Hey guys! Sorry I didn't get this one out by Wednesday, I forgot my grandmother was coming to visit. Oops -.- Lol anyways hope you guys enjoy this next one! Please review!
Number 2: Chick-fil-a
"Annabeth, I need your help!" Percy pleaded with me. I looked at him questioningly. We were standing in line to order food. Chick-fil-a was busier than usual and people were navigating their way around with trays of delicious smelling food.
"I really can decide on nuggets or strips." He stated.
"Always get chicken strips." I said. It was an obvious decision, strips offered you more chicken.
"But the nuggets are so fun! They're like little baby chicken strips." He said making hand motions that were supposed to be explaining the chicken nuggets but kind of looked like he was strangling an invisible frog.
"You're going to eat children?" I said slightly exasperated. This was really pointless.
"No! I mean yes. Wait, I don't know! I haven't decided yet! That's the whole point!" Percy practically yelled. He got a few strange looks from other customers, but if he noticed he didn't care. He was freaking out over nothing, but that's how the ADHD mind works: your brain ignores some things and obsesses over other things. The two extremes, which were always fun to deal with.
"Calm down for Zues' sake!" I punched his arm.
Percy groaned loudly. He was seriously treating this like a life or death decision. He jumped up and down like a toddler who didn't get his way.
I stepped closer to him and leaned towards his face. He immediately became tense. I'd only ever kissed him once, right before he blew up Mount Saint Helens and I thought he had died, so we all know how that turned out. But I suddenly got the urge to kiss him again, right then and there, in the middle of Chick-fil-a. I mentally told myself to stop being an idiot.
Instead, I stared at him hard. I reached up and flicked him in the middle of the forehead. "Chicken strips." I said and returned to my former position, standing a foot away from him. There wasn't any room in the gaggle of people to be much farther away than that.
Percy was still visibly tense. He seemed to consider what I had just said. I took a few steps foreword as a few people gave their orders.
"I'll tell you what, I'll order first so you can make this huge, life changing decision." I said sarcastically as I stepped in front off him. The mortal behind the counter called next.
"Welcome to Chick-fil-a. How can I help you?" a woman asked lackadaisically. She spoke in a monotone.
"I'll have a 3-piece chicken strip meal with a medium coke and a medium fry." I said. The woman's fingers flew across the screen as she recorder everything.
"Drink?" She asked sounding annoyed at the fact that I had even walked into the restaurant. I glared at her.
"Pepsi, mortal." I said hotly. The woman looked at me like I was from another planet.
Percy gently bumped me with his shoulder. " 'Calm down for Zues's sake' - wise words said by Annabeth Chase less than 5 minutes ago." He said. Gods he was annoying.
"That all?" I squinted to read the cashier's name tag: Jessica.
"Yes, Jessica. Thank you so much for all your amazing help." I said in mock politeness. I saw Percy roll his eyes out of the corner of my eye. I stuck my tongue out at him.
"$6.49." Jessica said and I handed her a 10. She gave me the change and I stepped out of line.
"Umm… I'll have…" Percy started. He looked like this was one of the hardest things he'd ever had to decide.
"I can tell this is using up all 4 of your brain cells." I muttered to him. He shot me a dirty glance. Why did everything with him have to be so complicated?
"Okay. I'll have an 2 8-piece chicken nugget meals." He stated. You idiot, I thought.
"You want the two drinks?" Jessica asked.
"Nope. And I'll have coke." Percy didn't even seem to notice the woman's rudeness.
"Alright, $11.97." Percy paused. He held up a 10 dollar bill for me to see and had a questioning look in his eyes. I could tell he was asking for money. I sighed and handed him 2 dollars.
"Thanks." Percy said with a smile and handed the woman the money.
"You are such a seaweed brain." I said as Percy took the 3 pennies that were his change from Jessica. He stepped out of line.
I reached out and grabbed the 3 cents out of his hand. If I helped pay for the difference, the change belonged to me. "Mine." I said.
"Really, Annabeth? It's three cents."
"Still mine."
"Wow."
"'A penny saved is a pebbly earned." I stated. "And I have 3."
He gave in. I was right, of course. I tucked the pennies and my left over change in my back pocket.
"Why did you even ask me in the first place if all you were going to do is ignore what I said? I said strips and you bought nuggets. 2 8-packs, too. Who needs that much?"
"Gods! Im hungry, okay? And the nuggets are so small."
"Thats why I said to get the strips!"
Our orders were called and we retrieved them and found a table. Percy immediately started inhaling the nuggets. I stole one because after all, I did help pay for them, but he didn't care. Or he did and didn't say anything.
He reached over to steal one one my fries even though he had two overflowing servings to himself. "Hey!" I exclaimed as I slapped his hand away.
Percy was impossible, and probably would be forever. But that was okay, because I would never make things easy for him.
