AN/ So, I have read your reviews, and I wanted to say that this chapter might show a little more into Brads personality/ How in the world Annabeth could possibly put up with him and why he hated the three demigods at first. Also, I did get this idea from another author's story, but I'm not sure the name, yet. I understand that it is 'service', and not 'fields', thank you for the correction! Oh, and trust me, I hate Brad just as much as you do. Enjoy- I hope!

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I couldn't stop thinking about those three guys. Who did they think they were? Coming from who knows where to take Annabeth to, once again, who knows where? I feel the need to find out who they are, and what their relationship is with Annabeth, because I don't want one of them to be 'more than a friend' with her. Plus asking her out when she has a boyfriend already is rude. I haven't heard of a boyfriend yet, so I think I may be in the clear, but I need to be 1000% sure first.

Okay, I still haven't gotten the chance to ask out Annabeth, but today is Saturday, and as every Saturday since, well a long time ago, me, Annabeth, Charlie, and Lisa are meeting at Annabeth's house to do whatever comes to our minds.

I enjoy our time together as friends, we tell each other everything and never share secrets, except for maybe my crush, and the fact that the whole school knows Charlie and Lisa like each other, except for Charlie and Lisa. I was friends with Charlie before anyone else, but then he introduced me to Lisa, who introduced me to Annabeth. I really enjoy our friendship group, no doubt about that.

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5:00 is when I arrived at Annabeths house. I walked, because my dad has the car for the day, and I don't live awfully far from her house. Apparently I wasn't the first to arrive, cause I could hear people running around inside.

I politely rang the door bell and waited for a count of 7 before knocking. I expected either Mr. Chase to open the door or Annabeth, but instead it was a 15ish year old girl with black-as-night hair, choppy, if I may. Her eyes were alarmingly blue, and her clothes were all black with a pretty silver bracelet on the one hand on the door, the other hand had the collar of the shirt of the Latino-elf boy from yesterday.

"Hi" She had a pretty smile, not as pretty as Annabeth's, though. "You must be Annie's friend? She said she was having a party- Stop squirming, Repair Boy! You hid my bow, so this is your punishment." She stared daggers into his eyes. If looks could kill... " By the way, I'm Thalia"

"And I'm Leo, but you could call me McShizzle." He had a crazy smirk, that I scarred me half to death.

"Uh, Hi Leo, hi Thalia, I'm Brad" I introduced myself, a little awkwardly. Mind you, I was still standing in the door way. Thalia motioned me to come in and closed the door behind me, still gripping Leo's shirt.

"Annabeth's in her room, assuming you know where that is, also try to avoid the twins, the Stolls are occupying them, and I have a feeling they'll steal anything you've got on you."

Thalia let go of Leo who bounced his way to the couch where a few other people I've never met before were sitting.

I walked up the stairs, still confused as to what all these people were, and what Thalia meant by 'bow'. She didn't look like the person to wear a bow in her hair, but a bow as in weapon. Why would she need that?

I carefully avoided the twins' rooms. Though, I head some very suspicious noises coming from behind the doors. I wouldn't of had stopped to say 'hello' anyway. The brothers don't enjoy my company as much as I would like to admit. But hey, they don't steal from me, I don't try for an awkward conversation with them. Maybe if I made friends with them, I could come here more often, see Annabeth more often. Today was not the day for that. They seemed pretty occupied.

I made my way towards Annabeth's room and opened the door. And saw Annabeth on her bed reading a book. I don't know how she does it with her dyslexia.

"Frank, give it back!" A girl, Native American from what I saw, was trying to get a scrapbook back from this much taller kid, Frank, I presume.

"No, way Piper, not until you tell me why you have this." She looked deeply into his eyes before saying-

"Frank Zhang, you will give me back my 'Memory Book' back now." Piper, I believe, sounded so powerful. I felt like I had to give her this Memory Book, or whatever. Strange. Frank's eyes glazed over and he lowered his hand and gave Piper the book back, she looked satisfied and walked passed me out the door.

"Wait. PIPER. Not fair. Not fair." He chased out after her. I wondered if they were a couple. No. They seemed to have more of a brother-sister relationship.

I walked over to Annabeth, who the whole time never looked up for a second. "Hey, uh do they do that all the time?" She laughed a little.

"Stealing things from each other? No. But, argue? Most definitely." We laughed for a second, it seemed.

"Are they all your family, or..?"

"No, just friends. Friends, from.. camp." She looked slightly nervous and dove her nose into the book again.

"What book is that?" I broke the silence, I could tell she didn't want to talk about the strange people in her house.

"'To Kill a Mockingbird', for English." I glanced to look at her page.

"Is that in a different language?"

"Greek, it's easier to read with my dyslexia." I wonder if that works for everyone with the disorder.

A loud crash came from downstairs, followed by a lot of silence and finally, "We didn't break anything!" Came from a males voice. I expected her to freak out and yell at whoever that guy was but she just chuckled a bit.

"Just fix it before my mom gets home" More noise and arguing came from downstairs. I could hear Thalia yelling, but not what she was saying exactly.

"When are the others going to get here?"

"They should be arriving any minute now. We should go downstairs and wait for them."

Downstairs was the last place I wanted to go. So much noise, and people I don't know. That could've been my perfect chance to ask her out. Why didn't I think to do so?

When we arrived in the living room Annabeth got everyone's attention. I have to say, the group of people that were before me was the weirdest group of people ever. Half of them looked like they wanted to kill the others. The two other boys I saw were there two. The raven-haired one was standing/wrestling with a blonde guy who looked a tiny bit like Thalia. But the one with scary eyes was off in the corner softly talking to a different blonde guy, who seemed like sunshine himself. Hey, what can I say, opposites attract, right?

"EVERYONE" They all looked to her. The whole house was filled with silence. "I am having guests over," she guestured towards me,"You don't all live here, clearly, please just, hang out somewhere else for a while?" They decided to go to the back yard.

A few people, including Mr. Sunshine, who dragged the scary kid, a girl who looked like she'd beat up anyone in a fight, and the raven haired guy ran and jumped in the pool, fully clothed, might I add. For a split second, the raven haired guy came out of the water, and I swear, he was completely dry. My mind must of been playing tricks on me. The rest reluctantly followed, not jumping in the pool, though.

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"Annabeth, Truth or Dare?"

After Charlie and Lisa got here we went to Annabeth's room and decided on Truth or Dare. As of the moment, Charlie was asking Annabeth, Truth or Dare. I was hoping he would ask her who she liked then maybe she would say me, and I would confess feelings and everything would be excitingly happy.

"Uh, Dare is dangerous.. Truth" That got a few 'come on's and 'wimp" from Lisa, although we knew she was joking, but no one has chosen dare in a while.

"Whatever, hmm.." He smirked at me, I could tell he was trying to help, "Do you like anyone at our school, and if so, who?"

She thought for a moment "Nope, I couldn't see myself dating anyone from our school." My heart sank. No one? I thought.

"Neither could I!" A voice came from outside and I could tell it was from one of the many kids in the back yard.

"Stop eavesdropping, Percy!" She yelled back.

"Awe, but I just wanted to be included, your back yard is very boring, Annie." Annie, the one of many nicknames Annabeth hated, whoever this guy was, he's in trouble.

Instead she just chuckled. "Why don't you invite him up? He seems nice." Lisa offered and we all nodded in agreement.

"Fine, You can come Percy, no one else! To many people in a room." After a few seconds a knock on the door sounded.

"Did Percy Jackson just knock on a door?" She sounded as if he never did such a thing.

"No, but Thalia did, cause Thalia wants to play too!" I heard Thalia whine from the other side. The door swung open and the raven haired guy, Percy Jackson, barged in.

"Sorry, but you took to long, Thals." Now, I'm straight, I can assure you that, but Percy Jackson was hot. His tan matched Annabeths and his hair was perfectly unperfect. But his eyes were the color of the ocean. Plus he was buff, like he trained everyday of his life.Once again, completely straight, but he was hot.

"Everyone, meet Percy and Thalia. Percy and Thalia, meet Brad, Charlie, and Lisa." We had our fair share of 'HI's and 'Hello's. "Who's turn is it anyway?"

"Yours, Annabeth." Percy mocked being incredibly shocked.

"Annabeth Chase forgot something?" She shoved him half-heartedly. If she wanted to she could shove him off a cliff with the amount of strength she possesses.

"Shut up, Seaweed Brain. Anyway, Thalia, truth or dare"

Thalia chose dare, a lot of things happened in that room that night. Lots of dares taken by non other than Percy and Thalia. Strangely, I had come to like the raven haired boy.

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"Are you guys sleeping over?" The time slipped away from us very fast and soon it was 8:00.

"Are your parents gonna be okay with that?" I didn't want to crash with her parents angry at Annabeth, it felt rude.

"My mom and dad are on a business trip this weekend, I forgot to mention, sorry. But it's totally fine with them. About 15 other kids are spending the night here anyway, 3 more wouldn't hurt." I completely forgot about the others, maybe they were still outside. For a San Francisco night like this, it must be pretty cold for them.

"My parents are cool with it, I just don't have any clothes to sleep in." Sleeping in jeans on the floor didn't sound the best or most comfortable.

"Okay, maybe one of the guys has a pair you could borrow, I'll go check." Annabeth left with just me, Charlie and Lisa.

Lisa must of been reading my mind "Are those people extremely weird or is it just me?"

"Annabeth mentioned something about them all being her friends from that summer camp she always goes to." I felt the need to defend them for some reason.

"I've been to summer camp before, and none of the friends I made there did I see outside of summer camp." Charlie was right, but maybe it was a different kind of summer camp.

Before we could say anything else, Annabeth came in "Jason had some extra, Brad, but they have lightning bolts on them, sorry." The pair of pajamas she handed me were a navy blue with bright yellow lightning bolt spaced out everywhere.

"It's alright, kind of reminds me of Zeus's lightning bolt, or something." Annabeth started laughing, but she stopped quickly when she saw that we were looking at her funny. I mean its not like I tried to make a joke, and if I did, I don't see how it was that funny.

"Um, Lisa, Charlie, the sleeping bags are in the closet, Brad, you're the tallest, the extra pillows and blankets are in the hallway closet. I need to figure out where everyone is going to sleep."

I walked out into the hallway and saw that someone set up a full sized tent in the loft. A mini fridge and full bed, with sheets, were sitting inside, along with a chair and other weird things I couldn't place. Sleeping bags were placed in every corner of the house, any open space in the hallway was impossible to find. Each sleeping bag seemed to have its own personality, although, they were all empty.

Two matching green ones seemed to be stuffed with cables and duck tape, watches and pocket items like cash. They had the name 'STOLLS' written at the bottom, a few were bright pink, some were blood red and had pockets filled with knives or other dangerous weapons. These people were scary. It's like they slept with these items because they were sure they were going to be attacked during the night.

I shook my head and grabbed the extra pillows and blankets from the closet and made my way back Annabeths room. I had a feeling this was going to be a long night.