Chapter 10: Shopping and Confessions

Okay please don't kill me. I really have been busy I swear on the River Styx. I must be the worst author ever! But I am so sorry. I will try to update 2 stories this week including this one. Hopefully that will tie you over for a week and make up for not updating in a couple weeks.

Annabeth's POV

I woke up to the sound of glass breaking in my kitchen. I sighed and got out of bed. I was still in my pajamas and was sure that my hair looked like a rats nest.

"Kieghla what did I say about making breakfast without asking?" I asked my five and half year old daughter, before I entered the kitchen. She likes to try and make me breakfast when I wake up late. It's sweet, but she always ends up breaking something. And I'm the person who cleans up the mess.

When I reached the kitchen I didn't expect to find what I found. Thalia had pancake mix all over her body. Percy was attempting to flip pancakes. And Kieghla was sitting on the island in the middle of my kitchen drinking orange juice (which was blue) and watching her Dad and Aunt try to make breakfast.

"Mom it wasn't me." Kieghla said.

"Yes… I see that." I said shooting Thalia and Percy a look.

"Annabeth I came over to surprise you, and Kieghla also called because she was hungry." Percy said.

"Why didn't you wake me up?" I asked Kieghla.

"Well Dad was coming over anyways to pick me up for school. So I just called him and told him to make me breakfast." She said. She shot me a smile. The kind of smile she thought was going to get her out of trouble. This time I didn't fall for it.

"You should have woken me up." I told her.

"Sorry."

I turned to Thalia. "Why do you have pancake batter all over you?"

"Oh funny story. Percy can't flip pancakes to save his life." She said laughing.

"I can too." Percy said.

"No you can't."

"Yeah I can."

"No you can't.

"Yes I can!"

"No you-"

"I don't care what you can and cannot do, but I want my kitchen cleaned by the time I'm out of my shower." I pointed to the glass on floor. "This too. The last thing I need is to drive someone to the hospital." I said. I walked down the hallway to my bathroom.

After I got out of the shower I put on a navy blue pencil skirt and a black top with white dots, with navy blue flats. I put my hair up in a bun. Brushed my teeth, and walked back into the kitchen.

The mess was all cleaned up. No glass, or pancake batter, or even dishes.

I walked to the table and saw all of them eating. "Thanks guys, the kitchen looks great." I said sitting down next to Percy.
"Your welcome." Percy said smugly.

"Kelp Head it was me and Kieghla that cleaned up!" Thalia said annoyed.

"I set the table though!"

"Thank you Percy for setting the table." I said while Percy stuck his tongue out at Thalia. "And thanks Thals and Kieghla for cleaning up." Thalia stuck her tongue at Percy. I shook my head at the two's exchange. They really do act like they're twelve sometimes.

"What time does Kieghla's school start?" Thalia asked me.

"8:30." I told her with my mouth full.

"Annabeth it's not polite to talk with your mouth full." Percy said in a know-it-all voice.

"Percy it's not polite to show your hideous face in public, but you do it anyways." I said mimicking his voice.

"Then why do you kiss my hideous face?" He asked me in an innocent voice.

I glared at him. "If you don't remember that was all in the past. Once I realized how disgusting you actually are." I said regretting the words immediately.

"Well, don't worry what's in the past is in the past. I will make sure that doesn't ever happen again." He said sadly. I felt awful. Well I actually felt like (excuse my language) shit.

We settled into an awkward silence. Until it was time for Percy and Kieghla to go to school

"Bye Mom, I love you." Kieghla said.

"Love you too, have a good day at school." I said giving her a hug and kissed her head.

"You too." She said walking out the door, with Percy following behind her.

"I feel like-"

"Shit?" Thalia offered.

"Yeah." I admitted.

"Annabeth right when you got him back you lose him. You can't keep doing this."

"I know. Wait, how do you know when you just got him back?" Nobody knew, but Percy and I.

She smirked "I saw you guys last night on the couch."

"Of course you did." I said embarrassed.

"Yeah- but that isn't' the point. You need to get him back."

"I know." I said thinking of an idea. I finally got one. "I know what to do!"

"What's that?" Thalia asked me confused.

"Well you take Kieghla out shopping when they get back from school. I make a dinner, but when you suggest shopping, Kieghla won't say no. Percy stays eats dinner. I say sorry. And bam! He's mine again."

She smiled wickedly, "I like your way of thinking. But I am not paying for the stuff we buy when we go shopping."

I sighed, "Fine I will pay you back."

"Good."

"Mom we're home!" Kieghla yelled. I came out of the kitchen and gave her a hug.

"How was your day?" I asked her.

"Dad was sad all day. I tried to cheer him up, but nothing would work. He just moped around all day." That made me feel awful. He had a bad day, because of me!

"Where is your dad?" I asked looking around the apartment.

"He had to use the bathroom." Thalia came into the room and gave Kieghla a hug.

"Hey Kiegh how was school?"

"It was okay I guess."

"Was your teacher in a bad mood or something?"

"Yeah."

"Well, when my teachers were in a bad mood. I was happy." Thalia said. I shot her a look like really? She just shrugged.

"Well he's my dad..."

"Oh yeah. I forgot. It's still hard to think 'the savior of Olympus' a teacher." I shot her another look.

"The savior of Olympus?" Kieghla asked confused.

"No." Thalia and I said at the same time. She looked at us weird, but shrugged it off.

Percy walked into the room. "Hey guys."

"Hey, so heard you had a bad day. Why?" I asked even though I already knew the answer.

"Hmm let me think..." He said coldly glaring at me. Let's just say when he is mad or upset you don't want to be in the same room. He's pretty scary, and I really wish the look he had wasn't directed at me.

"Kieghla do you want to go shopping tonight?" Thalia said breaking the ice in the room.

"Yeah!"

"Thalia, I made dinner though." I said, hoping the plan would work.

"Oh… right I forgot. Percy and you can just stay and eat it though right?" She asked giving Percy and me a fake puppy dog look.

Percy sighed. "Sure." His voice was guarded, so I couldn't tell what he was thinking about it.

"Okay." We settled in another awkward silence.

"Kieghla and I had better be going, so we have more time to shop." Thalia said awkwardly.

"Yeah. I'm so excited!" Kieghla said jumping up and down. I don't know where she got her love from shopping, because neither Percy nor me like to shop. But then again she is five.

"Me too!" Thalia said with false enthusiasm. Percy and I just laughed.

Once they were gone we settled into another awkward silence.

"When's dinner gonna be done?" Percy asked trying to make small talk.

"In about an hour."

He plopped down on the couch and started to watch some TV show.

I sighed and went into kitchen and started on dinner. I made a salad, chicken, and mashed potatoes. Then set the table. "Percy dinners done!" I yelled from the kitchen.

"Okay." He turned off the TV came to sit down at the table across from me.

We ate dinner in a comfortable silence for about five minutes.

"Look what I said earlier...I'm sorry. I didn't mean it at all." I said breaking the silence.

"Then why did you say it?" He asked his voice flat.

I took a deep breath; I knew he would make things difficult. "I don't know, but I swear on The River Styx I didn't mean it." I said softly.

He raised his eyebrows. "The River Styx huh?" I nodded. "Well you must been thinking it to say it? Do you find me disgusting?"

I was shocked. Did he really think I thought he was gross? "No! Of course not!"

"Then why did you say it?" He asked again.

I sighed. "I don't really know! All right? I don't know. The minute it left my mouth I regretted them. I'm sorry." I said praying he would forgive me. He looked at me for a long minute not thinking. I don't know what I expected, but not what I got.

"I don't care." He said flatly. I was shocked. I my heart stopped beating. I dropped my eyes down to my food hoping I could control my emotions.

"Okay." I said my voice breaking along with my heart. He laughed. Yeah. Helaughed at me. I was pissed. "What's so funny?" I snapped going from heart broken to pissed off.

"After all the times I have said 'I love you' and 'You're my life' and everything, you still don't believe me." He said. But he looked a little sad. I didn't know what to say. "Why don't you believe me?" He finally asked.

"I don't know. I just doesn't make sense for you to love me." I said quietly.

"What? You're just kidding with me right now, right?" I just looked down at me foot. He pulled my face up so I could look up at his sea green eyes. "Why doesn't it make sense?"

"It just doesn't," I whispered looking down at my hands. He picked me up and took me to the couch.

"Annabeth..."

"Percy-do"

He cut me off." No listen to me. Why do you think like that? You're the most beautiful girl in the whole world. You're smart, funny, sweet, loving. I could go on and on. If anybody doesn't' deserve any one it's m-" I cut him off with a kiss.

Thalia's POV

Shopping with Kieghla was worse than and Aphrodite girl. Literally.

"Aunt Thalia let's go in there." Kieghla said point to a gods-awful store. It was pink! Pink! I saw Barbie's everywhere!

"Didn't your parents teach you better than that? To not act like a girly girl?" I asked totally disgusted with the store.

She looked confused. "Well Mom and Dad never buy me stuff like that, but all my friends have stuff from here. I guess it's the cool stuff."

I scoffed. "That stuff is for clowns." I took another look at the store and shook my head.

"It is?" She asked looking unsure.

"Yeah. You don't want stuff like that. Do you want me to show you the kind of stuff you want?" I asked her. She nodded. I lead her off to my kind of store. It was awesome. Black and red, not pink. I showed her to the kids' section.

"Do think my mom will like it?" She asked.

"Who cares? You are who you are right?

"Yeah. I shouldn't let people tell me what to do or wear." She said with newfound confidence in her voice.

"Exactly. That is how I got people to respect me when I was in school." I told her.

"Okay." We stayed in the store trying stuff on. We both got a couple shirts. Kieghla got a shirt that said good girls wear black and was all black.

After we were done shopping in the store Kieghla said. "Let's go eat I'm hungry." I was hungry too, so we took a break from shopping and went to the food court.

After we ate we decided to get Annabeth something. "Let's get her something she will defiantly hate." I suggested.

"Why would we do that?" Keighla asked.

"It would be funny." I told her.

"It would?"

"Oh yeah." I said. I took her to another pink store. I picked out something hideous. It was a pink shirt. Hot pink, tight, with sequins, not to mention super tight.

Kieghla got a wicked smirk on her face. "She's gonna love it!"

I laughed "Yeah she will." We also decided to get her a mini skirt and hot pink eight inch stilettos.

"Okay when we give them to her say 'Mommy look what I picked out for you! Don't you like it?' She will have to say yes then tell her to go try it on." I told her the plan.

She laughed. "This is going to be so funny!"

We went to a few more stores. Kieghla pointed to a store with Ocean life stuffed animals, and clothes. "Can we please go there?"

"Sure." It was much better than that pink store.

She got a turtle stuffed animal. A white shirt with a blue seahorse on it, a blue shirt with waves, and white shirt with a blue whale that said 'I'm Whaley cute'.

"Can I get a tattoo?" Kieghla asked when we walked by a tattoo parlor.

"Not a permanent one. But if you want you can get a one week one that won't hurt." I said. We both got tattoos. I picked out Kieghla's and she picked out mine. Hers was a dark fairy and mine was a blue fairy that matched my eyes. She wanted to get matching ones, but we both decided to get different colors.

"Let's go, my legs are getting tired." She said. I agreed with her and we drove back to Annabeth's house.

When we got back I found Percy and Annabeth on the couch watching Modern Family.

"Hey guys. Took ya long enough." Annabeth said when we came into the living room.

"Well we wanted to give you two love birds some time." I told her smirking. Annabeth glared at me and Percy glared at her.

"You told her?" He asked with his eyebrows raised.

"No she figured it out."

"Well keep your mouth shut." Percy said to me.

"I'd be careful of your words Kelp Head." I said smirking.

"Whatever Pinecone Face." He said smirking back. I glared at him.

"Mom look at my tattoo!" Kieghla said showing Annabeth and Percy.

"You got her a tattoo?" Percy asked furious.

"Yep, she wanted it. It took a about an hour." I said wanting to see there faces.

"It's permanent?" Annabeth asked totally shocked.

"Yeah that's what took us so long." I said playing it out. Smirking in my head.

"What?!" Percy and Annabeth yelled together.

"I'm joking it's one of those washable ones." I told them laughing. They both sighed in relief.

"Let's see what you guys got." Percy said.

"Okay." Kieghla said. We showed them the shirts we got at the Ocean store.

"Oh honey those are cute." Percy said.

"Thanks. Look at the other ones I got. Aunty Thalia helped pick them out." She showed them the shirts we got at the red and black store.

"Do you like these Sweetie?" Annabeth asked her unsure whether or not she liked them. Percy made a face at them.

"Yeah. Thalia told me not let people tell me what to think or wear."

Annabeth look at me. "Of course she did." She said smiling and I smiled back.

"Oh Mom we you something too!" Kieghla showed her the pink outfit we picked out for her. Her eyes got huge. "Don't you like it? I picked it out just for you!"

"Yeah I love it!" I could tell she totally hated it.

"Really? Will you try it on for me?" She asked in her cute little five-year-old voice.

"Um maybe later." Her voice was shaky

"Why not now?" She asked giving her puppy dog eyes.

"Yeah Annabeth go try it on." Percy said. She glared at him and went into the bathroom.

I tried not to laugh when she came out. She looked like a Barbie. Percy's eyes popped out of his head. Her shirt was super tight and you could see her every curve. Her boobs were popping out of the shirt. Her skirt was super high... really, really high. And the heels made her legs look really long.

"Mom I love it!" Kieghla exclaimed.

"Yeah me too." Percy said. She punched him for that.

"Annabeth you look great. You really do." I said trying not to laugh.

"Mom will you wear that to work tomorrow?" Kieghla asked her. Wow! This girl can really play her part.

"No she can't." Percy said.

I laughed. "Yeah Annabeth, you should wear that. I will even come to work with you to see how you do things there." Percy and Annabeth glared at me.

"Please Mom! I bought it special for you." She asked innocently with puppy dog eyes.

She sighed. "Of course." She smiled sweetly at Kieghla.

"Annabeth maybe you shouldn't." Percy tried to re-convince her.

"Why not? You don't like it?" she asked with a smirk on her face.

"I don't think it's work appropriate."

"I am the boss." She reminded him.

"Right," He muttered. She smiled sweetly at him.

"Mom, Dad can I ask you a question?" Kieghla asked her parents.

"Sure." They answered at the same time causing them to blush.

"Are you guys back together?"

"Wow didn't expect that one." I said laughing. They both shoot me a look that said 'shut up!'

"Why would you think that?" Annabeth asked.

"Well you guys sort of act like it." Damn that girl is smart,I thought.

"Yeah we are." Percy finally said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked them puzzled.

"We wanted to wait to make sure things worked out." Annabeth said in a good mother tone.

"It's going to right?" She asked them daring them to say no.

"Yeah. We love each other too much to break up." Percy said kissing Annabeth's cheek.

"Get a room." I told them disgusted

"We have one." Percy said smirking.

"Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth slapping him, he just laughed.

"I'm tired." Kieghla said. Covering her eyes.

"Me too!" I said agreeing with her.

We all said our goodnights and went to bed.

Okay yes that was really cheesy! I mean I can't believe I just wrote that! She says one thing and they brake up? I kind of needed it in there so I apologize for how that sounded! How did you like? Okay I sorts put a twist on Thalia and Kieghla shopping. Did you like it? Please review!