HELLO. CHAPTER NINE. Done. Hahaha obvvvviiiously *snape style*

It's somewhat long, this chap. To make up for the short chapter VIII

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Chapter IX

Travis's POV

Lobby of Girl's Temporary Dorm

Night

Gods! Connor and I are loving it here! Well, except the part that even if we do get into the other curriculum, pfft whatever that is, we still have to take some maths and stuffs.

After orientation we toured again with the girls.

Connor and I keep exchanging looks.

THIS SCHOOL IS SOOOOO PRANK MATERIAL

We've got lots to do :3 wahahaha

I still can't believe that Percy broke up with Annabeth to court her. I mean, isn't the purpose of courting to make her say yes so that she'd be your girlfriend. What do you need courting for? Pff.

Anyway, so far, I think I'm actually starting to like the courting. I mean, seriously, the PDA between those two started to drop! SO APHRODITE DOES HAVE SOME MERCY.

But, Percy would usually do something stupid like holding out the door for her and stuff like that.

Tss.. I don't get it! I mean, you're together, so why the courting?

I know, bro. I wouldn't do it even if Aphrodite puts a spell on me, was what Connor said.

I agreed, but what I didn't say was that I could probably tolerate doing all those stupid stuff…if…if it…were ka—

"Be sure to wake up at six alright? The tests starts at eight. Hope you get in!" Aria said.

Tus and Aria said they had to go back to their dorms. We thanked them. They were cool, explaining all this stuff.

I could see Lacy and Mitchel seem to be under the spell of their blood going ammagoingtobreakhisheart commando. mah, they'll get over it soon

Nico keeps on grumbling how he's not used to all this. Poor guy, didn't get a chance to know thirteen, fourteen and fifteen.

Nico's cool. How do I know that? Well, he kind of caught us with some of our pranks and stuff. We asked him to keep quiet about it. We were so sure he'd bust us! But then he nodded!

But you know what he did? He didn't just keep quiet about the prank, he led the prankee to the prank of the pranker! THAT WAS SOOOO FUUUUNNY!

AND THEN HE WAS LIKE "Oh gods! I'm sooo sorry, I didn't know that was there!" all innocent like. That kid's got goods.

He might be creepy sometimes, but hey, he wouldn't be Nico if he weren't creepy.

"Clovis! You still haven't explained why you're awake!"—Annabeth

"Not to mention, why you haven't dragged us to unconsciousness along with you!"—Kayla laughed. Wow, she has a nice laugh. We all laughed at that too.

Percy told us about a present from Hypnos. Apparently, it supresses sleeping. And Clovis was like WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE? The girls laughed.

Connor was teasing Katie again, and I watched amused with Katie's reaction. The girl's dorm manager cleared his throat and it was almost curfew time. Huh. The girls walked us out of the lobby.

Everyone said goodnight.

"Good night, Kayla," I tell her. and she smiles. And tells me goodnight too. I smile.

"Night, Daughter of Cereal" I tell Katie with a smirk. She's trying to make a comeback. Hahaha. Connor laughs and high five's me.

Connor points at Percy and Annabeth. Oooh, sneaking out, are they? Hahahahaha. I raised an eyebrow at Connor. He waves he's hand to dismiss it. I understood what he meant. Nah, let them go do what they do hahahaha, we can spy on them another time. I nodded and whined a little bit since it was a nice opportunity. STOLL PRODUCTION PRESENTS: SNEAKING OUT BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL hahahaha

I couldn't wait for Camp during the summer! My mind sorta flowed to my other brothers. I missed them and they're attempts to steal something.

It is hard to be the head of the Hermes cabin. Once you're claimed, there's an initiation, you see. You have to try and still something from the heads—in this case, us. Those little kids keep trying to go true are stuff, like a true child of Hermes. Hahaha

Suddenly Katie nudges me. I notice Lacy and Mitchel and Kayla going back to the dorm.

Connor sees and "OOooooh, go on, bro, go on. I can perfectly understand. I'll just wait for you at our dorm and you go….do whatever you're gonna do," he says winking and I blush. It's not like that!

Katie sighs and we go to a corner were no body could see us….gods that sounded wrong! It's not what you think!

"What do you want, Katie?" I ask her

"Oh nothing," she smiles playfully. "I just thought you wouldn't want to know Kayla—"

"Kayla what!?" I couldn't help myself. She chuckled. I groan. Ugh, I can't believe she, of all people, caught me and figured out that I like…ugh!

"She was sorta checking out, Tus, don't you think" she says trying to bait me. But I smile thoughtfully.

"Nah," I say still smiling. "That's not her type. Kayla, she's fun and funny and, well, I think I know her enough," I tell her.

"Oh, so are you saying, you're her type?" Katie asks smiling mischievously? Me? Blushing stupidly.

"No! I didn't mean, I mean I don't know, I mean I do know, but I don't but gah!" I said. She laughs and sighs.

"Hey, Katie? Why are you helping me?" I ask. She figured out that I like Kayla, daughter of Apollo, three months ago. I thought she was going to tell on me, but she didn't. she'd drop a few hints to the others that would make me so nervous but it was small enough that no one understand

Unluckily, Connor caught us and thought we were flirting! Flirting! Well, better than the alternative.

"Because you're my friend, stupid" she grins, and I grin at her back. Katie, she's fun too. Fun to prank that is, and she gets back at us too. But she's cool. And she is my friend.

"But I'm not gonna keep quiet for long! If you don't tell her soon…well I do have a big mouth" she grinned evily.

My face probably looked like death because she kept on laughing. I shook it off.

Why you!

I tickled her. I know where, after all, but she kept on laughing poking me back too.

Before I knew it, I had my arms wrapped around her waist from her back and trying to shake her off. I was laughing. Oh, and trying to tickle her too. I was going to say that I give since I couldn't take her tickling anymore when

"Oh"

I blushed and so did Katie. Oh my gods. I sprung away from her.

"That wasn't what-" I tried to explain.

"Does Connor know about this?" Nico. Oh my gods. I could swear I was a tomato.

"No! I mean, yes! I mean, there's nothing to know about!" I tried to explain

"Oooh, so it's like that" Nico says

"Nooo! You're misunderstanding!" Katie says. "He and I aren't, he's not, he's-"

"Oh, don't worry, I understand. I'll leave so you can get back to…uh..whatever you're doing." He says and leaves whistling.

Oh gods. He misunderstood.

Percy's POV

Pool #1

OnedayLeft: Near curfew

"Seaweed brain, we're not supposed to be here!" she says. We were under water.

"No one'll no! Besides we'll get out soon!" I try to reason with her. Downsides of dating Athena's daughter? She's smart enough to avoid trouble, so it's hard to rule break.

Fortunately, smarts weren't the only thing she needed to avoid trouble named Percy. I smile at that thought.

"What? What were you smiling at?" she asks.

"That I'm lucky you like me," I tell her. she smiles. I think I have a little blush.

"Okay, let's get out!" I tell her. As we swim towards the surface she smacked my shoulder

"Way to ruin the mood," she tells me but I can tell that she's smiling

When we were up in the surface, still in the pool, but up in the surface, I made my move.

"Besides, I just brought you here to say good night," I tell her.

"Ooooh, part of the courting?" she grins. "Maaybe," I say. And with my hand behind my back, I tinkered with my fingers on the water until it formed.

"But, this surely is" I say, widening the distance between us a bit to show her what was on my palm. It was ice, but of course you don't give a girl ice. It's an ice sculpture. Of, well, a moonlace, you know, the one Calypso gave me? She kind of took a liking to it, surprisingly, even when I told her that it was from the island I marooned into.

"Percy.." she says. Oh gods, don't tell me she's one of the girls that thinks flowers are overrated!

"I love it!" she says pecking my cheek.

"Mmm, I told you I'd give you flowers right? I should start giving you more flowers if this is what I get everytime," I say kissing her quick on the lips. She laughed, as if to say, you wish.

I took the lace out of my pocket and put it true the flower, and put it around her neck. The moment it did, it shrunk to a pendant. I murmured a silent thanks to Jill, who enchanted it with magic, a daughter of Hecate.

"Will this melt?" she asks me, and I grinned at the double meaning of the question she asked me—a meaning she might never know. "Nope, it'll never melt."

We got out of the pool completely dry and head back.

When we were outside the sports complex, we heard voices.

"Are you sure?" and it sounded like Tus. From Annabeth's expression, I was sure it was Tus. She has a knack for remembering voices.

"Well, he said it was the watch, not the tattoo," Aria.

"Calm, down, A. You can't assume every mortal—" a voice I haven't heard.

"I can feel someone's prescence!"

Oops. As if hearing my oops, Annabeth and I quickly went back to the dorm

A/N: I like Tratie, so don't judge me yet. Hahahaha.