A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for not updating last week, but the chapter this week is extra long. Mostly because I got the flow of ideas up and running again! I hope you enjoy!

Jay's POV

I did not have a ball date. I am satisfied. That is all I have to say.

Amanda's POV

No comment.

Abigail's POV

Jeez, guys! Are you doing that just so that I have to tell the story? *crickets chirping* Great…

So anyway, we all got home, did our homework, and got ready. Apparently, Aphrodite must've enchanted the outfits because the minute I wore the dress, I had a tiny bit of makeup on and had all my favorite jewelry on. I cursed. I really hoped that Kace would not smirk. On the bright side, my combat boots fit really well with the dress. I tucked a knife into my boot. Hey. You never know what life's going to fricking throw at you when you're a demigod. Annabeth and Reyna dropped by and we started chatting about camp. Reyna was a bit surprised that there were few Roman demigods living in this house. We started chatting about camp and Annabeth filled Reyna in on Kace and my difference with the others. After thirty minutes, we headed to the living room.

I was wearing my dress, and Amanda was wearing a silver and black dress with splatters of white. When I saw her, I smirked. "Hey, Amanda. Are you dressed to go to a funeral?" She rolled her eyes. "Obviously. I'm gonna kill someone if they try to dance with me." I chuckled and we headed down the last few stairs. We were all wearing a variety of dresses, and the boys just wore stupid khakis and dress shirts. Except for Jameson; he was just wearing everyday clothing. He seemed cheerful, and even said, "Oh, this shirt? Yeah, well, no date, no fancy clothes." He earned a powerful punch from Amanda and an eye roll from Ray and Kace. All the other boys, well, I was receiving a lot of thoughts of self-consciousness.

I noticed my leather jacket cast on the couch. I totally forgot about that after flying to CHB. I noticed there were black fingerless gloves next to it. I looked around and saw a silver jacket with the same gloves. I nudged Amanda and pointed the jacket to her. She sighed. "Well, at least I can look cool kicking any boy's ass if they ask me to dance with them." I laughed. "Even I wouldn't do that! Wait, yes I would. Look, the point is… do you think we should at least try to have fun at this stupid thing? And try not to get attacked by monsters along the way." "Yeah, that would be nice," agreed Amanda. "WHOA. WAIT. Did you two just agree on something? Ohmagoodness…" said Jay. Amanda rolled her eyes.

When we got at the school, we automatically heard the booming music coming from the gym. "Heyyyyy, that's not kidz bop! That's actually real music! Whaddaya know!" said Jay happily. Other than that, well, the boys' emotions were also booming in my head, which is not fun. Imagine somebody screaming in your ear, "OHMYGOSHWHATDOIDONOW?!" Yeah... not fun. Well… it was kind of funny seeing boys who could face a bunch of monsters, but panic when they need to ask their girlfriends (or in Ray's case, hopefully, girlfriend) to dance. I'm pretty sure Kace and I were shining silver light off of our cheeks and everyone else was bright red. Except for Jameson. He just strolled off merrily, saying, "Yep, I'll skip the awkwardness and get a soda. Bye, Y'all!" After he left, we were left standing there awkwardly.

I unclasped one of my beads and it morphed into a knife. All the boys backed away nervously. "What?" I said. Ray pointed at the knife in my hands. "You have a knife," Ray said. "No, really?" said Abigail sarcastically. "But still, it's a knife. What's so bad about that?" Kace started listing things off, counting them on his fingers. "You only bring out a weapon if you're pissed, you look really dangerous with that, and you also have that face that you're okay, but you're not," Amanda whirled around to face me. "Whoa, really?!" Ray's mouth dropped open. "TTerminatortor has feelings?" I flushed so much that the tips of my fingers were white. "I have feelings, but not that face," I muttered, looking down. Kace raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything. Reyna got bored of waiting for the others and left for the snacks with Thalia behind her. Nico left for the tables of snacks and plopped down, scowling at anyone who dared sit with him.

Finally, Percy offered his arm to Annabeth. "May I have this dance?" He said, smirking. Annabeth rolled her eyes, although she was grinning, and accepted his arm. They moved to the dance floor and started dancing. Encouraged by Percy's bravery, the boys slowly started to ask their girlfriends/crushes to dance with them. Well, most of them. Kace and Ray still didn't move. I could literally hear their thoughts and sighed inwardly. Sometimes being a Whisper was interesting, but other times like these, it just really ruined the moment.

I'm honestly not sure when I discovered this, but I found out a way to "shut down" my abilities. Like not forever, but for a time being. At most, so far, was three hours. I "shut down" my abilities and after a few minutes of awkward silence, Ray said, "Um. Amanda. D'you want to dance?" Amanda glared at him. "You're kidding right?!" Ray blushed. "No, I mean. Just as possible friends. Not romantically. That's unless you would rather dance with another boy." Amanda scowled and seemed to contemplate it when someone decided to chose that moment to flounce in. Seriously, three guesses who.

Katelyn flounced in with WAY too much makeup and a hot pink dress that was way too revealing. Amanda saw her and her jaw dropped open in disgust. Katelyn shimmied over to Kace and started to trace his arm. "Hey, sweetie. D'you want to dance with me?" Katelyn purred, batting her eyelashes. Even Ray looked uncomfortable and started to slowly edge away when Amanda grabbed his arm. "Yeah I don't want to dance with you, but if it gives me a reason to get away from that-" Amanda said, gesturing at Katelyn. "-I accept. Now c'mon before I gag." And with that, Amanda practically ran with Ray at her heels.

Katelyn frowned at me. "Oh. It's that girl that you always hang out with… would you rather not hang out Marietta and I?" Katelyn asked, trying to dazzle Kace with her fake blue eyes. Kace side eyed me with an expression that said, "Help!", but I gave a subtle motion that I wouldn't help him unless last minute. His eyes were basically saying, "if she does anything more than this, I will actually kill you." I was shocked and amused

Just then, Kace's eyes trained on something behind Katelyn and glazed over. I looked over to see Amanda without her sunglasses on. "Wouldn't you rather go over to the snacks table with Abigail?" she said smoothly. Kace nodded slowly and grabbed my arm(which I smacked away) and started over to the snacks table. I followed him, whispering thank you into Amanda's mind before whispering Kace back to normal. Amanda stalked off once more over to Ray and Katelyn narrowed her eyes, but sulked off over to Marietta, who looked equally disappointed that Percy had rejected her.

Kace and I were at the snack table and kinda just hung out, but then, well, Kace mumbled: "Umm, so Abigail, uh, want to, uh, you know, um, want to, uh, dance?" I kicked him. "Owww… jeez, okay…" he said with hurt in his eyes. I smirked. "Jeez, Sand Face. I'm not that cruel to turn you down." He grinned, his face slightly paler, and he pulled me out onto the dance floor.

"You know, I feel like… we haven't really been able to spend time together without being attacked by monsters…" He said, awkwardly. I laughed. "Yeah. I know, that's why I insisted we come." There was an awkward silence before I said, "You know, I really am glad we could do this." "Um, yeah." he said. Great vocabulary, Kace. As if by magic, we seemed to get closer, and then finally, our lips touched. This was the first kiss that I actually could expect. Aaaand then everything was ruined after a few seconds, because Amanda appeared behind me and said, "Ahem. Am I interrupting something?" Kace and I broke apart, flushing white. "Nope, you aren't," Kace said, quickly. He was still holding my hand and he didn't let go. I smiled inwardly. I didn't want him to let go.

I addressed Amanda. "Yeah, you definitely weren't interrupting anything, but what did you want?" Amanda rolled her eyes and said, "Two things; one, Katelyn's missing and two, isn't it weird that around thirty demigods are in this gym, four of which are the Big Three, and there haven't been any monster attacks?" I didn't have any response for that. Then, as if we didn't need more troublesome news, Kriss appeared next to Amanda. "Abigail, right?" I nodded. "Well, since you three were the first demigods that I could find, you need to come with me. There's something you have to see." Kriss said.