Stupid Cupid

~Stupid Cupid - Chapter 5

        After dinner, Percy showed me to cabin three and let me pick whatever bunk I wanted. When I joked around, saying I’d take his, he shot water at me and told me to pick another. I dried off and plopped down on the bunk across from him, climbing to the top because I’ve always wanted the top bunk.

“If you wake me, I’m going to make sure you find all the beds in the lake.” I warned him before falling asleep.

“Where would you sleep?” I looked at him and saw he had a cocky smile on his face. I rose my eyebrows at him and got the perfect idea.

“I’m sure Leo wouldn’t mind.” When Percy’s smirk fell, I exploded in fits of laughter and he relaxed in his bed.

“Never do that again.” I laughed harder and he threw a pillow at me. I threw it back and we ended up throwing the pillow back and forth for an hour until Jason came in and hit us both with a pillow saying we were keeping him up and shocked us. Literally. We went to bed when he left still laughing and he told us to shut up.

When I woke up, it was six am. I looked over at Percy’s bed and saw him softly snoring. Knowing I wouldn’t be falling back asleep, I walked out of the cabin to see if anyone was up. I ran into Piper and she looked me up and down.

“You need clothes.” I looked at her blankly and nodded my head slowly.

“Really? I hadn’t noticed.”

“Sarcasm doesn’t look good on you.” She grabbed my hand and lead me to the Aphrodite cabin.

“Why am I here?” I asked when we got threw the door.

“Clothes.”

Piper went to a chest and opened it. She shuffled through it for a few minutes and pulled out a pair of black skinny jeans, silver Vans, a black short-sleeved hoodie with silver designs, and a midnight blue top that had straps you could tie in any way. The clothes came flying my way and I caught them before they hit me.

“Um…”

“Put it on. You can keep it by the way.”

“Thanks.” I smiled at her and headed to the bathroom. I put the clothes on, tying the shirt to wrap around my chest and tie behind my neck. I stepped out of the bathroom and Piper turned around.

“I do wonders.” Piper said and straightened the shirt.

“Thanks. How’d you know and have my size?”

“Leo made me the chest so I’d have any size and clothing I wanted and I knew it because it’s an Aphrodite thing.”

“That’s cool. We should probably head to breakfast though.” The conch horn blew and Piper and I laughed walking to the Mess Hall together.

As we walked, Percy, Annabeth, Jason, and Leo joined us. When we were almost at the pavilion I saw a large scar in the ground. I looked at it for a bit and wondered what could have caused it. I made sure to step over the strange mark and sat down at my table with everyone else.

“How’d that scar get in the ground?” I asked them and everyone eyed Percy.

“Four years ago, Nico got angry and discovered his powers. He summoned an army of the undead by accident.” Annabeth answered.

“Why’d he get mad?” I questioned. I felt the air get cold and I knew I had crossed an invisible boundary.

“Percy’s the only one who knows…” Piper trailed off and I looked at Percy.

“I don’t talk about it.” Percy snapped and everyone was shocked. My guess is, Percy doesn’t snap at people a lot.

“Um, okay. So, is there anything I should know about Capture the Flag?” I asked trying to change the subject and it gladly worked.