"I can't believe you've never played tic-tac-toe!" Annabeth exclaimed. Oh, I hated it when that she figured out I didn't know something...
"Of course I have," I lied. She knew me well enough to see through the act.
"Really? Then what are the rules?" she challenged. She got me there.
"Well, you put the 'X's and the 'O's and then..." I replied, unsure. How could I not know this! Everyone knew how to play this game. It was for three year olds.
"Liar! I guess I'll have to teach you", she sighed. This couldn't be good.
"Ugh, so is this going to be easy or insanely difficult?"
"The second" she grinned. Annabeth pulled a piece of paper out of her bag- did she always have some? - and took my pen.
"That's Riptide" I warned. She blushed, and took the pen sitting behind my ear. On the paper she drew a number sign. Ok, I was really starting to feel stupid.
"So, you draw this" she pointed at the number sign thing. "and then you put an 'X' or an 'O'. I'll be 'X'"
"Dang it! I wanted 'X'!" I complained.
"Fine! I'll take 'O'. You put it where you want to put it and then it's the next person's turn. You're trying to get three in a row", she explained in a boring lecture voice. My mind started drifting. I was thinking about, as the campers called it, the Battle of the Labyrinth.
"Percy, are you listening?" Annabeth shouted in my ear. I jumped.
"Yeah! Uh, you, um, put the 'X' somewhere!" SO I grabbed the pen and put one in the middle. Annabeth put hers in the top left corner. Ha, what a bad spot choice.
"Nice" she mumbled sarcastically. What'd I do wrong? Then she placed another one in the bottom right corner. What the heck? She did know that I'd put mine in the middle, right?
I placed an 'X' on one side of the first one. She put one on the other. I had one going up and down, almost. So I blocked it.
"Ha! I win," she bragged.
"What? How could you have..." She really did win. How? There was a trick!
"How'd you do it?" I demanded.
"I'm not telling. It's my secret strategy". I glared at her.
"Whatever", I muttered as I stalked off. I turned my iPod on and slipped my earphones in. The song 'Going Under by Evanescence' came on...
Ok this was not my iPod. I looked on the back. Of course, there was a label that said 'Property of Annabeth Chase'.
How did that even get in the Poseidon cabin? I decided to see if Annabeth would notice, so I slipped hers under my pillow and grabbed mine.
I guess the Hermes cabin was rubbing off on me.
Ugh, I'm so bad at Percabeth! There might be a sequel! =-D Well, there might be. If I get enough reviews!
I've been trying to actually type this oneshot for about, oh let's say three weeks! XD R&R! Flames accepted. Though I hope I don't get any!
~Snb793 (Sarah, Child of Hermes!)