❦UNEXPECTED | PJO X M!OC

ACT I-1.8

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PERCY

WORD of the bathroom incident spread as quick as Patroclus chugging down a box of chocolate milk. (or chocky milk as he would prefer to call it)

Wherever we went, campers pointed at me and murmured something about toilet water while waving or yelling greetings across the field towards Pareoclus. Who did his best to keep me distracted from their murmurs, on the way to dinner he showed me the metal works, arts and crafts room and the lava wall.

Which Patroclus climbed horizontally for "fun", not to show off any skills he said. He swung himself effortlessly across the rocks on the wall and landed perfectly on the other side like one of those gymnast in the Olympic Games within 2 minutes.

We made it back to the canoeing lake as the end of the tour.

"Well, there's still an hour or so before dinner. Any other questions or venting you wanna do?" He asked, looking at the sun which was starting its descent down, its light casted a warm glow on the lake's surface.

The light also made Patroclus look ethereal, his hair was once again in between the colour of brown and black, it looked as if he had strands of golden hair in those curly locks of his. His green eyes went from sage to emerald due to the golden light, towards the middle of his eyes, specks of dark purple could be easily mistaken as black if not for the sunlight.

I felt self-conscious having written an entire monologue on his looks, heat transferring to his face from embarrassment.

"I...I know you probably feel overwhelmed...by..you know, everything. From your...mom..to the Minotaur, the whole camp and that Gods are real along with the fact that your dad's one of them...just know that I'll be here with you..through every step, junior Goldy."

He offered me a soft smile, I felt like warm, comfortable, safe with him. Like how I felt with my mom.

Mom..

The sudden image of her disintegrating into golden dust before the dust faded away...

I stared into the lake, in a trance, wishing somebody would give me the answer to solve all of my problems. To turn everything back to how it was.

I awkwardly waved back when two girls under the pier smiled and waved as if I were a long-lost friend.

Patroclus pushed my arm back down gently, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. Naiads aren't the best to practise flirting with." He said with an amused expression in his face.

"So...I really..don't have anywhere to go now? I can't go home?"

Patroclus's expression told me he felt bad for me, taking my hand in his. He exhaled before answering, "Percy...I know how you feel...you can go home..or find a new place to stay...after a while of training in camp..cause for now this is the safest place for us demigods.."

"Demigods." I repeated.

"Yep. Us, demigods."

"Half- human..half-god..."

"Yea bud.."

"And your dad is Dionysus."

"I mean— yea he's one of my dads."