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Summer Nights

Chapter 4

Annabeth POV

After I had calmed down from my interaction with the very rude, but also very attractive, boy at the concession stand, Thalia, Juniper and I decided to walk along the beach. We walked for a while in silence but then Juniper decided to ask about the rest of Thalia's family that would be here.

"So Thalia, we have met Sally. That is your aunt right?" Juniper questioned.

"Yep" Thalia said popping the 'p'. "My dad's brother married her. She is the greatest. Just wait until you have tried some of her blue cookies. You will never want to leave here."

It was my turn to ask some questions now, "So do they have any kids?"

"Yeah, they have one. Percy." When she said his name she looked at me with a mischievous grin, "I think you would like Percy."

"Thals, you aren't trying to set Annabeth up again are you? Because you know that it didn't work out the last time with…. Oh shoot! What was his name?" Juniper said.

"Evan." I said with a shutter. In 8th grade Thalia tried to get me to go out with Evan Caldwell. He was the schools biggest nerd. Which is probably why Thalia thought I would like him. But he was always having an allergy attack, never brushed his hair and had really, really, really, bad acne.

Thalia smiled, "What? I thought you two would be perfect for each other."

"He was disgusting." Juniper stated.

"But seriously Thals, if you think I am going to come to Florida for the summer and have a hot summer romance you are wrong. I only came to try not to think about guys."

"Fine." Thalia whined. As soon as she was about to say something her phone rang. She talked on the phone for no longer than a minute and hung up.

"Who was that?" Juniper asked.

"My mom. We have to go back to Aunt Sally's. Dinner is almost done." And with that we all turned around and started to walk back to the house.

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We got back to the Jackson residence just as dinner was being finished. Sally told us to take a seat and that she would have the food on the table in a minute. Once the food was on the table, everyone took their seats. I noticed that there were 3 empty seats.

"So what did you girls do at the beach today? Did you have fun?" Sally asked

Since Thalia was too busy stuffing her face, I answered, "Yeah. They tanned and I read some in my book. Then we took a walk."

"Oh, that's sounds fun. Did anything interesting happen?" Becky asked. Just as I was about to say no to try and hide my embarrassment, Thalia cut me off.

"Yeah, actually, something interesting did happen today. Annie, do you want to tell them, or should I?" I glared at Thalia while Juniper on the other hand was dying with laughter.

"Okay, I will tell them." Thalia looked at her family, "Annie, here went to go get an ice cream and some drinks from that concession stand on the beach. As soon as she got her ice cream she turned around and some guy ran straight into her. She was covered ice cream when she came back to the beach."

By this point the whole table was laughing, so I couldn't help but start to laugh too. I mean, it is pretty funny when you think about it.

"Annabeth, what did this person say to you when this happened?" Jason asked.

"All he said was, 'You aren't completely covered in ice cream.'" The table started to laugh some more. Then I heard the front door open.

"Mom, I'm home." Someone screamed as they entered the house.

"Percy, we are in the dining room" Sally answered.

Three guys walked into the room we were eating in. One was kind of short for a guy, with a little goatee and brown hair. One of the others was wearing all black and had black hair, he looked very nervous. The last one…. OH. MY. GODS.

"Juniper, Annabeth, this is Nico and Grover. And this is my son, Percy."

Percy's POV

"Mom, I'm home" I yelled as I came through the door. I heard a lot of laughter so my family must be here.

"Percy, we were in the dining room." My mom answered.

I started walking towards the dining room and Grover followed, but Nico pulled me back.

"Dude, what does your mom mean 'we'? Are Thalia and her family already here? Because I am leaving if they are. I don't feel like dying today."

"Calm down man, she won't kill you with all of these witnesses."

Grover snickered and then pushed Nico in front of us. We walked into the dining room where my family was and I looked around and I saw two unfamiliar faces. One of them had light brown hair and green eyes. She was really pretty, but not my type. Then the other girl…. Oh my gods.

The other girl was the same girl from the beach earlier.

"Juniper, Annabeth, this is Nico and Grover. And this is my son, Percy."

I looked at the girl from the beach and she was staring at me. She looked as if she was in disbelief.

"Hi, I am Juniper!" The girl with brown hair introduced herself. "And this is Annabeth"

The girl from the beach, Annabeth, still just stared at me.

Nico and Grover sat down at the table, leaving me with the last seat. The one right beside Annabeth.

Jason looked over at me with a look of concern in his eyes, "Dude, are you okay?" he whispered so no one else at the table would hear.

I just shook my head in response.

I looked over at my friends. Grover was happily eating his dinner, while Nico was too busy shaking to eat.

"Umm, are you okay?" Juniper said looking a bit concerned about Nico.

Thalia just snorted, "Yeah, Nico's fine. He is just scared that I am going to beat the hell out of him."

"THALIA!" My Aunt Becky said out of disbelief and anger.

"What? It's true." Thalia just shrugged and continued to eat.

The entire table burst into laughter, except Nico who was embarrassed and Thalia who was way more interested in her food.

…..

Mom told me to clean the table and do the dishes since everyone else was a guest. Nico, Grover, and Jason went to the 3rd floor to play video games and Thalia and her friends went to their floor while my mom and Thalia's parents were in the living room talking.

I couldn't help but think about Annabeth. She was so beautiful and she had to be a decent person for Thalia to be best friends with her. Of course I had to go screw things up and manage to piss her off on the first day of summer.

I was almost done putting away the dishes when I heard someone come downstairs.

"You wanna tell me why you were acting so weird at dinner?" I turned around to see Thalia.

"What are you talking about?" I said trying to act like I had absolutely no clue what was going on.

"Don't play dumb, Kelp Head. As soon as you saw Annabeth you started to act weird. And I wanna know why."

"Okay, fine. So today at the beach, I was racing Nico to the concession stand and I ran into this girl. When I looked at her she had ice cream all the way down her stomach. She looked really pissed off and I didn't say or do anything to help the situation really."

I looked over and Thalia was dying laughing. "She told you, didn't she?"

Well she told me about some asshole who ran into her at the concession stand. But I had no idea that asshole was you!"

"Great." Glad to know that one of Thalia's best friends, who is really hot, hates me already and we are going to be staying in the same house for another 2 months.

"She doesn't hate you."

"What?" I said coming out of my little bubble.

"She doesn't hate you. Well, at least not yet. I am sure you will do something else to piss her off again though."

"Thanks?"

"No problem." Thalia shrugged as if she had actually said something nice, "Well, I am tired from the flight and stuff and the girls are already asleep so I am going to bed. "Night, Kelp Head."

"'Night, Pinecone Face." I smiled at the old nickname for Thalia and she turned around and glared at me.

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