Chapter 3
A Funny Prank, Almost
Percy's POV
I am sleeping right now. Annabeth and I had a fun night. We had a pillow fight and tried to build a tower until I destroyed it. The dream I am having right now is awesome.
I am in the ocean just kind of gliding. The fish were swimming around me having fun. I watched as a hippocampus did loop-de-loops in the water. It started swimming towards me.
"Hi." It said.
I waved at it then--
Great, I am woken up by a loud, obnoxious, and on top of it all, a plain old dream ruiner. An alarm clock. I swung my feet over the bed, slowly walked to the bathroom and took a quick shower then got changed into school clothes.
I picked up my phone, which was the alarm, and looked at the time. Perfect. It was 8:00. Since school starts at eight thirty, I called Amelia, who gave me her number.
"Hello?" She said. "Hey, can you come pick me up?"
"Sure. I will be there in ten minutes."
"Alright." And with that, I hung up, said bye to my mom, and walked out the door. I sat down on the hard concrete then stood back up and walked back and forth from one place to another. Then I called Annabeth.
"Hey, Percy." She said.
"Hey. So how are you getting to school?" I asked, the thought just now dawning on me.
"Oh don't worry. You will see at school."
"Ok bye."
"Bye Seaweed Brain." And before I could open my mouth, she hung up. For a few minutes, I tried to think of what she meant but couldn't come up with a reasonable idea. I saw Amelia's car turning the curb and I walked towards it. She slowed down to a stop and I got into the car. With a careful look at the road, she took off.
Nixi's POV
I had got a new car. It was Carribean blue and it didn't have that new car smell. Instead, I put in a car freshener so that it smelt like the sea. And I also had a symbol on the sides of my car. If you haven't already figured it out, I have a trident on the sides.
Awesome.
I had Annabeth riding along with me. You see, I had a prank idea that I already told Amelia, which is why she has Percy and I have Annabeth. The prank does involve water but you just have to see what will happen.
"So what is the prank?" Annabeth asked.
"It's kind of funny. We all know that Percy can get wet if he didn't expect to get wet. So well--" I began going off about the prank. And it was one that is such an old trick that it was simple. Once I finished, she was laughing, hard.
"That just might work." She said.
Once we made it to school and I parked, we met Amelia and Percy at the steps of the school. It was Wednesday, at Goode high school, and I'm already feeling ok. It was awesome actually. Well, here we go.
We stepped inside and walked to our classes. Everything happened the same for all of the core knowledge classes. When swimming class came, it was Freeplay. Percy and I fooled around, splashing, tagging, playing Marco Polo. Then the free time came. As we, Amelia, Percy, Annabeth, and I, walked to a bench outside the school to sit at, we all, except Percy, started laughing about the prank Percy knew nothing about.
"What?" He said, putting on such a hilarious face that I would take a picture of it. His face only made us laugh harder.
"What!" He said louder then we laughed harder.
Through laughs, I managed to say "No-nothing p-p-Percy!" And we laughed till we nearly fell off the bench. I looked at Percy who was glaring at me and I slapped my hand on my face and held my head there. Amelia and Annabeth looked at me with smiles on their faces then we started laughing again until the bell rang.
I got up and said, "Well come on Annabeth, it's time to prepare Percy's surprise." She nodded nearly laughing again as we headed towards my car, Amelia, who was behind us, was heading for hers with Percy. We got into our cars and I drove off. Amelia was going to take the long way to buy us time. We couldn't wait.
After we got to my house, Annabeth and I ran up to my door, I unlocked it, she headed for a closet that had a bucket, I got the sink running then as she filled it, I got a ladder. Once she filled it up, we placed it so that the door was a little open but you had to open it more so you could get in.
The doorbell rang and my mom opened the door. Amelia ran upstairs but my mom held Percy back because she was talking to him. She knew about the prank so she wanted to slow him down. We moved the bucket so Amelia could get in. Then I walked out and called Percy as they put it back. He ran up the stairs and I motioned towards the door indicating for him to go in. I was already laughing.
"What." He said.
"Nothing. Just go in" I said, still laughing. Then it happened. He pushed the door, the water started to fall on Percy but he pushed it back just on time. Then all you could hear was a scream. That as me.
"Aah! He pushed the water on me!" Percy looked like he was ready to laugh and Amelia and Annabeth looked at me in awe. Then I got a little angry. Little being an understatement. "GAAH!" I shouted. Then I jumped Percy covering him in water as Amelia and Annabeth busted out laughing.
"Okay, okay, I surrender!!" Percy shouted. Then I got up and gave him a devilish smile.
"Ok fine!" I said. "But get us both dry." And like I asked, he dried us both. Then I tackled my friends for still laughing while Percy laughed at them. We had a good day.