Astrid Strider Daughter of Apollo

Annoyance....?

After training I had taken a shower. I had made sure to put on a bandage on my shoulder from battle. It was surprisingly deep, and would leave a scar. I shrugged, It's a mark of my fight with the Hades child. After feeling presentable, I had went for lunch. I saw Asha already waiting for me. She greeted me with a wave and a smile and I went over after getting myself some salad. I wasn't  hungry, but I had to eat something. Chiron had constantly reminded me this. If I wasn't hungry even though I should be, I still eat. I had once not eaten and not realized it had been four days. I had lost  a lot of weight then... "Hey, Asha, what's up?" I asked poking at the tomato in the green leaves of cucumbers and chicken. I had given my offering already of something I wasn't going to eat. It was a ham sandwhich and some other stuff I couldn't bring myself to eat. It was hard not to draw a lot of attention since I wasn't eating a lot. 

    "That fight was amazing! When you fell, I thought you were done for!" She exclaimed taking a bite of her sand which.  I shrugged, "It was.... Entertaining..... Well, Nico was." I smiled and took a half hearted bite of my salad. I flinched as I heard yelling and laughing. I sighed. The Stoll brothers just dumped a plate of.... Goo? On an Aphrodite guy. He jumped up and was yelling about how hard it's gonna do his hair and getting the smelly goo off. I smiled when I saw them running laughing their head off. Connor and Travis made a quick stop to get some food, and ran high tail outta here as the whole Aphrodite table jumped up and started chasing them with makeup, hairbrushes, and.... A curling iron? Really, I didn't know what was so great about it. 

     I mean, I know what a curling iron is and all, I just don't know why or how they even have it here. Then again, I'm not like them...

   Asha rolled her eyes, "The whole thing was entertaining, Astrid. I thought I was gonna have to kill Nico if he gave you so much as another scratch!" She gestured to my bandaged shoulder. I rolled my eyes, "And you were about to kill Mrs. O'Leary when she accidentally stepped on my foot. No?" She smiled sheepishly. "Hey, she's a Hellhound for Gods Sake! Holy Hades... Why aren't you eating enough? You look like a Nymph eating just a  salad!" I gave a stern look, "Don't insult Nymphs... That's referring to Ivy."  She nodded smiling and finished her lunch as I did. 

   As we left to go to  the lava climbing wall, I couldn't help feeling like someone was looking at me. I Looked over my shoulder and saw him. Nico Di Angelo, was glaring at me... But not with hatred....with....  Annoyance....?