I Spy Sea Green Eyes

Chapter 20

San Francisco, August the Eighteenth. Tritannus's words from earlier echoed in my head as I tried to focus on more battle plans. The meeting's on August eighteenth. In San Francisco. On August eighteenth.

You're making such a big deal about this, Khloe! I chided to myself. August 18 is just another day, you don't need to get so worked up!

But you do know the significance of the day, don't you? The annoying voice in my head said,shutting me up with the valid point.

This was pointless, and I couldn't even get rid of the voice. I remembered how when I was younger, I used to call the annoying voice in my head Joey, because it rhymed with my name. Maybe it was about time that I started using the name again, so I could tell which were my thoughts and which were my consciousness's without going insane. True, they were the exact same person, but that wasn't the point.

I was already insane, so might as well just do it.

You're naming me Joey again? Joey said disbelievingly. The last time you did that was like in freshman year of high school!

Do I look like I care? I said. I was too busy fighting with Joey in my head, I didn't notice Tritannus trying to catch my attention.

"Khloe!" He snapped, bringing me back to real life. Note to self: Tell Tritannus at one point of time that I'm schizophrenic and actually named my conscience Joey.

"Yes,Sergeant!" I said, sitting up straight and putting my hand to my forehead as if saluting somebody. I had to resist laughing out loud at his expression.

"Don't you remember what Kronos told us about submitting the edited plans by the end of October in the mortal world?" He said, the tone of his voice reprimanding. If I wasn't as overly cheery as I usually was, I would be sulking. Yes, grown women who just so happened to look like 16 year olds sulked too.

Especially if that grown woman who just so happened to look like a 16 year old was me.

"Yes I do remember, mother," I muttered as I scribbled a few more notes in my notepad. Ever since I moved to the U.S (okay, ever since I got practically shipped off from Greece by my dad and step mom), sarcasm, along with Mageia (my magic weaponized bracelet), was my weapon of choice. Sarcasm was what showed the bullies that I wasn't someone to be messed with. Sarcasm also weirdly helped me make friends. My friendship with Percy and Annabeth was a perfect example.

Tritannus chose to ignore me as he went on with his work, simultaneously reading the plans and talking with some big shot on his phone. Then again, almost all ADHD people did something or the other while they were on he phone. But are immortals ADHD?

"One second," I heard Tritannus say to the person on the other side of the phone, the he turned to me,glaring. "What the heck are you saying?" He hissed to me."I'm on a really important call, and you just had to go and say something about immortals being ADHD?"

"It was just a thought, I didn't know that I said it aloud" I said, huffing and folding my hands in front of me. He really needed to sort out his emotions; he seemed to be pretty cool the past few days, but suddenly he had to become all asshole-ish all over again. "You can go back to your all-important phone call, please accept my heartfelt apologies."

I turned back to the plans pointedly, and I remained that way for almost the whole working day. My get the heck away from me vibe must have been pretty strong (I do pride myself in the strength of my get the heck away from me vibe).

After a lot of hours, I was finally done with my work. "I'm done," I muttered,taking my notepad off the table and getting off the chair I was sitting. I walked towards the door, and then Tritannus said, "Wait,Khloe," with an undeniable tone of authority. Damn, I hated it when people did that.