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"What?"
"I said we're going to a party. You know, with beer, music aaaand (most importantly) girls!" Nico said. "So hop on and lemme give you a ride home to collect your stuff."
"Okay, wait. What stuff?" I asked while entering his car.
"You know, clothes and shit. You don't seriously think you can sneak back into your house afterwards. Sorry cuz, but you've got no experience whatsoever in sneaking into a house, let alone doing it while you're drunk" Nico answered.
"Oh. That just raises more questions than it answers, honestly. Hey, how do you know that I couldn't do that! Maybe I sneak into the house all the time!" I said, feeling a little bit indignant.
Nico just gave me this deadpan look and said "Dude."
"Alright, alright. Fine. You got me. Let's just go. I'll tell my mom that I'm staying over at your place."
"Hey mom" I said. "How's it going?"
"Hm? Oh, hello there Percy. Pretty busy at the office, as usual. We've got this big case coming up, so I probably won't be around much this weekend. I hope you don't mind."
I should give you a little background on my mom: She's got blue eyes that sparkle and change color in the light a smile as warm as quilt and long brown hair, with a few streaks of grey in it, but I never think of her as old. Although the grey streaks have been accumulating because of her job as an environmental lawyer. She had me when she was 18, which motivated her to make the world a better place for me. Really sweet actually, too bad that means that she has to spend less and less time with me, and more time in the court arguing, but what are you gonna do? Back to the story:
"Not a problem mom. I was planning on staying over at Nico's anyway." I answered. I went to my room and got my outfit for the party and the next day, after all there is a big chance that I'll be seeing Thalia tomorrow. I gave my mom a kiss on the cheek before I left and drove my black mustang (thank you dad!) that I named Blackjack over to Nico's. When I arrived Nico whistled when he saw my car. "Damn, Perce. Where'd you get that sweet ride? Did you mug someone?"
And cue ego getting bigger. "What? This old thing? Just got it from my dad, when I got here it's his way of saying sorry that we moved here when I didn't want to.. He left the keys of this beauty in my room yesterday and the address of the garage. You my friend, are one of the lucky few who's seen it so far."
"Wow, consider me honored. Hey dude why you got those books with you. You're not planning on reading at the party right?" he asked horrified.
"Of course not. Sheesh give me a little credit here. I've got this project thing with Annabeth tomorrow." I answered.
"Annabeth, huh? She's kinda cute, don't ya think cuz?" he asked with a teasing tone.
"Er... Um... I guess so, in a totally friendly way. We're just doing this project, no big deal." I answered back, sadly with a blush. Traitor body.
"Riight. Hey did you ask her to be your partner?"
"No actually. She came to me." I said a little bit confusedly
"Hmm. Well, do you like her?" he asked me.
I started stuttering, because of the absurdity of it! "I don't like like her. She's nice though..."
"And?" he asked.
"And I guess if you can make her smile beau- pretty. Pretty cute looking, in a totally platonic way."
"Tell me, how did she even know you?"
"You know, she's Thalia's best friend. Thalia probably told her the whole emperor penguin thing..."
"What? Speak up Perce, I didn't catch that last part."
"The whole umm... Emperor penguin thing?"
"Perce... What did I tell you literally the day before?"
"No emperor penguin, or sea-related facts" I repeated. "But I panicked. Her eyes, they were just so blue! And she was so close and she smelt so nice and, and-"
"Yeah, save the sweet talking for the bedroom. Okay, but tell me you didn't blurt out some random fact in your conversation with Annabeth. Perce."
I stayed silent.
"Dammit Percy, why do I even bother. Why? Just why would you do that?"
"Well, she just asked me to be her partner, and I thought she was asking me out. And when things were cleared out, it was awkward and, and, so I followed my instinct. But hey I redeemed myself in the end. I totally played it cool."
"Okay, just saying bro, you gotta stop doing that. It's weird."
"Okay, I promise not to do it at the party."
By that time we were both dressed to impress. Nico wore this tight fitting muscle shirt, with a black hoodie and some ripped jeans and underneath it all he had some combat boots on. While I decided to wear a simple white shirt, with a black blazer and some black jeans and underneath it all some black converses. My hair was messy, but stylishly messy according to Nico. Yeah... I don't know what that means either.
"Okay" Nico said. "It's time to rock and roll."
AT THE PARTY
We arrived at a huge white house, this girl called Nicole (I think) owned it. We could hear music pumping from far away and the garden was already trashed. When I entered the house the girls were looking really weirdly at me. I knew the hair was a mistake. People were dancing, jumping, drinking and anything else you could think of in a typical American teenage party. I was waaay out of my comfort zone, that's for sure.
"Hey Perce, let's go out back!" Nico had to scream even though he was standing right beside me, that's how loud the music was.
"Okay!" I screamed back.
We went out back into the garden where Nico offered me some vodka.
"No thanks. I don't drink." I said.
"Oh, come on cuz. You gotta try new and interesting stuff. Don't always color between the line, reach for the stars, and any other motivational bullshit."
"Fine, if it'll get you to shut up." I said exasperatedly.
I grabbed the bottle, took a deep breath and chugged it down. It tasted reaallly bad and it was burning my throat. But I have to admit, my nerves went from 100 to 0 after that. I liked this newfound courage, so I took another sip.
"That's the spirit. Now get in there and enjoy bro!" Nico said.
We went inside and as soon as we were in the living room, Nico and I got separated. I think saw him making out with this blonde chick, I don't really know. I walked around a little bit, not really sure what to do when someone grabbed my shirt and dragged me to the next room. Turns out it was Leo. "Hey Perce, nice to see you bro! How are you enjoying the party so far?"
"Pretty cool, um... bro. Not sure what I should do tho. I'm kind of a uh party virgin I guess."
"That's not the only kind of virgin you are" Hazel said.
Leo started laughing his ass off, and I was blushing and stuttering because, this was Hazel, Innocent little Hazel! I didn't expect that! Damn.
"I'm just kidding Perce, I assure you that by the end of this year you won't be virgin for long!" Hazel said "Not when you look like that." And then she winked at me. Okay, that's not awkward...
"Sorry about Hazel" Leo said "She's really sassy when she's drunk. She's got absolutely no filter at a ll. It's kinda really super awesome and hilarious. You gotta loosen up man, let's go do some shots." After having done 3 shots I was done. I decided to go dancing.
I danced and danced like crazy, until my feet started to ache. I decided to take a break and went outside. There I just sat down, and looked at the stars. I probably would've stayed like that, if Jason didn't come up to me and said "Heya Percy. Let's go inside, I need a partner for this game of beer pong."
"Beer-Pong?" I asked
"I'll explain it to you inside." Jason said. And once again I was being dragged. On the way to the basement Jason explained the game to me. Doesn't seem that hard if you ask me. Which is the only reason I agreed to make the game a little more... Interesting.
I take it back. This game is freaking impossible. Piper, the girl I'm playing against, kept on landing all of her shots and I haven't even made one yet. Shit, I never should've made that bet! By the end of it I was drunk off my ass and learned something. Piper Mclean is a mean winner. I decided that I won't stand her being ridiculed by the 'Beer-pong queen' and decided to go upstairs. I entered this bedroom, hoping that no one was having sex in there, and who should I see but the one person I've been keeping an eye out ever since I saw her? That's right Thalia.
I, Perseus Jackson, was alone in a bedroom with Thalia Grace.
Hey guys, hope you enjoyed it. I wasn't really sure how to write this chapter. I had the general outline in my head, but of course it's a lot harder to put into words. This is the best I could come up with. This is a pretty long chapter, if I do say so myself. I hope you liked it, if not tell why and how I can improve. And yes, I do like cliff hangers. Keeps people on their toes, ya know? I also edited the other chapters, cause there were a couple of mistakes here and there, and I added a couple of details in some places, check it out.
Oh before I forget, I posted a poll on my profile, you guys should check it out. It's about who you'd like to see Percy end up with. I'd really appreciate if you guys voted, so that I can see what you guys wanna read. I've already sorta got a plot in my head, but it's nor set it stone. I could easily see it ending another way than i originally imagined. So, please vote so that I can see what you guys want to read. Ciao for now.