I'm gonna be honest, being put to sleep by the Hecate cabin is not fun. Do not try it. It was supposed to be a prank on Zoë because I hadn't seen her in literally FOREVER. Unfortunately, it worked perfectly. I felt my knees buckling almost immediately. I wish it hadn't hurt so much when Zoë caught me, though. She had rough but gentle hands. Not important. The last thing I heard was Zoë yelling, "Whoa! Someone get the Apollo cabin! Rebecca blacked out!"
Then, I passed out. That definitely didn't feel good. They said I was out for about 4 to 5 hours. Apparently, as Zoë told me, Armani was the first medic in there. She also told me about how Armani and she had recently gotten into a fight.
We all talked a little, then Armani left to go to his archery class. Zoë stayed with me the whole time. If she hadn't, I probably would have passed out again, which would have been painful. Even though I was a daughter of Ares, I didn't like pain. Crazy, right?
Anyway, when Zoë had just left, Armani came back into the room and asked, "Have you told Zoë yet? She needs to know."
"Armani, lovie, we can't tell anyone yet. You know we can't."
"But, sweetheart, I want people to know about what we did."
"Why?" I shot back, daring him to answer.
"Because," he continued, "We have to tell someone about Daniella and Parker eventually. That you're pregnant."
"Calm down. No one has to know anything yet."
"I know," a voice said from behind us. It was Ruby Hayes, my half sister, daughter of Mars.
"Jesus, Ruby! Were you listening to us that whole time?"
"Um… yeah. I'm going to go tell Aphrodite cabin." Then she ran off, giggling, before anyone could say anything.
"Ruby, no!" I yelled as she ran across the lawn to Aphrodite cabin. "Gods darn it! Ruby Evelyn Hayes, get back here!" I got up and ran after her, but she was already in the Aphrodite cabin. There was no way I could snatch her out of there anymore. I went to Artemis's cabin and prayed my daughter would be okay. That Daniella would survive. After that, I went to Apollo cabin, Armani's cabin, also the only cabin who knew. Apollo and Hermes cabin were the ones who got us into Hera's cabin. You know the rest.
Anyway, I got there, and Armani was waiting for me at his bunk. I almost started crying. He's the best. I lay down on the bunk below his. There wasn't a camper who had that bunk, so I didn't have to get yelled at for laying on someone's bunk. At least, I didn't think I would be yelled at. I've never been yelled at for laying down because of stomach pain because Daniella was kicking.
Then, it was dinner time. I saw Aphrodite cabin looking at me and giggling because of what Ruby told them. One of them wasn't laughing about me being pregnant. It was Austin Deas, my best friend. She was walking over to my table. Oh, gods. She was coming to ask questions.
"Can we talk?" She asked, "Alone?"
"Of course," I replied, because she scares me,"come with me."
She followed me to my cabin and I stepped inside, held the door for her, closed it and locked it.
"What do we need to talk about?" I asked, even though I already knew.
"The fact Ruby came and told my whole cabin that you're pregnant. Is it true or not? Tell me."
See, there's a rare power Aphrodite sometimes passes down to her kids called charmspeak. My friend Austin has it. She basically made me tell her.
"Yeah," I said, under the influence of her charmspeak,"it's true."
"Rebecca! You're 18!" She said, looking at me as if I were crazy.
"I didn't mean to!" I yelled, "It was an accident! But you'll be happy when I tell you the next part."
"What's the next part?" She asked
"They're twins. Their names'll be Daniella and Parker." I said as a smirk formed on her face.