Disclaimer: So, how to put this. According to our therapists, we do not own PJO or HoO, it was all just a dream. A beautiful, beautiful dream… *chokes sob*
AN.: So! Double postin'! Woot! Enjoy dearies!
Ch 4 – This is a Comical Romance
POV - Le
"Hey Jake," said Clarinha. She was red like a tomato and was only doing this because we pressured her A LOT.
We were obviously watching, from a distance though. It had been so difficult to get her to talk to him! When it comes to making a presentation on whatever or doing a report on a book or a résumé of a movie you can totally count on her but when it comes to boys... Well she loses all her confidence.
"Hey Clara! Sup?"
"Uh... I just... Uh..."
"Fala alguma coisa!" whispered Malu next to me.
"You...?"
"Ja era, ela vai amarelar. Perdeu a aposta Le," said Bibi.
"Nao perdi não!" I said. "Ela ainda pode conseguir!"
"Difficil," said Malu.
"Para com isso gente! Confia nela! Eu acho que dessa vez vai," said Ana.
"I just wanted to – I mean, I just thought maybe we could – only if you want to hum... Maybe we could- or maybe something else – or not! If you don't want..."
"O que!?" asked Bibi. "Ela não tá falando coisa com coisa!"
"Yeah!" said Jake. "Sure, I'd love to!" He grabbed her hand and ran to the beach taking her along and laughing when she stumbled trying to keep up with the running.
"Eu não to acreditando que isso deu certo," said Malu shocked.
"Cara, isso foi muito fofo!" I said, it really was the cutest thing I had ever seen.
"Concordo! Eles são muito fofinhos!" said Ana.
"Só queria que ela tivesse um pouco mais de segurança," said Bibi, "ela fica toda boba do lado dele, ela devia-"
"Hey Bibi!"
"Ai deuses é o Malcolm, como que eu tô?"
"Você tá linda, mas o que você tava falando de ser mais segura mesmo?" teased Malu.
"Cala a boca! Hey Mal!" she said, getting redder and redder as the boy reached us. It was REALLY hard to get Bibi to blush but lately she'd been doing it whenever Malcolm was mentioned.
"Hey, sorry to interrupt but I needed to ask you something."
Her face lit up, "Really? What?"
"Is it true you guys beat Thalia, Rachel, Katie, Clarisse and my sister at a volley ball match?"
Her disappointment couldn't be missed. "Oh... Yeah, it's true."
"Awesome! I wish I'd seen it!"
"Yeah, me too"
"Well, guess what? Next game, you tell me and I'll be there, cheering for you."
And with that the smile returned. "Really?" she asked.
"Only if you want me to," he replied flashing her a smile.
"I do, yes, definitely!"
"Then I'll go!"
"Perfect!"
He laughed. "Okay, see you later then, gotta go finish some stuff. Bye girls!"
"Bye!" squealed Bibi.
"See ya, Malcolm," I called.
"You like him!" cried Malu when the boy was out of sight. "Quer dizer, você gosta dele!"
"Gosto não!" said Bibi.
"Gosta sim!" affirmed the other.
"Gosto não!"
"Gosta sim!"
"Tá bom, eu gosto!" she admitted. "O que eu faço? Eu tô caidinha por ele!"
"Difícil de acreditar!" teased Ana.
"Verdade," I admitted. "Vocês não tem nada haver!"
"Ah, sei lá!" said Bibi. "Eu gosto desse jeito de "sabe tudo" dele e ele é bem legal também... E bonito..." She drifted off.
"Bom!" cried Ana, breaking the silence. "Eu tenho um encontro com o Nico então chora, me liga, tchau!"
She started to walk away but was quickly intercepted by the remaining three of us.
"Pera ai! O que?" asked Malu.
"Você e o cara de caixão!?" cried Bibi.
"É ué! Qual o problema?" she asked trying not to show how excited she was.
"Quando que isso aconteceu!?" I asked, for I had no idea they even talked to each other.
"Bom, assim, ele perguntou se eu queria sair e eu disse sim. Não é tão difícil de entender!"
"Mas, por que você não falou nada!?" Malu seemed heartbroken when she found out she was oblivious to this interesting piece of gossip.
"Sei lá gente!" complained Ana. "É minha vida né? Então deixa eu cuidar dela e dos garotos dentro dela!"
She tried to leave but we blocked her again. "Pera ai! Não, não, não! Sua vida pertence às suas amigas! E suas amigas somos nós! Pode explicando essa história direitinho!" insisted Bibi.
"Tá bem!" she gave in, quite happy to being forced into telling her tale. "Foi ontem. Eu tava indo encontrar vocês no chalé quando ele me chamou..."
-
"Hey, Ana!" called Nico.
"Hi, Nico! Haven't seen you in a while!"
"Yeah, I was out."
"Out? Oh, got it. You were visiting you sister, right?"
"Yeah. But never mind her I want to talk about you."
"Me?" Eu comecei a ficar nervosa porque eu ja tava meio que gostando dele sabe? Eu não falei nada por que não chegava nem numa paixonite, eu só achava ele bonito. Mas quando ele falou isso eu fiquei com frio na barriga. Mas eu respirei e acalmei, porque não tinha motivo pra eu ficar nervosa.
"Yeah, you!"
"What do you wanna talk about me?"
"I want to ask you out on a date."
"Date?" eu quase nem acreditei.
"Yeah," ele sorriu.
"So, you want to take me out on a date?"
"Yeah!" ele riu.
"Where? To do what?"
"Meet me at the lake tomorrow at eight?" Ele deu uma pausa. "Did that rhyme?"
"Are you trying to be romantic or is it just natural?" Claro que eu zoei ele né!
"No, I'm just naturally like this," ele deu uma de sarcastico e até sorriu denovo!
"Okay, then. I'll go on this date."
"Great! See you tomorrow at eight then?"
"Sure!"
"Bye, then!"
"Bye!"
-
"Então é por isso que você tava tão pálida ontem!" concluded Malu.
"É! Eu fiquei super tranquila mas depois eu quase desmaiei! Tava vendo estrelinhas quando encontrei vocês! E acho que se não tivesse sentado eu teria é caído!"
"Péra ai, quase? Garota, você capotou!" laughed Malu.
"Nossa Aninha, tá tirando as rodinhas!" teased Bibi.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. Muito engraçado! Agora da licença, se não eu vou chegar atrasada!" And with that she ran to the lake.
"Bom," said Bibi. "Acho então que vamos ser só nós três até a fogueira!"
"Hey, girls!" I looked around and saw Leo and the Stolls coming over.
"Hey, Leo!" I said, feeling myself hot on the face.
"Excuse me, sweetheart but I am kidnapping you until the campfire!" he said hugging my waist.
"Seriously?" complained Bibi. "Well, then, I guess it's just me and you Malu."
"Nope!" said Connor. "She is coming with me!"
"And why are you so sure of that?" asked Malu obviously having fun.
"Because..." he whispered something in her ear.
"You're kidding!" she shrieked.
"No!" he laughed.
"Let's go, then! I don't wanna miss that!" And with that they ran off followed by Travis.
"What was that about?" I asked Leo.
"Just don't bother. They're just planning some prank on someone. Now! May I take your hand?" And he did, not even bothering to wait for my answer, and took me away leaving my friend behind.
Annabeth POV
I was really bored. Percy ditched me to hang out with the boys so I didn't have anything to do during my free time. I looked for Thalia and found her chatting away with Rachel about... fashion?!
"Am I dreaming or are you two actually talking about fashion?" I teased.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. Annabeth. Very funny!" said Thalia sarcastically.
"Well, it is!" I mocked. "Today is a historical day! I never thought I'd actually live to see this!"
"You know sometimes you can be so irritating! We weren't talking about fashion we were talking about people's personalities connected with fashion," Rachel explained.
Now that surprised me, "What do you mean?"
"Well, actually we were talking about Piper." said Thalia
"Oh. Okay." The thing is Piper was really weird these days. She changed a lot. She was a lot more superficial and I didn't get why, because she used to be great! Now-a-days she was really possessive of everything and she's been a real bitch with the new guys, especially the Brazilian girls. As if they were a threat to her.
"Don't judge us Annabeth; we weren't saying anything bad we were just saying..."
"The truth," finished Thalia.
"It's okay, I get it. But why were you talking about clothes?"
"Well, you know how Piper used to not care how she dressed?"
"Yeah."
"Well, now it's all different. She seems to be a lot more self conscience and she seems to pamper herself a lot more too. We were talking about how she was a lot prettier before she started with the makeup disaster. Now she looks like a Drew prototype," said Rachel.
"Yeah. And we were also talking about those Brazilians. You know how they dress to their personality? They never put make up on if they don't want to and they certainly don't try to dress all pretty pretty but they still are drop dead gorgeous! Honestly? I would love if my brother left Piper for one of them!" said Thalia.
I did think she was right, Piper was really odd these days but I didn't know why she was acting like that. "Why do you think she's doing this?" I thought aloud.
"I think she just wants attention," said Rachel. "I mean, when the girls arrived she lost a bit of the 'new girl' thing so maybe she's just trying to change her style to regain attention."
"Yeah... Maybe... Anyways! Enough of Piper! What are you gonna do this period?"
"Why? Don't you and Kelp Head have any plans?" mocked Thalia.
"No. He said he wanted to hang out with the guys." I regretted saying it as soon as I did. Of course they would taunt and tease me!
"Oh, he ditched you, did he!?" said Rachel, faking surprise. "That is SO not a guy thing to do!"
"Yeah," said Thalia sarcastically. "Because boys NEVER do that right?"
"It's just a matter of time Annie. Just a matter of time before he forgets you to go hang with the boys."
"Yeah, and then where are you gonna go? Who will be the shoulder you'll cry on?"
"Okay! I get it!"
"Girls rule and boys drool, Annabeth! Memorize that!"
"Already have Rach! Now, come on, let's go look for those crazy chicas!"
Quando ela me vê ela meche!
Piri pi piri pi piri piri piriguete!
Rebola devagar depois desse!
Piri pi piri pi piri piri piriguete!
"I guess they're in there," said Thalia, pointing into the cabin with the loud music coming from.
"Oh really?" I asked sarcastically.
We came close to the cabin and the music switched again. They didn't seem to be able to stick with a song till the end.
Agora eu fiquei doce doce doce doce
Agora eu fiquei do do do do doce doce
Agora eu fiquei doce igual caramelo
To tirando onda de Camaro amarelo
Agora você diz: vem cá que eu te quero
Quando eu passo no Camaro amarelo...
"Hey guys!" I called over the loud music as we came in.
"Oh, hey Annabeth! Hey Thalia, Rachel!"
They turned the volume down and came to great us. The cabin was a mess. Well, not all of it. Actually the cabin was fine, only five beds were messy. They had a giant pile of clothes on top of each one. Shorts, shirts and skirt of all shapes and (short) sizes.
"Are you cleaning up?" asked Rachel.
"We were doing a dance palooza, you know, like a... Um... Like a competition!" Le said.
"But why do you need all the clothes?" I asked.
"It's 'cause every song has its own outfit!" said Malu, as if we should know that.
"Bora gente! Próximo!" cried Bibi, and all of them proceeded into changing clothes in front of us in that weird shameless way. There was just us in the cabin but still, I didn't get how they weren't uncomfortable with taking their clothes off in front of people.
"So, why are you guys here anyway? Don't you have anything to do?" asked Ana.
"No, we were just chilling and Annabeth was ditched by mister Fish Face so we decided to come looking for fun, A.K.A. You guys." said Thalia. Impressive how she can be sarcastic, summarize everything and still mock me in a simple explanatory sentence.
"Ditched? Why?" asked Clarinha as her head emerged from under her red top.
"He just wanted to hang out with his friends! No big deal!" I defended myself.
"Say whatever you want, he still ditched you," said Thalia, obviously right.
"Hey guys." I said, an idea creeping into my head. "This dancing thing, does it only work out for you or can we join?"
"Join? You mean you want to dance Funk?" asked Malu surprised.
"If you think you can teach me, I guess I can give it a try!"
"Ai meu santo cristinho! Of course we'll teach you!" cried Bibi.
"What about you two?" asked Ana.
"What? Me? Dance that? No way! I'll be sitting right here, watching the comedy show!" taunted Thalia, sitting on one of the messy beds.
"I'll give it a try!" said Rachel.
"Great! Come on!" shrieked Bibi, pulling us towards her bed. "First the clothes... I think maybe this can fit..."
"I think I prefer not to change, is that okay?"
"Hum... Sure, yeah. Then the song is next! Le, bota Malha Funk!"
"What's that?" asked Rachel.
"It's a song!" Malu explained. "It's very simple, you'll love it! There are a couple of simple steps. This," she extended her arm to the right clapped it with the other and sort of rubbed her arm in a sexy way. "This," she turned left on her left leg while she made a move with her right knee. "This," she raised her right leg then put it back down. "This," she kneeled down and came back up in such a speed I thought I'd break if I did that. "And this," she said making a sexy move.
The steps were pretty simple but she made it look so sexy and she was doing it wearing 9' high heels which I can't even walk in!
"Got it?" she asked smiling.
"Hum... Sort'a?" I said a bit unsure. As I looked at Rachel I saw she was no different.
"You'll get it with time. Just copy us!" said Le turning the song on. By this stage Thalia already had tears in her eyes.
Esse é o malha funk
Os muleques são dengoso
Vem pra cá tchutchuca linda
Os muleques são dengoso
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
To perdendo a linha
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
Esse é o malha funk
Os muleques são dengoso
Vem pra cá tchutchuca linda
Os muleques são dengoso
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
To perdendo a linha
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
Fico tarado
Quando vejo o rebolado
Dessa mina eu me acabo
Ela empina o popozão
Dedinho na boca
Faz carinha de safada
Essa mina é assanhada
E ta me deixando doidão
Esse é o malha funk
Esse é o malha funk
Os muleques são dengoso
Vem pra cá tchutchuca linda
Os muleques são dengoso
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
To perdendo a linha
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
Esse é o malha funk
Os muleques são dengoso
Vem pra cá tchutchuca linda
Os muleques são dengoso
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
To perdendo a linha
O vira de ladinho
Levanta a perninha
Descendo e subindo
Na hora do rala e rola
Não existe preconceito
Vem pra cá tchutchuca linda
Que eu vou fazer do teu jeito
I tried to copy them, I swear I really did but it was impossible! It didn't seem fast (because it wasn't) but I just couldn't keep up and when it was over Rachel and I were flat on the floor and Thalia was aching with laughter.
"Funniest... Thing... So... Worth... It..." she managed.
"Now that was something," came a voice from the door. I almost killed myself when I notice Will Solace standing there, beside Percy, staring at us.
"Hey, Will! Hey, Percy!" said Clarinha.
"Hey..." said the boys, still registering the scene.
"Will, Perce I thought you guys were out," I said.
"Came to get my running shoes but... Uh..." Will stared.
"These?" asked Ana tossing him his sneakers.
"Uh... Yeah..."
"Okay, Will, you can go now!" she called snapping her fingers in front of him.
"Oh! Right! Yeah... Uh... Sure, bye then!" Will left, leaving a wide-eyed Percy behind.
"Percy! Leave!" I called.
"Hey, don't you wanna-"
"Leave!" I yelled. Only now do I understand why was still there. "That was the awkwardest moment of my life," I said when he left.
"Does that word even exist?" wondered Le.
"It does now!" I answered.
"So! Let's go again?" asked Malu putting a new, and definitely even more complicated, song on. This was going to be a long day.