Huh… It's been a while since we hung out hasn't it? Sorry! I got into playing League of Legends so I guess I've been pretty busy… I'll try and make this chapter a longer for you guys but I don't know if that'll work though. I'm seriously trying, just so you know.

The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: Steve almost gets a Girlfriend

"What in the Tartarus are you talking about?!" she shrieked. "I never did that!"

Zeus raised a suspicious and sceptical eyebrow.
"So your godly influence had no influence whatsoever on the Party Ponies, a group of wild centaurs that obey no one without substantial bribing or blackmail, helping a former goddess to camp?"

Aphrodite looked at a marble statue out from the corner of her eye just to avoid looking at her adopted father.
"No…" she said, twiddling her thumbs, "Don't know what you're talking about," continuing on with her fabrication.

"Ah, of course!" Zeus drawled sarcastically. "Those monsters just magically decided to help, you know? Because they totally do that all the time."

"Daddy, I already told you, I had nothing to do with it. Must've been someone else. And has it ever occurred to you that even though Calypso is a mortal, she might have some kind of power or influence over the godly world? Why do you always assume it's my fault?"

The king of gods cleared his throat, cuing Iris to glide into the throne room.
"So you didn't send this to their ship? Roll it, Iris."

Iris gave a reserved nod before waving her hand through the air, forming a screen of mist. She then moved off to the side to munch on the lethal, chocolate cupcake that she had brought to snack on.

Aphrodite cringed as she saw her own face in the rainbow. It was back when she was threatening those lonely and single (in Aphrodite's opinion anyway) centaurs that struggled at finding love.

"Hun, I'm telling you, you and your boys need girlfriends," she persuaded them.

The centaur on the receiving end shuddered as he recalled the last time Aphrodite had tried to help with the love life of the Party Ponies. Let's just say that last time, there were Easter rabbits, well placed banana peels and heartbroken cheerleaders involved.
"We don't misunderstand our intentions my lady," Steve tried to placate her. "We're not searching for romance at this point in time."

Aphrodite smirked in triumph. She was moving Steve exactly where she wanted him.
"But it was working out so great! I could set you guys up again, they deserve a second chance…"

Steve the centaur blanched,
"What do you want? I'll do anything, ANYTHING!"

"Okay, I guess there is something that you could do for me… There's a girl who's about to make it to the southern shore of Jamaica near the Spanish Town with the mountain of llamas. Get her to Miami and I won't give those high school cheerleaders your exact locations. Got that?" Aphrodite asked with a false front of sweetness.

Steve sighed, frustrated.
"You were planning this the whole time, weren't you?"

The manipulative goddess giggled.

"Do you still honestly wish to deny your assistance?" Zeus asked, cornering his daughter.

Aphrodite twitched her eye in shock. 'How did Zeus get his hands on that?' she thought, 'Premium members of Iris International always had the privilege of having their conversations kept confidential…'

"I'm the king of gods," Zeus boasted proudly, "There are no secrets from me. Even if those secrets are being broadcasted on Iris International by premium members."

"Poop."

Leo rubbed his hands together in glee. His contraption was finally back home. He waited for the wings to fold in before falling onto his bed to watch the recording.

He gazed at her long locks of gold. They glimmered in the sunlight and Calypso's waves fell over her shoulders. Even the weather seemed to be in her favour with rays bounding off of her skin.

"Look Leo," she started. Leo snapped his eyes back into focus. "I've gotten your message but it really has taken quite a while. If you're really that bad at math, I'll tutor you when we meet up again. I love how you're smart enough to get this machine to find me and install a sort of a memory or a communication device on it but you aren't smart enough to have a live chat on it. You're a freaking genius. I'm at Camp Half Blood right now, so yeah… Just feel free to uh… drop by anytime if you want to talk to me conveniently without any machinery involved. Bye~"

Instead of waiting for a beep this time, Leo started talking as soon as he saw the red light blink.

"I'm not bad at math. I don't care what my friends say." He paused. Not that he had any friends. "I do have friends, not just imaginary ones, you know. It'd be wonderful for you to teach me math, as long as it involves no math at all. Or teaching for that matter."

Leo recalled his dreadful conversation with Ignus, Calypso's so called boyfriend. His face turned momentarily sour.

"Why didn't you tell me about Ignus?" he questioned accusingly. "You could've told me that you had a boyfriend letting me fall madly in love with you. I thought that we were close enough not to keep secrets anymore…" Leo murmured sadly.

"I'm sure that we'll meet each other again at some point. I'll get to camp once we've defeated Gaia. And then I hope that we can be… great… friends…"

Leo didn't really want to leave her on such a sad and unfriendly note but he needed to make it clear that it wasn't right for Calypso to be cheating on her Justin Bieber lookalike boyfriend no matter how much he hated him.

"I hope he loves you as much as you love him," he said, choking back tears before pressing the button to stop the recording.

Wings sprang out and flew off into the perfect sky, which didn't match with Leo's broken emotions at all.

Okay, I seriously think that my creative writing skill has decreased since Year 7. I'm so getting worse, please someone give me a plot or event to work with. Please give small suggestions, in fact, as many as you want. The more the better. Thanks!

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