Hello everyone! I am so sorry that this chapter is super late! My summer has been crazy and we have a new school schedule this year. All my classed are an hour and 30 minutes! Chapters might not be as constant as every week because I'm still trying to figure out how the plot will unfold. Please, please, please give me suggestions!
I must've been making a weird face because Annabeth suddenly looked concerned. She typed in something on her phone and it translated into French, "What's Wrong?" I typed about how I have no other clothes, we ran away from school without telling anyone and my mom would be worried sick!
Annabeth didn't look worried. "Chiron will sort all of that out! Don't worry," the phone translated in its creepy monotone voice. I've always hated that. It reminded me of tourist trying to speak French. The words are grammar was mostly correct but the pronunciation was completely off. "Plus we have extra clothes and toiletries you can use."
"That's good. I said relieved, but I didn't know how Chiron could make the whole school believe Ms. Keeps and I weren't missing.
It was near the end of the school year so the camp had many returning summer campers, not just year- rounders', Piper had explained earlier, but the camp looked pretty full. I couldn't imagine any more campers stuffing into this place. The Aphrodite Cabin only had 13 campers in it but Piper said that there were usually around 30. If there wasn't a secret underground basement, then I wouldn't believe that 30 campers could fit. Piper laughed and assured that they all can fit.
I was assigned a bunk above a witch- I mean girl named Drew. She was just flat out rude. I could instantly tell that she was going to pick on me. Drew was always rolling her eyes at whatever Piper said or looking at people as if they were made of trash. It wasn't like I had much of a choice though. It was either sleep above Drew or sleep in the boys' quarters, and frankly I would rather sleep with the boys. They were neat freaks too, but that would be weird if I were to sleep with them.
Mostly everyone was nice to me though. A girl who was around 13 was assigned to show me how camp works. It was a little embarrassing having to be shown how to do activities by a kid who was 2 years younger than me. Her name was Mimi. She was nice but a little bit too OCD (as if everyone else wasn't.) She would freak out if one strand of my hair was sticking out or my ponytail. Then she would insist to fix it with hairspray and hair gel for an hour. After that I tried not to mess up my hair, but it was hard when you were doings things such as climbing a rock wall that was on fire or canoeing in a lake full of naiads who constantly tried to flip over you boat. I seemed to manage but Mimi's hair got really messed up. I didn't dare tell her and I was glad no one else did either.
Everything that the Aphrodite Cabin did seemed halfhearted –except for Piper, she tried her best at everything. They mostly sat on the sidelines and gossiped while fixing their makeup. I think that this was Mimi's first time actually doing the activities, because by dinnertime, she was completely worn out.
Dinner was delicious and better than anything I'd ever had! We were having roast beef, cooked carrots, and mashed potatoes. During the middle of the meal people started getting up and scraping their food into the fire. It was kind of strange because they would go sit back down and continue eating as if nothing had happened.
"Why do they do that?" I asked Mimi. "Oh, they're giving a burnt offering to their godly parent. You probably should too. It might help with your chances of getting claimed." Mimi explained and continued eating. "Aren't you going to offer some of you food?" I asked. "I already gave Aphrodite some of mine before I started eating." said Mimi.
I walked up to the bronze brazier a scraped off the juiciest part of my roast beef. Whoever my parent was I hoped they claimed me soon. I didn't NOT like the Aphrodite Cabin, but I didn't want to stay there long.
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