NOTE: I am searching for a beta, since I know my writing isn't perfect, so if anybody is interested, please PM me :D This chapter is dedicated to: I love my knight in red!
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Annabeth groaned as her mental alarm clock went off. Ugh, was it already time for her personal hell of a day? She grumpily thought as she swung her legs over the side of her bed and ruffled through her hair. She knew that it was almost seven, seeing as most of her family was up and doing something, that would actually be useful for someone else.
Annabeth, who had finally got as far awake to walk on her legs, she approached the mirror installed above her dresser, and she expressed her displeasure when she saw the person staring back from the mirror.
She was smart enough to know it was her, but the person in front of her had large dark circles underneath of her eyes, and even a few marks under her lips, produced by Percy from sucking too much on them under one of their "fights". She sighed again, she knew from experience that the Goddess of Love didn't let anything go under the category "perfect". To add to the absolute disaster, her hair looked like one of her Mother's owls had made a nest in it, and while she didn't are, she was sure that Aphrodite wouldn't exactly congratulate her on making matters worse.
She stripped out of her shirt and shorts, and found some decent shorts (who could actually be called shorts, and not unnecessary use of denim, which most of the Aphrodite girls wore.) and a basic grey shirt that complimented her eyes (or so she had been told, she was not the kind of person who would stare at her reflection all day long *Aphrodite cough*.)
With almost a hour to go, she went to the big house for breakfast, making sure to stomp the whole way and scare a group of ten year olds.
Picking some fruit and pieces of bread, she went to the fire and scrubbed about two-third of the plate's content into the fire, while silently mouthing a plea to her Mother of where she asked for extra sanity and patience, she hoped dearly her Mother would grant it.
When she looked at the clock on the wall, a gift from Hephaestus, she wolfed her food down as she stood, because she was very nearly late, it was 7:55 A.M.
As she hurried out of the house and into the woods she met nearly ten satyrs, who all greeted her with a "Good Morning." She finally got the border with time to spare.
Before she could catch her breath, a light gold-glittering shimmer appeared out of nowhere, and out stood a tall, slightly tanned blond woman, also known as Aphrodite.
"Well, you certainly are on time, Annabeth, now tell me aren't you excited?" Aphrodite asked, with enthusiasm written all over her face. Annabeth did the natural thing, she started to bow and say "Lady Aphrodite," but Aphrodite waved the gesture away.
"Nonono, Annabeth, honey, we are here on a mission as friends, so no need for the formalities." With that said, she grabbed Annabeth's arm, and with a twirl they were gone, and they appeared in a VERY pink and VERY girly room, anybody with just a little self-respect would never willingly live in this room, aside from Lady Aphrodite of course .
"Excuse me, Lad.. I mean, Aphrodite, what just happened?" It was weird to be the one asking questions, a thing Annabeth never did, but she had absolutely no idea what just had happened.
"Oh, that's easy, we teleported, you of all people should know that." She gave her a smile, her mouth was filled with pearly-white, straight teeth who managed to show, even when she didn't smile. She continued;
"All Gods and Goddesses can teleport, and when one does a little thing that reminds of the Goddess/God will be left behind, like mine for instance, is a red rose." She said the last thing strutting her chin in the air, displaying that she was VERY proud of that indeed.
"Eh.. Okay," Annabeth said politely, and stood a little unsure in the incredible hideous room, how could anyone, beside the Love Goddess of course, stand to be in here for more than minutes, before running screaming out of the room yelling that they are blind? Annabeth mused to herself.
"Okay, we better get started; we have a long, exciting day in front of us!" The love Goddess exclaimed as she clapped her hands together, and gestured to Annabeth to take place in front of the ridiculous wide, which she did in a trance. The makeup table, which was filled with so many type of products, it was a miracle that she could see herself in the mirror.
"Okay listen Annabeth, firstly I am going to prep your face, then I am going to decide which shade of foundation you would fit, and then I have to try a new device Hephaestus, on my order of course, which makes the whole operation almost painless, then I'm.." She (Annabeth) knew it was rude, but the whole talk was just so boring, the only thing she really listened to was the "almost painless," part. That had honestly scared her. A sweet aroma filled the room, and when a buzzing started, she felt herself getting ever so drowsy.
No more than 30 seconds had drifted by, when she somebody shook her out of her trance by disturbingly familiar hands.
"Annabeth! Wake up! We almost forgot the fun part, we have to bathe you first, and then wax everything." She blinked and Aphrodite was smiling like a madman- woman, had she just said we and bathe in the same sentence? What was she, five? The waxing part scared her too.
Aphrodite nearly dragged her out into the oversize master bathroom and started to remove the sandals when she became rigid.
"Annabeth come on! Time is beauty, and quite frankly I have seen a woman's body, since I am one!" No matter what Aphrodite tried, it just didn't succeed and had to go into the room again with the promise from Annabeth that she would behave. Annabeth stripped out of her clothes and lifted herself into the warm, comfortable bubbly water. She quickly scrubbed every inch of her body, and washed her hair in the shampoo that smelled like heaven, (or that was what the bottle exclaimed it did, to her it just smelled like normally shampoo with a heavy apprenticing.)
When she thought she had stayed long enough, she got up and wrapped herself in a golden towel, when a knock came from the other side of the door.
"Annabeth, are you done? I have some underwear you have to wear before we can start with the waxing!" She could swear, that she could her Aphrodite giggling from the other side.
"Yeah, I'm done." With that said, the door opened and in the doorway stood the overenthusiastic, grinning Goddess who was holding something very black, lacy and with what looked like a thong.
"No way I am wearing that!" She exclaimed as she eyed the underwear.
"But Annabeth!" The Goddess whined and she resembled a five year old who couldn't get her parents to buy her the toy she wanted, looking defeated, she grumpily something white, much more innocent looking and with actual panties!
Thank the Gods, Annabeth thought and checked that the Goddess were gone, before putting on the bra. There was one problem, it didn't fit, and neither did the panties.
"Ehh.. Aphrodite, you shouldn't have the pair in a size bigger, it is too small." Embarrassed as she said it, she was thankful that Aphrodite was here- especially with the exceptional size closet of hers, it could save her from many embarrassing episodes at camp, when somebody * cough Stroll Brothers cough* shrank all of the girl's clothes, and she had to borrow from Percy.
"A size bigger, but I could have sworn.." She heard the first part, and without thinking, she sprang out the bathroom with the towel tightly wrapped around her and looked superior.
"AHA! So it was you who gave me that dresser from hell!"
"Don't speak of my baby like that! She is my portable baby, and right now she was actually at my cabin, so somehow she is now at your cabin I presume?" The Goddess said calmly but her nose wrinkled slightly in disgust, think about what someone could do to it!
"Alright, I'm sorry, but could you please, for the love of the Gods, give me a bigger size in underwear." Her teeth were actually clattering. The Love Goddess disappeared inside of the walk-in closet and came out with the same pair of underwear, only in a size bigger. Annabeth gratefully took the underwear and went into the bathroom to change. Luckily, they fitted this time, better yet, Aphrodite had given her a loose shirt to put over the bra.
When she got out from the bathroom she saw a portable bed, the kind you would see at hospitals, and stacks of boxes, which declared themselves: "The most painless wax to date, just strip the wax on, enjoy it with a few glasses of red wine and peel of the strip when you have become immune to pain." Annabeth shook her head as she crawled into the bed and the Goddess started to put on several strips on different areas of her body.
"Okay, so I have this theory, if you feel pain at different places on your body it would rule each other out, right, like minus + minus = plus?" Annabeth snorted slightly at that, there was a reason that Aphrodite was a Goddess of Love and not wisdom, but before she could prove Aphrodite wrong, she cried out from pain. This was worse than getting a knife shoved through your arm at a traitor Demigod!
Nevertheless to say, Annabeth felt raw and naked after a good hour of waxing, but her whole body, without counting the head, were now perfectly hairless.
"How do you feel, Annabeth?" Aphrodite asked brightly, she was not sure if the Goddess had ever tried waxing, if so, she would know that you are NOT perfectly fine after a whole hour of it!
"Fine. Absolutely fine. Never been better," Annabeth said, each word was heavily dripping with sarcasm, and either Aphrodite didn't notice this or she just ignored it.
"Excellent, step two, finding your dress." Aphrodite looked as if she was a little kid on Christmas morning, who had just figured out that her parents had bought her the toy she wanted anyway!
"Yes, yes" Annabeth grumbled and went unwillingly into the massive closet. What hit her first was that this was almost, if not bigger, than throne room in Olympus, and there had to be twelve 20-foot Gods in there! Plus it was color AND occasion coordinated, Aphrodite really did have too much free time on her hands, she thought.
"Okay let's see, we have that and that and that, and yes, that'll do! No.. Meh, not my type, no, no, yes.." And it went on for almost five minutes, until Annabeth finally put her foot down and exclaimed that she didn't need to grow tired before she got to the party. They went out of the room, and a little remote control and "Piece of Me" By Britney Spears started to play. Aphrodite handed her a very red, and very tight dress, and Annabeth could do nothing but to try it on.
It didn't go well, when the zipper got to the "stomach" section of the back, it wouldn't budge, and even though Aphrodite even tried to make it budge, it refused so it ended up getting tossed in a pile for burning later. She handed her three other dresses, but they went the same fate as the others as they hadn't the same problem.
After an hour, they were almost running out of time, they had yet to pick shoes, hairstyle and makeup in only three hours!
At last Aphrodite had had enough, and helped Annabeth out of her shirt; as if that was the reasons the dresses didn't fit. She looked at the Goddess, who was currently staring at her abdomen.
"What?" She asked irritated, and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Nothing, Annabeth, don't take this the wrong way, but when are you due?"
Annabeth stopped glaring at her, and her mouth popped open into an 'O'.
"What the hell is that a kind of question to ask? Of course I am not pregnant! I merely ate too much lately!" She huffed, and she had completely forgotten her manners, and that she speaking with a Goddess, that was until she heard a very uncomfortable voice to have in you head, but yet familiar: Annabeth Chase , I expect higher language of you. You are my daughter and therefore you have to act like one! Being together on one-on-one company with "Barbiedoll," does not change anything. I expect you to act like you are actually sixteen-going on seventeen soon, instead of five.
Annabeth sighed, life was just so unfair, she was accused of being pregnant, which she of course wasn't, and her Mother was in her head.
"I am sorry, Lady Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, if my," or yours, she thought to herself, "childish behavior has ruined my chances of learning from you," as if, she adds again to herself, "and offended your warm hospitality, and offer to help me guide through the perfect ways of a lady." She finished with a bow, and a warm hand grabbed her shoulder and pulled her up.
"I accept, now let's try this dress on. It is perfect, tight at the breast, which makes your figure curvier, and it flows like a dream, I should know, I had it made for me." She looked proudly at her dress, and then, a little unwilling, gave her the dress to try on. It fit okay, it was a little tight around the chest, Annabeth thought smugly, but it fitted her height, and it really was a beautiful creation. (A/N: Link on profile)
Aphrodite clapped her hands again. "Perfect, I think we should go with simple gold strap stilettos, and maybe a white purse. I think I have some pearl ear.." Aphrodite stopped and examined Annabeth's earlobes, were two white pearls hung in a thin gold tread.
"I have to ask, where did you get those?" She asked. She obviously didn't like that SHE wasn't the one wearing them.
"Percy gave them to me." The answer was so simple, but she loved saying it, it was like declaring that Percy was hers to keep, she already knew this, but it was still nice.
"Really?" Of course! How could she have forgotten? Aphrodite was desperate on her 'Golden couple,' also known as her and Percy, Annabeth would have slapped herself from not seeing the hidden message inside the compliment.
"Yeah, and for your information everything is going fine, now can we please move onto the makeup part?" Aphrodite looked like she wanted to complain again, but she nodded curtly and pushed Annabeth down in a big, soft chair, the kind of chair where you imagine sinking into it.
Annabeth closed her eyes, and tried to stop the whole Britney Spears album from getting stuck in her head. A thought just hit her, and she made a grave mistake, she opened her eyes just as Aphrodite was about to put on a white, shimmering eye shadow, resulting a very irritated eye.
"Aphrodite, I am not the only one who is getting this kind of treatment am I?" She had her suspicions though, seeing as her and Percy were the love Goddess' favorite 'hobby,' everything about them had to be perfect for this kind of event.
"Oh no, Percy is getting his thing done with Apollo, I am of course going to go over it, and see if it is acceptable, and after my children are done with themselves, then they are happy to help the other Demigods." Annabeth rolled her eyes inwardly, like that was ever going to happen, the Aphrodite bunch were all too busy with themselves to help other people.
"Ahaa.. and done!" Aphrodite shrieked happily, and whirled Annabeth's stool around the mirror.
The first thing Annabeth thought was wow, the differences from the disaster she was this morning and to the stranger that looked back at her were amazing. Annabeth blinked, something was wrong, and she understood why. This didn't look like her, this looked like a mini-Aphrodite- intoxicating flawlessness of course, but too unreal and fake.
"Aphrodite, for the hair, could you do a 'stylish' messybun, so it stabilizes the look?"
"Silly, silly Annabeth, I already thought of this," Aphrodite said and with a twirl of her hand, her hair became more fuller, shinier but it was still in a messy bun.
"Thanks, and off I go." She felt so much lighter now that the hard part was done, she was ready to smile, wave and act like she actually wanted to be at this stupid party.
Aphrodite waved absently, and she hurried out of the door, still in the dress and shoes. She looked at a clock on the wall, it was almost six, that meant that the party started very soon, and she had almost been late, she shuddered to think of the consequences if she had.
"Hey Wise girl!" A voice said, and she smiled, how she had missed that voice. When she turned around, she almost lost her breath. Aphrodite had obviously checked the outfit, because it was stunning and fitted everywhere to perfection. Percy was wearing a very simple black jacket with a red tie, normal dark blue pants and his beloved black converse.
"Wow Seaweed brain, didn't know you had it in you."
"Well you certainly don't look like that every day at camp." He shot back, but planted a kiss on her cheek. She blushed and muttered a "stupid kelp head", but as the words left he mouths something very strange happened. A sound, that was most definitely not from her Mother, sounded inside of her head; it had sounded like a "Gurrghl.."
Annabeth froze, and looked around at the sound, but decided it was probably from inhaling all of the beauty products, and if it was, Aphrodite was going to pay!
To be continued.. Soon.
A/N: There, this was the longest chapter I have EVER written. Yay me! Even though I didn't get to 40, it is quality not quantity than counts, right? (Even though it would have been nice 8D)
Did you see the little Lockhart I did, with the smile? :D
So I'll just answer some reviews from yesterday.
From: LucylovesNathanSykes
Hey Luna, i really like this story. Its very original :-) The only thing: when is Annabeth gonna find out shes pregnant? I was thinking, maybe whenAphrodite is dressing her and the dress doesnt fit? Just a thought :-)Xoxoxo - Lucy TW
A: Thanks for your love words! Well, I used your idea partially. I think Aphrodite suspects it, while Annabeth stubbornly ignores it, so let's see how that goes :D
From: Mel
Awwwwww... I love them! Seriously, Percebeth is like the cutest couple ever! And no, I am not turning into Aphrodite. But really, really awesome story!:):):):):):):):):):)
A: Haha! Thanks :3 Now, are you sure of that?
From: SeaweedBrain113097
I like it! please update soon, I'm ur 35th reviewer. hehe. wat will happen to the new rule zeus did?
A: We will have to wait and see for the next chapter, where it will be declared, so tune in :D Thanks for the kind words :3
From:
I love my knight in red
Just kinda sad that you forgot Beckendorf, oh well. I love this keep it up you have a great beging here and I can't wait for more
A: OMG, I did, didn't I? Shame on me ): Well, I have edited it, so now I haven't, but thanks for pointing out the mistake (the chapther is dedicated to you!) and thank you, I try :D