The bus had stalled out apparently. It's coincidence that is stalled out right when the Chimera was behind the bus, and as soon as Annabeth and I were back on, it started up again.
Not.
Apparently the mist is pretty strong, because the people on the bus only saw me with a large stick apparently, fighting a lion sized dog. A St. Bernard in fact. I have no idea how it looked like a big dog, but the mist works in strange ways sometimes.
Annabeth were only a few minutes late for school. I walked into my English class and my teacher asked me, not so nicely by the way, why I was late in first period. I wanted to say something like, "Because, my girlfriend is all upset about a different girl liking me, and I just got attacked by a Chimera, you know the things that have poison coming out of their tails, and fire out of their mouth." But, I would probably get sent to the loony bin. So I responded with a simple, "Bus stalled out."
We're studying Shakespeare, which is so incredibly boring. I'd rather be fighting monsters, especially since the words on the page get all mixed up. A Midsummer Night's Dream was the last thing I wanted on my mind. Thank the gods that the class ended on time.
I also endured a full lecture about why biology is important the whole time in science class. Now that exciting.
In geography we were studying China. I wasn't particularly paying attention, but when I heard the words "partners" and "projects" my ears perked up. Mr. Dunger had already picked the partners to avoid "playing favoritism" which, as you know, never happens among teens.
Oh, and can you guess who I got picked to be with? You guessed it! Julia. I sighed. Poor Julia. If only she knew what Annabeth was thinking. On the other hand, I looked over to the other side of the room, and could see that Julia was ecstatic.
As soon as the class ended, I stood up to go straight to lunch, but of course, Julia came up right beside me.
"So Percy, since we're doing this project, we should get together soon to work on it. Will Sunday afternoon work for you? Because I'm helping to set up the dance tonight for tomorrow." She was completely polite.
"Uh, sure. How about we meet at the public library?" I suggested, eyeballing the lunch line.
"Okay, 2'o'clock sound good?"
"Surrreeee." Now how am I going to keep this from Annabeth so she doesn't rip one of our heads off? I darted to the lunch line once I was given the free moment. Today's lunch was hot dogs. Yuck. No edible food today!
I steered towards the lunch table, and sat down next to Annabeth.
"Hey Seaweed Brain, guess what!" She had the expression of a kid seeing the circus for the first time.
"What?" I replied.
"Someone is coming to the prom... for a treat, thanks to yours truly!" She beamed.
"Who?" I wondered.
"I said to guess!" she smiled.
"Apollo? He's game for a party." I joked.
"Ha ha. Nope, Grover is coming! I forgot to tell you this morning with all the chaos!" She smiled big.
GROVER! It had been such a long time since I'd seen him. The last time we saw each other was the end of the summer when left Camp-half blood. He'd gone out to spread the word about Pan. I had only heard from him once since then.
"Oh my gods! Grover? You're amazing Annabeth!" I hugged her tightly.
"You know it." She replied with a bit of smugness in her smile. "He'll be meeting us at prom. Speaking of prom, I won't be free to do anything this afternoon or evening. I'm going to be helping set up the decorations in the gym and stuff."
Just like Julia is doing. I wonder if Annabeth knows Julia is helping out too.
"I'm hoping to stay away from that brunette supermodel too." She pouted just a little bit, and that told me she wasn't to thrilled Julia was there.
:Hey hey," I said, "I thought you almost agreed to forget about her. Could you totally forget please?" I smiled.
"I'll try to forget until after prom. How does that work for you? Deal?" I sighed. That was probably going to be the best deal I was going to get from a stubborn girl like her.
"Deal." We shook hands, and then I kissed her.
~~~ Hey guys! Sorry this chapter is slow and short, but I needed a little thing to put Grover in before the big action comes. I will PROMISE that prom won't be boring. It will be a typical prom WITH demi-gods ;) Please review!!
