Saved by the Sea (PJOxTW)

Chapter 28

I beat the boys home. Mrs. O'Leary fades into the shadows to rest and I go sit by the pool. I know I have to explain everything to Isaac, especially since he is now living with me. I take my phone out of my pocket and take my shoes off to slip into the pool. I float for a while before I see Stiles and Isaac standing there.

"Gerard is dead. Nico personally took him to the underworld." I tell the boys. Stiles nods in relief. The guy who brutally beat him is gone.

"Okay can someone explain this to me finally? Soph, what are you?" Isaac says. I grin at Stiles who grins back. He fishes Isaac's phone out of his pocket as I reach up and pull him into the pool. I pull him down under the water and Isaac fights for a while until he realize he can breath thanks to my bubble. He sees me breathing underwater, laughing at him and looks at me in alarm. I create a bigger bubble at the bottom and go over everything like I did Stiles and Scott, what seems like forever ago.

"So you are half god?" I nod at him.

"Half blood or demigod!" I tell him. He falls back a little. "Any other questions?" He shakes his head. "Let's go get some food then! I am starving!" I grab his arm and pull him up to the surface. I let him get out and snap my fingers to get him dry. He startles a bit and even more so when I step out completely dry. Stiles starts laughing at him before turning to me.

"Was I this bad when you told me?" He asks. I nodded.

"You shut down I think. You usually ask a million questions and you didn't that time." He mumbles something under his breath which I ignore. "I'm hungry! I think there are leftovers in the fridge. Stiles are you staying or going home?"

"Staying. Before you ask, I already talked to dad." He says. I smile at him and we head inside.

The rest of the school year passed by pretty quickly after that. With impending doom not hanging over us, we all relaxed. Well most of us. I was having bad demigod dreams and I knew that meant something was coming.

Allison had gone on a trip with her dad to France and planned to be gone the rest of the summer. Jackson left with his family to live in London. So both Scott and Lydia were both a little depressed for a while.

Isaac started hanging out with Stiles, Scott and I as a group more often. Which I was glad for. He seems happier, lighter than before. Matt was given the blame officially for Isaac's dad's death so he was free.

Stiles and I have been kind of inseparable. I never asked about what he said in the warehouse and he never mentioned it. I think we were both afraid of taking that next step and what it meant for our friendship but I finally acknowledged to myself that I did like him. Really like him.

When school finally ended, the boys decided we would take a trip to the beach. It was a few hours away but we thought it was worth it. I was wearing another T-shirt I stole from Percy that said 'Oh hello, can I kelp you?' with a pair of denim shorts, sitting in the backseat of the jeep with Isaac. I offered my car to drive us but Stiles refused.

As we got closer, I started to get more restless, feeling the pull. We all fought over the music choice and threw snacks at each other from the trunk where we kept the food Granny packed us for lunch. By the time we were almost there I was jumping in my seat. The boys looking at me like I was crazy.

"Calm down Soph!" Stiles reprimands me.

"I can't help it. We are going to the ocean!" I say bouncing in my seat in excitement. My friends knew who I was and we were in my domain. I was so freaking excited to share this with them.

When we pull into the parking lot by the beach, I crawl over Scott to get out. Pretty sure I knee someone in the stomach and elbow someone's shoulder. I run over to the start of the empty beach and take a deep breath.