I promised you a sequel, didnt I? Well, here it is. Yes, i AM that quick :)
I promise more romance, some exes, jealousy of course, and a wedding...or two?
Enjoy :)
"No. Absolutely not. There is NO way I'm putting that in my mouth!!"
"Ah, c'mon. Just once?"
"...Fine. But don't expect me to actually swallow it," Audrey gave in with a sigh.
"Wait..."
Audrey sighed, staring down at it. "What NOW?!"
"...Do you realize how wrong this whole conversation sounds??"
Audrey thought about it, then cracked up. "Oh my God, how did I not catch that?!"
"With your perverted mind, I honestly don't know how you missed that one..Now EAT IT."
Audrey groaned, eyeing the food as if it were posionous.
Then, with a deep breath, shoved the Raisin Bran Crunch into her mouth, chewing as quickly as possible.
She swallowed it, making a face. "Ugh. It's so grody!"
Audrey then took another bite.
Percy laughed. "If it's so grody, why're you eating more?"
"Because if I said it was good, you'd win. And we can't have that! You of all people should know this by now, Percy Jackson," Audrey commented before eating another spoonful.
He had noticed her obsession with Cap'n Crunch and decided to make it his job to convert her to his current favorite, Rasin Bran Crunch. Having seen the weird commercial with the sun speaking in such an unnaturally low voice, she refused.
Until he asked for about the fiftieth time.
"Shouldn't you be doing something more productive, like making sure Grover didn't have a wreck on the way here or something?"
Grover was coming to pick Percy up for some kind of Guy's Night Out. Luckily, it wouldn't just be him and Grover, though.
That would be just plain sad.
He shrugged. "He can drive just fine, and you know it."
"....Sooo, you're just gonna watch me eat?"
"Pretty much."
"...Stalker," Audrey commented, taking her bowl into her room.
THREE HOURS LATER...
"God, I hate you two sometimes," Annabeth commented randomly.
Audrey, who had been dangling upside-down off the edge of Annabeth's bed, sat up with a laugh. "Who?"
"You and Percy. Who else?"
"What did I do now?"
"Nothing, and that's the problem!! I was SO convinced you two would go out, but nooooo! Not even a giant cookie brought you two together."
Audrey shrugged. "Timing's not right yet."
"Do enlighten me on your words, Confucious."
"Well...if we DID start going out, what would happen when it progressed?"
"What...you mean making out and such?"
"Uh, YEAH. Wouldn't it be kinda awkward since I'm living in his apartment with him, Sally, and stepdad number 3, James Franco?"
"Why do you always call him that?"
"I don't always. Sometimes I just say James, or Franco, or cop-guy. Or my landlord, he likes that one. He thinks I'm funny," she announced proudly.
Annabeth smirked. "What about Sally, what does she think of you?"
"I'm like the daughter she never had. Her words."
"Well, at least you're in with the parents!"
Audrey shrugged. "Yeah, sure. But my brownie points would go down if they found out we WERE dating...while I stil crashed there."
"Good thing you're not then."
"Uh-huh."
"...I was being sarcastic."
"Oh, I know. I was playing along."
Did Annabeth honestly think she liked having thoughts that weren't exactly platonic about a guy she shared an apartment with?
It was like living in a museum; the thing she wanted most, she didn't think she could touch without getting a slap on the wrist.
Though, probably not a slap on the wrist by Percy, which was always good to know.
Annabeth sighed. "You know what you need?"
"Oh, this should be good."
"You need a freaking miracle. You two are both so damn stubborn!"
Annabeth would later remind her over and over that what followed was most definitely a miracle in disguise.
THE NEXT AFTERNOON...
"Hello?"
"We need to talk."
"About?"
"Just get here ASAP," her mother told her before hanging up.
Audrey sighed.
"Greeeaaaatt. Never a good sign."
When she got there and rang the doorbell, her mom immediately answered it. Her "family" were all in the kitchen.
"We have an announcement to make. And it's pretty huge."
Oh my God, was mom glowing? And not in a Daughter-Of-Apollo kind of way, either.
"Just tell the girl, she's squirming," mom's oh-so-charming boyfriend commented before taking a pleasant sip of his beer.
"...We're getting married!" Mom squealed.
Audrey stared at her blankly, not comprehending. Then she pointed at them both and laughed anxiously.
"Hahahahaha!! I could've sworn you just said...you were...you were serious..oh, holy mother..."
Audrey promptly fainted on the spot.
"You have a thing for fainting, you know that?" Percy commented later that night. They were on the roof of his apartment, where they usually hung out when something serious was going on.
That's how he knew how totally horrible her news was before she even said anything.
"This is SO not funny. My mom is marrying a...a...ugh, blech."
"An ugh, blech, you say? Sounds serious."
Audrey gave him a look. "Percy, for once in my life, I seriously do not support sarcasm in this situation. You've seen him. I could barely handle a five-minute visit over there. There's NO WAY I could survive her marrying that guy. I'd kill myself, I swear!"
"That's a bit...rash."
"Remember when he tried to hit me, and you got all mad?"
"Yeah."
"And how I said usually he misses?"
"Yeeeaaahhh.."
"He's gotten rid of the beer gut somehow. He won't miss me so much anymore. I mean, I'm hoping he's not so bad anymore, since he doesn't get as drunk, but..."
"He's still an ass."
"Well, yeah."
Audrey sighed. "The only good thing out of this is that I'm going to Greece for the wedding."
Percy shot up. "Wait wait wait. Pause, rewind, freeze. You're moving to Greece?!"
"What?! No! I said for the wedding, genius. Your listening skills are worse than mine, and that's saying something."
Percy sighed with relief. "Oh, thank God."
Audrey laughed. "I'm flattered, truly."
"Oh, you should be."
"And I am."
"...Am I invited? To the wedding?"
"Nope."
"Crap. I thought she liked me."
Audrey couldn't help but roll her eyes at how gullible he could be sometimes. Her mom pretty much adored Percy. She liked Annabeth and Grover, too. Hence why they and their families were invited to the wedding as well.
Ms. Roberts knew some of them also had families in Greece (demigod families in Greece? Imagine that.), and this was like a gift for them "treating her daugher so well during a time of need".
Audrey finally laughed. "Get that lost-puppy look off your face. Of course she invited you. She'd probably think of inviting you before her own daughters."
Percy grinned triumphantly, then cleared his throat. "...It was not a lost-puppy look. It was manly and brooding."
Audrey rolled her eyes, standing up. "Whatever. I'm tired."
He laid back on the tar. "If you're sure.."
She was almost to the door leading to the stairs of the complex when she heard him comment oh-so-casually, "But you know...there's a million stars visible for once...and I only see one that's a helicopter or plane..."
God dammit. He knew she missed seeing stars. You could see them all the time in Memphis, but she had yet to see the Big Dipper in New York.
Audrey sighed, turned around, and stomped over to him. "I better not fall asleep."
"I'll try my hardest to wake you up if you do."
She laid back next to him, staring up at the sky. "You better."
He hadn't been lying; there were a ton out tonight.
FIVE MINUTES LATER...
It was hard to believe a month and a half ago, he had been sleeping on an extremely uncomfortable couch in a hospital room, worried she would be scarred for life or something.
Now, he was on the roof of his apartment, and Audrey was quietly snoring less than a foot away from him.
And they were going to Greece in three days.
How awesome was that?
Okay, so she'd be pissed in the morning for not being woken up. But, really, she'd be more pissed if he DID wake her up. So really, the logical thing to do was lay there with her until he fell asleep, too. And just because her skin was warmer than the apartment was did NOT affect the logic of his decision at all.
Yeah. Pure logic.
Well, thats chapter number one!
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