Brace Face
Percy's POV
I close my slightly sweaty palm over the golden door knob. I'm slightly nervous, since it's our first group sleepover since I realized I have a crush on my best friend. I'm not gay, my best friend is the coolest girl in the world. Her name is Annabeth Chase, and she has curly blonde hair, stainless steel colored grey eyes, and silvery braces. Running my tongue over the metal wires in my mouth, I turn the knob.
"Hey Perce! Did you finally get a new color?" Annabeth says, asking about my recent orthodontist appointment.
"Nope! I went with blue yet again. Is that really a surprise?" I say, plopping down next to her.
"Not at all," Annabeth says, rolling her eyes.
"So guys, we're playing seven minutes in heaven! I'm drawing names out of a bowl!" Thalia says, snickering as the blood rushes from my face.
"Why Thalia?" Piper groans.
"Because it's my house McLean," Thalia says, fishing around the bowl.
"Chase and Jackson, You're first. We will be barricading you in that bedroom to my right for 7 minutes. Do what you want," Thalia says, shoving us into the room. The door clicks shut behind us, and we're trapped.
"Now what?" Annabeth whispers.
"I don't hear smooching," Thalia warns through the door.
I groan, and bury my face in my hands.
"We're gonna have to do this, aren't we?" I whisper.
Annabeth nods.
"Let's do it, I guess," She says, leaning in.
I don't know how long we sat on the bed kissing, but I do know that it felt like millions of sparks were traveling through my lips, all the way through my toes. When I try to pull away, I feel the dreaded tugging feeling on my teeth. Uh Oh.
"I think we're stuck," I say, trying to untangle myself from Annabeth's teeth.
"You don't mean?" Annabeth says, her grey eyes widening in fear.
"Uh Huh. our braces are stuck together," I say, panicking.
"How much longer are we in here?" Annabeth shouts to Thalia.
"Three Minutes!" Jason screams.
"We've got three minutes to untangle ourselves from this mess." Annabeth says, dragging us over to a mirror.
"Your front right bracket is hooked under my wire. Try crouching," I say, looking at our reflections out of the corner of my 've made pretty good time. In fact, we have a lot of our teeth untangled, with under one minute left.
"Your bottom left tooth is attached to my bottom right. You move down and right while I move down and left," Annabeth says.
Thalia opens the door.
"Hey guys- WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?" She screams. All of our friends run in.
"Are your braces tangled? But that means… OH MY GODS!" Piper shrieks.
Leo comes over and inspects our braces.
"This could take a while," he says, pulling out some tools.
Jason is on the floor, tears streaming down his face as he laughs.
Hazel and Frank come in, carrying two paper bags.
"Sorry we're late… if it helps, Grammy Zhang bought takeout for you guys- what did we miss?" Hazel says.
Frank just stares awkwardly at his shoes. The room is silent except for the faint scraping sounds coming from our braces as Leo tries to untangle them.
"Done!" he says,
"We're never living this down are we?" I ask, looking down at Annabeth.
"Nope."
"Never"
"Your kids will be hearing this story."
"Uh Uh"
I groan and drag Annabeth out of the room.
"Listen. I vote we never speak of this again, capische?" Annabeth says.
I nod.
Everyone except for me and Annabeth has fallen asleep. She leans onto my shoulder, staring at the TV.
"Hey, Wise Girl? I know this might not be the best time to say this, given all that's happened today, but I kinda sorta have a crush on you. " I whisper.
"Finally! I thought i was going to have to make the first move!" she whispers, staring up at me.
"Wanna go out sometime?" I whisper.
"Yeah. but this time, how about we don't kiss until we have our braces off?" she says.
"Deal." I say, chuckling.