A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update! I had temporary writers block.
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Chapter 9
Annabeth POV
Even though I was awake at about 1am last night, I still woke up at 6:00am. This was mainly because I had a really good idea to make life easier for demigods trying to get from Camp Half-Blood to Camp Jupiter. What if we could create a tunnel that connects the two camps?
I IMed Chiron and Reyna to suggest this idea to them and they both agreed on it. So we'll need to get Hazel to create a tunnel between the two camps and the Hephaestus/Vulcan children to reinforce the tunnel. I began planning the design of the tunnel immediately. Then I remembered that Percy was in the same bed as me. I had to get both of us out of here so people wouldn't know because who knows what they would think, probably that we did it?
I shook Percy awake. "Seaweed Brain! Wake up!" Percy replied by rolling over and muttering "Five more minutes." "Seaweed Brain, do you know what people would think if they knew we slept in the same bed?" He sat up at that. "Okay I'll go back to my room and you go back to the living room." He kissed me goodbye then sleepily walked back to his room. I sighed in relief and snuck back to the living room to see all the girls awake, staring at me. Then Rachel said "We get that you love Percy but really? While we're here?" She smirked at me. "Oh gods! No nothing happened! I had a finished the plans for Mount Olympus and was quietly celebrating but then Percy heard me and came in. We then IMed Chiron and told him. After, we decided that we didn't want to leave the other person so we fell asleep." Piper replied "Right, I think your missing that part where you and Percy, you know-" "Seriously? I would tell you if anything happened!" I said. "Okay, we believe you." Hazel and Katie said. I really like Hazel, she's loyal and kind. I looked over at Thalia who was asleep in a really strange position with her leg up near her head and her arms stretched out across her bed. I winked at the girls and gestured to the camera next to Katie. Katie grinned at me then picked up the camera and took photos of Thalia asleep. I quietly laughed thinking of all the things I could use this for blackmail. She has done it to me so many times before and I think it's payback time.
I went back to sleep for another hour then woke up and went to have breakfast. When I got there most of the people were there. Except for the heavy sleepers such as Thalia, Percy and Nico. Sally was in the middle of serving pancakes when Thalia and Nico came out and asked for embarrassing baby stories of Percy. Everyone laughed and leaned forward in anticipation. "Well, there was this one time…"
Percy POV
I eventually woke up and came out into the kitchen to see my mum telling everyone baby stories of me. "He had managed to turn on the hose which was flying around from the water pressure and the funniest part was because he was-" "I think that's enough mum!" I interrupted. Thalia came up to me, ruffled my hair and said "Aww! Is baby Percy okay? Or do you need Mr Fluffy Bottom?" Everyone burst out laughing and I looked at my mum with a look saying really-you-had-to-tell-them-my-baby-stories. Thalia was doubling over in laughter. I sighed knowing that they wouldn't stop laughing for a while so went over to my mum kissed her on the cheek and went to eat my breakfast. Annabeth came and sat next to me. She kissed me on the cheek but whispered "Don't worry, the girls and I have the perfect blackmail for Thalia." I smiled and quickly whipped my head around so she was kissing my lips. She smiled against them then pulled away to my disappointment.
Annabeth POV
After breakfast we drove to the shopping centre. We got out and decided to spilt up, girls and boys and meet up at 12:00 in the food court so we could have lunch together.
Piper immediately took us a shop that only sold dresses. She went up to the salesperson and said "Where are your party dresses?" The salesperson directed us to a wall filled with dresses. I do have to admit I was rather impressed. I started looking through them when I found a gorgeous grey dress. It had wide straps holding up the dress but the straps didn't go over the shoulder. The dress came down and had elastic around the waist. The fabric fell down from the elastic in a floaty way and reached to just above my knees. The dress was very simple but had small green and blue patterns across the elastic. I went to try it on and it was perfect. Even though I don't normally like wearing dresses, I loved this one. I bought it then waited for the others. Calypso bought a fiery red dress, Hazel bought a multi-coloured dress but its main colour was gold, Katie bought a floral dress, Thalia bought a simple black dress, Rachel bought a green, black and white dress and Piper bought a sky blue dress.
We went shoe shopping next, or really Calypso, Hazel, Katie and Piper went shoe shopping. I refused to wear anything other than converses, Thalia wanted to wear her combat boots and Rachel already had shoes to wear. Thalia and I followed the others while they went from shop to shop looking at shoes but not buying anything. I said to Thalia and Rachel "Why are they making such a big deal over a party? I would prefer to just wear shorts." They nodded in agreement. Eventually they all bought shoes to match their dresses.
We met back at the food court and bought lunch. Percy and I shared a pizza but Percy pretty much ate it all and I had 3 pieces. Suddenly, I thought of something. "Did Brad" (the jock guy holding the party) "say anything about swimming?" I asked. Percy thought about it for a moment, "Well, he has a pool so I suspect we will be swimming." "Okay" I said, "We'll have to bring swimmers." Piper quickly said, "I'll pack the swimmers!" I looked at her suspiciously "Sure." We continued talking normally until Connor accidentally flicked his salad from his cheeseburger at Thalia. She looked at Connor as if she was going to kill him then she threw some of her sandwich at him. Seeing this, Leo yelled "FOOD FIGHT!" at everyone then threw his lunch at Jason. Let's just say that it spiralled into chaos as someone from another table threw food at his friend and this started the entire food court to have a huge food fight. Leo sat down undusted his hands then said "My work here is done." Then we all got up and left.
When we arrived back at Percy's apartment, we were covered in food. When Sally saw us, she spat out the tea she was drinking then nicely said "Go outside now. I will be with you in a moment." We turned around and trouped back outside, waiting for Sally. Sally then came outside and yelled "Say Cheese!" We smiled then we were laughing our heads off. I looked up at Percy who was smiling his troublemaker smile and looking at the hose. Suddenly, the hose exploded and water was raining down on us. We were having so much fun with water fights until Piper sent us back in to get ready.
The girls got changed into our dresses and we took probably a little too long getting ready because we heard Connor yell "If you don't come down in five minutes, we're coming up!" So, we came downstairs. When I came down, I smirked at Percy's expression. "You know, you're catching flies like that." He closed his mouth and said "You look absolutely gorgeous." I blushed and said "You don't look so bad yourself." Actually, that was probably the understatement of the century. Piper looked at the time and said "Let's go! We don't want to be late!" I sighed and we filed into the cars.
When we arrived, I sighed and said "Showtime" as I stepped out of the car.