Heyy! Hope you all had a wonderrrfull Christmas! I did :] I got a new phone.. Yay! And I got to go to Chicago to see all my cousins 3 All in all it was good. Hope everyone else's was too! Anyway, here is my gift to you. An update! If you read this little A/N tell me what you got for Christmas!

Love always,

Girl of the Moment 3

PS this chapter and the next two were originally one chapter but it was wayy to long. So I made it three so you can take a lil brake in between. Your welcome :]

My eyes shot open at the sound. Or what my brain had registered as sound but was really the lack of. There was nothing. The silence was deafening though, in and of itself. I looked around. Snow was falling in massive amounts outside. It fell lightly though, a far cry from the howling winds of the blizzard last night. Everything I could see was covered in snow. I saw the yard of our new house on Long Island Sound covered in a fluffy, white, blanket of snow.

Then the second batch of silence hit me. I looked at my alarm clock, but all it showed was a blank screen. I picked up my phone, 10:00. My eyes flew to the baby monitor. The one with a built in screen so I could see her too. But like the alarm clock it was blank. There wasn't a sound coming from it either. What was going on? If it was 10, Ali would be up. Why hadn't she came and gotten me? Suddenly panic washed through me. Something had happened. She wasn't breathing, or someone had taken her. In one fluid movement I threw the blanket off of me and ran to her purple room. Ali's bed was empty. All that was left was the blue teddy bear she couldn't sleep without. Percy had gotten it for her when he had come up for her 3rd birthday. The only other time he had seen her since the adoption. Tears rolled down my face. Why wasn't her here now? Ali was missing. And I was all alone.

I looked back at the empty bed and grabbed the teddy bear. I marched down stairs towards the phone and dialed 911. But nothing happened. Then it dawned on me. To alarm clock, no monitor, no phone. No power. Great, my daughter was missing and the power was out.

I swiftly headed back to the stairs remembering my cell phone when the silence that had been squeezing finally let up. I heard a small giggle and a deep voice. They were coming from somewhere behind me. I followed them and they lead me to the living room where the huge bay windows looked over the sound. Outside looked so peaceful. The iced over sound and snow falling from so gracefully from the sky. Like the little sugar plum fairies from the nutcracker that Ali and I had watched yesterday. The sun glistened off the snow and made our huge Christmas tree cast a shadow across the light blue carpet and onto the white couch. And on that couch, I noticed two people sitting, a little girl with messy bed head hair still in her tinker bell pjs, and a man with equally messy black hair in jeans and a blur t-shirt. When I realized who to the two were I put my hands to my mouth and the tears came back. His head turned towards me as my sobs became more apparent. Percy held our copy of where the wild things are with Ali on his lap.. Ali's eyes looked worriedly at me. Our new golden lab puppy, Jake sat with his head in Ali's lap.

"Honey? What's wrong?" Percy asked getting up and walking over to me. Ali shimmied off the couch and followed him.

"You" I said.

"Me?" He smiled.

"You're here." I barely chocked out.

"Yeah, I am" He hugged me.

"Momma!" Ali said tugging on my sweat pants. Jake ran over and curled up around my feet.

"Ali" I said smiling a picking her up.

"Daddy!" She said reaching over and hugging his neck. And in that moment, everything was perfect.

"One, two, three!" Percy said as he pushed of behind us. I held Ali tighter as Percy held me. The blue sled flew down the hill in the back yard. Ali giggled as snow flew up. We stopped and tumbled out. Jake ran up to us and started licking Alis face.

"Again! Again!" Ali said as Jake ran away again to chase a squirrel. I looked out on the sound. The sun was almost down.

"No, we'll go again tomorrow though, kay Ali bear?" Percy asked as I helped Ali up.. Her pink hat was caked with snow. Her body shivered even with her new purple Orage coat and white now pants.

"I think its hot chocolate time" I said as we started walking up the hill.

"Yay!" Ali said jumping up and down. "Jake! Come here!" The puppy bounded up to her as we walked in.

We walked into the dark house. Jake barked at the silence.

"How about we light some candles?" I asked. I got some matches and walked around lit all the candles in the living room and kitchen and a couple in other rooms. Soon, the smell of all the candles wafted through the house. A medley of Pumpkin, apple, evergreen, lilac, rose, cinnamon, vanilla, cherry, and orange creamsicle. When I walked into the living room Percy and Ali were leaning against the couch in their pjs drinking hot cocoa looking up at the stars and watching the still falling snow from the bay windows. I sat on the opposite side of Ali so she was in the middle.

"Here momma" She said handing me a mug of hot chocolate with whipped cream and sprinkles.

"Thanks you sweetie" I said taking a sip as she drank hers too. I looked out the windows a the yard. With the power out, the light the stars and moon made was much brighter and made the snow sparkle even in the night.

"Ali, do you what tomorrow is?" I asked sipping the cocoa.

"Christmas eve!" She smiled huge.

"And who comes on Christmas eve?" Percy asked, Ali's eyes lit up.

"Santa!" She yelled.

"That's right" I said.

"And he brings lots of presents!"

"Of course" Percy said.

"I'm cold." Ali said. Percy grabbed a blanket from the couch and pulled Ali into his lap and me closer. Jake sauntered over from eating his food and curled up by Ali. Percy put his arm around me and I laid my head on his shoulder. The next day, I woke up exactly the same way.

"Ali, come here hun" I yelled to where she was playing with her doll house.

"What momma?" She asked walking over to me.

"You have to get dressed, we have to leave to Grandma Sallys soon." I said getting out her new Christmas dress.

"Grama Tally!" She said happily as she shimmied out of her leggings and shirt.

"And Aunt Thalia and Uncle Blake, and Uncle Grover and Aunt Juniper and Even Uncle Nico and Aunt Kati! (who yes, were married now)" I said wiggling her into the silver sparkly dress with a satin red sash. It's Baby Dior, but it's just so cute I couldn't help myself.

"Will Violet and Percy be tere?" She asked as we got her tights on.

"Of course! and baby Landon." I said. Landon was Thalia and Blake's new baby. He was 1 old, so cute too.

"Yay!" She smiled.

"Kay, what headband do you want?" I asked her grabbing two. Both red, one was a sparkly bow, the other a shiny flower.

"Mmm.. Dat one" She said pointing at the flower.

"Wonderful choice my dear" I said putting it in her hair so her hair stayed out of her face.

"Hey ready to go?" Percy said stepping in. He had run out and got some dress clothes to leave here. He had gotten black shoes, black dress pants, a blue dress shirt and a black tie. And may I say he looked fine.

"Yeah, umm take Ali down stairs and get her coat on. I just have to grab my shoes." I said walking to my room. I walked to the closet and looked at myself in the full length mirror. I had on a blue Catherine Malandrino dress. It was chiffon and very swoopy, knee length. I decided on a pair of black high heels with it. I grabbed my black pea coat when I got downstairs and met them in the car.

"Are we almost there?" Ali asked from the back in her car seat back. I leaned back to see her.

"Were almost there don't worry." I said.

"Well can you turn on a mobie?" She asked with a sigh.

"Ali were gonna be there in a couple minutes. How about you sing daddy your favorite Christmas song?" I asked turning the radio onto our Christmas kids cd and the first song started.

"Yay!" She said clapping and starting to sing.

"You better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout I'm telling you why, Tanta Claus is coming to town!" She sang "Mommy sing!"

"He's making a list he's checking twice! Gonna find out who's naughty and nice, Santa Claus is coming to town!" We both sang. Percy laughed and then sang along.

"He sees you when your sleeping! He knows when your awake! He knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sakes.. Ohh you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why.. Santa Claus is coming to townn!" We all sang and laughed.

"Very, very good girls" Percy said as he turned onto another road. We all quited as Rudolph the Red nosed reindeer came on, well all but Ali because of course she had to sing.

Finally we pulled up to the Blofis house. I pulled Ali out of her carseat. By the number of cars in the driveway I figured that we were the last people here. Next to my white Land Rover was Blake and Thalias Black escalade. Then Nico's black Audi, then Juniper and Grovers green Chevy vault. And last but not least Pauls BMW and Sallys BMW. One red, the other deep blue. As you can see, they upgraded from the prius.

We walked in the front door, to a whole housefull of people and Christmas decorations left and right.

"Percy!" I heard. I looked up to see Sally running at us crying.

"Mom" He said hugging her.

"Oh Percy I missed you so much. So, so, so, so much" She was sobbing.

"I missed you too mom."

"Gama! Gama!" Ali yelled jumping up and down.

"Ali!" She said letting go of Percy and wiping her eyes. She hugged Ali then me.

"Oh dear well come in take your coats off!" She said still wiping her eyes. I took my coat off, then Ali's and hung them on the overflowing coat rack.

"Annabeth!" Thalia yelled looking at me.

"Hey!" I said walking over and hugging her. She was wearing a really cute, wait for it, black dress.

"Hey Annabeth" Blake said.

"Percy!" I heard from all over and hugs from all over too.

"Ali!" I looked up to see Nico.

"Uncle Nito!" She said smiling as he picked her up.

"Is that miss Ali?" Kati said kissing her forehead.

"Hi tati!" Ali said smiling.

"Alice!" Thalia said smiling at her.

"Auntie talia! Where is violet?" Ali asked with her hands up.

"She's in the living room watching the Grinch who stole Christmas with Percy. Do you wanna go too?" Thalia asked.

"Momma can I pleaseeee?" She asked.

"Of course!" I said.

"Kay lets go find them." Nico said running to the living room with Ali into the living room.

"Everyone dinner!" Sally yelled from to everyone.

"Percy I'm gonna go get Ali" I said as he walked towards the dining room.

"Ok, I'll save you a seat." He said.

I walked into the living room with Thalia to see the kids sitting in front of the tv watching as the Grinch cut the roast beast.

"Kay Kiddos dinner time" Thalia said holding Landon as Juniper walked in behind us.

"Ali lets go!" I said as Juniper stopped the dvd player and got Percy.

"What's for dinner?" She asked as we walked towards the dining room.

"I don't know lets find out." I said walking into the dining room where Percy had two chairs saved for us.

We sat down. Me in the middle of Ali and Percy. The dinner consisted of ham, mashed potato's, green beans, stuffing, and rolls.

"Wow this is great sally!" Nico said digging in.

"Nico Di Angleo wait until everyone is served!" Sally said slapping his hand.

"Ow" He said hanging his head as we all laughed at him. I put ham, potatoes, a roll and green beans on Alis plate.

"Now before we all eat I would like to make a toast" Paul said sitting up. "First I would like to thank you all for being here tonight, and second I would like to thank… well I'm not sure who I should thank for Percy being here tonight.."

"Hades?" Grover said.

"Well then, Thank Hades for letting Percy be here tonight. And lastly, heres to a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Years!" He said raising his glass. "Cheers!"

"Cheers!" We all said clanking glasses.

"Now we should eat before Nico over here has a aneurism" Paul said looking at Nico staring at his food with lust. We all laughed.

"Well we were at my mother in laws house and violet was coloring in the living room with Blake and she had dropped one of the markers on the floor where I was playing on those little pianos with Landon and I had to run to the bathroom so I told Blake to watch Landon" Thalia said.

"And the couch in my moms living room is white leather, imported from Italy." Blake says. I cringe and what you can just tell what's coming up next.

"So Landon picks up this blue marker and gets the cap off and starts coloring all over the bottom of the couch." Thalia says looking at Landon who's playing in his potatoes. "All the sudden I here Blake yell… a bad word. And my mind just went through all the things that could have happened. So I rush back down to the living room to see this blue scribbled couch and I start freaking out. I mean Joan already hates me, this cant add anything to that."

"Oh my gods. What'd she do?" Kati asked eating a roll.

"Well luckily Blakes dad was there, who's much, much nicer then Joan. And he said it was fine. He talked to Joan. And it all turned out fine. I wa so scared when it happened though." Thalia said laughing.

"Well at least that wasn't as bad as the time Ali decided it would be fun to drink Lady Aphrodite's Evian water, spill its all over the bottom of her throne, then use her love scarf as a mop" I said.

"What?" Percy said stunned.

"How'd she take that?" Sally asked.

"Horribly at first, then Ali gave her a little 'I'm sorry' look and she was fine. But for a minute I thought I was gonna get blown up" I said laughing.

"Neither of those are as bad as the time Percy decided to jump on Mr. D's at the dining hall and start drinking out of his cup." Grover said.

"Oh gods. What did he do." I said, that had to have been rough.

"Oh he had a huge hissy fit a threw the cup at the ceiling and cracked it. It was terrifying." He laughed.

"Momma.." Ali said tugging on my arm.

"Yeah babe?" I said turning to her as every kept on talking.

"I'm done." She smiled. I looked at her plate. Everything was gone, except the green beans.

"Eat your green beans first Ali" I said taking the last bite of ham from her plate.

"But mommy, I don't like them" She said stubbornly.

"Ali you have to eat them. Or no cookies" I said, she crossed her arms.

"Ali you know what happens when you don't do what mommy and daddy tell you?" Percy said looking at her.

"What" She said angrily.

"Santa won't come."

"Huh" She said and started eating her green beans like a maniac.

"Wow, wow there little girl! A little slower. Don't choke please" I said.

"Right" She said starting to eat the green beans at a slower pace.

"Whos ready for cake and cookies?" Sally asked when al lthe plates were cleared.

"ME!" (little) Percy, Ali, and Violet yelled.

"Let me go get it." She said laughing.

"Ali what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?" Nico asked looking down at her.

"Oh don't get her started" I laughed.

"Well I want a wholleee bunch of barbies, and a new doll house, and a lot of art tuff to I can draw, and parkles" She said.

"Sparkles?" Nico asked.

"Yeah! I lubb parkles!" She laughed.

"How about you violet?" He asked.

"I want all the tame stuff!" She said happily looking at Ali.

"How about a little after Christmas we have Ali over so you two can play with all your new toys?" Thalia said.

"Yeah!" Both the girls yelled smiling. Ali got a very thoughtful look on her face.

"And a Barbie car! For me!" She said. Everyone laughed.

"How you Percy?" Nico asked Percy who was now five. Five years old!

"I want a bunch of race cars and airplanes" He said.

"Well Santa better have a big sleigh for you guys" Nico said.

"Here we go!" Sally said walking in with 2 big platters of blue cookies shaped like snowflakes.

"Gamma! I made those wit you!" Ali said looking at the cookies.

"Yes you did Ali" She said smiling and setting down a huge cake shaped like a Christmas tree in the middle of the table.

Everyone dug in. We all had loads of cookies and cake. Ali even sang us her Christmas songs and everyone joined in. As everyone left we all felt about ready to explode. But we were happy. And that's all that really mattered as we all said our good byes and Percy carried and nearly sleeping Ali to the car.

"Ali bear.. Your gonna have to put your pjs on hun" I said trying to get her dress of her.

"Ok" She said helping me get them off. I grabbed her new Christmas pjs out of the dresser. They were pink and red with a cute snowman on the shirt and matching polka dotted pants with snowflakes. Percy walked in behind me looking as Ali walked over to her bed. He walked over.

"Goodnight Ali bear" He said as I pulled the covers back and she crawled under them. I pulled them up and tucked her in and kissed her forehead.

"Night Mommy and Daddy" She said as she closed her eyes.

"Night Ali" I said turning the light off. I turned the blue night light on and closed the door. Percy and I walked down to my room.

"We have to put the presents out" I said changing into my Christmas Pjs too. They were blue pants with snowflakes all over them and a white shirt with Rudolph. (AN Whenever I write Rudolph it reminds me of Adolph.. It makes me think if Hitler.. Lol)

"Where are they?" Percy asked. I turned around. He didn't have pajamas her… luckily. So he was just wearing his boxers (which for the record were blue..) and a black tshirt.

"The basement" I said walking to the bathroom to wash my face. "And don't worry.. All the stuff from me says 'from mommy and daddy'"

"Does she know?" He asked walking up behind me.

"No…" I said.

"What does she think then?" He asked as I dried my face and turned towards him.

"What everyone else thinks. You work abroad in China" I said matter of factly.

"China?" He asked smiling.

"Well it's the farthest away so it takes a long time on a plane. You don't do well on planes… yeah" I said.

"Well what am I exactly?"

"You're a computer specialist." I smiled.

"Works for me" He said laughing.

"MOMMY! DADDY!" Ali yelled. I looked at Percy with panic in my eyes.

"MOMMY! DADDY!" She yelled again, she was running this time. From what? We both ran to the hallway.

"ALI!" I yelled. She came bounding around the corner. I waited to see something come up behind her. All I saw was Jake.

"Ali baby what is it?" I asked as she ran into my arms. Her face was wet with tears.

"Ali what's wrong?" Percy said sitting and stroking her hair.

"We forgot to put the cookies and milk and carrots out for Santa Claus and the reindeers! Now he wont top and give us presents!" She wailed. I laughed in relief.

"Ali don't worry, Santa hasn't come yet! Lets go do it right now." I said standing up and picking her up.

"Really?" She said.

"Yeah of course. Lets go" I said as we all walked down the stairs.

After we put out some of the left over snowflake cookies and a glass of milk for Santa and carrots and sugar for the reindeer we had put Ali to bed. Where she swiftly went out like a light. We put a very sleepy Jake in his cage for the night. We walked to the basement and got all the Christmas presents upstairs and under the tree in the living room.

"Should I drink the milk?" Percy asked looking at the milk and cookies.

"You can even eat the cookies." I said his eyes lit up at the thought. "But make sure you leave at least a half that looks like its been eaten."

"Ok, but ughh I really am not a huge fan of carrots." He said eyeing the carrot apprehensively.

"I'll do that" I said laughing and taking huge bites of carrot.

After all was done, cookies eaten, milk drunken. We headed to the bedroom, but neither of us had any intention of going to sleep yet.

When we walked into our room the lights were still off and the street lights that had come back on this afternoon cast a glow through the windows. Just enough to see a path to the bed. I felt Percy wrap his arms around my waist as he started kissing my neck.

"Percy" I said turning around so I had a better position to find his lips.

"Yes?" He asked pressing his forehead.

"I love you" I said closing the gap between his lips and mine. He pulled me even closer and picked me up as we backed up onto the bed. We laid down as the kisses got more and more intense. His hand trailed up my spine, taking my shirt with it. All I wanted was him. And as soon as his boxers were off, I knew I had him.

WOOOP you likee? Well tell me. Please. Review! And read the next TWO (that's right theres two more) chapters please! Promise you'll L O V E themmm

Love always, Girl of the Moment