Percy had not been as mad as Ryan had made him sound, but he was pretty annoyed. And Sasha was prohibited from using her abilities to control water save when she was training with Percy, which would start the next day. There was no need for Sasha to stay in the infirmary any longer now that she was awake, Jonathan had said. He had also warned her that she still needed to be extra careful with her leg, now that the cast was removed, for the next couple of days. Well duh. Also, Ryan hadn't been lying about Andrea. She truly had been messaging her non-stop. In a way, the messages made Sasha feel slightly guilty, because most of them went on and on about how much she missed her, and Sasha immediately responded that she would meet Andrea and they could go ice skating. In camp, it was hard to tell when the seasons changed because the protective borders to keep monsters out also repelled the effects of different changes in weather, but Sasha knew it was winter and that the huge Ice-skating rink that she and Andrea and Ryan went to every year would be open because Ryan had told her they had passed by it on their double date. So Andrea and she made plans to meet there Friday night, then after they skated they would go look at the lights show they also displayed. Sasha specifically didn't tell her brothers of her plans because she did not need a rerun 'ambush of the demigod pains'. One thing that seemed out of place, however, was the odd absence of Nico at camp. She'd casually inquired to Percy about it, but he'd simply told her that he does it all the time and that he'd be back eventually. 'But why now? Why after he told Ryan that he wanted to talk to me?' Unless Ryan had been acting as his usual annoying self and had simply made it up. It didn't seem too unlikely. Also, Drew kept giving her even fiercer stares than usual, and Sasha had absolutely no idea why. Despite her death glares, the daughter of Aphrodite kept her distance. In fact, Drew even avoided attending Sasha's etiquette classes when she could, and when she couldn't, she simply stayed as far away from her as possible. It was odd, but didn't really affect Sasha in any way, so she couldn't care less. Besides, she'd begun to realize that not all of Aphrodite's children were unbearably arrogant and egotistic, like Piper, for instance. She was a girl around the same age as Sasha with light brown hair and ever-changing eyes. She always did her hair into loose little braids, which Sasha thought looked nice on her and wasn't as attention-lacking as some of the things Drew did with her hair, such as doing it into a giant bow like Lady Gaga and then, just for good measure, securing it with a clip that was embroidered with rhinestones. Piper was pretty down to earth and fun to be around, and apparently, (according to Jonathan and Leo) her dad was Tristan Mclean. Which, in total honesty, was a completely embarrassing topic for Sasha, considering that she and Andrea had spent countless sleepovers fangirling over him. She decided that Leo actually had a good taste in companions, despite his off day when he decided to befriend Sasha herself. She chuckled slightly at the thought during one session of what Percy insisted referring to as 'Water bending training'. Eventually Sasha had come to discover this was solely due to his obsession with Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender, which, up until the present, Sasha had dismissed as another uninteresting TV show. Recently, However, Leo and Percy slowly succeeded in getting her hooked. On her Friday scheduled to meet with Andrea, Sasha dressed for the piercing cold she knew she would experience out on the ice. Not that the hot chocolate afterwards wouldn't make it totally worth it, but still. She was sure no one noted her movements as she stole her way to the border of camp, then down Camp Half Blood hill to the cab awaiting her at the bottom. Hopping in, she shivered from the cold, anticipating her reunion with Andrea.

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Sasha was slightly taken aback by the sight of Andrea with Mikeal and Gabby. Okay, the fact that she was with Mikeal wasn't that shocking, but the sight of Gabby left a much harsher effect on Sasha than 'slightly taken aback'. Gabby was another girl who went to their school (well, now Sasha's old school, seeing as she didn't technically attend to classes their anymore) with coppery blonde hair and fair skin. In the dark, snowy night, her luminescent brown-flecked green eyes appeared, to Sasha, uncertain as to whether she'd made the right choice in agreeing with Andrea and tagging along. Sasha surely thought she'd made the wrong choice, and she suddenly felt a pang of jealousy course through her being. 'That's not fair,' she chastised herself, 'Andrea deserves to have a friend that will be a constant for her after I so rudely disappeared without a trace, only to show up, the disappear again. Maybe not rudely, but I disappeared all the same.' The realization that Sasha and Andrea's long-term friendship was now in question frightened Sasha, but she was determined to ignore the pesky thought for the moment and enjoy the time being. Of course, that was a tad bit difficult with Gabby constantly giving her weird looks, and the fact that throughout all the jokes someone told, everyone but Sasha would burst into laughter, and Sasha would just stand there awkwardly, completely immune to whatever had humored them. On the ice it was easier to ignore them; she was able to just skate and not have to hang out with them and think about it, but off the ice Sasha was completely miserable.
'I am absolutely never making plans with Andrea again.' She thought bitterly as she watched them return from the small little shack where they sold the hot chocolate, without one for Sasha, although she'd waited behind and reserved a table for them. And that had been extremely difficult, mind you, with the large amount of people and such a small sum of tables.
"Hey, I forgot my money at home, so Andrea said it would be fine if I borrowed your money. Is that okay?" Gabby asked, and Sasha smiled, gritting her teeth, and nodded.
'Yay. I go through all this and yet I don't get my hot chocolate or my money! And just who on Earth said I would be okay with that!? She wants hot chocolate so much you get it for her! I don't even like the stupid girl! Not to mention that you know that!' Sasha continued her mental rant, fully knowledgeable that her discontent was obviously plastered on her face, although none of the trio seemed to notice it.
'And just where does she get off inviting them without even telling me! I thought it was just going to be the two of us and suddenly tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumb tag along?!'
Someone pulled up a chair next to her and a pale hand set a cup of hot chocolate in front of Sasha on the table.
"Sorry I'm late," the voice said, hugging her with one and pulling the chair so he could sit next to her with the other. Mikeal raised an eyebrow at the newcomer, Gabby gawked, and Andrea glared.
"Nico?" She asked, her tone hateful and shocked.