Paisley POV

The room was deathly quiet, with Nico and I perched on the side of Percy's bed and Percy standing in front of the both of us, crossing his arms over his chest tightly.

"So," Percy began, "What would you like to say for yourselves?"

It was as if we had done something wrong, even though we hadn't. We were just being… Couple-y. Because that's what we are now, I think.

"Look Percy, how would you feel if someone said you weren't allowed to be with Annabeth?" Nico asks him, looking a little scared. I reached discreetly over and took one of his hands as he spoke, this time with a bit more confidence.

"I wouldn't feel too good, but you're younger than Annabeth and I-"

"You were our age when you started dating, need I remind you, Percy." I say to him, raising an eyebrow. I mean, I love my brother, I really do, but one is already a police officer. He's given Nico the okay through Skype when they met.

Remembering the event brought back memories.

"Sky Oceana! You get your butt back to this tent right this instant!" Cole yelled as five-year-old me ran further through the woods away from my family. Well, family minus Mum. If you could even call them that.

I giggled, feeling both good and bad. I could hear his larger, heavier footsteps crashing behind me before I was picked up, the shoes falling off my feet.

"Roar!" Cole said playfully, ticking me furiously. I laughed harder, as his fingers went faster. Squirming in his grip, I accidentally kicked his face.

I quickly stop as soon as his hands settle.

I turn around in his arms to face him. His eyes were shut tightly, and his face contorted in pain.

"Cole? Did I hurt you?" Five year old me asked, reaching up with small hands to touch his face.

Quickly, taking me by surprise, Cole yelled out and started the tickle-war all over again.

"Cole! Come back, we're about to have… Dinner." My sister said, glaring at me as she came over. She hated me, until I was about ten, and then she grudgingly accepted the fact that no, I was not going to go away and that I actually was her half-sister.

"Okay, Tasmin, I'll be there soon with Sky."

With a huff, my sister flicked her blonde hair and turned on her heel to return to the campsite.

"Percy," I say, shaking the arm of my sleeping brother. "Percy!" I say more urgently.

I was cold, my shorts not even covering half of my thighs.

Percy groans, cracking an eye open and rolling towards me. "What's wrong?" He asks, holding open the covers for me to slip under.

I dive into them, burrowing into his side quickly. I don't want to be there for longer than I have to. Being with my brother made me feel safe.

"Can't sleep?" Percy asks, patting my shoulder. I shake my head into his chest as my hair knots.

I squeezed my eyes shut, and clung onto my brother's arm for dear life before I fell asleep.

Sleep for me was never easy around the American winter. First, there was my mother's death anniversary on my mind, and when that passed, there was the year-mark of my step-father being sent to jail and not even a month later my sibling's death anniversary. All five of the six of them.

That, and it was freezing. I could never sleep with anything further than my knees on my legs, as I was so used to chucking on some shorts and an old shirt to go to bed in. I am someone who craves warmth, I guess, as I shivered without it. Both aspects of it.

Tearing my eyes open, I sit up in Percy's bed. The alarm clock read 11:48am. I guess I really slept in.

Pushing back the covers, I kick my legs over the side.

"No, Jason! Just please leave me alone for a few minutes!" I hear right outside the door as I begin to stand on my feet. I wobbled for a few seconds, and my vision blurred.

A few seconds later it cleared and I began going about my business, brushing my hair.

Call me conceited because my friends were arguing, but I think that they should sort this out by themselves. I ship them, so badly, but if they wanted to sort it out, they would. I know Jason wants to, but the problem is, Piper won't believe him.

Jason strains, "Piper please! I've given you tonnes of time! I want to make it up to you, even though I haven't done anything wrong, but the only problem was that you jumped to conclusions, okay? I've never ever cheated on you. I never would. You made that conclusion. So if you want to do that, fine. I'm done trying to make it right when all you can see is wrong."

Okay, so I wasn't expecting that…

I open the door and come face to face with Piper. Jason was walking down the stairs wistfully, his hands in his pockets and his posture less-than-perfect for once.

"Morning Paisley," Piper tries to say without stuttering. Less we say she failed.

"Morning," I yawn, "And technically it still is."

"Yeah," Piper says, not really paying attention.

"I saw a rainbow unicorn this morning, it was screaming your name and stuff. And it was doing the moonwalk on a rainbow that was by my window," I say to her nonchalantly.

"What?" She turns to me, raising an eyebrow. Her eyes pierced into mine, before I rose my hands and laughed.

"Kidding."

Obviously she wasn't in the mood for light-hearted sarcasm.

"Hey! I have an idea!" Leo exclaims, bubbling in his seat next to Calypso.

"Here we go again," Jason grumbles from his seat on the floor.

"Let's play twenty questions!" Leo says, not making any move to stop being so hyper. I know I can be a lot to handle a lot of the time, but Leo takes it to another dimension.

Nico was sitting next to me, his hand in mine.

All of a sudden, after the previous night, I didn't know how to act. I mean, before we were pretty close I guess, and I don't want to screw it up or make anything awkward. Were we supposed to keep acting like best friends, or was there a particular way we had to act?

Seriously, there has to be a copy of a relationships guide somewhere. And I cannot tell you how much I need that.

To the right of me, Octavian smirked.

I didn't like the way he was looking at the idea. The other day he came up to me with a video of me dancing with my sister and the rest of the performance team for the studio at the regionals taken when I was seven years old. Eight years ago.

If that wasn't creepy enough, he came up to me during lunch this one time and asked me how my sister was. My very dead, and six-feet-under-dirt sister.

Least to say, I found it rather rude.

"Okay," I nod, "Like a giant game of truth, with everyone as a player. There's enough people to do it. And it's basically the same thing, except less orderly. And there are boundaries. I think most of us have enough common sense to tell where they are. I hope."

Octavian glared at me, and my suggestion towards hm. He knew exactly what I was playing at.

"Okay," Annabeth says, curling her feet to her side, "Who first?"

At first it was silent, then Reyna put up her hand boldly.

I was still unsure about what I thought of her. She was very prim and proper. There wasn't a non-intelligent bone in her perfectly structured body. She was ridiculously poised, and mature. It was kind of annoying when I was trying to make jokes and no one laughed because she countered them and made me feel stupid. In a way, I felt like half of her band was against me. I wasn't going to say anything about it though. Either I would be called stupid, or Percy would go all overprotective.

There were two approaches to the basics of intimidation. Pure intimidation, Reyna's approach. And the 'Bully-Your-Way-So-They-Feel-Intimidation' approach. Octavian's. The second one works with selective people. The people that let that happen.

"Piper." Oh dear.

"What?" Said girl snapped, lifting her head.

"Something you wish you had done."

"I wish that I had made contact with my sisters, before they all left, or their dad's moved." Piper says, miffed. "Leo!" Leo spun towards his friend sitting next to him, his mouth full of the popcorn that Calypso had placed on the table not two minutes ago.

"What?" He asks unintelligently.

"If I was gone would you miss me? If so, how much?" Piper smiles, already probably knowing everything about Leo.

"This much!" Leo stretches his grin, and his arms as far as they can go. "And probably more." He smiled at her. He probably heard what had happened this morning, and figured she needed the support. I mean, Jason practically broke up with her, and she's more clueless than he is.

And they just got together!

"Nico! How bad was the grilling Percy gave you for kissing his "Baby Sister"?" Leo smirked, already knowing the answer as he was right by the door when we opened it.

Nico glared and held onto my had tighter. I had to say, it was kinda weird.

"It was tough." Percy seemed fine with this answer, "I mean, I understand where he's coming from though. I would have been shocked too, though I'm almost certain you all saw it coming."

I nod at his answer, knowing that it was enough to make Percy feel like an awesome Caveman, and give Leo satisfaction.

If I thought that was bad, oh I had to just wait until Octavian decided it would be a great time to pick on me, more than he already had.

He was picking and picking and picking at the same wound. My sister. I felt like he already knew everything about her, ranging from the exact time she died in the hospital to when she got her period. It was creepy, because not even I knew either of those things. I was at the hospital too late, and she didn't like to share her stories about her monthly visitor.

"Paisley," My legs felt like jelly and my heart and stomach sat in my throat.

Nico slid his arm over my shoulder, that was once holding my hand, and I reached up with my other hand to grab it. He grasped it back just as tightly.

I tried not to show my anxiety on my face, but I knew that I would almost cut off the circulation in Nico's hand.

"What was the last thing you ever said to you sister?" And there it was.

The big shocker.

"Okay, buddy, that was really out of line," Percy stated, standing up and obviously angry at what had been asked.

I looked down into my lap, feeling tears pool at my heart sat back down and my stomach clenched. I felt sick.

My legs were now completely useless, as I felt them go numb.

Nico had lowered his head to mine, and was asking me the same thing over and over.

"Are you okay?"

"Tell me that you're okay."

Along those lines.

But I couldn't, wouldn't concentrate.

I could hear voices yelling, but I couldn't hear them. I could feel people crowding around, suffocating me without knowing.

"I hate you," I say, as more tears fell into my lap. I looked up, my eyes now most likely glowing lime green. "I hate you." My gaze focused on Octavian.

"Are you satisfied now?" I hiss, standing up as he backed away, "Did you find some sort of twisted, sick pleasure in making me upset all over again. Do you know how much this hurts, knowing that the last thing I said to my only sister, the only one I ever, and will ever, get, was I hate you?"

He didn't answer me, and seemed shocked that I actually told him.

"You know what, I have never said that to anyone since, because I knew that it was just words and that I really didn't hate the people no matter what they said or did. Because they were still people who deserve a chance, and don't deserve my hate. I thought I never could. But you, you just proved me wrong." And right when I was up in his face, I turned, ducked my head and sprinted up the stairs so fast I think I would have beaten Usain Bolt.

"No, sorry. Please don't come in. She doesn't want to talk to anyone. No sorry, Calypso. She needs breathing room. Piper, I will call my mother soon enough and her brother. They're going to want to see her and they will want to talk to her and right now she can't form words. No, I tried getting her to eat but she didn't want anything. She threw it all up a little while ago." Percy said to the people crowding at the door.

"Children, leave the poor girl alone." It was Venus. She had been out doing work. "Now I'm not sure what happened, but when people are upset the least you can do is leave them be to sort out their feelings and to calm down a little."

Nico was the only other person in the room, sitting right beside me. His hand was in mine, as I buried my face into his shoulder. I wasn't still crying, just moping and being completely and utterly miserable as Nico was quietly talking to me about something.

"Paisley? Do you wanna talk to Mum?" Percy asks me, holding out his phone. Mine was broken. Leo sat on it and heard a crunch. My ancient phone had broken.

I took an arm out of the ball I had made my body into, and took the phone he was reaching out to me.

Nico leaned away a little to give me space. He kissed the side of my head before getting up and saying to Percy. "I'm going to make something to drink."

"Hey Baby," Sally says, picking up on the second ring, "You haven't called in a while. Congratulations on getting into the semi finals!"

I sniffled, and Percy seemed to understand why I wasn't speaking. He patted my leg and went outside. No doubt he was by the door but there was more space than before.

"Sally," I cry, "I wanna go home. I just wanna-" I hiccupped, "Wanna go home."

"Aw, honey," Sally cooed, "What's the matter?"

And so I told her. Everything.

"I think you need a good night's sleep. Remember to take two anxiety pills this time. Remember what the doctor said? But no more than that. And if you can't sleep go to Percy or use a sleeping pill. I think there was some when I last checked in the front pocket of your bag?" My step-mother informs me. I could tell that she was worried.

"Have you heard from Dad?" I ask her, wanting to see my Dad too.

"Yes, and he's flying over tomorrow. I think you, Percy and I are going to go and pick him up from the airport and have some family bonding time, ay? Tell Nico that I think his Dad is coming too. And speaking of, how is that boy?"

"We're kind of dating now…" I trail of coyly.

"Is the relationship labelled? I am so happy to hear that honey. I know how much you like him."

"It has been labelled. Please don't tell Cole yet. Leo broke my phone so I can't call him and I think my computer is with you. So tomorrow would you mind if I borrowed your phone and used it to call?" I ask her, knowing that Cole would be worried. He always calls if I don't answer a text after three days. And it's been a week since my phone broke. God knows what he's done.

"I spoke to him yesterday. He says that he is very proud of you. He sounded really tired when we were talking and I think he's caught up in work, so I think it's best if you don't, but I will be sure to text him and tell him that you asked about him." The fact that my only sibling on my mother's side was too caught up to talk to me hurt a little, but I didn't mind. He had to do what he has to do, which is be on the Police Officer's beck and call.

"Okay, Sally. Love you. I think Percy is waiting for me to give his phone back."

"Love you to, Sweetheart. I'll see you tomorrow. Ten AM sharp!"

A/N

Hey guys! The new update of wattpad is kinda making me frustrated but I'll live. When I click enter the bold goes away and I'm over here like "..."

Hope you guy's liked the chapter! Just gives you an insight to Paisley's life I guess.

I got called fat by a seven year old yesterday. Fun. And to top it off, I was in the bathroom, and the bathroom we have at home has no lock. The kid barges in when I'm in there, and when I tell him to shut the door, he opens it and comes in anyways. And then this morning, I had just woken up becsause my brother and this dude were being loud and noisy, and my brother's room is next to mine. I can see his door when I look through mine. I looked through the door and the kid was stripping. I didn't need to see that.

On the bright-ish side. I'm on season three episode Seventeen or Eighteen of Pretty Little Liars because I didn't leave my room after the first incident other than to have a shower when the kid wasn't there and to have dinner. In which the kid looked at me weirdly.

Conniefrannie HAPPY THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY MY WONDERFUL FRIEND! (everyone say happy birthday to her. She's now a teenager.)

It's also my friend's brother's birthday today. I'm going to her house as well. I was there when it was her sister's birthday as well. And we had a joint birthday.

I went for a run yesterday, after the rain had somewhat cleared up. I got halfway down the beach before it started spitting, but I didn't care because it was only light. I was almost home when it got harder and I was like, well I could keep going and finish the song, so I did and I didn't even get very far before it started pouring and I ran home. And I was walking up the steps to the house and reached the top at the exact end of the song. And when I was inside, it was raining so hard that it was almost hailing. Perfect timing.

Speaking of, it's raining now and I'm in shorts and a tank top.

Does anyone else's feet get really cold when the rest of you is warm? I also turn purple/blue when I'm really cold. I mean, my wrist's my nails (fingers and toes) my palm and my lips go that colour. I freaked my brother's friend out once because I was blue. But I was also sick. And I had also just been forced to swim 100metres of Butterfly in a race. And I was nine... Yeah, my coach forced me because there weren't enough people in the race. Why couldn't she have picked someone older?

I LOVE YOU GUY'S! YOU'RE ALL SO SWEET!

~KaleidoscopeColours

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