Vanished

Chapter Seven - Percy - Reyna's Notebook

On his way to his room, an arm reached out and yanked him into one of the various rooms, he hadn't been paying attention, so he didn't know which one it was. He was thrown onto the bed. Calypso stood over him and stared at him with an annoyed look on her face. He hadn't really talked to her as much as he liked to, things were kind of awkward between them when she first got back, considering that in a way, she was his first girlfriend and that would make her his ex-girlfriend. She was good at planning sneak attacks, because he felt as if he had just been kidnapped.

Calypso closed the door quietly then walked back over to him. "I know you kissed Reyna." she blurted out.

"I what now?" Percy asked, pretending to be confused. What he was really confused about was how she found out.

"You. Kissed. Reyna." Calypso paused after each word.

"No I didn't." He denied her correct accusation. (Annabeth taught him that word).

"I have proof." Calypso dangled Reyna's battered up notebook that had kept in her room over his face. "It's in the one of her most previous pages. Either she's very good with details or all this happened. I've heard you're a pretty good kisser." Calypso stood leaning on her heels and with hers hands behind her back.

"Let me read it." he looked up at her as she gave him the notebook.

He opened towards the middle and began flipping through the pages until he found the page about the night he had kissed her. "Why we're reading her diary anyway?" he asked absentmindedly.

"I was bored." she replied.

"So you have no respect for Reyna's privacy?" He said as began to read. He didn't pay attention to Calypso's response because he was too busy reading. The writing was in Latin which Percy had learned in the last few years.

"Last night was absolutely magical, I remember ever detail...The fact that if any one finds out, I'm as good as dead, so is Percy scares me... I was training in the arena, practicing my archery skills (practicing what Frank taught me earlier today). I was alone and it was around nine o'clock when Percy came around. He was practicing his sword fighting skills win Anaklusmos. My patience was running low because I kept missing the target. He looked at my grinning his goofy smile and dropped his sword. He seemed distracted." Percy remembered looking at her, he remembered how she had never been more beautiful to him then at that moment. He was so distracted he dropped Riptide. He laughed at the memory. "He walked over and stood over me. I knew Percy was not exactly an expert on archery like Frank or Will, Nico's "very good friend" (I saw them making out once, but whenever I ask Nico about his relationship with Will he just says they're friends, Will seems to want people to know how he feels for Nico...). For some reason I let him help me. "Let me help you," he said.
"You're as good at archery as me." I said. He was getting closer to me and placed one hand on top of my hand and one on my waist. I didn't know what to do. I was internally panicking but of course I kept calm.
"Now try." he said, looking into my eyes. I nodded and let go of my last arrow fly. I landed in the dirt a few feet behind the actual target! We both broke out laughing.
"You did not help me." I said still laughing. "At least when I was doing it before it landed on the target."
He shrugged and began walking to get the arrows for me. "I was using it as an excuse to touch you." I didn't he realized what he had just said. I stared at him in shock. I remember asking myself why he would want to touch me. Percy began walking towards me and stared into my eyes.
"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked suddenly feeling not so sure of myself.
"Oh..." he broke eye contact and handed me my arrows. "I didn't realize I was staring at you. Sorry."
"It's fine, it's not like you'd ever look a me that way." I chuckled as I began walking towards the weapons bin to put the bow and arrows away
"Why not?" he asked me smiling as he picked up his sword.
"Because you love some one else. You've always had." I replied and sat down on a bench.
"A person can love more than two people." He sat down next to me.
"Sometimes loving just one can really screw you up..." I replied.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, you see what happened to Orion...and me."
I ended up telling him the entire story about how I killed Orion with the help of my mother. Once I finished telling him he was at a loss for words. "Wow, Reyna, you're so amazing and beautiful...how did I not see it before?" He was so intensely close to me. Our faces were inches apart.
"I love you Reyna..." he leaned and kissed me. My heart skipped a beat and the world seemed to stop. It was...amazing...I knew it was wrong but I just couldn't resist. We stayed there all night just looking at the stars until we fell asleep. Luckily I had woken up before the sunrise and Percy. I left before anyone saw me with him. That would raise a few suspicions. I betrayed Annabeth and it killed me...thats why I made Hazel give her the clue when we had originally planned for me to give one to Annabeth. I'm glad I...spent done time with Percy before I go. I'll be leaving soon, so of I don't live, I hope he doesn't really love me."

Percy closed the notebook and rested his head in his hands. He looked up at Calypso and sighed. "Please don't tell Annabeth," I had said this earlier to Piper. "I'm going to tell her myself. And I'm keeping the notebook."

He took Reyna's notebook and left the room. Sadly, Reyna's hopes were too high, Percy did love her. He loved two girls and he was so screwed.