"There's a meeting for the counselors in about ten minutes, you be ok?" Annabeth asked as she pulled a jumper over her head. We were in our cabin and I was casually sprawled on the couch flipping through a book about the world war. I nodded absentmindedly as I turned the page. The World War never really interested me, my interest always went to the Second World War, I enjoyed reading about Hitler's crazy beliefs. I actually have a copy of 'Mein Kemf' under my bed, the book that Hitler wrote when he was in house arrest. But the World war book was the first one closest to me when I laid down on the bed, so I took it, as I really didn't care what I was reading.
"Always have been, always will be." I said with a yawn, she snorted at this and threw a pillow at me, showing how much she believed me, I caught it with my free hand and poked my tongue out at her placing the pillow behind my head. She rolled her eyes at me as she checked herself out in the mirror, making sure her hair is correct. "You look amazing, don't worry, and anyway, who are you trying to impress? Percy? Please, he's seen you with twigs in your hair and maybe even a bird nesting in there but yet he's still stuck with you so why bother with all that...formalities? Reminding me of a daughter Aphrodite." I snorted at her, she made a face at me.
"Oh shut up, Evan. Doesn't hurt to look nice once in a while, and anyway, if I went to the meeting a mess I think Piper would be dragging me to her cabin, despite not being into that stuff herself." She said with a slight shrug and I nodded at this, knowing this was true but I could feel the slight jab in her words, I knew why, I didn't spend half as long on my appearance as most people, sometimes I didn't even brush my hair, but I honestly didn't need to most of the time. I really didn't like spending my time on my hair anyway, it seemed to...wasteful, sure maybe a brush to get the tangles out but the styling? The gel? Hairspray? No thanks.
"True but I, personally, look good without even trying, so I can't really relate." I said with a smirk and she shot a glare at me but I grinned back at her, not affected by the look, which can put most people into silence, especially Percy, amazing how much she has that kid eating out of the palm of her hand. Kind of sickening, actually, Percy could do so much but yet Annabeth can get him to do whatever she wants and he'll do it without a complaint.
"Oh go take your arrogance somewhere where someone cares." She snorted just before Percy walked in, his black hair falling just over his sea green eyes and by the time he saw Annabeth there was a full blown grin on his face, he walked straight up to her, not acknowledging my presence and pressed his lips against hers. I rolled my eyes and made a gagging sound at them. "I think...my eyes...they're burning...oh my gods, help me..." I moaned covering my eyes as if in pain and both of them scowled at me but Annabeth was lightly blushing at my playfulness at the public display of affection but Percy's eyes showed a slight sliver at anger at the playing.
"Grow up, Evan." Percy snapped but Annabeth whacked him over the head and I beamed back at Percy not deterred by his words and Percy mumbled something whilst staring at the ground.
"Get a room, Percy." I replied cheerfully and both of them blushed a full blown red, redder than a tomato and I smirked at their reactions, Annabeth recovered first and gently Percy to the door mouthing '5 seconds.' and he silently nodded before walking out of the room but not without a look in my way which I smiled back in response.
We were silent for a minute whilst I continued reading, Annabeth was standing there pinching the bridge of her nose. She was annoyed, at me, maybe even Percy, well to be truthful, he was the one to start it, I was just joking around but no he had to snap at me. I flicked the page and she turned on me but I didn't meet eye contact, in fact I just stared at the words on the paper, but I wasn't reading them, they just blurred, to be honest.
"Have you ever tried... have you ever tried to get on with anyone here?" She said obviously trying to keep her voice level and not be snapping at me. I acted as if I was debating this with tilting my head slightly and biting my lip. I waited for a few minutes before saying my answer, just to reenforce the fact that I already had what I was going to say straight then and there.
"I tried with you." I finally said skipping another page, still not meeting her eye, and with that she opened her mouth before shutting it again as if she wasn't sure how to reply to that.
"I'm your sister, you didn't have a choice." she said after a while but she sounded more exasperated than anything. "But Percy's my boyfriend, couldn't you at least try, for me? It would take a lot of stress away right now, to be honest I don't care about the rest of the seven but Percy? You've known him for nearly five years, doesn't that mean something? He's saved our lives, he saved your life, so can't you be nice to him? At least?"
"I was! I was very nice to him, he was the one who snapped." I shot back at her and she stared at me with a look of despair on her face. I knew what she was thinking. I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about the past five years. But instead she just shook her head at me.
"I'll see you after I get back, Malcolm is in charge." She said before walking out, not even waiting for my reply as I was about to reply and she knew that I even had my mouth of open. I sighed, feeling slightly guilty now but oh well, too late now, right? She didn't want to talk to me, so I'll let her. She was in a rush anyway. I snapped the book shut and sat up rolling my neck before placing the book back onto the shelf. I looked around the empty cabin and grabbed my Ipod stabbing the ear buds into my ear making sure the volume was loud so it blasted into my ears blocking out anything and anyone that tried to interrupt me.