A/N This is my first fanfiction so please no flames but constructive criticism would be appreciated!


I blinked a couple of times but the words continued to swirl around and around. Curse you dyslexia, I thought as I put the script down and lay down on my bed. I stretched and sighed. Tonight was one of those nights where I just wanted to stay home and watch Roman Holidays. I wanted to be swept into the world of Audrey Hepburn and… "Ding!" I had gotten a text from… Thalia Grace, my god sister. It read:

Annie! R u ready yet?

Ready? What for?

Thalia, you call me Annie one more time and you won't have a head. Also, ready for what?

I typed into the phone while trying to open the CD case of Roman Holidays. Thalia didn't text back right away, which meant something's wrong.

Annabeth, we have the cast party…You did know about it…Right?

I froze and closed my eyes. "

Crap.

I could imagine Thalia chuckling wherever she was.

Well, we can skip it….

I heard the hopeful note in Thalia's text and shot back immediately.

Not a chance Pinecone Face. Be here in… eh, five to ten.

A bit later, maybe five-ish minutes later, I was in The Bathroom (yes, it's so bit it needs a capital) getting ready and Thalia was doing who knows what in my room. "Annabeth, you ready to come out?" After an unsuccessful trying to break down the door with lots of cussing, Thalia knocked once. I smirked and said, "Yeah."

I exited The Bathroom and closed the door behind me. Thalia was sitting on the armrest of a chair, doing something on her phone, and as soon as she heard the door close, looked up. She was wearing her infamous black leather jacket with a black shirt that had a silver arrow on it. For once, her skinny jeans weren't ripped and weren't black, they were blue. Her electric blue eyes went wide and she gasped, "Whoa… That looks… amazing…" I twirled and her eyes went impossibly wide. "Annie, you just…. Wow."

I was wearing a dress that had a layer of blue transparent fabric go over my right shoulder and then loop around my left shoulder leaving my actual shoulder bare. The actual dress was navy blue and touched the floor with the see through fabric belted at my waist with a gold belt. At the bottom, there was a slit showing off my legs and blue high heels. I wore really light jewelry, gold earrings, a gold necklace, and one gold bracelet and almost no makeup, except for some light lip gloss and some light blue eye shadow. My hair was in a messy bun and I carried a blue and gold purse in my hand. The overall effect looked almost like an Indian sari. "Er…. Thanks...Come on Thals; we're going to be late!" Thalia blinked and then grabbed my hand and ran down the hallway to the limousine. Yeah, we had hired a limousine to take us there. No, we aren't loaded.