Try To Be Okay (Perleo) (LeoxPercy) (PJO)

So What If Im Crazy?

Leo

Thalia had a show at the Xcel Energy Center, so a few of us were there. Minnesota was weird. We got here last night. And I can't get enough of their accent here. Its hilarious (people from Minnesota reading this I am born and raised Minnesotan in a Swedish town so take no offense to this.)

I wasn't going to the concert. One, the tickets were kind of expensive and I needed a night off. I thought everyone else was going.

Nico and Percy didn't go with them.

"Aren't you going?" I asked the son of Poseidon. Nico not going I kind of expected. He's not a people person. But Percy is another story. "You seem like you'd love concerts."

"No." He told me. "I went to a concert a couple years ago and I almost had a panic attack. Too many people in one room, its too hot, and noisy and just... I don't like them. And then I almost got dropped crowd surfing, which I didn't want to do in the first place. It just... No. I don't do concerts."

"You do Annabeth." I had to say it and he glared at me.

"No." He said. "But you do Calypso."

"How do you even...?" I question, never have telling him about her. He'd get pissed.

"I have connections."

"That's..." I had to think before I actually answered that. "Creepy."

"I've met Calypso." Percy clarified. "Its not that creepy, Leo. You just didn't know about it."

I sometimes forget he's two years older than me.

Which means he's almost 18.

Now I feel kind of bad for him. Being stuck at Camp with people like us at am age where he should probably be applying to colleges and crap.

"About what?" Percy asked me and I looked at him.

"What?" I was confused. Did I say part of that out loud?

"You said you feel bad." The son of Poseidon clarified. "What about?"

"Oh, that." I said and shrugged. Not sure what to say. "I mean, you're 18, stuck at Camp with us of all people. Annabeth, Grover, and like Clarisse maybe are the only ones your age or older. You could be off at college working for a degree. But you're here."

Percy shrugged.

"So?" He asked. "Thalia is older, too. She's... 22 almost. Pollux is 19. I could probably be on campus now, yeah. But I start in the fall. Its July. And my last summer."

"Last summer?" Nico questioned. Having heard this. "Who's getting camp, then?"

"I have no idea."

"Wait." That caught me off guard. Councilors and Legion members are chosen by voting. "Who chooses camps next leader? Isn't that a majority vote thing?"

"No, that takes too long." Percy tells me. "I do. Or the leader leaving chooses whoever they trust with the camp, anyways. And you can't reject the offer. I tried.... Multiple times."

"Why wouldn't you want to lead camp?" Was a serious question. "It sounds awesome."

He shook his head.

"I was 13." He told me. "Finishing my first summer. I was terrified. Going into war, people dying left and right. No thank you."

Well I was scrolling through Facebook and found a news link. A legit thing. An American Citizens body found on the coast of Italy. He was roughly 24 they think and need somebody to identify his body being they can't get any DNA off him. He's been dead for a while they think. I thought it was cool the body made it so far and I show Nico.