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Here's another chapter.

Percy:

"But what am I going to do now?" I whined. I sounded like a little girl.

"Nothing. You blew your chance." Leo reminded me, like the good friend he was.

"What about Rachel?" Jason, like the good friend he also was, asked me.

"Percy..."

"I don't know. I just can't seem to do anything right. Rachel's gonna be mad. I mean I haven't seen her since the 'phone call'." I rambled.

"Percy!"

"And also Annabeth won't talk to me or even look at me, how can I-"

"PERSEUS JACKSON!"

I looked at Nico. He looked annoyed.

"Why are you yelling?" I asked.

"Shut up. I have a plan."

"Yes?"

"Why don't you ask her out on a date, you know all the basic stuff you do when you meet someone. Act as if you're meeting her for the first time and that you haven't been best friends your whole lives. Be nice. Don't overdo it. Give her space, she's already hurt because of you." Nico said and the whole room went totally silent for a few seconds.

"That isn't a bad idea." Jason said nodding.

"Yeah! You should talk more Nico." Leo said slapping his shoulder. Nico gave him a death glare.

I was considering it. But I had to think about Rachel. We had to talk.

"When should I do this?" I asked.

"There's no good time than the present." Frank said.

And that's what I did. We came up with a plan.

Annabeth:

"Hey," Luke replied.

"What are you doing here?" I asked awkwardly. I wasn't expecting him. Heck, I wasn't expecting any cute guys to come up and talk to me.

"I came here with the twins." He said pointing to a toy shop.

"The Stolls?" I asked and he nodded. The Stolls were one of the best comedians in the industry. I guess having a director as a half brother has it's benefits.

"Mmmkay." I mumbled.

"Do you wanna- maybe- I don't know- go out with me sometime?" Luke said rubbing his neck. Blush was creeping up from his neck to his face. I found it cute and anyway, I am single.

"Yeah."

"I understand if you don't want to- wait you said, did you say yes?" He asked. I nodded, laughing.

"I'll give you a call later." He said and walked off with a big smile. I felt happy for making someone happy at least.

"Was that who I think it is?" Piper walked up to me, squealing.

"Careful, Piper, your Aphrodite is showing." I said.

"Oh shut up."

We walked around the stores and I wasn't in the mood for new clothes. I just got dragged to different places.

We were looking for evening dresses for some reason and I loved two of them.

There was this simple and plain white dress that came just below the knee and off-shoulder. The other was grey and it had a floral print and it was v-neck but it didn't show too much. I liked them both. I didn't know what use I had with them but I bought them.

Calypso bought this crème color dress with a simple silver belt around the waist, it was sleeveless. At this point, we didn't even know why we were shopping for fancy clothes.

Hazel bought a gold cold-shoulder dress. It had a thin blank belt around the waist.

Piper bought this silver dress with a sweet heart neckline with no sleeves. Being Piper, she could pull off anything.

Thalia, after much persuasion, bought a spaghetti strap, black dress with a slit that came just above her thigh. She went bold, as Thalia usually does.

We left the shop giggling like children. We got in the car and drove back home.

Home. That place became home over the past two months. And I was happy with that. Home used to be where my mom and my brother were. But now home is in the way we all gather up for dinner, joking and laughing. In the way we fight over stupid things.

In the way, where I can spend time with my family, my best friends.

A/N So i wasn't in the mood for writing but here's what I came up with.

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