Chiron and I walked along the pourch until we were in the back of the Big House. There was a coffe table with two chairs on either side of it. He moved his hand, telling me to take a seat in front of him. He went into his magic wheelchair rolled into the house. He came back out with two glasses of lemonade and chocolate chip cookies and set them down on the coffee table. He folded his arms in his lap gave me a familiar look of pitty. I was slowly getting used to it, but I still hated it. He began to talk.

"Fiona, I don't think that there is a way to put this easily, so I'll just tell you what I know. About a month ago Lilly told me that she thought Ceres, Demeter's roman form, was her true mom. This isn't the first time that Lilly has had a so called epiphany, so we kind of brushed it off. We only took her seriously when she talked about moving to New Rome. She's even found out how to wipe her memory to a certain extent. Anyway, after a while she asked Tyler to move to New Rome with her, forever. Tyler's only response was that no one told you, but you've managed to find out on your own. Here," he finished talking and handed me a napkin. I barely noticed that I had a cookie in my hand. It was now crumbled up and smashed up in my hand. I took the napkin and cleaned my hands.

"He's seriously thinking about it?" I asked.

"I can't answer that. All I know is that he does care about you Fiona," Chiron said. I took a sip of my lemonade.

"Chiron, is it okay if I knock Lilly into a coma?" I asked. Chrion just shook his head and held his hand up. I saw a small smirk come across his face.

"Thank you for reminding me to add that to the camp rule book," he said. I kind of giggled.

"Thanks for telling me," I said. Chiron rolled over to me and gave my hair a ruffle. I was about to say something when Piper barged in.

"Chiron! Lilly is about to fight Thalia!"

Maybe Thalia will beat me to it, I thought. We all rushed out to the camp where everyone was gathered around in a circle. Chiron, now in centaur form, parted to crowd and I almost wanted to laugh. Thalia was on top of Lilly, punching her a brand new face. It took Chiron, three Ares kids, two Hephaestus kids, and Piper's charmspeak to finally pull them apart. Lilly had two black eyes and her entire face was covered in cuts. Her arms were basically red from all of the blood. Thalia was still strugginlg to get at Lilly, shouting some things in Ancient Greek that were a lot worse that zitto.

"Not so Roman now, are ya?" Thalia snarled. The only reason I didn't go and get some popcorn was the mere fact that I was going to miss this.

"Whatever, Pinecone Face!" Lilly retorted. Most of the crowd ran in every other direction; they did not want to be near this.

"You asked for this!"

Before I could blink, lightning struck Lilly. She fell back like a tree. One of my brothers, Tom, came over and helped me get her to the infirmary. We got a few drops of necter in her mouth and bandage her cuts up. Tom taught me how to clean a wound on the face and how to stich up arms. By the time we cleaned Lilly up, she was just begining to wake up. Lilly looked at me with anger in her eyes. She looked like she wanted to say something, but Tom shot her a look and told her that I healed her and she needs her rest. I walked down to the arena, where most of the kids were. I learned that if you miss something big, it would be the hot topic for a long time.

I wandered along the other kids, who were all talking about what had happened with Thalia and Lilly. Appatantly, Lilly had told Thalia that she looked stupid in her hunters outfit. Thalia had told Lilly she wouold never be accepeted in New Rome. Then Lilly told Thalia to turn back into a tree and thats when they began to fight. I found out Chrion had canceled all of the afternoon activities. Sunny bounded after me and put his paws on my legs; he wanted to go to the beach. We walked down to the beach and I nearly hid again when I saw Tyler.

He was hugging his knees and had his head in them. Sunny and I slowly snuck up to him and I was shocked that Tyler couldn't tell that we were there. That was until I was close enough to hear that he was sobbing. I was about a foot away and I stood there for about a minuet, listening to my big brother cry; he never did that. I sat down next to him and poked his arm. He looked at me and tried to smile. His eyes were red, but he seemed to make them look a little happy. I held my arms out and he took them and gave me a hug. I rested my head in his chest and he tried not to cry again. He was shaking.

"Chiron told me everything," I said. I was facing the ocean, so I couldn't see his face.

"I should of told you from the begining," he said.

"It's okay," I said. Tyler hugged me tighter.

"No its not. I know you never would of kept anything like that from me," he said.

"Actually, I need to talk to you." I wiggeled freed and faced him, sitting criss cross apple
sauce. I told him about the hunters and how Janis recruited me. I looked at the sand the whole time. Tyler took my hands and swung them. I looked up and saw that his eyes were dry, so the looked like their regular happy hazel selfs. Wait, happy?

"Remeber when you were five and asked me who was Miss Mary Mac was?" he asked. I giggled.

"Yeah, I think I can still do it."

"Lets see," she said.

We played a few rounds of Miss Mary Mac; we messed up a few times, but soon got the hang of it. Then we played Tarzan Jungle Man and Patty Cake for a while too. After a while, we headed to camp. On the way there, I told Tyler about what had happened to Lilly. Tyler just shook his head and muttered something about Sto per avere i capelli grigi, prima mi rivolgo venti. We went to the infirmary and i waited outside as Tyler check on Lilly. Tyler came out and shook his head.

"Is she okay?" I asked.

"She just told me I had seven days. Want to get a soda?" he asked. I guess that means this is the last we'll talk about directly. I just nodded.

Notes

Sto per avere i capelli grigi, prima mi rivolgo venti- I'm going to have gray hair before I turn twenty

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