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*Sigh.* This is the second last chapter, guys. After this, only one more. Seriously. Then this story will be finished. Is anyone else sad like me? Probably not. I am like, crying. Well not really. But inside, I am.

Katie December 25th,(Christmas Morning), 1 day until Olympus meeting…

A loud banging on our door wakes us. Travis looks bewildered. The door is flung open, revealing Juli and Justin.

"IT'S CHRISTMAS! WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP!" Juli shouts, while jumping up and down. I throw off the covers, pull Travis up, and get Emily from her crib. We step out into the hallway together, where a bunch of people greet us, half with extremely grumpy faces and half with excited smiles.

"Good morning, everyone!" Juli shouts. A few mumbled "good-mornings" respond. Juli giggles, stomps her foot, and yells louder, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

"GOOD MORNING JULI!" We yell back, making her giggle bigger.

"Thank you for that loverly greeting. Please follow me downstairs to open our stockings. After breakfast, we will then open our wrapped presents. Since it is Christmas Day, we will be having toasted gingerbread for breakfast, lunch will be at my WEDDIN! And dinner will be soup and hot cocoa. Any questions?" Now some of the grumpy faces have turned up.

"Goodie! Now we get to have presents!" At the last word, Juli and Justin sprint downstairs, laughing adults following.

The night before, the adults all sat in a circle and passed each stocking around, putting our little gift to the person inside. For the kids, we set the stockings up on the couch and chairs and put the bigger things around them.
Juli and Justin giggle and laugh as the look through all their toys and candy. By five minutes, they have matching chocolate smeared faces from chocolate Santa's. Lily shakes all her toys and also enjoys eating her gifts, even though none of them are candy. Emily gets a few rattles and other baby toys.

We all go to the dinning room and eat gingerbread men from the toaster and drank hot cider. Then Juli led the procession back to the living room to unwrap gifts.

From Percy and Annabeth, I get a tiny ceramic pot. From Piper and Jason, I get a small packet of potting soil. From Hazel and Frank, I get a seed. From Leo and Calypso, I get a small indoor lamp that is substitutes the sun. From Clarisse and Chris, I get a small watering can. And from the other three, I get plant fertilizer.

"Oh, that's really cool, guys! What type of plant is it?" I exclaim.

"Mystery," they say. I unwrap the small box from Travis, open it, and pull out a small frame with two parts, meant to sit on a desk. On one side is a picture of Travis, doing his best sexy face (which is pretty sexy) and on the other is a picture of Emily. I aw at it, giving Travis a kiss.

Travis gets the same sort of thing that I did, except with lock-picking tools and 3 different kinds of locks. Connor gets the same kind of thing except his is a different color and has different locks.

Annabeth

After Katie and Travis open their gifts, it's our turn. I get different famous buildings and suchs, to scale, that can be taken apart and reassembled. From Percy I get a bottle of water. I cock an eyebrow at him.

"Seriously?"
"It's love water. Look in it." I do as he says and see a watery picture of Juli and Percy.

"Aw!"

Percy gets action figures of people doing water sports, like surfboarding, water skiing, etc. From me he gets a book of famous architects and what they made, so next time I try to talk to him, he doesn't doze off.

Piper

I get almost the same thing as Annabeth, except mine is for cupcakes. And from Jason, I get a pillow that smells like him.

Jason gets something like Percy's, except his is air sports. Skydiving, planes, and such. From Percy he gets a box labeled, "Filled with the same as your head." The box is empty.

Hazel

I get a bunch of different mining sets, like the ones for children where you dig up the jewels or the dino skeleton. From Frank, I get a metal detector and a note that says "I buried your jewelry."

Frank gets animal figurines of his favorite forms, like a lion, a Komodo Dragon, and all his others. From me, he gets a shovel and a note that says "I buried your underwear."

Clarisse

I get a box of army figures. From each couple I got the different ranks, like cadet, captain, general, and commanders. From Chris, I get a charger with a specialy adapted plug. The tag says it is for charging weapons.

Chris gets a sympathy card from Percy. From everyone else he gets lucky symbols—four leaf clovers, rabbits foots, anything that resembles luck. From me, he gets a voodoo doll without any resemblance to anyone.

Rachel

I get a crystal ball, tarot cards, and a folded up fortune tellers set.

Nico gets a skeleton set and glue.

Calypso

I get kit that lets you make your own island. From Leo, I get one of those everlasting flames that will burn forever.

Leo gets a fire making set and matches. From me, he gets a fire-proof suit for the wedding.

Katie

Justin and Juli get a lot of different baby girls get the same thing, except more age appropriate.

Everyone disappears to get ready for the wedding. Juli and the rest of the women get the third floor, and the men get the second. We put on our dresses, apply make-up, and hand Juli her bouquet. She is almost hyperventilating from excitement, but she keeps it together.

When everyone not in the wedding is seated and Justin and Frank are at the pulpit, I send Lily, the flower girl, out. Hazel is holding her and Lily flings rose petals everywhere. Next, Leo, the ring bearer, comes out with a pillow and two rings. Then the bridesmaids, Piper and Annabeth, and the Percy comes out holding Juli's hand. She beams as everyone rises and faces her.

Frank says the speech. Juli and Justin say I do, and then they are "Boy and wife," Annabeth's crying as she takes pictures. Jason makes mocking faces at Percy, who ignores him for the sake of his daughter. Juli and Justin hold hands and run out.

Next we have lunch, with everyone still dressed up. At the end, Juli stands up, looks at Clarisse, and chucks the bouquet in her direction. Clarisse catches it, earning a huge wink from Juli. Clarisse quickly makes a run to Rose's and picks up her dress while we clean up from the wedding and Christmas presents.

After lunch, we all bundle up and head outside to the first snow. We make forts and throw snowballs and make snowmen.

We play until it's time for dinner, when we have soup and hot chocolate.

Then we gather in the living room, curled up, being safe and happy and together for maybe the last time in our lives.

Well, there we go. One more chapter until this story is officially done.

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