"Happy birthday Twiggy." Thalia said. Annabeth was holding Twig. "Can you say thank you?"
"Thank you, Auntie Thalie." Twig said. Thalia lauged. "Where Uncle Nico?"
"He's getting your present."
"You know," I said, coming up behind Annabeth. "I think you and Nico getting married is going to be awesome."
"I know." Annabeth agreed. Thalia nodded. Nico burst through the door holding a box that was pretty big and looked really heavy. "Gods Nico! Really?"
"Nothings to big for my fav gal. Besides you Thalia." Thalia laughed.
"Come on Nico. Let's go put this up." Nico and I walked over to the present table.
Annabeth's Pov
Thalia went over to sit by Grover and Juniper, he got here an hour early. The Stoll brothers burst through the door playing their party cazoos and plopped a party hat on Twig's head. She giggled. Travis and Connor, even at 18, made Twig laugh. "There's our girl." Travis said. He outstretched his arms and gave the look that said can I hold her. I handed her to him. He threw her up onto his shoulders and she giggled. Travis and Connor went dancing into the living room with Twig on their shoulders. I laughed at the sight. Percy ran over to me. "Seen our families?"
"Nope. I'm sure they'll be here soon, though."
"Well they better hurry or they aint gettin no cake." Percy said, kiddingly. Turns out, they never did come. Percy and I shook it off and we started the party.
"Okay!" I announced. "What present do you want to open first, Twig?"
Travis and Connor started jumping up and down and shouted "Ours! Pick ours!" Twig pointed to them. "Good choice." They said proudly. I handed Twig the present and she started to rip the paper. Knowing Travis and Connor, I expected this. Silly string. A lifetime supply of it. In all colors. Huge cans.
"Yay!" Twig said.
"Really, guys?" Thalia said laughing.
"Hey!" Connor said. "It'll come in handy someday!"
"Yeah. I'm real sure." Thalia replied, sarcastically.
Twig opened up the rest of the presents. A bunch of reed pipes and music sheets from Grover. "I'll teach you how to play So Yesterday." he said to her. A dress made out of actual leaves and flowers from Juniper. A new bed made of pink iron from Charlie. A jewelry box filled with all the jewelry Twig would ever need from Silena. A box of beads made from actual flowers and string from Piper and Katie (they are sisters on the godly side).
I picked up Thalia and Nico's gift. It was heavy! "Gods Nico." I said. "What's in this thing?"
"You'll see." he said. I sat it down on the floor by Twig. She lifted the lid. "A puppy!" she said.
"A hellhound?" Percy said to Nico.
"Mrs. O'Leary had puppies!" he said, making sure he wasn't going to get hurt.
"Can I call her Helly? Since she's a hellhound?" Twig asked.
"We don't say the h word." Annabgeth said.
"But daddy did."
"That's because daddy's head is full of kelp and he doesn't know what that word means."
"Seriously Nico?" Percy asked.
"Yes. Look, it's tame. I tamed it myself." Nico said confidently.
"Who'd she have puppies with?"
"Cerberus. One of the pups had three heads but I figured you wouldn't want that one. So?"
"I guess." Percy gave up. "What should we name it Twig?"
"Star!" Stars were Twig's favorite thing in the entire world.
"Coolz."
Percy's Pov
We cut the cake after Twig opened mine and Annabeth's present which was that we would decorate her room. In case you didn't know, we got a new house. Twig gulped down her cake and Travis and Connor ended up throwing it at eachother. We all lauged at them and joined in. Everybody left after a while, leaving the three of us alone. Twig went to her bedroom to play with Star and Annabeth and I collapsed on the couch. We started talking. Just random stuff.
Then Star started barking crazily. Annabeth and I jumped into parent mode. We ran down the hall to Twig's bedroom. "Where is she?" Annabeth screamed. The window was open and Star had a piece of Twig's shirt in her mouth as if she had tried to defend Twig. "You don't think. . ."
"Maybe."
"No?" Annabeth said disbelievingly.
"We'll find out."
Annabeth started crying on my shoulder.
~Author's Notes~ Dun Dun Dun! Most funny part? Best present? Who took Twig? Tell me in the review!
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