Chapter 9
Kalina's POV
Tamsin froze.
"What?" I gasped. I mean I barely knew the guy but he was pretty nice. Was.
"He's dead, Kalina." Theo said quietly, taking my hand gently.
I sniffed and wiped my eyes.
"I want to be alone for a while." I said, getting up and walking out of tent. When I reached my cabin, I went downstairs into my room, picked my guitar and wrote a song.
"Now you're gone"
I'm lying here with him,
Thinking about you baby,
The times we shared,
The love we shared,
Now it's dead and gone
When I'm with him I am,
Thinking of you,
Thinking of you,
And what you'd do,
If you knew that,
He was the one,
Who I was spending the nights,
With,
Spending the nights,
With, yeah.
But now you're gone,
I can be with him,
And not be eaten by guilt,
You were not the one,
We didn't share love,
So now you're gone,
I can love him,
True.
Theo's POV
As I walked into the Apollo cabin, it was pretty quiet apart from a trickling of water that sounded like a shower.
I called out, "Kalina!"
"Who is it?" came the reply.
"It's me, Theo." I called.
"Ok, just a second!" The trickling sound stopped and after a pause, Kalina came up a flight of narrow golden steps. I felt myself go red.
"Sorry." I mumbled. "I didn't mean to interrupt."
Kalina laughed, "Its ok." She said adjusting the towel wrapped around her and sitting down on her bed, and beckoning for me to sit beside her. I did, feeling faint as I did so.
"So… um." she said awkwardly.
"Um..." I said
Suddenly Kalina leaned forward and kissed me, which took me by surprise. Usually it was the other way around.
"Sorry." She said, blushing. "I just… needed that."
"Did you like Lucas?" I asked.
"Not really but he was kind of nice to me."
"What sort of nice?" I said, winking.
"Theo!" she giggled. "It wasn't like that!"
I laughed, "Oh yeah?"
She hit me on the head with her pillow.
"Right, that's it!" I said, grabbing a pillow and hitting her with it. In the end, we were both covered in feathers and gasping for breath.
"Why did your pillow have to explode?" Kalina mumbled.
"Because you sat on it!" I said.
We both burst out laughing. And then suddenly the door burst open and Tamsin ran in.
"Hey Kalina, guess what j-." She stopped mid- sentence, staring in horror at Kalina and I, covered in feathers and out of breath on the bed.
"Oh my gods!" she said, backing towards the door.
"Wait!" Kalina shouted. "It's not what you think!"
But Tamsin had already ran out of the door. Probably to tell Ruby, Anya and the whole camp that Kalina and I were sleeping together. I groaned.
Kalina's POV
Oh gods, I am never going to live this down! I got up and went into the bathroom, closing the door behind me. I took off my towel and got dressed. The blessing of Apollo hadn't worn off yet so my hair wasn't properly wet even though I'd been in the shower. I came back in and Theo was sitting on the bed, his head in his hands.
"Oh… fudge." he groaned.
"Yeah." I said quietly.
"You know, since she's gonna tell everybody we might as well…" He looked up at me.
I backed away, "Nuh uh! No way Romeo."
He stood up. "Ok then."
"Huh?" I said, "You're not pressuring me?"
"Of course not!" Theo replied, looking shocked. "Why would I do that?"
I shrugged as casually as possible without looking drunk. "No reason."
"Well um I better go and find Tamsin." I said, turning towards the door, "see you later."
"Bye." Theo said.
I ran down the steps outside the cabin and looked around frantically, wondering where Tamsin had gone. I saw her nearby talking animatedly to Anya and Ruby. I ran over to them but they saw me coming and turned to face me.
"Well, well, well!" Anya said.
"Someone's been busy today." said Ruby.
"Oh gods guys! It wasn't what it looked like, ok?" I said, shooting an agonized face at Tamsin.
"Are you sure about that?" she said.
I blushed. "Yes! Very sure!"
"Yeah, whatever you say Kalina." Anya said.
I frowned, "See you at dinner." I turned and walked away towards the lake.
I sat down underneath the tree that Theo and I had sat underneath that time. After about 5 minutes the sound of crunching twigs announced the arrival of Carmen.
"Hey!" she said smiling and sitting down beside me.
"Hi." I muttered.
"What's up?"
I explained.
"Aww, poor Kali." Carmen said, "That's really awkward though. He actually asked?"
"Yeah!" We giggled.
"Hey have you seen my awesome new room yet?" I said.
"Nope!"
"Come one, let's go see it!" I said, pulling her up onto her feet.
"Race you back!" Carmen said.
"Oh it is so on!"
We ran all the way up to my cabin. Thank gods Theo had left and cleared up behind him. I pressed the button on the wall and led Carmen down the stairs.
"Oh my gods, this is awesome!" she exclaimed.
"Thanks." I grinned.
We sat down and Carmen told me all she could remember about being captured and what her life had been like for the past ten years and I told her about my life.
Our conversation was interrupted by Theo.
"Oh hi!" I said smiling and motioning for him to sit down with Carmen and I. He came and sat in the middle of us but slightly closer to me.
"I bring good news girls," he said. "Apollo and Aphrodite are holding a ball for their demigod kids and their friends!"
"Awesomeness!" said Carmen and we high-fived.
"Kalina?" Theo said.
"Yes?"
"Do you want to go to the ball with me?"
"Yeah ok." I replied, trying to ignore Carmen who was singing "Here Comes the Bride" under her breath.
"Shut up!" I hissed at Carmen, she grinned and poked me in the shoulder.
Theo smiled and stood up. "Well I'll see you at dinner I guess."
"Bye Theo!" we said.
After he left, Carmen noticed the drawing he did of me.
"He's a really good drawer!" she said.
"Yeah…" I said, staring at the drawing.