Chapter 3
Jay couldn't help but look over at Theresa every once in a while and smiling, she looked so beautiful and sometimes Jay couldn't believe how lucky he was that he had her as his girlfriend and in just a few short hours, God willing, Theresa would be his fiancé.
"Um Jay, are you planning on going through this green light, or would you like to wait for the next one?" Theresa asked looking at Jay and smirking, Jay looked at the light he had stopped at confused, it was green and the pedestrian countdown was at ten, "oops" Jay said slightly embarrassed as he pressed the gas with a little bit too much force, almost giving both him and Theresa whip flash.
"Uh Jay, are you OK?" Theresa asked once Jay slowed down the car a little bit, he was acting very out of character, and besides it was Theresa who had a secret that she needed to keep, at least for tonight, she couldn't let her friends know that she just found out she was a shape shifter a few hours ago, this evening wouldn't be ruined, especially since this was the first time in years that they would all, mostly all, be together again.
"Yeah." Jay said laughing, "Just excited I guess." Jay could feel Theresa staring at him, and was glad that she couldn't read his mind, since that would ruin the surprise.
"I'm excited too," Theresa said squeezing his hand, "but let's try to make it to the school alive." Theresa said laughing, and feeling quite pleased with herself when her laugh came out sounding sincere, since she was feeling sick inside, what would she do if these new shapeshifting powers decided to show themselves tonight? Had Neil or Herry told their wives about their powers? Or what they had done in high school? Theresa didn't want to have to risk Krista and Gisele running out of the prom tonight because Theresa had turned into a… actually she wasn't sure what she would change into, and that was even worse…
"How about you, are you OK?" Jay asked, bringing Theresa out of her daydream, they were at the school, and Jay had just parked, from the looks of it they were the first ones there.
"Yeah I'm good." Theresa said smiling at Jay, as she took out a mirror out of her purse to check her make-up.
"You look beautiful." Jay said turning Theresa's face gently, so that they were staring into each other's eyes "as beautiful as the day I first met you, in fact you're even more beautiful, and I'm so happy to call you mine." Jay said moving in closer until their lips met.
"You're so sweet, Jay." Theresa said smiling, she couldn't have asked for a better boyfriend then him, he always made her feel special, maybe hiding this secret from him wasn't the best idea…
"Jay," Theresa began, "I have something to tell you…" Theresa began.
"Me first." Jay said as he reached into his pocket, just as he felt the ring box and was about to pull it out, they were startled by a knock on the window, turning around Theresa screamed as she saw Atlanta standing there, and immediately opened the door, jumping into Atlanta's arms.
"Atlanta!" Theresa screamed!
"Theresa!" Atlanta screamed as they began jumping around, still screaming.
Sighing Jay got out of the car, and walked over to where Archie was standing, covering his ears, Jay laughed as he tapped Archie's shoulder.
"Jay!" Archie said as he extended his hand out, Jay took it and then they wrapped one arm each other awkwardly, in a man hug.
"How's it going?" Jay asked as he and Archie watched Theresa and Atlanta talking and laughing, they had finally finished hopping around like rabbits, so that was a start.
"Good." Archie said after a moment, "some things never change though, eh?" Archie said laughing as he thought back to when him and Atlanta's had gotten married, when Atlanta had asked Theresa to be her maid of honor, they had begun hopping around exactly the same way.
"Nope." Jay said touching his pocket making sure the ring box was still there, smiling when he felt it.
"Jay, are you OK?" Atlanta asked as she Theresa walked back over to the guys.
"He's been acting a little bit off for the past fifteen minutes," Theresa said "he was fine when he came to pick me up, and then on the way here he just started acting odd." She said giving Jay an odd look; he gave her a small smile to re assure her.
"Where's my hug?" Archie asked tapping Theresa on the shoulder, smiling Theresa hugged him, "hey Archie, it's so good to see you again!"
"Yeah we must do this more often." Jay said as he and Atlanta hugged.
"We must." Atlanta agreed, as she walked over to Archie taking his hand, Archie smiled and kissed the top of her head, Atlanta smiled up at him.
Theresa couldn't help but shake the feeling that something was off with Jay, but she couldn't pinpoint exactly what it could be? Why did he look so nervous? And he was checking his pocket a lot… maybe checking to see if his wallet was still in there? But it was an open bar tonight and they had already gotten and paid for a motel room nearby so that he wouldn't have to drive home, and odds are he didn't even have his wallet on him, so that couldn't be it, but if it wasn't then what could it be?
"Theresa?"
"Hmm?" Theresa asked turning to face Atlanta who was snapping her fingers in front of her face.
"Are you OK" Atlanta asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm good." Theresa said smiling, "just day dreaming."
"What else is new?" Came a voice that caused Jay, Theresa, Archie, and Atlanta to grin from ear to ear, "Neil!" They all said at the same time running over to him, and his wife, Krista.
"How have you been?!" Jay asked shaking Neil's hand, pulling him into another awkward man hug.
"Great." Neil said laughing, as he shook Archie's hand and gave him an awkward one armed man hug as well.
"Hey Neil, and Krista," Theresa said smiling, "congratulations on the soon to be new baby!" Theresa said hugging Neil, and then hugging Krista."
"Thanks." Krista said rubbing her stomach.
"Congratulations!" Atlanta said hugging Neil, and then waiting until Archie was done hugging Krista before hugging her.
"Hey, what am I chopped liver?" Came Herry's voice from his truck.
"Herry!" Theresa screeched running over to his truck, as Herry opened the door, giving her a big bear hug, Jay smiled, most guys would probably get jealous that their girlfriends greeted a guy like that, but Jay knew that Theresa and Herry had always had a brother and sister relationship, and that was fine with him.
"Herry!" Jay said holding out his hand, Herry however looked at it before pulling Jay into a bear hug himself.
"Jay! How are you?!" Herry asked laughing.
"Good." Jay said trying to catch his breath.
"Herry, darling, I know you're excited to see your friends again, but maybe Jay would like to enjoy the party tonight, and not be in the hospital because you squeezed him too tightly." Gisele said laughing, as she got out of the truck.
"Oops, sorry Jay." Herry said letting him go.
"No problem." Jay said laughing, before turning to whisper in Theresa's ear, "some things never change." Theresa laughed, as Herry, and Gisele said hello to everyone.
"We should grab Tim, and then head into the school." Herry said looking at Gisele who nodded.
"Who's Tim?" Neil asked confused.
Gisele didn't say anything she just smiled.
"This is Tim." Herry said, as he returned to Gisele's side holding a car seat, and everyone could see a tiny sleeping baby.
"Wow, Herry!" Jay said patting his back.
"Come on, let's head inside." Herry said leading everyone away except for Archie, Atlanta, and Theresa, once everyone was out of earshot Theresa turned to Atlanta.
"Are you alright?" Theresa asked placing a hand on her shoulder, Atlanta had only told Theresa about the still birth that she had had a year ago, and Theresa knew that when Atlanta had seen that Krista was pregnant, and almost in her last trimester, and that Gisele and Herry had a baby.
"Yeah…" Atlanta said fighting back tears, "Archie, I want to talk to Theresa alone."
"OK." Archie said kissing Atlanta's forehead before walking away to join the others.
Once Archie had left, neither Atlanta or Theresa spoke for a few very long minutes.
"Can I tell you a secret?" Atlanta asked, finally breaking the silence.
"Of course." Theresa said giving Atlanta a reassuring smile.
Atlanta smiled back at Theresa before looking up at the sky, it was cloudy tonight, so no stars to look at, sighing Atlanta settled on looking at her hands, "You know about what happened a year ago." Atlanta stated, and Theresa knew it wasn't a question, so she waited for Atlanta to continue, "Archie suggested adoption."
"Really?" Theresa said surprised, she was more surprised that Archie had suggested it, but then again he was a lot more mature now, then he was in high school, and he obviously loved Atlanta a lot.
"Yeah, and to be honest I love the idea, I just really wanted your opinion." Atlanta said looking at Theresa.
Smiling Theresa squeezed Atlanta's hand, "I think you should do whatever makes Atlanta and Archie happy."
"Thanks Theresa." Atlanta said smiling back and giving Theresa a hug.
"We should probably get inside, and join the others." Atlanta said, Theresa nodded as they both ran back into the school where their lives had been changed forever.
As Atlanta and Theresa reached the rest of their friends, they were confused as to why their friends were standing outside the gym.
"Ah there you are!" Archie said running to Atlanta, pulling her into a hug, "are you OK?"
Atlanta smiled and kissed Archie's cheek, "let's do it!" Atlanta said unable to hide the excitement in her voice, Archie instantly knew what she was talking about, and smiled down at her, before leaning his head slightly until their lips met.
Theresa smiled as she watched Archie and Atlanta end their kiss, they loved each other so much, and they would be awesome parents.
"Hey." Jay said as Theresa stood beside him.
"Hey." Theresa said smiling, "what's going on, why haven't we been allowed in yet?"
"Persephone, and Aphrodite." Jay whispered smiling.
"Ah." Theresa said giggling, Persephone and Aphrodite would want to make sure the room looked absolutely perfect.
"Well I hope they let us in soon." Krista said, and Theresa could tell that she was incredibly hot and uncomfortable.
"Are you alright?" Neil asked concerned.
"I think I need a drink." Krista said leaning against a wall, as Neil took her hand, squeezing it.
"I'll grab you one." Theresa said, turning to walk away.
"Do you want me to come?" Jay asked, maybe he would find the perfect spot to propose if he went with her.
"No, I still remember my way around." Theresa said smiling at Jay, before walking away.
"OK." Jay said trying to hide the disappointment on his face.
While Theresa rushed to the cafeteria she couldn't help but smile in spite of herself, New Olympia High was where most of her fondest memories were, well when Theresa and her friends weren't fighting a god who was completely nuts.
Theresa smiled when she reached the cafeteria, however as she reached for the door she began having a vision, in this vision Theresa could see the planets aligning, and then a bright light, possibly from the sun changed it to Odie, and a girl who Theresa didn't recognize, breaking Cronus out of Tarturas. As the vision ended Theresa had to grip the door handle to stop herself from falling.
"Oh my God!" Theresa said trying to stop the tears that were filling up in her eyes, this can't happen again, Theresa thought to herself.
"Theresa, where are you?" Came Neil's voice from down the hall, Theresa quickly steadied herself and walked into the cafeteria so that she wouldn't look suspicious, she refused to ruin tonight, she would go and see the Oracle tomorrow, and ask him when the planets were going to be aligning, that way Theresa would at least know how long she had to perfect her shape shifting power.
"Theresa?" Came Neil's voice as he was leaning in the doorway of the cafeteria.
"Yeah?" Theresa answered, happy that her voice sounded normal.
"Did you get Krista her water?"
Theresa had almost forgotten about that, and took a toonie out of her purse putting it into the machine, and then grabbing the bottle of water after it fell out, "right here!" Theresa said walking towards Neil.
"What took you so long?" Neil asked as they began walking down the hall towards the others.
"Uh I got lost." Theresa said, hoping that Neil would believe her.
"Really?" Neil asked giving Theresa a strange look, "it's only been five years, besides aren't you still physic, couldn't you have used that sixth sense to find the cafeteria?"
"I didn't think of that." Theresa said her voice harsher then she intended.
"K sorry, it was just a suggestion." Neil said taking the water bottle out of Theresa's hand, before beginning to run, once Neil was out of sight, Theresa took a deep breath to steady herself, she couldn't let Jay know something was wrong, and he had been very good at reading her.
"Ah there you are Theresa!" Persephone said smiling as Theresa rounded the corner.
"Sorry, I got lost." Theresa said standing beside Jay, she could feel his eyes on her, but she didn't look at him, Theresa just stared at Persephone and Aphrodite.
"Now that Theresa's here, we can show you the room!" Aphrodite said excitedly, "and may I start off by saying you all look smashing tonight?" Aphrodite said smiling, "and I am so happy that you all found true love."
Theresa saw out of the corner of her eye Herry hugging Gisele, and saw Archie and Atlanta kiss, she then felt Jay wrap his arm around her kissing her head, Theresa turned smiling at Jay, apparently her smile looked convincing enough since Jay smiled back, and all Theresa could see was love in his eyes.
"Alright, now let's get the party started!" Persephone said as her and Aphrodite pushed the doors open, revealing the gym in all its glory.
The theme was "winter wonderland" with snowflakes, all different sizes, and shapes, some blue some white some purple on the walls hanging by strings, there were two giant snow men on the stage, next to the microphone where they could make speeches if they'd like, the floor was covered in fake snow, and on the tables sat blue and white table cloths, it was a beautiful room, and it didn't look like a gym at all, Persephone and Aphrodite had done an amazing job.
"Wow!" Atlanta said in awe as she looked around taking everything in.
"This looks beautiful!" Krista said holding Tim in her arms, Herry smiled before leaning down to her ear, "I am so excited to spend prom with the love of my life." Krista blushed turning her head to kiss his cheek, "I love you too."
"Welcome everyone!" Hera said running over to everyone, hugging the heroes first, before turning her attention to Krista and Gisele, "it's very nice to meet you." Hera said before stepping aside, "please take your seats and make yourselves comfortable, dinner and speeches will begin very soon.
As everyone did as they were told, it wasn't long before Hephaestus, and Hercules came out with dinner, and then Hera went up to the podium to make the first speech.
"I must say it is so nice to see everyone again, the school has been a lot quieter without you six," she said laughing, "you all accomplished so much and should be very proud of your selves." As the heroes thought about everything they had been through they couldn't help but feel proud, except for Theresa who felt sick to her stomach as she kept remembering her vision no matter how much she tried to repress it, once Hera was done with her speech, Persephone made a speech laughing as she remembered all of their awkward teenage years, followed by Aphrodite, who brought up the Valentines day when everyone was at odds with each other, and Neil had shaved his head, causing Krista to tell him that he should do it again before the baby comes, since he took so much longer to get ready then she did, and she would need help with the baby, which made all the heroes laugh since some things never change.
"Man, it is so good to see everyone again!" Herry said smiling, once the speeches were finished.
Jay smiled as well, as he looked at all of his friends, before sighing, "let's not forget part of the reason why we're here."
"Odie…" everyone said as they all felt sadness wash over them remembering their friend.
"I owe him so much," Jay said looking at Theresa, "if it wasn't for him I would have lost the love of my life, and I can't even thank him…" Jay said sighing; Theresa took Jay's his hand squeezing it.
"To Odie!" Archie said raising his glass in the air, the others followed and clinked their glasses together,
"to Odie!" they all said before taking a drink.
Once dinner was finished, Jay was trying to figure out how he was going to propose to Theresa, it was getting late, and he wanted to do it before the night was finished, but he wanted it to be romantic, but how? As Jay looked around the gym his eyes settled on the microphone, and that's when he got an idea, smiling Jay walked to the stage jumping up on it.
"Um hello?" Jay said tapping the microphone to make sure that it was on, "Hi everyone." Jay said as he realized that everyone had stopped what they were doing to stare at him.
"What's Jay doing?" Atlanta asked Theresa.
Theresa shrugged, "I have no idea."
"Um I actually want to dedicate a song to my beautiful girlfriend Theresa." Jay said feeling himself blush slightly, "so uh here it goes." Jay said clearing his throat, as the music began playing (A/N this song is "Marry you" by Bruno Mars, if you wanted to listen to it during this part of the story)
"It's a beautiful night, we're looking for something dumb to do, hey baby I think I want to marry you."
Theresa gasped as the words left Jay's mouth, "um was that just a proposal?" She whispered to Atlanta.
Smiling Atlanta nodded, "I think so."
"Is it the look in your eyes, Or is it this dancing juice? Who cares baby, I think I wanna marry you." Jay sang hoping that he was carrying the tune OK.
"Wow!" Gisele said smiling at Herry, before looking at Theresa and then at Jay "that boy is sure romantic!"
"More romantic then I?" Herry asked laughing, Gisele just rolled her eyes as she watched Jay jump off the stage, still holding the microphone, walking over to Theresa taking her hand.
"Don't say no, no, no, no-no; Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah; And we'll go, go, go, go-go. If you're ready, like I'm ready."
Jay said getting down on one knee taking the ring out of his pocket, Theresa could hardly breathe as the words left Jay's mouth again,
"Cause it's a beautiful night, We're looking for something dumb to do. Hey baby,I think I wanna marry you?" This time Jay changed it into a question, "well Theresa, will you marry me?" Jay asked after staring into her beautiful emerald green eyes for a few very long moments.
"Yes!" Theresa said as tears fell down her face, "I will marry you, Jay!"
Jay smiled as he slipped the ring on her finger, before picking Theresa up in his arms spinning her around before they kissed.
"Congratulations!" Atlanta screamed as she interrupted their kiss, laughing Theresa held out her hand so that Atlanta could see the diamond that Jay had just given her, "oh my God it's gorgeous!" Atlanta said hugging Theresa again.
Jay smiled as everyone crowded around him and Theresa congratulating them and celebrating, and that was when Jay knew that his life would be perfect from here on in.
Odie was confused; he didn't feel tired, so why did he and Anna have to sleep?
"Anna, what happens if vampires are out in the sunlight?" Odie asked.
"Well we burn up." Anna said as she dragged Odie through the door of the abandoned house that she had been living in for the past few months, it was very close to dawn now.
"So wait, I can never see sun light again?" Odie asked sounding disappointed, he loved the sun.
Anna shook her head, "it will kill you Odie."
"Oh." Odie said sighing. "So what, we sleep all day?" Odie asked.
"It's up to you, we don't need sleep but it does give you something to do." Anna said walking past Odie and down a hall way, Odie followed, "We do have beds." Anna said pointing to one of the rooms, probably Odie's.
"We don't sleep in coffins?" Odie asked surprised, "but I thought that's what vampires did?"
Anna laughed as she patted Odie's back, "Oh Odie, you're so cute."
"Um thanks…" Odie said feeling slightly embarrassed.
"Sorry" Anna said, "It's just that you shouldn't believe everything you read."
"Ah OK." Odie said not sure of what else to say.
"Besides we need to know how the animal blood affected you, and rest will be the best way to test that." Anna said.
"How will that help?" Odie asked confused.
"If you wake up tonight starving then I'm afraid that that means that you can't survive on an animal blood diet."
"But I can't drink a human's blood…" Odie said his voice barely above a whisper.
"Don't you want to see your friends again someday?"
"Well yeah." Odie said sighing as he remembered how much he missed them.
"Then you're going to need to do whatever it takes to stay alive." Anna said placing a hand on Odie's shoulder, "now go get some rest."
Odie nodded walking into the room, closing the door behind him, as he walked to the bed, he couldn't help but notice a mirror on the wall right by his bed, and decided to see what he looked like now that he was a vampire, however as he walked closer to it, he noticed that there was no reflection, sighing Odie walked to his bed, sitting on the edge before laying down, being a vampire wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
Anna sighed as she walked into her room, how she wished that she could make Odie feel better, but she knew the only way that he would feel better was to become mortal again, and that would never happen again.
"Anna!" Came cronus' voice through the necklace, Anna sighed in exasperation he was the last person she wanted to talk to right now and Cronus sounded angry.
"Yes, Cronus?" Anna thought.
"Did I hear you say that Odie drank animal blood?!" He demanded.
"Yes, he didn't want to drink human blood, what's the big deal?"
Anna could tell by Cronus's deep sigh that she had done something terribly wrong.
"Do I need to remind you that I need both you and Odie to be strong in three months when the planets align, and you both come to break me out?"
Anna rolled her eyes, how many times was he going to talk about the stupid planets aligning, and him finally being free? If it was up to her she wouldn't even be helping him, but she had to keep her daughter safe at all costs.
"I remember." Anna thought a few moments later.
"Well Odie is not going to be strong enough just drinking animal blood, he needs human blood."
"But I can't force it down his throat!"
"Stupid girl" Cronus thought and Anna had to fight back a growl, she hated it when Cronus called her stupid "look if he doesn't drink human blood, then I will still find a way out of here, and I will kill your daughter, so it's up to you."
Anna clenched her teeth together as she fought back a growl harder this time, Cronus was already mad enough at her.
"As you wish, Cronus." Anna said trying to sound as pleasant as possible.
"Good." Cronus said laughing as his voice left her head finally.
"Oh God, what am I going to do?" Anna asked herself as she rested her head against her wall wishing that she was dead instead of having to deal with this.
End chapter 3.
I DO NOT own Class of the titans, or Marry you (by Bruno Mars), I just really like the song.
I would also like to say that there's probably going to be one more slow chapter and then the story is going to really pick up.
Please review.