-"No! No more duckies!" I giggled to Imani, gripping onto the black Sharpie marker and tugging against her. "NEVER! I WILL DRAW INFINITE DUCKIES!" Imani yanked at the marker, and I stopped yelling when I heard a sound. "Wait, what was that?"
"HA!" Imani took a sip of her drink and hopped off the brown bench we were sitting on. "I'm not falling for that again."
"I'm serious! I heard something in the bushes!"
"It's probably a squirrel. Pass the chips, please."
I got up and headed toward the bushes. Ivy followed close behind. A body stepped out of the bushes and we screamed, grabbing nearby sticks and throwing them. Imani snapped a fallen tree branch and was literally 3 inches from smashing the thick, large stick into the intruder's skull, when I yelled, "WAIT!"
I looked the teenaged boy up and down. He had black hair and sea green eyes and I giggled. I recognized who he looked like, my favorite book character. "You see the resemblance, too, right?" I said, a smile creeping onto my face.
"Oh yeah. What's your name?" Imani asked.
"Percy."
I'm pretty sure we both almost died of feels.
"LAST NAME! NOW! Or else!" Imani threatened, her fingers wrapped tightly around the branch.
"Jackson! My last name is Jackson." We awkwardly stared at him in awe. "What? I've never seen you in my life and you guys look like you are freaking out over me." He said, looking at us scared and confused. "Percy, you, to us, are a fictional character. We read about you in books, and we know everything about you." Imani explained.
"Imani, you're scaring him!" I said. Percy looked like he was about to pass out himself. Suddenly, Imani's phone began playing "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars and she answered the phone call. "It's Zari," she whispered, putting our friend on speaker phone.
"Hey, not to bother you or anything, but Jason Grace just flew onto my side salad."