Hello hello.

I'm actually sort of bummed now, all school in Oregon has been cancelled until April 28! That's two whole months and it sort of sucks. But now all I have to do every day is write this, which is fun, hang out with my cousin, which is fun, and try not to get coronavirus and die. Not fun.

I definitely don't own Percy Jackson.

Here's chapter 7, which, by the way, has some discreet mentions of sexual activity.

Texting:

Piper McLean: guess what it's time for wedding shopping

Piper McLean: Aaaannnniiiieeeeeee

Piper McLean: Wake up

Piper McLean: You're my matron of honor you HAVE to go with me to shop for my dress and all that other stuff I need to do this week. Remember, since you have such a coordinated mind you became my wedding planner Annabeth get up and come over here

Annabeth Chase: Piper please. It's seven o'clock, that's barbaric, the appointment at the florist doesn't start until nine thirty

Piper McLean: but I need to figure out what to wear! And Jason's already gone out with Leo to go find a tux that wasn't rented, that's what he did for your wedding

Annabeth Chase: fine I'll come over there but you better not freak out or anything or I'll walk away

Piper McLean: hahahahaha I got you Annie

Annabeth Chase: don't call me Annie or I'll call you Beauty Queen

Piper McLean: hey that's not fair. But fine

Annabeth's POV:

Annabeth sat up, groaning a little, fighting Percy's arm hugging her waist. Piper had clogged her phone (Leo had designed one with Celestial Bronze mechanics that worked pretty well, it just got distributed to demigods and you couldn't text anyone with a normal phone, but you weren't going to be at monster risk if used) for the past fifteen minutes with her cheerful I'm getting married flair and Annabeth couldn't sleep with it. She was still getting used to texting and what she could do with the phone, Leo had never had a hold of a mortal phone and so his was a very different version from what Annabeth used to have in her camp trunk, secret.

She tried to move out of the way without disturbing Percy, but his arm just tightened around her waist, and she smiled a little. Does someone not want me to leave him alone in the bed? I should at least leave a not for Percy just in case he wakes up and is worried. Percy's eyes fluttered open.

"Annabeth. Where you goin'." He murmured sleepily. "Stay in bed…soft. Warm." Sea green eyes met hers, clouded with sleep. "Come on." She laughed, now that he was awake, unknotting her limbs from his as he stirred in confusion and tried to get her back into their bed in the still apartment as she resisted him.

"Today I have to go out shopping with Piper, Percy. For wedding dresses and veils and things like that. Remember when Piper went out with me for the same thing?" Percy nodded reluctantly as she moved out of the bed and grabbed the still-beeping phone.

"I guess. Be back soon?" Annabeth smiled.

"Always."

As Piper had said, Jason had already left the apartment by the time Annabeth arrived, and Piper was bouncing around in a tank-top and shorts in the back of her small closet. "Annabeth! You have to help me look good for the wedding dress and florist appointments!"

"Slow down," Annabeth laughed as she saw the clothes strewn around the floor and on the bed, Piper's pleading kaleidoscopic eyes meeting her own. "I'm sure you'll look good in anything you wear and you always do." Piper started waving her arms and talking a mile a minute hysterically, probably her daughter of Aphrodite part kicking in.

"But this is so much more important I want to look cute and put together for the appointments so they don't see me as- as a gold digger or as a person who doesn't care about her wedding Annabeth I need to look really good for the florist and the lady who owns the wedding dress place we booked." Annabeth guided Piper's hands to a flowy white blouse, dark dressy jeans and black flats. "You know, for one of those wise people you know about fashion." Annabeth laughed again.

"That I do, Piper." They headed out of the apartment at nine o'clock to the florist a few minutes away, but Piper wanted to make a good impression. Annabeth's nose immediately started to run as they walked inside and the bright calla lilies and delphinium/lupine bouquets made her close her eyes against it all.

"I'm guessing you are Piper and Annabeth?" the florist said, turning towards them. "Your appointment is at nine thirty but we can start early if you'd like, I have no other customers at the moment." Piper nodded slightly.

"Thanks, miss?"

"Giannopoulos."

"Thanks, Miss Giannopoulos." Annabeth said for her. "I'm Annabeth, this is Piper, the bride-to-be." Piper smiled hesitantly with her eyes drawn to the flowers.

"So, what theme are you going with for your wedding, Piper?" Miss Giannopoulos was friendly but not creepy, and Annabeth could see Piper warming to her. "Rustic? Elegant? Classic chic?" Piper looked at Annabeth, there had never really been a specific theme to Jason's and Piper's wedding.

"We're going for an always-changing sort of theme." Annabeth jumped in for her. She looked at Piper. Like our lives, a demigod's life is always changing. "Always changing but still the same." Miss Giannopoulos nodded.

"For that, I would recommend flowers such as hydrangeas, which, depending on the acidity of the soil and water, could change throughout your wedding if they were centerpieces, and also…" Annabeth stopped paying attention, perhaps Miss Giannopoulos was Demeter's daughter but Annabeth was not and couldn't keep listening to the mentions of different plants and herbs and wildflowers.

Eventually, Piper settled on a bouquet of different colored irises (the flower, not the eye), hydrangeas, delphinium and African lilies for the centerpieces, her own bouquet of roses, lilies and lupines, adding blues (the lupines), pinks (the roses) and whites (the lilies).

"So when's the day I should deliver the flowers and centerpieces?" Miss Giannopoulos inquired, watching Piper closely.

"December 16th." Piper smiled fondly. Annabeth remembered it- the night before when she got the vision about Percy, the jump off the chariot towards three demigods- Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, and Piper McLean. Jason's lost memories, the fall into the lake. Leo's hammer sign above his head and trying to swat it away, Jason's coin turning into a sword and again into a spear. Piper, glowing red, in a white V-neck dress with gold bands circling her arms, her hair a perfect mask of what she was. The day Jason and Piper truly met. "In about two weeks." The florist nodded and thanked them, giving Piper the bill- their wedding was pretty expensive so far, and Tristan McLean had been ruined for years, but Piper had saved excessively for years. They'd be fine.

"The dress shop is the same one that you booked for me," Annabeth said, "when I was having my wedding with Percy." Piper smiled at her.

"And where I had a breakdown because I thought I'd never get married." She reminded her teasingly. "I guess I was wrong. And I couldn't be happier."

"I guess I was right. And I couldn't be happier too." Piper crushed her in a hug but Annabeth didn't really care, this was Piper, one of her best friends. Thalia was the second, but Piper was the one who was able to see her almost all the time and hadn't joined a group of eternal maidens for eternity. Thalia would be hunting monsters while Annabeth's bones turned into dust.

"I guess I should have listened to the Athena child."

Piper was in heaven. All children of Aphrodite couldn't help but be interested in clothing and makeup and while Piper often fought these tendencies, she could never get rid of them completely, and going wedding-dress shopping was no exception to this.

"Annabeth! What do you think? This is the one!" Piper twirled in a dress that was lacy and not full like a gown, instead more Ancient-Greek-style and parting in the side, her hair, which she'd grown out, long and making her look like a nymph with her sparkling kaleidoscope eyes.

"You look perfect." And she did. Piper was going to have a lovely wedding and- oh no not again.

Aphrodite shimmered into existence with a gleeful look on her face. "Piper, Annabeth…my favorite stories- I mean girls."

"What is it with you and this wedding shop?" Annabeth groaned. "I'm never coming back here after Piper's appointment is over."

"I just needed to tell you that big things are on the horizon for you both!" Aphrodite beamed. "I've just finished helping the Fates with the next chapter of your love stories…both of you. Annabeth, I'll see you at the wedding in two weeks…have fun tonight, Annabeth. You too, Piper." She winked. Mystified, Annabeth stared after her, but Piper blushed scarlet.

"Do you know what she was talking about?" Annabeth asked her. Piper moved into the dressing room quickly, taking time to think about the answer to Annabeth's question. "Piper?"

"I do, but it's personal." Piper avoided Annabeth's gaze, still flushed. "Sounds like you and Percy will be having some fun tonight too." She looked up and Annabeth caught the teasing in her eyes but still blushed.

"Piper!" her face turned innocent like a little kitten's who has batted the yarn ball one more time.

"That's what my mom said." Her smile was wicked and she looked a little like Eris, still wearing her nymph-like wedding dress. "Right now, I need to change before you tear my dress."

Annabeth thought about what Piper had said and what Aphrodite had told them while Piper paid for her beautiful wedding dress. Big changes? Why would there be big changes in my life? I guess because Piper and Jason are getting married that's a change for us and for them. Or maybe since we're probably going to be moving soon.

Annabeth followed Piper out the door and made a silent vow to never walk into the bridal store ever again.

"Oh! Wait! Annabeth, I forgot to get a veil!" Piper grabbed her hand and dragged her right back into the shop, and mentally, Annabeth groaned, stumbling as Piper pulled her in a 180 right back inside.

Thankfully Piper's veil selection was shorter, she chose as flowy, long but not too long and sparkly veil that complemented her eyes.

"This is the best day of my life! Until the wedding, of course. Annabeth, I'm so glad we're doing the bachelorette party next week! Celebrating my last days of being a single woman!" Oh shoot. "And I did mean it about what I said. I want you to have a bachelorette party too because I never threw you one!" Fudge.

I forgot to plan Piper a bachelorette party, oh, gods I'm the worst Matron of Honor she could have. She's wanted a bachelorette party since day one and I forgot about doing it for her.

"So, what day are we doing the bachelorette party, Annabeth?"

"Oh!" I'm screwed. It's Saturday, Piper's getting married in two weeks on Saturday the sixteenth. "Didn't we say it was next Sunday night?" Piper frowned a little.

"On Sunday, I have a family thing, Jason's meeting Dad to get his blessing and stuff. Can we move it to Friday night?"

Annabeth hoped she was disguising the fact that she had absolutely nothing planned for the joint bachelorette party and hoped her voice didn't shake.

"Of course we can move it to Friday night." She tried for a smile. "You are the bride to be, after all, it's your party, you should be able to have it on a day that you are actually able to go. I'll give you the details later, okay?"

I'm sorry, Piper, but I can't make it on Friday night, unless it's really early and ends early, or starts after eleven. On Friday night the firm's having a big party, and as one of their better people I need to be there. And it's from seven to ten.

So there's the next chapter, sorry that it's a little late I misjudged the amount of time I would have because now I have a lovely cousin over at my house a lot of the time.

Can anyone guess at the 'big changes' coming for Annabeth and Piper? And do you think Annabeth can pull off planning Piper's bachelorette party in less than a week and managing to come?