Chapter 1: Time for a party
PERCY'S POV
Just one more minute…. One more… there!! I finally did it. I finally admitted to Annabeth I liked her more than a friend. She kissed me for a pretty long time, and, unfortunately, Grover had seen it all. He even recorded it! I am going to do something to that satyr right now… okay, maybe not, but I'll do something.
Annabeth pulled me out of my thoughts by placing a kick in my ribs. I groaned unhappily, and she smiled at my reaction. "Come on, Seaweed Brain. Chiron needs us at the big house."
She held her hand out, and I took it reluctantly. On the way there, I explained something.
"Well, isn't it kind of obvious? Something's wrong, we have a meeting, a quest is assigned, we prepare for it, we complete it?"
She nodded. "That's exactly why this meeting is for a different reason."
"What is that reason, exactly??" I wondered out loud. I saw a faint mischievous smile
appear. "You'll see." She found a payphone nearby for us demigods to use and called somebody, before I could say anything. I heard this:
"Yeah, yeah. I've got him! Shush, Clarisse."
"Well,-"
"Again-"
"Yes-"
"Bye!"
She took my hand and pulled me to the big house. We went through about twenty doors, and counting. Finally, she took me to a dark room. I hadn't noticed somebody passing out
party stuff like those horn thingies that play a loud, low-pitched note. She turned on the light, and everybody screamed," Happy really- we're talking really-late birthday!!" they screamed. I grinned. A birthday party. "We figured," Clarisse explained, "that if you probably die, it's worth celebrating your fifteenth before the time actually comes for you to die… what I mean is-"
Somebody cut her off in the back. "Let's get this party started!!"