From that little prologue there, you know the main character: Me. Tyler Avila. I know Aphrodite left out a lot of information, so let me clear things up.

My real name's Tyler Avila. But my adopted parents' names are Brice and Jennie Cooper. I don't call them "Mom" and "Dad", just Jennie and Brice. I never knew why, but they both wanted me to introduce myself as Tyler Avila, not Tyler Cooper.

Other basic information about me:

I'm 16.

I have black hair and blue eyes.

I'm about 5"7'.

I'm really popular at my school.

I'm also really hot.

Like smokin'.

I don't know why Isabelle didn't fall for me on sight.

It's really confusing me.

I'M REALLY CONFUSED.

I've got muscle. (Yeah, that's right, you heard me, I'm not some flabby little kid)

Now that you know these things, let me bring you back to the beginning.

November 18th. It's Clearlake Hospital. Room 2239. 6am in the morning. Suddenly, you hear a baby's cry. A mother laughing. A father taking pictures an-.

Whoa. Hold up there. Not that far back.

The beginning as in about a month ago.

After I got claimed by Apollo.

A bunch of blonde haired, blue-eyed kids were walking up to where I stood next to Chiron.

"Hey," An older looking guy that was standing in the front stuck out his hand, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood. I'm your counselor, David. We're in Cabin 7, Apollo."

"Hi. . . David." I shook his hand lightly.

"We're your siblings, that's Lisa, CJ, Conrad, Sean, Molly, Josh, Lauren, Kai, Rebecca, Thomas, Joel, James, Sophie, Ethan, Kara, Sierra, Taylor, Will, Avery, Anthony, Rosie, Justin, and Kelly." David said, pointing to each person.

"Uh. . ." How could he expect me to know all of them? I could barely remember his name.

Okay. I'll admit that I wasn't really paying attention to David. I was looking for Isabelle.

Yeah, I know what Aphrodite would say, she'd be all like, "Aw, Tyler! That's so cute! You and Isabelle are going to be together forever!"

I was only looking for Isabelle so I could tell her that she'd have competition for my attention. Seriously! Don't give me that look! I'm being completely serious.

Girls will throw themselves at me. And if Isabelle wants even the slightest chance of my affection, she'll need to step it up.

It was too bad Chiron, David and my siblings were all there, or I would've gone looking for Isabelle. But David just led me back to the cabin to get me a bed.

As we were walking down the courtyard towards the cabins, the first thing I noticed about the Apollo cabin was that it was yellow.

Well, not really yellow, but more of a gold-ish color. Scratch that. It was gold. And light was illuminating from it.

That got my attention.

"Ahh! Oh, ow! IT BURNS!" Would it have killed them to give me a warning first? Or better yet, sunglasses. I look good in sunglasses.

"I'm so sorry!" David said sheepishly. He rushed in and I assumed he flipped off the switch, because the light went out immediately.

"Phew! Thanks." I waved my hand in front of my face to see if the light had burned my retinas.

"We were just testing out a few things with the Hephaestus cabin's new inventions. We wanted to see how bright their Sundust could go." Some girl stepped up. Was it Kaitlin? Kristy? I know it started with a 'K' . . . hmm. . .

"Uh, Tyler? You there?" David gave me a worried look.

"Oh, um, yeah. Just taking it all in." I'm a good liar.

David's face softened and he said, "Yeah, I know that feeling. First day's always the hardest."

Before stepping inside, I peered around just to see what I would be living in.

Surprise, surprise. The inside was golden too.

"Go on, newbies are always the first to step inside." David said encouragingly.

"WHOA!"

Damn you Hermes cabin!

Damn you stupid wire!

Damn you stupid Sundust!

It was like rain. But sun. So . . . like sun rain. Does that make sense? Nope? Okay.

Anyways, a bucket of Sundust poured on top of me.

And there goes my cool guy reputation. Down the drain on my first day. Aw, shit. She'll never notice me now! Wait, did I just say that? Um, just forget that little bit and I'll be on my way.

"Did you know about this?!" I pointed a finger accusingly at the Apollo crowd in front of me.

They didn't answer me. You know why?! BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO BUSY LAUGHING THEIR HEADS OFF! That was not funny. Not funny whatsoever. You hear?

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. What did Avery have there?

No. NO. NOOO!

She pushed the button and I started glowing.

My looks could literally kill.

Then I saw Isabelle walking by and tried to act all cool and smooth.

I walked over and gave her my best smolder.

"Hey Isabelle! I'm radiating light because I'm so hot!"

She glanced over at me. "No, you're sparkling like Edward Cullen."

"Well, we do have another thing in common." Way to be cool, Tyler! One point for you!

"You're both dumb asses?" Isabelle raised an eyebrow.

"Nope! Guess again!"

"You both smell weird?"

"Hey! I don't smell weird! And I doubt a vampire would smell weird. He's had a thousand years to bathe!" Okay, I take back what I said about being smooth. That was definitely NOT smooth.

"Okay, I give up. What is it?"

"We're chick magnets!"

Isabelle snorted.

"As if! You couldn't get me within a ten foot radius of you!"

I stepped seductively closer and lowered my voice to a whisper.

"Come on, babe. Do you want to see my new bed? They say the Apollo cabin has beds barely big enough for one, so we'll have to squeeze."

She slapped me.

Well, that was unexpected. I guess my hormones were acting up. Usually all the girls at school would kill just to get me to look at them . . .

"UHH!"

She kicked me in my most sensitive place.

What a bitch! First I invite her into my new home and then she abuses me? Well, excuse me! I thought it was courteous to have a house warming party when you've just moved into the neighborhood. Actually, it was just going to be a party for two . . . and we were going to be on my bed the whole time . . .

BUT SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO KICK ME IN THE BALLS!

Hi ho. Hi ho, it's off to the hospital I go! *whistle, whistle, whistle, whistle* Hi ho, hi ho.

And you wanna know the worst part about the whole thing? I had to limp myself over to the infirmary glowing, with the Apollo cabin laughing behind me.

A/N: Come on guys! I know it's really bad but just please review! Please? I only have one. That is pretty pathetic. And if you're reading this right now, you've stuck with me this far! Just review. Thanks :)