I Spy Sea Green Eyes

Chapter 7

"This girl is on fire!" I sang loudly as I snapped my fingers and let myself catch fire. The fire didn't affect me,though,it never did.

"Hey, no fair,Kay!" A particular repair boy said indignantly as he saw me dancing around on fire. "What happened to being 'on fire buddies'?" He then set himself on fire. "Now this boy is on fire!"

Both of us sang and danced around the hearth obnoxiously in the winter air,singing our favorite songs until someone splashed a bucket full of water on me and Leo.

"What the-" I spluttered and turned around to see Percy with a wicked grin holding a bucket of water.

"Hey,guys,"He said,that grin still on his face.

I turned to Leo."Private Valdez? What do you say we smash this worm?"

"That, Sergeant Alexoupoulos,sounds absolutely great."

I looked at Percy with my best pseudo-death-glare,and he actually had the nerve to say, "I think I should run now."

"You think?" I spat,and I ran at him. He ran too,but I was much faster than him,and I smashed into Percy. We both fell down and I pinned him down into the light snow.

"Thou hast interrupted-eth our sacred ritual!" I yelled in a fake British accent. "Thou shalt suffereth!"

"I don't think so,Shakespeare," He said,and he rolled over and pinned me down on the ground. We kept on wrestling like that until Percy firmly pinned me down in the woods. Yeah,that's how much we rolled.

I tried to struggle,but he was abnormally good at almost flattening people into pancakes. We were breathing heavily;he was so close to me,and I to him. It was like we were only separated by a centimeter.

The triumphant grin on his face melted away,and his ears.......did they just turn red?

"Khloe..."He murmured,letting go of my hands. He slowly brushed my hair behind my ear, and I almost couldn't hear what he said over the loud beating of my heart.

Closeness. I guess that's what happens between me and people with green eyes whenever I sing Alicia Keyes's songs.

Why did I say that? Well,let's flashback to about fifteen minutes ago,shall we?

"She's just a girl and she's on fire
Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway
She's living in a world and it's on fire
Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away"

I sang the lyrics of Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys loudly as I walked out of the bathroom. I just felt unusually happy,and I had absolutely no idea why.

Hey,you're stuck in Ogygia,with a crappy job and an asshole of a boss,what's not to be happy about? My annoying inner voice said sarcastically.

Chuck it, I thought,and continued singing.

"Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
She got both feet on the ground
And she's burning it down
Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
She got her head in the clouds
And she's not backing down"

I vaguely heard a knocking sound coming from the wall,but I was a little too into the song to take it in. I grabbed a bottle of lotion(vanilla scented)and used it as my mic.

"This girl is on fire...
This girl is on fire...
She's walking on fire...
This girl is on fire..."

"Everybody stares, as she goes by
'Cause they can see the flame that's in her eyes
Watch her when she's lighting up the night
Nobody knows that she's a lonely girl
And it's a lonely world
But she gon' let it burn, baby, burn, baby"