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We finally arrived in New York. We were starving, so we walked down Waverly Place. Finally we came across a sandwich shop! We walked through the door, the smell of freshly made sandwiches filled the air, which filled me with delight.

We all sat down at a five chair table. Beckendorf and Clarisse sat next to each other, I sat next to Annabeth and Grover sat at the end. "Welcome to Waverly Place Substation. May I take your order?" said a goofy looking man.

"I want a triple ham and mustard sandwich." Clarisse demanded. I could tell she still didn't forgive me for covering her in toilet water.

"Is that all?" The man said writing down Clarisse's order. He seemed a put off by Clarisse's manors.

"Yes!" Clarisse cut in before any of us could speak.

"No!" I argued. "We haven't eaten either you know!" I snapped.

"But nobody cares about you!" Clarisse retorted.

I gave her a dirty look before turning my attention back to the man. "I'll have a Waverly Place Substation Special please and whatever those three want as well."

"I'll have the same." Annabeth said.

"Me to!" Beckendorf agreed.

"Do you have any tin cans?" Grover asked wistfully.

"He means tinned food!" I shouted a little louder than I had planned. "He loves the stuff." I smiled sweetly at the sweaty man.

"Coming right up!" He shot a weird look in mine and Grover's direction before grinning and turning away.

We waited ten minutes for food to come. Nobody spoke but you could tell any minute that Clarisse was going to start an argument or fight but before she got the chance a young girl served our sandwiches. "Sorry about the wait... My dad forgot to put your orders in the waiting line!" She smiled and laughed. It was kind of an evil laugh and yet a sweet one. "I'm Alex by the way. The only normal person that works here."

"I'm Grover! The only one who likes girls!" I gave Grover a glare which didn't go unnoticed by Alex. She laughed to herself more than to us and then she walked away.

I looked at Grover in a sort of jealous way. I don't know why but I felt an attraction to the girl. It was interesting how Grover could talk comfortably to girls without messing up... yet he wasn't even human.

"Percy, what's wrong?" Annabeth asked.

"Nothing. It's just that girl." I trailed off, loosing my trail of thought.

"Oooh!" Clarisse jeered. "Percy Jackson is in love! Too bad nobody will ever love him back!"

"Clarisse, it was only last summer when that Rachel girl loved him!" Grover said, trying to back me up.

"Yeah, I know. Only that she doesn't count because she is now the oracle!"

"And that has nothing to do with her liking Percy!" Annabeth said impatiently. After that there was silence, until the Alex came back to clear the table.

"Did you enjoy your meal?" She asked, trying to sound polite.

"It was hardly a meal!" Grover said disapprovingly. "I only got one tin -"

I put my hand over his mouth, stopping him from blowing our cover.

"It was delicious!" I said and the young girl walked away.

"Yo, dude! You really do like that girl!" Grover whispered to me.

I shrugged at his comment.

"Wow... The whole time I knew you, you have only ever liked one girl and that was Anna -" I put my hand over his mouth again.

"Shut up." I whispered to him. "This time it's different."

"Erm... excuse me. If you're not using this table may you leave?" A boy said. Then Alex came running back up to us.

"Max! Move!" She shouted at the boy. I was guessing it was her younger brother since they kind of looked alike.

"But Alex, dad told me to tell them to move because we need the tables for other customers!" Alex stared at her younger brother as if she was going to murder him. The boy managed to stare into his murderous eyes before running off.

"Sorry about him! He's my weirdo of a brother!" The girl laughed nervously.

"Hi Alex... ?"

"Russo." She said.

"Hi Alex Russo. I'm Percy Jackson." She smiled. Just then the same goofy man who had taken our order previously came lumbering up.

"Alex! I told Max to ask them to leave!" He turned to look at us in his weird goofy way. "Sorry I don't mean to be rude but we need the table for other customers."

Clarisse looked like ready to explode. "Well we are customers and we want to sit at this table!" Clarisse slammed her fist on the table to prove that she wasn't going to leave.

"I'll tell you what." Said Goofy looking worried. "Buy something and you can stay."

"Dad!" Alex gave her Dad a stare which gave me the impression that she got whatever she wanted from him. "Why do you have to be rude to people that I like?"

Her dad just pouted and then walked away.

"So you like me?" I said to break the silence. I didn't mean to say that... It just sort of slipped out.

"Yeah... Yeah I guess I do Percy Jackson." She said sweetly. "Do you like me?" She battered her eyelashes at me. Clarisse looked ready to be sick.

I nodded feebly. "Yeah I do Alex Russo." I smiled at her. Her beauty was so radiant that she could have been a daughter of Aphrodite, but I knew that couldn't happen. As if Aphrodite would fall in love with her dad Goofy.

"Well, let's go somewhere where my dad can't embarrass me." She blushed. She looked so cute when she blushed. I got up and followed, my friends trotting behind me. I bet I looked like a love-sick puppy. Together we all left the Waverly Place Subway Sandwich Shop and followed Alex to Zeus knows where. Thunder rumbled in the distance. I take that back. Not even Zeus knows where we were headed.

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