Pertemis•The Fifteenth Olympian

Chapter 19

So a lot of you have been screaming at me for updates and here you go, one update...

Chapter 19

Thoughts

Artemis's PoV

The ride on the moon chariot was mostly silent, a slight breeze was blowing and the sky was clear, I could see the many constellations, some of which had been put up there by me. I saw two small figures outside Orthrys, I placed my chariot on auto-drive and leaned towards them.

I squinted my eye and saw that it was my mother, Leto and Percy who were talking.

"So why are you so close to my daughter ?", my mother asked.

"What do you mean ?"

"Well, I have never seen Artemis talk so nicely to a male, much less bare their presence for longer than necessary, you must be really special to her", I don't know about Percy but I was certainly blushing at that.

Percy better answer quickly, in a few seconds the chariot will be so far away from them that I won't be able to hear anything.

"Oh, I think that Artemis is really nice and everything but lately...", I screamed in frustration, I couldn't hear the rest, although it isn't necessary, I can fill in the blanks, he probably said 'lately she has been acting so weirdly that I just don't get her', if only I had been more careful about this, if I had hid the fact that I liked Percy then maybe he would have liked me and not thought that I was a complete weirdo.

I sighed.

I put my chariot back to normal and grabbed it's reins, the rest of the night remained uneventful.

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Percy's PoV

"Lately, I have started to grow closer to her, I guess you could say that I like Artemis", there, I said it. And you know what, I feel much better now that I have told someone, even if it is Artemis's mother.

Leto looked at me and smiled, "Well, I think that you are a good man Percy, but hiding your feelings won't get you anywhere, you should tell her how you feel", she told me.

I simply nodded and went back inside the palace lost in my own thoughts.

I opened the door to a bedroom and lay down, but I couldn't sleep. I don't know why but I just couldn't, after trying to sleep for a good half hour, I got up and decided to go for a walk, it was almost dawn, Artemis would be back any minute now.

I didn't know whether to tell Artemis how I feel or just go up to her and kiss her, I mean both ways she would kill me but at least this way I could kiss her.

I saw the moon chariot up in the sky, coming right at me, I stepped aside and waited for Artemis to control the chariot and bring it to rest.

As she stepped down from her chariot I couldn't help but admire her, she looked beautiful, not that she wasn't beautiful before but right now she looked radiant.

I stepped closer towards her, I don't know what got into me, but at that moment I took a very impulsive decision. I leaned closer in order to kiss her and she did too, but the fates hate me so as soon as lips were about to meet, Leto showed up "Oh Artemis, you're back, let's get you two ready for the trip", she said and pulled the two of us inside the palace.

So close. I was so close to kissing Artemis.

_____Time skip_____

The trip to Delos was normal, we encountered a few monsters here and there but nothing out of the ordinary, we didn't talk about the almost kiss or anything related to that.

We finally reached Delos after a long and tiresome day of travelling. We set up a tent that Leto had given us and went inside to sleep for a while.

"I will take first watch, you can sleep", I told Artemis

"No, let me take first watch, I am stronger at night", she countered.

"No, you haven't been able to sleep properly ever since we got to your mother's palace so I suggest that you take a break and get some sleep", I told her.

She sighed and nodded. Before going inside she walked up towards me and lightly kissed my cheek. My face was as red as a tomato and I could see a light blush on her face too.

Why would she be blushing? Unless she likes me too! It was the only answer I could think of at the moment so I decided that it was true. I liked Artemis and Artemis liked me. Hopefully.

I sat down outside the tent and looked at the night sky and the moon that shone so brightly.

I couldn't help but think about what would happen if me and Artemis got together, her father would certainly be against it, so would mine, would we be able to work it out?

I don't know any of that, but what I do know is that I would always stay be Artemis's side no matter what.

And if we ever had kids, then they would have my black hair and her silver eyes or the other way around, it wouldn't make a difference because I would love all of them just like I love her.

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