A/N: Sorry for the once again late update. I was busy. Yes, preparing for school and stuff. (Our classes start on June 15. Saaaad, right? Yep, STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY. SIGH.) AND, umm…if ever any of you absolutely hate me for always updating very late, not thanking you guys enough for your wonderful reviews and finally for my very long A/Ns, I am very guilty about it all…and I'm sorry.

Oh, since our classes already start on the 15th day of this week, then please don't hate me because once I have so much to worry about in school, I will update only during the weekends and it probably will take me a much, much longer time to update than usual. I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE.

Okay, I am sorry for the use of all CAPS and this once again long A/N.

Disclaimer/s: I am not Rick Riordan therefore I did not write those 5 wonderful books (which I love). SIGH. Oh. And, I also don't own the 'wizard book' Annabeth was reading AKA Harry Potter. JK Rowling wrote those 7 magical books (which I also absolutely love). Double sigh. BUT! I do own…copies of those books. Okay, that was supposed to make me feel better…

Part 7 – Seaweedbob SquarebrainPants

It took about an hour and a half before Percy finally fell asleep. It was already getting late, or should I say, very early in the morning…it was already 2:30 AM and still, I had to put my plan into action.

So, I went very quietly towards Seaweed Brain's cabinet and flung it open. And saw something I wasn't really expecting. Nico and Natasha were…not there. (I bet you thought I'd say that they were kissing or something, now, didn't you?)

But anyway, back to the point. THEY WEREN'T THERE. I'M SAYING AN EMPTY CABINET HERE. It's completely empty. It looked like no one even used it. I BEGAN TO PANIC. Once again. I mean you leave two kids unattended in a cabinet and come back seeing it spotless. (It seems like people just sort of just suddenly disappear…I mean 1st it was Percy, now it was these two.)

But then, I started thinking (more like hoping) that maybe he already went to his dad's realm with Natasha and did his task. That thought calmed down just a little bit but I was still worried.

After a few minutes of me pacing back and forth, well, guess who showed up in the corner of the room via shadow-travel.

Nico obviously still didn't see me because he was just casually talking to (or maybe flirting with) Natasha. Probably because he wasn't brave enough to face me. Or…maybe it was the fact that I forgot to remove my Yankees cap…hehe, my bad.

When I finally took my cap off, he didn't notice me for awhile but when he saw me; his eyes were as big as saucers. He backed away slowly, away from me. He probably knew that I'd be worried and maybe also because of the fact that I had a stern and deadly expression.

"NICO DI ANGELO! How could you just leave and not say something?" I scolded him.

(I could hear Natasha whisper: "Ooooh, somebody's in troubleeeee" while smirking.)

"Er, I did what you wanted. I hid the clothes already." He said and smiled innocently.

"But I didn't ask you to go without my signal and you made me worried sick. You're specially a son of Hades, one of the Big Three. You know how much your scent attracts monsters?" I practically screeched.

"Sorry. Natasha was also with me anyway. So, if a monster attacked me, I'd have back-up. And anyway, why do you even care?" He said with a hint of superiority and curiosity.

"Why would I care? Why would I even care? I'm responsible for the both of you, so if any of you get hurt, I will never forgive myself. Especially you, Nico. You're like a little brother to me and Percy. You may not really see it, but people care about you. Don't ever assume that no one loves you." I said with sincerity and straight from my heart. AND after that, much to the displeasure of Nico, I hugged him and Natasha very tightly.

When I let go, he looked a little red-faced. Maybe because he didn't want the girl he liked to see him get almost crushed to death or maybe it was the fact that he couldn't breathe when I embraced him. Hehe.

"Um…so, will we still write on your boyfriend's face?" Natasha suddenly asked me.

"Oh…about that…I thought about it and maybe…we shouldn't." I told her.

"WHAT?" Death Boy asked, obviously shocked and slightly disappointed.

"Yup. I think that he'll suffer enough already. And anyway, look how adorable he is." I said dreamily. WOW. Aphrodite definitely has issues with me.

Nico was just pretending to vomit. How nice.

"Okay, so I guess that we're done here." Natasha said.

"I guess so." I replied.

"Well, shouldn't we be going now?" Nico asked impatiently.

"Oh. Oh, right, right. Umm…let me just say goodnight to Percy." I told him.

Nico just 'kindly' responded by just mustering a face of disgust on his face. I just rolled my eyes at him.

I then walked towards Percy's bed and kissed the top of his forehead and whispered: "Goodnight, Seaweed Brain."

After that, I walked back towards Nico (who once again had a very sickly face maybe because of me kissing Seaweed Brain on the forehead…) and Natasha and proceeded to go out and go back to our own cabins and prepared for the day ahead.

"Annabeth, Annabeth, WAKE UP. You're going to miss breakfast." My brother, Malcolm told me while shaking my shoulder.

I was going to protest but I then I remembered that today, I would finally see if my prank on Percy worked. My head then shot up, knowing that I am fully and absolutely wide awake right now. My brother, Malcolm, just had a very confused expression. I just greeted him good morning cheerily. Well, I think I was too happy and chirpy because Malcolm just raised an eyebrow and continued that very befuddled and slightly amused look on his face. I just let it slide as if this was just another normal day…which clearly wasn't.

I just walked (Or rather, skipped) to the bathroom to fix myself up. When I was done, I went out and braced myself for the very weird glances that I knew I'd get for being so overly happy. (Haha, just kidding. Sort of.)

When I sat down on our table, I braced myself for what might happen when Percy would go out of his cabin when I would be eating my breakfast. (Would I spit my breakfast out in the face of probably a half-sibling of mine? Will I collapse because of giggling too much when I see him? Will I choose to laugh hysterically instead of giggling like a well-mannered person? Haha, just kidding again.) Okay, I am now realizing that I am way too giddy or just LOSING MY MIIIIND. Ohkaay, seriously now, I really did brace myself but not for the reasons I have stated above/before. I prepared myself for the following: seeing Percy suffer, his cheeks becoming a lovely tomato color, me also blushing (I usually don't but I probably will given the circumstances…) and other fairly embarrassing things that may happen…

Anyway after that, I realized that I was actually pretty nervous. I never really did prank Percy; probably the worst I've done to him was to force him to read a new book I bought (which for once wasn't about architecture or buildings; it was about this boy who was actually a wizard. It really was interesting and very, very…magical. He didn't read it because he said that he has ADHD and he wouldn't be able to concentrate on it anyway, but I could tell he was slightly interested in the book. Only slightly because he seemed to like the cover and at least listened to me when I explained some parts in the book and didn't yawn. He didn't bother learning the names of some of the main characters correctly though; he said that their names were Henry Putter, Roy Weasel and Germyione Stranger.) Yup. Such a Seaweed Brain he is.

Anyways, going back to eating my breakfast and waiting for who I know would be the highlight of the morning (and in any case you haven't noticed I am talking about Percy, the ultimate Kelpface.) I was just chewing on a piece of bacon when the Aphrodite cabin suddenly suppressed tons of girly giggles and some of the other cabins gave out whoops and some were even wolf-whistling. And that's when I knew that SeaweedBob SquareBrainPants had finally awoken and walked into the dining pavilion wearing only a white undershirt and a pair of bright yellow boxers.

I had to endure about 5 minutes of blushing ridiculously red. Well, mostly because that was how long Chiron talked to (and maybe even scolded)him and he was just standing there awkwardly. And partially because that was the time when all the other campers were teasing me…you know, saying weird things…it was awkward and embarrassing.

After awhile though, when I had finally gotten over being the color of a tomato and Percy finally sat down on his table and I wasn't looking at him, well, I was actually trying to avoid looking at him because I knew that I'd turn scarlet red again. After awhile though, I finally gave up and looked at him, apparently he was looking at me too so when I caught his gaze I saw that his eyes were full of sadness and embarrassment. (Well, I have to admit I knew he was embarrassed because his cheeks were red but the eyes say so too. EH, I think. WAIT, I am a daughter of Athena, technically, I don't think…I KNOW. MWAHAHAHAHA, okay that was out-of-character, so moving on…)

I just smiled sympathetically at him to make him feel better then looked down and ate some of my breakfast. When I looked at him again, I saw that he was still staring at me so, I just raised an eyebrow at him but he still wouldn't look away. I knew what I had to do, I had to…start a staring contest with him, yup, you heard me correctly.

Seaweed Brain and I couldn't eat properly since we couldn't look at our plates while eating because we knew we'd break eye contact. (I now hate myself and him for being so competitive.) So, the result? Well, it wasn't pretty. We had butter, strawberry jam, breadcrumbs, ketchup and even a stray piece of bacon on our shirts and I think even our faces had some traces of breakfast food. And then…Percy just burst out laughing, which I am proud to say made him lose…and earned him weird glances from the other cabins AND a stern and somewhat concerned look from Chiron. He did look crazy. I mean, think about it this way. A guy who looked like he dived (I mean this literally) into a breakfast buffet was laughing...hysterically. I would've looked the same except I wasn't laughing hysterically, I was giggling politely. Or was I? Hehe. Who cares? As long as I cheered him up, it was fine with me.

After breakfast, I headed to my cabin and Percy headed to his own cabin too but apparently, Chiron was following behind. I didn't really think anything of it until I remembered that Chiron might be there to inspect his cabin and look for his clothes. OH NO. OH NO. OH NO. OH NOOOO.

I quickly thought of a plan. Okay. First of all, I had to look for Nico so that, he could shadow-travel to the Underworld and back. Then, I had to stall Chiron and Percy. That's sounds easy enough, right?

A/N: I'm sorry if I left you all at a cliffhanger. (Please don't send me to Hades.)It's just that it would be too long if I continued it (I personally don't like it that much if a chapter is too long because it seems less fun and exciting…) and I need to go already. I'm sorry. And I'm also sorry for some errors and stuff. I also don't have much time right now to edit. And also, something else. Um…actually I'm not really happy about this chapter…I know I could've done better and improved it and stuff. Sorry, again.

But please reviewww. It would mean a lot to me.