Might be kind of different to see one of these at the beginning instead of the end, but I have some things to say: I KNOW that not all of my readers even have .5% tolerance for One Direction. However, I and many others DO love the boys with a passion. If you have a certain fandom/group/artist you'd like to see the characters fangirl/fanboy over, please tell me one way or another! (See what I did there?)
Thank you for all reviews. I appreciate that no one really flamed, I guess, just left their opinion. I completely respect that.
The Taylor Swift thing was meant as a joke. I am a fan of her as well, but in that group of girls I wanted to depict as many types of Directioners as possible: The kind that respect the girlfriends (like me), the kind that's holding a grudge against Taylor, the kind that has forgiven Taylor, the mega fangirls, and the dedicated fans.
(And for the record, I know Annabeth would never pick Liam or Louis over Percy. Same with Piper not picking Niall over Jason, etc. It's part of the story, but I so see why you may have been upset.)
On with the story!
"I'm just saying that Burn It Down is a better song than American Idiot!"
"And because of that I feel obligated to call you an American idiot. Green Day overrules Linkin Park every time."
The other members in the group sighed. They had heard that conversation Zeus knows how many times before. Somehow, whenever they were together, Thalia and Nico always managed to argue over who had a better taste in music. This time Thalia was defending Green Day, and Nico was standing up for Linkin Park.
Percy, Hazel, Piper, and Annabeth were playing Bingo. Yes, Bingo. The game old people play. Jason had a laptop pulled up, looking at something. He hadn't wanted to play Bingo.
Nico and Thalia were intensely, yet teasingly staring at each other. Of course they'd never actually kill each other over something like a song, but it sure was fun to yell that you would when you were in the moment.
"And what about Welcome To My Life? That is an amazing song!" Nico continued.
Thalia threw her hands into the air. "That song isn't even by Linkin Park, for one thing—" Thalia looked over to where Annabeth and Piper were sitting, "and I swear to Artemis if I hear either of you start singing that song I will personally feed you to Scylla."
Both of them shrugged as if to say whatever, I wasn't listening anyway. Thalia went on with her rant.
"And for another thing, while I like Welcome To My Life, it can't hold a candle to Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
Nico copied Thalia and threw his own hands into the air. "I never said it could! I like Boulevard Of Broken Dreams just as much as you do—"
Thalia crossed her arms. "For some reason I seriously doubt that."
Nico loudly sighed. "Yeah, whatever. Are you even allowed to like songs sung by guys?"
"Now listen here you little—"
"Thalia!" Hazel cut her off. "Why can't you just find a song to agree on?"
"Yeah Thalia," Nico mocked, crossing his arms.
Thalia put her hands on her hips. "Okay. You want to agree? Come up with a group we both like."
"The Fray." Nico immediately answered.
Thalia rolled her eyes. "C'mon, we both already know that The Fray is awesome. What about Ed Sheeran?"
"Ed Sheeran!" Annabeth called out her appreciation from her spot on Thalia's bunk. Piper nodded in agreement.
"Are you gusy even listening?" Percy whined. He was serving as the caller for the Bingo game.
"What'd you say?" Hazel asked, glancing down at her board.
"Um….G4." Percy answered.
"Ed Sheeran? Who?" Nico asked.
"You clearly have no life since Ed Sheeran is the greatest thing to ever come from the UK." Thalia replied.
"I resent that comment," Annabeth piped up.
"I wasn't talking to you poor brainwashed souls," Thalia responded back to her.
"O9." Percy called out.
"One more," Piper taunted the other two girls.
"You've been saying that for the past three rounds," Hazel pointed out.
"Which means I'm three rounds closer to winning!" Piper explained.
"Coldplay." Nico said. Thalia scoffed.
"For the love of Aphrodite, really Nico? Paradise and Viva La Vida were okay I guess—"
"Okay you guess?" Nico repeated in disbelief. "It's not like I said Nickelback!"
Thalia dramatically gasped. "If Today Was Your Last Day was my theme song last month!"
"I know, that's why I'm insulting them this month," Nico explained.
Percy laughed. "Nice on, di Angelo."
Annabeth hit her boyfriend. "Come on, I don't want Piper to win! Call out the next one."
"B7." Percy called out. He hadn't looked at the card, honestly, he just said the first one that came to mind.
The three Bingo-playing girls shared excited glances.
"B7? B7! You sunk my battleship!" Hazel exclaimed, sending the other girls into hysterics.
"You guys aren't even playing battleship!" Percy replied. "Am I missing something?"
"Wouldn't surprise me if you were," Jason spoke up, making the girls laugh again.
"But seriously, it doesn't seem that funny! I don't get it!" Percy continued.
"It wouldn't be any funnier if you did," Annabeth replied as the three of them began laughing again.
"Evanescence?" Thalia suggested.
"They're great and all, but don't you think they're kind of girly?" Nico asked.
"Then you come up with something!" Thalia cried out, exasperated.
"I already did! And you criticized all of them!" Nico replied.
"Oh, like you didn't have issues with all of mine either," Thalia retorted.
"What about The White Stripes?" Percy asked. His two cousins turned to face him. Percy shrugged. "What? You can't tell me you haven't heard of them."
"No, I actually have heard of them," Nico said.
Thalia nodded. "Yeah, Seven Nation Army is kind of my power song."
"You finally agreed on something?" Hazel asked.
"Yeah, thanks to Percy, believe it or not." Thalia answered.
"Wow." Annabeth answered, dragging out the ow part.
"N14." Percy called out.
Piper placed down a chip. "Bingo!" She looked over to Annabeth's card. "By the way, you had a Bingo like five turns ago. Look at the bottom row."
Annabeth looked down. "Oh come on!"
And that's that! Like I said, request certain things you want to see them fan over!
The girls were laughing at references made about AAoOD2 (if you don't know what it is, you don't want to know).
Oh, and about last chapter: The summer '09 thing was from Rock Me. Listen to the song, and then you'll probably get why it was such a big deal. I'd recommend listening to the song even if you don't like 1D. The story will make a LOT more sense. Just listen to the first verse and chorus, it will explain everything. Trust me.
R&R F&F and don't be afraid of falling in love!
