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It was three against six. Thalia worked with Andy, Jordan worked with Annabeth, and Connor worked with me. I thought for sure that we would beat these Lastrygonian giants easily, but I've been wrong before. It was getting dark and we hadn't even made a scratch on them. These were tough giants. All we did was dodge the giants' hits. There was no chance for us to attack.
One of the giants hit Thalia and she went crashing into a rock. The Lastrygonian came up to her. It opened its mouth and a flying bronze arrow whizzed in. The monster fell to the ground and disintegrated. Andy shouldered her bow and ran to help Thalia up.
A Lastrygonian picked me up while I was distracted by Thalia and Andy. The other Lastrygonian stopped what it was doing and came over.
"Mmm . . . tasty dinner. I get first bite," the one holding me said.
It opened its mouth, ready to eat me, but I yelled, "Wait!"
It closed its jaw and looked at me.
"How come you get the first bite? Why doesn't he take it?" I didn't know what I was doing, but I went with it.
"Small boy has point," the other one said. "I want first bite."
They started yelling and fighting with each other.. The giant let go of me and I fell on the sand. They got out their swords and started to fight, not paying any more attention to us.
"We still need to kill them," Annabeth exclaimed.
Jordan was spacing out.
"What's wrong?" I asked her.
She pointed to a large rock. "If one of us can climb that rock we can jump on their backs and kill them."
"Sounds, good to me," Thalia said.
"But, wait, who is going to go up there?" I asked.
Everyone looked at me. "Why does it have to be me?" I asked. "Andy, why don't you do it?"
"Sorry buddy. Can't climb for the life of me. And I was just the damsel in distress. I shouldn't have to be doing anything riht now."
"What do you mean you can't? You're Artemis's daughter," I shouted.
She made a face at me. "You're the one who climbed that tall cliff to save me, and last I heard, it was your quest! You're the leader!" she added.
"Yes, and I'm leading by saying that you should climb it!"
Annabeth had had enough. "Will one of you just go already!!"
"Fine," I said defeated. I pointed at Andy. "And I liked it better when you weren't here!" She just stuck her tongue out at me. How rude!
I started to climb the huge rock with Riptide in my hands. As soon as I got to the top I looked down. If I fell, it would be the end of me. I looked over at the two Lastrygonian giants, who were still fighting, and I waited for the Lastrygonian to come closer to the rock so I would have a better chance of landing on its back. When the chance came, I jumped. As I held on for my life, I jabbed Riptide into the giant's back. The giants fell on top of the other giant, stabbing his sword into his stomach, and they both fell to the ground and disintegrated. Everyone came rushing towards me. Jordan helped me up and said, "Nice going." She smiled at me and I smiled back.
"You guys can be lovey dovey on our way back to camp, 'cause some people might have seen that and the cops will be here in a little bit. Honestly I don't want to stick around to be questioned," Andy told us.
"She's got a point," Annabeth agreed. We started walking to where we came from. Connor and Andy were walking beside each other, Annabeth and Thalia were talking about girl things and Jordan and I were walking together.
"They're a cute couple, huh?" Jordan asked looking at Andy and Connor, who were holding hands now.
"Yeah," I said nervously.
"What's wrong with you?" Jordan asked me.
I didn't want to tell her what I did.
"Nothing."
"It's not nothing. I know something's wrong with you!"
"Nothing's wrong with me."
"Tell me what's wrong with you right now, Perseus Jackson, unless you want me to take a sword and run you through with it!"
"How do you know my real name?"
"Annabeth."
I sighed, and grumbled, "Annabeth."
"Now quit trying to change the subject, and tell me what's wrong with you!"
I sighed once more. There really was no way to stop her now. "Promise you won't get mad?"
"I promise," she said.
"Okay," I started. "I kinda, sorta kissed Andy becau-"
"You what!?!" Jordan shouted, cutting me off. "You kissed her?!?!"
"You said that you wouldn't get angry" I said.
"How could you kiss her!?! How could she kiss you!?! Even after I told her... That little female dog!"
"It wasn't Andy's fault, and you didn't let me finish!"
"No, I think I've heard enough," she said and walked away. About a few feet away she turned around and siad in a shaky breath with tears running down her face, "I can't believe I actually liked you."
Andy bumped into me, with Connor holding her hand. "Oh, sorry Percy," she said.
"Umm, Andy can I talk to you for a minute?" I said.
"Yeah sure," she said. We both looked at Connor.
"Oh, privately. Gotcha." He gave a little kiss on Andy's cheek and left.
Andy smiled and put her hand on her cheek. "What's up? And where'd Jordan go?"
"She's mad at me. And you. Mostly me, but you too." I said.
"Me? Why me? What did I do?" she asked.
I sighed. "She's mad cause I told her that I kissed you."
She gave a little chuckle. "No, seriously. Why is she mad?"
"She's mad because I told her that I kissed you," I said again getting a little frustrated.
She punched me in the arm. "Ow. What was that for?"
"For lying to her like that. You never kissed me you dirty liar. Do you like telling her lies, Little Larry Lies-a-lot?"
"I didn't lie to her, and yeah, I kinda did kiss you." I told her what had happened on the beach and how Jordan reacted when I told her.
"Oohh," she said, finally realizing. She bit her lower lip. "You have to promise to tell no one, especially Connor. This has to stay between you, me and Jordan."
I nodded. "I promise."
"Pinky promise?" Andy said holding out her pinky.
I smiled. "Pinky promise."
"I'll go and take care of Jordan...hopefully." She smiled and ran to go talk to Jordan.
I waited for Thalia, Annabeth, and Connor to catch up and we started to talk. Minutes later Andy came up to me..
"Can I borrow Percy for a minute?" she asked them like I was there property.
"You can borrow me," Connor said with a slight smile.
"You're so sick, Connor!" Annabeth shouted.
"I'm sick? I'm not the one who was thinking that you dirty minded person . . ." Connor and Annabeth started arguing.
"What for," Thalia asked, getting to the actual point.
"He, Jordan, and I need to have a talk." She said.
"Oooooo" she said like little kids used to do in 2nd grade when I was called to the principal's office, which was pretty much everyday. "Good luck. I'll try to stop them from killing each other," she said. I followed Andy, until we caught up with Jordan. I was kinda scared of Jordan now. Maybe she would have been really mad at me and beat me up or run me through with that sword she was talking about using earlier.
Andy went beside Jordan. When nothing happened Andy nudged Jordan's side.
Jordan spoke in a low soft voice. "Sorry for being a butthead and for yelling at you. I shouldn't have made quick assumptions, and should've listened to your reasons why"
They looked at me, expecting an apology from me, but I didn't want to start another fight. "And I'm sorry for kissing Andy?" I said, making it sound more as a question than an actual 'sorry'.
"Apology accepted," Jordan said slightly smiling. I guess it's my irresistable charm.
"Alright!" Andy shouted. She put one arm around me and the other over Jordan. "You see? This is way better than fighting, am I right?" She took her arms off of us and quickly said, "I'll leave you two love birds alone," and she ran to the others. We both started blushing like crazy.
As we started walking alone, there was an awkward silence between us. Jordan came up with the most random thing. "Do you like cheese?" she asked.
"Yeah, I guess," I said with a small chuckle.
"I think cheddar is probably the best."
"That or jack cheese."
"Yeah, jack's pretty good. Have you ever tried pepper jack?"
"No. I didn't like all the different colors and stuff. And I always thought it was too spicy when I was little."
"Me too."
Before I knew it we were talking about weird things and laughing at our stupid questions and answers. We had to stop walking after a while, seeing as the others were no where in sight. We decided to see who could climb a tree faster. Apparently, she could. Annabeth and Thalia caught up to us.
"Where's Connor and Andy?" Jordan asked.
"Beats me. They said they would catch up with us," Thalia said.
"I wonder what they're doing," Annabeth said and soon enough we all started to laugh.
"I wonder too," someone said behind us. We all looked to see who it was, and as soon as we saw her angry expression, we went quiet. It was Artemis. She was alone and her arms were crossed. As soon as we saw who it was Andy and Connor showed up laughing and looking lovey dovey at each other. Artemis turned around and even though I couldn't see, I knew her face was red with anger. She was probably mad at Andy for hanging out with a guy and Andy knew it too.
Andy wiped the smile off of her face and the only thing that came out of her mouth was, "Oh crap."