Chapter 12: I get to know the guys better and better

We went up to our rooms in the glass elevator, which was so cool. Our rooms were huge and joined, but I could lock the doors and have a private room. There was so many TV stations, I couldn't decide and felt like playing the games. "Wanna come?" I asked the guys and they nodded, as if they were waiting for me to ask. We hurried back down to the lobby and I walked over to the waterslide.

"Wanna go on it first?" Travis said, appearing beside me. I looked around and saw Connor was getting strapped for the bungee jump and Travis shrugged. "Sure." "Me too, Connor and his heights." He said as we walked up to the man waiting for us. "Two?" I nodded and handed him my card, Travis did after me. "You want to change into a suit?" he asked and I realized I was still in my jeans and shirt.

"Can we go change or do we have to go like this?" "Your choice, we have changing rooms with many different suits or we can just give you one if you are in a hurry." I shrugged and nodded. I wanted to hurry and get on it, so I ran into a room and waited for them to toss a suit over. They did and I hurried it on and looked down to see it was a one piece with holes in the sides and was similar to a bikini and one piece.

I didn't wanna change again and walked out to see Travis waiting on me, he was wearing a simple pair of trunks. He turned and his mouth dropped, seeing me walking toward him. "Did you pick that out?" the man asked and I shook my head. "Ah I see, one of our assistants' must have thought you would like it." "It's alright; I just can't see myself wearing it." "We can wait for you to change if you don't like it."

I shook my head. "I wanna ride." I said and he pointed us up the stairs. Travis was behind me and I felt my cheeks burning more and more with each step. We finally made it to the top to see a woman waiting for us. "Together or apart?" we looked at each other and shrugged. "Together I guess." He said and the woman led us over to the huge pipes. "Keep your hands and feet in the ride." She said and we got into the tubes.

"Ready when you are!" I laughed and he nodded and pushed us forward, giving us lots of speed. We shot down the tunnel, twisting and turning, laughing the entire way down. Finally I saw a light and we shot out into a heated pool. We came up laughing and leaning against each other. "Let's do that again!" we said together and fell back laughing again.

"Having fun?" we looked up to see Connor smiling at us. "You gotta try that!" I said, climbing out of the water and he looked me up and down. "If I get to do it with you then yeah I really do." He said and I blushed, giggling. "I'm hungry, wanna get something to eat?" I said, changing the subject. They nodded and we headed toward the food court once Travis and I were back in our own clothes.

I took longer than the guys and told them to go ahead. I was trying to catch back up with them and ran into someone. We both fell down and he jumped up and helped me up. "Thanks." I said tossing back my long hair out of my face. He stared at me, then smiled and pulled me into a hug. "Erika! So great to see you again!" I blinked and pulled away from him.

"Do I know you?" "What? Come on, you don't joke. You're all serious and stuff. What's wrong?" "What's your name?" he looked slightly hurt. "You really don't remember me? It's me, Percy Jackson." "Percy…Jackson." "Hey, how did you get out of camp? I thought Chiron wouldn't give you a quest." I blinked. "Quest? Chiron? I'm confused." I said and he took my hand, saying, "Come on, I think we need to get away from all this and talk." I shook my head, but his grip was firm.

I pulled away from him and he still didn't let go. "Let go Percy, I have people waiting on me!" "There's something wrong with this place." He mumbled and pulled me some more. "No, I said let go!" I jerked one last time and threw him onto the floor. "Erika?" I backed a few steps away and then turned and took off running toward where the guys were supposed to be.

They were already eating and barely glanced up when I ran over. "What took you so long?" "Yeah, the food smelt so good, we couldn't wait." "Why are you running? I think they have plenty of food." I just stared at them, the food smelled good, but my run in with Percy jogged my memory of before we came.

"Erika?" I took a few breaths and sighed, sitting down. "After this, I think we should leave." "Why you think Percy is still ahead?" I blinked, Percy was here. The guys had said I had to protect him, yet I ran from him, he kinda scared me, the way he was pulling me. Travis finished his meal and looked at me closely. "Alright Erika, you seem pretty shaken up, we can leave."

"Oh come on, can't we play a few more games?" I looked at Connor, he had finished too, but I suddenly wasn't hungry anymore. "Connor, go play some games, Travis and I will go get our stuff. I don't want to play anymore." Travis nodded and took my hand, and then we walked quickly to the elevators. We didn't speak and he didn't release my hand, but I didn't mind at all.

We made it to the rooms and I made sure I had everything before walking into his room to see how he was coming along. I froze when I saw he was shirtless again, stretching and tossing shirts to find one. He must have not heard me, because he didn't turn around or anything. "She let me hold her hand, so that's good." He mumbled and tossed another shirt onto his brother's bed.

"Even before the memory loss, she let me hold her hand for a few minutes…then jerked away as if I burned her." he grumbled and held up a shirt. He turned to look in the mirror and froze when he saw me standing in the doorway, staring at him. I blinked and turned away. "Sorry, I didn't know you were changing." I mumbled and touched my cheeks to see how hot they were.

I didn't hear him come closer, so I jumped slightly when his hand gently touched my shoulder. I glanced over my shoulder and saw he was still shirtless and turned back away. "I should go get Connor." I mumbled and his hand slowly left my shoulder and down my arm. His hand came back up, and then quickly turned me around, yet he was gentle. I was staring directly into his chest.

His hand left my shoulder and lifted my chin so that we were staring into each others eyes. "Connor can wait." He said and I couldn't help but nod. We stayed like that for a minute or two, just staring at each other and suddenly he started leaning toward me and I found myself leaning toward him as well. Our lips gently touched, and then he paused, waiting for me to give him the okay.

I answered him by pressing my lips against his a bit harder. He responded quickly and his hands found my back and I wrapped my arms up around his neck. I was shorter, so I was on my toes just to reach him. He must have realized this because he backed me into the wall and gently lifted me up. He held me up with ease and we continued to kiss until he gently pulled away and looked at me.

"Erika…" I saw that both of our faces were red, but he still had me against the wall. "We should go get Connor…" I started, but someone cleared their throat and we turned to see Connor standing the in doorway. "Don't worry, I'm already here."