Demigods singing {PjO/HoO fanfic}

Chapter 3

※Rewritten※

The conch had been blown from the pavilion. Dinner time.

I had completely forgotten about meeting Chiron after my solo training and instead spent the time with Leo. We sat around in the fields for a bit talking, after that, we walked around the camp, chatted with some people as we strolled through the endless sea of orange. It felt weird to talk to Leo as we milled about aimlessly, like we were immortal cause it felt like time speed up in the camp like earlier. I had not felt like this before. I never felt like the world around me was going faster than it ever had before. And yet, Leo and I, at least to me, the earth slowed.

It was like an acid trip. But the sound of the horn took me out of the existential thoughts we had been talking about for the past hour and a half. And for once, I was glad to stop talking. So as we reached the pavilion in silence, Leo left to go to his table and I walked to my table where Annabeth sat, slightly annoyed. "Hey, wise girl."

"Where were you? Chiron and I were waiting for half an hour for you!" Annabeth stared at me with her angry eyes. "And you better have a good explanation than 'I forgot'."

"Me and Leo were hanging out and I forgot," I took the empty plates from the harpies. "No, seriously, I did."

"My gods Percy," Annabeth grabbed her plate and goblet and waited for the food.

"Believe me, I did," I turned in my seat to look at her better. "I had truly forgot that you and Chiron needed me in the big house and I sat with Leo in the strawberry fields for a bit and then we walked around the camp till the conch, I swear."

Annabeth sighed and stabbed the food that appeared on the plate, waiting for us to go up and give an offering. "Okay, but I have to ask Leo if what you're saying is true."

"Why would I lie?"

"I don't know, ran out of excuses?"

"Although true, that's not why I didn't show up." I scraped my largest cut of brisket and dropped the fluffiest roll into the fire and said a prayer to my dad, hoping he could get me out of performing. "But why did Chiron call for me?"

Annabeth scraped some of her food into the fire. "Chiron told all the counselors about a talent show that Apollo is putting together, he wanted to tell us first before the other campers so we'd have a head start on planning and setting the place up."

Glad I wasn't there then, I thought to myself as I ate. My silence made her uncomfortable I could tell and she figured out why. Calculating my response to her statement, but she didn't continue the conversation about what the meeting was about. As much I didn't want this to bother me and annoy me so much, a small, tiny, piece of me was excited to perform. I felt conflicted. I want to perform but I didn't want to give Apollo the satisfaction of performing. Ugh, I'm confused.

Honestly, I didn't know that dinner had passed and everyone was moving to the amphitheater for dessert. S'mores, my favorite fire delicacy. I waited to the very end to grab my ingredients to make my famous double-decker s'more that is treasured by many among this camp. But tragedy struck as I was assembling the treat. My first s'more was consumed by the blonde I trusted. "Rude."

"It was begging for me to eat it," Annabeth smiled, chocolate and marshmallow around her mouth. " 'Eat me, Annabeth! Eat me!' "

I smiled and shook my head but continued to make the s'more. This time watching carefully for thieves, and my young mind tricked myself in believing that my s'more was safe. But when I completed the second half of my treat, I looked away to Annabeth, a triumphant face drawn on me as I looked to her. And in that small fraction of a second, while my head was turned away, Leo had graced my s'more and taken the first bite, ruining its purity made only for me.