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Keep on reading to find out what happens during Calypso and Leo's awkward silence! :)

The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: The Awkwardness Continues

"Who's your mum?"

"I dislike her too much to say her name."

"Can you spell it out?"

"I dislike her too much to spell her name."

"Fine, what's she like?"

"I dislike her too much to think about her."

"You're never going to tell me anything about her, are you?"

"Ooh! Would you look at that! An answer we both agree on!"

Leo held up his hands in surrender.

"Well, excuse me for trying to keep things rolling."

"Rolling? Seriously?" Calypso exclaimed. "My granny could come up with something better than that?!"

Leo saw an opening in the conversation.

"So who's your granny?"

Calypso couldn't help but groan while she held up her arms in exasperation.

"In case you don't remember, it's Gaia…"

"Oh… So you don't want to talk about it?" Leo asked Calypso awkwardly while shrugging.

Calypso's eyebrows looked like they wanted to run away from her perfect face.

"Gee… You think?!"

"Kay… Kay… that was obviously obvious. Sorry 'bout that. But you don't have to be so snooty about it."

Calypso was about to open her mouth and answer back sarcastically but then Leo remembered what happened last time he pissed her off so he quickly said,

"Wait! Forget I ever said anything. Just wait a minute."

Leo took a deep breath and then took a while to think up an apology.

"I'm really, really sorry. Please forget what I just. I never said anything. I am just a breathing corpse. Wait, no, that's not possible. Uh… Seriously! Forget I said anything."

Leo knew that it was a terrible apology and so cliché but it really wasn't like Leo could come up with anything better on the spot.

Leo clearly saw Calypso roll her eyes and mutter something colourful under her breath.

"So back to the awkward silence, right?" Leo murmured while slightly chewing his index finger.

"Yeah… I guess."

Leo looked at Calypso and it seemed like she thought of something.

"So… Leo? How's the Argo II being going?"

Leo thought about it. 'It took her two hours to of that pathetic conversation topic?'

"Um… We're doomed?"

"That's very… optimistic? Doesn't that mean you're probably going to die?"

"There's an eighty percent chance that the whole world's going to be enslaved by giants, a ten percent chance that we're only going to die and a fifteen percent chance that we're actually going to survive."

"You know… I'm right… You're way too optimistic. And going on epic quests to save the world really isn't helping your education, is it?"

Leo's ADHD and dyslexia really meant that his education was spotty at best. Demigods weren't exactly awesome at maths.

"Well all I can say is that we have a ninety chance of never returning alive or getting enslaved. None of the options sound really good so I guess we really can't fail…"

"Hmm… Excellent motivation?" Calypso joked lightly.

"Mais oui, an excellent motivator…"

"What does 'mais oui' mean?" Calypso giggled, confused.

"It's French for 'why yes.' You like it?"

The two of them were giggling away like there was no tomorrow.

"So does that mean that you've forgiven me yet?" Leo asked shyly.

He didn't want to anger her and have a replay of what happened last time.

"You think I'd still be here talking to you if I hadn't forgiven you?"

You know how they say only girls can do a duck-face? Well Leo completely disapproved of that saying. He believed in gender equality.

Well anyway, Leo made an adorable duck-face and shrugged.

"Maybe. Maybe not."

"How's it going?"

"It's… a work in progress."

"You know Gaia's gonna kill you right?"

"Dude, she's still asleep!"

"Remember last time when Scott died in his sleep and everyone thought it was an accident involving his pepperoni pizza?"

"Oh yeah! Apparently he got food poisoning and died from intense diarrhoea. Shame… He still owed me twenty six drachmas when he died…"

"I know the truth. He pissed off Gaia and she cursed his pepperoni so it would be half cooked and made him get food poisoning! She's too powerful!"

"Fine! Then I just won't eat any pepperoni. Easy!

"Do you honestly think that's the only way she can kill you?!"

"Gosh darnit!"

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BRING ON THE FLAMES, COS UNCLE LEO'S HERE!