Hey, I know it's not the weekend but I had homework, first week preparation. Then there was writing this chapter and proofreading it, it just took up an extra day. The most important thing to me is that I update regularly and that I'm having fun writing it. Well, I'm cuttin the chit-chat, on with the story. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy or the other characters cause I'm not Rick Riordan. But unlike Rick, I own Teresa and Jason. So, hands off. :)

The Briliant Plan

We came out of the dinner full. We knew that if we go straight to the car we would be very uncomfortable. So we walked around the small town we were in. Along the way, we came across a water park named Water World (A/N: It is not the same one from the books). Both, Percy and Annabeth, stood there in shock. Maverick and I promtly stopped behind them, but Jason didn't noticed that they stopped and bumped into Percy.

"Uh... sorry. Why we are stopping?" he asks baffled.

He never did get he answer. He just saw why they stopped. When I finally looked at the name of this place I just sighed and started to walk away.

"Forget about it. It was six years ago, move on already. Jees." I said. I patted Percy's shoulder as I walked on by. I guess that snapped them out of their shock, 'cause they followed me afterwards.

Thirty minutes later, we were back at the car. We still had a long way to go, but Percy said that we might arrive by night-fall. Again, a long way to go, it was eight o'clock in the morning. I was bored out of my mind. As I stared out the window (you see why I'm bored? Only thing to do is stare out a window), a plan began to form itself in my head. I turned to Jason, smiling mischievously at him, and told him my awesome plan. He counted himself in and I told him to tell Maverick as well. He also agreed in being part of this plan. So they sat there silently, waiting for my signal. After ten minute, I finally spoke.

"Hey, Percy?"

"Yes." he replied.

"Are we there, yet?" I asked like a little kid. Jason and Maverick were trying not to laugh.

"No." Percy answered me.

"Oh... okay." I simply said. We waited another ten minutes before continuing with the plan.

"Percy?" this time, Jason said.

"What."

"Are we there, yet?" again, we were trying not to laugh.

"No. We still need about twelve more hours." he told him.

"Okay." was his only reply. We waited yet another ten minutes.

"Um..Percy?" Maverick called to him.

"Yeah?" he said.

"Are we there, yet?" he asked innocently. Percy groaned as he tensed with frustration.

"No. Not yet." he said as calmly as he can muster. Though some anger slipped in, too.

You'd think that we would stop there, huh? Well, think again. We don't work that way. We just waited half an hour this time. When it was time, I looked at both Jason and Maverick and nodded. We sat there like we weren't up to something, and all of a sudden, we said in unison.

"Are we there, yet?" Percy just groaned again and we laugh at his frustration. We stopped laughing with a big sigh and continued with our previous 'activities'. Though we were interrupted ten minutes later.

"Percy? Are we there, yet?" asked...Annabeth? Percy groaned, yet again. Everyone else was just laughed.

"Not you too?" He said fully annoyed.

"Oh, come on, Seaweed Brain. We're just messing with you." Annabeth said after taking a share of the laughter.

"Hey, Annabeth?" I asked her.

"You better not ask me if we're there yet." she bit out angrily.

"No, it's not that, I promise." I told her.

"What, then?" she said annoyed.

"Since you have a pet name for Percy, does this means he's your horse?" I questioned, causing everyone to laugh even Percy, well sort of. In the background, I heard Maverick yell out 'burn', which made me laugh even harder. With the laughter out of my system now, I looked out the window just to find a ranch. I was attempted to make another joke.

"Hey, look Percy. It's your brothers and sisters." I couldn't resist the temptation; Everyone started to laugh again. I was on a roll. Everything was so serious these last couple of days, so I guess this did us some good.

"Oh, why didn't I think of that before?" Percy said, though mostly to himself really.

"What?" everyone asked him. Percy stared at Annabeth and she knew what he just meant.

"Oh, that. No, Percy. The correct way is 'why did I think of it?'" Annabeth said.

"Okay, I give. What are you guys talking about?" I interrogated them.

"Centaurs. We can ride them back to camp." Percy answered me.

"Oh, yeah." I was starting to remembering everything about the centaurs. "We would arrive at camp in about ten to twenty minutes, right? No."

"No what."Percy asked.

"Forget it." I said crossing my arms.

When we finally arrived at the ranch, Percy told us he was going to talk to the horses to see if they knew where to find the centaurs. Jason and Maverick tagged along. Annabeth stayed in the co-pilot seat, sort of depressed. I got out of the car, as if I was going with the guys, but once I turned the car I hop back in the car.

"I thought you going with them." Annabeth said.

"Nah." I confirmed her. "I'm not really 16" I said after a few moments of silence.

"Then how old are you?" she asked.

"15 and eleven months." I answered. "And about my dad." I continued.

"What about your dad?" she interrogated me.

"He died when I was 7. Thinking about that day always brings me down. That's why I didn't want to talk about it." I told her.

"Why are you telling me this then?"

"'Cause you told me something that bothered you and that was personal to you. So, why wouldn't I do the same. You know, make things even." I explained to her.

"Oh, well that makes sense." she said feeling a little stupid.

"Well, it should. Hey and about Percy, I know you two have a little spat. And also that it's an unfair verbal fight." I told her

"What do you mean unfair fight?" she asks.

"I mean that Percy has something that Athena and her children don't want against her and/or them." I told her

"Yeah, what's that?" she asks, chuckling.

"Leverage. Percy has too much leverage on you. He knows that you'll never leave him. So, what you should do is make him regret that he ever did that look." I advised her.

"Right. Hey, look the guys are coming back." she said giddy.

When the guys finally approached the car, we asked them what happened and Percy said that they didn't know where to find any centaurs around here. So, we were stuck driving. And it's going to take half a day.

Ugh! This is going to be extremely boring. I thought. But what can I do, I got to live through it.

Tell me, was this chapter funnier than chapter 8's final joke? My favorite joke was the pet name one. And I had to add the 'Are we there, yet?', it's such a classic, its like why not put it in a traveling story? I repeat I don't care if you review or not. If you do, I thank you. If you don't, that's prefectly fine, I don't care *stifles a tear*. Who needs you anyways. Any who, I won't update 'til the weekend. I still recommend for you to sign up for the Story Alert. Very helpful. 'Til five more days. Ugh! That'll take forever. *annoyed* See ya. DX