I have to admit, the only child of Aphrodite that wasn't annoying was Piper. I was not looking forward to having my face caked in make-up ad having my hair done is the "latest style" as Dana put it. Piper saved me from getting dressed up too much; thank the gods!

Dana put light green eye shadow on then darkened it as it went to the outside edge of my eyelids. She put on eyeliner and mascara.

For my hair, Dana curled it with the small kind of curling iron that was called a wand and kind of pinned it atop my head with a golden strap wrapped around it so that it looked like a bun that took up almost all of my head.

I refused to ware any of their dresses or really fancy cloths, which were what they wanted me to ware, so they got a dress that was white with lace at the bottom. The bottom was about where my ankles would be, and the strap was about three fingers wide. One part that bothered me was that it would hug my curves, which I did not want to so off but it seemed to hug less just before where my knees would be and down.

I looked at the dress for a little and the other girls saw that I was thinking about it. "How much time do we have left?" I asked Piper."

"Almost an hour," Piper responded.

"Can we give this dress a touch up?" I asked, "A small one?"

"I guess," Piper said.

In the end, the dress had a midnight blue die so that it looked like a belt was stretched from just below my chest to above my hip bone. I also used Piper's dagger to cut a diagonal line from where my left knee would be to three inches above where my right ankle would be.

Going into the bathroom to try it on I had a feeling that it would fit.

I walked out to show the Aphrodite girls and I loved the dress already.

I got out of the dress and back into my camp T-shirt and jeans because I did not want to ruin it at lunch or while I in the forge with the Hephaestus cabin after lunch.

The make up was bothering me so Piper helped me wash it off.

At the forge, I was having the worst troubles building, so Nyssa gave up and got Leo Valdez, the one and only, the head counselor for the Hephaestus cabin to help me.

I had to admit, I had a huge crush on Leo. He was kind and he was probably the hottest man alive. Even though Leo was hot my favorite of his characteristics was his personality. Oh gods don't even ask me about his personality. He is hilarious enough to make me smile despite what I was going through with my family.

Yes, of cores with Leo helping me, building was much easer than with Nyssa, but I was still getting frustrated. It didn't help that my thoughts kept wandering around. Every time, my mind ended with thinking about Leo and every time I forced myself to think about something else, my stupid brain wandered around for a while until I found myself thinking about Leo again.

"Do you want to quit early? I think you're not a Hephaestus kid and you look like you are being bothered by something," Leo whispered to me. "Do you want to talk about it?"

When Leo asked me if I wanted to quit I just nodded and kept nodding as he told me that I looked like I was troubled as my eyes teared up. When he asked if I wanted to talk about it I told him, "I don't want to talk about it right now but will you stay with me?"

Leo saw the tears in my eyes and asked, "Hay, how about I take you to the beach and we talk about something other than what ever is making you upset?"

"Okay," I said trying not to choke on my tears.

I am sorry that this chapter is short but I have had a tough time getting this much down. Last week my little brother had to go the hospital for banging his face on a cement covered ditch on Tuesday. Then on Thursday I had a choir concert. Then this week is my week of the month so I have been so emotional that I don't want to ruin the story with my over emotional mind. Okay, ladies, have you ever wanted to punch some one or throw something, but you don't? Well today I was at a Christmas party and my little sister made my emotions act up and I squished my cookie that had way too much frosting on it in her face in front of everyone. Then my dad was talking to me about it and I actually cried in front of the party attenders! One girl gave me a new cookie and I thanked her. The thing is the cookie that I frosted and put in my sisters face was my HOO cookie. I felt bad for it and I have no clue why. It had blue frosting for Percy, Orange for Camp Half-Blood, and Purple for Camp Jupiter. Sorry for my random story about today but I just had to tell.