Athena's POV - Chapter 3
I woke up and I had a text. From Zeus..great...
"Dress nice today. I want 2 announce it 2 the school."
Ugh! I was digusted. I started to text back fuck you, but then Ares would get hurt. I put my phone down with a sigh and started to get ready. I had a long day ahead of me. I put my teal and white polka dot crop top and a pair of dark faded skinny jeans from Gucci. I scrunched my hair. I put my makeup on and grabbed my Juicy bag and walked out
I walked into class and Zeus was leaning on the building wall. He looked me up and down stopping to look at my chest not once but twice! He smiled up at me. Licking his lips he said, "You look great."
"How nice of you to notice. Now move, I need to get to class. And don't look at me like that, I'm not your girl." My eyes in slits. "And I never will be."
His eyes flashed in anger but he stopped himself from striking me or yelling and stomped away. I breathed a sigh of relief and walked into class.
I was greeted by Apollo's sweet smile and his warm blue eyes. In one switt movement he grabbed my hand and led me to the seat beside him. All the girls glaring and all the guys cheering and whooping. I blushed. I could definitely get used to this, but what if Zeus hurts Apollo? I can't risk that. My hand stiffened and I slid my hand out of his. He looked at me startled, but I couldn't see what he was feeling: Hurt? Disappointed? Regret? But I couldn't tell him, I couldn't ever tell anybody. His blue eyes filled with hurt, I looked away. Damn you, Zeus! You're ruining this for me! I looked back at Apollo apologetically. He mouthed, "It's okay." when it clearly wasn't.
I walked out in anger and sadness. I would confront Zeus today. I'm done playing his messed up little game! Oh hell today I have to talk to Aphrodite! Speak of the devil, there she was prancing around class like she owned the world. I apporoached her and her cheery smile dropped into a glare and the walls came up.
"What?" she said with hate.
"Can you give me your email, please?"
Surprisingly enough her cheery smile came back up and said, "Sure!" without a hint of hate, sarcasm, or laughter in her voice.
She grabbed a pen and a piece of paper. She wrote it down and slipped it in my hands. I unfolded it, it said ApHrOdItE101@aim.com. First mission accomplished. Second, patch things up with Apollo. Third, End this thing with Zeus once and for all.
After School
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I went to Apollo's dorm to try and patch things up. He lived in Dillard Hall like Ares. I went to Ares's room to see if he knew where Apollo's dorm room was. I knocked on his door. He opened it.
"Yeah?" he said obviously not knowing it was me. He looked up at me and his face lit up into a smile. "Hey sis."
"Hey, how are you?"
"Fine." he said a bit too quickly. I pushed it aside, I have other matters to attend to.
"Anyways, I was wondering if you knew where Apollo's dorm is?"
"Why, are you going to go make passionate love to him?" he said with a cocky smile.
"Oh, don't be such a smart ass! So do you know where it is or not?"
"Yeah, I do..Uh... he scratched his head in thought. "Room 823."
"Thanks"
I walked off in search of room 823. Let's see..821, 823. Here goes nothing.I knocked on his door. His entrancing voice rang out.
"Who is it?"
"It's me, Athena." As soon as I said that I heard the unlocking of his door and he cursed in frustration. He opened it and put his hand out towards his room.
"Please come in."
"Okay."
He sat down on his couch and patted the cushion beside him. I sat down.
"So, what did you need to talk to me about?"
"How'd you know I needed to talk about something?" I glanced at him skeptically. He shrugged, so I went on. "Well, one of my friends is having trouble with this guy...He's forcing her to date him or he'll hurt her brother. Badly. I don't know what to tell her."
"Well, perhaps your friend should confront the guy and ask him to stop."
"It's not that simple. You see, he's abusive, he's hit her before, so she's afraid of what he'll do if she tries to end it."
"Well, has she gone to a teacher?"
"He told her if she tells anyone, he'll make her life a living hell."
"And yet she chose to tell you?"
"Yeah, we're close, like sisters. We tell each other everything." I lied. I averted my gaze.
"And is this 'friend you?" He put air quotes up in the air when he said friend. I shook my head profusely, he couldn't find out.
"It's one of my friends, Ava." Even though Ava was my friend...it definitely wasn't her with this problems. She was in Oregon, as happy as could be with her childhood sweetheart, Tyler. Wait, no he moved away to Illinois. Pfft. What am I thinking?
"Oh?" he said with a playful look in his eyes. Almost as if he knew. "Does she go here?"
"No, she's still in Oregon. We email back and forth a lot."
"Oh." He quickly changed the subject. To this morning. Great. Wait. This is what you came here to talk about! Get yourself together. "So are you okay?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"Well, you seemed a bit off today, sad and dazed. Unlike you. It doesn't suit you."
"Oh, I was just thinking about stuff."
"Does that stuff have anything to do with you pulling your hand away?" he said gently.
"Not exactly." I said with a smile that didn't quite reach my eyes.
His blue eyes flashed pleading, begging me to tell him what was going on, but I couldn't risk it, I wouldn't. I looked away because with each passing moment I looked into those eyes I knew I would give in.
"I can't! I just can't!" My voice breaking off at the end.
"Yes, you can! Just tell me!" He grabbed me and pulled me into his arms, his warm embrace and whispered, "Just tell me, I can help you. Let me help you."
"Nobody can help me." I said softly. My eyes getting that glassy look and my tears spilled over. I stood up abruptly and he stood up with me. "I have to go." I said it so curt and cold I almost didn't recognize my voice. I walked out and Apollo stood there dumbstruck starting after me.
I wiped my hand across my cheeks shakily. I ran towards my dorm, took my key out, and tried to put it in. My hand was shaking so badly the key dropped. I cursed silently and tried again. I slipped it in, turned it and opened the door. I collapsed my legs giving out under me. My knees bent in front of me with my hands by my sides limp. I heard a knock at the door, it was Mrs. Lynn. There was a girl with jet black shoulder length hair and a white spaghetti strap shirt with faded skinny jeans, a pair of silver ballerina flats and the cutest Prada bag slung on her shoulder.
"Hi, Mrs. Lynn. What can I do for you?"
"Well, this is the new girl, Briseis, could she stay with you?"
"Sure, I have plenty of room." And smiled despite what just happened. I looked at Briseis. "Come on in." She sat down on the bed.
"Are you okay?" she said. "Your nose is red."
"Yeah, I'm fine."I sniffled.
"You don't look fine to me." she said softly. "Why don't you tell me whats on your mind? I'm sure it'll help."
"Nah, but thanks for offering, you can get your stuff unpacked. I have to go run a couple errands. I'll be back by 7."
"Kay."
I walked out ready to complete my last mission today. I have to try. I have to. I walked towards the penthouse dorm and walked straight to 100. I knocked so hard, my fist almost broke the wood.
"Sup, baby?" Zeus called.
"Look, we need to talk. Oh, and I'm not your baby."
"Okay, why don't you come in and we can 'talk.'" He stepped out of the way, I walked in. "Make yourself at home."
I sat down. "Look Zeus, I can't do this!"
"Do what?"
"Oh, don't play dumb. I can't date you, I can't. I don't even like you."
"Oh, so do you like someone else, Apollo maybe?" I flinched.
"Don't hurt him...Don't you dare. This doesn't involve him. I don't want you. Just stay away from me!"
"I don't think that's possible. Unless you want Ares to get hurt as well."
"Is this your idea of fun? You think blackmailing me or whatever will get me to like you?" I glared. "Is this what you make all your girlfriends go through? I don't want another minute of this. Or of you." This time it was his turn to flinch.
"You know nothing!"
"No, I know everything. This, this isn't how you get someone to love you or even like you... You, your just a monster. A monster who throws a fit if he doesn't get something he wants. So I'm through! Bye." I started walking towards the door. In about a second, he grabbed my wrist and threw me to the floor.
"You wanna see a monster? I'll show you one." He got closer and closer to me and with each step I grew more frightened then ever. He lifted me up and slapped me. Harder than Hades had slapped me. I yelped with pain. He threw me onto the couch and turned around. "You arrogant bitch! You think you can say whatever the hell you want to me? Well I hate to break it to you, but you will get hurt a lot if you ever speak to me like that again."
"Oh, yeah abusing your 'girlfriend' is really the way to go. Good job, dickhead." I walked away so swiftly, he didn't say another word.
I ran into the room, I forgot that Briseis was there and started crying my eyes out. Briseis ran into the room, took one look at me, and was by my side in an instant. Even though she had no idea why I was crying, she kept stroking my head saying it's okay, you're okay over and over. When I calmed down, the inevitable came. The questions.
"So you wanna tell me why you came bursting in here crying?"
"Not really." I mumbled.
"Just tell me," I wasn't in the mood to say it, but I had everything in my diary except what happened today.
"My diary, just read my diary." I saw her read and her eyes get bigger and bigger as the events unfolded. She looked at my cheek and said one word.
"OML!"
"I know."
"So, what'd he do now?"
"Well, I tried to break it off and he got violent. Really violent. Damn, this is going to be a bitch to cover up tomorrow." She cracked a smile.
"Maybe we should get to sleep. We'll figure this all out tomorrow."
"Okay."
The Next Morning
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I was up bright and early and decided to shower, then wake Briseis up. I went into the bathroom and looked into the mirror to see the damage. Son of a bitch! It was a deep shade of purple and had red spoltches all over it. It looked so wrong on my pale ivory skin. I gently touched it. I flinched. I sighed and decided not to linger and just shower. I showered my hair out and went to go wake Briseis up. She went to shower while I went to work picking out my outfit and fixing my makeup. I'd need extra time today. I went into my closet and picked out my Guess capris, a D&G red tubetop with a black blazer and Versace shoes. I completed it with my Coach purse. I went to makeup. I dabbed coverup on my nasty bruise ever so carefully and finally got it covered completely and went back to my normal routine.
Briseis walked out in a stunning Miu Miu black dress that hit just above her knee and a stunning pair of pink Jimmy Choo strappy slingbacks. She also had a Chloe bag.
"Cute, love the outfit." I said.
"Thanks, love yours too!" she trilled.
As we were walking into World History I was telling her who to stay away from. And what was really weird was that we had the exact same schedule. It was crazy but now at least she has a friend in every class.
"Okay, so main person to stay away from, Zeus, but you knew that. Oh, and Apollo's kinda mine well not yet but as soon as this whole Zeus thing is over he will be but there is plenty of other guys in this school. You want the lowdown on anyone else, just ask."
"Ooh, what about that guy?" She pointed to a guy with really pretty blue eyes and shaggy dirty blond hair. Hmm...I'd never seen him around, he must be new.
"Hmm..never seen him around here before."
"Ooh, all the more reason to date him!"
"What do you mean?"
"Have you looked in the mirror? Your gorgeous, hello! Any guy that saw you would definitely fall."
"Thanks. But have YOU looked in the mirror? I sure you made guys fall all over the place in..wait..where are you from again?"
"Florida, and your welcome and thanks!" We laughed. We reached the World History building and Zeus was there again. Ugh! He just doesn't stop. I whispered to Briseis.
"That's Zeus." She nodded.
Zeus belted out his annoying voice. "New girl." he said looking Briseis up and down hungrily.
"How'd you know?"
"It's a small school."
"Hardly." I replied for her. "We'll be leaving now." I led her inside and as I followed after her he grabbed my wrist.
"What are you going to do? Hit me in front of everyone? Go ahead. Try it." He scowled. I smirked. I win.
I walked in and sighed. Geez...he's so immature. Briseis was flirting with the new guy. Haha. Lucky her, he seemed to be flirting right back. I walked up to them.
"Hey Briseis. Who's your friend?"
"Achilles." he said. He put out a hand for me to shake. "Nice to meet you."
"Athena. Pleasure." I met his hand and shook it.
Mr. Forenze walked in with two MORE new students. Good Lord, how many people in the world could possibly come to this school? Wait, I knew these people. Ava and Tyler. OMG! It really was Ava with her hour glass petite figure, blond hair over her shoulders and pacific blue eyes. Tyler...hmmm never knew he was smart enough to get in here. Haha. Not really, he's always been smart. He had light brown hair, tan skin, and blue eyes.
"Ava!" I screamed.
"Athena!" She screamed back. "Omg!"
I ran down to hug her. We jumped up and down with glee.
"You should've told me you were coming here!" I said.
"I know, but I wanted to surprise you!"
"Gosh just forget about me." Tyler said.
"Tyler! When did you move back to Oregon? I thought you moved to Illinois?"
"I did, but I moved back right before me and Zoey I mean Ava went to the airport to go to Aerin."
"Zoey? Did you get a new girl, Tyler?"
"Well...not exactly, I broke up with her before we came here. I definitely see people I'd like to date though."
"Mmhmm." I looked at Ava.
She was looking at her shoes and playing with her hair pretending not to care. Something was up. I stepped back and took a look at Ava's outfit. She was wearing a plaid purple and black Milano Je T'Adore skirt with a matching white button up blouse and a blazer that was black. Ooh she was also wearing strappy high heeled sandals from Marc Jacobs. Cute.
"Cute outfit, Ava! I love it."
"Thanks girl. Love yours too."
Mr. Forenze just let us talk all period then it was second. Oh shit Aphrodite...here we go. Looked like Ava had Calculus too. That means three friends in that class which could possibly hold up against Aphrodite by herself but I'm not sure. The girl is vicious.
"Briseis, Ava, stay away from a girl named Aphrodite, okay?"
"Why?" They said at the same time.
"She's vicious and a total bitch."
"Oh, one those girls huh?" Ava said. She was used to it, we always used to deal with them back in Oregon.
We walked into Calculus with Apollo already in class. Weird, I could've sworn he was right behind us. Aphrodite was there with two new people, I'd never seen. She was making friends. Eww..Tyler was flirting with one of them. Oh hell no! Had he broken up with Ava? Oh wait, I never knew they got back together...since he moved back.
Aphrodite came towards us flanked by the two girls she called her friends. They were dressed identical. Ewww... They had on the same Kristina Ti Dress that showed way too much cleavage and the sleeves stopped at their elbows except Aphrodite in red and the others in black.
She smirked, "Hey Athena, meet my friends, Adrian and Amber."
"Meet mine, Ava and Briseis. Aphrodite, what do you want?"
"Oh, I just wanted to show you my friends because they are so much better than yours."
"Oh!" I laughed. "Just because mine aren't clones and yours are?"
I heard Ava snicker behind me. Then was silenced by Adrian and Amber's glare. Tyler was just their lackey. It was pitiful. He was flirting with Leah. She had brown hair that went down so far it covered half her arms. Her brown eyes looked as though they looked straight into my soul.
"No, because they have class." she said her teeth clenched.
"Class? Oh, right dressing like sluts, makes them classy? Right."
"Excuse me?" Mia and Leah said.
"You heard me." I said defiantly.
They scoffed but were obviously pissed because they didn't have anything to say.
"Ladies." Aphrodite said and as if on cue, they turned around following her out, while shaking thier butts.
I laughed. Then I saw Apollo coming towards us. My smile faded instantly. I turned away in shame. I saw him talking to Ava, then remembered what we talked about yesterday. Oh crap! I walked as fast as I could back over there. They were already talking. Shit!
"So did you ever dump that jerk?"
"Huh?"
"The one that abused you? Athena told me, I hope you don't mind."
"No, not at all. Thats actually why I came here to get away." she played along. Oh, thank heavens.
"Well, I'm happy for you."
"Thank you, I actually hope to start anew here."
"I hope that you do too." He smiled.
Class ended and here came the questions from Ava.
"What the hell was that about, Athena?"
"Okay, I went to Apollo yesterday because of some trouble that was going on here about me." She glanced worriedly at me. "So I told him the whole 'My friend, thing. He asked for a name, I instantly said you without thinking. Sorry."
"It's fine, just warn me before hand, kay?" She smiled.
"Kay."
"So, whats the story?"
"Huh?"
"Oh, the trouble."
"Long story, when we get back to the dorms, I'll tell you everything."
"Why not now?"
"Just not now." I said firmly.
After School
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So we were at my dorm and Briseis was getting fed up with Zeus's constant 'compliments' so she said that she would confront him today. I was trying to talk her out of it.
"Briseis, you know what happened yesterday, don't make him lose his temper." I warned.
"I know, I'm just going to talk to him."
"Confronting isn't talking. That's yelling, he'll get ticked."
"Not if I have anything to do about it."
She walked out and noticeably slammed the door. This time Ava wanted answers.
"So are you going to tell me what happened?"
"I don't have time. I need to stop Briseis from doing something stupid. Read my diary it'll tell you everything."
"Kay." I ran out after Briseis.
She was going to his dorm! Damn! Doesn't she know he's more liable to hurt her if she's not in a public place? Ugh. I'd have to tail her. Briseis rang the doorbell and forced him to come outside so she could talk to him. I breathed a sigh of relief, at least she wasn't going to his room. I decided to risk getting a bit closer to where I could here.
"Listen Zeus. Stop giving me your fricking compliments! Okay, I don't want them coming from YOU!" Her voice raised with every single word.
"Briseis, you have it wrong, it's not compliments, it's the truth."
"Oh, don't give me that bullshit! I think we all know what you're capable of. Slapping Athena because she called you a monster. Y-."
"Where did you figure that out?" He practically yelled.
"I'm her room mate idiot, I know someone slapped her because there was a big red handprint on her face. I was bound to figure out anyway. I don't even know why she's dating you, your an ass." She spat. Zeus looked very relieved that no one knew.
"Look, just don't talk to me and leave Athena alone." she warned. He smirked. "Don't look down on me. I know people."
"Really?" he said clearly amused. "What kind of people?"
"The kind of people who get rid of dirt like you." and with a flip of her hair, she walked off.
She didn't even notice me there and as soon as she left, I was paged by none other than Zeus.
I walked over there and he was outside waiting for me. When he saw me, he just lit up like a lamp. Jeez, I loathe him.
"So, how have you been?" he said as if he were actually nice. Ha, don't make me laugh.
"Fine, no thanks to you!" I snapped.
"I told you not to speak to me like that darling, why do you have to be like that?" I threw up in my mouth. Darling? Ew. I shivered. "Cold? Let's go inside where you'll be much much warmer."
"No, I'm just fine out here, thank you." I didn't want him to hit me so its better to stay here in the open.
"Seriously, I insist, lets go inside."
"No and that's final."
"Well, at least let me warm you up."
He took a step closer to me not threatening but I still backed up a step. That put him over the edge. He grabbed my waist and pulled me into him. I tried to push away to get out of his iron grip but nothing worked. So I decided to scream. He covered my scream with his lips and I pushed him off of me.
"Get off me!" I screamed still in his grip.
As soon as I said that Apollo came up with his bow and arrow. He aimed it and shot the arrow one millimeter from Zeus's face. Zeus let me go. I ran over to Apollo and hid behind him. Apollo didn't take me and leave though. He had fury written all over his face, and he started walking towards Zeus.
"You tried to force yourself onto a girl?"
"No, we were just playing around."
"Then why is she in tears?!" He acted like he was leaving then turned back around and punched Zeus in the face. Zeus landed on the ground. "You leave her alone! I don't know why, I don't know how, but you forced her to date you. You prick." Zeus paled.
"That's right, your little secrets out Zeus. It's over." I said.
He pulled my hair and dragged me to the ground, and slapped me again. Apollo launched himself at Zeus landing on top of him and kept punching him in the face over and over until his face was a bloody mess. Apollo came towards me with his jacket, picked me up and wiped my tears off my face.
"You wanna tell me why I just beat up Zeus? And why you dated him when you obviously didn't want to?"
"Yeah, I think its time you knew."
I took him back to my dorm and with the help of Ava and Briseis we told him the story. His eyes turned into sadness, then into regret, then into plain fury. The welp on my face had swollen and Apollo ran some cool water under a towel and handed it to me. We talked for a couple more hours, contemplating whether or not to tell people and where Apollo and I stood in our realationship. When Apollo left, the girl chat started.
"So whats with you and Achilles?" I asked Briseis.
"Nothing." She blushed.
"Oh, don't lie, you two were really hitting it off today."
"Well, so!"
"Uh-huh! So Ava what happened with you and Ty?"
"Well...it's a long story."
"Well make a long story short and tell us."
"Okay, well you know how he moved back? Well, he's like a totally different person, a player, and he almost didn't even remember who I was." She blinked back tears. "You may see him as his normal self, but let me tell you something sister, he's not. Not even close, he's such a fricking jerk!"
"There must be a reason, he was so sweet. You were childhood sweethearts."
"Not anymore!" she said bitterly.
We ended up bursting into fits of laughter over nothing through the night and eventually fell asleep sprawled over the bed.
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