Sadie Pov
We all had to meet up at Percy's. This kinda made me nervous. Why? I'm not sure. Maybe it's the fact that I'll be meeting his mom for the first time that scares me. I wonder how she'd be. Well, she's Percy's mom. She'll be great.
Me, Carter, Jaz, Walt, Jake and Zia arrived at Percy's apartment. After checking wether we'd got the right place, Carter rang the doorbell. Guess who opened the door.
"I forgot you live here too." I said, smirking as I saw his sleepy expression.
"Yeah, yeah whatever. Come in, make yourselves at home, blah blah. Percy's coming. Sally's in the kitchen. Be nice to her." With that, Nico Di Angelo grumpily stalked off to his room.
Then I heard laughter. Percy emerged out of nowhere. "He's such a grandpa when he's sleepy." He said. We all entered and Percy closed the door behind us. He was dressed in a V-neck navy blue t-shirt and faded jeans. His tousled black hair were as untamed as ever, making him look really handsome.
Percy looked at our little group and his eyes narrowed in confusion. "We haven't met before, have we?" He asked, looking at Zia.
"I'm so sorry. I forgot to introduce her. Percy, this is Zia Rashid, my girlfriend. Zia, this is Percy." Percy smiled at Zia, who smiled back politely.
"Glad to finally meet the person Carter's always talking about." Percy stated. Carter blushed when Zia glanced at him. I smirked, which Zia noticed.
"And I'm glad to finally meet the person Sadie wouldn't shut up about." Zia said. I paled when I saw Percy raise his eyebrows slightly.
"Sadie...talks about me?" He asked.
"Yeah. I was just telling Zia about how good you're at sword fighting." I said. Percy smiled humbly.
"Practice." Was all he said.
We all became comfortable in his living room, which was really nice and cozy. A beautiful middle aged woman entered the living room with a tray of what looked like freshly baked cookies. Freshly baked blue cookies.
"Hey kids. I'm Sally. And you must be Percy's friends." She said. I heard Percy cough 'obviously' into his fist, but then his face turned mockingly serious when Sally playfully glared at him. I could easily tell that they had a very good mother son bond just by the way they were behaving towards each other.
We all introduced ourselves. I went last. Sally's gaze was so intense that I felt that I couldn't hide anything from her. I'd lie and she'd know. In fact, I couldn't even lie to her. Instantly I understood where Percy's eyes got their intensity.
Nico emerged from his room, looking more awake and less grumpy.
"Hey, you're Zia, I guess." Nico said. And obviously we were all surprised at this.
"And you know me how?" Zia asked.
"Oh, it's just the close proximity between Carter and you. I figured you must be his famous girlfriend." Nico said. I saw Percy's eyes widened
"Very observant. Good job Nico." He said, not at all serious about his comment. Nico rolled his eyes. My heart lightened at the sight of Percy making jokes. His light hearted tone seemed to lift a weight off of my heart. (Too much hearts in one paragraph.)
"Williams isn't here yet?" Nico asked. Before we could answer, the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Sally rushed to open the door before Percy could get up from his comfy position.
"Hey, I'm May. This is Eric. You must be Percy's mom." Came a voice from behind us.
"Yeah. Call me Sally." We heard Sally reply.
"Oh no. Hide me." Nico ducked behind the sofa. We all burst out laughing.
"Nico Di Angelo, afraid?" Percy said mockingly. Nico didn't reply, but I'm pretty sure he was rolling his eyes back there.
May and Eric entered the living room.
"Hey guys." May smiled, her eyes wandering around the room.
"Percy, where's your cousin?" May asked. I could faintly hear Nico cursing behind the sofa in some language that sounded a lot like Greek, before he slowly and unsurely got up, as if in surrender
"I'm here." He said,smiling uncomfortably . May raised an eyebrow.
"What were you doing behind that sofa, Nico?" May asked.
"I..,uh...I dropped...my ring! Yes, that's it. I had dropped my ring, so I was just looking for it." Nico said, showing us a skeleton ring. Looked like something Anubis would like. And as expected, Walt's eyes lit up at the sight of that ring.
"Let me guess, a gift from your dad?" Eric asked.
"Yeah. Yeah it is." Nico said.
"That's... sweet of him." May said, as if she found it odd that Nico's dad could gift anyone anything. Then she made herself comfortable on an armchair adjacent to the the sofa Nico was sitting on. Nico shifted a little away from her, probably scared she'd pull his cheek and call him cute again.
"Zack bailed out on me." May announced. That was when I noticed that he was missing. I mean, the guy is so quite all the time that I hardly notice him at all.
"Why didn't he come?" Percy asked, concern in his voice. Concern for a guy he barely knew. That's Percy Jackson people!
"He's feeling ill." May said.
"May didn't feel like coming either. I forced her." Eric said. May glared at him, to which he visibly shrank back.
After a small break'feast' of blue cookies and pancakes at Percy's, we set out.
"Do you know any good places? Y'know, somewhere we could relax and chill out." Eric said.
"I know a place." Percy said, surprising me since the guy was new in the neighborhood. The others too looked surprised.
"Uh...it's just a place I go to calm my mind." Percy said.
We piled into two cars. Percy, Nico, May(Nico wasn't happy about that arrangement) Eric and Jake were in one car while we Brooklyn magicians (Jake excluded) were in another. Percy drove the first car and our car followed right behind.
We drove towards the woods. Percy stopped the car there.
"We had to walk from here." He said.
We talked a small distance before we got to a clearing. It was, I must admit, a very good place for a picnic.
"Wow. Good choice Percy." Zia said.
"I know. It's amazing, isn't it?" Percy asked, sounding ever so slightly proud of himself. So he is human! If he got even a little more humble, I'd think he was from another planet.
We lay the picnic mat and arranged all the delicacies. For all a while we just sat there, admiring the peace and quite. But a group of teenagers can stay still for only a limited time, especially when four of them seem to be extremely A...AD...uh...ADHD! That's right. That's what it's called.
"Can we play something?" May asked.
"Ring around the roses?" Nico asked.
"Very funny Di Angelo." May said, rolling her eyes but smiling nonetheless.
"Would you rather." Eric piped in.
"HUH?" Me and Carter said together.
"It's a really interesting game. You guys will love it." Percy said.
"You've played this?" Jaz, who was quite up till then, asked.
"Oh yeah. Plenty of times. At school, at camp..." Percy replied.
"Good. So, let me tell you guys, the game is extremely simple. In fact, I'm not even going to explain the rules. I'll just demonstrate with Percy." Eric said. We nodded.
"I'm going to start with a difficult one for you, Percy." Eric said. Percy grinned his 'extremely rare but still a part of him' lopsided grin.
"Tell me one time I've got it easy." He said.
"Point taken."Eric said.
"So anyway, Percy. Would you rather...quit swords or eat seafood?" Eric asked. Percy paled. And here's where I discover that Percy Jackson doesn't like seafood.
"Uh...I would...I think I would...gods Eric, you've got me." Percy said.
"You've got to chose." Eric said in a singsong way.
"I think I'd...I'd quit swords." At his own words, Percy looked horrified. Looking at his expression you'd think he murdered a puppy without realizing it.
"Wow. That must have been hard." Nico said.
"Yeah Percy. I really thought you'd pick seafood. I mean, you were so natural with swords, I never thought you'd give them up to not eating seafood. Btw, what's with you and seafood?" Walt said.
"It's a family thing." Percy said, and I'm sure I saw Nico trying to hold his laughter. I decided not to inquire.
"Ok, now my turn. Uh...Nico." May said. Nico groaned.
"Yeah?" He said rather timidly, which looked extremely out of character for him.
"Would you rather...get dressed up as Strawberry Shortcake or tell a male celebrity you've got a crush on him?" May asked. Nico glared at her, but she didn't even flinch.
"I think I'd rather dress up as Strawberry Shortcake." He said. Percy smirked, and so did Eric.
"So, Nico, your turn." Jaz said.
"Uh...Sadie." Nico said. My eyes widened.
"Uh huh?" I said.
"Would you rather...like a guy and hide it from him forever or kiss a guy you hate?" Nico asked. I had this coming.
"I'd rather like a guy and not tell him." I accepted. At this, both Nico and May had identical smirks on their face, which was rather creepy.
"So..my turn right?" I asked.
"Yep." Nico said. I looked around. I know what I did next was crazy, but I just had to do it.
"Percy. Would you rather...