Celestial Immortal

ASPEN POV

~ASPEN~

I turn to Cassie and ask, "What's a Demigod?" She winces but I don't know why. "Well... A Demigod is a child who is the offspring of man and a God. Simply a Demigod is half-mortal human and half-God." Cassie explains with a look of pain on her face. Juliet and I have our eyes bulging out of our heads and our jaws on the ground. "And we... Are... These things, these children?" I ask, dumbstruck. "Yup!" She confirms, popping the 'p'. "But first we have to get to camp before anything bad happens. Then we can talk. I promise I will answer all the questions I can." Charlie says urgently. "Are the horses ready?" Cassie asks. Then oddly enough she leans down to the horse and whispers in its ear. She nods a second later and whispers something else. "I'm going to pretend I didn't see that," I say. Cassie appears not to have noticed me talking to her. So I turn to look at Juliet.

Even though she's my Best Friend, I'm still jealous of her. She has medium-length wavy, naturally golden blonde hair like the sun, perfect skin, no makeup, soft complexion, the best style- because her Dad doesn't like hanging out with her so he just buys her everything -He's super rich because he owns all of Walmart- And she has bright blue eyes like a summer's sky to match that make you love her at an instant. She could be the most popular girl in school, but she doesn't want to. And just about every guy has asked her out but she rejects them nicely.

I look down at myself. I have light brown curly hair with hints of red, brown eyes that are the color of dirt, with a style of what ever we can afford. My family is sort of rich but they give me all the hand-me-downs from my step-sisters. My dad doesn't know how to think for himself, so when my mom died, he went out and got married 24 hours later. Since then my step-mom has made it her job to make my life miserable. I have 2 step-sisters that are pure evil and they run in the family business of "I Hate Aspen! Let's all make her life a living Hell!" Like I said, they hate me and think I'm a freak.

The only thing I have at home that gives me joy is my small garden. I have vegetables, fruits on trees, and all kinds of flowers. I love gardening. It's the only thing I'm good at and better than Juliet at. But I don't think that a tulip is going to help me on this adventure. Charlie is right. I am only a... A cheerleader. I frown at that thought. I was the one who found Cassie in the first place, I'm a Demigod, and I'm really nice to everyone even if they aren't to me. I try to see the best in people even when it's very deep. Juliet thinks its going to get me in danger one day though. She thinks I will get kidnapped and then see that they are good to me but bad to everyone else. She thinks I give too much trust and I'm going to get my heartbroken. I just can't stand to think how horrible it would be to be mean to someone. To bring someone down. I want to help people up, not push them over the edge. I don't think I could ever be mean.

My thoughts are then interrupted by Cassie yelling at us all to get our butts up and on the saddle! "Okay, okay! Chill. We're going." I sigh. The first moment of peace- GONE. Cassie murmurs something to the horse and it whinnies obediently. We all climb on our Pegasi and again we soar upwards into the air. By now it is sundown and the clouds are shrouded in all shades of beautiful pinks, yellows, oranges, and purples. Sunsets in Michigan, flying a Pegasus, and being in life or death situations seems to get to you, make you a little disoriented. It's been such a long day that I slowly slip into a silent, dreamless oblivion.