Chapter Sixteen

Disclaimer: I do not own the PJO or HoO series by Rick Riodan.

James' POV

The whole "making people know Adrienne" thing hadn't worked out according to plan, to say the least. Most everyone that I had walked up to with her had just looked at her like, as she had said, a demon dad hunts down in the Underworld. I really hated the campers that did that.

"James, there's no one left. We've talked to everyone. It's hopeless." she moans, sitting heavily on the Hades cabin steps and resting her head in her hands.

"Don't give up hope, Addie. There's bound to be someone—" she cuts me off.

She stands up and looks at me, her eyes sad and furious at the same time. "No! Don't you get it? I'm a freak here! No one likes me, and that will never change!" she yells, drawing the attention of some campers passing by.

"Adrienne, calm down." I say, pulling her back down.

"What am I supposed to do, James? Just be a total outcast for the rest of the summer and the summers to come?" she asks.

"No." I say.

"Well then what?" she asks, crossing her arms.

I sigh and lean back onto the porch, looking up at the overhang. I really didn't know, but I didn't want to tell her that. Otherwise, she'd give up entirely.

"Hey!" someone calls.

I sit up and look around. There was a girl coming over to us, she looked to be around Addie's age, maybe a year or so older. Her hair was bleached blonde and straight, falling to her shoulders, her skin was lightly tanned and she was relatively slender, but not skinny, and her eyes were a mixture of nearly every color imaginable. They could of hypnotized you if you looked at them for too long. She was the most gorgeous girl I had ever seen.

"Uh, hi." I say, my voice horse. I found myself at a loss for words.

"I wasn't talking to you." she says, her eyes turning as cold as ice, "I was talking to her."

She points to Adrienne and her dark eyes widen slightly. "Me?" Addie asks.

The girl grins and nods. "I'm Jade, though I prefer Jay. I just got here and my siblings were talking about a child of Hades. I decided to come by and say hello." she says.

"Adrienne. I'm a granddaughter of Hades, actually." she says.

Jade's eyebrows rise, obviously shocked. "Granddaughter?" she asks.

"Yea, our dad is Nico di Angelo and our mom is Kyra di Angelo." I say, finding my voice again.

"Really? I didn't know they were still alive even, much less had kids. I've heard stories of your mom and dad. They're pretty powerful demigods." she says.

"Uh, Jade? I've never actually seen you around Camp. What cabin are you in?" I ask.

She sniffs and looks at me with distaste. "Iris. Last year was my first summer, but shortly after I got here, there was a family emergency and I had to go back home. Though why I even bother telling you, I don't know." she says.

"Oh." I say. I really didn't understand why her attitude was so sour towards me.

"So, Adrienne, you want to go down to the beach?" Jade asks.

"Um, sure." she says, though she didn't sound sure at all.

She gives me a nervous glance as she gets to her feet and follows Jade towards the beach.

I sit on the steps for a few more minutes before getting up as well and going to the Apollo cabin to get my gear on for training. That Jade girl was something else, that was for sure.

A/N:

Ah, new character! I think you guys will like Jade, but then I could be wrong. We'll just have to see! Saturday's chapter is longer, by the way.

Sorry about the wait today guys. I'd be about to get on my computer and update, then I'd have to do something else and then get distracted after. This went on for most of the day.

Soo, I got my new iPod yesterday! I finally had enough to get it and I'm so happy with it. It's really tiny and cute, it's the newest nano, if you guys were wondering :3

What ticks me off though is that Apple changed the fucking charging thing, so I can't use my dock unless I use the AUX chord, which I'm not totally fond of since I can't use the remote to change the song. Oh well, though. I'll live.

I had a really weird/awesome dream on Sunday night. I was at home and apparently my sister and her family (the ones who visited and created hell week this summer) were visiting. Well, I was in my room, avoiding them, and I was listening to music and my phone started ringing. I picked it up and looked at the number, but it was unknown. So I answered and it was fucking Pete Wentz. If you don't know who that is, he's the bassist in the band Fall Out Boy.

So anyway, he talked to me for a few minutes and was just wondering what I was doing and I think I told him that my sister was there and it was living nightmare, so then he told me that he had some things to do, but he'd call me back later and I could tell him all about it. Then, when the conversation was over, I went outside and my mom and sister were sitting on the carport steps and I walked past them and into the yard and threw my phone on the ground, followed by myself, and then I just started rolling around in the grass screaming and making these inhuman fangirl noises and then I woke up. Yes, I know. It was a strange but fucking awesome dream.

M/A:

"'Leave all your love and your longing behind

You can't carry it with you if you want to survive'"

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine.