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Anyway, this is the last chapter of Chad. :( Enjoy it anyway, and don't forget to read the very important announcement at the bottom!
~ThreeOlympianGoddesses
"He is the stupidest guy on the planet!" Annabeth vented, through Video-Chat. "He hasn't been back for two days. Sally doesn't even know where he is!"
Alex and Allie stared back on the screen.
"As much as this is completely tragic," Allie noted, stifling a giggle, "It's hilarious! I can't believe Percy thought that Chad was a dude! That is so off from what Chad really is, a country in Africa!"
"Yeah, it was hilarious at first, Allie!" Annabeth said, annoyed. "But now what? He thinks it's REAL!"
"Just call him and tell him the truth!" Alex advised.
"I've tried calling, texting, emailing, chatting, EVERYTHING!" Annabeth snapped. "Here's my point. Percy is missing. This went from a bad joke to a serious issue!"
"Call one of his friends," Allie suggested, running a comb through her long dark hair.
"I called his friend Grover, but he said that Percy wasn't there!" Annabeth sighed, exasperated. "This is NOT COOL!"
"Okay, A-beth. Just chill for a day or two, and I'm sure things will be fine!" Alex said.
"Maybe that's how you deal with things, but not me," Annabeth snapped, not meaning to sound so harsh. She took a deep breath. "Sorry. I'm just super stressed."
"Okay, you need to watch a movie or something," Allie told her. "Log off this video-chat and do something."
Annabeth nodded. "You're right, Allie." She pressed the END CHAT button. Annabeth walked into the living room and popped a movie into the DVD player, not even caring which one it was. She pulled her legs up on the couch and waited for the title of the movie to show up. It was You Again. She smiled. This was one of her favorites. Then she frowned, remembering that she had watched this with Percy. Gods, where is he? she thought.
Then, Annabeth sat up quickly. "Why didn't I think of this before!" she muttered. "Ηλίθιο, ανόητο, ηλίθιο!" She ran to the bathroom and turned on the hot water. There was a nice skylight coming from above and it created a pretty rainbow colored mist. She dashed out of the bathroom and into her own bedroom and roughly opened a drawer. Inside were three drachmas. She grabbed one and rushed into the bathroom once more.
Annabeth P.O.V.
"Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, accept my offering," I said out loud, throwing the drachma into the mist. It disappeared. "Percy Jackson." A shimmering image of Percy appeared. It looked like he was in a car. Mittens was clutched tightly in his left hand, and a spoon was in his right. Balancing on his knees was a half-gallon of what looked to be chocolate ice-cream.
"Percy!" I shouted. He looked over at me, startled, and the ice-cream he was about to eat missed his mouth and hit his cheek.
"Annabeth!" he said, using the back of his hand to wipe off the sticky goodness. "What do you want?"
"Where are you?" I asked.
"Uh, somewhere," was his lame response. I tried to look out his window but the image was too fuzzy.
"Percy, I have to tell you something," I said.
"Uh, kinda busy here!" he replied, gesturing to the food.
"Too bad!"
"What do you want, Annabeth?" he asked, annoyed. He ran his fingers through his jet black hair. I could tell he was annoyed.
"Percy, Chad doesn't exist!" I blurted, then mulled over my words for a moment. "What I mean is, Chad exists, but not like you think! He's a-"
"Hot and entertaining guy? Yeah, I know. I looked through your e-mails," he told me, giving me a cold stare. Percy turned the keys and started up the ignition. "WHOA!" he shouted, as he swerved on the road. There were some honking drivers and some "choice words" that they shouted at poor Percy.
"No, he's a- Wait, you looked through my e-mails?" I shouted at him, suddenly angry. "Why?"
"Um, no?" Percy replied, absentmindedly, while following directions on his map. He didn't believe in a GPS, after one experience where it had led him into a forest instead of Wells Fargo.
"You just said you did! Ooohh, I'm gonna get you..." I remembered the reason why I Iris messaged him in the first place. "That's not the point. The point is, Chad's a country, Percy! A place! Not a person!" Percy slammed on his brakes.
"What?" he yelled.
"Percy, you're gonna get in an accident!" I managed to scream right before a car nearly collided with his.
Percy cursed in Greek. He placed his foot on the accelerator and the car zoomed forward.
"Just pull over!" I advised. He took the next exit and stopped the car in a nearby McDonald's.
"Chad's a COUNTRY!"
"Yes! Chad is a country in Africa! Alex got a project to design a school over there, and she wanted to take Allie and I with her. We've all wanted to go there since grad-school," I told him, glad he was finally getting it. "Chad is hot, because of the 100-degree weather. It's also entertaining because there's lots of things to see there."
"Oh." He sat back in his seat. "I feel stupid now."
I laughed. "You should."
He looked slightly offended, but he was sheepishly smiling. "So...Are we cool?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think so. But I still have to get back at you for reading my e-mails." I smiled.
"On second thought, maybe I shouldn't come back." But he smiled too. His image started fading.
"I'll see you at home, Seaweed Brain," I told him.
"See you." And with one last lopsided grin, Percy swiped a hand through the message.
Percy POV
Gods, how much stupidity can one guy hold? As I have just realized, a LOT! I mean, how was I supposed to know that Chad was a country? I've never been any good at geography!
I pulled out of the McDonald's parking lot and turned on the radio. The song was Teenage Dream, Warblers version. Wow. MORE Blaine Anderson...
Nevertheless, I sang along, even dancing a bit in my seat. Some drivers passing by him gave me weird looks, most of them being bus drivers, but it's not like I cared.
"I'MMA GET YOUR HEART RACING! IN MY SKIN-TIGHT JEANS! BE YOUR TEENAGE DREAM TONIGHT!" I belted out. And then, I heard an echo. Not just any echo, my echo. It was my voice, bouncing off the walls of the tunnel I was driving through. Wait, what? How was that possible? Weird.
I leaned against the window, only to have my head rest on the open air where the window should've been. That was only when I realized that my window was rolled down. Whoops.
"I didn't mean to scare any kids!" I shouted out, right before pressing the button that rolled my window back up.
Fifty minutes of terribly off-tune Glee songs later, I arrived at the apartment. Still singing Silly Love Songs to myself, I let himself into my home, to find Annabeth sitting on the couch, watching some movie. I sat next to her, and let a few awkward seconds passed before she said something.
"I'm still mad at you."
I sighed, and put my arms around her. "I'm sorry. I'm a stupid Seaweed Brain who doesn't know his proper geography." I paused. "Oh, and you can have the cat back." I held out Mittens. She had a chocolate stain on the top of one of her ears, but otherwise she looked alright.
Annabeth looked at me, trying not to laugh. "Well, I do like that cat..."
We laughed together.
"Funny, you're the only girl in the world that can put up with my stupidity," I laughed, smiling down at her and setting Mittens down on the coffee table.
"Only if you put up with my micro-managing," Annabeth teased. She stared at me for a full two seconds. "I was worried about you."
"Worried? I just decided to take a road trip. I stayed at the Hilton for two nights," I laughed. "New York City's the best!" Annabeth crossed her arms over her chest and glared at me for a moment, but then she smiled.
"Glad to have you back," she told me, resting on my shoulder.
I kissed the top of her blond head. Annabeth smiled up at me, and I somehow knew that I was going to spend the rest of my life with this girl. Okay, that was slightly cheesy, like something you'd hear in the Bachelor, but I didn't mind.
Annabeth got up suddenly, and she slapped my thigh in the process.
"Ow! What?" I asked her. She grabbed my hand, pulling me up off the couch.
"Now that you're here, you can help me with my bags. They're too heavy to carry to the front door." She smirked, crossing her arms over her chest.
I groaned. The Chad lives on.
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