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Sorry for the long update time (I always seem to have an excuse) but I'm going on vacation tomorrow and I've been packing!

So I can't update til at least Friday... SORRY!

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Thirty Two (Thalia):

"What do you expect we do, then?" I demand at Leo. "Jason hates us. I still think the best thing we should do is apologize."

"For what?" he orders. "We did nothing wrong."

"Well, he clearly doesn't approve of us 'butting into' his life," I respond.

"So? We tried to help… He just doesn't appreciate it," Leo shrugs. "Plus, if we apologize, we lose our pride."

"Is your pride really that important to you?" I raise an eyebrow at him. "Because to me, I'd rather just 'admit my mistake' and make up with my brother again."

"Well, you can do that, but I'm not going to," he assures me.

"Come on!" I stomp my foot on the ground. "Don't you want your best friend back?"

"He doesn't want meas his best friend! If he did, he'd thank me for helping him ask out the girl of his dreams. But he's in a pissy mood and is mad at us for no reason!" he rants.

"Listen Leo," I say as tears begin to fall from my eyes. "I've lost Jason for part of my life. We were separated for years! I'm not leaving him again. We have to apologize."

"You can apologize. I did nothing wrong. Therefore, I don't need to."Leo scans the cafeteria we're sitting in. "Plus, I can have anyone in this room as my new best friend… Especially that hot girl over there… Do you think she'd go for me?"

"Uh… Isn't that a little off topic?" I ask as I wipe tears from my eyes.

"Isn't this conversation kind of over, though? We'll just wait it out, alright? If he continues to ignore us, we'll apologize tomorrow. Just give him some time to think." Leo suggests. "Now, I'm going to go chat it up with that girl. Bye!" he says before walking away.

I watch as he goes over and sits down next to her. They start talking and they seem to actually be getting along. Crap. Glaring at them, I wonder. What does she have that I don't? She's not famous, she doesn't have a famous father, and she doesn't have thousands of fans who adore her… Then why do you only care what Leo thinks? Ugh. This is getting annoying. I've told myself thousands of times that I'd be okay if he doesn't like me… Yet I still feel this way… Like a bad feeling of rejection.

"Thalia…?" a voice says from behind me. I quickly wipe the leftover tears away from my eyes and put on a fake smile. I then turn around to see a strange yet familiar face.

"Luke?" I gasp. "Since when do you talk to me?"

"Since you seem pretty upset," he says as he sits down next to me.

"I'm not upset," I say a little too quickly. "Why would I be upset?"

"You're paper plate has fork stabbings in it," Luke points to my plate.

"Right…" I say slowly. "Well, I do that all the time…" I lie.

"No, you don't. Listen, I can tell when people are upset. Tell me, what's on your mind?"

"A lot of stuff," I generalize.

"Like…?" he urges.

"Why do you even want to know?" I give him a weird look. "We don't talk."

"We could always start to talk," he says as he leans in really close to me. "Or do other stuff."

I push him back so he falls off of his chair. "Listen, dude, I'm not interested."

"But you're so pretty!" he frowns.

"Thanks, and no hard feelings, but I don't like you that way." I tell him. "I actually don't like you at all. You're creeping me out." I stand up and grab my tote bag with all my school stuff in it. I leave the cafeteria and walk really fast through the halls.

"Where are you going?" he calls after me, being the creeper that he is.

I think of the first place that I can think of. "Mars," I shout back. "You should book a rocket and meet me there." Maybe he'll take a hint…

Luke:

"Where are you going?" I shout after Thalia.

"Mars!" she yells back. "You should book a rocket and meet me there."

I don't respond. In fact, I don't even follow her. I take out my phone and run into the bathroom. I find Calypso's number on my speed dial and call her.

"Hello?" she says from the other line.

"Hi, it's Luke. You know that plan we made a while back? You know, the one where'd we'd do anything we can to ruin the Sirens? Well, it doesn't seem to be working out." I explain.

"What do you mean?" she orders.

"Well, you tried to ruin Thalia's chances of being with Leo, but it didn't necessarily work… And I just tried to do the same, but it probably made her like him even more." I tell her.

"So maybe we can't destroy Thalia… But what about Nico and Percy?" she cackles.

"What's your plan?" I question her.

"Word on the street is that Percy likes Annabeth. Stop them from happening. I'll deal with Nico, alright?" she smirks through the phone.

"Got it," I nod. "But why are we doing this again?"

"They were mean to me, Luke," Calypso's voice quivers. "And no one is mean to me and gets away with it…"

Thalia:

I finally get back to the room and lock the door behind me. Luke really freaks me out… Sitting down on the couch, I pull out my song book and a black pen. I begin to write the first few words that come to my mind.

"Thalia, are you okay?" my younger brother approaches me. I didn't even realize I've been crying.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Jason," I assure him.

"No, you're not." He says as he sits down next to me. "Tell me what's wrong, right now."

"It's Leo," I sigh. "I just, really like him. But I don't want to wait around for him while he flirts with other girls. And now he doesn't even want to talk to me now that we're done planning your dream date."

"Just get over him," Jason suggests.

"It's not that easy," I tell him.

"I know," he nods. "I've been trying to do that with Piper."

"WHAT?" I gasp. "Why?"

"She doesn't like me like that," he says.

"How do you know?" I cock my head at him.

"I can just tell," he answers.

"Listen Jason, don't get over her, alright?" I confirm. "I'll think of a plan; I just won't help you with it."

"And for you," Jason replies. "Give him a few hours. He needs to sit down and think about what's good for him. Once he knows, you'll know. Trust me. He isn't good at hiding stuff."

"Thanks Jason," I smile at him and give him an awkward hug, considering the fact that we're both sitting.

"No problem," he says as he pulls away. "Hey, what's this?" he takes my song book.

"No!" I shout as I try and yank it from his hands. "Give it back!"

"Breakdown," he reads. "Seems interesting…"

"JASON! GIVE IT BACK! YOU'RE BOTHERING ME! THAT'S PERSONAL STUFF THERE!"

"I'm supposed to bother you and nose into your business," he smirks. "I'm your little brother, remember?" Skimming the rest of my song, he comments. "Hey! This is pretty good. It's just missing one thing."

"What?" I demand as I hand him my pen. "Add it in! Quick!"

"Fine," he takes the pen from my hand and starts writing in scraggly handwriting. "Here." He pushes it back to me. "I added in a boy's part. You know, from the point of view of the person who it's about."

"Oh," I say as I read it over. "Yeah, I guess it kind of was missing something."

"Uh-huh."

"Well, all we need now is music. And a person to sing that guy part…"

Jason grins and I get kind of concerned. "I know just the person…"

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