I smile at them, still laying down on my rock but there was this pionty thing I think was a barnacle...wait barnacle boy! Mwahahahahaha! Anyway...I kept shifting to try to move away from it but it was always poking me until I noticed it wasn't poking...it was pinching. I sit up and a crab skittles over the rock, the others laugh while I just pout and stick my tongue out at them.

We all spend the our free time together which was until 5 so it was a lot of playing, splashing and in general fun. I even chased Leo around the beach because he made a blonde joke, Annabeth joined in with me and so I caught him, she threatened him with a few creative and colourful threats and I gotta say that I'm impressed that she can come up with things like that so I gave her a high-five.

Well anyway I'm on my way to Greek mythology class and let's just say I'm kind of looking forward to it, I hope I learn something new or something but then I find out that it's been cancelled because of an extra long dinner and sing-along or something. So I went to dinner and grabbed my extra lean nymph cut barbeque and offer all of my veggies to dad, what I don't like salad?

I sit down and eat my dinner while strinking up a conversation with Percy about dad, he hasn't heard from dad in a while but of course dad is busy with the war against pollution so I'm not worried and Percy is fine with it so we just talk about it still. Afterwards we all cheer and go to our "silly little camp-fire" as Dionysus says it and as we sing the flames turn bigger and brighter.

That is until Chiron announces that the hunters are joining us...uh oh. I look down and try to sneak away but Phoebe grabs my arm and yanks me back "just because you quit the hunters doesn't mean that your not still family" she says and I hug her tightly. Thalia smiles and hugs me "I still don't get why you quit but whatever the reason, as long as your happy" she tells me and I nod "thank you Thalia" I say sincerely.

She smiles at me and nods while the campers gawk at me "you never told them?" Phoebe asks and I shake my head "my life, they don't need to know much" I say and they smirk, knowing fully well that this was me. The hunters sit down away from all the boys and I smile, now where do I sit? Hunters? Percy? Seven? Thalia? Uhm...meet in the middle and sit with both once I get them to sit close enough to each other.

I persuade thalia to sit on the log next to Percy and the seven's and I talk with both while the Apollo kids sing their little songs and I feel more at home than ever "so Ilah...what did make you quit?" Thalia asks once the singing stops and everyone's attention is on me. I look away from the crowd and look directly at the hunters "guess I realized how much I was missing out on. I mean like a first kiss, a boyfriend and possibly love"  I tell them.

Some of the hunters can't seem to understand that and others just nod "well you were a great hunter for what? A hald a year? A year?" Thalia asks and I smile, it seems so long ago that I can't remember "well thanks for accepting that I quit" I say with that thankfull voice of mine and they smile. I yawn and stretch "see you guys tomorrow, archery together?" I ask and they nod with smiles then leave to their cabins but not before glaring at the boys and Phoebe glaring especially hard to Conner and Travis.

I shake my head at them "she still has a grudge over the centaur blood thing, you know" I tell the 2 Hermes twins and their eyes widen as they swallow hard, I laugh but stop as soon as I notice that everyone is looking at me "what?" I ask. They all liik at me as if saying "you know" but I don't. Percy snaps out of it first "you were a hunter?!" he yells and I back away "yeah, a while ago I joined and about 2 or 3 days ago I quit" I tell them with a shrug.

piper looks at me "why'd you join them?" she asks and my eyebrows furrow "I had a hard time with guys....stuff that I'd rather tell you all in private and uhm...not now" I say awkwardly but I get a way out. I slow down my breathing and eventually I yawn and stetch "I'm gonna go to bed" I tell them getting up. I pass the Artemis cabin very slowly, so inviting...I could rejoin but that would mean leaving camp and Percy and....Donovan. Uh oh not good, I walk to cabin 3 and get in bed.

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Dreams of joining the hunters plagued me all night, the good times we had together playing over again and I woke up with a smile on my face but it quickly became a frown, I sigh softly and jump off my bunk, get dressed, brush my teeth and stuff. It's only like 5 am but I don't mind I can go for a stroll or a swim or I could tell the hunters what I'm thinking. 

I jog out of the cabin and let my feet take me, I end up at the pavilion and see...Clarrise sitting there with a water bottle, I stay in the shadows for a while and watch her practice before I walk out and toward a dummy with my daggers in hand. I start doing my usual routine , spin, slash, stab, kick, slash, stab, slash, slash and end with a double stab to the neck.

Clarrisse slow claps at me and I turn, ready for a fight "I'm not here to fight, I'm actually quite impressed with your skill and the fact that you threatened Drew" she says and I nod "it wasn't a threat, it was a promise" I mutter and she laughs. I look at her funny but she just shrugs "I like you kid, you got spunk" she tells me and we start talking.

Turns out she's actually quite nice and protective and stuff and we spend the mext few hours sparring against each other, which was fun but then tha conch horn went for breakfast....