Sophia Jackson: Hero's Daughter

Chapter Nine

"Well, this is awkward," Kyle said, ruining our moment. Dakota kind of just stood there, shell shocked. Logan's grin was a mile wide. I didn't know what to do. That was the first time I'd ever kissed someone, and it had to happen like that?

"Oh gods..." I said, pulling away quickly from Logan, my body feeling as heavy as it did when I was stone. Logan's smile quickly faded, and I just ran away. I was too chicken to see my friends faces looking at me like I did something very wrong. All I wanted was to go back and do it all over again, but then again, it was the best birthday present I'd ever gotten. I wanted to go home. I wanted to quit. I wanted to be done. I couldn't deal with it anymore. 

Looking back now, it wasn't all our kiss. It was everything building up to it... the pain, the tears, the unspoken understandings, the anger I'd held back for so long. The rash decision I'd made in running away, probably ruining every chance I'd ever had with Logan. 

"Sophia! Wait!" Logan called after me, the rain mixing in with my tears. I couldn't run anymore. I just sat down and buried my face in my knees. I felt arms around me and looked up, expecting to see Logan. 

"Hey, what's wrong? What just happened? I thought that we had something special there."

"Well you thought wrong." The expression on Logan's face hardened into an unmoving wall. I could just see his barriers going up around him. I turned my head, refusing to look at him, because I knew he'd make me cry if I did.

"Do you not know how I feel about you, Sophia?" He just stared at me, and I bit my lip. I could taste the blood, and I could feel the pain, but it was nothing compared to the pain I'd just inflicted on Logan. "Well, let me tell you something. I love you. I meant it when I said that. I thought you were different from everyone else in my life. But as you said, clearly I thought wrong." He stormed away and I threw myself on the ground, more conflicted then ever.

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"These should last you a week or so. And here are some bus tickets back to New York." Logan took the tickets and the backpack, thanking Kyle for the supplies. 

"I'm sorry this couldn't work out, man," Kyle said, shaking Logan's hand. Logan nodded. 

"Me too," Logan hadn't looked at me since yesterday. He hadn't spoken to me either. Dakota avoided both of us. 

We walked to the bus terminal in silence. I'd lost all my excitement, all my happiness, all my desire to go on living. We'd already contacted Chiron, and while he seemed to take it all right, I could tell he was disappointed. We arrived home three days later, and my parents picked me up. I couldn't bear to stay at Camp, no matter what the cost. Not only were my parents disappointed in me, they were worried that  I was falling in to depression. I'd ruined my life for myself, and for everyone around me.

"Sophia? Dinner's ready!" My mom called from downstaits. I sulked down, my eyes still red from crying. 

"Thanks, Mom." I sat down and ate slowly, in silence, which was completely like me. All my siblings were at Camp. They'd left the day before, and my dad was still down there hanging out with his friends in New York. They were making a Boy's Weekend out of it.

"Are you okay, honey?" I still hadn't told my parents about Logan, or the kiss, or the fact that my quest was ruined because of me. But what better time than over dinner to share such wonderful news? So I told her everything; how I'd fallen in love with Logan, how he'd died after finding out Luna was his sister, and how I brought him back to life. How we'd kissed, and it had been perfect, and then moments later, I ruined it for myself because I's been embarassed. How I'd given up on my quest, and couldn't face my friends or Chiron or Mr. D. How I'd basically trashed the one opportunity I'd had in fulfulling my dream. 

My mom just said there and listened, nodding and giving me apologetic smiles while I spoke. Eventually, I just couldn't talk anymore and I broke down. Tears streamed down my face to no end, and my mom just stood there and hugged me until it was over. I felt my heart shatter into a million tiny shards of what it had been just a week or so ago. 

"Why don't you go to bed, Sophia. I think you might need some sleep." I nodded, giving my mom a hug before heading up to bed. I fell asleep almost instantly, but now I wish I hadn't.

Of course, as a demigod, I had dreams. Horribly vivid dreams, with horribly realistic things. They fortold the future, and recounted the past. That night, I had a dream so terrifyingly vivid and lucid that it almost felt like I was watching a movie.

I saw Logan and Dakota in the dark, sitting on that log where I'd found Dakota and her letter. They were talking, but I couldn't make out most of it. 

"I don't know what I did. I screwed everything up," Logan's head was in his hands. Dakota just stared out to sea.

"Listen, Logan, you're a good guy. You're nice, you're smart, you're powerful... Any girl here would want to have you wrapped around their finger the way Sophia had you. And believe me, I know Sophia wants you. She is madly in love with you, Logan, but she just doesn't have the courage to tell you that she went too fast for her own comfort. The least you can do for her is finish this quest. She would've wanted to... you saw how excited she was. And she did bring you back to life." 

"What if... what if i killed her? Emtionally..." 

"You didn't. Listen, Kyle is going to be here any minute, and i told him you were coming. Will you?" Logan was silent for a moment. Then he lifted his head and looked at the ocean.

"Yeah," he said, nodding unsurely. "You can count on it."

Author's Note:

Hey Guys! How are you? Sorry I didn't post over the weekend, I was on vacation and there was no wifi :( I literally had no idea what to do, so I just read two 500 page books :) It's basically my therapy. Anyway, I start school tomorrow! I'm really excited, and really nervous at the same time. You know that scared in a good way, but still scared feeling? I have that :) 

So, how'd you like the chapter? I'm really happy because I have a whole folder on the story where I planned out everything for the rest of the book, so you can expect lots of updates on this story in the coming weeks. I'm going to aim to update this at least once a week, and try to have it done by Halloween... But that's not set in stone. I'm going to be updating PATF, DDIHS, and HD once a week from now on, unless something comes up, so I'm going to be doing a lot of prewriting hopefully. You know, like writing a couple chapters on the weekends, and a few in the week so that I can be ahead of the game. 

I have also started writing a new story that will be released around Christmastime as a holiday gift for all of you :) I'm really excited to release that as well. So pretty much, this story will be continuing throughtout September and October, DDIHS will probably go through next year, but that's most likely only going to be 50 chapters.... of course, I say that now, but who knows :) 

I've been getting lots of questions on PATF regarding whether or not there will be a sequel. I know I have said both yes and no, and it is under my deep consideration. Do you think that a sequel will be dragging it on too long or not? I already know exactly how I'm ending it, so a sequel would fit right in, but I don't want to drag the story on too long. 

Well, that's enough talk about my other stories, lol, so I want to thank you for an amazing summer of writing and reading, you've all made it so worthwhile. and I have endless thanks to hand out to you guys. Feel free to PM me whenever you want!

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