Manami almost laughed out loud when she saw Ben shooting the new girl an icy glare. Rolling her eyes, she grabbed his arm and pulled him up with her to stand next to Joshua, who was.. blushing? He didn't seem like the type to do that very often. The girl was quite pretty, if she was being honest. However, her attention was taken once again, and she had to stifle a giggle when she saw Ben pouting. Jealous much? She thought to herself, waiting for Joshua's reply to the girl.
"Accommodation?" Joshua echoed, confused. His blush was gone, as he seemed to have gotten a hold of himself. "You mean your cabin? Whose child are you?"
He had expected a normal reaction, but the girl seemed confused this time around, holding up one of her hands and pointing one of her painted nails at herself, while forming an 'o' with her mouth. "Excuse me? Cabin? Do I not get a vacation house or something to myself?" She put her other hand up to her hip, taking a step closer to Joshua. "Do I really have to share a cabin with people, or do you think you could change something for me?"
Joshua frowned at that. "What's so bad about sharing a cabin with others?" he asked, not even noticing her flirty body language, as she was almost leaning him at this point. That was typical Joshua, who couldn't get a hint. "It's great to not be alone! So don't worry, they're all gonna be nice."
Noting that her advances were not working, her attitude seemed to change a little. Huffing, she said, "Whatever. My godly parent is, of course, Aphrodite."
Ben almost visibly winced at her attitude toward the cabins, knowing that no matter what she thought, that certainly wouldn't change. No offense to her, but she seemed.. Well, to be completely honest, a bit snobby. He already didn't like her, but maybe he was a bit biased considering the way she'd been acting toward Joshua. He wasn't sure whether to speak up, but decided to anyways. "I think you'll like the Aphrodite cabin," He told her, trying to keep his tone polite. "It's really nice, and I'm sure we can show you over there f you can't find it." He figured that maybe if he was kind, she'd act the same way.
"I doubt it," she replied, a small sneer on her face as she regarded Ben and Manami coolly. She seemed to not care about her previous attempts with Joshua, until she remembered her luggage. Blinking up at Joshua through her long lashes, she suddenly threw herself around his waist, making him stumble backwards a step, as he hadn't been expecting it. "Say, pretty-boy, would you be kind enough to carry my luggage there, though? It's way too heavy for me," she murmured, pouting childishly.
Joshua was honestly not sure how to deal with the whole situation, and that was clear to see on his face. Had he just imagined that sneer on her face when she had talked to Ben? Had he somehow upset her? Seeing that the easiest way out would be to answer to her request, he did exactly that. "Er, sure, I guess," he said. "Where is it?"
As an answer, she let go of him, sending another dazzling smile, then waved one of her hands for him to follow. Joshua did exactly that, only to have his eyes widen a bit at the bags in the back of the helicopter. He counted three large bags, and the surprise was clear on his face as she kept gesturing to them.
As soon as Manami kept hearing snobby words come from this girl's mouth, she sent her a dirty look that would most likely be permanent. She looked at Ben, waiting for some kind of reaction, but his gaze was cool, kind of like he was trying to calm down, and not make a big deal out of the whole situation. However, Manami's attention was taken when she saw Joshua staring at the three bags. "I think we should go save him," She whispered to Ben, nudging his arm.
Ben nodded stiffly. Despite not liking this girl, he felt bad that Joshua had to deal with this himself. He walked up to his friend, looking at him in a way that asked if he wanted some help. He figured Joshua maybe wanted to do this himself, but Ben would be there to help if needed. He felt like even if Joshua couldn't carry all three, she wouldn't take no for an answer.
"I can't carry all three, so like, Ben and Manami are gonna help me," he replied with an awkward laugh, sending a grateful look to the other two. The girl just shrugged, but looked at them when Joshua added, "I'm Joshua, by the way. And you are...?" It was obvious that he was trying to stay nice and polite at this point, as he just seemed done with the whole situation. He wouldn't have minded one bag, but three? She was just staying for the summer, right? If she didn't, then he wasn't sure how to act around her, considering he'd have to interact with her after the others were gone, for a lack of more people.
"Cecilia Gardner," was her short answer, and she seemed to stand a bit taller. "You may have heard of me. I'm an up and coming super star."
Joshua decided to not mention that he had no idea who she was, and just nodded, taking a bag. "Alright, then. Follow me?" He didn't expect for her to suddenly link her arm with his, almost throwing him off-balance again.
"But of course," she replied, smiling at him, but once again ignoring Manami and Ben. "Thank you so much for helping me, Joshua."
Of course he would be lying if he said he wasn't interested. So, without a word to the other campers, Oliver started heading to the helicopter stopping when he saw the girl in plain view. "You have to be pretty pit there to come in like that." He muttered bitterly to himself.
Percy wasted no time as well to see what was going on, surely this wasn't a greatly acceptable entrance.
Asher, on the other hand walked along side Nick and Alex, letting out a whistle. "That's pretty fancy. Who do ya' think it could be?"
Marinette was disturbed by the sound of the large helicopter blades, plus with their power it flung up some of her hair. Of course, it was an easy fix for someone like her, so only a moment later she was heading over to check out the scene.
Ben picked up two so Manami wouldn't have to, and it was helpful when he wanted to facepalm as she kept on offering her attitude, which annoyed him to no end. Glancing over to Manami, she looked just as frustrated, and she gave him a glance that said, Seriously? We're actually going with her? And he just nodded, slouching a bit as he followed Cecilia and Joshua.
Manami followed a few steps behind Ben, looking like all she wanted to do was tell Cecilia off for how she'd been acting, sort of like an angry mother. She'd never heard the name Cecilia Gardner, and hoped she never would again after this encounter. However, it was doubtful, considering how she seemed to be hooked on Joshua.
'Hooked on joshua' yeah for like a few more minutes pffft)
Joshua let out a deep breath when he finally could put her bags down outside the Aphrodite cabin. He gave Ben a grateful smile, one which turned even more grateful when she finally let go of him, gracefully walking to the cabin and looking up at it. "Not my ideal choice, but I guess it'll do," she muttered to herself, then smiled at Joshua again. "Thank you very much for your help, Joshua."
Joshua was about to mention that Ben had carried more than he had, but she had already turned away from them again to look at the cabin.
"Probably some rich kid," Alex muttered, obviously not really looking forward to it. Then, he forced himself to perk up a bit. "But maybe they're nice. Shouldn't judge a book by its cover," he added. What did he know about the person? Nothing so far, so he didn't want to wrongly judge somebody.
Nick ruffled his hair as they got closer with a laugh. "You're still the same, not even three years could change that~" he hummed, and Alex laughed, too. Though, their laughter stopped when they noticed an unfamiliar girl by the Aphrodite cabin.
"That's... a lot of bags," Nick couldn't help but comment.
Ben nodded to acknowledge Joshua, Manami coming to a stop next to him after a few seconds. Sighing quietly, he leaned his head on her shoulder, and she actually cracked a small smile toward him. She figured this would all be over in a few minutes, especially given the way Cecilia was acting. She also couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when the girl said something a bit rude about the cabin, but she just sighed.
Despite not being able to see Ben's face, Manami could tell he was still annoyed, so she looked at Joshua and said, "Should we go back? Wouldn't want to miss the sunset." Her voice was calm, although she was certainly unimpressed by the way Cecilia was acting.
Asher couldn't help but feel a twinge of protectiveness and jealousness as he saw Nick ruffle Alex's hair, considering how hr often did that himself he thought of it as an affectionate sort of thing. So the blond took hold of one of Alex's hand as sort of a display of dominance, to make sure it got passed that he was Alex's one and only, even though he had nothing to worry about as his 'competition' was aroace. "Who knows, maybe well have another Marinette on our hands." He spoke calmly with a shrug, he wouldnt really mind that even though that sounded like a jibe at her. It was more of because her personality and big-ego, much like that of his own.
Percy calmly made his way over to the girl, not struck at all by her beauty or obvious high stature, after all, she was just another camper. "I take it you're new then, welcome to camp half-blood." he welcomed her with a smile.
Quinn watched from afar, the girl only proved more of his thoughts that she must have some sort of ego-complex.
Marinette as she too followed almost let out am excited gasp as the girl made her way to the Aphrodite cabin, she loved getting siblings, especially when they looked like they care greatly about appearance much like herself.
"Marinette?" Nick asked, not really thinking anything of Asher taking Alex's hand. He'd figured out they were together when Alex did that the first time. "I don't think I've met her yet."
"You probably haven't," Alex answered honestly. He slipped his hand out of Asher's grasp with a raised eyebrow at his boyfriend, but then used said hand to point at the Aphrodite camper when he noticed her. "That's Marinette." That they weren't holding hands anymore would prove to be the first problem, though, but Alex couldn't have known.
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Cecilia gave a side-way glance at Percy. "Yes, I am. And thanks, I believe," she replied. While her words weren't really mean, her tone of voice suggested she didn't really seek conversation with the Athena counselor. She turned a bit when she saw more campers appear, eyes widening for a split second when she saw Asher. Well, that option seemed better than Joshua, despite the latter being taller, Asher seemed more muscular.
Not sparing Percy another glance, she smiled at Asher, making her way over. "Excuse me," she said sweetly, blinking up at him much like she had done with Joshua. "I'm new here, and I was wondering if you'd show me around." She was inside his personal space, which made Alex raise an eyebrow, but he wrote it off as that maybe just being her personality. Asher also had stepped into his personal space at times before they started dating. He didn't think too much about it - it was just weird how she had headed over to Asher instead of talking to Percy more.
"Yeah, let's go," Joshua said, not even looking at the mess that was about to go down. He really wanted to see the sunset, after all. Grinning at the two, he added, "Thanks for helping me out, by the way."
"No problem." Ben said, flashing a smile as they started to walk away. He looked at the others, seeing the sunset about to start and hurrying a little bit. Considering how much he really didn't want to talk about Cecilia at that moment, he said, "I'll be glad to see the sunset. Maybe I can even take pictures of it, we might have as much time during coming nights."
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Umiko, hearing noise outside of his cabin, peered out the door, seeing a bunch of people crowding around a cabin that looked like it probably belonged to the Aphrodite children. He saw Alex, basically the only person he recognized, and stood there, wondering what was happening.
Joshua hurried after him with a smile. "Sounds great! We gotta take pictures of everybody, too, though," he replied lightly, already feeling better about being away from Cecilia. He wasn't sure why she had acted like that around him, but the whole situation had just been overwhelming.
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Alex spotted Umiko out of the corner of his eyes, and waved a bit at him with a smile. He didn't see any problem with Cecilia so far, guessing that it was just her personality, and not that she was flirting with his boyfriend. Nick seemed kind of confused by the situation, but Alex guessed he still couldn't believe that the girl had arrived with three large bags. Alex reasoned that perhaps she was staying the whole year, but something told him that she would've brought four times as many bags in that case.
Ben nodded, ginning. "Of course! That's the point, isn't it?" He teased, lightly twirling the device in his hands. There was a reason it had a massive, protective case. Ben probably dropped it about once a minute when he was fidgety. The hill was very close, and he could already see a hint of the pretty unset colors coming into view. He was relieved to be away from Cecilia, even if it sounded a bit rude.
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Umiko gave Alex a nod in return, slowly coming out of his cabin to go and stand next to him. A lot of people he didn't know were around, which didn't make him particularly comfortable, but he couldn't help the curiousity. He gave Alex a look, as if quietly asking what was happening.