Chapter 48.

This summer has got to be the best summer yet.

I greatly improve in sword fighting and I can take down Liam fairly easily. Thalia tells me I'm a fast leaner and that I'm catching up to the other more experienced campers. I learn to shoot an arrow and I can hit the target but the best I can get is the blue, so I won't be using a bow and arrow in the future. I get stronger too, and my biceps are especially toned, although my favourite leather jacket no longer fits my shoulders.

I have begun to learn to control my abilities too. Only Jason, Thalia and Liam know that I'm not Zeus' daughter but like Thalia said, it doesn't matter who my real godly parent is. I guess I'm just saying that because cabin one gets special privileges which I laugh at Liam over.

I can voluntarily give people static electric shocks and create lightning as long as it's cloudy. I can almost fly- I get myself off the ground. My landing however, let's just say I'm only going to fly over water in the short term. I actually broke my leg after losing control and I fell from ten meters in the air. Thank the gods ambrosia exists because I am far too impatient to wait six weeks for it to heal.

And Jessica. The thought of her makes me smile. We sat next to each other at the campfire every night and at least three times a week I snuck out at night to meet her by the canoe lake. We did some talking and some kissing, and I still get butterflies whenever I catch her eye at meal times and whenever we hold hands it's electric. Not physically. I haven't told her about not actually being a daughter of Zeus. I think it's best to keep it a secret. The fewer people who know, the better I guess. Liam definitely knows that some thing is going on between Jessica and me, but it doesn't matter whether he knows or not. He'll figure it out anyways.

Towards the end of summer, Samantha explains that she's going back home with Andrew. Liam, Grace and I are going to go with her.

I get a lump in my throat and my chest gets tight whenever I think about dad. It was self defence, I remind myself. No one is blaming me.

On the last day, I pack my bags. I stop myself from crying when I hug Thalia and Jason and Jessica and Nico and Will and Lexi and Rosie and Chantelle and all my other new friends goodbye. We share email addresses and home addresses. I also received my necklace with a bead of a silver locket, with a pink stone. I put it on immediately and play with the bead.

Oh, Chantelle! That reminds me. Grace said that dad had used the locket to befriend Chantelle who was in the year above me, and pretended to be me. He knew Chantelle was a half blood because he saw her camp necklace. I will never trust Grace gain for keeping so many secrets from us.

Ok, my secrets don't include anyone else besides myself and I'm not plotting to kill anyone.

It's a long drive home. Samantha says we'll visit camp two weekends a month since there are four and a half Demi gods in one family and we could do with all the training we can get without going overboard. I'll be starting school again in September and although I hate it because school is hell, I'm still excited for normal life. Well, apart from the kindly one that Samantha drove her spear into on the way home.

Yeah, I'll be talking a pistol and a dagger to school. Good job part of my school uniform is a skirt, so I have somewhere to keep my knives. Did you know, the Scots wore kilts to hide more knives on their bodies? It's where I got the idea from.

(AN: thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed reading it and I cant't wait to start my new story - Demi god at Guard School. I'm obsessed with Percy Jackson. Anyways, I need to get some sleep.)

you know you love me, XOXO

Hannah910