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Sorry if any character, like Nico, is OOC. If you have any suggestions, feel free to say them in your reviews.

Chapter Nine

"Hey Travis," Luke said. Travis and Luke were heading to the cafeteria for lunch together. They were meeting up with the rest of their friends there.

"Yeah, Luke?" Travis asked, nonchalantly as he swung his lunchbox back and forth.

"Can I ask you something?"

Travis put his hand out and stopped Luke. "You're not asking me to take down that video of you and Percy, right? Cuz it's already gotten about a million views and people would be devastated!"

"It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with this person...this girl."

Travis's mouth dropped and he stared at Luke with wide eyes. "LUKE! You're going to break up with Thalia for another girl?! Dude, she'll rip out your eyes and then make you eat them for breakfast."

"Ew, ew, no! I'm not breaking up with Thalia!" Luke said, shaking his head. Luke refused to look at Travis as he continued, "It's about something else."

"What? She's pregnant? I didn't think you guys were in a long enough relationship for that. Actually, you guys are moving pretty fast."

Luke groaned and slapped Travis in the arm. "TRAVIS!"

"Sorry, sorry. Just spit it."

"It's about you and a girl."

"Who? Katie and I? We're just friends." Luke hit Travis again. "Ow! What?"

"It's about you and Annabeth."

Travis stared at Luke. He raised his eyebrows. "Me and Annabeth? What the hell are you talking about? Wait, is this about the prank that Connor and I are gonna pull on her pretty soon? Did she find out? Crap, she's going to kill Connor and I. Man, you and Thalia need to give us like personal protection or something."

Luke grabbed Travis's arm. "It's not about a prank. Wait, what prank?"

"Uh...nothing."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Just here." Luke handed a Travis a small slip of paper.

"Be at the La Ritz (A/N couldn't really find any good names for a restaurant) this Saturday at 7:30. What for?"

"Uhhhh," Luke searched for a good excuse, "This thing for Thalia and I. Yeah, it's like the second part of our four month anniversary. Speaking of which," Luke said, eager to switch the subject, "You are going to our anniversary this Friday and Saturday right?"

Travis shrugged. "Yeah sure. I'll tell Connor about this Saturday."

"NO!" Luke snapped, grabbing Travis's hand. "Uh, don't tell Connor. Thalia is."

Travis raised his eyebrows. Thalia hates Connor. "Um, okay."

"Come on," Luke said, grabbing Travis's arm. "Let's go to lunch."

After School

Katie collapsed on Annabeth's bed laughing. 'Wait a second," she said when she managed control her laughter a little bit better. "Thalia and Luke are trying to set you up with Travis Stoll?" Katie continued laughing. "Seriously, they do know that the odds of you guys having a civil relationship is the same probability of you failing a class. It's practically impossible! My god. Can I watch your first date? Seriously, can you record it?!"

"Katie!" Annabeth shouted. Annabeth picked up a pillow from her bed and then hit Katie with it. "I doubt that Travis will agree to go on a date with me."

"Why not? You're like the prettiest girl in eleventh grade. Everyone thinks that, except for Luke…and Mark…and Chris…and Grover. But that's because they're dating someone. Anyway, I'm sure that Travis thinks you're like totally hot. Seriously, who wouldn't want to go out with you."

Annabeth laughed, "Katie, I'm sure that Travis would never ever like me like that."

"And why not?"

"Because everyone knows that Travis has thing for you."

Katie stared at blankly and burst out in laughter. "Oh, Annabeth, Annabeth, Annabeth!" She looked like she was about to pass out. "Travis doesn't like me. It's impossible."

"No," Annabeth said. "Travis likes you."

Katie stopped laughing when she realized that Annabeth was being as serious as humanly possible. "But then why would he always prank me?"

"I don't know," Annabeth replied, honestly. "He's a guy. I guess it's just his way of saying 'Hey. I have a thing for you but I don't want more people to find out, especially my brother even though I'm sure he already does.'"

Katie raised her eyebrows. "That's weird."

"Tell me about it."

"But why would he agree to go a date with you if he liked me?"

Annabeth shrugged. "I might not know about it. Thalia told me that Luke was going to tell him. Luke might have just told him about the date. Maybe Travis doesn't know that it's with me. Wait, do you like Travis?"

"What?!" Katie said, defensively. "NO!"

"Katie!" Annabeth demanded.

Katie groaned. "Okay maybe just a little bit but I have nothing to worry about between you and Travis. I'm sure that nothing is going to happen because you guys are completely opposites. And not even the good kind of opposite. Like you guys just don't mesh."

"And you and Travis do?"

"OF COURSE! Opposite's attract."

"Uh huh," Annabeth said, raising her eyebrows. "So you're coming to Thalia and Luke's anniversary, right?"

"Duh! Thalia would kill me if I didn't come. Do you have a ride?"

"Yeah. Percy's picking me up at my mom's architecture. Malcolm and my mom want to meet him."

Katie grinned. "So you and Percy are getting pretty close, huh?"

"Yeah. We're really good friends."

"And do you...you know...like him?"

Annabeth laughed, "Of course I like Percy. He's my friend."

Katie groaned. "For someone so smart, you really don't understand anything that I say about your feelings. Do you, Annabeth Chase, like Percy Jackson and not just as a friend?"

Annabeth frowned. "Oh. You mean like that. Look Katie, we're just friends. Percy doesn't like me like that and I surely don't like Percy like that." At least, Annabeth didn't think she did. Sure, Percy was cute and athletic and nice and funny and trustworthy but no, Annabeth would never like Percy like that. "Look, what happened the first day that we met, that's just water under the bridge. Its nothing," Annabeth said. A part of her kind of felt that Annabeth was saying that more to convince herself rather than to convince Katie.

Did she like Percy? Annabeth laughed at herself. It's just not possible.

Night of Anniversary

Annabeth was sitting at Malcolm's desk, doodling on her English notebook. She had been waiting for Malcolm and her mother to come out of their meeting that was running late. They were supposed to meet Percy, whenever he's coming. Hopefully he hasn't, though. Athena and Malcolm never forget the first time they meet someone.

She felt someone rest their hands on her shoulders. "Hey Annabeth." Annabeth looked around to see Malcolm beaming at her. He was wearing his business suit and nametag. His blonde hair was gelled back. "Nice drawings," he mocked, pointing to the funny looking dog and butterfly. Annabeth was good at drawing buildings but when it comes to small things like dogs and butterflies, she was terrible at it.

"Hey Malcolm. How was the meeting?"

Malcolm shrugged. "It was okay. It would have been better if my favorite sister was there with me."

"First of all," Annabeth said as she began to collect her notebook and other school supplies, "I'm your only sister so I have to be your favorite one and second all next year, I promise that I'll a seat in the meeting."

"You better!" Malcolm said, grinning. "So where's your friend? I wanted to meet him."

"Who? Percy? He should be here pretty soon. I think he's picking up some food for the party."

"There isn't going to be drinking, right?" Malcolm said. Annabeth rolled her eyes. "I'll take that as yes. Just do yourself a favor, don't drink too much. Mom can tell whether or not you've been drinking. Trust me, when I was in twelth grade and a went party, she knew the minute I stepped into our house."

Annabeth raised her eyebrows, "Well, I'll make sure not to drink anything."

"Good!"

Out of the corner of Annabeth's eyes, she noticed an awkward, out of place teenage boy standing near the doorway trying not to make eye contact with the intimidating adults. Annabeth grinned and raised her hand to get Percy's attention. He smiled at and walked over to Annabeth and her older brother.

"Hey, you must Malcolm," Percy said, smiling. "Annabeth talks about you all the time!"

"And you must be the famous Percy!" Malcolm replied.

"That's me," Percy said, shaking Malcolm's hand. "So, where's your mom?"

"Right now," came a sing-songy voice. Athena stepped in front of Percy, holding out her hand. "Hello, I'm Annabeth's mom."

"Hello," Percy replied, formally, shaking her hand. "I'm Percy Jackson. Nice to meet you Mrs. Chase."

"Oh please. Call me Athena. I would love to stay and chat but you and Annabeth need to get to a party."

"Yeah, Luke and Thalia are probably getting pretty impatience," Percy said.

"Bye Annabeth," Athena said.

"Bye mom."

Percy and Annabeth quickly ran back to Percy's car. In the backseat, Nico was blasting his iPod and was he was obviously trying not to eat the food that Percy had brought for Thalia and Luke's anniversary. Annabeth got into shotgun while Percy hopped into the driver seat and revved the engine. Percy pulled out of the parking lot and began to drive on the main highway. He turned on the radio and heat. It was about a fifteen minute drive to Luke's place. Judging by traffic, it would probably be another ten to fifteen minutes.

After a long drive with Percy and Nico, they finally reached Luke's house. (A/N just imagine Luke's house like it was in PJO but with more houses around it.) Parked in Luke's driveway was what Annabeth recognized to be Travis's and Grover's car. A black truck pulled up when Percy did. Out stepped Chris, Clarisse, Beckendorf and Silena. Beckendorf was carrying a huge cooler, probably filled up of soda or beer while Chris was tossing around a huge bag of Doritos chips.Percy and Nico grabbed the groceries out of Percy's backseat while Annabeth skipped over to Silena.

"Annabeth!" Silena cheered. "I haven't seen you in over a month!"

"Your always too busy," Annabeth responded, hugging Silena.

Silena groaned. "It's senior year for me Annie. College prep stuff." After Silena graduates from her finishing school, she wants to go to cosmetology and become a professional stylist (wardrobe, makeup and all that fun stuff) for professional models and actresses.

Annabeth and her friends stopped at the front door. Clarisse impatiently knocked it. After about a second of two, Luke opened the door. He changed into a more sophisticated t-shirt and fancier khaki shorts. He was barefoot. Trialing behind Luke was Thalia dressed in short black short and a loose blood red t-shirt with a black tank top underneath. Her black hair was spiked up and held together with hairspray.

"I feel under dressed," Annabeth whispered to Silena.

Silena playfully swatted Annabeth shoulder. "You look fine."

"Come on in guys," Thalia said. Luke and Thalia led Annabeth, Percy and the others down to Luke's basement. Sexy Chick by David Guetta was blasting on the stereo. Piper McLean, Juniper and Katie were setting food on a wooden table. Jason, Leo and Grover were conversing about who knows what but it must have been something funny because Jason and Grover were rolling over on the ground laughing. Travis and Connor were whispering in a corner, probably about the latest prank that they were going to pull.

"Welcome to my house Perce," Luke said, holding his arms out and gesturing to his basement. "Feel free to put foods and drinks on that table." Percy, Nico, Beckendorf and Chris did as they were told.

For the first fifteen minutes, they were just talking and listening to music. Annabeth drifted from friend to friend. One minute, she was listening to Juniper and Grover drone on and on about something pertaining to the environment but Annabeth didn't really listen enough to hear what they were talking about. Then, Annabeth would find herself holding a conversation with Silena, who gushed about her last date with Beckendorf. Eventually, Annabeth settled with listening to Jason, Travis and Connor share funny stories in their past.

Finally, Luke said, "Is everyone ready to play Draw?"

"Draw?" Percy said to Annabeth.

Annabeth shrugged, "It's like a version of Truth or Dare and spin the bottle. Except its actually only dares and instead of spinning a bottle we draw a name, hence the name Draw. The game actually gets pretty intense."

Percy groaned. "Joy."

I hope you liked this chapter. Don't worry the Travis/Annabeth thing will be cleared up in 1-2 chapters.

If you have any suggestions on pranks for the Stolls or any ideas for the book, feel free to say then in reviews. Also, if you any suggestions on how to make characters less OOC (like Nico) please feel free to say them.

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