Foolish one, you. Because he was a golden boy of camp, an Apollo kid, everyone was in love, even platonically, of him. Who could not?

So in your delusion were a lot of things. First, that every time you saw him, he suddenly looked away from you or maybe your gazes meet by a couple of seconds, seconds that don't take long. And the second, it was strange that every time you got the opportunity to stay near him, he stays nervous, not wanting to meet your gaze.

And you started to think that maybe he knew about your crush over him. But it wasn’t normal? Everybody in camp had it, at least in a tiny way.

But the reality was that he was the most nervous person what it comes to you, not because he hated you and knew about your “little” crush for him, it was because he wanted you to notice him in the same way he does with you.

Just a glimpse of your touch or smile, could make his heart flustered. And in your case was the same, but it seemed that he smiled at everyone but you.

So when you two got paired for a quest, you necessarily needed to talk each other. Even if that implied to his stutter words for your mere presence and by the way you talked.