To the forest! Where the hell are my earmuffs!

I looked at my schedule and saw that next was dinner. That's good I know that, but there are three bad things. 1.) I don't know where we eat dinner. 2.) I just lost my guide. And 3.) I don't know what time it was. So I just went down to the beach, but there were to many people so I turned around and walked off.

It seemed there were people everywhere, but when I passed the cabins I heard some people say that some giant scorpions wondered in the forest. Which I took as them saying no one was going to be in the forest. So it was going to be nice and quite. Just what I needed.

It wasn't hard to find the forest considering the camp was surrounded by it, so I just walked into the closest part and loved what I heard. Nymphs singing. After about ten minuets I thought I kept hearing someone talk, but when I looked around I didn't see anyone. Until I heard someone scream. Then I ran for where the noise was coming from, but when I found it, it wasn't what I thought. It was a girl, wearing punk clothes and spiky black hair like mine that went down to her shoulders, with nothing but trees around her, so I continued slowly. Then she screamed again. I had to cover my ears if I ever wanted to hear again.

When she stopped screaming I walked up and asked, "Is something wrong?" Which, of what I could tell, just about scared her out of her mind. Then I ran up to her and covered her mouth because it looked like she was about to scream again. "No. No more screaming please." She tried to say what I thought was okay, so I put my hand down.

"What are you doing here? I told everyone that there were giant scorpions in the forest." She said frantically.

"That was you? I thought it would've been Chiron." I said.

"Yes and then no. Yes I said that. No it wasn't Chiron."

"So are there scorpions or not, because I don't have a weapon." She laughed, "It's not funny!" But I laughed anyway.

"No there aren't any. Why don't you have a weapon?" She asked after we sat next to each other at a tree.

"Well I was with this guy, Travis Stoll, but he ditched me after he said 'spears are a little harder to use' and I didn't want to train alone." I guess she thought it was funny when I said 'I was with this guy' because she let out a little laugh.

"So how did you end up out here?" For the girl that was just screaming her lungs out she was asking a lot of questions.

"Well I wanted to find some quite and it seamed someone was everywhere. And I overheard some other campers talking about the scorpions so I thought no one would be here."

"So you're new here." She said bouncing her head once.

"Okay…how did you get 'So you're new here' from 'I wanted to find some quite'?"

"Well it seams that's what all new campers want. What's wrong with your cabin."

"Wow. I thought the 'I'm new' would've given it away." I said a little surprised.

"That sucks. Hermes cabin. Is it as bad as they say?" She asked curiously.

"As bad as they say? I got here today, went to the big house, got the tour of the camp from my friend that has, apparently, been a demigod/half blood and never told me, went into the crapiest and the most crowded cabin I've ever seen *deep breath* then this guy scared the crap out of me, asked if I knew what kind of weapon I'm good at using and when I thought I found one he left, now I don't know what time it is or where we eat dinner and now you tell me things get worse! *another deep breath* and did I even mention that today's my birthday? Since I got here only like three people have been a little nice! I don't even know where two of them are and I have too many questions to ask the other!" But after I was done I felt even worse because I figured out that when I first started talking it was just that, talking, but when I was done I was yelling. And it was at a girl whose name I don't even know, but when I looked at her to apologies she was still smiling. "Why are you still smiling? I just took out all of my anger since I got here." I didn't even know how to react.

"Why do you think I tell the lie about the scorpions? Do you think someone heard you out here?"

"No, well not all the way out here, but I'm sure some of the nymphs are mad." I don't usually do it, but now I was making up excuses.

"The nymphs don't mind. But I lie about the scorpions because I do pretty much what you just did. Get all of my anger out , but that sounds like a pretty bad birthday."

"How long have you been doing this?" My turn to ask questions.

"Considering before I was a tree I never made it into camp and I've been in human form for a week. That makes it a week."

"A tree?" It took almost a minute for me to remember who the tree person was. But when I did I stood up so fast I kicked leaves both front and backwards, and I almost fell back down. "You're Thalia?" I asked pointing a finger at her.

Just then her expression changed to being mad or disappointed. Maybe both, "Ya that's me, Thalia, the girl that got turned into a tree by her own father. You know what? I think you should just leave." With that she stood and pointed her finger, "That's the way out, and don't tell anyone about this. Now leave." And I did. I liked her. I didn't know her much because I don't even know what just happened, but I wanted to get to know her more.

When I stepped out of the forest I heard a horn blow, and I jumped, "What'd I do?" I asked no one fast. Just then Thalia walked by.

"That was the dinner horn. Idiot." She said rudely.

"Oh." Just then I remembered that I don't know where we ate dinner, "Wait. Thalia-"

"Oh I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be STUPID back there can we start over again."

Why was she talking in a horrible imitation of a mans voice? I didn't know but I figured she knew where she was going so I followed her. "No. I was wondering-" Cut off again.

"If you could get-" My turn to cut her off.

"Shut up! I'm trying to ask you something!" I waited to see if she was going to say something else. By then we had stopped walking. "Where do we eat?" I asked a little out of breath.

She started blushing, but hid her face in her hands. Now I was really confused. Why was she blushing? And it started to sound like she was crying, so I walked up to her and whispered, "We should probably go, people are starting to stair." And I knew one thing (A/N apparently he knows a lot of one things.) since it was dinner no one was going to be at the beach. So I put my arm around her and took her there.

(A/N: Told you Thalia was OOC.)

"Thalia? What's wrong?" Now she was all out crying.

"'What's wrong?' I was a total asshole to you." She said in between sniffles.

"That's okay." I said nicely.

"'That's okay?'…Are you insane! You-"

"Interrupted what you were doing back in the forest." I looked at her. She had taken her head out of her hands and was looking at me. Her electric blue eyes were looking into my glassy blue eyes. "Sorry." Then she put her arm around me, but I stood and helped her up. Instead of putting her arm back around me she hugged me. I let her hug me and I hugged back. I was tall for my age and she was still a little taller than me, but she had to be like two years older then me. Then I pulled away and asked, "Now how about some dinner?"

To that she smiled and wiped away her tears, which I took as her saying okay. And we left.

"You suck at imitating a mans voice." I said plainly.

"I know." She said just like me.

"Who were you imitating?" I questioned.

"Um…" I could tell I caught her off guard. "No one." I didn't believe her, but I let it slide. "What's your name?" She asked.

By then we were passing the cabins. "My names James Reid. What's your name, and don't just say Thalia."

"Okay. My names Thalia Grace." She said happily.

"Okay, Thalia Grace, where do we eat?"

"At the dinning pavilion."
"That would make since, wouldn't it?" She laughed. That made me feel really stupid, of course it's going to be the dinning pavilion. "So how's it feel to be one of the big threes daughter?"

"Not to good." She got a sad look in her eyes.

"Um, we don't have to talk about that if you don't want to." I said not wanting to make her mad again. The rest of the way there was quite.

Originally where it says '(A/N: Told you Thalia was OOC.)' that was the end to a chapter, but when I was done writing this one I saw it was to small and combined them. The other chapter was called 'Stupidity is your friend!'