A/N: Hahaha...read and review...also the reason why I'm laughing is cause...I did not plan the chapter title to coincide with the chapter number...pft...complete coincidence. Hope you enjoy.

Present

Gods damn it. I can't believe she'd do that. I sighed again and laid on my back. The ground was rough with pebbles but I didn't care. I closed my eyes and listened to the wind rustling through the trees. I was calm and wasn't that upset. I mean she could be with whoever she wanted. Even though I didn't like it. And Hera would love to turn me into a peacock. I sighed again. Wow, I'm sighing a lot. Oh well. That's when I heard footsteps coming my way. I shot up and went into a fighting position. But quickly relaxed when I saw the familiar orange color of the camp's t-shirt. And my heart had started racing.

"Hey, I heard you leave...if you don't mind me asking...why?" I shrugged at her.

"No reason just thought of a green monster."

"Green monster?" She raised an eyebrow at me. "If you say so pinecone face. I was just wondering...so...Connor asked me out..weird huh?"

"Yeah super weird. So what did you say?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"I said yes, but we're only going as friends.." She stated. Then a devilish grin spread across her face. "You aren't...jealous are you?" She mocked. I could feel my cheeks burning. I turned away from her trying to cool down my face. "No, whatever gave you that idea?"

"Nothing...just wanted to tease you." Finally feeling my face cool down I turned to face her. When I did, I saw a pair of big green eyes looking at me. Dangerously close. I must've let out a very unmanly yelp as I backed away crab style. She laughed and I scowled. She walked over to me and ruffled my already unruly hair. As quick as it came the sensation was gone when she removed her hand from my scalp. I really wanted her to stay and pet my head. Oh, gods...I think that was strike to my masculinity. She smiled at me and waved as she left. I felt a whole ton of clouds stirring inside the pit of my stomach making me feel as light as air. I hadn't noticed Jason come out of the nearest bunch of foliage to my right until he spoke.

"Hey...dude...Tyler...you do know that you're floating right?" That snapped me out of my daydreaming as I looked down to see Jason, staring wide eyed at me. By Zeus...I'm floating and a good ways up...oh gods...getting nauseous...ground spinning...mayday, mayday, I'm going down. If it hadn't been for Jason I would've been a demigod pancake as he caught a hold of my arm before I could be flattened by a little thing known as gravity. After being safely back on the ground I thanked him.

"By dad's name you were doing great. I thought you'd finally gotten over your fear of heights!" I clamped a hand over his mouth.

"Not so loud," I hisses. "I don't want the whole camp knowing about it." He nodded his head as I let go of his mouth...that sounded so wrong.

"Okay no worries! It's not like there's someone else who knows about it but me..." He must have seen me flinch because he was smirking at me. "Wait don't tell me...Perci knows too...doesn't she." He was grinning at me. Like how Spongebob found out about Squidward's little Krabby Patty problem. I sighed and nodded. "Wow you must've really trusted her to keep your secret. I mean it took a while for me to figure it out...actually...you not wanting to ride that roller coaster was one of them."

"Yeah, that's it..." I couldn't tell him that she had found out from our quest to save Annabeth and Artemis. She was smarter than people gave her credit for. "Well I think I'm going to go back to our cabin and you know, sleep." I trudged off and was glad to be back in cabin 1.