Hello to my lovely and understanding readers! So if all of you read my author's note, then you would know that I have to share a computer with my family. I hopefully will be getting my new computer soon since my other one is well gone for good. I really am sorry that
I am not able to write new chapters as often! I love all of you and you mean the world to me! I don't own PJO!
Max returned back to the house and we sat in the living room talking. Then Mrs. La Rue came into the room.
"Well I assume that you and Carter are going to be sharing a room or else then one of you needs to sleep on the couch." Mrs. La Rue said to Max.
"Yeah I'll show her the room." Max said then he grabbed my hand to walk to his room. It looked like a typical teenage guys room. He had his bed against the back wall in front of the window and had multiple things on his wall. I walked over to look more closely at his pictures. One of them was a football picture of him as quarterback. Another was him as a kid with Clarisse outside playing soccer. Another was of him, Percy, Nico, and Connor sitting on the beach at camp half-blood. Then I found a picture that made me want to throw it out into the street. It was a picture of Max kissing Emma outside.
"Hey um why do you still have this picture?" I asked him then he walked over to see what picture I was talking about. He looked and his face got red.
"Oh I don't need that picture anymore. I can replace it with one of you and I." he said then pulled the picture of the wall and kissed the top of my head. We both walked over and sat on his bed.
"So can I talk to you about something?" I asked him.
"Of course you can. What's on your mind?" he asked grabbing my hand.
"So you don't have feelings for Emma anymore do you?" I asked.
"No. she and I broke up before I went off to camp and so I never really got the chance to get rid of the stuff." He said.
"Well she wants to get back together with you. Also I think your mom wants the two of you to get back together also."
"I am 100% positive that I am never getting back together with her. I love you and my mom needs to get over that. Josh is excited to meet you."
"Really? Well maybe someone in this family besides you can like me." I said
"Well my sister doesn't completely hate you."
"She made me cry at the Jackson's dinner."
"Well she can be a bitch at times but I promise that I will back you up 100% at dinner."
"Oh by the way your mom invited Emma to spend Thanksgiving dinner with your family and me."
"Well that's great." Max said.
"We made it through in Greece we can make it through now. Every couple has to face conflict right?" I asked looking at him.
"Right." He said then gave me a kiss.
….That night…
We all sat at the La Rue's table for dinner. Mr. La Rue was coming from the rib shack just in time for me to meet him. He looked like a typical man. He was tall maybe a little over 6'2 with a baseball cap and a trimmed brown beard. He was wearing a plaid shirt and jeans.
"Hello dear." Mrs. La Rue said to her husband and gave him a kiss.
"Hi everyone." He looked at me and smiled "you must be Carter."
"Hi Mr. La Rue it's so nice to meet you." I said.
"Call me Josh." He said then we all sat down for dinner. There were burgers and fries but besides that there was salad that Josh brought for me.
"Thank you for bringing salad." I said.
"Well of course. I understand that you happen to be a vegetarian." Josh said.
"Yeah I am. I have been since I was seven."
"Well that's fine. Everyone likes different things." He said. After dinner we all talked about school and New York.
"I think I am going to head to bed. Goodnight everyone." Mrs. La Rue said.
"I think I will as well. Nice to have y'all here and nice to meet you Carter." Josh said.
"Nice to meet you too." I said. Max started to yawn.
"Yeah I am tired too. I think I am going to head to my room." Max said then gave me a kiss on my cheek. Clarisse also went to her room but Chris and I stayed up to watch TV since neither one of us was tired.
"So do you want some tips on how to survive this family?" Chris asked me.
"Sure that would help." I said.
"Mrs. La Rue didn't like me either because of my whole um being on the dark side for a while. But I kept offering to help around the house whenever I came over and I became close to Josh which he then helped to convince Mrs. La rue that I wasn't a bad person." Chris said.
"I'll offer to help around the house tomorrow with Thanksgiving and convince her that I am not a rich spoiled brat." I said.
"Give it some time and hopefully she will like you. To be honest with you at first I thought that you were some dumb rich girl since you showed up in a dress and heels. But the more I got to know you I realized you weren't anything like that. Clarisse still thinks you are but Max didn't like me at first either." Chris said.
"Really Max didn't like you?" I asked surprised since Max could probably get along with someone he just met other than Alexander.
"Yeah he also thought badly of me since I was on the titan side for a little bit." Chris said.
"Oh well he likes you now I think." I said.
"Yeah I think he does. We aren't close friends but we get along." Chris said.
"It could take time for me and Clarisse to get along." I said.
"Give it time. I think that Josh likes you and I can tell that Max is really loves you."
"Yeah I love him too. Thanks for the advice." I said.
"Sure. Hopefully tomorrow goes well." Chris said.
"Hopefully. I think I am going to go to bed." I said rubbing my eyes.
"Same. See you tomorrow." Chris said then walked to Clarisse's room. After I changed into my pj's I walked into Max's room where he seemed to be sound asleep. I pulled the covers on my side down a little bit then he started to stir.
"Night beautiful." He said then he kissed me on the lips.
"Night" he wrapped his arms around me. I needed to get some rest before the big day tomorrow having to face Mrs. La Rue, Clarisse and now Emma. I hope this doesn't turn into World War III.
So I hope all of you liked my chapter! I don't know when my next chapter will be up since I still have to share a computer with my family! I love you all so much and you should all check out my BFF's story Million Reason's Why because it is my characters and her characters together but most of her POV's are Annabeth and Percy's. Also it's really good so show her some support! Love you all and please review!
