Chapter 9
Annabeth POV
"Annabeth! Oh my gods you need to look at the constellations!" Piper dragged me outside onto a balcony near the Mirror Room.
"Why do I need to?" I asked her indifferent to her pushing.
"Because you'll love them. The stars are so bright tonight! It's so pretty!"
I sighed. "Fine, come on. We'll go look at them."
"Wait, I forgot to get my jacket! I'll be right back. You just wait outside." She pushed me past the door and locked it behind me.
I knocked on the door. "Piper, open up!" She had moved along the hallway by then, as I growled in anger at her.
I slumped down onto a bench on the paved path. Might as well sit and wait.
Percy POV
Fifteen minutes earlier, Luke told me we were going to throw water balloons off the balcony at the rest of the guys. Now he's locked me out and won't let me in.
I had heard voices and hid behind the door.
I listened but there the words all jumbled together. I walked around the balcony and realized it led to another one. There were chairs here too.
I sat down in one of them and heard a voice. "Percy?"
Her grey eyes met my green ones and I melted. For once she wasn't glaring at me. "Annabeth, I-"
But before I could finish my sentence, she had buried herself in my arms.
Piper POV
When I got to breakfast everyone was there except for Hazel and Thalia. Their new guitars had come today.
As if on cue, Hazel ran into the room, new guitar in hands. She played a bass riff and laughed maniacally. "It came! YES!" It was gold with gold pegs and a black fingering board. The gems on it was in an ombre from red to purple then the stones became smaller and smaller until it faded away and it was gold. She jumped up and down. "Come on, come on, come on! Let's go play!"
The boys stared at her for a second before resuming their breakfast.
"Hazel," Calypso said in between bites. "We're eating."
Hazel mumbled something and slumped into her seat, guitar in her arms. She played random chords that somehow fit together. Hazel was cool like that. She could make stuff up on the spot. Both music and excuses.
Thalia entered. Her sweatshirt was wrapped around her. The words track and field were scratched off and it looked like it was because of a knife, not washing and rewashing.
Wait. Thalia was never in track and field. She was in soccer.
When she sat in the only empty seat across from Luke I saw the name on her back.
Even though it was ripped off I could tell what it had said.
Castellan.
Luke visibly stiffened.
Thalia held out her hand towards him. "Oh, hello. I'm Thalia. No last name please. You must be new here."
Luke, relief passing over his face, shook her hand. "Hi Thalia. I'm Luke Castellan. Yes, I am new here."
"Uhh." Percy looked back and forth between the two. "Don't you two, like, know each other? You dated for a year."
Thalia cocked her head at Percy. "I don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen this man until today." She turned back to Luke. "I play electric for the Sirens."
"Really? I play electric for 5 Crazy Godlings." Luke smiled at her but there was something missing from that smile. Love.
Thalia swallowed a bite of her pancakes. "Looks like we're more similar than I thought." She smirked. "Cool."
"Umm, Thals?" Hazel asked, setting down her guitar.
Thalia looked at her.
"You and Luke know each other. You hate each other."
"No, I don't. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go play." Thalia stood and walked out of the room. Percy got up and quickly went behind her. "Thalia! Wait!"
Once they disappeared we turned to Luke. "What's up?"
Annabeth put down her fork. "No. Luke stop it. Stop whatever you're doing. You frickin' know Thalia Grace so don't-"
"Don't call her that!" We all turned to Jason.
Gods, why is he such a-
"Why do you care?" Hazel asked cooly, propping her feet up on the table and tilting her chair on two legs. "You never cared about Thalia before?"
He opened his mouth as if her was going to say something but then thought better of it and shut his mouth.
"That's what I thought."
Luke got up. "I'll talk to you guys later. I got to go. I'm working my new single today."
"Ooh." Annabeth sat up in her chair. "What's it called?"
"I'm thinking Payphone." He left without another word.
Hazel looked at us. "So, what are we gonna do today?"
I shrugged. "I don't know about you guys but me and Percy are having a movie marathon."
"Then I know what I'm doing." Annabeth looked between both of us but she landed on Percy. "That's okay with you right?"
Percy nodded. "Sure."
I looked at them. Their eyes met and they both blushed. Something happened between them. Yes! It worked! I made eye contact with Leo and he raised his eyebrows at the pair. I laughed, getting everyone's attention except for the two lovebirds.
Percy and Annabeth both looked away. Percy got up, banging his knee on the table in the process, and said stuttering, "I- um- I'll be- I gotta go." He ran out mumbling to himself about his stupidity when he ran into the wall beside the door. He muttered and cursed and ran out, red in the face.
Annabeth giggled and shook her head knowingly.
Okay, this girl has got a lot to tell us. Annabeth Chase does not giggle.
Hazel seemed to have read my mind. "Boys out." Frank, Leo and Jason looked at her.
"But-" Jason started.
"Out."
"Gods, no need to be rude." Jason left, as I mimicked him rudely.
Leo and Frank got up and quickly walked out.
We leaned towards Annabeth as soon as they left. Calypso gave her a questioning look and Hazel wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.
Annabeth just continued eating, a faint blush still on her cheeks. She looked up and asked with her mouth full, "What?"
"Annabeth Chase, you're in loooove," Hazel mocked and giggled.
She sputtered while we all laughed at her almost purple face.
"No! That's not true. Percy and I are just friends." She smiled at his name and looked down into her plate.
"Friends with benefits?" I snickered.
"What? No. Pfshh. You must be kidding me?" She phrased it as a question.
Calypso chuckled and went over to Annabeth. "Annie, come on. We all know you guys had a history."
"And, Luke told me that you still have feelings for him." I blurted out. Everyone looked at her.
"Annabeth, is that true?" Calypso asked gently.
Annabeth sighed before glaring at me, and nodded very quickly. My smile broadened and I started bouncing in my chair, while the rest of the girls started squealing.
Those two are going to be together by the end of the marathon tonight, and I for one, am going to do anything to make sure of it.
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The song finished with a flourish, their noses almost touching. She couldn't stop herself from crying.
She pushed him away, lifting up her dress and ran to the girls' restroom.
"Wait!" He shouted across the set, racing after her.
She pushed the door closed, before he could come in. Her face was streaked by her salty tears and running makeup.
Her hands gripped the sink as she trembled, trying to contain herself. She couldn't believe that she actually fell for that stupid idiot, with his curly black hair and mischievous brown eyes. His jokes and games. But it was all a lie.
He knocked on the door.
"Sunshine, you in there?" His gentle voice made her melt. She pinched herself and held her breath.
"Come on out, Callie. We're waiting for you!" He pleaded with her, but he sounded confused.
He left Calypso, for that girl, with the cold mistrusting eyes and black straight sheet of hair reaching her mid-back. The model, Khione. Calypso wasn't good enough for Leo. She asked him to wait for her, until she could get off the record label with her father, but he wasted no time to get those other girls.
Calypso always believed in him, even when others didn't. He told her he always felt like a third wheel with Jason and PIper, but then she made him feel better when he was around her. When all the rumors were spread about him being a player, Calypso always just believed that he was the one being played instead.
She believed in him when she shouldn't have and she lost herself to him.
The biggest mistake she could have ever made.
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