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God, I feel like a total idiot. I feel so stupid for not updating and I swear, I cannot tell you how sorry I am. In my absence, during which I had majorwriters block, I reread my older chapters, and seriously, my Author's Notes before the chapters are ridiculously long. So, from now on, I'll only react to reviews if you have a question so that you guys can actually read the chapters.

So, while I was away, a couple major things happened:

I read MoA and OOOOOMMMMMGGGG, that is the worst cliffhanger I have ever read, and I'm sure we can all agree that Rick Riordan is the master of trolling. God, his cliffhangers are annoying.

I TURNED THIRTEEEEENNNN! *cannons blast confetti and everybody starts to sing "Happy Birthday"*

I got tickets to One Direction's concert! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPP! I swear, me and my sister jumped around for half an hour. It's still quite surreal.

On a less pleasant note, my grandma has ALS, a muscle disease that causes all the muscles to stop working slowly. So, she's had enough and has decided to just end it all and take a pill so that she can leave this world peacefully. This all will happen on April 2nd.

I read the HP books for the first time and I am officially addicted. It's driving my sister crazy. That's only a plus side to the fact that I talk about the similarities between PJO and HP. I mean, you have the smart girl (Annabeth/Hermione) the goofy guy, (Percy/Ron), and the really brave guy and leader of the group (Percy/Harry). Also, the goofy guy and smart girl hate each other at first but later become a couple. You have the pair of pranksters (Stoll brothers/Fred and George), too.

Well, that's my half-a-year compilation. Gods, I feel stupid and you guys all have a good reason to hate me.

Alright, that's the end of the nonsense part of my A/N, now, stuff about the chappie. Nobody guessed the right answer to the question, but this is going to be a chapter about the wedding. It's set in first person POV, and alternates between Annabeth's and Percy's POV.

Enjoy!

Song: "Little Things"- One Direction.

Annabeth's POV XVIII

"Where are my shoes?!"

"Piper, where are those headbands?"

"Katie, have you seen the bouquets anywhere?"

It was mayhem in my dressing room. Nothing was going as planned.

It might not seem like it, but I've been planning my wedding since I was 14, just so that everything would run smoothly. And now it was all falling apart.

The dresses for the bridesmaids were ready only two days before the wedding. Then Grover had eaten parts of the furniture, so there were huge chunks of chairs missing and bite marks in the sofas. He eats whenever he's nervous, but I was still quite pissed.

Then, there was the problem of getting all of our demigod friends in one place, without alerting all of the monsters. Plus, the cake fell while the baker was bringing it down the stairs, so they were now hurrying to make a new one.

And I was completely stressed out. I mean, almost everyone is stressed on their "big day", but I take the prize. What else could go wrong?

I slumped down on a chair, put my head in my hands, and felt like screaming and crying at the same time. Finally, I looked up, and suddenly my mom appeared. She lifted my chin and clucked her tongue.

"Well, well, you look a mess. Come on, let's go get your make-up fixed. You mascara is all over the place."

I was so grateful for the help. This day had to be perfect. And it would be.

Percy's POV

"I can't do this, Grover." I was pacing in my room.

"Calm down, man. It's gonna be all right."

"No, it won't. What if she says no? What do I do then? What if the ring isn't there yet? What if Athena hexes me? What if—"

I felt someone put gag around my mouth. My eyes widened in panic and surprise. Then Connor Stoll walked out from behind me and gave his brother, Travis, a fist-bump.

"Good job, dude." Travis said. "He sounds way better like that."

I gave them a glare. They shivered, but did not release my gag.

Nico walked into the room from returning from the toilet. "Hey, guys." He took one look at me. "How long was freaking out?"

Grover sighed. "Only for a few seconds, but it was really bad."

"All right, I don't care. If it makes him shut up…"

The brothers got my gag off, and Leo, Jason, and Frank came through the door. I liked Leo from the beginning; he is a really cool guy. He tries to hide his sadness with jokes and laughter, but it doesn't always work.

Frank is so insecure, but he is awesome. He has been my friend since the first time I arrived at Camp Jupiter.

Jason. Ah, Jason. We had some problems in the beginning, but it's all solved now.

Frank was my only other groomsman from those three, but Jason and Leo had helped a lot.

"Dude, you could've burnt down the whole building!"

"Sorry; just couldn't help myself."

Oh gods. I swear, those Stoll brothers were driving me up the wall. I mean, sure, they were awesome friends and pranksters, but they added a lot of stress.

I groaned, saying, "What did you do now?"

Travis and Connor looked at exchanged a look, before pointing at each other and said, "His fault."

"Tell me now, or you're both going to drown and die without a trace of a trail that leads to me." I growled.

Travis said, "Well, uh, I, uh...felt the sudden desire to, uh...sneak some fireworks in… you know, for a celebration after the ceremony, and they, er, went off, by accident of course, in my hand and they kinda, er, sorta, crashed into the, er, ceiling?"

I had thought that after knowing these guys for eight years, I had seen it all. I was wrong. I really, really wanted to blast water in their faces, but instead I sighed.

"It's all right; I know you were only trying to help. Just go to your seats.Now."

They went, and I sat down on a chair, out my head in my hands, and just wondered how on earth we would actually do this.

Annabeth's POV

I was standing in front of the brass doors, waiting for them to open. Thalia would walk through first, with Grover on her arm (Artemis gave special permission for this one occasion), then Piper with Frank, Hazel with Nico, and finally, my dad with me on his arm.

I was biting my lip, a habit of mine that popped up whenever I was nervous. In this case, I was almost causing my lip to bleed.

A voice spoke up. "Are you nervous?" I jumped, and looked at my father.

"No, only atinylittle bit" I replied sarcastically. He chuckled.

"Well, it's time for us to go now."

I looked up, and saw that he was right. This was it. This was the moment that would change my whole life. Thalia and Nico walked through the doors, with Piper, Frank, Hazel, and Nico at their heels. Then it was our turn. I walked through the doors in my brilliantly white, A-line dress.

I looked straight into Percy's eyes, and my whole face broke into a grin. He looked incredibly handsome in his tuxedo and his sarcastic, troublemaker smile.

This is it. This is the moment.

I walked down the aisle, and at the end, my father gave me a kiss on the cheek and told Percy to take good care of me. Percy replied, saying, "I will."

I handed my bouquet to Thalia, and Percy took my hand. The ceremony master started talking.

Percy's POV

We walked into the reception, only to be greeted by all of our guests applauding. We walked through the huge room, receiving congratulations from left and right. After a while, it was time for our first dance. The song was Little Things by One Direction. I'll tell you, I'm not a huge fan of their songs, but on one of our dates, we danced to this song, and that was the moment that we both said those three words with so much meaning.

We made our way to the dance floor once again, and as it had on the altar, I was speechless by how completely and incrediblybeautiful Annabeth was. Sure, I noticed it when she twirled her hair, and that moment after the giant war when we both knew that we were safe, and when we went to Montauk, but today, she was just glowing. I knew that we would be together for the rest of our lives.

I slipped my arms around her waist as she put her arms around my neck. She put her head on my chest and I rested my chin on the top of her head. We stayed in that position for some time, and then other people joined us. I looked to my right and saw Frank and Hazel dancing together.

"Jason and Piper look so cute together, don't you think?" Annabeth whispered in my ear. I looked left, and saw them spinning. They looked genuinely happy together. I was glad. They deserved love.

After the dance, it was time for the cake. We cut it together and before I could even react, Annabeth smashed her piece into my face. I did the same to her, and then we actually ate it. It was delicious.

After dinner, it was time for Annabeth to throw the bouquet. Piper caught it, and smiled at Jason, raising an eyebrow.

Third Person POV

This all came back to Annabeth and Percy as they sat at their table at their daughter's wedding. Annabeth sighed contently, and put her head on Percy's shoulder.

"This reminds me of our wedding."

In response, Percy lifted her chin and kissed her lightly on the lips.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is (finally!) the 18th chapter. The next one will be the last one, although I might just add a bonus one.

Alright, the next question:

What did Leo want to write on the side of the Argo II before they landed in New Rome?

Review, and yell at me all you want. I definitely deserve it. I'll try to write the next chappie ASAP, but I don't know when that will be, with my grandma and all.

Also, one more thing, I think I want to do a HP fanfic after this one instead of the reading the books fic, just because I really, really want to do a Lily Evans/James potter fic in their seventh year. I've noticed that there aren't a lot of good ones on here.

We should all congratulate CimFan on getting the second most reviews in the entire PJO fanfic archive. Congrats!

Sorry to all of you of whom I'm following your stories, but my phone broke and then I didn't have one for a couple of months and I always read the fics on there, leaving me behind a lot of chapters. I'm so, so sorry for that, and I'll do my best to catch up.

Review, yell at me, and tell me what you thought of this chapter!

Buh-Bye! (and sorry, again),

Alex