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[Lana Grey]

Lana was going to train. It was probably not the best idea to do that in a skirt but really what else was there. She couldn't go training in her underwear after all and all her shorts were in the laundry. So a skirt it was for now and while she wasn't too happy with it, it was just what she was going to have to do. So with a bow and arrows in her hand she started making her way to the arena. Although she might as well make her way to the infirmary immediately. That was probably just as good of an idea as anything.

So instead of moving further she stopped in front of the Zeus cabin. She knew people lived there. Three of them, too. But she hadn't ever talked to any of them. She knew there was that boy, Matt, the emo guy was in there. And two girls. Some or other names that she didn't know. She supposed that children of Zeus were too 'good' to talk to daughters of Aphrodite. Or something. She wasn't sure. Maybe she was wrong about that as well but she could never be sure. Being the children of Zeus did make you somewhat special, didn't it?

[Michaela Swan]

Michaela had been looking outside her cabin window for almost two hours. There was only one reason and it was because she was bored. She couldn't go outside. Yesterday she had swum at the lake but forgot to reapply SPF a second time and she had burned her shoulders. It was a light burn luckily and surely if she kept on applying after sun today and sleep on a wet cloth tonight it would all be over. It was best to stay out of the sun today though and therefore she had locked herself up in her cabin, trying to find something to do.

The bed she sat on had never been slept in and it wasn't even properly made so she figured she could sit (or rather hang) on it with her feet on. She loved her socks. Stupid dots but they matched with her shirt. Actually the fact that the socks had big dots were the reason she wanted them. Her mother bought them because the came with all different colours but Michaela had regretfully washed them with the dark clothes and now they were all a much darker shade from their original colour. How fun she was.

It was then that a movement outside of her cabin caught her attention. The girl that walked by wore clothes that could only indicate she was from the Aphrodite cabin, the style reminded her of her brothers boyfriend immediately, but why was she carrying a bow and arrow? She wasn't planning on training in that outfit was she?

"Hey!" Michaela said on a normal conversation tone after she had opened the window. Hanging out of it with her arms under her chin she sort of smiled to the much prettier girl. "Are you going to train in that skirt?" she didn't even mention the shoes or the wool top.

[Lana Grey]

Lana was definitely startled by the sudden opening of the cabin window and the girl starting to talk to her. She looked younger than her, but only a bit. Perhaps she was still fourteen. It was odd, for Lana had only been fourteen a couple of weeks before and yet she felt like she was all that with her being fifteen and looking cool. At least she could wear regular heels now. Her father always told her that she couldn't wear regular heels until she was fifteen and even being away from him and at camp she had honoured that rule. Until the exacy day she turned fifteen of course.

But the girl was talking again and for a couple of seconds she could only stare at her before looking down at her skirt and shrugging. "It's all I have, really." Lana said and put the bow on the ground next to her, half leaning on it. It was a pretty big bow after all. "Everything's in the laundry, you know how that goes." Lana said with a polite smile at the girl.

She looked a bit odd. Not someone Lana would usually get along with. Her clothes looked.. regular. Nothing like her or anyone else in her cabin, but she supposed it was alright. Jax wasn't one of the rich people either and she got along with him. Her hand automatically shot to the bracelet around her wrist when she thought of him. It was the one thing that reminded her of his presence all the time. And it was exactly what she wanted to be reminded of. "I'm Lana, by the way." she said and smiled at the girl once again.

[Michaela Swan]

Even though she had a good look at the girl from the window here she couldn't say how old the girl was. Michaela was really bad in ages as it was and to be honest this girl could either be of her age or two years older. She decided the girl was fifteen and would turn sixteen anytime soon. What did she care actually? Like she was something with her fourteen years. No, not really. People who were sixteen. They were like so old. Gosh.

"Really?" Michaela didn't think the girl would lie about something like clothes, but how could all her clothes be in the laundry at the same time? Hadn't she different kind of pants? Like shorts and jeans and trousers? You didn't wash jeans together with shorts now did you? "But how can all your pants be in the laundry at the same time? I mean, if they're dirty right now that's not really a problem, you're going to train, you'll be dirty yourself,"

It wasn't that Michaela wore dirty clothes all the time but you could wear a pair of jeans a second time! It wasn't like shirts they sometimes had to be washed after one warm day, that was probably the only bad thing about the weather here, she had to do her laundry all the time.
"I'm Michaela," she replied with a smile as well. For an Aphrodite she didn't look that bad.

[Lana Grey]

If Lana had known that Michaela thought she was almost sixteen, she would have laughed. She most definitely wasn't almost sixteen but seeing as she was rather tall for her age, it was only natural that people should make that mistake. She wished she was sixteen though. Jax was sixteen, she knew he was, but Gabriel was fourteen and she had felt silly butterflies around him once before. She wasn't sure why that was because she was not at all interested in Gabriel in that way. Jax always managed to give her butterflies anyway. No one else did.

So Lana simply nodded when Michaela asked her if really all her pants were in the laundry. It seemed difficult to understand for the younger girl and then she went on to ask how it was possible and Lana just smiled at her. "Well, I don't wear jeans. I don't wear jeans shorts, I only wear skirts and other non-jeans shorts." Lana explained and thought for a moment. "Well, I suppose I own one pair of jeans shorts but they have paint all over them and I need to wash them again." She said with a light nod.

Oh she had a name. "Nice to meet you, Michaela." she said and looked up at the building. "So, your dad's Zeus then, huh. Sounds a lot better than my silly mum Aphrodite." she said and shook her head lightly. She didn't really want her mother to be Aphrodite but like Jax had said, you couldn't choose your parent, right? No, being a child of Zeus sounded much more interesting. And the people sounded nicer too. Well, besides emo boy, probably. He was just scary and emo.

[Michaela Swan]

The girl. Had. No. Jeans.
Michaela's jaw almost dropped open, hadn't it been for the fact that she had rested her head on her hands, hanging out of the cabin. " You don't wear jeans!" she then almost yelled, shooting straight up from her position hitting her head at the window. Rubbing her head with both of her hands she walked towards the door of the cabin and went outside to the porch, staring at the girl still a little shocked and then went from the stairs and looked at the from where she stood. "You should wear jeans," looking at the girl a little better Michaela was sure she could fit in her own, she might be a little shorter than the girl, not too much though, but Michaela had quite long legs for her body and she liked to roll the bottom or tuck them up a little to get that wrinkle-y effect at the bottom.

"I think you can do jeans," looking back up at the taller girl she managed to get a smile on her lips that seemed sincere enough. "Come on, you can try some of mine if you want," gesturing towards the girl but grabbed her wrist when she didn't come right away.

Back in the cabin Michaela immediately regretted her short moment in the sun and went to her bed to find the flask of sunscreen. Having let go of the others wrist she hoped the girl was smart enough to follow her into the cabin, quite at the end of it closest to the bathroom and showers, where her bed was. It wasn't like Michaela needed her shower so much, she simply liked walls around her bed when she slept and this corner had been good looking when she first came here.

Finding the after sun somewhere between her pillows and blankets (that weren't really made on her bed) she nodded at the question Lana had asked before. "Yeah the told me Zeus is quite the big deal," it sounded like she didn't care but it was more that she didn't know how to think about it so she just didn't. "And Aphrodite isn't that bad," applying the white stuff on her shoulders carefully she sat herself down at her bed. "I mean look what you got, everyone can see your more pretty than any other normal girl," she added normal, since Lana obviously had sisters.


[permission given]

[Lana Grey]

Lana looked at her and was rather shocked when she suddenly yelled out and jumped up and hit her head in the process. Lana winced slightly and her hand went up to her own head almost automatically to rub it. That had to hurt. “Are you okay?” she asked but before she knew it the blonde was standing on the porch. “Um.. Well, I don’t have jeans so if you tell me I should wear them that’s a bit difficult, isn’t it?” Lana asked her, her face in a constant expression of confusion. This was just silly. How would this girl, Michaela be able to tell her she should wear jeans if she didn’t have jeans to wear? It was ridiculous, really.

And what was even more ridiculous was that suddenly she was being grabbed and pulled inside the cabin. The bow and arrows were now lying on the ground in front of the Zeus cabin with Lana being inside. And Michaela was offering her to try on some of her jeans. Lana quickly looked her over. She was shorter and looked somewhat skinnier but that was maybe just because she was shorter. Or something. Maybe that was it and maybe it wasn’t.

And Michaela was on the move again. She quickly followed her further into the cabin and looked around. “Nice cabin you have here.” She remarked with a smile. It was so much nicer to be in here than in her own. The pink often bothered her. It was just so.. so there. And it was always there. The simple marble walls of this cabin looked so much nicer and cooler and well, okay, maybe it was a bit more chilly in this cabin than in hers, that was fine.

“Zeus kind of is a big deal, yeah.” Lana agreed and shrugged when Michaela said that Aphrodite wasn’t that bad. “I don’t really need to be prettier than normal girls.” Lana said and looked around some more. Maybe she could convince them to let her sleep there. It was cool. “And my sisters.. I suppose our cabin leader is nice and all, but the rest are just so..” she started but didn’t finish her sentence. The word was stupid. But she wasn’t going to say that out loud. That was just mean.

[Michaela Swan]

The fact that Michaela rather spend her time around boys was just because they never took anything she said literally. Of course Lana couldn't be expected to wear jeans if she hadn't any, but it was almost a crime to not own a pair of jeans herself. That was what Michaela tried to say, not that she should wear it while she didn't own jeans.
"Thanks," she replied to the comment about her cabin. She thought Lana was right, she liked her cabin a lot. She couldn't compare the inside of her cabin to anything else, only the Dionysus cabin she had seen once, but it made her feel right at home here. Zeus definitely knew what his children liked. When it came to lodging that was.

Tossing the flask of after sun behind her on the bed she slid herself of her bed and started to pull her trunk towards her to go and find some jeans. "I know you're taller than I am but my mom knew I would have to spend the year here at camp so she bought me jeans I would be able to wear still if I had grown a bit," pushing aside shirts and vest, even some shoes and underwear she found her newest jeans she hadn't even worn herself except for when she had fitted them at the store.

"Here!" she tossed the dark blue skinny jeans in Lana's direction in the hope the girl would be fast enough and catch it. She didn't mind how the girl would pull it on, she could just take of her skirt here and change into the trousers, or walk towards the showers and toilets to do it. Michaela really didn't care, it was up to the daughter of Aphrodite to decide that.

[Lana Grey]

Of course Lana realised that Michaela never expected her to wear jeans if she didn't have them, but she didn't really see the crime in not owning jeans. Where she came from, it was simply the normal thing to do. Always look your best and ladylike. Just the fact that she'd managed to wear jeans shorts to her date with Jax was an accomplishment, but apparently Michaela didn't think so. Michaela seemed to think that it wasn't enough and that everyone should wear jeans. And who was Lana not to try new things, right?

So when she tossed her the jeans and Lana managed to catch them she smiled at the slightly younger girl. "Thanks.." she said and felt the fabric for couple of seconds. It was softer than she thought. Softer than the shorts she'd worn. Now, Lana, being a daughter of Aphrodite, didn't exactly care about who saw her body and especially another girl was not a big deal. She just looked to see if she wasn't in an opening of a window before taking her skirt off and carefully laying it on Michaela's bed before stepping into the jeans and pulling them on. They were a perfect fit, which didn't surprise her. That seemed to be an Aphrodite thing as well, clothes always fitting perfectly if they were your size or close to it.

Though for a moment she felt a bit uncomfortable in the jeans. They were tighter than anything she'd worn before so it took a bit of shaking her legs before she finally got used to the feeling. When she finally thought they were on right she looked over her shoulder at her own butt before looking back towards Michaela. "Okay so how do I look?" She asked her with a grin. She could definitely get used to this jeans wearing thing and she didn't understand anymore why her parents would never let her wear them. They were great!

[Michaela Swan]

With the after sun on her shoulder it should mean that the skin stayed cool and hydrated, didn't burn like it was on fire anymore. It was probably really the short time she had been just before to drag Lana inside the cabin that the sun touched the burned skin again and only made it worse. Maybe it hadn't been nothing from the beginning and did she just not notice it until now.

When Lana caught the jeans Michaela shot her a smile and threw herself back on her bed as the older girl pulled of her skirt and slid her perfect legs in the brand new skinny jeans. It fitted her perfectly and the denim was a great colour combination with her skin. Stupid Aphrodites they had it all. Nothing personal though.

"It looks great!" crawling to the side of her bed she scratched her shoulder at her cushion and felt a pang of pain shoot through her skin. Biting her teeth as she moved herself to sit upon her knees she admired the jeans on Lana's perfect body. "You can have it if you want," she said with a shrug, "It's to big for me now anyways and I have a couple more, you really need jeans, just as I need skirts, but they aren't really a necessity," grinning a little she then turned her gaze at the red skin of her shoulders. "Hey if you don't mind I feel rather awful, these burns are worse than I thought so I'm just gonna lay here a bit and hope that it eases a little."

It wasn't that she didn't like Lana, not at all, she just really hoped that sleeping right now would at least make her forget about the pain. When she woke up tomorrow morning it would all be a little less.

This post has been edited by Michaela Swan on Mar 21 2012, 11:39 PM

[Lana Grey]

Of course Lana was aware of the fact that anything she put on would look just that bit more fabulous than it would on other people. It was simply one of those things that Aphrodite kids had, just as any flower that a Demeter kid planted would look ten times better than any of the flowers she could do. And even if she wasn't entirely sure what powers Zeus children had, they were one of the big three so they probably were capable of a lot more than she could ever do. Really the only thing she could was look pretty.

"Oh thanks that's really nice of you!" Lana said and looked down at the jeans. They were a nice colour. And when she said she needed skirts her face lit up. "Well skirts I can help you with. I have plenty of those and since you gave me these jeans, I'll let you pick out a skirt from my closet." Lana offered with a smile.

But Michaela told her that she wanted to go lie down for a bit. "You know if your shoulders are that bad tomorrow still you should see one of the Apollo kids. They're all great with the healing stuff." Lana told her and smiled at her again. "Thanks for the jeans again!" she said and gave her a small wave before stepping out of the cabin to go back to hers. She didn't feel like practicing anymore anyway.

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[Michaela Swan]

"No problem," Michaela sighed with a twitched smile as she lifted the band of her top and it shot back at her skin. "I'd like that," she said at the girls offer for skirts. To be honest Michaela doubted if she would ever wear skirts but it was still a nice thing to say. It was a surprise to see that Lana was such different than her expectation from a daughter of Aphrodite.
Okay maybe if the skirt was black and had studs on it. Or fake damaged fabric maybe? She didn't want to walk around like a doll. Something that girlfriend-in-law did seem to want.

Michaela looked up when Lana said something about the Apollo kids. She didn't know they could heal simple but different things like burned skin as well. She always thought they were about the bloody and extremely damaged wounds which could kill. "Thanks for the heads up!" folding her legs as she perched herself on her bed once more she watched Lana leave the cabin. "I'll definitely remember that,"

Now all she wanted to do was apply a thick layer of ice on her shoulders and lay down, feeling the pain seep away from her skin. She could always wet a dishcloth or something and lay on her stomach.
Actually, that was quite a good idea!

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