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[Aphrodite's POV]

I rubbed my hands together. Time for the next couple…

[Still Aphrodite's POV]

I looked into the mirror. I had sent everybody else to a mall somewhere in Europe. I was alone.

So, back to the mirror.

There was a young girl in the mirror. She had brown eyes and brown hair, and she was gardening in a garden. She finished planting a few roses, and she stood up to admire her handiwork. She smiled, satisfied.

She was Katie Gardner, Daughter of Demeter.

Snapping my fingers and announcing 'Here's your soul mate' seemed to make couples awkward. It also lacked drama. So I decided to make them meet each other a bit more…Naturally.

There was a reason I placed them in the mall (or rather, that particular mall).

[Annabeth's POV]

Ugh, I hate the mall! It's so crowded and noisy.

We, meaning Thalia, Nico, Travis, Conner, and Jason, trudged through the mall. Travis and Conner were talking about some new pranking ideas. Unfortunately, I couldn't hear them. I'll just have to beat it out of them later. Jason, Nico, Thalia, and I were discussing about which weapon material was the best. Nico kept saying that Stygian Iron was the best. Jason argued that Imperial Gold was better, and Thalia and I said that Celestial Bronze was the best.

The mortal were looking at us like we were crazy.

After a few more minutes of arguing, Thalia and I finally won.

"Ugh, I need to go to the restroom!"

Shouted Thalia as she sped off to find one. A lot of people stared.

Nico watched her go, and then asked me a question.

"Does she like flowers?"

He asked. I laughed.

"Doesn't every girl?"

"Then I want to get some flowers for Thalia"

He said.

Nico headed towards the flower shop. Travis and Conner sped off to Nico before I could tell them to stay. I sighed and said to Jason (who was playing games with his Demi, a phone device made for demigods),

"Wait for your sister"

I saw him nod and I went off to Nico, Travis, and Conner.

As we headed to the flower shop (which was named 'Gardner's Flowers', by the way), we saw a girl our age, with brown hair and brown eyes, fight with a monster. We rushed off to help her, but she just grew some vines to hold the monster into place. Then she stabbed the monster, and the monster disintegrated, leaving some yellow dust kind of thingy on the floor. She sighed and started to clean it up.

We stepped in.

"Daughter of Demeter?"

I asked the girl. The girl nodded.

"Katie Gardner, Daughter of Demeter."

She said.

"Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena"

I said. The others soon followed my example. They chatted with her, and Nico bought some flowers for Thalia, and when Thalia came back, she looked really happy. I felt happy for her, although a bit of longing for my soul mate.

I acted indifferently, but I was puzzled.

Since we were immortal, at least till we meet our soul mates, we never got to see anybody more than three times. Especially demigods. But at this rate, I was sure that we were going to meet again, we were becoming to become friends.

So it's either this or this: This girl, Katie, is one of the boy's soul mate, or Aphrodite made a mistake.

And Aphrodite rarely made mistakes, especially when related to love.

I had heard from Aphrodite that Conner would have to wait much more time than us. So Conner wasn't Katie's soul mate.

I looked at Jason. He was talking to Thalia and Nico. Scratch Jason, too.

I looked at Travis. But he was staring at Katie, who was gardening.

'Aha!' I thought.

I went into Aphrodite's room. Aphrodite was organizing her incredibly big wardrobe. Again.

I waited until she was done. Then we sat down.

"The mall we went, you didn't pick it out randomly."

Aphrodite was like 'what?'.

"I suppose you realized that snapping your fingers and announcing soul mates is awkward."

I said. Aphrodite put on one of her 'What the heck are you talking about' looks.

"Oh please, don't pretend. Katie is Travis's soul mate."

She still acted if she didn't know.

"I'm going to tell that to Travis if you don't open up"

I said. She broke.

"No no no no no no! You must not tell him! You mustn't ruin things for him!"

She said, rather loudly and desperatly.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love studying and reading books, but I like drama... When it does NOT include me.

"Can I help?"

I asked, rather eagerly. Aphrodite smiled and said yes.

Then we put our heads together and started to think out a plan for Operation Tratie Step #2.

[Travis's POV]

Huh. As soon as we get home Annabeth rushes to Aphrodite's room. AND they're not screaming at each other.

Then I heard a somebody, rather like Aphrodite's voice, saying something desperatly. It seemed like 'Yomus snot telim' and 'Yo mussn ruindings forim'. Or something like that.

Strange.

Do you think that I should make Travis realize that Katie is his soul mate? Or should I make him realize it after his date? Review or PM till September 26th.

P.S. To tell you something, I have already mapped out how Travis would realize Katie was his soul mate immediately... But I could alter it as you guys want.

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