Chapter 36
December
I awoke to a shrill ring tone, later realising that Leo had changed it from the MGS Codex theme, to Justin Bieber's Baby. "I'm going to kill you Leo." I gritted out, scrounging around for my phone which was under the pile of clothes from last night. I heard Annabeth stir from beside me and rolled onto her side and pushed me off the bed while I was hanging off the edge. "Ow." I mumbled as I rubbed my forehead, whilst I heard Annabeth giggling from the bed. "Thanks for the sympathy, Wise Girl." I mumbled as I found my phone to see it had three missed calls from Poseidon, two from Tyson and one from mum. My eyes widened as I looked at the time, seeing that we were meant to be at my parents house half an hour ago, the time being 12 pm.
"Sorry Perce, I was nudging you to answer the phone. I didn't know you were half off the bed. Plus since when have you liked Baby?" She teased. I rolled my eyes and rubbed the sleep from them.
"Haha." I said sarcastically as I pulled her up from the bed. She let out a surprised 'Oh' as I carried her bridal style into the shower. "Sorry Wise Girl, we were meant to leave half an hour ago. We slept through the alarms due to our fun we had last night." I wiggled my eyebrows suggestively as I planted her on her feet, and turning on the water. She blushed and kissed my lips before turning around and started washing in the over head water. I wrapped both of my arms around her waist and kissed up her neck. "Was it... okay?" I wondered. She turned in my arms wrapping her arms around my neck.
"Amazing. Both times." She smiled. I grinned and pecked her lips.
"Good, like wise by the way. I love you." I whispered, kissing her swollen lips.
"Love you too." She smiled.
"Your going on top more often. I like your dominant side." I whispered, nuzzling her neck, enjoying the change in colour of her face. She turned and carried on washing her body in the over head spray of water, I was doing the same as I thought about the events from last night. I frowned, about the fact I broke my promise and it would have been slightly better if I was blotto so I had no control over what was happening. But some how I couldn't bring myself to wish that were true because last night was one of the best I've ever had. I smiled slightly, and pecked the top of her head, before washing her hair like she asked.
We later arrived an hour later at my parents house, prepared to be lectured about being late to the family gathering for Tyson and Ella. I walked hand in hand towards the front door, opening the door to be assaulted with the smell of my mums cooking, specifically her blue cookies. I grinned as I was about to step foot into the house before I was bombarded by Mrs. O'Leary attacking my face with affectionate licks while, like last time, Annabeth just laughed at my struggle. Also like before however, Annabeth wasn't the one to get the last laugh as Mrs. O'Leary noticed Annabeth and jumped her, licking her face making me laugh as I pulled the wolf sized dog off of my girlfriend. I wiped my face with the sleeve of my shirt, before walking into the house, Mrs. O'Leary in tow as Annabeth walked ahead. "We're here!" I yelled through the house, seeing my mothers face pop around the corner of the door frame to the kitchen. She frowned at our lateness. "Sorry we're late, we over slept. Jet lag." I quickly thought up on the spot. My mum softened up slightly as I kissed her cheek, and Annabeth was pulled into a hug.
"Hello Annabeth. Good to see you again." She smiled as she hugged and kissed Annabeth on the cheek.
"Hi Mrs Jackson- I mean Sally." Annabeth corrected as my mum looked at her pointedly.
"Well it's good to know that you both got here safely." She smiled as we all wandered back into the kitchen.
"Do you need any help mum-Sally?" Annabeth and I said at the same time, smiling at each other.
"No not really." She laughed as she walked over to the table, "Everything is pretty much ready, go on in and say hi to everyone and I'll call you all in, in a few." She smiled as we wandered into the spacious yet packed living room.
"Percy!" Tyson yelled as he stood up to hug me.
"Hey Ty, how's everything going?" I wondered. He waved me off.
"Fine, fine. Listen. I'm sorry I wasn't there when you woke up, I was a little pre occupied with everything but I was there pretty much the whole time with mum, dad and Annabeth." He said, looking slightly worried. I smiled and patted his back as I saw Annabeth off to the side talking with some relatives of mine, as well as Thalia who was here with Nico.
"Don't worry about it Ty, I'm fine and Mum already told me you were with me every now and again when you got an opening." I smiled. He smiled too, just as we were all called in for the family dinner.
I was seated next to Annabeth while she was next to Thalia and I gripped her hand under the table. She looked over at me and smiled a carefree beautiful smile, as we all started dinner.
"Percy, how is the whole memory thing going?" Poseidon wondered as he cut up some chicken. I winced at that.
"Ouch. Ironic much, I may have forgotten to tell you, I got that back at Brazil during the Grand Prix, hence the extra boost of confidence." I winced as my mother frowned at me.
"Well it's good to know that everything is okay again." I smiled and nodded, thankful for Tyson stepping in as we all talked about random stuff and wedding themes, bridal showers, stag and hen do's.
"Dad how are the engine performing?" I wondered. He nodded looking serious.
"its going well, I think they would be a little bit of an underdog so far but with a little bit more development they could be up there with Ferrari, not so much Mercedes but." He shrugged.
"Boys. Stop discussing business at the dinner table." Mum scolded.
"Sorry mum-love." Poseidon and I said, as he winked at me. I smiled and gripped Annabeth's hand from under the table, as she turned to me slightly, smiling and squeezed my hand.
Once everyone was finished I looked at the time to see that it was around 14:47 pm. We all got to know each other a bit more, ready for a couple of days before the wedding.