The Big Moment – Our Date

I waited on the grass near the road for Percy. He had left an hour ago to get get a car for our date. I wasn't expecting more than a beat up. Oh well. It's better than nothing. If he could get a car at all, that was more than I could ask for.

15 minutes later, he pulled up in a freaking limousine.Pitch black, sleek, and beautiful. My mouth was gaping wide open when he told me to get in.

"Oh my gosh Percy, how did you get a limo? Don't you have to payfor these things? Where'd you get all the money? I can't believe you did this for me, it's just a date to iHOP you know! You really didn't need to go through the trouble of doing that, but I'm not complaining..." I said with a small smile.

"That's for me to know, and you to find out. Well, in this case, you probably won't find out, but who cares. Anyway... let's go!"

I gave him a quick peck on the lips, nothing serious, just something to show my appreciation. He put his hand on my face and deepened the kiss, but I pulled away.

"Percy, we can't do this right now. The driver is right there." I whispered.

"Ok, fine, but we're picking up on this later."

"Haha, ok. Whatever you say."

iHOP was really quiet and normally I would say lonely, but in this case it was perfect, cause we could eat and kiss and talk and whatever without anyone invading our privacy. Then again, monsters could come at any minute and ruin things, but I didn't want to think about that.

Percy picked out one of the booths, with this pretty blue design, and swirls on the fabric making it look like ocean waves. We sat down across from each other.

"It reminds me of you," I said, looking down at the booth.

"Yeah, I realized it does kind of relate to me. Perfect, isn't it?"

"Yeah... Well, let's eat!"

Percy picked up on of the two menus already set there when we came, and picked put the breakfast waffle special.

"Are you sure you want to get breakfast? This was supposed to be a nice dinner, remember? not to criticize you or anything, just saying..."

"Well yeah, but i was thinking I could have breakfast for dinner. I've heard some of my friends talking about how when they visit their families over the summer, their parents make breakfast for dinner a lot, just because it's something new. I've never had that before, so I'm gonna try it out. You're welcome to join me."

"I'll think about it."

I actually ended up choosing the shrimp and crab dish, with cocktail sauce.

"Yum, seafood. Don't you love shrimp? I LOVE it."

"Yeah, they're tasty enough, but I'm from the sea so it just feels wrong to eat fish of any sort. Sorry. You can eat it though. I won't be offended or anything. Don't worry."

"Ok, cool. Could i try some of your waffle when it comes, though?"

"Sure thing, babe."

He has a nickname for me! That's so cute... I feel so special. I should really come up with a cool nickname for him sometime.

We waved down a waitress who was absorbed in her iPod, so she hadn't seen us come in. It took a lot of waving to get her attention, but she finally came over.

Talk about un - professional.

Percy told the waitress our orders, and she left, leaving us alone. We talked about how nice the place looked, and how it was so much better than eating regular dinner at Camp Half Blood. A little while later our food came, and we chomped down. Half bloods tend to be much hungrier than normal humans, for some reason. Maybe it's in the genes. Though, I'm not a half blood, so I don't know why I was so hungry. I had eaten a snack earlier... But the shrimp was still delicious.

We sat in silence for a little, just eating, getting our stomachs full. Probably not the most romantic thing ever, stuffing our faces with food, but we didn't mind. When he had filled up, I asked for the rest of his waffles. He slid the plate over to me, and he looked at the dessert specials while I ate.

When I was done, he looked up and smiled.

"How were they?"

"Great! The shrimp was pretty good too. We should come here for our next date."

"Oh, definitely! Hey, I was thinking, are you ever gonna take me up on that offer for teaching you how to dance? It doesn't have to be dirty dancing, seriously. I was pretty much kidding when I said that."

"Pretty much? Wow, that's nice. And probably not, I don't really dance... at all, actually. I didn't know you even liked dancing. I mean, everyone likes to dance every now and then, let loose, ya now? But still, are you really serious about it?"

"Well, not really, but I think it's entertaining."

"Well, I don't so let's talk about something else. okay?"

"Um, sure... what though?"

"Well, I'm sure something will come to mind. We're dating, if we can't come up with a conversation then that's quite a failure, isn't it?"

"Yep..."

"Hey, don't feel bad about it. I wasn't trying to be mean or anything."

"I know, I just don't want this to be one of those really awkward dates where we don't know what to say, and we don't really do anything, and nothing happens on the way home, and then we go our seperate ways, and then we die a lonely life regretting that we didn't make a move, and-"

I leaned over the table, pushing in my gut in a really uncomfortable way, kissing him. Anything to make him shut up. I probably shouldn't be thinking like that, but seriously. You don't want to see Percy rant. It's annoying.

I felt him literally loosen up, he wasn't so tense and nervous. I had been kissing him but him not really ding it back, but now he actually kissed me back, putting pressure onto my lips. It was amazing. Though, it wasn't the best place to kiss since my stomach was really aching now, but it all kind of went away. Spraks flew between our lips, making ym body get that same, wonderful numb feeling, like tiny little fairies were kissing me or something. It was really nice.

I pulled away after a few minutes, and I snesed that someone was looking at us. I looked behind me, and sure enough, that waitress was looking at us, moving her lips like she was kissing someone.

"Percy, what is she doing?"

He laughed.

"Um, I think you'll figure it out if you think about it."

I sat there, looking at her, with her staring right back at me, but her stare was kind of vacant, like her eyes could have been closed.

Well, she sure is into that fake kissing, or whatever ther hell she's doing.

Wait, she had probably saw us kissing, and then she though Percy was hot or whatever, and then... Oh wow. She must be lonely.

"Woww... She's quite the loner, isn't she?"

"Yes, indeed."

He stoof up, and led me around a corner of the restaraunt, where that creepy waitress wasn't nearby. He kissed me again, and we made out for a loongg time. Thank god there wasn't any windows in that section. That would have been embarassing.

At about 9, we left and headed back in the limo. I didn't know if the driver had waited for us or what, but i was really tired so I fell asleep in the limo. In case you didn't know, let me tell you. They havegreatseats. Really comfy. Great for sleeping on.

When I woke up we were in front of a big strawberry field, and I was confused at first.

Why the hell are we at a freaking strawberry field?

Then, as I woke up more, I remembered that to outsiders the camp was hidden and protected, looking like a plain old strawberry field. Gordon had told me that when he dropped me off at the camp for the first time. It occured to me how clever that was, security wise.

Percy grabbed my hand and stepped out, saying thank you to the limo driver and walking me up the hill to Camp Half Blood.

After a few minutes of boring walking, we made it to the clearing with the cabins cirrling around it, and he walked me up to my cabin.

"Goodnight, Annabeth. That was an amazing date, we should do that again soon."

"Yeah..." I said tiredly.

He gave me a quick kiss, and i went inside to flop down on the bed.

I watched Percy walk down to the Poseidon cabin through the window, a few feet away from mine. I fell asleep to the patter of his feet.