Without You..

New Characters

Piper sits on the beach by the lake.

she stares out on the beautiful water that glistens in the morning sunlight. She hadn't been talking to many people lately. She was just really angry, but she didn't know how to explain it. She wasn't the jealous type but sometimes it doesn't matter if you're the jealous type or not, you just get jealous.

Her father Percy volunteered to go on a dangerous quest a few days ago that he didn't need to go on. They had plenty of other people who wanted to go. Piper really wanted to go, but Percy wouldn't let her. He left for the trip yesterday. She thought it might have had something to do with her mother whom she never met. Mrs. Grace says she looks more and more like her everyday. She feels like that's why her father wanted to go. Maybe to forget and do something stupid. She had to admit sometimes he was an idiot. It's like some days his brain just turns to mush. Like a wad of old smelly seaweed or something, she thought.

And to make matters worse, Jeremy and Piper had gotten into a pretty big fight. She wasn't even sure how it started. She was complaining about her dad and Jeremy got offended, saying she should respect her father more, to which she responded with something around the lines of, well maybe I would respect him if he wouldn't act the way he does. Things got heated and they haven't talking since. Then he started to make friends with this new Demeter girl at camp which only made Piper more angry at him. They hadn't broken up or anything but there were some moments where it really looked like he was flirting with her, and it was obvious she was flirting with him.

And now he's gone to Camp Jupiter with some campers who put a group trip together and are planning to spend a few weeks there, which he didn't tell Piper about, or even say goodbye to her. And guess who else is on the trip? His new friend that he's been flirting with. Great. Piper still couldn't believe he didn't even say goodbye to her. Who does that? Even if you're fighting you're still dating! Is he waiting for her to apologize? Because there was no way she'd do that unless he apologized first. She was not going to be the only person in the wrong here.

An unwanted tear slipped down her cheek. What had happened? She was so happy and now there was all this unwanted crap. She knew that it was partly her fault. She shouldn't have been so rough on her dad... He's going through a tough time. The date of her mother's death is this weekend so that's definitely why he left. But he didn't think that she wouldn't want to be here too? That it wasn't hard for her too? He's not the only one who's suffering. And then Jeremy left and it's like he doesn't care about her anymore. Does he even know that the day her mother died is coming up?

Piper was wallowing in self pity, which was her greatest weakness. She knew she needed to get over all the other stuff. She needed to woman up and move on. If Jeremy didn't... If Jeremy didn't love her anymore then so be it. She would have to get over him. As hard as that might be. As much as she loved him. She would have to do it. If her father wanted to be away during this weekend? Fine. He could do what he wanted, she would stay and think about the mother she never knew alone. She just wanted that much. To be alone.

She stood up and wiped her eyes before taking a deep breath.

Alone. That's what I'm going to do. With that determination in mind, she left the beach and went back to her cabin. She made herself busy by cleaning up the bathroom and the beds. she organized the trunk at the foot of her bed with all her belongings. She left early for breakfast and was the first person there and sat down to finish her meal. Alone.

~~~New Character POV~~~

I wake up early and stretch my legs. I quietly grab my clothes and slip into the bathroom of my cabin to change.

I was always the first person to breakfast. Which was great. I did not want to eat with all my siblings. They kinda got on my nerves a bit. I put on some black shorts and my dark grey hoodie. I run my fingers through my freshly died black hair. Ah. Just the way I liked it. Gotta admit Nate you look pretty horrible this morning. Oh well, who's going to see me anyways?