I tried to beg Percy to not make me do this and I tried even harder to pull back. However, he already had a soulution to me being difficult. He picked me up and carried me over his shoulder. Granted I like the attenion, but I really hate the water.

Percy's smirk grew as other campers came out to invesiagte the protests. They all stood there unsure of how to react as Percy carried me closer to the water. Some campers exploded with luaghter while other seemed unmoved. I could picked up the Stolls cleary priaseing Percy and giving applauded his choice.

I reffused to let Percy get the better of me as I countinue to kick and scream. He was unswayed. Panic grew as he opened the gate to the pool area and the smell of cholrine flooded my nose.

" If you don't stop fuseing I may throw you in." the smrik leaked into his voice.

" This is not funny Percy. You are drawing attetion to this."

"Actully you are Nico."The blush instenly colored my face as Percy carried me down the steps into the pool.

Slowly my body was emeresd into the cool water and Percy put me down. The water reached my navel when I stood in the shallow end. I held on to the side of the pool and the crowd of on lookers depleadted.

Percy smiled and encrouage me to let go of the edge and walk over to him. I, however, stared at him and slowly inched my way over to the steps to get out. Instanly he caught on to what I was attempting and swam over to me. I felt his arms lock around my waist and drag me deeper into the pool.

The water felt cold and odd on my skin, even Percy felt cold like the water absorbed the heat. As Percy and I went deeper into the pool the water slowly creeped up my body. When we enter the pool it started around my hips, then it climbed to waist, next it was half-way up my chest, and now its at my collar bone but my feet are not touching the ground the only thing keeping me above the water was Percy. This may seem odd since I do have a likeing to Percy, however in this situation, Percy holding me was not ok but rather frighting. Yes he was keeping above the water, he was also the one pulling me deeper.

Finally we stoped. I clung to Percy to keep my head above the water. I did not feel safe for many reasons. My nails sunk into Percy's flesh as I held on to keep my self afloat. I saw him wince in pain , but I continued to cling, maybe out of spite but mostly in fear.

" Your ok Nico I got you. I wont let you drown." Percy's voice was such a soothing tone and I did relax a bit. However, I did not relax completely because lies can also sound sweet, but I doubt he would lie about something like that. "Now lets begin you frist swimming lesson shall we?" I merely nodded in response.

I personally do not remember much of the lesson but I did evenully became comfortable in the pool with Percy. I praticed holding my breath and floating. Mostly I remember how close we were, he always had a hand on me or was only a few inchs away. He also carried me to the hot tub to relax. I never knew just being in the water could take so much out of you.

We sat side by side in the hot tub and soaked as other came to the pool area. Some campers sinckerd when they saw us together. The Athena cabiners' still seemed upset with Percy, but they stuck with just glares. I just did not know how to feel at the moment and I could not figure out why my heart was raceing. Was it because I was close to Percy or is it because Percy just tramtized me? Either way my mind was crowed.

We kept a comfortable distance from eachother. We weren't too far or too close, yet something felt strained. Percy seemed to be deep in thought as his fingers played with the water. Gracfully, his fingers glided across the surface of the water. Now and then one finger would carve into the water creating a wake after it. He glace between the circle he was drawing in the water and gut fliped at this behavior. It seemed like Percy wanted to say something, but was unsure about it.

" percy what are you thinking about?" I know lame question.

"stuff." Lamer answer.

"what kind of stuff?"

" things I want." This struck me as odd for a couple reasons. The primise could be a number of things, however, his behavior seemed to narrow it down to something in his amedate sight. At this point my imagenation started going wild. I will spare the whole train of thought and get to the conculion. In my madness I ended up at the thought that the thing Percy wanted could possibly be me. Yet that idea was not impossible just to me seem more implauseable, because my overly self abuvise mind told me it couldn't be me due to my self-esteem issuses.

I decided that the heat was getting to me and got up to leave the hot tub. Just as I walked back to the room, it hit me. Percy carried me out to the pool so I had no key card to get back in. this was agravateing on so many levels.

I took a deep breath in attempts to relax as I walked back over to Percy. The look on his face told me he knew why I was comeing back. That big grin just gave it away. However, when he saw the annoynce on my face his grin broke.

I demaned his key from him and he just stared at my waiting hand.

" I don't have my key card." A guilty grin layed on his face. He had to be kidding me. If Percy didn't have his keycard that ment we, more or less I, had to go to the front desk and ask them to let us into our room. The people at the desk would think I am studpid and iressponible for locking myself out of the room. Besides that, people make me nerevous still and I don't enjoy talking to them.

My eyes shifted from Percy to the front desk. I could possible tell Percy to ask them to open the room since it was his idea to spontanaly grab me from our room, but then I may come across as incapable of doing things for myself. My teeth bit down on my bottom lip rather harshly as I stood there and thought. Percy felt my neverouseness, I guess, because he offered to ask the front desk to let us in our room. Sadly, being whom I am I nodded secertly glade that he offered instead of me asking.

We both walked to the front desk. When we approuched the desk that young lady behind it smiled and asked what we needed. Percy told her that he had forgot his room key in the room and now we were locked out. She seem to be taken with Percy's charm and well he is a believeable duface. Not to say he is dumb, rather if you did not know him you would think he is. Needless to say she let us into our room without any problems, well besides her evidently admireing Percy topless.

My arm were crossed as I marched into our room. I could feel the heat from my temper riseing making my face increaseingly red. Percy watched me as he would a bomb that could not be disamred, but instead of running he pushed the red button.

" Nico, are you ok?" his voice weak.

" No. I am not ok Percy."

" why?"

Really! He had to ask why? He knew very well WHY I wasn't ok.

Anger and frustation swarmed in my brain making it hard to think. I could reach out and choke him right now. Instead I clenched fists and took some calming breaths. The red heat subsided and my mind began to deculter.

" Percy, you know every well why I am mad. You humilated me twice and turned me in to a spectical." My temper stared to cloud my vision again. " every one was laughig and stareing at me as you draged me to the pool and you had us both forget our room cards causeing us have to ask the desk lady and then she was checking you out and it was just soo…" my brained stoped. The echo of my last few words bounced around in my mind. Time stoped as I porcessed that I just admited a girl who chekced Percy out annoyed me to a point I lacked words.

Percy leand against his bed with a smirk that seemed out of place. Was he glad he embarassed me? Does he think its funny that i noticed someone checking him out? Either way that smirk was confuseding and even worrisum.

" You noticed that Nico? Hmm intresting. So are you mad at me for draging you to the pool, might I point out you enjoyed after a while, or are you mad because some girl throught I was hot?" that smirk reapared on his face as he waited for a respones. His eye landed on me and locked with my eyes. Those green sphers pressured me to give an answer that we both know I would never say, yet they stayed in place never moveing and never changing emotion.

I manged to finaly break the stare and walked into the bathroom. I turned the sink on to wash my face in an attpent to calm down. The cold water ran down my face drawing the heat away from my temper. As my mind cleard I wonder what made me mad. Was is the being draged to the pool? Could be but after getting into the water and calming down it didn't bother me that much. Was it the girl checking out Percy? I know I am not mad at the girl and I don't own Percy, so why am I mad about it? I guess I was jelouse. The worst part is now Percy knows I was jelouse as well.

I stayed in that bathroom for along time comptemplateing what I was going to do when I got out. To take more time I choose to shower again to get all the chorine off myself. By the time I finaly emerged from the bathroom with no game plan, Percy was no longer in the room. I am not entirly happy, all it means is our encounter has been postponed.

Sorry for the long wait. I am in my 2nd year of university so I don't always have time to write. Again sorry.