Leo walked through the corridors excitedly, gesturing for his friends-Percy, Frank, and Jason-to follow. He had finally persuaded them to take a break from their work to have a snack.
"C'mon, guys, is a little chocolate gonna hurt you?"
"If you have diabetes, yes," Frank pointed out.
"Then is a little diabetes gonna hurt you?"
He pushed open a door at the end of the hall to find a set of bathrooms, a sink, a table with a coffee maker, and his long lost darling-the vending machine.
Leo pulled out a quarter, made a big show of putting it into the slot, and pushed the buttons for a Twix bar. The coils slowly started to move out, pushing the Twix bar closer and closer to the little slot thingy where he would have to pick it up.
But it got stuck on the coils halfway to victory.
Leo frowned and tapped on the glass. Nothing happened. He moved to the side and attempted to shake the machine.
Nothing happened.
Percy tried to help him with shaking the machine, and soon, Jason and Frank did too.
They tried shaking it from all angles, tried throwing things at it, Jason even climbed on top of the vending machine, but the Twix bar remained stuck.
For the next ten minutes, they tried to get the Twix bar to budge, using every method possible.
Ten minutes later, they heard a voice outside the door.
"Honestly you guys, what is all the racket, I can hear you all the way from the other hall-"
Piper froze the moment she opened the door.
Jason was hovering in midair above the vending machine, Frank had turned into a bull and was charging into the side of the machine, Percy was dousing the machine in water from the sink, and Leo was trying to set the glass on fire.
They all froze when they saw Piper.
"Um, what are you doing?" She asked suspiciously.
"We're painting, um, duh," Leo said. "What does it look like we're doing?!"
"We're trying to get a Twix bar out of the vending machine," Jason said.
Piper walked up to the vending machine, where all four boys moved out of the way, and bumped her hip against the glass. The Twix bar fell.
Piper opened the slot and pulled it out, raising her eyebrows at the boys. Then she headed out the door.
All of the boys' jaws had dropped.
"Hey Annabeth!" They heard Piper call. "I got a snack for you. You like chocolate?"
"You bet I do," they heard Annabeth reply.
All four of them unfroze and charged for the door at the same time, protesting that the chocolate was theirs. But all of them got stuck in the doorway, trying to climb over each other but only managing to fall in a mass of limbs.
They spotted Annabeth and Piper at the other end of the hall. Hazel joined them, and they split the Twix bar into three. Then with a small wave, they headed back through the door.
A/N: I hope you liked reading that chapter, because I sure liked writing it! Review if you like chocolate or this fanfic. Thanks! Bie!