Chapter 3

Aphrodite's pov

It was now a few hours after dawn, Stark had brought Zoey's body back to her room and had not left the room since. The rest of her friends had stayed for a while also, but had now all retreated to their rooms for the day.

I hadn't even been into Zoey's room since she had been brought back inside. I'd gone directly to my room, I didn't like to see Zoey like this, I was too afraid to go into her room right now, but I knew that eventually I would have to. When I'd gotten inside, I just went straight to my room. Darius had gone to see if everything was fine in Zoey's room, and then had followed me into my room.

I could feel Darius' eyes on me; I looked up at him and noticed he was staring at me with a concerned expression.

"I know you're worried about Zoey, but she'll be fine." He said.

I wanted to believe that he was telling the truth, but I could tell that, like me, he knew that it was a lot more complicated than that. If we couldn't find a way to bring Zoey's soul back to her body, she would never wake up again.

That thought made my eyes sting and I had to blink quickly to keep the tears from spilling out. I turned away from Darius so that he wouldn't notice I was crying, but it probably didn't work, for her came to sit beside me and I curled up into his arms as he whispered comforting words to me.

However, I couldn't keep my mind focused on what he was whispering; my mind just kept wandering to what would happen to Zoey. Suddenly I just couldn't sit here anymore; I had to go see Zoey. I disentangled myself from Darius and walked over to the door. Before opening the door I took a deep breath and composed myself, before turning head to look at Darius.

"I feel better now...so I'm just going to go see how Zoey's doing."

Darius got up and started walking towards her. "I'll come with you." He said with a small smile.

"No!" I said a little too quickly, and then I felt bad when I saw his confused expression. "I mean, you're probably tired, why don't you rest and I'll be back soon."

He opened his mouth to say something, but before he could speak I put my hand on his arm and said "I just want to be alone right now". The way he nodded and looked a little sad made my heart squeeze, so before I could change my mind, I opened the door and walked out.

"I'll be back soon." I said with a small smile before closing the door behind me.

I'm trying to update as often as I can...but it's hard for me to find ideas for what will happen next. So please review this chapter and tell me if you have any ideas for what you would like to happen in the story. Anyway, i'll try to update soon. Hope you guys like the story so far :)