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Chapter Ten

Thalia and I were sitting on the couch watching TV. Juniper was getting ready for a date with Grover.

"Hey, Annabeth?" she called down the stairs.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Come here." I went upstairs to see what she wanted.

"I forgot to tell you something…" she started.

"What?" I said cautiously.

"Well…me and Grover ran into Percy one day. We said hi and stuff, and said we should double date sometime. He agreed."

"Okay?"

"Well, you should probably get ready! They'll be here in about fifteen minutes!" Juniper said in one breath.

"Are you saying you said I'd be there without even telling me? And now I have fifteen minutes to get ready to go to an insanely fancy restaurant?"

Juniper just smiled.

"Fine," I said leaving to get ready.

I pulled on a navy blue dress that was knee length with spaghetti straps. I had a white cardigan and white heels. My hair was in a low side pony tail. I went downstairs just as the doorbell rang.

"Try not to blow up the place," I told Thalia. She smiled mischievously.

"No promises." Juniper sighed and we got the door.

At the restaurant we sat in a booth. Juniper and I on one side, the boys on the other.

"So Grover. Are you being nice to my best friend?" I asked Grover very seriously. He looked kind of scared.

"Y-yes. Of course. I would never brake her fragile heart." He said just as seriously. I smiled.

"Good." Juniper blushed. We talked and somehow the topic got to arachnids.

All I heard was, "Blah, blah, blah SPIDERS. Blah, blah, blah SPIDERS." And so on. Every time someone said the 's' word, my face got paler.

"Annabeth, are you okay?" Percy asked, worried.

"Yeah, fine," I chocked out. I saw juniper smile.

"She is deathly afraid of spiders." She explained. The boys started laughing at me. I had recovered, so I could talk now.

"What are you laughing at?" I asked, throwing my napkin at Percy. They didn't get to answer, because at that time the waiter brought the check. We left and Juniper went with Grover back to his place. Percy and I went to his apartment.

Dog and Mrs. O'Leary were happy to see me. We were going to watch Grownups so I went to the kitchen to make popcorn. When I opened the microwave, I screamed. It was a scream that would make you think that someone was being murdered. I slammed to microwave closed as Percy ran into the kitchen.

"What's wrong?" Percy asked confused. I ran into his arms crying. "What is it, Annabeth? Please tell me." He used his thumb to wipe a tear off of my cheek. I pointed at the microwave. He walked up to it and opened it. He started to laugh.

"Stop laughing! Kill it!" I yelled at him. In the microwave was a spider.

"I can't believe your crying over this. That has to be the smallest spider I have ever seen." He said still laughing. He did the good boyfriend thing and got a paper towel and threw the spider in the trash. I thanked him and we watched the movie.