if only i knew.

CHAP 10) SOMETHING IS WRONG.

I start to open my eyes a little bit.

The person driving would start to speak, "30 minutes away."

I looked in confusion, Damn.. I was asleep for that long?.. I knew that i couldn't have possibly stayed asleep for that long.

I would look over to my left.

Oliver and Ella passed out, I started to get a bit tired. It made no sense.. I just woke up a few minutes ago? Why was I already tired? I started to yawn and drift off to sleep.

I woke up to Oliver poking me.

"Come on, We're here." Oliver says.

I opened the door, and I took a quick glance at the taxi driver. The taxi driver had a gas mask on.. That's probably why we passed out..

"The hotel is huge.." Ella says, looking at the tall building.

"It really is.." Oliver agrees.

We start to walk inside, a worker.. i'm guessing, greeted us.

He shook our hands.

"Mr. H. told me to look out for you kids, You're finally here. I will show you to your hotel room." The worker says.

We all nodded.

When we arrived at the room, we stopped and I asked the worker, "Is this really our room?"

He nodded and laughed, "Don't be silly. Your.. father? I'm guessing, paid for this room. Now, have fun kids." He says, walking away.

"Let's just stay the night." Oliver says.

I nodded, "First thing in the morning, we pack all of our stuff and leave." I say.

"Look, Theo. There's a little arcade here. Do we have to stay one night?" Oliver asks.

"Yes, Oliver. This quest means a lot to me.. We only have a certain amount of time." I responded.

"But- But the arcade!" He cries out.

"I-I know. Maybe, I can take you somewhere like this in the future?" I say.

He nodded.

I felt bad for him. I knew that he never actually was able to be a little kid.. He was 25, but he operated like a 12 year old. He technically was 12. He was just.. slow? He also looked young.

Oliver went over to play in the arcade.

Ella went up to me to.. talk?

"What's wrong, Ella?" I ask.

"This place gives me bad vibes.. I know that Oliver would've been able to sense it. Maybe, This is something far worse?" She says.

I look at her, concerned. There's no way this is something bad, It's a nice hotel. Why would Hermes trick us like that?

"I don't think so.. Well, Why would our camp director.. trick us? He wouldn't do that, Ella. Why don't you just think for once." I say, stubbornly.

She nodded, "Sorry."

I looked at her guilty. Fuck, Why'd i say that? I'm so stupid..

"Ell-" I say, before getting cut off.

"Forget it, Theo." Ella says, walking to another game in the arcade.

I knew that she was hurt.. Why did I hurt her like that? I swear.. I always mess up on shit like this. I knew that.. Maybe I had a chance with her.. But, whatever "chance" I had was possibly ruined. She probably got enough of that from her father, Ares.

I went to sit on the bed, I drifted off to sleep.

A few hours later, when I woke up.. They were both still playing.. I wondered why.

I went up to Oliver.. because I knew Ella was still mad at me.

"Oliver.. Why are you still playing? It has to be like.. midnight or something." I ask.

"Need.. to.. win!" He says.

"Oliver?" I said his name, hoping he'd realize I was there.

I grabbed his hand, I could tell that made him angry because he was trying to fight back.

He pushes my hand away.

I grab both of his arms.

"Snap.. Snap out of it, Oliver. Right now." I say.

He falls to the floor and I rush to help him get up on his feet.

"What- What happened?" He asks.

"Don't worry about it, Come on we need to help Ella." I say, rushing over to her.

She was strong so I definitely needed Oliver's help.

I grabbed one arm and shouted for Oliver to grab her other arm.

We both pulled her away from the game, making all of us fall on the floor.

Ella snapped out of it, thankfully.

"What the hell.. We need to go, and quickly." Ella demands.

Me and Oliver both agreed.

We ran out of our room to go downstairs.

The worker stopped us, "Leaving so soon?" He asks, His face becomes disoriented.

"Um.. We just needed to go get.. food! Yeah! Food!" Ella says.

She motions us to leave.

I couldn't leave without her, so I stepped in between them.

"Yeah, so if you don't mind. We have to be leaving right now." I say, smirking.

He nodded, "Have a.. good day. Theodore.. Leblanc." He says.

I paused for a second.. He said my full name.. We definitely had to get out of there. I grabbed Ella's and Oliver's hand and I bolted out of there.

I had nowhere to go, but thankfully Hermes left money into my backpack.

Only 20$, i'm sure that'd be enough. More than enough. I ran to the bus stop.

I got 3 tickets for all of us, we sat down on the seats.

"Finally.. We aren't being chased.." I say.

Ella doesn't say anything, I'm sure she was still mad about what i said. I don't blame her.

We were about to get off, We finally reached the more.. popular stops in New York city.

Our bus finally reached our destination, We were all glad.

We got off, and i got a map.

"So.. Let's just.. explore for a bit." I say.

Oliver nodded.

Ella muttered something.. I couldn't make out the words..

It seems like she said, "That's a bad idea."

No, No it wasn't. Well, I would hope that it wasn't.. That would be getting in the way of us trying to finish our quest.. my quest. They were just tagging along.

Well.. Lets just see how this will go.