Chapter 2: Chapter 2


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I FORGET TO SNIFF MY POPCORN*Annabeth*

I wake up to a blinding white light. I glance at the clock, 6:30. I always get up early on schooldays.

I turn on my nano, plug in my headphones, And go to the local radio station.

I listen as I walk around picking out clothes, searching for towels, and looking for my loofah.

I stop. One FOOT of snow? I run to the window and see that it's true.

The sky is a dull grey, but the snow sparkles in the streetlights. I sigh, turn off my nano, and go into the bathroom to take a shower.

I always liked this bathroom. When Sally remodeled the house two years ago I had gotten to choose the color scheme.

I want to be an interior designer so designing the top floor had been fun. The walls are white, with tiles that have actual seashells in them.

I take a quick shower, and towel off. I've put on my shorts, and just put on my bra when the door opens. I keep my eyes locked on Percy's as I grab my shirt and put it over my chest

"Looking for something?" I ask.

"You forgot to lock the door" Percy says.

"Yes and I will lock it as soon as you GET OUT!" I shout throwing a Kleenex box at his head.

He quickly withdraws his head. I slip my shirt on, straighten my hair, and walk out into the bedroom

"Hey you forgot to lock the door" Percy says.

"Yeah I just didn't think you'd be up" I say.

"I heard the vent fan, thought it was three AM and went to turn it off" Percy says. He's dressed for running.

"Liar. You may not have known I was in there but you were planning to go running." I say.

Percy rolls his eyes "You caught me" He says.

"Put on Jeans, a t-shirt, and a hoodie if you have one and meet me downstairs" I say.

I go downstairs and grab some granola bars and juice boxes.

Percy comes downstairs.

I grab Luke's boots and hand them to Percy. I look for a suitable coat and give it to Percy as well.


Eventually Percy is looking like a penguin. "I'm roasting" He complains

"Then come on" I say. I plow outside, and Percy follows me.

The street has about 4 inches of snow, I can hear the plows far away.

"Let's go" I say.

I walk around the house, hop the fence and enter the backyard. "This way" I say. I tromp down where the path would roughly be. Our lot is about two acres, really quite big.

I walk to my tree. "Up" I say. I climb the rope ladder, And Percy follows.

We eventually reach my tree house, built in between two trees, there branches intertwined. It's large for a tree house, circular with a hammock in the middle. All of the screens are down, and the hatches over them. I don't raise them, it's too cold. Instead I turn on a lantern.

"Sit" I say. I motion to one of the waterproof bean bags. Percy sits and I sit in the other one.

"What is this place?" He asks.

"A tree house. Juice box? Granola bar?" I ask holding them out. Percy takes one of each, as do I

"I mean when was it built?" Percy asks.

With both of us in here it's heating up the room. "When I was 6. 10 years ago. Some of the older kids made this so we wouldn't bother them." I say.

"What are we up here for?" Percy asks.

"This" I say. I get up and open the roof. The house was built on hinges to swing in half.

The tree house is in half now. Just to my right is a clear cut through the trees to the horizon. The sun is just rising, bathing the sky in pink.

"Wow" Percy says. I smile

"Yeah. Wow." I say.

"That's amazing" Percy says.

"Didn't they have sunrises in California?" I ask teasingly.

"I never was up early enough to see them" He says.

"That would suck" I say.

I hear screams from the house "Come on. Breakfast must be ready." I say.

I pull the roof back on and climb down. Percy follows me. We plow through the snow and inside. After taking off all of our outer clothes (Coats ect.) we rush into the kitchen.

There's two seats left at the end of the bar. I jump on the end one "AIR MAIL!" Luke yells. Two plastic plates skids down the counter. Percy jumps back in surprise, so I roll my eyes and catch them, I slide one in front of Percy, and keep the other one

"THANKS LUKE!" I yell.

"NO PROB-AGGH!" Luke gets attacked by Cole. Percy looks surprised.

I dig in "What? Are you going to eat that?" I ask. Percy nods and sniffs them and begins to eat.

I finish my French toast easily and wipe my mouth on a napkin I realize I didn't sniff test first. Oh well.

I get up and Yell "FREE CHAIR!" Avalon and Ele start fighting for the chair.

I don't hang around to settle it because the doorbell rings. I run to the door.

Rachel, Reyna, Piper, Hazel, Leo, Nico and Grover are at the door. "Where is she?" Piper asks excitedly.

"Well- There was a slight mess-up and-"I begin. Percy comes up behind me, eating a apple.

"Hey. I'm Percy" Percy says.

"PERCY! GIVE BACK MY APPLE!" Olivia yells.

"Bye" He says running up the stairs.

I step aside to let them in. "Your living with a guy?" Leo asks in disbelief.

"I live with seven guys." I say.

Piper rolls her eyes. "I'm finding Jason" Piper says.

"I'll look for Thalia" Nico says.

"I'm gonna see if Olivia needs some help" Grover runs after the passing Olivia.

"I'll find Luke" Reyna says.

Now it's just me Hazel, Leo, and Rachel. "Come on. Let's go to my room. Where's Frank?" I ask Hazel.

"Sick. Too much cold." She says. Frank is Hazel's boyfriend.

"They are so predictable, thinking they have a chance with my step-siblings" I say,

Dodging a sliding Andrew who's riding the banister "When you break your neck I'm telling dad to not come to your funeral!" I call after him.

We climb another stairway and reach the top.

Grace, Mary, and Avery are playing dance twister. I walk into my room. Percy is on the phone with Jessica again. "-waking me up at these ungodly hours." She's saying "Hey Jessica" I say.

I plop on my bed, legs up as I check my snap chat. "Ugh. Drew has another boyfriend. Why is she even on my snap chat?" I ask Rachel.

"I dunno. Well if she starts dating Leo we'll know" Rachel says, plopping on a beanbag.

"Hey Percy. Gonna introduce me to your super-hot friend?" Leo says.

"LEO!" Rachel, Hazel and I shout at the same time.

"All right, All right. I'm Leo. Bad boy supreme." Leo says, extending his hand to Percy and the camera.

Percy shakes it, but I don't know what Jessica does. "Are all your friends this annoying Annabeth?" Jessica shouts in my direction.

"No. just him. LEO MOVE!" I shout. I throw a pillow at his head and he winces and falls on Percy's bed.

"Is your whole life this chaotic?" Percy asks. Jason comes in chasing Piper yelling something in Latin. I move out of the way as Piper, then Jason jump on my bed.

"Are you kidding? This is calm" I say.

"INCOMING!" someone shouts. "DUCK!" I shout. I grab Percy's tablet and his hand and I pull both into Thalia's room.

"There. You shouldn't be bothered in here" I say. Jessica is laughing and Percy starts too.

"What?" I ask. They keep on laughing. "Locos californianos" I mutter and stalk out of the room. I run downstairs.

I dodge a couple missiles easily. Then someone yells "SNOW!" About seven or eight kids rush outside. A few people are playing monopoly, a few are playing Just Dance 2014, and the rest are baking something in the kitchen. Of course except for us. Percy appears to my right.

"Ok so since we're half-organized everyone this is Percy." I say. "I wanna do a sound of music intro!" Leo whines. "Gods NO" We all say, of course except for Percy.

"Fine I'm the awesome Leo, Starter of the 2013 Snowtacolypse" Leo says.

"Snow-taco-apocalypse?" Percy asks. "You don't want to know" I say pushing Leo into some coats

Everyone else introduces themselves regularly. "Let's go to the park." Hazel suggests.

It's unanimous so we suit up and grab sleds, I grabbing the humongous triple person sled

Thalia, Olivia and I get on the sled and Luke, Nico and Percy look at each other, then pull us madly down the street yelling.

I half-laugh half-scream as we plummet down a hill in the snow next to the sidewalk.


In less than five minutes we're in the park. Well it's not really a park.

There's a small open field where the dog owners meet every week, a tennis court, baseball pitch, soccer field, basketball court, a playground, four swings, parking lot, and a building that can be rented out for meetings. Now most of this is small, but it's still a lot.

There's also three awesome spots on the hill to sled. I quickly explain sledding. (It's really hard to understand. You keep your body on the sled, scream your head off and try to steer) And we run up the hill. Luke takes photos as we sled down.

Percy is actually pretty good at first.


Eventually we get bored of that and start throwing snowballs at each other. "HA!" Percy yells as he hits me squarely in the chest.

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY!" I scream. I attack him and jump on his back.

He grabs a sled and before I can shout "NO YOU IDIOT STOP!" He's kicked off. I can only hold on for dear life and scream.

As soon as we get off I kick his leg. "Idiot. I could have broken my leg if I fell off" I say. He just lays on his back on the sled and laughs.


We finally have to leave when a bunch of little toddlers and they're parents arrive to sled, we don't want to run over anyone and snowball fights are no fun if you can't swear when you get hit in the face.

We trod back up the winding streets and hills to our house.

As soon as we got in I made hot chocolate The real stuff. I bring in a tray of the stuff. "So Fight Club?" Percy asks holding up the DVD. "Sure. Just let me-"I say setting the tray down.

I grab Bobby from behind the couch, Ele from the curtain, Sammy from behind a chair, you get the idea.

I put a pillow at the door so no one can hear under it and lock the door. "Much better" I say grabbing a bowl of popcorn and a hot cocoa. We slip Fight Club in and watch the movie. I have to admit it's good.

But I've seen it a lot of times. Instead I watch Luke load the pictures. Luke's dad sent him some really high-tech equipment, so the pictures are really clear.

I look at the ones of me. Me eating some snow, Percy pelting my head with a snowball, Leo putting snow in my hood, Percy and I riding down the hill, me screaming and him laughing. I look so happy.

I also realize that even though it hadn't felt like it we had had full body contact. The picture changes to me on a saucer flying off a jump and in the air, screaming

I think Percy's right. Our lives are almost perfect sometimes

I go back and watch the movie.


"Wow. The day seems to have flown by" Percy says stretching. "Yeah. Bye guys!" I say.

Everyone says muttered byes.

Tomorrow we'll have school.

I sigh, and after getting my Pjs on I plop on my bed and watch cheesy movies on Netflix until I fall asleep.


Edited 7/29/14

And there, is another Chapter! Next quote. This one is harder. (I think)

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"ABSOULUTLEY!"

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My favorite - - Line. In my top ten because the actor says it so well.