The new Goddess
6. Alex
I was joking around for days now, just to make sure that no one would think I was hiding something. Finn wasn't the cool guy I'd met at my first day at camp. He tried not to show it, but I saw he didn't like it to be outside when it was dark. At the campfire he looked nervous. He held his hand on his sword all the time. I told him to talk about it with Chiron or psychiatrist, but he didn't listen. He said that he was fine and ignored me. A couple of times I saw people's memories, it was creepy, like the time I saw Emily's memories: I saw her kissing a boy. And they said sweet things and stuff, it felt really awkward to see it. That all happened because I gave her a high five. I didn't dare to touch anyone. I was so afraid to see peoples memories. What was wrong with me? Why couldn't I be like anyone else?
I tried to focus on my fight strategy. I became better and better in swordplay and I learned archery.
I was practicing archery when two girls came over and started talking to me.
'Hey.' Said one of them.
'Hey..' I answered.
'We've never really met,' the girl continued, 'I'm Abby and this is my twin sister Gail. We're daughters of Hestia.'
'Your parents were really creative with names!' I smiled. Abby didn't laugh.
'Shut up!' She told me.
'Yeah, at least we KNOW our parents!' Gail continued.
'Wow, wow, don't be angry! I didn't mean to offend you!'
'Well, you did and now we hate you.'
'That doesn't make sense...'
They gave me one angry look and walked away. What did just happened? I asked my self. I decided to stop practicing and went to the lake.
I was surprised to see Finn sitting there. I stopped walking and looked at him. Did he looked like he wanted company? He was throwing rocks in the water. I decide to walk to him and said: 'Hey! You're scaring the fish with those rocks!' He smiled and I sat beside him. We were silent for a long time. 'I understand your fear.' I finally said.
'I guess you don't.'
'No seriously, I do. I would be pretty scared too, but you have to get over it.'
'Says who?'
'Me.'
'You don't even know what is was like.'
'I guess I know more than you think.'
'Well, tell me how you know it?'
' I-... I just-... I just know.'
'You just know? Great argument.'
We went silent for a long time again.
'You're acting weird the last time.' He said.
'I'm acting weird?!'
'Yeah, you're so extremely happy the last time.'
'No I'm not.'
'Yes you are! I know you! You're not that happy.'
Suddenly I was really angry at him.
'You think you know me?!' I yelled. 'You don't know anything about me! You're the coward here that is afraid of some stupid monster! First I liked you but now you're just a stupid coward!'
I saw I had hurt him, but it didn't bother me. I gave him one last angry look and walked away. I hated this day! It sucked. I couldn't live like this anymore. I had to find out who my parents were and what the whole memory thing meant.
Yeah you get to choose out of a bunch!
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