Dani Parthenopaeus

Chapter 10

Insomnia is a heartless lady to me. It's almost 2 in the morning and I have nothing to do. And I was starting to get hungry again. I could explore his house, but I don't want to walk into somewhere I'm not suppose to be. Or see something I'm not. Huh this is difficult.

Go. Stay. Go... Stay.

After we finished eating, Caleb showed me where I could sleep and then went to bed. What was a girl to do in a room with no tv, books or phone. I left my phone at Kateros. When I laid down it fell out. So I'm without a phone and stuck in a room bored out of my mind.

I got up and made my way to the door slowly opening it and explored his house. It wasn't much around and somehow or another I found myself in his kitchen again. A turkey sandwich would be really nice right now.

Anastasia.

I swirled around to see where the woman's voice came from. Not too many people knew my middle name. So that really freaked me out. I usually just said it was Marie if anything.

Anastasia, come here.

"Can't really do that. Mom told me not to listen to strange voices in my head," I said to the voice.

Come here, Anastasia. I've been looking for you.

"The problem with that is, I don't really know where you are. And it's way past my bedtime, so I ought to be going now."

I turned to leave out of the kitchen, but something swept my feet from under me. I'm getting real tired of people thinking they can push me around. Then the air shimmered around me. A woman with dark blood red hair and gorgeously tanned caramel skin stepped out from it. What through me off the most was her outfit. She wore Aztec clothing, that was made with fresh leather.

"If you value your life you would stay where you are and don't you dare try to scream."
Afraid of what she might do I stayed still and nodded to her. "Good, you can be taught. Now my brother is very upset with your little demon boy toy. No one takes his Arrow without having consequences."

My what? Brother? Arrow? Ohh...Eros.

"But, I saw him give it back," I said quickly.

She walked over to the chair by the island, tsking at me. "You poor thing. You're not as bright as I thought you were, Anastasia. Find where the actual Arrow is and perhaps if I'm in a good mood your boyfriend can live."

"Okay. Wait," I said holding my hands up to stop her. "First things first, quit calling me, Anastasia. Second, Caleb is not anything significant to me. And why do I have to find something that I didn't take."

"Because he'll tell you anything you want to know. Plus he never took it. I want you to find out who did and bring me the Arrow." She looked over to the clock which was at 3:30 then behind me. "You have a two days." Then vanished.

A guide to what I'm supposed to do would be nice. I don't have a clue of what I'm supposed to be looking for. I never actually seen the necklace, only the chain of it. I don't get why she just couldn't do it or Eros. If it's his necklace shouldn't he be able to find it.

I'm starting to feel like I'm inside a screwed up Percy Jackson book. I just really hope mine ends in a happy ending too or something like that, but nobody dies. Hopefully. I sat down at the island laying my head down from frustration.

When I woke up I was still downstairs. Maybe I just dreamt the whole thing and was sleep walking down here. I really hope that was the case. Who was I kidding, that actually happened.

I rubbed my eyes and looked at the clock. It was 7:30 am and Caleb wasn't up yet. Good, that'll give me time to sneak back upstairs. My neck was seriously killing me. If you didn't know tables and counters are not comfortable FYI.