Annabeth

A few days later Percy sent a text on the group chat reading:

Seaweed4brain: Hey! Party at 1734 Westman Avenue Saturday night starting at 8!

Seaweed4brain: For directions don't ask me I'm horrible at giving them. Instead ask your friendly neighborhood Wisegirl!

Which of course got everyone asking me why I knew where it was. So I had to tell them about helping set up but I didn't want to tell them to much.

Three days later Piper was knocking at my door. Somehow she managed to convince me and Thals to let her pick out our outfits. Behind her was Thals and I nearly died for three reasons. 1 she was wearing a dress. 2 it was stunning. 3 I realized Piper would probably make me wear a dress!

Thalia was wearing a tight, shiny purple dress with a silver belt. The thing was beautiful and the colors where definitely her even if it was a dress. Piper was wearing a long sparkly pink dress that was also pretty but it didn't have as much effect on me because she always wore dresses. by the time we left my house I had been forced into a short shiny silver dress that camw to just above my knees. It was pretty but it would look better on someone else. It ended in a small skirt and thankfully wasnt as tight as Thalia's dress but I still would have prefered to just go in my jeans and a shirt.

I didn't see why we couldn't just wear regular clothes but there was no use arguing with Piper. When she wanted you to wear something you would wear it. In fact if she wanted you to do anything you would do it. I don't really know why but when she asked you to do something it was almost like you were hypnotized. Like you had no choice and had to do what she asked. After they forced me into the dress we all piled into her car, Jason and Luke were waiting in the car, and drove to the party.

When we got to the place we parked in the drive way and could already hear the music coming from the house thanks to all the speakers Percy set up. We climbed out of the car and walked towards the door where Percy was arguing with Drew. "How do you even know about this party! This wasn't supposed to be public its just for me and my friends!" Percy told her.

Drew touched his arm with a long painted finger nail, "Aren't we friends?" she asked in a low voice and Percy, being the idiot he is, was too nice to say no.

"Well... yeah I guess but this is for my friends from my old home to meet my friends from New York. You shouldn't have brought a million guests with you," he said.

"I'm sorry I didn't think you would mind. Luke told me you said I could bring a few friends," Drew said while taking a step closer to Percy. I wanted to walk over there and slap her! She was... lying! She had to be but obviously Percy didn't realize this cause I could see his eyes narrowing from here. "I'll make sure my friends don't make to much of a mess. I'll be inside," she said and raced into the party before Percy could protest anymore.

Then Percy saw us and his eyes lit up. He walked over to us and started talking. "Most of my friends are already inside. Sadly Drew heard about it and her and a handeful of the girls she bullies into being her friends are also here," he told us. Then he turned to look at me and said with a wink, "You should see the paint job! It's horrible! They didn't make any mistakes at all! I bet they didn't have any fun doing it!"

Piper, Thalia, and Luke looked at me. They clearly wanted to know what he was talking about. All I told them was that I helped Percy and his friend set up the party.

"Come on lets get this party started! All my friends are excited to meet you," he said. Now everyone was looking at him. Percy led us into the party and introduced us to the people we didn't know. There was Grover talking to a tall girl in a green dress about saving the trees. Percy told us that the girl was called Juniper and I remembered the name from the day Percy got shot.

Then he introduced us to Beckendorf, kind of a wierd name but whatever, and his pretty girlfriend Silena. Last he introduced us to a girl named Clarisse. She was scary. She was way taller than me and had muscles to match Beckendorf's.

His friend group from home was rather smaller than I expected. He seemed like the kind of person to be friends with everyone in the whole school. Also his friends didn't seem like the popular kind either. Two nature obsessed friends, a mean girl, a mechanic, and one pretty girl. Not exactly top of the school. The first part of the party was pretty standard. A bit of alcohol and some dancing. Lots of music and talking. But then Grover dragged Percy upstairs and they where up there for a while. Finally they came down with a box. The two boys led everyone in the party out to the large backyard that was right past the giant pool.

Set up in the lawn was a huge screen and from the box they took out and set up an old projector. They put in a random roll of film and waited to see what the movie was. I recognized it right away. It was a kind of old romance movie. A surprisingly large number of people stayed to watch the movie and only left once ot started to rain. Coincidently when it started raining in the movie it also started raining in real life. It was close to the end so they didn't miss much anyway. I decided to finish the movie. It brought back memories of me watching it with my real mother.

A few minutes after everyone went inside A shadow fell over me and I looked up. It was Percy. He was soaking wet so I figured he must have stayed to watch the movie too. It was really close to the end now. The characters were about to start dancing in the rain. Percy offered me his hand and pulled me to my feet. We danced along with the characters in the movie and it was great. Somehow the rain made it better instead of worse. Then Percy pulled me in closer to him and the world ended.

Okay not really but for all I care it could have. I would have died happy. With Percy kissing me.