Hi guys! I'm sorry for the long wait. School started, and the first couple of days are pretty hectic. For the poll on my profile, Thalico won! So in this chapter we have hints of Thalico and there's also Thalico in next. Thanks for reviewing Will You Be My Girlfriend! I'll let you know if I win.
P.S., this chapter should've been up yesterday, but I never finished writing it. You can thank my braces for that, I was let out of school early because I had an orthodontist appointment :(. I wrote this chapter in my spare time. Also, my science teacher's name is Ms. D'Angelo! Isn't that so similar to Nico's last name, di Angelo? It is. Thanks to Cashii11, jamieeeeeee, SeaOfWisdom18, alexandriarulzforeva, BlackConverse24, Scarletfire02, BlackPanther101, yanksrock615, Capollo4Ever, SouthAmericanGirl, worldsgreatest4ever, allyalexandra1999 and NaomiRocks100! Review responses are at the bottom!
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Chapter 13: Silena Has Fashion Issues
STILL THURSDAY
I climbed into the taxi. "Please take me to 375 Boulevard Avenue," I told him. He nodded, so I thanked him. Then we were off to Thalia's.
I had recently just apologized to Rachel and Percy. Things would've gone perfectly if Silena, Rachel and Mindy (Rachel's friend) hadn't invited me shopping. I mean, I would've gone, but Thalia was expecting me back, I still didn't apologize to Percy (at that time), and I just didn't want to go. After moments of arguing, just as I was about to give in, Percy and Nico walked into the house. Thank the Lord.
"We're here, Miss." I was snapped out of my thoughts when the taxi driver stopped at Thalia's house.
"Thanks," I thanked him, giving him the money. I stepped out of the cab. The driver immediately drove off. A busy man, he must be.
I walked up the steps to Thalia's house and walked in. Nobody was there. Since I didn't see anyone around, so I called out, "Thalia?"
I heard some shuffling upstairs when Thalia shouted, "Annabeth! I'm up here! Did you apologize?"
"Yea, I did." I called out, walking up the stairs to where Thalia was. There were three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. "Whatcha' doing?" I asked, walking into her room.
Thalia looked at me. "Just cleaning my room out. I picked up some groceries, too, so if you need anything, it's most likely to be in the fridge or pantry." I nodded.
"So…how'd it go?" she asked me. I knew she was talking about the apology.
"It went pretty good, but Rachel, Silena, and Mindy invited me shopping, and I really didn't want to go. I know it would be rude to say no, and I tried to, but they wouldn't give up. Eventually, I was about to give in, but Percy and Nico walked in, cutting me off. So I apologized one more time and left," I informed Thalia. Thalia smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of her neck.
"What?" I asked her, but she kept her mouth shut. "Thalia? What?"
Thalia finally said, "Uh…. Who's Mindy?"
"Mindy is Rachel's friend," I told her skeptically. I honestly didn't believe that Thalia would act that strangely if she was going to ask me about Mindy. I also refrained from saying Mindy was one of Rachel's sidekicks that bullied me, because then we'd just engage in an argument.
"Oh," Thalia quickly replied, about to walk out of her room. I stopped her.
"Thalia, really, what were you going to say?"
She looked at me and gave me an innocent smile. "Silena called me from Rachel's house and asked if we wanted going shopping," she said.
I closed my eyes. "And you said no?" Please tell me she said no, please tell me she said no, please tell me she said no!
"I told her we would," Thalia said. That was unlike Thalia…to go shopping?
I sighed. "But we went shopping with Silena last time, and that was horror! What made you suddenly change your mind?" This should be good.
Thalia blushed. "Um, well, Rachel's new friend is coming, and….I just wanted to meet her, I guess." Yea right. Fortunately for Thalia, I stopped questioning her.
"Whatever. But I don't want to go, don't I look pretty enough already?" I complained, joking with her. Apparently, she took this seriously, and was about to protest, but I held up a finger and said, "Don't answer that." Then I walked downstairs. I heard Thalia's footsteps behind me.
Shopping was NOT one of my favorite things to do. I prefer things that don't involve picking matching clothes and trying on high heels all day.
"So when are we going?" I asked Thalia.
"We're supposed to meet them at the food court in the Manhattan Mall. Oh, and Percy and Nico are coming." I noticed a faint blush crept up Thalia's cheeks.
I raised an eyebrow. "Why would they want to go shopping? They groaned when Rachel, Mindy, and Silena mentioned it." I had some strange feeling that Rachel threatened them into doing it—okay, maybe not threatened. More like persuaded.
"Silena said they convinced them somehow. I honestly don't want to know what she did," Thalia said. Neither did I. I shuddered and followed Thalia out the door. I got into Thalia's car, Thalia following suit. Then Thalia drove off to the Manhattan Mall.
"Let me get this straight," I told Thalia, "Percy and Nico are just coming because Rachel convinced them?" Just making sure there were no death threats.
"Yea, something like that. But they'll be shopping at different stores than us."
I grinned. "So that means I don't have to shop in the same stores at the same time as Rachel?"
Thalia shot me a look, then quickly went back to watching the road. "No, you're going to have to, if you want to become greater friends."
I wanted to tell Thalia that I don't want to be friends with Rachel, but she would've yelled at me. "But isn't that what the hockey game is for?"
"Well, yes, but the hockey game is also for our entertainment," she said. Before I could argue, Thalia quickly added, "Look! We're here!" Sure enough, we arrived at the Manhattan Mall.
"Great," I mumbled. Thalia ignored me.
It was really hard to find a parking spot, but Thalia eventually found one. We both got out of the car and headed towards the food court entrance. When we reached the automatic front doors, we walked in. The aroma of food filled my nostrils.
"So where are they?" I asked Thalia. She seemed to look around for a bit, until she responded,
"Over there." She pointed to a spot. I saw a flash of frizzy red hair.
Thalia began walking to the spot she pointed at. I quickly followed.
"Look who decided to come!" Rachel said when we came over there.
"Well, Thalia told Silena yes already and I didn't know," I told her. Rachel just shrugged, turned to Mindy, and engaged in conversation with her.
"Hey, Annabeth!" I heard Silena call my name. I turned. She was right behind me.
"Oh, hey Silena," I greeted her.
She smiled. "I'm so happy you came!" I smiled back at her. I looked around. Percy and Nico were sitting at a table talking to each other. Thalia quickly walked over there.
"So, Silena," I started. "Why did Percy and Nico decide to come shopping? I thought they hated shopping." What? I really need some details, here.
"We convinced them that they could go to the stores they wanted. Like the electronics and sports stores," Silena said with disgust. I internally sighed. Typical Silena.
There was a moment of silence. Mandy and Rachel were talking, Thalia was talking with Nico and Percy, and I was over here talking with Silena. I wasn't ready to talk to Percy again, not after what happened at dinner.
"So what store do you want to go to first?" I asked her.
Silena grinned ear-to-ear. "It's a surprise. We should be ready to start now that you guys are here." Then she walked over to Mindy, Rachel, and Thalia and gathered them all over here. "We're going to start shopping!" Mindy, Rachel, and Silena all squealed. I tried my hardest not to groan. I looked over at Thalia. She was concentrating on a certain spot with a smile on her face (A/N: Guess who? :P). Silena dragged Thalia and me along. I didn't even have time to look at the name of the store.
"Silena!" I groaned. "What store is this?"
"It's a surprise!" she told me. There was makeup, racks and shelves of clothing, changing rooms, and different shoes.
Mindy and Rachel quickly scurried over to the clothes. That left Silena, Thalia, and me. I'm surprised Silena didn't do anything yet. "Thalia," Silena said excitedly, "I'm going to give you a makeover!" Thalia's face was all but calm. I refrained from laughing.
"No, no, no, no, no, I'm good, thanks though," Thalia politely declined.
Silena stared at her. "I wasn't asking for your opinion! Come on, please?" Then Silena gave her these innocent puppy dog eyes. See how it feels, Thalia?
Thalia gave in after a few moments. "Fine! But I get to do the makeup!"
"No! That's one of the best parts!" Silena gave her puppy dog face again and Thalia mumbled fine. I smirked as Silena dragged Thalia somewhere.
Well, I might as well make use of my time. I'm definitely not going to spend my time shopping in this store, so I sat down on one of the couches that they provided in the stores and pulled a Greek Mythology book out of my purse. You might be wondering, why does she keep books in her purse? Well, in case I'm out and I'm waiting somewhere for someone or something, I can read! Now is a great time to show how this really works out.
After twenty minutes of reading the Greek Mythology book, Silena walked over to me and snatched it out of my hands.
"Hey!" I yelled. That caused most of the shoppers to look at me. I told them to go back to what they were doing and they obeyed. "Silena, can I please have my book back?"
"Not until you look at Thalia! I finished her makeover!" Silena said. I sighed.
"Fine. Anything to get my book back." Plus, it was an easy task.
"Thalia, come out here!" Silena said. Soon enough, a grumpy and gloomy looking Thalia emerged.
But it didn't look like Thalia at all. She looked super good. Her normal short and spiky black hair was straightened so it barely reached her shoulders. Silena had applied a light pink blush and a dark blue eye shadow that really made her eyes pop. Her skin looked flawless, and she had a bumble gum pink lip-gloss on. She was wearing an off-the-shoulder black sweater. It was a soft, shoulder-baring sweater refined with silver-rimmed snaps, allover ribbing and a pointelle stitch. She was also wearing white skinny jeans.
"Can I take everything off now?" Thalia grumbled.
Silena shook her head. "What do you think, Annabeth?"
"I think she looks amazing!" I said. Silena smiled.
"See, Thalia? Annabeth thinks you look great, so that means a certain someone will think you look even better, since Annabeth doesn't have much of a fashion sense!" I wasn't sure whether to be offended… I guess I am slightly offended.
"Hey!"
Silena shrugged. "Can't hide the truth." She's so nice (Note my sarcasm). Anyway, I'm still wondering who this 'certain someone' Silena is talking about.
"Certain someone?" I asked.
Thalia looked confused as well. "I have no idea what she's talking about. You know Silena, half the things she talks about don't make sense."
Silena shrugged. "You will soon."
"So I looked at Thalia, can I have my book back?" I asked Silena. She shook her head. "What? Why not!"
Silena said, "Because. You just need to do one more thing." I sighed and asked Silena what. "Let me give you a makeover!"
I'm pretty sure my mouth dropped to the floor. Immediately, I said, "No way!"
"You said you'd do anything!"
"Well that was a figure of speech!"
"No it wasn't! You meant it!"
"I'm not letting you give me a makeover."
"Fine. Then you don't get your book back." I shrugged. She would probably end up giving it back to me anyway, why would she want a book? It's not like she reads them. Anyway, the reason the book is special is because I got it when I was on a business trip in Greece. It's one of the few books that I have that is written in Greek. I can fluently speak and read Greek, it's almost easier than English.
"It's not like you're going to do anything with it," I said.
"Well, you're thinking wrong, because I will do something," Silena said.
"What will you do? Read it?" I laughed.
"I'll rip all the pages out and throw it in the trashcan." She must really want to give me a makeover.
"Yea, right."
To prove her point, she went over to the trashcan. She started ripping a page off. The most she ripped was a little piece in the corner before I stopped her.
"Silena, just give me my book!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!" Silena's really stubborn. Then again, so am I.
"Fine! But don't put a lot of makeup on!" I told her.
She smiled, hugged, me tightly, and kept repeating, "Thank you Annabeth!" Finally, she handed me my book. I snatched it away from her, shoving it in my purse. "Watch my purse," I told Thalia. She nodded.
Silena led me to a rack of clothes. "Go to the changing rooms, I'll meet you there with your clothes." I grumbled something unintelligible and trailed to the changing rooms. I can't believe I'm actually doing this. I just hope Silena will keep her word and give me my book back.
Before I walked into the changing room, I looked to the right of me. Rachel and Mindy were giggling and talking. Even though they couldn't see me, I rolled my eyes.
I waited in the small changing room. Silena finally knocked on the door.
"Annabeth?" she asked.
"Yea, it's me," I grumbled.
"Great. Here are your clothes!" Silena said cheerfully. She threw the clothes over the top of the door. I caught them.
"Silena, why would this store let you try on their clothes, makeup, and use their flat iron's (How else was Thalia's hair straight?)?"
"Oh! It's simple. You just tell them that you're buying the product."
"But that's lying."
I imagined Silena rolling her eyes. "That's the point." I could hear Silena's footsteps traveling away from the changing rooms. I groaned. It's time for me to try on these clothes. I took the closest thing to me. It was a white and gray striped tank top with a connected white cardigan. I took my shirt off and slipped it on. Then I looked in the mirror that was provided in the tiny changing room. It looked okay.
I looked at the next item that Silena threw to me. It was a black skirt that went to mid-thigh. Ugh. Skirts were not one of my favorite articles of clothing.
I slipped the skirt on and looked in the mirror. I guess I looked okay…
I walked out of the changing room. Silena hurried over to me.
"Annabeth! You look great!" she said.
"Thanks," I told her. "Can I take it off now?"
"Definitely not! We need to put some makeup on your face!"
"Silena, I really don't like to wear makeup. It feels weird and-"
"Hush hush, Annabeth. Come with me." So much for an explanation. SIlena dragged me over to a table of makeup.
She was about to start, but a worker came over and asked, "Can I help you with anything?"
Silena said, "No thank you, Miss. We're just here to look at some makeup. Might even buy something if it works." The worker lady looked at Silena skeptically, so Silena added, "By the way, that shirt goes super well with your skirt that shows off your long legs. Your flawless skin helps, too." The employee smiled and skipped away. "Alright, Annabeth, let's get started. Sit in this chair." I sat in the swivel chair. "Close your eyes. It'll be over in a minute." I did as Silena told me. I felt the tickle of the eye shadow brush on my eyelids. Next I felt the mascara brush on my eyelashes. Eventually, it stopped. "You can open your eyes," Silena said. I did as she told me. Silena had applied a light smoky gray color around my eyes. She also put dark gray eyeliner and had black mascara. Like Thalia's eyes, it really made my eyes pop. "What do you think?"
"I think it makes my eyes pop," I told her. She smiled and grabbed a bottle of clear lip-gloss. She took a Q-Tip and wiped some lip-gloss on it. Then she wiped the Q-Tip all around my lips. When she was done, I looked in the mirror.
"Okay, are we done here?" I asked. I pretty much looked the same.
"Yup! You're lucky I'm not putting any blush on. But I don't think you need any."
"Thanks..?" I got up from the swivel chair and walked back to the changing room. I took the clothes that Silena gave me off and put the ones I came with back on. I tried smearing off the makeup, but it wouldn't budge. I sighed and walked out of the changing room. I ran into Thaila.
"Hey," Thalia said. "You look different."
I smiled. "So do you." She scowled.
"Let's get the heck out of this place," Thalia said. "I'm ready to meet up with Percy and Nico."
I nodded. "So am I. I had enough for one day. Let's find the others." Thalia nodded as we walked over to Rachel and Mindy.
"Rachel!" Thalia called over to her. She waved and smiled. Rachel did the same. "Are you ready to leave?"
"I'm ready when you're ready," Rachel said sweetly. If I asked her that, she probably would've snapped at me.
"Okay, let's find Silena," Thalia said. We walked over to Silena who was checking out some skirts. "Come on Silena, we're ready."
"Aww, fine. Let's go find the guys," Silena said, eyeing Thalia. We walked out of the store and met up at the food court. We told them we'd meet them there when we were done. Sure enough, Percy and Nico were sitting at one of the small tables chowing down on soft pretzels.
Percy waved us over. We walked over to them.
Nico stood up. "T-Thalia? Is that you?" he asked her.
Thalia scowled. "Hey Death Breath. Silena insisted on giving me a makeover. No matter how hard I try, I can't get this stuff off!" Silena smiled sweetly and guided Rachel and Mindy somewhere else for a friendly chat.
"Wow, y-you look different," Nico said, staring directly at Thalia. Thalia blushed. Woah…am I seeing correctly? Thalia NEVER blushes.
Thalia and Nico continued to chat. I walked over to Percy.
"Hey," I said.
"Hey yourself," he chuckled.
I smiled. My smile then faltered. "So why aren't you hanging out with Rachel?"
He shrugged. "She looks pretty busy." I turned around. Rachel was talking to Silena and Mindy.
"I guess so."
"Yea," Percy said. "So let me guess. Silena made you let her give you a makeover?"
I nodded. "The horror." He chuckled.
A couple of seconds later, Rachel came bouncing over. "Come on, we're ready to leave! Let's go, Percy." She grabbed Percy by the arm and dragged him away, sending one last menacing glare my way.
I huffed. When will this ever end?
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