Daughter Of Light- Book 1: PJO

Chapter 33: My Emotions are Played like a Lyre

We ran down the hall. Will held mine tightly in his.

"Where's Raph?" He asked.

"I don't know! I was dragged up there by that purple Flower Nymth...and I didn't see where he went. We were talking to Apollo right before. I don't know!"

"Not helpful!"

At the moment there was no one following so we slowed down and came to a brisk walk.

"Okay...did you notice anything off?"

"Uhh some creepy guy tried to cut into our conversation...and some girl was staring at him pretty hard while we danced."

"Wait." Will cried, coming to a hault. "You...you danced? With Raph. You and him?"

"Umm yes?" I stammered. My cheeks and ears going red.

Will squealed and clapped his hands. "I knew it! I knew it! It's all coming together!"

"Are you doing?"

"I'm shipping. And Lee owes me big! Apollo also needs to cough up..."

"Excuse me!" I gasped. "Are you betting on...on my personal life? Will please tell me your not! I'm already under Aphrodite's thumb!"

"Except I have no actual control over you." He corrected. "Come on we gotta get moving. Find Raph and get outta here."

We walked up and down what felt like a dozen corridors all filled with flowers of all kinds. Some wild and exotic, some simple and beautiful, some I was positive were extinct or only grew in Olympics, because I had never ever seen them. I was getting really frustrated when we passed a small room and I heard a familiar deep rumbly voice. I froze. Will bumped into my back.

"What-?"

I backed up and peeked through the crack in the door. Raph sat on a Greek style couch the arm rests where curved and the couch was piled with pillows and cushions. I frowned. He was gazing at something I couldn't see, his face was slack and his eyes were glazed. He had the look of a love struck puppy. He smiled gently up at whatever I couldn't see.

He was sipping from a gold goblet, there were graps and nuts and all kinds of snacks.

"What do you think of this one?" Said a voice so sickly sweet I wanted to throw up.

"It's very pretty, cupcake." Raph said. He liquid his lips as a curvy body of a woman stepped in my view. I recognized her immidiatly. It was the woman who was eyeing up Raph and me while we danced.

"You're as beautiful as the dawn." He murmured as she sat down in his lap. She giggled and held a cluster of grapes and fed him one.

I pulled away and leaned on the wall. I actually had to hold my chest for a second. The pain was unbelievable. It felt like a slow knife driving and twisting into my heart.

"What's wrong?" Will asked.

I just shook my head. Will peeked through the crack. He pulled back with a look of disgust.

"Wait..." He whispered and checked again. He pulled back and pulled me a little further away.

"Okay, you know who that is...right?"

"No." I snapped. The hurt was growing into anger. I wanted to run them both through with my knives.

"That's Eos! That's the goddess of dawn!"

"I don't care who she is!" I hissed. My finger nails were digging into the palms of my hands they were clenched so tightly.

"Okay, but listen, Nora. Eos. Helios's younger and bratty sister. And that's not Raph. He's under her spell. Literally. While you were having a super cute moment with Raph back at the nursing home, Dad told me all about her."