A/N: This Chapter has Multiple Points of view, shout out to smegol26's review commenting on Katie and Travis, I put in their POV's here just for you!

Eric

The night had been interesting so far, to say the least.

Travis pulled some prank on Katie, and now he was in the bathroom apologizing with her. Percy mentioned that we probably wouldn't see either of them for a while.

Leo was now playing DJ so that we had music going on, and was acting as the resident comedian at the same time, the quality of his jokes was highly debatable though.

As the song that was playing ended, Leo spoke up, "Okay, so, the lovey dovey kids have threatened to skewer me to the school flagpole if I don't play at least one slow song for them," he said, glaring at Piper, who just smirked back. "So here we go, all the single people can enjoy watching the couples' awkward attempts at dancing" he added, pressing play and hopping away from the laptop.

Piper grabbed Jason and dragged him by the hand into the clear area they'd made in the room for dancing, as Hazel did with a very reluctant looking Frank, who was stuttering excuses about how he was clumsy and couldn't dance at all.

The only guy who made the first move was Percy, which was surprising, I'd seen the guy dance, while it was highly entertaining, I didn't picture him as someone who volunteered himself to dance with anyone.

This was his girlfriend though, so maybe he didn't care about making a fool of himself.

I watched as he stuck his hand out to her and helped her out of her seat, grinning, and they went to dance. They acted really casual around one another, no matter what they were doing. It was like they didn't care what they did as long as they did it together.

Meanwhile, I continued sitting down, I glanced over at Connor, who was lying on the couch lazily, half asleep already from the song. Then I looked for Leo, who happened to take a seat right beside me as I turned, scaring the hell out of me.

"Holy shit!" I shout out, jumping away from him. He just grinned like a clinically insane guy, "Can you believe these losers?" he said, very loudly, earning a few glares, but I figured Leo didn't care, and the couples dancing didn't really seem annoyed, like they were used to it. Percy and Annabeth hadn't even bothered to look over.

I nodded towards them while I had Leo's attention, while he was about as serious and mature as a four year old in a candy shop, he was good friends with all of these people, and obviously they all knew things about each other I didn't. "So what's their story?" I asked, meaning Percy and Annabeth.

"What do you mean, their story?" he asked, glancing over at me, for a second he almost looked nervous, and I wondered why, but didn't press it.

"I dunno, they seem so close and stuff, just isn't common. Usually high school couples are just annoying make-out-in-the-halls-forever couples that break up by the end of the year"

"Huh" he said, mulling over my words for a moment, "Well for starters, they aren't really a high school couple, apparently they've known each other since they were twelve, and were probably in love with each other for years by the time they finally got together, which was only a few years ago" he said.

"Since they were twelve? How'd they meet?" I asked. Percy had never mentioned her, not even once, even though he'd apparently known her for over three years by the time we met.

"At the camp we're all from, obviously" he said, as if it was obvious.

I realized it should have been obvious, he'd told me about the camp a few times, and even mentioned today that the new students were all from the camp.

"Oh right, I remember he said that all the new students coming were friends from his camp" I said.

Leo chuckled, "Well, some of them being a bit more than just friends" he said, glancing up at the three pairings dancing.

"What about you?" I asked, he seemed like he almost wished he could be dancing too, despite his jokes. He shrugged though, "It's complicated, and I don't really feel like talking about it" I realized how somber Leo had become in the past few minutes, and decided not to press into the subject any.

"So how exactly did they end up so close and stuff?" I asked, moving back to the topic of Percy and Annabeth, I didn't know why I was so curious about it, but there was something about them that was just, as if they had some deep connection that no one else could understand.

"Percy and Annabeth… they went through a lot of stuff together, basically through hell and back together and a whole lot more" Leo said hesitantly, "It's not really my set of stories to share, I barely know anything about a lot of it anyways. I'm not one of their most trusted friends" he said, he didn't sound particularly sad about the last part, but the sad vibe he was giving off was there, it just, he wasn't sad about himself, but about them instead.

"What are you then? You guys all seem super close" I ventured out to figure they'd all went through something together, that didn't really affect their relationships but gave them all something in common. I felt like it was important, but I was also making myself feel crazy drawing all these invisible lines between this group of teenagers. I was acting like a conspiracy theorist or something.

"I'm their friend, but I'm more for comic relief at this point, a lot has happened to them, to all of us really. The Stolls and I, well, we like to keep things upbeat" he said.

So something had happened to them all… I was slightly creeped out at how I guessed that.

"Sounds like you guys all had pretty rough lives" I said sympathetically, hearing that these guys all had some sort of bad experience they went through together was sort of a shock, they all seemed like pretty regular and happy people on the outside, which made them either extremely resilient people, or really good actors.

Leo sighed, "Yea well, more so for the rest of us than the Stolls and Katie, they weren't right in the middle of it all, but Percy and Annabeth, they're on a whole different level than any of us. I'd rather not get into it, and I can almost guarantee no one else will want to talk about it, we prefer to move on from it instead." He stated, his voice so far from the happy and hyper guy I'd met at school.

"Anyways," I decided to drop the subject, "Is there any food in here, I'm starving" I said, Leo's grin returned to his face, lighting him up like a fire.

"I thought you'd never ask" he said with a chuckle, leaping out of his chair and making his way to the Kitchen. I took one last glance at Percy and Annabeth dancing, her face burrowed in his chest, before turning and putting my curiosity out of my head. For now, I needed food, and Leo seemed like he was going to supply that.

"Welcome to Leo's Kitchen" he said, shuffling around the kitchen grabbing things. He was loud enough to bring Connor out of his nap, and I turned as he pushed himself off the couch and walked over slowly, taking a seat on the stool beside me. "Let me guess Leo, Tacos?" Connor asked. Leo nodded quickly before setting the rest of the ingredients on the table and starting to cook the meat, "Of course" he said, and Connor groaned.

"What's wrong with Tacos?" I asked. Leo gave me a look, "Nothing, they're my best dish" he answered, huffing out his chest with pride. Connor shrugged, "It's not like they're bad, it's just, it's the only food he'll make for us. There's a certain level of tolerance" he told me. I shrugged in response, I didn't have any problems with tacos right now.

The slow song had ended, and a more upbeat one started up as the others, minus Katie and Travis, came and joined us in the kitchen.

"Did you kids have fun?" Leo asked teasingly. They all ignored him, but Connor chuckled quietly, and that was enough for Leo.

Percy went around the island as the others sat down and opened the fridge beside Leo, "I'm not having your tacos again, dude, I'm pretty sure my insides are still clogged up with all the tacos we had over the summer" he said, grabbing something. "I'm making hamburgers, anyone want one?" I put my hand up along with Annabeth, Jason and Connor.

Piper looked at the food cooking nervously, "Hey Leo…" she began, but Leo cut her off with his answer, "I have some Tofu for you in the fridge Beauty Queen" he said, without looking away from the stove.

Piper sighed in relief, and I guessed she was a vegetarian. Leo finished with the taco meat and put it all in a dish, and Percy took the frying pan to cook the hamburgers.

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We sat around the TV eating our food, trying to pick out a movie to watch. It was only 9, so we had time.

"Any suggestions?" Piper asked, looking around. Percy's hand shot up, and he was moving around in his seat expectantly like a hyper five year old who knows what 1+1 is. I saw Piper roll her eyes before answering, "We don't have The Little Mermaid, Percy."

Percy frowned as the room burst into laughter, Annabeth tried not to laugh, but ended up just covering her mouth to make it less audible. I heard him mutter something about how he was going to ask for something else before another voice spoke up.

"How about Grown Ups?"

We all turned to see Travis, and behind him, Katie had just come out of the bathroom, clean, not crying, and not stuck to the floor.

They walked over to the couches and sat down next to each other with Connor, as if nothing had happened. I saw Piper and Katie's eyes meet and Piper shot her a knowing look, as if to say she knew everything, and Katie's face went red before she averted her eyes and looked at her toes.

"Sure, Grown Ups it is" Annabeth said, shrugging. Piper decided to go with it and found the DVD, putting it in and taking her seat next to Jason and Leo with the remote.

I sat next to Percy and could hear him and Annabeth whispering as the movie began.

"Something definitely happened" Annabeth said, leaning against his shoulder.

"Yea, obviously he helped her get all the sticky purple gunk off her and cleaned her up" Percy replied quickly.

"I mean other than that, of course that happened you doofus" they went back and forth.

"What do you mean, other than that?"

"She isn't crying, and did you see how she blushed when Piper caught her eye? I think Travis finally made a move after he apologized"

"You sure?"

"Come on Percy, it's obvious"

I glanced over at Travis and Katie. Apparently Percy and Annabeth, and everyone else, for that matter, had failed to look over at them recently in their whisperings. Katie was leaning against Travis, smiling as she watched the movie, and Travis had his arm settled around her shoulders. Only Connor seemed aware of this so far, but his face looked like he'd known this was going to happen the entire time.

I nudged Percy, interrupting his and Annabeth's conversation, and they both looked over at me, I nodded towards Katie and Travis. They looked over and Annabeth smiled, nuzzling further into Percy and glancing back at me. I gave her a there's your answer now shut up so I can enjoy the movie look and she shrugged, turning her head to the screen.

I grinned to myself for actually beating her in some way, because up until now it hadn't seemed possible, she was just too damn scary. My competitive side had managed to find a way to win though. Good for it, now I could feel smug about something that didn't matter at all.

Travis

I grinned as Katie leaned against me. I quickly fist bumped Connor behind our backs to thank him.

This plan had seemed pretty stupid at first, and I'd tried to find a way out of it the entire time because I didn't want to do it to Katie, but now it had worked, so I had to give my brother some acknowledgement for that.

It had been a simple idea, do something really bad to Katie when she took her shower for the party, hence making her bodywash and shampoo a little more… sticky. Then when she's stuck in the bathroom, get me in there to apologize, and I'd help her and hopefully be able to get her.

I'd been really against it because I knew it'd really upset Katie, which it had, but as soon as Percy did our work for us by dragging me in there and leaving us alone for me to apologize, I just let myself do and say whatever felt right. I'd apologized as much as possible for the prank, and then helped her de-sticky herself and get her off the floor, I'd shown her how to do the rest of her by herself, because well, I aint gonna unsticky her shirt from her body.

Then I'd snuck out of the bathroom while the others were in the kitchen and went to the girls room, getting a change of clothes for Katie. By then she'd forgiven me, and once she'd gotten cleaned up I talked to her and finally kissed her.

It was probably the best moment in my life, even better than any of my best pranks with Connor.

After that we'd come out of the bathroom together, ignoring the looks we got from everyone.

I wasn't sure what Katie had thought of the kiss and last bit in the bathroom, until she sat down beside me, hiding a smile.

Now, we sat in silence together watching the movie with everyone else, and I rubbed her shoulder comfortingly, it felt great to have my arm around her and every time she shifted against me, it just reminded me that she was there.

Luckily for me, I knew Katie wasn't a very mushy romantic, because I wasn't either.

If I had been, I probably wouldn't have been stupid enough to try and get her attention to show I liked her by pranking her to no ends.

Though, she was still the best target because of her reactions, so even though I'd gotten my point across to her, I wasn't so sure her days as a victim to Connor and I were over.

Katie

After the movie, Percy, Annabeth and Eric left. Percy had to take Eric home and then get home himself with Annabeth, who looked excited to be spending her first night living with Percy and his parents, to say the least.

I could relate to the feelings she probably had right now, as I was living in the same apartment as Travis. A few hours ago, this wouldn't have mattered quite as much, as it would just be the guy I like who tortures me with pranks by him and his brother living in the same place as me, but now it was the guy I like who kissed me tonight living in the same place as me. My face got hot just thinking of that!

I went to the girl's bedroom as soon as everyone started to go about their own business, hoping to avoid any questions, but of course that wouldn't happen. Piper was the daughter of Aphrodite, of course she noticed and realized everything. Annabeth had probably figured it out too, but she wasn't here.

As soon as I dropped onto my bed, Piper opened the door to the bedroom and came in, jumping on to the bed with me, grinning. I groaned even before she spoke, knowing what was coming.

"Soo… you seemed fairly happy during the movie, for someone sitting next to the guy who got you stuck to the floor" she said, an evil grin on her face as if she was going to use this against me until I told her everything.

I figured I'd better get it over with now, instead of have to deal with her nagging me.

"Travis apologized for the prank, said it was too harsh and that he and Connor shouldn't have done it" I said slowly, trying to see if she would take that and go, but no such luck.

"Annnnnnnd?" she asked, her voice hopeful and smug, the weirdest combination I'd ever heard.

I sighed, "And then he helped me get cleaned up, got me a change of clothes, said a few things to me…" I paused, "and then kissed me" I said quickly and quietly.

Piper squealed, bouncing up and down on the bed. For a girl who didn't like being an Aphrodite kid, she was a lot like her mom sometimes. "I knew it, knew it knew it knew it!" she proclaimed, giggling.

"Piper!" I hissed, trying not to be loud, lest someone else hear them and come in.

"I'm sorry, but you guys are so cute together and both denied it but I knew you liked each other!" she said, grinning.

"Can we just, not talk about this with anyone, I want to sort things out with him before I have to deal with all of you" I said, frowning at her.

She shrugged, still grinning, "Annabeth already knows, so does Percy and his friend, Eric, they noticed you cuddling with him during the movie. Besides that, Annabeth was already suspicious." She said. I nodded simply, "I kind of figured as much, Annabeth is too smart to not figure it out"

"So, can you finally admit it?" she asked, looking at me intently.

I sighed and leaned back, dropping on to my pillow, "Fine" I huffed out, annoyed at her persistence.

"I like Travis, a lot, can I go to bed now?"

Piper hopped off my bed and left the room, giggling like an idiot, and I closed my eyes, trying to get to sleep.

A/N: Next chapter will fast forward a bit to the end of the week, and we'll see if we can get a little action going! Keep the reviews coming, love getting feedback from you guys :P