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CHAPTER 3
(Annabeths POV)
"Luke?" I ask in suprise.
"Hey there, Annie." Luke grins, and stands to hug me. I hug back.
"Where have you been?" I ask.
"I was touring with Kronos, but..." Luke rubs the back of his neck and starts again. "but, I found out he was selling drugs." He finishes.
"Oh my gosh," I exhale. "I'm glad your okay."
"And I so glad I ran into you here." Luke says.
"I'm glad to." I smile, and sit back down at my table.
For the next few hours we talked and caught up on each others lives.
"Well, it was great to see you again, but I really half to go." I insist.
"Alright, well call me sometime and we can do this again."
"Bye Luke." I ignore his last comment, and wave as we part ways.
I start to walk to my car. I'm about half way there when I get hit by someone.
"What-" I fall to the ground, the other person on top of me.
"I am so so sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going!" The jogger try's to explain.
"Its fine." I look up to see the person that hit me and who I saw made my heart melt.
The one and only Percy Jackson.
we just stare at each other.
"Percy," I breath out the air I had been holding.
"Annabeth." Percy's voice comes out smooth and soft and- Stop it Annabeth! He KISSED Rachel! A part of my mind told me.
But the other part of my mind said she KISSED him!
"Annabeth?" Percy waves his hand in front of my face.
He's such a Seaweed Brain, I think.
"What?" I say not in the nicest tone.
"Um... You were staring at me..."
"Oh," I blush "sorry."
"Thats ok." He offers his had down to me. I grab it and let go immediately, it was soft and warm compared to mine.
"Thanks," I say. After a while he speaks up.
"so how have you been?"
"uh, what?"
"How are you?"
"oh, I'm good, how bout you?"
"I'm fine... Well, I should go... Uh yeah... Bye." I turn around and run to my car. Once i'm inside I call Thalia. Finally she picks up after six rings.
"Sup Annie,"
"don't call me that."
"Sure, whats up?"
"Well I ran into him. . ." I say. Hoping she will know who it is.
"What!? Why didn't you tell me!"
"It just happened."
"Oh, so how did it go?"
"Well, uh. . ."
"Just spit it out, for heaven's sake!"
"Fine, fine, I was walking away from Starbucks, when he ran into me from nowhere, and sorta, kinda, fell on top of me. . ."
"he's such a perv." Thalia says. My face heats up.
"We'll, what do you want me to say?" She continues.
"Oh, he's so cute! And I can't stand to be away from him? Because I can tell him you said that. . ."
"Gosh no, Thalia!" I almost shout throught the phone.
"we'll, come over and we can do something fun."
"But I was goin to read a book." I pout.
"You call reading a book fun? girl you got problems." I laugh at Thalia.
"Alright I'll be at your house in twenty minutes. See you then. An no suprises!"
"what, me, suprises?"
"yes, you Thalia Grace!"
"Yeah, yeah, see you then." With that she hangs up.
I pull up to Thalia's house and ring the door bell.
"Come in!" she yells at the top of her lungs, over her loud music.
I walk through the door to see her on a ladder painting the wall.
"So that's what your doing." I say.
"yup," she smiles.
"I cant believe Christmas is in a week..." I say not even believing what just came out of my mouth.
"No kidding," Thalia comments.
"Well, what do you want to do?" I ask impatiently. It's hard for me to be still for long time span's sense I'm ADHD and Dyslexic.
"You're the guest. . ." She says.
"ok, how about we go to a coffee shop and study for a while?"
"Do we really half to study," Thalia complains.
"Well, you said that I was the guest. So thats what we're going to do."
"fine," she grumbles.
After we're at the coffee shop I slide into a booth and pull out my computer, and open Pages. (For any won that doesn't know what Pages is, it's just like word doc.)
As I do so, Thalia grumbles about some stupid game on her I-Phone.
I double click on a document thats blank and start to type. after about two hours I hear Thalia grumbling again. And this time I look up just in time to see her slam her phone down on the table.
"What happened?" I ask while rubbing my temples.
"it died. . ." She moans, " and now I have nothing to do while you write you're-whatever you're writing."
"Well it looks like you're in luck, because my brain is fried right now, and I'm dying to eat something. . . Other than coffee shop food."
"Good. Then lets get out of here!" Thalia exclaims, as she stands up and stretches.
"Yeah, yeah, common lets go." I say as I pack my computer in my bag and walk out the door.
"Hey Annie, can we go Christmas shopping?"
"Why do you want to go Christmas shopping?"
"Uh, because Christmas is coming up!"
"Sure, as long as I can stay in the car, and read."
"Your impossible." Thalia complains.
(Skip to one hour before the Masquerade Ball P.S. sorry for all the time skips, its just that the story really picks up after the ball)
Thalia called me and told me that we were going to get ready at her father Zeus's house, and then drive over to the party from there. So I gather all of my things that I will need and rush out the door.
Once I'm at her dads mansion, I walk up to the sixth floor of the house. And then I go into the attic. You would think the attic would be old and filled with trophies and all that junk. But it was actually a whole apartment that she had for her own parties.
"Hey I'm here!" I yell at the top of the attic steps.
"Come into the bedroom!" Thalia yells back.
"I'm right here," I say as I put down my stuff.
"Good, because I want you to sit down so Piper can do your makeup."
"Pipers here?" I ask trying to avoid doing makeup for as long as I can.
"Yes I'm here, now sit still." She says.
After the makeup is done, I look at myself.
All she did to my face was, putting on navy blue and silver eye shadow, mascara, and a touch of lipgloss.
I try to touch my face, but Piper slaps it away.
"don't touch it, or else it will smudge."
"Fine."
"Now it's time for you to get dressed."
"Yeah, I'm on it." I stand up and go into the bathroom. I open the bag thats carrying my dress and unzip the side zipper. I start to slide it on as Thalia comes in.
"Gosh Thalia, give me a warning that your going to do that!" I say covering up my chest.
"Oh, please, you'll survive." she says as she helps me with the dress. Then she hands me a mask.
"Put it on." she demands.
" Ok. And why do I have to wear a mask? I thought you said it was going to be a family Party." I huff as I grab the silver mask and put it on.
"Because it's a Masquerade." I had to admit the mask was really nice.
"Sure. . ." I say as I walk out if the bathroom. I see Piper standing in front of me smiling.
"What?" I ask.
"Nothing, you just look smoking hot, thats all." I blush at Piper's comment.
"Well you don't look to bad your self." I say as I take in Her dress. It was White Silk Taffeta, and strapless. And it accentuated her waste perfectly.
"How did you ever get me to buy a dress?" Thalia asks as she comes out of the bathroom. I spin around to see her wearing a black dress that comes just above her knee cap.
"I have no idea," I say smiling.
"well we better be on our way, its 5:45 and it starts at 6:00." Piper says grabbing her handbag, and her mask. I do the same and walk down the steps carefully. Once were outside, Thalia gets inside the limo that was waiting for us.
"Wow," I breath in.
"How did you get this?" Piper asks.
"You should know, your family's rich." Thalia says. "let's get a move on Fred." she tells the driver, as she pours champagne into three flutes.
I smile at my idiotic friend. And except the flute she handed me.
Once we arrive at the Aviary, where Zeus was holding the Masquerade ball, I step out of the white limo and breath in the winter air.
"Ready?" Piper asks.
"As I'll ever be," I reply, helping a clumsy Thalia out of the limo.
Right before we walk through the door Thalia turns to Piper and I and says,
"Why did I even convince you to come with me." she says pointedly at me.
"Because, you said "I'm going to die if I don't have a friend come with me." And I came because I had nothing better to do." I explain.
"Yeah, well lets get this over with." Thalia sighs.
"Wait!" Piper yells.
"What?" I ask massaging my ear.
"We don't have our masks on."
"Right," I say as I pull my mask out of my clutch and tie it on underneath my complex bun Piper did.
"Now lets go." Piper smiles at Thalia's boldness, and follows behind her as she goes through the door.
"Wow," I breath in. As we walk through the door.