[center][h1][color=#EEE8AA]Ezekiel Kel[/color][/h1]
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[I][color=#EEE8AA]Location:[/color][/i] Dining Pavilion: Zeus Table -- Camp Half-Blood
[color=#EEE8AA]Skills:[/color] [/center]
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	Chiron started to go ahead with some of the morning announcements but it was quickly paused as everyone wasn’t in the dining pavilion. At least they would be getting some information on the quests and what the rest of them in camp would be doing. As long as the Romans stuck to their side, Zeke wouldn’t have a problem. That was until he felt a familiar head resting on his shoulder in the middle of the dining pavilion. Ezekiel froze as he realized Demetri was cuddling him.

[center][i]Cuddling him.[/i]

In public.[/center]

	Kristin turned and Zeke braced for the yell that would draw everyone's attention but it didn’t come. Instead, Kristin leaned in close and asked the pair if they were dating. Ezekiel shifted, nudging his shoulder so Demetri would quit resting against him. He gave Demi a look. [color=#EEE8AA]”Dude, seriously?”[/color] However, Zeke did not untangle his leg from Demetri's. Ezekiel didn’t mind the contact. What he did mind was it publicly displayed. Under the table was one thing but where everyone could see was completely different; Zeke had never been a PDA person. He turned his attention to Kristin and answered her question with a shrug. 
	[color=#EEE8AA]”I was going to ask him that this morning but then Coach Hedge came in with that stupid bat and then you joined us for breakfast,”[/color] he said and looked at her pointedly. He glanced at Demetri, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips. He quickly shook it off, the tips of his ears and cheeks burning.
	He was feeling a bit shy and rather embarrassed and maybe a little agitated. He had never been with someone before, let alone have interest in a boy. And it [i]was[/i] Demetri after all.
	Zeke had hated Demi on day one of camp when he showed up but then Demi became a full time camper and was around constantly. Ezekiel had grown used to seeing the shapeshifted and started to enjoy the back and forth banter.
	The day he asked for a kiss had thrown Ezekiel off but it was also a day he hadn't been able to get out of his head. No matter how many times he had gotten angry at Demetri and pushed back. Then Demetri made him that guitar and gifted him with a first edition copy of the Iliad. Zeke was shocked and completely flattered, even if his reaction had been less than stellar, it was just that no one had ever done such a thing for him. His mother sure but not another person his age. He had been picked on too much in school and then lashed out so people we afraid of him and then he ended up at Camp Half-Blood where there was even more uncertainty and everyone had something to prove. Zeke had wanted to be stronger, better. Who knew that would lead him here, sitting at Zeus's table with his know-it-all best friend and the boy with raven coloured hair wearing his beanie.