Percy Jackson And Sadie Kane: A Forbidden Love

chapter 21

Eric pov

I was standing in the corridor and talking with the guys, but my mind was somewhere else. I was thinking about the first time I'd met May.

She had just arrived from India to help us in the Giant War. As soon as I laid my eyes on her, I had formed a deep crush. Then,I was given patrolling duty (spying on Octavian and the Romans) and May was my partner.

We struck up a conversation became friends( yes, during patrol duty. No, we were not distracted or caught.) I didn't know her even then. Whenever I asked her, she would stall or change the subject just to annoy me.

Then while talking I got to know that she had spent her childhood in India, which was monster-prone just like Brooklyn. I knew hindi, the official language of India, pretty well too, since I had some relatives who were living there.

So the next time I asked her name and she didn't tell, I nicknamed her Anaamika, the girl without a name. She'd rolled her eyes at it, but soon the name became permanent.

Then we started to grow closer, and after the war we started dating. Unfortunately May had to go back to India and I had to come back to Brooklyn. She promised me she'd come back to CHB next summer, just for my sake. After that we'd departed.

I sighed as I tried to shake away her thoughts, trying to concentrate in my conversation with Jake.

OoooooooooooooooooooO

I still couldn't believe it. May was right here, right in front of me. I thought I wouldn't see her for a whole year! When I asked her how she already knew Percy, you can guess the reply.

"Long story." May and Percy said together. I grinned.

"Did it have anything to do with dealing with cheerleaders or such?" I asked. May blinked, and Percy raised an eyebrow.

"Good guess." He said. I shrugged. The others were staring at us like we'd lost it.

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Nobody's pov

May was so busy talking to her boyfriend, she forgotten about her cousin. Like lightning, it hit her.

She turned around and saw that Zack was leaning against the wall, eyes staring nothing.

"Zack! Come over here." May called. Zack walked up to them.

"Guys, this is my cousin Zack. Zack, you've already met Eric. This is Percy and...oh. I don't know the rest of you either." She said. The others laughed and introduced themselves. Zack just nodded, then went back to staring at nothing.

"Did I miss anything?" A voice said from behind.

"Oh no. Just in time. Nico, this is my girlfriend May from the cabin five and her cousin Zack from the Haephestus cabin." Eric said.

"Hi." Nico waved at them.

"What's up with the cabins?" Jake asked.

"Camp thing." Percy replied. Sadie rolled her eyes. This camp was surely something.

"You're from the Hades cabin, right?" May asked Nico.

"Yep." Nico replied.

"O my gods. You're so cute!" May said, pulling one of Nico's cheeks.

Then time seemed to stop. Nico looked like he'd just been electrocuted and burned and hosed down at the same time. Jake and Carter were gaping like a fish. Percy's eyebrows had risen dangerously high. And Sadie was trying not to laugh at Nico's expression. Eric looked amused at his girlfriend.

"What? Have you never gotten a compliment before?" May asked.

"I...I...I ha..have. Just never...what you called me." Nico said. The way she'd said cute, it wasn't how Aphrodite girls said 'that guitarist is cute'. It was more like how adults said that a baby was 'so adorably cute'. Nico just found that freaking weird.

"Anyway, do you want me to show you around?" Eric asked. May agreed, and Eric took her on school tour. Jake and Carter said they had some work to attend to. So only Sadie, Percy and Nico were left. Nico was frozen in place, his expression one of horror.

"She said I was...I was...cute!" He said the word cutting as he were puking it out, and he winced, flinched and cowered at the same time when he said it.

"I'm not cute, am I?" Nico asked, the way a kid would ask if he had a dangerous is, expecting the answer to be no.

Percy laughed. "Now that I think about it..." He said, cocking his head to one side and looking Nico up and down. Nico glared at him.

"Forget it." He said as he stormed of, causing Percy to laugh even more. Sadie joined in. They were laughing so hard that Sadie had to hold Percy's shoulder for support. Suddenly she stopped laughing, so did Percy.

They just stared at each other for a second, before Sadie withdrew her hand. They laughed again, but it was more of a nervous and awkward laugh. Without another word to one other, they made their way to class.