Youthful Times
A/N:Hey everyone, I'm back, sorry I am late, read the bottom A/N to find out why. Anyway, if you are a fan of the big bang theory and you haven't watched episode 10 or 11, do not read this chapter cause there are spoilers for the ongoing series. Anyway everyone, hope you enjoy the chapter. (P.S, I love the big bang theory, hope you like this chapter)
Chapter Twenty-Eight
...::Sally POV::...
Friday 24th July 2015.
Today was a special day, a special day indeed. Today I turned 17 years of age, yep, today is my birthday and I woke up super excited this morning. Poseidon had taken today off work and cooked me a wonderful breakfast. He made me a beautiful omelette filled with cheese, wonderful bacon ( I love bacon so much ) tomato and onion with some French toast, regular toast and bacon with fresh squeezed orange juice and my tea this morning.
Gods it was like heaven on my taste buds. And you'd think after that I wouldn't be hungry but hell I was still hungry and he surprised me by bringing a bowl of guacamole he made himself and a couple of bags of chips and we curled up on the couch and watched the funniest show I had ever seen which was one of my favorites too.
The Big Bang Theory
I had seriously balled my eyes out when in the middle of the scene where Sheldon revealed that he wanted to marry Amy and had the ring in the final episode of season eight, bloody stupid pregnancy hormones, and then in episode ten of the latest season I cried yet again. Do not let it deceive you, I did not cry because of anyone breaking up, I cried because at long fucking last, Sheldon and Amy got back together and then episode eleven, bam, Sheldon and Amy did it ( if you know what I mean, you know like me and Poseidon, wink wink).
Talk about finally.
I had so much fun watching it with Poseidon, I really enjoyed it and then Poseidon poured me a nice bubble bath and helped me wash my hair and my feet cause its not like I can really reach anymore with my basketball tummy. Poseidon and I were on our way to his mother's house, I couldn't wait to see Rhea, she was basically my second mother and of course, I was bringing them cookies. I baked them yesterday so they were still very fresh.
I couldn't help but giggle as I prodded the spot on my tummy where I knew I could catch my son's attention as he kicked no less than two seconds after I prodded that spot. Every time I got the kick I giggled like a love struck fool. I had to admit I was looking forward to having a nice swim as I was dressed for the first time ever in a bikini cause none of my bathing suits fit me anymore and I wanted to show off my tummy when I swam.
I was wearing a loose pair of baggy shorts that Rhea gave me that fit me perfectly and a white blouse that I had left undone, revealing my royal blue bikini top that wrapped round my neck, I didn't have to tie it, it was just a slip on, almost like a sports bra in a way. Most women when they are pregnant feel self conscious of their bodies and have cry fests when their clothes don't fit anymore, with me I didn't have that. I was happy with my body.
But really my raging teenage and pregnancy hormones combined were giving me a headache cause I couldn't think straight when I saw Poseidon shirtless. It's worse when he walks out the bathroom with a towel around his waist, just a towel and is at that particular second in time is using a hand towel to dry his hair which means seeing the muscles flex and tense as he dried his hair. Today however, I blushed brighter than a baboons butt and Rudolph's red nose combined.
Wanna know what happened? Poseidon was changing and I just so happened to walk in right in the second he dropped his boxers and saw his cheeks. I squealed, he jumped, and grabbed my favorite pillow from my side of the bed and covered up his front with it, Gods of Olympus it was so embarrassing I just got the heck out of there. Every time I look at him I can't keep the memory at bay so I look away and blush brighter every time I think about it.
Hey, he may be my boyfriend but I have only ever seen his perky butt and not so little friend, holy mother of GAH! Bad sally, bad Sally, stop those dirty thoughts. Personally, I blame it on these pregnancy hormones and these dang blasted teenage hormones. I was thankful when we pulled into the driveway of Poseidon's old house and I thought Poseidon was very sweet, coming round and opening my door for me. I guess chivalry hasn't died.
I really found it amusing when Poseidon had to know on his own door and grinned when I saw Hestia standing in the door way dressed in bathing suit with a white sarong around her waist and brown sandals. She smiled and inserted her fiery red aviator shades into her warm brown hair that was tied in a loose, messy ponytail and greeted her brother with a warm hug, "Looking good little brother she said with a smile."
"Nice to see you too Hestia." He answered as he pulled away and did a double take as he looked at her, "I see you are taking advantage of the sun and this heat and going for a tan and a swim too." He said knowingly, I saw that her hair was stringy, clumping and slightly wet. She turned her head and smiled when she saw me and reached out and embraced me.
"It's so wonderful to see you again Sally," Hestia said with a bright smile as she pulled away and pressed her hands to my stomach smiling when Percy kicked her hand, "Yes its lovely to see you too little buddy." She cooed as she poked the spot like I did and burst out giggling when Percy kicked where she pressed against my tummy. "Come on inside you two, we are parked out by the pool cause it's too hot for being inside."
I grinned and pushed the tin of cookies forward to her and she grinned, "Sweet Hades, I absolutely have been dying for some of your cookies. Its been forever since I had them." She cheered as she opened the lid and grabbed a cookie and started horsing it down, wow, these Olympia's love my cookies. She ran in cheering, "They're here ma, and Sally baked her cookies!"
I giggle as Poseidon's arm goes around my waist and he leads me into the house, closing the door behind us as we walked through the house and into the backyard where I got the biggest surprise of my life, literally.
"SURPRISE! HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY SALLY!"
I jumped back in surprise as everyone leapt out of their hiding spots, clapping and smiling and all dressed in their costumes. I look at Poseidon who is grinning like a fool and it clicks. "You planned this all along didn't you?" I say with a grin that keeps growing as Poseidon smiled sheepishly.
"Surprise?" He squeaked as I smiled and leaned forward and pressed my lips to his in a soft sweet kiss that actually left him flushed and surprised.
"It's such a wonderful surprise." I say softly as I wrap my arms around his neck grinning like a fool. "Thank you so much for this surprise. I love it so much." He smiled and his hands gripped my hips softly as he smiled down at me.
"I am glad I didn't give anything away, Demeter planned this thing so intricately and gave us such a detailed plan to set this party up for you. I had to make sure she didn't go overboard with the decorating and the theme." I smiled and shook my head and walked over to Demeter who stood there dressed in a two piece lime green bikini and for the first time, her blonde hair was tied into an elegant plait with a beige sarong round her waist.
"I couldn't resist surprising you. After all that has happened this year, I felt like you deserved a you day, what better day than you birthday." She said with a grin as she hugged me. I was so close to bursting into tears at how sweet she was for doing thid for me. I love this girl like my own sister, and she really is such an amazing person, I really love her so much.
"Thank you so much Demeter, this looks incredible." I say with a smile as I start looking around at the decorations seeing the simplicity and the perfection of this simplicity because it meant that they knew me, they knew me and it almost brought me to tears. "Thank you so much everyone, this is so wonderful." I say as I go and hug each and every one of my friends.
It was so perfect, I love the decorations and the love here and I was finally getting to have a fun time with family and friends. I smiled when I saw adorable little Thalia in a cute little black bathing suit, with a cute little skull on it. Zeus had her resting on his hip with his wife, Beryl next to his side. It had been a long time since I saw Beryl, she looked as beautiful as ever.
Her blonde hair was down and flared out with beautiful blue eyes, filled with so much love and adoration as she stepped forward and greeted me with a hug. "its wonderful to see you Sally, I know the last time I saw you, it was a very awkward situation." She said with a blush. If you haven't already guessed, the last time I saw Beryl Grace was when she and Zeus were doing it on the kitchen counter and the day when the phrase, "Hades Underpants," was invented.
I bit my lip and snickered, she grinned. "Your daughter is absolutely beautiful. Poseidon absolutely adores Thalia." I say as Zeus walked forward with Thalia who stretched her arms out to me and I was more than happy to take her as I rested her on my hip. "Hello beautiful. How are you doing today Lightning Bug?" I asked sweetly as she rested her head on my shoulder, gingerly sucking her thumb.
"Ood unty Ally." She said as she sucked her thumb, before she lifted her head up and smiled at me, "Appy Birwfday." She said in that absolutely adorable voice that just had you cooing and awing all over her cause she was too cute for words.
"Thank you Thalia." I say as I kissed the tip of her nose, making her giggle. "So tell me, does the little Lightning Bug want one of Aunty Sally's famous cookies." Her eyes widened as she nodded her head so fast you thought he would have given herself whiplash as Hestia came up to me, still hugging the tin of cookies like it was a baby that she didn't want to ever let go cause she was very possessive of it as I grabbed cookie and handed it to Thalia.
"Tank ou!" She squealed as she started eating the cookie like an adorable little chipmunk which she totally was. She grinned with a mouthful of cookie as we all burst out laughing as Demeter walked over to the sound system that had been set up on a table and smiled.
"Come on, lets party everyone." She said as they switched on the music and everyone cheered as the party kicked into high gear. Alison and Paul grinned and ran hand in hand and jumped straight into the pool as Amphitrite and Delphin went straight to some of the sun chairs that had been put out under umbrella's and lay there with little Triton who was sitting splashing water from the shallow kiddie pool that had been set up.
"Do you want to swim princess?" Zeus asked as he stretched his arms out for his daughter who was more than happy to go to him as she giggled.
"Sim, wanna sim!" She cheered loudly causing me to giggle as she bounced up and down on Zeus' hip, he actually looked like he was in pain as she did that cause he was biting his lip rather hard. For a girl, when she gets overly excited, who can blame him for being a little sore.
"Okay baby, let mama help you put on your arm bands so you can come and swim with me in the big pool," Beryl spoke in soft loving tones as she took Thalia from Zeus who was nodding as the two walked towards the snack table and my eyes widened when I saw the snacks. Sweet mother of Gah, I am starving.
I go straight to the table and grin when I see the round cut pieces of pizza that were covered in wonderful goodness that was bacon and cheese and pineapple so basically Hawaiian which I quite enjoyed to and I grabbed one and took a bit, smiling. I knew my future mother in law had made this because I knew how she made them and these were perfect. "Do you like them?" Rhea asked as she appeared in front of me, dressed in a pair of white shorts and a blouse that had a knot tied in front, a classic style that left her belly exposed.
"Yes, I love them." I groaned as I finished it. "This is so wonderful, I really appreciate what you did for me. Thank you for welcoming me and treating me like family." I whisper as I hug her, finally the tears gather in my eyes and pour, god these hormones are really screwing my brain.
"You are family and not just because you are carrying my grandson," She answered as she pulled back and placed her hands on my belly, smiling softly, "You have been a daughter to me from the first day Poseidon brought you home for a play date where you were kids. The minute I saw you two together, I knew you were meant to be." She whispered as the tears poured. "You make my son happy, he makes you happy, you are family, even if you two break up, you are always going to be a part of this family."
"Thank you, it means the world to me." I say as I wipe my tears away, smiling at her.
Someone tapped on my shoulder and I turned round to see an unfamiliar face. It was a woman dressed professionally in a long skirt with a white blouse and buttoned up blazer with a briefcase in hand. "You are Sally Jackson, correct?" She asked as she blew a strand of curly blonde hair, her hazel eyes filled with curiosity and sorrow.
"Yes she is and who are you?" Poseidon asked as he came and wrapped an arm around my waist protectively as he watched this woman with a cautious gaze.
"Names aren't important, you older sister Hestia let me in because I have something for Sally Jackson, from her father." I froze and stared at her. "I am your father's attorney, he asked a favor of me and asked me to deliver this letter to his daughter on her birthday which is today." She said calmly, her jaw tense as she opened her briefcase and offered out the letter to me. "I know you have nothing to say to him or really want anything to do with him but he wanted you to have this."
I hesitantly reach out and take the letter, staring down at the writing on the envelop, nothing but my name written in my father's handwriting.
"Did something happen to him?" I ask softly, finally realizing why she must be here. Had something happened to my father? "Please, tell me what happened?"
She sighed, "Nothing has happened to him." She answered. "He just wanted you to have this letter." She said before she turned on her heel and walked out the garden leaving me staring at this envelop.
Without hesitation I walked over to a beach chair and sat down on one of the beach chairs and opened the envelop and pulled out a card but this was unlike any other card, the cover was a picture of my dad in the hospital on the day I was born, holding me in the pink blanket I had been wrapped in with a bright smile on his face. I opened the card and looked at the writing inside.
Dear Sally
I know you probably wont read this but if you are, I want you to know how sorry I am for what I did to you. I really messed things up, I am sorry I caused you so much pain. I am glad that you and the baby are alright, I was too stupid to realize how messed up I was in the head and I hope someday you will forgive me. Happy birthday sweetie, I hope you have a wonderful birthday and remember that you are the best thing that ever came into my life. I love you sally, and I hope you and Poseidon are happy and I hope he takes care of you and your son.
I love you baby girl
From Daddy
I smiled, at least he remembered my birthday, which I thought was really sweet. I know what he did was wrong but I love my father no matter what he did to me, he is still my father and I love him with all my heart. I wiped away the tear that fell from my eye and put the card back in the envelop and put it down before I stood up and walked to Poseidon and smiled as he embraced me. "I love you so much Poseidon."
"I love you too Sally, now come and enjoy your party, we got some swimming to do before you can open all of your gifts." I grin and shriek as Poseidon picks me up bridal style and carried me over to the pool.
"Poseidon if you dare-"
"I think you need to cool off." He interrupted as he swung me and made me scream as he mock threw me, he wanted me to think he was going to throw me in, boy was I wrong when he swung me and let go as I screamed and broke through the water, shrieking as I glared up at Poseidon, oh he was going to get it. "Poseidon Olympia I swear if I weren't nearly seven months pregnant right now I would be out there chasing your ass." I growled playfully, "You are so dead when I get my hands on you."
He had the audacity to laugh so I glared at him, smiling evilly as I swum closer to him and reached up and grabbed his shirt and yanked forward. The look on his face when I pulled him forward was priceless because he actually flipped before he landed in the water. He came up spluttering as I giggled uncontrollably at the funny look on his face.
He glared and swiped his hand through the water, dousing me in water as I shrieked and threw water back at him giggling as a full blown water fight started. Gods I love this man, he was not a boy, no Poseidon Olympia was a man, a kind hearted, playful man who had the heart of a lion, and greater kindness than Florence Nightingale.
He had gone through so much effort to make my birthday as wonderful as possible, and I absolutely loved him for it. I was not going to let go of him anytime soon because Poseidon Olympia is mine and I will not lose him. Not now, not ever.
A/N: hey everyone, I would like to apologize sincerely for being so late with this update. Unfortunately it is due to the fact that I had a very rough weekend, lots of stress, hurt, discomfort, loneliness. Yeah, you don't need to be bothered with my life story, you all have lives to deal with.
I have a validated reason for the update being late. I have completely lost my voice, not even a whisper, or a croak, nothing but a stem of never ending silence every time I try to talk, gah its driving me insane. On top of that, I feel like ripping my throat open and ripping out my tonsils because they are so damn sore, I feel like my ear drums are going to burst and my tonsils are going to crawl out from my ears like they are worms.
My nose is so damn blocked, I got hit with a sickness overload this week. I apologize for being so late, I didn't intend for it to be so late, I just have been having so many problems at home and now being sick on top of it isn't helping either. I am just glad that now I have time to write and finish other updates.
Anyway because its like the early hours of the morning here where I live, and I am updating off of my phablet ( phone/tablet – which thankfully wasn't stolen ) I won't be able to answer reviews today, I feel so bad for not being able to do them like I always did, I really feel guilty about it. I really am so sorry guys but I can do some things that I can do and that's this.
I want to welcome theartnerd333, Rebecca Frost, fandomsareforever15 and PtrckStr into the world of Youthful Times. It's wonderful to have you onboard with the story and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. You all get cookies (::) (::) (::) as a welcome gift, I hope you have all enjoyed this update. I wanna thank you all for being so patient with me, I am sorry for being late so as a consolation prize you all get free cookies (::) (::) (::) for being so patient.
Also in other news we reached 600 reviews, so awesome, so since the sixth hundredth reviewer was a guest, reviewer 601 will get a prize, and in other important news with this update we are almost at 100K words, which is so awesome. Thank you everyone for sticking with me, I will see you all on Christmas day my friends, thank you and I hope you all enjoyed this chapter my friends. See you soon, bye for now everyone.
