Chapter 3.

Percy's POV.

At seven, I knock on cabin 6. Annabeth opens the door. She's wearing white jeans with a grey tank top and a necklace. Her hair is loose but it looks different, she has let it fall across her face. She's wearing coral lipstick too, and Annabeth rarely wears any makeup. "Wow." I sigh. She smiles

"Not bad yourself, Mister Jackson." She takes my hand. "I'm hungry. Should we eat first?"

"Thank the gods you said that because I'm starving. Where do you want to eat?"

We get into my car which I cleaned this morning and put up a sea mineral scented car freshener. "How about Italian?" She asks.

"You mean pizza?" I grin.

"Pizza." She laughs. "Absolutely."

Annabeth checks the times of the movies on her tablet while I drive. Demi gods can't use mobile phones but the internet and telephones are safe. "I need to go to a supermarket tonight but we can do that after the meal." She announces.

"Yeah, and I need to go to subway before we come back." I tell her.

"Why, did Nico tell you that he'd give you four if you got him one?" She giggles

"Actually, I got a five all by myself. But because I'm such a good cousin, I said I'd get him one."

"Well, good job because I would hate to be caught sneaking out tonight"

"Nah, we wouldn't get caught. We'd be like ninjas." I joke.

"Course we would. Hey, do you want to see the Avengers?"

"Is that because Spiderman isn't in it?" I say and Annabeth laughs.

"What about the emoji movie?" She gasps between laughs.

"I think I would rather bathe in the river Styx again."

"Oh, The Kingsmen, the golden circle. Begins in an hour and a half."

"Sounds good." I agree. "Book the tickets and try to get us seats at the back"

"Done." She says after a minute.

"Here we are." I stop the car outside a nice Italian restaurant which is only half full. I open Annabeth's door and take her hand.

Inside, it is quiet and we are immediately taken to a table. There is a candle between us and I look at the menu. "Are you pretending to think about what you're going to order?" Annabeth asks.

"I'm looking at the drinks. Shall I get a diet coke, a coke zero or a regular."

"I'm getting a vanilla milkshake." She says, placing the menu down.

"Yeah, I don't even know why I'm looking at this." I put it down. The waitress takes our orders. And after she leaves, I get the box out "Happy birthday," I say, holding out the present.

"It's not another dictionary, is it?" Alright ok, so I got Annabeth more than one dictionary for her. Three Christmases ago I got her an electronic dictionary book mark in grey. She liked it more, but it still wasn't great. "Open it." I urge her.

She unwraps it neatly and opens the box. "Oh Percy, it's beautiful." She gasps, holding the chain in her palm. She takes off her other necklace and I brush her hair out of the way and I help her put the new one on. It really suits her. "It's not as beautiful as the girl wearing it." I flirt.

She leans across the table and reaches up to kiss my cheek. I smile as she does so.

When our pizza comes, I let Annabeth take the biggest piece. It tastes much better than the one I had in Rome. We take our time eating it and by the time I've paid, we still have forty five minutes before the movie starts. So, we go bowling.

The bowling centre has disco lights and music playing and is almost full, most of the people in here are teenagers. We set the game up and put our bowling shoes on. "Are you putting the grate up or not?" I ask

"I'm not that bad seaweed brain." She rolls her eyes.

"Alright wise girl. Let's do this."

Annabeth scores a strike on the first go and I get a spare, with nine pins down on the first part. On her second go, she gets eight down, but the two pins left are at opposite sides. Impossible to get them both down. "Ha." I laugh. "While you figure out how to do that, I'll go and get us some drinks." I say as I go up to the counter.

I turn to see some boy my age pushing himself against Annabeth. I don't know why she hasn't broken his arm yet. She moves away and he grabs her arm and I almost get ready to help her beat the living shit out of him. In a split second, she flips him over her shoulder so that he slaps onto the floor and one of his friends makes his way towards her. I drop the drinks onto the counter and make my way to stop him going any further. Annabeth turns to face him and goes to grab his shoulders but before she touches him, he goes flying back.

Annabeth threw him back using telekenesis.

Everyone turns to look at her. We make eye contact and we both bolt towards the door, but are stopped by three security guards. We can't make a scene in front of mortals, when I was twelve that only ended well because I used Ares as a scapegoat and the mortals had no real idea what was going on. Now, however, they do. They understand that humans are developing legacies and there was no mist to cover up what Annabeth just did.

So basically, we're fucked.

Just like usual.