Sup people. I have already written a couple stories, so go check those out. Spoilers for HoH.
Disclaimer: I own the plot and a couple of characters. The rest belong to Rick Riordan.
It was the first day of summer. Finally. I had waited for this day forever.
This weekend I would go camping with my friends.
We had a few rules: Two people per tent. At most, two bags per person. No make-up. I didn't wear any, so it wouldn't matter.
I got up, took a shower, and slipped on some jeans and a blue t-shirt.
I raced down the stairs and grabbed a bowl of cereal.
"Woah slow down, Flash." My mom loved to tease me with nicknames.
"Yep. Barry Allen. Fastest man alive. Well wo-man." My mom chuckled.
"Are you ready for your trip?"
I scoffed. "I was ready yesterday."
Just then the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it. You. Finish eating." My mom left the room, and answered the door.
"Oh hi Piper. How are you?"
"I'm good. You?"
"I'm doing well. Allison should be done in a minute."
"Nope." I said, entering the room. "I'm done now."
I picked up my bag. "Let's go." I said anxiously.
My mom pulled me into a hug. "Goodbye, I'll see you in a couple days."
"Bye mom." I said.
My mom released me. I walked over to Piper.
"Let's go." I said. "I'm ready."
We walked out of my house and got into Annabeth's car. She was older than us, but still our friend. We drove up to a camp site.
We decided to go off-trail. We found a place we liked and set up camp.
Ten minutes later, after we had gotten everything set up, a few specific boys came, and raided our camp.
"Percy. What are you doing here?" Annabeth asked.
"The same thing as you of course. Camping."
The boys set up their tents ten feet away from ours. Charming.
I noticed Jason, Leo, Percy, Grover, and some other kid I didn't know. I walked up to him.
"Who might you be?" I asked. He turned to me. His eyes were startlingly blue.
"I might be Raiden." Cool.
Then Juniper came out from behind a tree and just acted like she'd been there all along.
"Where were you?" I asked.
"Finding wood." She said nervously. I couldn't bombard her with any more questions because Grover came up to her and occupied her.
I turned around and studied Raiden. He had black hair and blue eyes. Other than that, he kind of reminded me of Jason.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Piper calling me. She was asking about the tent we were sharing.
I went over to her and was busy for the next half an hour, rearranging stuff. I caught Jason's eye. He mouthed sorry and moved on. Oh, I was gonna kick his sorry butt later.
When we were done, Annabeth made dinner.
The rest of us played Frisbee.
Raiden threw it to Jason, but I caught it faster than he did.
"What was that for?"
"Oh. I mean we're just playing Frisbee right? No competition there." I kept doing this until Annabeth called dinner. Then we all raced to get dinner first.
I beat them all. Dinner was good. The good old tin-foil dinners.
We scarfed down our food and made a fire to sit around. We told 'scary' stories, made s'mores, and then went to sleep.
In the morning I got up and decided to prank the boys. Percy and Leo were in the same tent. I went over to their tent, slowly unzipped it, and plashed water in their faces. They woke up immediately. Percy was totally dry. How?
"Allison." Leo shouted. "I need at least eight hours of sleep unless you want me to be grumpy. Do you want to see my bad side?"
"I thought I was looking at it."
"Oh you little." Leo got up and ran out of the tent. He still had his sleeping bag on his legs, so he fell. Eventually, he maneuvered it off. He started chasing me, yelling.
Jason and Raiden woke up, and left their tent. They saw Leo chasing me. Then they looked at Percy.
"She plashed water on us and insulted Leo about his bad side."
"Oh, got it." Jason said.
Leo was starting to slow down.
"How-are-you-that-fast?" Leo said through gasps of air.
"I run track. Every year. And I run on my own free time."
"I give up." Leo said. I pumped my fist in the air.
"By the way Jason, I was mad at you yesterday, so expect something." He looked a little scared. Piper had told him my karma stories. I get mad, you get karma.
"What exactly should I expect?" So cute, I'm not going to voluntarily tell him. Idiot.
"Oh, you'll know it when you see it."
The rest of the morning, he was on egg-shells.
"Why exactly are you mad at me?" Really? So naïve.
"You gave me a 'sorry' look when I was helping Piper. You could have helped me, instead of feeling or acting sorry for me." Then I stormed off. I went and sat by the water. I took my shoes off and dipped my feet in.
It felt really good. I haven't done this in a while. A shadow loomed over me. Percy sat down beside me.
"So, you like the water?" Weird question.
"Yeah. I've always been drawn to it." Percy looked like he put that information into a mental filing cabinet.
"You know how Piper speaks when she wants you to do something?"
"Yeah." Percy responded.
"It really bugs me. It's like she's trying to use her words to make us work for her. It's really annoying." Percy dipped his hand in the water.
"Do her words make you want to do it?"
"No. She just has a commanding voice, and bosses everyone around."
"Okay. We should probably get back to camp." He stood up and pulled me up next to him. I looked at the ground. "What's wrong?"
"I feel a little bit bad for what I did to Jason." Percy looked confused "I was mad at him yesterday. Now let's go."
What did she do to Jason? Well, hope you liked the chapter.
Peace out.
