Wait. Let me check- Nope I'm still not Rick Riordan.
Oh and I sort of changed the middle part.
Breakfast was quiet. No one really ate or spoke apart from the Ares table and everyone else was shooting them dirty looks. Except Annabeth. Clarisse's nose was off shape and when people made a point of saying so, Clarisse would just shout that she'd make their nose off shape in a minute and it usually shut them up. Annabeth, so far, hadn't seen Silena or Percy. Neither of them all morning.
Silena seemed okay to talk yesterday. She liked to take her mind off Charlie. As Annabeth told her, Silena gave little smiles and often muttered words like "aw" or "cute".
Annabeth tried not to make it sound melodramatic but the way Silena was looking, she probably thought it was some tragic love story.
When she finished, Silena knew pretty much exactly what to do even if Annabeth wasn't too happy about it.
"Annabeth, the next time you see him, run up and kiss him! Make it passionate! A moment to last forever! You've kissed him before didn't you? When he saved your life! No wonder my mom was so.., anyway."
"Your mom was so what?"
"Oh it's nothing, so what did he say earlier?"
"Why'd you punch her?.Or Rachel's been having these dreams.
She's just a mortal for Zeus' sake!"
Before they could get any deeper in conversation, Malcolm came in to tell her that lights were going out in her cabin. She thanked Silena and sensed that her brother might like to leave quickly because both Melanie and Jess were eyeing him up and speaking in squeaky voices.
"Hi Malcolm!"
They started walking towards their cabin when Malcolm asked a question.
"Why have you been talking to Silena so much?"
"What. Oh no, I'm... tutoring her."
"You're tutoring her? In what?"
"In.... everything. She's very interested in the history of ..Greece.
"Oh, I thought my little sister was turning into one of the barbies." he gave a little smile . She gave him a playful punch on the shoulder and walked on.
Even Juniper didn't know where he was. She'd missed lunch to go looking for her. Juniper was crying in the creek. About Grover.
" He's gone off with some other tree or a shrub or a flower!"
"Juniper, if you think Grover's gone off with another girl, you're nuts."
"He liked nuts too."
Annabeth had to struggle between saying the right thing and straying away from talking about Grover.
In the end, Juniper told her that she'd seen them walking off and talking to a little girl playing with fire.
After a while she got through to Nico.
"Nico!"
"Oh hi are you?"
"Where are you and Percy? Chiron's freaking out!"
"Eh, I don't know where Percy is. Maybe he went home."
"You're a horrendous liar, Nico."
"Eh, let him tell you himself." There was a struggle for the phone so Annabeth decided to shout into the phone.
"PERSEUS JACKSON, IF YOU DON'T ANSWER THIS PHONE RIGHT NOW, I'LL ..."
"JEEZZ, Annabeth! Deafen me why don't you!"
"Where the hell are you!"
"I'm with Nico."
"I said where!
"Eh, New York. You need to meet me here. Bring everyone. We have to hold Manhattan. We need everyone."
She was furious but found herself asking.
"When."
"As soon as possible. At the Empire State."
"Fine. But could you not have given us a bit of warning?!"
"If I answer that, you're just going to come up with smart reasons both ways why it was a bad idea. I know you."
Despite it all, she found herself smiling.
"When I get hold of you, Percy, You'd better already be dead, for your sake."
She heard him give a laugh.
"I hope so. Knowing you, my death will probably involve a dictionary or a thesaurus. It'll depend on your mood."
"If I'm still in the mood I'm in now, try involving the Library of frickin' Congress!"
"You'd probably care more about damaging the books, though."
"Who said anything about books. I meant the building!"
"How could I know that?"
"Yeah, you are a seaweed brain. I should probably cut you some slack."
"Should. But you won't"
"Damn right."
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