{𝟑} 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟-𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 | 𝙻𝚞𝚔𝚎 𝙲.

08.

Ψ 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐮'𝐬 Ψ

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, Damien rubbed my arm asking me "are you sure you're, okay?"

The two boys forced me in the back as I drank from the water bottle and tried to calm myself down from what I just saw. I was breathing slowly and calmly as Sebastian fed me nectar and tried his best to help me out.

He looked at me as I told the two "I feel better...I just...can't get her eyes. That...that feeling out of my head. Her voice...her voice it." I stuttered and felt the tears fill my eyes again in pain.

Damien hugged me and caressed my back as I held onto him tightly. I was shaking as I held him, but he tried his best to be there for me. As a best friend and my protector, he didn't want me getting hurt, but I liked that, it meant a lot to me.

"We have a long way back to camp, let's start leaving before it gets too dark." I complained as Damien laughed out "no we are not. We will... find a hotel."

Sebastian argued "really? A hotel during the holiday season? All of them are overly expensive and they're is a high chance all of them are full."

Damien thought about his words and mentioned "well, I have another suggestion. But you may not like it." He explained to us, and Sebastian and I turned our heads to him as he quickly got into the driver's seat, and we arranged ourselves to drive off.

We were now at The Liu's household, Isabella, and Alexander's home. Damien knocked on the door as Sebastian whined.

"The girl has a crush on me, did we have to come here?" I hit his chest at his comment as he winced, rubbing the part I just smacked.

"It's not my fault I don't want to see her that way alright?" He argued as the door opened and we saw Alexander as he smiled "Damien said you were coming, our grandma and dad are making dinner. You may come in."

Damien stepped aside and we all entered as Alex asked, "shoes off please?"

Damien looked at him and stared at his hooves and crossed his arms "how rude and offensive" he argued to the boy.

"Just wipe them down, our grandma doesn't like dirty feet." He begged.

Sebastian and I laughed at Damien as he grabbed a baby wipe from one of the boxes and sat down to clean up his hooves as we continued making our way in.

The home was very pretty, it was filled with different flowers and plants spread out and hanging from the ceiling on all walls but not in a messy sort of way.

But it was clean and very well put together, you saw different photos of some letters or characters that were in either mandarin, Cantonese, or some other dialect that I wouldn't want to disrespect.

The air smelled really good, the flavors were already slipping from my nose to my mouth making me salivate just from it. We went through some curtains and walked into a half kitchen-half dining room.

We saw an older woman cooking along with a younger but still average looking man as Alexander approached them.

"Nai-Nai, Dad. These are some fellow campers from Camp Half-Blood. And that is Damien, one of the Satyrs and a protector of the campers."

All of us smiled and waved to say hello as Sebastian apologized "we are so sorry for coming in but with us being Demi-Gods and... I mean you understand right?"

Their father laughed and said "of course just get settled in. Alexander, get the air mattresses started in your room and the girl can sleep with Isabella."