That's Not My Life Anymore | Percy Jackson Chaos || COMPLETE

Chapter 14

Not many people were happy about the war. Surprising, I know. Who wouldn't want to fight an enemy that has more powers than all of us put together?

I was walking through the camp trying to forget about it for a few minutes, but it didn't really help. The only topic of conversation was what the man had said.

"I say we give him up," I heard an Ares kid say.

"Why should we let him stay at our camp when he's causing a war?" a Hecate girl asked her siblings.

"I don't understand why Chiron even let him stay in the first place," an Aphrodite girl said to her friends.

Maybe they would have shut up if they had known I was standing within hearing distance- or maybe not. These whispered conversations were all around me. I hadn't met a single demigod in this camp that wanted me to stay. It reminded me of when I came back from Tartarus and my father disowned me. It reminded me of when I decided to leave.

"Omega!" I heard a girl call out from behind me. I turned around to see Alpha running towards me. I assumed she just had a shower, because her hair was wet and she was wearing it down. I had never seen Alpha wearing her hair down. It seemed so different. Next, she won't bother wearing a mask.

She was running so fast that when she reached me, she nearly kept going, not being able to stop. She tried to stop herself, but slipped and would have fallen face first into the mud, if I hadn't caught her. I caught her around the waist, and pulled her back upright. Neither of us moved for a few seconds. We just stared into each others eyes, breathing hard.

"Um, thanks," she murmured, brushing some hair out of her face and looking away.

"Don't mention it," I replied, taking my hands from her waist sliding them into my pockets.

We both stood there awkwardly for a few minutes. I bounced on the balls of my feet, and bit my lip. Alpha just looked anywhere except my face, and scuffed the ground with her foot.

"So is there any reason you came running after me?" I asked.

She looked up surprised. "Oh, um yeah," she said, and bit her lip. "Just give me a second to remember..."

"Okay...?" I said, but it sounded more like a question than an answer.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked.

"You came running as fast as you could across camp to talk to me, and now you don't even remember what you wanted to tell me," I said, a smile playing on my lips.

"Stop judging me!" she laughed. "It's hard work running across camp. I nearly trampled like 50 campers."

"Wow, that must really help our reputation," I said.

"Whatever," Alpha replied, rolling her eyes. "Anyway, I was going to tell you that I nearly ran into Nico quite a few times today."
"That's weird," I said, frowning. "He's barely been around since we got here."

"I know," Alpha responded. "That's the problem. Why's he appearing now?"

***

Alpha and I walked around camp for a little while longer, talking about random things. For once, it didn't feel awkward or weird. It just felt like we were two friends, having fun. Just the way it should feel.

"Oh, I have an idea!" Alpha suddenly said, stopping in front of a tall tree.

"What is it?" I asked, stopping beside her.

"I say, we should try to climb this tree," she said.

"Why?" I asked.

She shrugged, "Because I feel like it."