nights like summer ✴︎ - luke castellan

one. summer nights.

❝ 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑! 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 you heard about the new kids? ❞ the voice of a hyper Aphrodite girl was heard as the daughter of the night picked at her bowl of mac and cheese.

  "we get new kids every other day, Ellie." Summer Iverson spoke as she dropped her fork in the bowl, grabbing her mountain of hair and tying it into a ponytail.

  "yeah, but one of them is the daughter of Zeus." Avielle Dawns spoke, sitting down the opposite of Evie and taking the discarded bowl of mac and cheese, starting to eat it.

  "so what? i get it, forbidden kid, her dad fears my mom, so what? i'm not gonna have some unnecessary rivalry just because of our parents." Summer spoke, pulling at her bracelets that Avielle had made her.

  "i don't think you need too. she came with two other kids, ones our age and the other is i think seven." Avielle explained, talking while taking bits of the food.

  "they had a fury on them, Zeus's daughter decided to sacrifice herself and Zeus decided to have a change in heart and saved her from death, sorta. he turned her into the pine tree that magically grew overnight." Avielle explained, Summer now looking at her confused.

  "Elle?"

  "yeah?"

  "how do you know this when they just came?" Summer asked, Avielle just looking at her best friend with her big blue doe eyes.

  "i eavesdropped outside of Chiron's office last night after i saw them walk through the barrier." Avielle shrugged as if it was nothing, going back to eating the mac and cheese.

  "Ellie, i love you, but you need to stop with the eavesdropping. it's getting out of hand." Sunmer advised, watching as Avielle took one last bite before finishing the food.

  "yeah, but you love the gossip i come to you with at night." Avielle said nonchalantly, standing up. "Come on, let's go welcome them."

  "can't, Travis and Connor need my help." Summer spoke as she walked next with Avielle.

  "are you guys doing another prank?" Avielle groaned, knowing the outcomes whenever Summer was involved with the Stoll brother's pranks.

  "a prankster never tells." Summer only winked before walking away to the Hermes cabin, Avielle only rolling her eyes.

  the sky was already painted in shades of navy blue and dark purple with small specks of light filling it up when Summer Iverson walked out of the Hermes cabin, her hair slightly messed up from Travis's unnecessary hair ruffling.

  it was past dinner, meaning it was about to be curfew. so, as Summer walked through the now emptiness of camp, besides the usual councilors that did their rounds or couples making out in the corners.

  it was a rather long walk from Hermes's cabin to Nyx's cabin, being that Nyx's cabin was imbedded in the woods. but the isolation was rather nice in Summer's opinion.

  Nyx's cabin was a rather beautiful sight at night, but most people never saw the beauty of it. at the very top of the marble cabin, there was an opening that was covered during the day, but at night, it showed the bright stars of the night, something so amazingly beautiful that made Summer Iverson love being the daughter of Nyx.

  as Summer walked, she didn't notice who was in front of her, rather looking at the stars instead of in front of her, accidentally bumping into someone.

  "i am so sorry! i should have seen where i was looking!" Summer quickly apologized, looking to see who she had bumped into. to her surprise, it was the two new kids that Avielle was talking about.