Why him?

Ch.13

"Vicky!!" Gray yelled and rushed over to her, while the rest of us just stood there trying figure out what the hell was going on! Annabeth was swinging her dagger back and forth through the air with her eyes closed but was cutting nothing. In front of her was a red tinted screech owl. The thing was so tiny that it looked like a stuffed animal! Percy walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Huh! What?!" She said when she opened her eyes. Percy, Jessie, and Eric started to laugh. Even Tavi cracked up but held it back. She looked down to the owl and her whole face turned red.

"I don't know what just happened..." Is all she had to say. Percy leads her back to her bunk and I hear her mutter something about an arachnid? I don't know but what I do now is...well, still nothing! I look at the owl. It's just sitting there with stupid expression on its face. Can owls even have facial expressions? I take a few steps in its direction when Eric puts up his hands dramatically.

"Careful! It could be a nuclear bomb!" He says then snickers. I push him away and Jessie elbows him in the side.

"Idiot." We both say under our breath. I crouch in front of the small thing and carefully extend my hand. He looks at my finger like its Jesus then pecks mercilessly at it.

"OW! What the fuck?!" I yell, backing up to where was standing, next to Tavi. He starts to examine my finger when I see something move out of the corner of my eye. It was the owl. It half waddled, half skipped over to the corner where Gray was still comforting Tori. Gray gave it one of his famous death glares and pulled Tori closer to him. {😁} Tori lifted her head and stared blankly at the bird.

"...he says he's sorry for landing on my face while I was asleep and scaring the shit out of me and Annabeth..." Tori said, in almost a whisper. I swear everybody in the room said 'WTF?' in their minds as we all looked at her.

"That thing didn't say anything Vicky." Gray said.

"Well he must have said something because I didn't just that out of my ass." Tori retorted. We were all just circled around random-ass-bird and the corner of people when Chiron stepped in.

"What's going on in here?!" He bellowed. We parted the seas for him as he scooped up random-ass-bird and told Tori to follow him. She did and so did Gray but Chiron didn't stop him. Chiron paused at the door.

"You can all go back to your cabins now. We will give you word in the mourning." He said with a certain seriousness that sent a chill down my spine. None of us protested and we all started to head back to our cabins.

Tavi walked me back to my cabin and followed me in. He told me to sit down while he got some medical stuff for my finger. That little shit of a bird pecked the fuck out of my finger. It hadn't stopped bleeding. I plopped down on my bed. Cletus had already made himself comfy and was sleeping soundly behind me. Tavi returned, sat next to me then started to 'Doctor' my finger. It would have taken only 2 seconds to bandage if he had known what he was doing. I had to tell how to do somethings and tell him not to do others. Finally it was done and he stuck a pink heart shaped bandaid on it then kissed it. I giggled and he smirked.

"Now that that's done would you mind telling me why you face planted into the wall?" He said amused. I crossed my arms and pouted at him because I know he was internally laughing at me.

"I was extremely concerned for my friend and Nico wouldn't let me out so I thought I'd try to shadow travel again! And it would have worked if you hadn't have come in here and distracted me!" I said, poking him in the arm. He held up his hands defensively and soon broke into more laughter. I narrowed my eyes at him.

"It's not that funny..." I said. He continues to laugh.

"Well if it's sooo funny why laugh about it in your own cabin?!" I said a little louder than I intended. He stops laughing and try's to hug me. I push him off and curl up into my bed.

"Ah come on belus? Don't be like that." He puts a hand on my side and I jump a little bit. I instantly regret it as I can practically feel the mischievous smile spread across his face. He slowly stands up from the bed. Then in one quick motion rips the covers off me and attacks me with tickles! I try my hardest to suppress my laughter but my efforts eventually fail and I am soon laughing my face off.

"NOO!!!! HAHAHHAHA! STOP IT!!!!" I scream. Only moments after he stops. I hadn't even realized I had fallen on the floor till I looked up to see Tavi above me. He just looked at me, waiting for me to catch my breath. It took a minute and I didn't even need to use my inhaler.

"What are you going to do know, asshat?" I say. He smirks and starts to lean in closer till I could feel his breath on my face.

"This." He whispers and gently places his lips on mine. It was a small kiss. Nothing special but it still made my stomach do backflips. He pulled away and picked me up to put me back in bed. He covered me back up in my blanket and placed one last kiss on my forehead.

"Good night my lovely." He whispers.

"Good night." I whisper back. With that he walks out of cabin 13.