For the love of Aphrodite (a Percy Jackson story)

The new guy

As me and Percy got back to the camp I went straight to my room and got some Fedez playing. I hoped the other kids of Aphrodite would arrive soon. But they probably wouldn't be here until few hours considering they'd only come back for Sunday dinner. Or so I was told.

When we arrived Annabeth received us. It hurt seeing her peck him on the lips but it hurt even more when she turned around and he wiped it out. Had I ruined them?

She told us a guy had arrived from Camp Roman, he was the son of Zeus, or better saying, Zeus' Roman counterpart, Jupiter.

I felled somewhat compelled to greet the guy considering I was new myself. And I guess the fact he was probably more familiar with my culture than anyone else would be a bonus as well, but instead I went straight to my room.

Senza paggare blasted in my room. I then heard a knock. I opened the door and there stood a blonde tall guy. His eyes were of a deep brown. He smirked and I could hear him say "Ciao Bella" under his breath. I giggled involuntarily.

"Uhm. Sorry. I meant hi..." he said a bit shyly that I had heard him.

"Too bad, here I was hoping you meant what you said..." I said and he smirked.

"Unfortunately I didn't. I said Ciao Bella but I meant belíssima. My bad I guess." He said and winked.

"I take it you're Jason..." I said smiling.

"I take it you're Chiara... some of the guys told me about an Italian daughter of Venus, I mean, Aphrodite. But honestly I wasn't expecting all that..." he said. "Tho I'm afraid you had me at Fedez..."

"Well, feel free to join me and have your ears explode in Italian. I believe you haven't really had any trouble finding where the sound came from..." I said and he laughed shaking his head.

"Well, I'll gladly join you" we sang together, we noticed people that would stop and watch us from the window. Assenzio started playing and I began dancing, he danced with me and we were having so much fun.

Once the song stopped we both dropped ourselves at my bed.

"You see Jason, I guess I've now made as many friends here on camp that I had taken my whole life to make..."

"Ouch!" He said "Ma principessa mia, must you really friend zone me?" He asked playing with my hair.

"You're so Italian..." I said "Is it just because of Jupiter?"

"Nope. My mother is also Italian. Have you heard of Maria Grazia Chiuri!"

"SHUT UP! The designer?" I asked amazed.

"Yep" he said laughing.

"Jason! That's crazy. I've met your mother a couple of times. My parents are friends with her and your step dad! She designed my sweet sixteen gown..."

"Wait. Chiara as in Chiara Bianchi?!" It was now his turn to stand up fast in disbelief. "She'll freak out when she finds out! Her biggest dream was to introduce us. She wouldn't shut up about how nice and beautiful and poised and blah blah blah... who would have thought it was all true." He said and I blushed.

"That's a crazy world we live in! So big yet so small..."

"I mean, if it wasn't for her moving her studio here from California I wouldn't have come here and hadn't I come here I wouldn't have met you..."

"I believe if we were to meet we would have anyways but it wouldn't be in scenario as interesting as this is. Who would have thought that us coming to spend the summer here... wow!" I said in disbelief.