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The next morning Piper awoke fresh as a rose. But that was only until she remembered the happenings of last night. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. She glanced at Annabeth lying on the bed, sleeping peacefully, as though she may have been Sleeping Beauty herself. She smiled. At least she wasn't in any kind of tension. Looking at the clock at the bedside table, she was informed of the time being six thirty. She sighed once more and decided to go for a walk.

Waking up early was one of Piper's old habits. She did it even more so when she was either excited about something or worried. This time she was the latter. And once she woke up, it was impossible for her to lay a second more in bed, forget sleeping. It was still very dark and awfully cold so she decided to freshen up and put on some good thick clothes and a hoodie. She walked out closing the door behind her carefully so as not to wake the others. She looked at her watch which showed the time being seven.

The trip starts at nine, she reminded herself. I shouldn't be long or I'll miss precious time doing arrangements and making ready. She put her hands in the pockets of her hoodie and took a deep breath as she came out of the hotel's door and into the garden.

Piper's favorite thing to do at these occasions was to go and smell all kinds of flowers and admire them. The flowers were adorned with the fresh dews and looked as fresh as can be. She followed this habit of hers and looked about her at all the wonderful flowers in pots and corners of the garden.

She was bending down and looking so attentively at a weed flower, examining it closely, that she didn't notice the footsteps behind her. So, naturally she was a little bit startled when the hood of her sweater was flung on to her head and someone said, "Boo!"

Piper gave a small cry and backed away for the person, quite startled, as she had thought herself to be alone. The person who had interrupted her privacy was Jason, who was now laughing holding his stomach muttering unintelligible words some of which sounded like, ".. Expression... So funny... Oh my God..."

Piper, meanwhile, stood up and held her hands at her hips trying to make an indignant expression but failing to do so because of Jason's infectious laughs.

Presently, she said, "What was that FOR?!"

Jason replied, now that his convulsive laughter had stopped, only a grin covering his face, "Sorry, Pipes. I was just amused to see you and I did make attempts for you to notice me. It's not like I sneaked here quietly to scare you."

Piper could no longer cover her smile so she gave up, "I'm tired of telling you to stop your stupid little tricks. Why can't you? You know that I can't be cross on you for a long time." Too late. It had got out of her mouth, but for some reason she didn't try to justify it.

"Aww. That is so sweet Pipes, honestly." He leaned in to hug her, making Piper flinch inwardly at his touch. She had to work on that.

"Okay, I promise I won't do something like that again. Well, not if I don't get the temptation to." Jason said as he pulled away from her, grinning.

Piper rolled her eyes. "You're never gonna stop, are you?" She noticed that the sky had lightened a bit more than it had been when she had come earlier. Sunlight was bringing a warm glow and possibly that explained why her cheeks felt so warm.

Jason eyes suddenly sparkled with excitement. "Hey, Pipes. I didn't tell you about that thing I found further ahead, did I?" Piper stared curiously, trying to remember and as she couldn't, she shook her head.

"Well, come on, then," he said, taking her hands and grinning. "I'm sure you'll love it."

"Where are you taking me?" asked Piper, inquisitive as was her nature. She couldn't help but grin at the warm hands taking her own cold ones.

"You'll see," Jason replied, with a mischievous glint in his eyes. So, they walked on with further conversation, holding hands.

The garden curved and slowly the lush green land full with flowers and bushes and trees fell barren, and slowly it turned to sand. Walking on the narrow path, Piper gasped when she saw the spectacle. It was a beach! And a clean one for that, for it had none of the usual garbage like bottles and plastic bags lying around in it.

She broke away from Jason's linked hand and ran a few steps into the beach laughing in delight, taking the picture in. The sea was rising and falling in its normal way. The waves washed up to the shore and left the sand flattened and white as can be.

Jason was watching her with a small smile on his face. When she turned around to thank him, tearing her eyes away from the coconut trees lining the beach, she grinned showing all her teeth to show her happiness. "Thank you ever so much Jason!"

He laughed and walked towards her saying, "Your welcome." A gust of wind threw her hair over her face and before she could pull it away, Jason did and carefully put it behind her ears. His fingers grazed over the side of her neck as his hands fell to his sides, making her blush.

"I knew you would like it. You know what?" Jason said, his sober face suddenly lighting up with a smile. "Let's keep it a secret till tomorrow. We'll meet here either in the afternoon or evening whenever we're free. Okay?" Piper, naturally, didn't hesitate a moment before saying, "Yeah, sure!"

They made their way again from the narrow path, talking about general things till they reached the hotel. "See you soon!" Jason said to her, as he parted ways with Piper and went to his room.

"You too!" she called back at him, as she went to her own. It was now seven thirty and her two friends were awake now and in deep conversation or so she learned as she opened the door.

"...wasting my money for nothing." Annabeth's voice sounded a little exasperated.

"Yeah, but-" Hazel's voice was interrupted by Piper.

"What's wrong over here?" she chimed in.

Annabeth stood up and said, sounding pretty exasperated, "I was just saying I'll be just fine going on the trip to the museum. There's some pretty cool stuff I really don't want to miss in that museum. And Hazel does not want me to go. Honestly, I'm just fine. Look!"

She did five jumping jacks without stopping and gave a smug expression toward them, "See? I'm fine."

The two of them laughed and soon Annabeth started laughing too.

"Okay," Piper said when they all had stopped laughing. "I guess she really is alright. Let her come and not be worried about her anymore."

And Annabeth grinned, delighted at the stop of the pity she was receiving, though inwardly groaning when her mind focused on the other things going on except her health. As this was gone unnoticed by Piper, she thought herself to be the happiest of the company being no longer worried about Annabeth and feeling as though she had no cares in her life.

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