Hey so sorry if this chapter is a bit slow, it'll get better soon I promise. Please R&R otherwise I won't update.

mean author I know.

Am I forgetting something…I DON'T OWN PJO, KATIE, TRAVIS, CONNOR, ETC. all that I own is the plot, and my OCs

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I need two male demigods please, one of my other stories is a SYOC. Please submit some they will be major characters, I really need them!

I packed the last of my bags and headed for the car. When I got outside I found my friends Faith Tanner and Kia Michaels waiting inside. Kia, a tall, African-American, swimmer was driving. She had long dark brown hair, down to the middle of her back, and she had deep brown eyes. All of the guys at school wanted her, and she was a notorious flirt. Currently, her boyfriend was Jeffrey O'Brien; he was her 3rd this month. Faith, being the doll that she is, saved the shotgun seat for me, so I climbed in and we started to go. Faith had blonde hair that she kept just longer then her chin and hazel eyes. She must have been the nicest person I knew, outside of camp of course. I should probably introduce myself. My name is Katie Gardner. I am seventeen, and I am a demigod. My mother is Demeter, goddess of the harvest. This past year has been one of the hardest of my life. There was the battle of Manhattan; I lost so many friends and siblings. Sometimes I just feel like crying, which is why when my completely mortal friends asked If I wanted to go to a ski-resort with them over winter break I said "Yes" without a second thought.

"We'll stop at Megan's, then I'll take us to the airport," Kia said, pulling me out of my thoughts. This was a non-demigod vacation I sternly reminded myself. No thinking about sad stuff.

"Hey hey hey party people." I looked out of the car window to see that we'd arrived at Megan's house. Today she had neon green streaks in her red hair. Megan is my friend, but she's a little bit odd. She's loud and crazy and everything that Faith isn't, which is why they get along so well.

"Hi Megan," we chorused. Soon we had her stuff packed and started heading off towards the airport.

"I am so excited about this trip," Megan said after we had gone a little ways.

"Nobody is more excited then I am," I told them, which was probably true, but of course It started a whole round of "No I want it mores" and "No I'm totally exciteds." Yep. I missed these guys.

We reached the airport in about twenty minutes, and got through security in less then that. The plain came soon after we were at the gate, 40 minutes early! And there was almost no one on the plane. We landed in Key Stone, Colorado at about four thirty in the afternoon. Kia got us a taxi (she looked by far the oldest out of all of us) and in record time we were at the hotel.

"We have a reservation," I told the concierge. "Gardner, a suite for four." The man looked us up and down, but shut up when I pulled out a black American express card, a thank-you-for-saving-Olympus gift from my mom. His eyes went wide at the sight and he made no further judgments.

The room was absolutely amazing. There was a kitchen, (which we'd have to fill with cereal as it was about the only thing any of us could cook) a living room (complete with a pull out couch and 68" flat screen T.V.), a bathroom (Jacuzzi!), and two bedrooms (with two twin beds in one, and a king in the other).

"We get to stay here for three weeks? Awesome," Megan said as she crashed onto the couch. I turned towards the rest of them and told them the plan.

"I got us reservations at the restaurant downstairs, they're at 7:00, it's just about five so we have until then to do whatever."

"You've got it all mapped out haven't you Katie," Kia said sarcastically.

"Oh shush you," I replied, laughing slightly. We watched T.V. for about an hour and a half.

"We should probably get ready for dinner, does anyone want to take a shower? We have been traveling all day." I asked. We took turns showering and walked downstairs. We sat down at our table. As it turns out, the restaurant was a buffet. We filled our plates with as much as we could and ate until we couldn't eat any more. Dinner was filled with conversations of who likes who and where we wanted to go to college, no monsters, demons, or titans thank you very much! The only disturbance was when I thought I saw a familiar face, but there was no way that Travis Stoll was here in Key Stone….

"So Katie," Megan asked. "Who's hotter? Thomas Lee or Marion Keaton?"

"What? Ohh, um, Marion I guess."

"Really?"

"Yeah I guess."

"I think Marion is really ugly, can you believe that haircut!"

"I don't think he's ugly at all."

"You know who's not ugly?" Kia said, butting in.

"Please tell me."

"Taylor Lautner, and Tom Felton, and Logan Lerman."

"You have a boyfriend!" Megan yelled, laughing.

"No I don't, you think I'm going to be tied down on a three week trip to a ski lodge? No thank you." At this, the rest of us started laughing. Suddenly, somebody came up behind me.

"Hey Gardner, what's so funny."

What do you think? Can you guess who said that? Please R&R

Think of it as your holiday present for me!

~Swimmer14