Camp Half Blood: One "Salty" Adventure

Camp Half Blood: A Salty Sequel//Chapter Sixteen

Myra's POV:

"Sword... check. Bag with maps... check. Self loathing... check." I muttered to myself as I packed and then started heading towards the woods. I needed to get out of here as fast as possible. Rose was angry at me and Cole probably hated me now. The thought of that hurt, but I shrugged it off and started running to try and clear my head. After around ten minutes, I saw someone sitting on the edge of a steep cliff. They were wearing a Camp shirt, I could tell from the obnoxious orange glow. "Uhh... Hello? Are you okay?" I called out, still not close enough to see who it was.

"M-Myra? How'd you find me?" It was Cole. I rushed over to see him looking at me with watery eyes. I couldn't get to him from where I was, there was a thorn bush blocking my way. I was going to have to talk him out of this.

"Cole!? What the hell are you doing out here? Get away from the edge!" I tried my instinctual approach first, which was to protect him. It was a little tactless in my opinion.

"I'm sorry, Myra. I-I can't. I have to do this." Cole sniffed.

"Cole don't you dare. I was being stupid, okay? I didn't mean anything I said!" I pleaded with him and tried to get closer. I swore under my breath as a thorn cut my ankle.

"You wouldn't have said it if you didn't mean it, Myra. I get it, it's okay, you're all better off anyways."

"Cole that's so-ugh Cole... I-I don't really know how to say this without being blatant..." I stuttered. There was one way I knew would get him to come back to me, but I really didn't want to say it. I don't want to tell him like this.

"Say what, Myra?"

"Gods Cole I thought I made this pretty clear..."

"What? That you hate me and don't want me in your life? Yeah, I get it, Myra. Forget it, you don't have to say it again." Cole's beaten puppy look was driving me crazy. I just wanted him to be safe in Camp with me.

"I was going to say the opposite actually..."

"Myra, just go... stop lying to me. It hurts too much." After a few failed attempts I realized there was no way to clear this thorn bush to get to him. I started to panic a bit.

"I'm not lying. You can tell when I'm lying, can't you, badger?" My nickname for him still made my face go a little red. Cole gave me a hurt look.

"Well if you're not lying then just tell me what you have to! This is your last chance, Myra! I can't take it anymore!"

"Alright uhh... I'm so awkward... What I mean to say is I-I'm in love with you and it scares me, I guess. I'm not used to people staying around me for a long time and suddenly you appear with your bright eyes and your goofy smile and warm hugs and you put up with me. I-I've been trying to tell myself that you'll leave me behind over and over, but then you take care of me and promise you'll never leave my side... There. I said it." Cole smiled and it looked like he was practically glowing in the sunlight. Then again, Cole was an Apollo kid so maybe he was glowing.

"Myra... I've already said it too, but I won't get tired of saying it again. I'm in love with you too. Just, please don't ever say what you did earlier again. Do you understand how much that hurt?" My face turned red.

"It'd probably be like seeing me dead, huh?"

"Well, that would've been worse, but yeah... I guess you could compare it to that. It felt like someone stabbed me in the back."

"It wasn't directed at you. I'm just... exhausted and after that fight with Rose I just..."

"I know, I know. You know, you should really talk to her... I know you said you didn't care about her, but I don't think that's true."