I'm back baby! Anyway I am officially 15 (woohoo!) now and I thought i'd do some writing. Thing is if you guys were checking I was moving so ive been busy.

And omg who has read MoA? Cant wait for the house of hades.

Thanks for all the reviews guys. You're the best.

Filler chapter ahead guys. Dw though I have the next one pre written (y)

DiScLaImEr: I don't own pjo or hoo

Masquerade

Chapter Six

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Annabeth's POV

I shuffled out of the castle as fast as I could. Thalia and I never gave each other 911 messages unless things were really bad so naturally I didn't take this lightly. The one time I ignored Thalia's 911 call was when she was getting mugged by these people in some alley here in New York. They weren't that dangerous- their weapon of choice was pine cones. It took me months to get Thalia to forgive me. But this time Thalia, apparently, didn't hurry. I waited outside with only the valet parking guy for company freezing and shivering for about 7 minutes unless her highness decided to make her grand entrance.

Thalia casually waved her ticket in front the guy's face and he called for her car to come. Thalia snatched the keys, unlocked the car, got in, buckled up, started the car and turned up the radio in record time. You can imagine I was still pissed off for having to wait so long so I took my own sweet time getting in.

I got a look for that.

Thalia stepped on it the second I had gotten in.

"Whoa," I said. "Slow down. Tell me what happened."

"Okay, so you know the chic that spilled her drink on the wires and temporarily 'ruined' the party? Nico and I kinda told her to do it. So then found out and was ready to skewer us. Literally. He keeps a jousting stick thing in that castle! He seriously needs an interior designer to modern up that place," she explained.

"You. Are. Incredibly. Idiotic," I said punctuating each word with a smack of her arm. "You know better to mess with Mr. Dare's parties. Did you see how upset he was before the muses came? Did you care?

"No hitting the driver!" she yelled. "And stop going all saint-like on me!"

"You deserve it and you know it. Why would you do that?"

"I don't see why you're so angry; you didn't want to go to the damn ball in the first place!"

I shut up after that not wanting to explain anything right now for reason. It was kinda weird considering Thalia and I told each other everything. However, I did decide that I'll tell her about it when and if he adds me on msn. Thankfully, I didn't have to endure the awkward and somewhat agonizing silence for much long because we pulled up to my house just seconds later. I said goodnight and dashed up to my room. Well, I tried to 'dash' as fasts as I could with heels and my gathered dress in my arms.

My room was perfectly organized of course so I didn't have to dig around for my one-of-a-kind Daedalus laptop. I know, I know; Its super high-tech and complicated. I normally used it for my architect course and art but I still used it for the rudimentary things like hermesmail. Anyway, I booted up my computer –which took half a second really- I went straight to google chrome and created a new account. Thank the gods the username wisegirl212 wasn't taken. I strummed my fingers waiting for somebody to add me or send me a request.

No one did.

Nico's POV

Holy Hades we were about to get killed. Clearly, Mr. Dare needs a therapist or an anger management group because honestly, who runs around with a lance chasing innocent children? It's a good thing he didn't get us (cause of my ultra-cool ninja powers) otherwise I'd had have to call the child abuse centre thing. I'm dead serious. Thalia called her friend and left. I decided that it would be safest for me to leave too. So I did.

I was cruising through the streets enjoying one of the last days of summer I had left and taking advantage that I had no curfew. Yeah, I'm emancipated but believe me my sister, Bianca, is probably scarier than your parents; if I would ever be late, she'd probably cut my throat. She's really strict that way.

I was almost about to head home when I got a text from Percy.

Where r u? dnt see u anywhere.

Percy! I totally forgot about that idiot! I know this is bad but while driving, I texted him:

Just sed bye 2 gf. Want 2 go?

Sure.

I swerved just missing another car. I wont describe them, but the hairy dude in the car that I almost hit made rude gestures at me. I rolled my eyes and screeched back to the front of the palace thing.

"Hey man," Percy said. "I was beginning to think you forgot about me."

"You can't wait 5 seconds can you?" I asked him.

"ADHD, dude ADHD," he said.

Yes, because when you have ADHD you cant be patient.

"Did you sulk around the punch the whole time?" I questioned.

"Nope."

"Did you dance?"

"Yep."

"With who?"

"A girl."

Look up a dead conversation in the dictionary and it'll say Percy.

Percy's POV

I went up to my room and dug around for my macbook. I moved my dirty laundry off my desk, I checked my floor, I checked under my bed and I just couldn't find it. I gave up and stripped off my tux and went to sleep. Then I sat on my laptop. I started up the mac and opened a new safari tab. Logging into hermesmail I realized that maybe I shouldn't use my real email if she wasn't going to give me hers. Log out, log out, log out I thought. Maybe Nico's right; maybe I should be more patient.

Yeah, that was a motivational 5 seconds.

I racked my brain for a good username for my new account. Hadn't she called me fishbrain or something? No, not fish brain. Something smarter than that. Shark brain? Whale brain? Dolphin brain?

I glanced around my room and my eyes feasted on my seaweed colored tie. Seaweed Brain! I knew something good would come out of not cleaning my room. Take that, mom. Okay wait, seaweed brain. Would it be cooler if I added some number? Probably.

I typed in seaweedbrain1808 you know, for my birthday which is august 18th. Boo yah! It wasn't taken. Now I just had to search for her account. So naturally I lost the paper she gave me. Wisegirl with some numbers right?

oh my gods. How many combinations do I have to try?

It took me a couple of hours but I got it.

Now I wait.

I don't have English this semester so its not my fault!

Anyway next chapter's prewritten so um, leave some reviews (I want at least five) and I'll update.

As always r&r

Ps. I tried making this as long as possible but it was a filler chapter so I couldn't do much.