CHAPTER 17

Geek Movie Marathon-slash-Date – Part 3

CALYPSO

Callie was nervous. She and Percy were still at the cinema, during the Star Wars six-movie marathon. The only problem was, this was Return of the Jedi, the final Star Wars movie and the end of the marathon. She had such a good time today, it was really one of the best days of her life, that she didn't even want the day to end. Luckily, they were still at the middle of the movie, and Percy seems to be enjoying himself.

Callie wanted to talk to him, but he seemed to have immersed himself into the movie, smiling while eating gummy worms.

Think, Callie, think! What does he like?! What should you guys talk about?!, Callie thought.

"So, um, what are your thoughts on Return of the Jedi?" Callie asked.

Percy looked at her with awe.

"Well, it's really not as good as A New Hope or Empire, but it's cool. Still a heckload better than all three prequels, though." Percy commented.

Callie agreed, but she was merely trying to keep the conversation afloat to make the date last a little longer. She faced the horror that Percy and the SGC were the only good things in her life, and that without them, she was absolutely nothing.

This is why I suck at this, Callie thought.

"Hm?" Percy turned his head to her, and gave her a confused look.

It took her a moment's notice to register his look, then she realized she must've said what she though out loud.

"You suck at what?" Percy asked, with a sly grin on his face.

"Um, I—just have never been on a, ehem, real date before." Callie interjected.

Not once. She had spent her whole life going straight home after school, and the SGC wasn't created until last year.

She'd think Percy's types of girls where the outgoing ones, the ones he could talk with freely and have those walks in Central Park. Callie could be that type of girl, she doesn't mind that kind of stuff. But she's the type that prefers to watch Netflix at home and eat some chips or anything related to potato.

She always asks herself why would Annabeth reject Percy? He was perfect!

Saying Percy was perfect was an understatement.

She always found Percy extremely handsome, ever since she set her eyes on him, and she just thought he was that. Hot and handsome. She didn't begin to like him until they formally meet and he showed his more fandom, geeky side to her. To her, that was the day she began to like him.

She couldn't believe how lucky she was she turned him down. Callie thought she looked kind of plain and boring compared to the fun, outgoing and active Annabeth. Granted, when it came to intelligence, they were more or less equals.

It was pretty frickin' obvious Annabeth has a thing for Percy. But of course, the mystery remains…

Why did she turn him down?

It took only a second for Callie to realize she was staring blankly in his face when he was smirking at her.

The Percy Jackson was smirking at her.

Holy fucking shit.

"I told you, Cal. Same goes for me. I have never been on a real date before." Percy said, still smirking, then turned to face the movie screen again.

"Yeah, but you have experience! With your old crush!" Callie quietly exclaimed.

"Callie. I'm used to her. She's my best friend. I knew her from years ago. I haven't had a date with anyone yet. Until now." Callie could swear Percy's face reddened up a little, even in the cinema, when he said that.

"Lucky you. With a best friend and a loving mother….. your Mom's pretty awesome, by the way." Callie commented.

"She is." Percy's smiled widened as he looked at her.

Sally would make a great mother-in-law, Callie thought.

"Well, what about the other brushes of love in your life, besides Annabeth?"

Percy was drinking pineapple juice when he almost got choked at that question.

Callie thought she was an idiot.

AN IDIOT.

Why the heck would she ask a question like that? In her mind, she was mentally slamming her head against a table screaming to herself WHY THE FRICK WOULD YOU ASK A QUESTION LIKE THAT. Was she assessing the previous competition as such? Or was she simply, again, trying to keep up the conversation?

She expected Percy to answer either 'Why would you ask that?' or 'That's none of your business.'

Instead, he simply scratched the back of his head and replied simple.

"Well…. not much. I'm not much of a good looking guy, so I don't know, but I've had a few other brushes."

Not much of a good looking guy? Jeez, this boy was so oblivious.

He had no idea, as Callie thought.

His own best friend Annabeth liked him. Callie herself liked him. He had no idea some girls pretty much stripped Percy's clothes in their minds and that some girls named their dildos after them. (A bit much, but Callie hears what she wants to hear during class). Heck, some previous members of the SGC even liked Percy.

She knew it wasn't impossible Annabeth was his only romantic experience.

"Tell me all about it." Callie was comfortable now, so she asked the question since Percy didn't seem to mind.

Percy began to talk.

"Well…. probably the first was Annabeth, since I liked her a long time, but if you wanna talk about the others. Probably Reyna."

Holy googles.

Reyna was that member of the SGC that liked Percy

"You know her, right? Well, Reyna was this girl who liked Jason for a while, then after he got a girlfriend, asked me out." Percy trailed off….

"You said this was your first date." Callie bluntly stated.

"It is! I'm not done talking!" Percy kind of shouted, embarrassed and red. Callie giggled at his sight.

"Anyway…. She asked me out to comewith her to the library. She was almost a year older than me, so, I wasn't really handsome or cute or whatever, so I thought, she wanted to talk about school stuff or the principal asked her to talk to me about reports or grades. Turns out she liked me. She told me herself." Percy explained.

"Then she told me a day later she was moving to Rome. She seemed nice, I guess, I liked Annabeth back then, and Annabeth and her didn't really get along well, I don't know." Percy scratched the back of his head again.

Of course Annabeth didn't get along with a girl who liked Percy. Typical Annabeth.

"Anyone else?" Callie asked with a smirk on her face, teasing Percy.

"Well, have you ever heard of the infamous Goode High 'Redblonde Wars'?" Percy asked.

Of course Callie heard of the Redblonde Wars.

The Redblonde Wars was the time period three years ago, when Rachel Elizabeth Dare entered Goode High. She was Percy's block neighbor and close friend, but she was in a different school. She was finally reunited with Percy when her father enrolled her to Goode High. That was when she met Annabeth.

Annabeth didn't like Rachel immediately the day she met him. Everyone in Goode High knew the real reason of their rivalry, and it wasn't because Annabeth thought Rachel was a peppy rich schoolgirl and Rachel thought Annabeth as a goody two-shoes blonde. Everyone KNEW the real reason. It was obvious.

It was a three month time period where Annabeth and Rachel pranked each other from time to time, and sometimes they would argue in the hallways. Their rivalry was so ridiculously famous that it was dubbed the "Redblonde Wars".

Granted, Percy was able to make them make up with their rivalry, and since then, they were friends. But everyone still remembered how their friendship began.

"Well, Rachel, you see, Jason kind of made me a dare to ask out Rachel. That was the same day she told me she was going to Goode High from now on. So I asked her out." Percy stated.

"You said this was your first date." Callie again teased.

"I'M NOT FINISHED!" Percy cried. "I didn't get to go on the date since she was busy, and the next time I met her again was during her first day at Goode High."

"Ah…. the beginning of the Redblonde War." Callie joked. Percy laughed.

The movie continued in front of them, and it now showed Luke crying over his father Anakin's corpse.

Percy was driving his car while Callie was in the front seat.

The marathon was finally over for that day, and Callie thought she had a blast.

The worst part is that it's done. Over. Not until…..

"Hey, wanna grab, um, pizza? It's still early." Percy said as he drove.

Then Callie began smiling again.

SHORT CHAPTER! But, I know…..

SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE

Was really busy, people, what with all the Star Wars, Jessica Jones and other things but….

Hey, don't worry, next update is sooner, not in another couple months.

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