The characters might be OOC, sorry about that, well this is a really long chapter its 12 Pages long! This one includes a Flight and many surprises.
I couldn't wait for the trip! It was 9 AM and we were all in school. We all had our bags packed up and in the schools rented bus for the whole ride to the airport. About an hour after we got on the bus we ended up at the airport. Everyone in our grade already got our passports cleared and we were all seated in the planes. The Dare's managed to book us the whole plane and our own personal pilot –for the trip-so we could leave whenever we felt comfy. Rachel said that the pilot had a stewardess that was our age and was only there because she couldn't afford the trip without working or something. She thinks they're related. I didn't really care as long as we got to the plane, have fun and oh yeah not get blown up by my uncle. When we got on the plane Jenni and I sat next to each other, since Greg and Rachel wanted to sit next to each other. Greg and Rachel were in the row in front of us. The plane took off without any problem at all. The worst was thunder and lightening but according to the pilot and the stewardess the flight should be able to continue without any further delays. We were flying on Olympic Airlines the national airline of Greece. We left the airport at one so that means we should be in Greece at around 10:30 at night US time, but it would be around 3:30 in the afternoon in Athens.
"We are through with take off you are now welcome to unbuckle your seat belts and move freely around the plane, now please watch the fallowing video and look to the flight attendant in the middle of the isles for more information." The intercoms said. (A/N: I've been on planes before but I keep forgetting the words that they always say)
Then a flight attendant came in and showed us the flight procedure, you know the whole how to buckle your seat belts and all the rest of those. The flight attendant looked to be around my age. She was wearing a hat and her hair was tied up very neatly but I could tell she had curly blonde hair and the strange thing was she had stormy gray eyes. I don't know what it was but something about her made her seem very familiar. I had to admit that she did look very cute. Her face looked worried. I didn't want to look at her anymore, she just made me feel weird, and so I just turned my head and focused on the small screen in front of me. When the video was over, Jenni and I started talking.
"How come you look worried?" Jenni asked me.
"What do you mean? I'm definitely not worried! Why do I look worried?"
"Um... yeah! You looked fine until you saw the attendant. Oh! You like her!" Jenni was starting to tease me.
"What? I so do NOT like her! I haven't even talked to her! Wait why, are you jealous?" We both started laughing, but I could easily tell she was blushing a bit and to tell you the truth I could feel my cheeks getting redder.
"Hey you two lovebirds what's going on back there?" Greg and Rachel said with a few snickers.
"Hey! We're not lovebirds!" Jenni and I both said at the same time.
"Excuse me passengers, the flight attendants will now be handing out head phones and drinks." The intercom said. And that same flight attendant started walking up and down the isles handing out drinks and roasted peanuts, while another attendant, with black hair, electric blue eyes, and a lot of gothic make up on, passed out head phones. "Hey, Rachel do those flight attendants look familiar to you? I mean the one with blonde hair look sort of familiar to me." I asked Rachel.
"Huh? Oh hey that's Annabeth!"
"Seriously? I knew she looked a lot like her but I just thought that she might have been one of her half-sisters or something."
"I'm serious Percy! That's her! Here I'll prove it! HEY ANNABETH!" Rachel screamed out that last part and just like the way Rachel thought it would work out Annabeth looked toward us.
She saw Rachel's red hair and she immediately said "Huh? Rachel Elizabeth Dare? Is that you? What the frick are you doing here?"
"Oh my gods, see Percy! It's Annabeth Chase! Greg you see! That's her!"
"Oh I see." Greg said very amused.
"Okay, its her now shut up everyone is looking at us now!" after I said that Annabeth must have heard and she looked very mad that I didn't want people at my school to know about her. I figured that the other familiar attendant must have been Thalia, with the gothic make up and all.
"Perseus Jackson! What are you doing on a plane! I thought your uh… uncle didn't let you on planes!" Annabeth almost screamed that last part. Annabeth and Thalia finished with the drinks and headphones then they immediately went toward me.
"Gee, thanks a lot Rachel!"
"No problem, Percy!" Rachel was clearly proud of herself for getting Annabeth to come toward us.
"Uh... Percy mind telling us what's going on?" Jenni was very confused and Greg was just complimenting Rachel on getting Annabeth here.
"Oh yeah, Jenni this is Annabeth and that's Thalia. We all go to the same summer camp. And uh… Annabeth what are you doing here, with Thalia?"
"Wait a minute Percy! What are we doing here?" Annabeth was still angry with me.
"Oh yeah that's right! Annabeth calm down. My dad told me that he let Percy go on this trip since they're headed to Greece; he said that Percy could use some culture in his life. Not only that but my dad made an agreement with his dad that Percy would take me on a boat trip and we'd snorkel or something involving the sea, if he went on a plane for his school trip." Thalia mentioned.
"Oh, okay I guess."
"Um… Annabeth what are you doing here? And uh… Thalia aren't you suppose to be at that um… all girls school?"
"I went on a vacation with Annabeth to Greece. She offered I was just nice enough of agree to it!" Thalia said making it seem like she was the nice one.
"Oh, yeah Percy! Grover is with us! He's up front talking to my uncle, he's the pilot." Annabeth churned in.
"Oh, uh… okay but how come Grover isn't working out here? I mean I can easily see Grover just lounging around eating a cheese enchilada with his feet up listening to reed pipe music." Annabeth and Thalia had that look on their faces saying, "He has a point there".
"Well, not sure my uncle wanted him to stay there 'cause he grew up in a Greek culture all his life and stuff. Uh… do you want to come with me to see him?" Annabeth offered.
"Um… sure, you don't mind right Jenni?" I looked at Jenni.
"Yeah, go ahead have fun. Go and talk to your friends while you just leave me with the couple." Jenni said with a very noticeable sarcastic voice, but I knew it was all right with her for me to go. We immediately started chuckling.
"Okay, thanks." I said trying to hide my smile.
"Okay cool, um… Rachel come with us too! I need to ask you something!" Annabeth almost immediately said the last part. Thalia was already heading into the section just for the flight attendants.
"Um… okay, you don't mind right Greggy." Jenni and I both rolled our eyes at them and Annabeth looked confused. Oh wow I never thought I'd say that! Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, is confused! I wish I could say that more often, oh well.
"Nah, I don't mind at all, go and have fun. You annoy Percy and I annoy Jenni. Deal?" Greg and Rachel just laughed while Jenni and I groaned and rolled our eyes, again.
"Hey, Jenni at least I wont be leaving you with the couple, good luck with him." I whispered to Jenni, we both smiled at each other. And Rachel and I fallowed Annabeth to her section of the plane.
"So, Percy… we're going to be with Jenni and Annabeth during our trip, right?" Rachel giggled.
"Yeah so?" I said, Annabeth wasn't talking to us she was just listening.
"Well you know! The whole you liking BOTH of them!" Rachel was staring straight into my eyes looking to see if I would lie.
"I DON'T LIKE ANNABETH! She and I are just friends and that's all!"
"Okay well what about Jenni? You and her seem to get along VERY well!" Rachel was giggling again, and I just groaned!
After a few more steps we managed to make it to the wing with all the crews. On one side it had all the older crewmembers. On the other side there was a door that was closed with a curtain. Annabeth opened it. Inside I saw four beds, the bottom one on the right, looked like just a sort of shelve that they used to hold all of their knapsacks and stuff. The bunk above it had a bunch of pictures with plants and animals. There was a green duffel bag and inside I could just see a few pairs of hats, and a pair of baggy jeans stuck out. On the bed was a book called The Great Pan and some reed pipes next to it. Grover's bunk for sure. Man, I miss seeing that goat-boy! The top bunk on the right side had a lot of magazines that had a lot of Gothic people and pictures. And near the pillow was a CD player and a few CD's from Green Day. Thalia's bunk of course. Below that was a bunk with a lot of architect books. One of those was the book I gave to Annabeth for her birthday. The bed was filled with books most of which were in ancient Greek. This was clearly Wise Girls bunk.
"Percy! Thalia already told me that you were here but uh… mind explaining a bit more? Like why Zeus let you go on a plain?! And uh… who exactly are those people Thalia mentioned? She said hearing about Jenni and uh… Greggy?" Rachel was laughing just hearing Grover say Greggy.
"Well, Greg and Jenni are my best friends. Were on a school field trip to Greece and Zeus made some sort of agreement with Chiron and Zeus, I mean you heard about my school field trip remember when you guys IM'd me."
"Wait I wasn't exactly there! I think I was on a date with juniper or something at the time, and uh… I thought I was your best friend." Grover was frowning and he looked a bit confused and hurt, but I knew deep inside he was thinking about cheese enchilada.
"Relax man, Greg and Jenni are my best friends in school," I said pausing when I saw Rachel give me a death glare, "and Rachel too! Your still number one dude!"
"That's really all I wanted to hear! Well anyways, uh… any monster sightings for you?" Grover was horrible at making small talk.
"Nope nine so far right Rachel?"
"Nope none that I've seen. So Percy what's the last thing you said to your girlfriend?" oh no Rachel's starting her annoying thing again.
"Percy, YOU, have a girlfriend! Since when? Why didn't you tell us?" Annabeth was shouting!
"Whoa, Seaweed Brain has a girlfriend! Damn, who'd go out with him?" Thalia was surprised then she just started laughing at me.
"Wait what! How come I don't know anything about this!" Grover was screaming and Rachel and Thalia were laughing on the floor going crazy, and when I looked over at Annabeth I just saw a worried look on her.
"Whoa, I do NOT have a girlfriend!" after I said this Annabeth made a sigh of relief, Grover's confused look ended and Rachel and Thalia were trying to stop laughing. Gods, its like they enjoy making me look bad!
After Thalia got her laughing to stop she just said, "Well that makes sense now, I mean, Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon having a girlfriend, HA!" and now another fit of laughter from Rachel and Thalia. I even saw Annabeth giggling a bit; Grover just stared out into space, probably thinking about Cheese enchilada.
"What's so unbelievable about that? if I wanted I could get a girlfriend in less then two seconds!" Thalia just laughed more; Rachel stopped thinking about all the girls who were chasing after Greg and me. According to Jenni, most girls find me as the silent cutie and Greg is the heartbreaker. Weird I know but still.
"Oh yeah Seaweed Brain prove it! Go get yourself a girlfriend right now!" Thalia was still giggling but she seemed serious too.
"But I don't like anyone! And I don't want to use a girl just 'cause you want me to prove something." I could hear Annabeth say awww and was sure she looked happy that I could be nice if I wanted to be.
"Wait but Percy what about Jenni I mean you like her right?"
My cheeks were really red right now! "I don't like Jenni as more then a friend. And even if I did I wouldn't want things to get weird between us by going out with each other."
"So that's why you wont ask her out?" Rachel inquired, Annabeth still had a worried look on her, though I'm not exactly sure why.
"No! Its cause I don't like her! My gods," honestly, I do kinda like Jenni, but I like someone else even more! "Hey Annabeth are you okay? You look a little worried."
"No, I'm just fine. But why are you even here talking to us? Don't you want to be with your precious Jenni?" oh no, not her too.
"I don't like Jenni as more then a friend! Gods get it through your thick heads!"
"I am not thick-headed! If anyone's thick-headed, its you!"
"Hey now your starting to sound like yourself!" Annabeth started to smile. We all started talking a lot more now and we weren't even paying attention to all the time that's gone by.
I checked my phone and it said that it was about 5:30 PM. "Hey, Percy I'm gonna head back to Greg and Jenni, its almost time for us to have dinner so yeah." Rachel said.
"Oh yeah I should probably be getting back to, see ya guys later."
"Yeah. See ya!" they all said in response.
Rachel and I walked back to our seats and I started talking to Jenni, "Hey Jenni, how much trouble did Greg give you this time?"
"Oh you know the usual, 'you like blah', 'blah likes you' and other boring blahs. What about you?"
"Basically the same stuff, but probably more laughter from my camp friends."
"Haha! Glad I don't have any camp friends to make fun of me."
"The flight attendants will now be passing out food" the intercom said.
And like before Annabeth and Thalia came out and when they came to me I heard Annabeth say "Chicken or cheese enchilada?"
"Uh… I'll take the enchilada, but um… you didn't tell Grover yet right?"
"No, but he's gonna find out soon, be prepared for screaming."
"Uh oh! You should have had Thalia tie him up in a closet, like last time when she came to visit us at our camp."
"Well, that's what happens when you give Thalia a dare. But I can't believe you dared Thalia to tie up your best friend in a closet!"
"Yeah but Grover did end up escaping when he found out we had cheese enchiladas with us." We both laughed a lot just thinking about that afternoon.
"Yeah, but uh… I gotta get back to work, um… miss? Chicken or cheese enchilada?"
"I'll take the same as Percy." Jenni said.
"Of course you will." Greg jumped in.
"Oh shut up Greg!" Jenni and I both said.
"OH MY GODS! WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS TELL ME THERE WAS CHEESE ENCHILADAS TODAY! MUST! HAVE! MORE! CHEESE! ENCHILADAS!" Grover came running down the plane isles attacking Annabeth's cart.
Annabeth had just enough time to jump out of the way and she landed in an empty seat across from me. Everyone was laughing like hell. Thalia stopped passing out food and ran toward Grover. "Hey, goat-boy stop being crazy and get off of those enchiladas!"
"Whoa G-man stop that already!" I chimed in, oh well the school's going to find out that Percy Jackson has some weird friends and I couldn't care less.
Thalia and I started grabbing and pulling at Grover to get away from the, now broken, cart. We weren't having a lot of luck but luckily Annabeth had a plan, as always. Annabeth took a plate filled with cheese enchiladas and she kept talking to Grover, "here, goat-boy, here goat-boy, come get your enchiladas. They're not on the floor! Come here goatee!" Grover did exactly what Annabeth planned and Annabeth Thalia and I hulled Grover back up to their small little bunker and Annabeth gave Grover the rest of the enchiladas. Grover ate all the enchiladas in less then 30 seconds. He started yelling again so Thalia and I tied him up so he wouldn't go bothering my class again. And we also put a piece of tape on Grover so he would stop wailing. After that Annabeth showed us that she saved a cheese enchilada and when Thalia and I noticed we all gave each other an evil grin. Thalia and Annabeth held Grover down and pulled off the tape from him and it hurt him because of his small beard. They mad sure that he was looking as I slowly ate the enchilada and saying small little comments going "this is soooo good!" or "Oh my gods yum" and I ate the very last bite of the enchilada right in Grover's face.
"NNNNOOOOOOOOO!" Grover basically fainted, but for only 30 seconds.
As soon as he woke up he started yelling at us for being cruel to him. And saying that he's always thought that we were his best friends and blah, blah, blah. By the time we finished torturing Grover and after he started to calm down it was 8 already even though it only felt like it was two hours at most. Oh well I guess its true 'time flies when your having fun.' When I went back to my seat everyone was looking at me funny and asking me a lot of questions. "Hey Percy who were those weirdoes you were hanging out with? And why were you even helping them out, you should have been laughing it up with us!" said James, one of the football team stars at our school.
"Well they're just my friends from my summer camp. And I helped them out cause they're my friends."
"Alright but what you did didn't seem like you at all."
"Yeah, well whatever." I looked away and sat down in my seat. After that I just thought things through in my head. I basically thought about who I like and why and all that stuff, so what I'm saying is I was thinking about Annabeth. Do I actually like my best friend? But I can't like her, and besides she still likes Luke. Even though Luke betrayed us tried to kill whenever he saw me, is working for Kronos the evilest grandpa to ever walk the face of the earth. I guess it is true girls do like the bad boys best. I've known Annabeth since 6th grade, but she's known Luke since she was 7th. I was there to comfort her when Luke betrayed us, but even though he's all evil I have to admit that I never would have met Annabeth if Luke didn't help bring her to camp. She never really liked it last year when I was friends with Rachel, and she seemed a bit worried with what Rachel said about me liking Jenni, which I do admit that I do kinda like her but she can never compare with Wise Girl.
"Excuse me passengers we will be arriving at airport in 30 minutes." The intercom said, now that I think about it sounded a lot like Annabeth.
"Oh my god Percy were gonna be in Greece in half-an-hour!" Jenni is really peppy on school field trips.
"Uh huh. That's cool."
"Percy, what's wrong? Your not really excited."
"Its nothing, I've just been thinking."
"Wow, that's a first. Anything I can help you with?"
"Well you already met Annabeth…"
"Yeah, and you like her. Don't deny it its obvious!"
"Well since I trust you so much, I wont deny the fact this time, but the thing is she doesn't like me."
"I'm pretty sure she does, and besides how can you know for sure if you don't tell her how you feel?"
"Well I don't know, she's really smart so she can probably figure it out."
"Percy, just because someone's smart that doesn't mean she can read your emotions." She makes a good point there.
"Yeah, I guess."
"Percy, if you want to know how she feels, I suggest you take her somewhere private and tell her how you feel."
"But I don't know how she feels! That's kinda important for me to know!"
"Percy takes a chance will ya? Common, take a chance at something."
"But I don't want to take a chance at something like this. I want to know if she'll even care about my love life."
"Well, just don't go doing something stupid like pretending to have a girlfriend just to see if she'll get jealous." Hmm...That's an interesting idea to think about. I gave Jenni an evil grin.
"Oh, no! Percy, I'm serious that's a horrible idea! If you do that she might get the idea that you have a real girlfriend."
"But she might show that she's jealous!"
"Jealousy has nothing to do with love, get it through your thick head!"
"But I want her to show some feeling when it comes to me."
"But that's a horrible idea. Don't control her feelings by making her believe something that's fake."
"I guess, maybe just a smaller version, like maybe we could be next to each other a lot more and stuff, like whenever she's around we can be together or something."
"I repeat, horrible!"
"Fine, then what do you suggest I do?" Jenni made her thinking face.
"Well, just be around her more, hint at the subject you know let her know you like her without saying you do."
"Gods that sounds like something a girl would do!"
"Well, maybe that just means its perfect to use on a girl. I don't know, I just met talked to her for like 2 seconds, during which I just said "cheese enchilada" and I'm pretty sure Annabeth and I aren't best friends."
"Fine, I'll try it your way."
"We have now arrived at the airport please exit through the closest exit to you and please be respectful of the other passengers." The intercom said.
"I saw Annabeth, Thalia and Grover waiting by the exit saying "thank you for coming aboard the plane" and all the usual stuff they force them to say. Jenni, Rachel, Greg and I decided to wait until everyone else was off the plane until we went out. According to Jenni, it'll give me more time to talk to Annabeth.
"Hey Annabeth, you guys are going to be staying here until my class is done with our trip right?"
"Yeah, and the school allowed us to participate with all your school activities. And we're also staying at the same hotel."
"Oh, cool. We don't know who's pairing up with who yet, I'm guessing your staying with Thalia."
"Yup."
"Yeah, so who's Grover staying with?
"No one, but the school said that if a student wants to stay with one of us then we can if we want to."
"Oh, really?"
"Yup."
"Percy if you want you can room with Grover, " Paul said while coming up behind me. "Actually Percy I think you'd like that better because we were going to have you room with Shaun."
"Yeah, I'll room with Grover. That is if it's okay with him."
"Sure thing it'll be like camp again, except you know no cabins, no bunks, no sward fighting, and oh yeah were not in Long Island." Grover said.
"Alright then, I'll go inform the other teachers, and I suggest you kids better come along with me."
"Okay." Jenni, Rachel, Greg and I all said.
"Hey, Percy we have to go help my uncle out with the rest of the cleaning up and stuff, we'll meet you at the hotel lobby in around 20 minutes." Annabeth said, then she, Thalia and Grover left.
Jenni, Rachel, Greg and I left the plane and started to fallow Mr. Blofis. We caught up to the rest of the class and we entered the hotel. The lobby walls were bronze; there were pale yellow couches, a huge check-in desk on the center-left side of the lobby, the carpet on the floor looked like a huge portrait of Mount Olympus. On each wall there was a painting of a god or goddess. It had a very Greek theme. The teachers were discussing a few of the arrangements with the hotel manager it took a while for them to talk. After about 20 minutes I was starting to worry about when Annabeth would get here, she's never late! Annabeth, Thalia and Grover came in about 5 minutes later and I was relieved but luckily it didn't show on my face. "Hey guys, what took you so long?"
"Grover found some enchiladas." Thalia said.
"Oh I see. So did you notice how the carpet looks so realistic? I mean it really looks like Olympus."
"Yeah, I noticed that too. Hey does that manager look familiar to you?" Grover said very casually.
"Hmm… now that you mention it yeah sort of. Whoa, is that George and Marta?" Thalia mentioned.
"Wait you mean the worms that's always arguing with Hermes?" I inquired.
"Yeah, look, see the ones crawling on his shoulder." Thalia said trying to make me see the two little worms.
"Oh my gods your right! Hey where'd Annabeth go?"
"Oh, she's talking to Rachel. Hmm… this can't be too good for you." Grover said.
"Well, lets go see what trouble I'm in now."
Grover, Thalia and I walked over to my class and we caught sight of Annabeth and Rachel. As soon as they saw us-really me- they stopped their conversation. I looked at them nervously at first. Then suddenly Thalia said, "What are you guys talking about?"
"Oh, nothing really just some girl stuff." Annabeth said looking very suspicious. I looked at her skeptically but thought that it would be better off if I didn't question it.
"Yeah… girls stuff like all those weird question about Percy." Rachel said making sure she didn't look at Annabeth directly in the eyes, good move. When I saw Annabeth she was giving Rachel her death glare.
"Um… what kind of questions?" man I hope Rachel didn't say anything to personal like me carrying that picture of us around in my notebook.
"Well, she asked me about your ex-girlfriend's, if I knew anything about you liking anyone, stuff like that you know your love life." Crap, Rachel has a huge mouth when I came to annoying me. Grover and Thalia started laughing at the thought of me having ex-girlfriends.
"Wow, Annabeth actually thinks Percy has ex-girlfriends, the only thing about his love life is the fact that he likes Annabeth, gods can't they just realize that they're like perfect for each other?" I started getting redder and redder on my cheeks. Grover started nodding his head 'yes' and Annabeth looked at the floor saddened.
"He's had three so far, Amy, Elizabeth, and Jill. He broke up with each of them about 3 or 4 weeks after they started going out. Apparently, they asked him out." Annabeth said sounding a bit hurt. Thalia and Grover were shocked.
Before I could ask Annabeth what was wrong, our teachers started talking. "Okay everyone listen up please, were going to list of your roommate and then we'll tell you your field group. Now we expected more students to be coming on the trip but apparently they wanted to skip out on this experience thinking that they could play hooky and miss school since only 2 teachers are missing well don't worry we have them doing work day-in and day-out. So now we only have 21 students plus 3 people who came on a plane with us and will be allowed to join us on all our activities, if you want to know more just ask them yourselves and stop annoying us about it. " Mrs. Lunes said. Even though she can be lazy in school, especially at the end of the day, Mrs. Lunes is almost always strict during field trips.
"Now then al together we only have 24 students including Annabeth, Thalia and Grover who are over there," Paul stated and everyone turned to look at them. "Anyways, we will have two students per room and four students in every field group. Shaun we were going to have you pair up with Percy," I heard Shaun give a small "yes", "But Percy wanted to room with Grover instead, and by the way Percy went to the same summer camp with Annabeth, Thalia and Grover and are very good friends with them, but he didn't have anything to do with them being here. Isn't that right Percy?"
Everyone was staring at me now and all I could think of saying was. "Yes."
"Right, well lets have Shaun room with Greg now room 201," Paul continued. "Rachel and Jenni will be roommates room 202and will be in field group with Greg and Shaun." I heard Greg and Rachel groan, Shaun was saying a quiet yes and Jenni just said a silent "Crap". During the whole year Shaun's liked Jenni, and Jenni hates the fact that he stalks her sometimes. Shaun is basically a jerk that's always trying to be friends with Greg and me so he can get closer to Jenni. That's basically the trouble with Shaun.
"Now then Percy is rooming with Grover room 203, Annabeth rooms with Thalia room 204, and those four are in the same field group," Paul said after the silent complaints were over. Paul and Mrs. Lunes just started stating the rest of the rooms until everyone got their room and group.
"Yes, well then everyone got their rooms and group right," Paul asked, and the class did a silent yes. "Okay then well the rules are simple no boys in the girls room and no girls in the boys room. Socializing with each other will be done in the hallways, lobby or outside. Remember you have all of Greece to explore but you must stay in the same town as us. The field groups are basically your study groups that you will help each other take notes and stuff like that. Okay just to be nice we'll let you have the rest of the day as a free period, your allowed to go in the water that's right by the hotel but be sure to tell us first. By the way this is the Manager, Hermes. He can speak English and Greek so he can serve as a translator. Now go, we already have all your luggage in your rooms, tell us if anything gets mixed up."
We all left and went to our rooms. Room 203 was pretty basic, a bathroom, two beds, and a small little deck to look out into the sea. When I looked out the window I noticed just how beautiful the town was. The streets weren't concrete it was made with stone and it looked so amazing. The town was very eccentric but had a few modern necessities. And there it was, Boschetto, Annabeth's dream restaurant. "Hey, Grover you know Annabeth's dream restaurant?"
"Yeah, Boschetto right?"
"Yeah, that's it."
"Okay, so why'd you ask me about it if you already knew the name?"
"Well, look out the window, what do you see."
"I see... ooh I see what your talking about, so um… when are you going gonna ask her? Huh?"
"Well, I don't know. I mean who said I was gonna ask her?"
"Dude, it's written all over your face. Don't you realize that everyone knows that Annabeth likes you and that you like Annabeth?"
"Annabeth and I are just friends, and that's it. Annabeth doesn't like me!"
"Okay, whatever, but remember, we have an empathy link." Crap, I forgot all about that!
"Whatever, lets go down I want to talk to Hermes."
So Grover and I left our room and on our way down we noticed someone, actually two someone's but I really just noticed one of them. Annabeth and Thalia were walking toward the elevator and they noticed us too. "Hey, guys." Thalia said.
"Hey, um… where are you guys going?" Annabeth asked, not looking me in the eyes.
"Percy wanted to talk to Hermes to get more answers. What about you guys?"
"Annabeth, wants to talk to Hermes too and she, well she dragged me along with her. Grover maybe they planned this, you know to meet up with each other."
"We didn't plan this!" Annabeth and I yelled at our two close friends. Grover gave Thalia a look saying I'm not totally convinced and Thalia just nodded.
"Oh, whatever. Lets just talk to Hermes." I said trying to forget their comments. We all went inside the elevator and started talking. Well, you know talking about half-blood stuff.
"Yeah, I wonder why he got a vacation, I mean after thousands of years of working non-stop why would he choose to take a break all of a sudden?" Thalia inquired.
"Maybe my dad sent him to make sure I'm still alive, or something."
"Yeah, probably. But still, I can't see how you being alive would help any of us." Annabeth said.
"Yeah, but you do know that if I wasn't alive you'd probably be dead already."
"How and besides if I wasn't alive you'd be dead too."
"Okay, well lets see here, our first quest the bus, three kindly ones attack us on the bus, who saved you? I'll give you a hint; Grover's tin can had nothing to do with the rescue."
"Hey, I was really sad when I lost my tin cans!" Annabeth and I ignored his protest.
"Okay, but why did they attack us in the first place."
"They thought we had the stolen items, not cause of me."
"Well, you were the suspect for the whole thing. So the only reason why they attacked us was because they thought you took it."
"Wait, lets just blame this on Ares because he took the stuff in the first place."
"You make a good point so okay. You know what this games sounds like fun, lets have Grover and Thalia say the situation and we can make our points like a debate."
"Okay, but just so you know it sounded a lot more fun when I thought it was just a friendly argument and not a debate, you know I hate debates."
"This is still our argument its just fairer if we don't point out the situations that we know we'll win."
"Fine, fine, fine just don't use to many big words that you know confuse me." Thalia, Grover and Annabeth all nodded in agreement.
"Okay, Grover go." Annabeth said, she's always excited about a debate.
"Um… okay, well lets see when we fought Medusa."
"Okay, I say Grover was the hero in that one."
"Agreed."
"Yup, he was the only one who didn't want to go, and he bought us some time when he beat Medusa up with a stick." Everyone laughed, even Thalia though she was still a tree at that time.
"Okay, Thalia go."
"Well I was a tree when this happened but, that time Annabeth told me about the whole Cerberus thing in the underworld."
"Annabeth saved us there, she's the one who distracted Cerberus with the ball."
"Yup, I agree with that!" Annabeth said looking very proud.
"Oh, course you do." I said looking annoyed but I couldn't help but grin.
"Okay, my turn to choose, okay then well I wanna hear about when we went to Vegas." Grover said.
"Fine, I say Seaweed Brain, saved us there."
"Why, thank you Wise Girl." Annabeth punched me on my shoulder, playfully. We just ended up laughing.
"Well, it is true, I mean from what I heard from Grover, he got you guys out of that Hotel." Thalia said.
"Okay go Thalia. " Grover said.
"Well, I say Water Beds."
"That's me!" I said happily.
"How?"
"I'm the one who got Crusty to lie down on a bed and I got him chopped up! And I stopped you guys from being to stretched."
"Yeah that reminds, you couldn't have chopped him faster then that?"
"Hey, you try tricking a guy like him while making sure your friends don't die from stretching."
"If I did then I know I would've thought of something faster then you did!"
"Yeah, well you didn't, cause I did! So ha!"
"Fine, fine, fine, you win on that one."
"Okay we'll do our other three quest later, right now e gotta talk to Hermes." And at that the elevator made a 'ding' sound and we were out of that.
Grover and Thalia were behind me and Annabeth and I could hear small little whispers coming from them. in a few minutes we spotted Hermes at the front desk and we went up to him and I asked, "Why are you here?"
okay well Review and tell me what you guys think! i have an idea on the next chapter. okay well im just going to do a chapter with just the debate thingy next cause they just have the rest of the day to kill time, so the next chapter will be a game kinda thingy. tell me a situation and i'll make the arguements depending on who i think should win and stuff. Tell me if you like the idea if more people dont like this idea then just tell me and I'll use a differant idea that i had. (BTW, my friend lost my PJO book 3 but i remember most of the parts there but since annabeth was captured most of the time in that book not alot of arguements there)
JaNz
