The Party That Became a Quest Chap 2
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Percy's POV
We arrived at the pool about 5 minutes later, since it was quite close to the school. Since the pool was close to Goode and our apartment, I had a membership here. Since I had a membership here, it meant I could rent up to 2 lockers at a time. I decided to tell my friends this, so they could plan. And by friends, I really meant Annabeth, since she was the main planner for our group.
I turned to my friends and said, "Hey Guys, this is the pool where I'll come sometimes to practice my swimming, so I have a membership. Since I have a membership I can rent up to two lockers at a time." I looked to Annabeth, "Any plans Wisegirl?"
"Ok, so what's going to happen is that we'll divide into two groups. Thalia, Katie, and I will have one locker to put all our stuff in, while Percy, Travis, Conner, and Nico will share a locker." She paused to look at me. "Percy will go to the front desk and request two lockers, one in the males' locker room, and one in the females'."
I nodded "Got it."
"Good. The rest of us will wait here. Once Percy gets back, we'll all go into the respective changing rooms, and get changed. Then we'll meet at the pool in 5 minutes. Any questions?"
Thalia snickered. "Leave it to Annie to have everything planned out."
Annabeth glared at Thalia, "Don't call me Annie! And Someone needs to do it."
Thalia shrugged, "Sure, Annieeeee"
"DON'T CALL ME ANN-"
I decided that this would be a good time to interject. "Soo. Does anyone have any other questions?" Travis raised his hand.
"Yes Travis?" Annabeth asked still glaring at Thalia who stuck her tongue out in return.
"Percy said that he has a membership here because he'll come here to practice right?"
"Yep. I come over here all the time to practice. Why?"
"Why do you come here to practice if you're the son of Po-"
Katie slapped a hand across Travis's mouth and looked around to see if anyone else had overheard our conversation. "You idiot!" She hissed "There are mortals around!"
Travis gulped. Even though Demeter is normally a pretty laid back person (unless you insult her cereal of course), when she got mad, you did not want to be in her way. I guess that applies to her children as well. "Oops… Sorry Katie Kat" He said sheepishly "I guess I forgot." Katie rolled her eyes.
"Well, to answer your question, I guess I don't necessarily come here to practice, but more to just swim for fun." Travis nodded
Annabeth cleared her throat. "Ok. Percy, why don't you go to the front desk and require two lockers while the rest of us wait here?"
I nodded, "I'll be right back."
I headed over to the counter where the lady at the front desk was typing away. "Um, Hi. Can I have two lockers?" I asked.
The lady at the counter was this little old lady with these big glasses. "I'll need to see your membership card for that, or you'll have to pay 1.50 an hour you rent the lockers." I fished out my card out of my shorts and handed it to her. "Is this some kind of joke you young people are playing? THIS." She waved in front of my face, "Is a credit card. Not a membership card."
I took the card from the lady, and grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of my neck, a bad habit of mine when I'm nervous, "Sorry," I put my credit card back in my pocket, and took out my membership card and handed it to her. "Here you go,"
She took the membership card from me and carefully checked it over, which was a bit insulting because it implied that she thought I couldn't tell a membership card from a different card, AFTER I just made the mistake. She looked at the picture and looked at me, "You're sure this is you?" The picture definitely was of me, but I guess I couldn't blame her for asking. The day before the photo was taken, the Stolls had pranked me and put green dye in my shampoo, so when I took the photo I had had green hair.
I, once again, grinned sheepishly. "That's me. My friends at camp put dye in my shampoo, so when I used it, it turned my hair green." It had taken a while, but the dye had worn off, and my natural black hair was back. "See, the smile and the eyes are the same."
She looked at picture me. Then she looked at me. Then she looked at picture me. This seemed to go on forever, until she finally grunted and handed me two blue locker keys. " Um.. Excuse me, but these are two men's locker room locker, I'm going to need you to change one of these lockers into a girls' locker room locker."
She looked at me funny. "Are you one of those teenagers playing a prank on me. You can't go into the female's locker room. Now I know that all you young people these days are all talking about finding a" She put air quotes, "'Significant Other', but you can't find one in the girls' locker room-"
I blushed. "Wha- Oh, no. That's- That's not why I need a locker in the girl's locker room. I'm here with some friends, so I'll need a girls' locker room locker." I pointed to my friends, who, thankfully were still standing there. They were laughing at something so I made a mental note to ask one of them about it later. The lady just grunted and took one of the men's locker room locker keys and exchanged it with a female one. "Thanks." I told her before I walked to where my friends were standing without waiting to here what she said in reply.
Travis's POV
So Percy had just gone to go get the keys for the locker room. We were just standing there awkwardly as person after person walked by us. Then, I had this genius idea! "Guys. Guys! I have this genius idea!"
The others, not including Conner, looked at me warily. "Is it something that only you and Conner will find genius, or is it something that all of us will find genius?" Katie asked.
"I'm wounded that you would even ask that Katie Kat." She just rolled her eyes and smacked my shoulder lightly as I put a hand over my heart and acted hurt.
"Whatever Travis, just tell us the idea. And don't call me Katie Kat."
"Ok Katie Kat!" I grinned at her as she smacked my shoulder again while rolling her eyes. "So. Instead of just standing here doing nothing, why don't we play a game?"
"Hey, that's actually a good idea! What should we play? Would you rather?" Annabeth asked. Everyone agreed since we didn't really have any other ideas.
"I'll go first! Thalia, would you rather be kicked out of the hunt by Artemis (AN: Just imagine that being in the hunt is really important to Thalia.) or have to date…" I looked around. "Nico!"
Thalia glared at me as Nico seemed to turn a shade darker, not red, but angrier. Whoops. Now I've got two children of the Big 3 mad at me. "What type of question is that? I love being Artemis's Lieutenant! I don't want to be kicked out of the hunt! But I don't want to date Death Breathe over here, I mean, he's my cousin!"
"You've got to choose!" Conner sang in a sing-song voice
"Shut it Stoll." Thalia growled, and then she groaned. "Fine. I would probably choose to date Nico, since the Hunt is too important to me."
"But if you dated Nico, you would be kicked out of the hunt." Annabeth pointed out.
Thalia shrugged, "Whatever. It's not ever going to happen." Then she looked around. "Katie, would you rather date Travis or not be able to garden for the next month!" I glared at Thalia, even though I secretly wanted to know the answer, while Katie paled.
"Wha- What, what type of a question is that?" Katie asked
Thalia shrugged, "The same type of question that I was asked. Either give up something you love or date someone." Hm. She had a point.
"I guess I would choose to date Travis." She said blushing, and I think I was blushing as well.
Everyone laughed, "YES! Tratie happened! Clarisse owes me big time!" Conner said while laughing.
"Yep! So does Will! He owes me 5 Drachmas."
Katie gaped at them, and so did I. "What are you guys talking about? I love my gardening, I couldn't live without it!"
"Oh come on guys, admit it. You so totally like each other. Even I can tell and I'm a hunter of Artemis!" Everyone had suddenly gone quiet. Guess they were waiting for our answers.
There was this period of awkward silence. I coughed, "Um.. So, where's Percy?"
"Travis has a point, that Seaweed Brain is taking forever to get the locker keys! Do you think I should go check on him?" Annabeth playfully smirked at me, "Nice change of subject by the way Travis."
I said a very intelligent "Uh… Oh Look! There's Percy!" I said a bit too loudly. What can I say? I was relieved to have a reason to avoid their questions and statements. Though I did wonder, did Katie like me? I shook my head. No, I couldn't afford to think like that.
"Oh that Kelp Head is finally coming. That only took, forever." Thalia said sarcastically.
Percy POV
When I got to where they were standing I saw Annabeth and the others standing waiting. "Finally Kelp Head!" Thalia said in exasperation. "That took forever!" The others nodded in agreement.
"What took you so long Perc?" Conner asked me.
"Well there was this old lady at the counter. I asked for 2 lockers and she asked for my membership card. On accident I gave her my credit card, and she got kinda mad at me. I gave her the correct card, and then she took for ever to check it over and even asked me if it was the real me, since the day that I had the picture taken, my hair was still green from the dye. And then she gave me two male locker room locker keys, so I asked her for one male and one female locker room keys. Then she gave me this miniature lecture on not finding my," I did air quotes just like the lady had did "'Significant Other', but I finally got the keys." I said as I handed one key to Annabeth.
Annabeth just sighed, but there was a twinkle in her eyes as she said, "Leave it to you Seaweed brain to make something as simple as getting a locker such a funny and hilarious and long process."
I beamed at her, "But I'm your seaweed brain." I said as I pecked her on the cheek.
"Like I said, cut out the PDA guys!" Thalia said.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Whatever Thals. Anyways, Let's go get changed in the locker rooms, and meet out at the pool in 5 minutes."
We all nodded and headed to the locker rooms, with Annabeth leading the girls, and me leading the boys.
(AN: is just a bonus section that I thought would be fun to put in, and it explains why she treat Percy the way she did XD)
Mrs. Hadrian POV
Working at a pool is not a very fun job. I don't really know why I signed up for it. I guess it was because after my husband died I needed something to do during my retirement. Oh, why couldn't I have picked a job with less no good rotten teenagers? (AN: Please don't be offended, there's nothing wrong with teens, I just needed her to hate teens for this story)Those teenagers I tell you! They're going to be the death of me! Just like this kid I just helped early. I swear he was messing with me.
I was just on my laptop typing out an essay on why teenagers should be better constrained, and this teenager with black hair and green eyes asks me for two lockers and gives me a credit card. Now I know that I may look old, but I am not too old that I can't read! I don't know who that dang teen was fooling. After he was done fooling around he finally gave me his real membership. Why his parents let him even get a membership is beyond me, personally, I don't think teenagers can be trusted. But anyways, he gives me his membership, I thought he was finally done with that foolishness all teenagers have. But no. The person on the card had green hair. This is another reason why you can't trust teenagers. Those miniature adults will just go and do stupid things like dying their hair bizarre colors. (AN: Once again, please don't be offended, there's nothing wrong with dying your hair) He even had the nerve to make an excuse of why he dyed his hair! Those teens, always lying to get their way out of things.
Now I was ready to give that teen some reasons why he shouldn't lie and give him a lecture, but I still needed to get my essay done. So I just gave him two keys for the men's locker room. And of course, that dirty rotten teen decides to play YET another prank on me. Apparently it's make fun of the seniors day for him, and probably for all of the teenagers, since I know how all those rotten miniature adults act! He asked for a girls' locker room locker key. And I could only think of one reason why he would want to get a locker in the girls' locker room. He wanted to go find his 'significant other'. Bah! All those young people and their couple junk! It's all junk I tell you. All those lovesick teenagers disgust me. So I, right there and then, told him off. And of course, being that 'teenager' decided to make yet another excuse. Of course, he used that 'my friends are here' excuse. What a bunch of baloney! I would have called security on him, but I had three reasons why I couldn't do that.
The first reason was that I still needed to get my essay finished. The second reason was because I would have to fill out so much paperwork, and then I wouldn't be able to finish my beloved essay. The third reason was because security had already told me to stop calling them every time a teenager asked me for help. Oh, don't even get me started on those security guys! They just don't understand how bad teenagers are. Those nasty teenagers have them under their spell that makes them think that they are so 'innocent.' Please. The word "Teenager' and 'Innocent" can't even go in the same sentence!
Well, I have an essay to write. I hope you people learned how bad teenagers really are, and have been awake from the spell that has been covering you from the truth.
And that's it for today guys! Also, don't take whatever Mrs. Hadrian said to heart, because teenagers are just the same as everyone else, which is amazing. Also, if you're wondering who the mysterious demigod and her friends are going to be, she'll be mentioned in the next story, so make sure to catch the next update for The Party That Became A Quest, which you can do by following this story. (wink, wink) And of course, all constructive criticism is welcomed, but no flames please! Don't forget, the review button loves you!
