all spend some quality friend time with her."

"You didn't need to tell me. See you later Clutterbucket. I have to get back to training. I'll fill Farkle in later."

"Okay. Later Ranger Rick."

You know, I like Lucas, but I don't like calling him Lucas. You know, I'm not sure I remember the last time I actually called him Lucas. Oh well, I'm going to go set up something for Riley.

Farkle's POV

I've been hanging around with Annabeth a lot lately and I think I'm starting to turn into her. I've gotten really into architecture lately, but again, I've been hanging out with Annabeth a lot lately. Its just hit hit me though, that its been a while since I've seen our whole gang together. I wonder if this camp I going to change us. I'm starting to fear that maybe our friendship is starting to diminish. We are taking what we have for granted. I really need to talk to everyone. I don't want our friendship to be over, we've come to far for that. I know what we can do and who we are is incredible and most people can only dream of this stuff, but I almost wish we were back home, just like old times where the biggest thing we had to worry about was failing a test. Not trying to maintain a friendship while training to fight monsters that are more than happy to kill you. Suddenly me, Riley, Lucas, and Maya all came together in the middle of camp. I was going out on a limb here and guessing that they were thinking the same thing. We all just kind of stared at each other for a while before Riley finally spoke. "So, I talked to Percy today and he said we might be able to go and visit our families. I'm guessing he's going to talk to Chiron or Mr.D about it. But he also said, the other campers wouldn't be to happy since it would be unfair to them, but he might be able to pull something off.'' We all said that was great, but then it just kind of went back to awkward silence. I know we all miss each other, but it's just kind of hard to say anything. I mean what are we supposed to say? Eventually we all came up with our own excuses to get away from the guilt and awkwardness. I guess we would have to try again tomorrow.

Hey! Sorry I haven't updated in months, but to be honest I just kind of forgot about the story and I haven't really felt like I had the patience because I really wanted to write a long one. I feel like I was only writing short stories. Also, I know it's not that good, but I have a little writers block. And I'm on summer break, so my mind is on summer break.