Alright guys, I have not yet read Trials of Apollo so no spoilers please! I'm getting it today and reading is all I'm doing after I do. Hope you like this chapter, and thanks so much for sticking with me through this story everyone, I can't believe we're almost done!
98. Music
"Come on Jason," Piper grabs her boyfriends hand and leads him to where all of the dancing couples were in the meadow at Camp Half Blood.
Leo sighs. He's used to being jealous of his friends and all of their relationships, but ever since he'd started dating Reyna a few months ago that feeling had all but vanished. Now he had someone, his someone, and he wasn't jealous anymore.
Because his someone was Reyna and she was better than anybody else in the world.
He's used to Percy and Annabeth. The Golden Couple of Camp, of course they've been either dancing all night (Percy looking extremely awkward at first) or talking to everybody here. They'd come and sat with him for a bit, drinking the punch spiked with ambrosia, before Percy asked Annabeth to dance again.
Even Nico had been dancing- or swaying side to side in one spot at least- with Will, and Nico wasn't exactly a dancer. Leo was the only one who was spending the majority of their time sitting on the sidelines, his foot halfheartedly tapping along with whatever song the Apollo kids were playing.
Reyna was in Camp Jupiter, he hadn't seen her for almost two weeks now and he was missing her. Especially when he was surrounded by everyone's else happiness.
Gods, even Clarisse had been dragged out to dance, Leo noticed. He didn't know how Chris had managed that.
He takes another sip (gulp) of his ambrosia, tasting jellybeans as he does, and startles when he hears a very familiar voice behind him.
"I'm surprised you're not up there shaking it with Will."
He turns and there's Reyna, smiling at him with sparkling eyes.
Leo thinks it might be the happiest moment of his life.
He gets out of his chair and kisses her before saying anything in response, a full blown kiss, soft and tender because she's here and he's missed her and now everything is so much better.
He pulls away and actually takes her in, reveling in her hair that's down in waves (which never happens), white spaghetti strap tank and jean shorts and he marvels because she's his person and he's hers and isn't that just everything?
He grins at her, finally speaking. "I was waiting for the right audience obviously."
She grins and takes his hand, walking him to where everyone else is. They're greeted with yells of surprise, people saying hi and it takes a few minutes but eventually they're just dancing together.
"How are you here?" He asks her.
She shrugs. "Got Frank to cover for me. He has Hazel there to help him so I think it should be okay."
Leo laughs. "Amazing," he says.
She smiles at him before saying, "I missed you."
He raises one of their joined hands and kisses her knuckles. "You too Rey. You have no idea how much."
Her smile becomes a full- watt one. "I figured I'd stay the weekend. Get back to being praetor in a few days."
"Yes," Leo nods happily, suddenly thinking he could possibly be in love with this girl. "Definitely, yes."
And with that, with Reyna just being there, Leo suddenly wasn't lonely or jealous at all.