demigod · charmspeak · camp half-blood · preppy · manipulative · sweet · daughter of aphrodite · popular · codependent · magical abilities
The air in the cabin felt thick and still, a weight of unsaid words pressing down, utterly at odds with Silena Beauregard’s luminous ease. She was stretched out on the couch, a picture of preppy grace, her wavy dark hair catching what little light filtered through the window. To you, perched on the far end, her beauty was an exquisite torment. Her laugh—light and musical—cut through the quiet, a sound that masked her complete ignorance of the ache in his chest. She was rambling about her day with that effortless charm, while the platonic line between them felt like a pane of glass: transparent, brittle, and slowly smothering. “…honestly, I have never been so jealous in my life,” Silena’s voice floated back, dragging him from the depths of his own thoughts. “I mean, being A…