The first person I saw was hornet over on her mattress reading a book. I decided to go and see why she hated me so much. "Hey hornet! Whatcha reading?" I asked trying to make polite conversation.
Not looking up from her book she said "the lord of the rings."
"Oh! I love those books! Which one are you reading?"
Without looking up again she just said "the second."
I could tell she didn't want to talk but I needed answers. I decided to drop it with her and see if the others would talk I went straight to the second most talkative person there, the only one old enough to know why who would also be willing to talk, riccio.
I sat on the mattress looking at his stuffed animals an d making polite conversation. I took the dive. "Do you know why Hornet hates me so much?"
He thought about the question for a moment. He even went to such lengths as to put the stuffed sea horse he was holding down. This must be serious.
"Well, I don't think she hates you. I think she's just jealous."
I was puzzled. "Jealous of what?"
"I think she knows how pretty you are. You look like a pretty female version of your brother if you don't mind my saying so."
"Why doesn't she hate Leona? She's even prettier than I am!"
"I'm not going to get into an argument like that. I may be 11 but I'm not completely stupid. Anyways she's fine with Leona because Leona doesn't have eyes for prosper." Prosper, that beautiful, kind hearted, strong looking boy. So that's what this is about.
"How does she know that?"
"Because she has eyes for someone else. Someone you know very well apparently."
"You don't mean..."
"Yep! She has the world’s biggest crush on Scipio!"
"So let me get this straight... Hornet likes prosper. Hornet hates me becomes she thinks I like prosper and thinks I'm pretty enough to be competition . Hornet DOESN'T hate Leona because no matter how pretty she is she like Scipio and not Prosper. Who does Prosper like?"
“Nobody knows. He's a very quiet chap till you get to know him. Even then he's pretty cautious and private. He doesn't air his feelings like a radio show if you know what I mean."
"Yes I do. Thanks for this chat riccio! It's been very enlightening! And this conversation is just between you and me right?"
"Absolutely!" He said a he went back to playing with his stuffed animals. Next I went to talk to Leona because u can never entirely trust the words of an 11 year old.
"So Leona... You and Hornet are stuck here with a bunch of guys... A couple of which are your age... Do you have a crush on any of them? I mean... I know we just met and all but... You seemed to like me pretty ok back there but... You know if you dot wanna tell me that's fine."
"I'll tell you but only of you answer a question from me. Ok?" She replied putting down the arrow head that she was sharpening.
"Ok... So! Who is it?"
"Don't laugh but I have a huge crush on your brother! With those dreamy eyes an the way he runs his hand through his hair when he's thinking! Mm! He's just... GORGEOUS!! Please don't laugh!"
"No trust me! If he wasn't my brother and he didn't hate my guys if probably like him too! What about that Prosper kid? He seems pretty nice! Why don't you like him?"
"Oh I do! Just... Not as much as Scipio! Besides... That's your territory now!"
"What?"
"That was what my question was going to be! Do you like Prosper?"
"No! Maybe... Possibly! Yes..."
"Ah ha! I knew it!"
"Neither of us are going to tell anybody about the others private crush right?"
"Right! What fun is there in that? Though I hope u don't mind if I play Aphrodite... Without bringing the fact That u like him out of course! Just.,, u know.. Make suggestions... Get info... I could w your little ninja spy!"
"I'm guessing you want me to do the same for u?"
"Sure why not?"
"Ok! Why not?" And with that my new found friend and I set out to make each others world just a little brighter.
