Chapter 42.

I wait outside Cabin one at five to ten, five minutes before Thalia said to meet. I see her with a boy a few inches taller than her with blond hair. She's carrying two bulging black bin bags in one hand. He says some thing to her which I can't hear and she shoves him lightly. He laughs and pushes her back. They come up to me and Thalia says "Katy. This is Jason, my less powerful little brother." Jason rolls his eyes.

"Hey Jason." I give a small wave.

"Hi, Katy. Thalia said you're sleeping in our cabin tonight and I just want you to know, that bunk where you can't see Hippie Zeus is mine."

"No it's not. It was mine first." Thalia says

"Let's go in." Jason says, ignoring Thalia as he and opens the door and winks at her and she hits him in the stomach with one of the bags.

"Are you sure it's a good idea for me to be in here, won't it be like rubbing salt into the wound if I stay in Zeus's cabin?" I ask.

"Zeus has been cheating on Hera for thousands of years, and if he tries to do anything to you I'm sure Hera will remind him." Jason reassures me.

"Besides, he probably doesn't care." Thalia shrugs. "Hera doesn't care when we go in her cabin."

"Ok, but if I get blown up or turned into a pigeon I'll be coming back to haunt you." I grin. "What's in the bags?" I ask

"All of Drew's clothes. This morning I found that she stole my eyeliners so I replaced all her clothes with that dress." She laughs. "I saw Drew enter the cabin just after we left, so she's no doubt going to change her clothes. I give it two minutes."

"Now we wait." Jason smirks.

"What the Hell!" We hear a shriek.

"One minute and forty seconds. You win." Jason says, looking at his watch. He hands Thalia a golden coin. "I thought she wouldn't notice until at least midday, I guess Piper wasn't exaggerating."

"Come over here." Thalia runs over to he window, just in front of a set of bunk beds. Jason climbs to the top bunk and looks through the window above us. I see Drew and another girl shouting at Chiron while holding up the dress. "We need to hide those clothes." Thalia says.

"Consider it done." Jason grabs both bags and climbs out the back window. He's back in a minute. "They're on top of Aphrodite's cabin, so they can't be traced back to us. I flew around the backs of all the cabins."

I go back to the window. Drew is hammering to the cabin to the left of hers, which is Hermes's, I think. "Go on top of the other bunk so it isn't as obvious we're watching." Thalia points to the other side. I jump up after Thalia

"Let's get a board game out of something and make it seem like we were in the middle of playing a game before we heard Drew, so it looks less suspicious." I say.

"What game?" Jason asks, holding out a pack of cards.

Jason climbs onto our bunk and I pass out thirteen cards each, then I place a pile of twelve cards all facing up in the middle. "Snap." I say.

Then we go back to watching Drew scream at some other boys.

"All she had was some different coloured jeans, tee shirts and shoes. It's not like I stole her most prized possessions or anything." Thalia laughs.

"You also took her lip glosses." Jason points out.

"Must have been the strawberry dream that's done this." She nods.

I see a bright orange top come towards the door and I yell "Snap!" Thalia understands immediately. "No! I got that!" She argues before we year a banging at the door.

"I'll get it." Jason calls. "Hello, oh Drew." He pretends to be surprised, "what are you doing here?"

"Is that tree girl sister of yours in here? I know she stole all my stuff."

"Hey Drew, I'm up here." Thalia calls.

"Where is all my stuff?" Drew scowls. "And I saw you wearing this absolutely hideous thing this morning so I know it was you,"

"Look, Drew. I put that dress in there this morning as a joke but your closet was full when I put that in."

"Like I'm falling for that!" She scoffs

"Look, I put that dress in a full closet. I swear it on the river Styx? Happy?" She says.

"Fine. What about you, Kathy?"

"Me? I didn't do anything." I say.

"Really?"

"Truly scrumptious. I swear it on that River Sticks." I grin.

"You think this is funny?" She scowls.

"Fine, Styx or whatever. But seriously, I haven't been in your cabin all day. I've been in here for the past half hour, ask Jason."

"Urgh. I hate you all." She storms out and Jason closes the door after her while silently laughing.

"Nice wording sis." Jason says once it shuts

"Can't believe she didn't notice." She shakes her head in laughter.

"we're going to Hell." I sigh while giggling.

We hear a knock on the door and Jason gets it.

"Hey Pipes." He smiles.

"Hey. Hey Thalia, hey Katy." She sticks her head around the corner. "Where are they?"

"Where's what?" Thalia straightens her face.

"Katy, come on. Where have all our clothes gone?" Liam calls.

"You took all of them?' I whisper.

"Those bags weren't the first." She whispers back.

Jason was talking loudly about how we've been in here for ages, to cover us, but now he's gone quiet. "Ew, not in front of us!" Thalia covers her eyes. I turn to see Piper and Jason making out.

"Aw, come on Thalia, they're adorable." Liam tilts his head,

"How are you just ok with watching your sister make out. If I saw you and some girl like that I would need bleach." I laugh.

"Who's our mother, Katy?" Piper says once she detaches herself from Jason.

"Anyways, you don't need to give Drew her clothes back, it's actually funny watching her freak out. But can I have mine back?" Liam pleads.

"Come on Katy, tell us where our clothes are." Piper says.

Her voice sounds like how caramel tastes and I almost tell her before Thalia attacks me with a pillow and covers my face with it. "Never!" She cries.

When she lifts of me, I can't help it. "On top of your cabin." I smile.

"Thanks." Piper says before walking out.

"Nice dress, by the way.' Liam says before walking out.

"Katy!" Thalia hits me with a pillow.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it!"

"Nah, they're probably going to leave Drew's stuff up there anyways. Worst case scenario, were in dish duty until the end of the week." Jason smiles. "And it's not like they're going to snitch us up are they?"

"Well, technically we didn't steal anything, we just hid it." Thalia shrugs. "And you were the one who hid the bags, so we're throwing you under the bus."

"I didn't even touch their stuff, so you can scan it for fingerprints."

"Exactly." Thalia nods. "Bad boy Jason. Oh Katy, you, me, training room now." She orders.

"Ugh." I moan, but I jump down to the floor, "I'm going to fail miserably, you know."

"Tough. You need to learn how to use a sword." She slides down off the bed. "And you ruined Kronos's scythe, one of the Heaphetus kids fixed it up last year, even though they never used it."

"I thought it was called Backbiter." I reply.

"It is. And it took a liking to you, we need to find out why it did."