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Inspired by Melanie Martinez's 'Tag, you're it'.
Warning: Unedited. Read at your own risk. You have been warned.
At the Park...
He felt someone tap him on the head and heard a shout.
"Tag, you're it!"
He turned around, pouting as he got up. "Hey! No fair! You got a head start!" But she, ducking behind a tree, was too far ahead to hear him.
He ran quickly to the tree on the other side, wanting to surprise her, but found that she wasn't there. Confused, he looked around. He scrunched up his eyebrows in wonder.
'Where was she?' he thought. 'She couldn't have disappeared so fast.'
Looking around again, he decided to look up. 'Yes, she definitely up there. How else would she have gone poof?'
She wasn't there either.
He looked around the park, which was almost empty except for the family of five sitting up on the hill and the lonely blonde woman on the bench, feeding pigeons- wait, what? She wasn't there before.
The coat she wore looked like it had been hastily put on and her hair bun was messily made with a few blonde curls framing her face. He recognized that figure anywhere and he thought of something. Quietly, he snuck up behind the figure.
Once he was close enough, he tapped the blonde's head. "Tag, you're it!"
His girlfriend turned around, frowning as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You weren't suppose to find out who I was."
He chuckled as he sat next to her. "I was going to find sooner or later. You can't hide from me forever."
"Yeah, I guess you're right," She sighed, smiling mysteriously as she leaned closer to him.
Curious, he raised a brow. "What are you doing?"
She didn't answer him, all she said was, "Five."
"Huh?"
"Three."
"What?"
"One."
And before he could react, she tapped his head and threw her coat on him as she ran away.
"Tag, you're it, Seaweed Brain!" she called back to him.
He groaned as he got up to chase her. Again.
At the ice cream shop inside the mall...
"Mmm..." Annabeth moaned as she took a bite of her vanilla ice cream. She sighed as she sat on her seat.
'Percy would never find her here. There's a ninety-nine percent chance he'll never find me,' I thought to myself, smiling and licked my ice cream.
"Annabeth? What are you doing here?" A familiar voice asked.
'But a hundred percent chance that Piper will,' a voice inside my head whispered, laughing.
I looked up from my ice cream to my very fashionable best friend. "Um... Eating my ice cream?"
"I know that, but why are you here of all places? You could've gone to the one downtown and you hate shopping," Piper said matter-of-factly.
I sighed. "Okay, you caught me. Truth is, I'm hiding from Perce."
She raised a perfectly shaped brow and told me to continue, so I did.
"We're playing a game," I explained simply.
"Oh. That's what he meant," she mumbled to herself.
"Huh?"
"Nothing. I got something for you though."
I scrunched up my eyebrows in confusion. "Oh? Like what?"
A tap on the head, that's what.
"Tag, you're it, Annabeth!" And with that, Piper ran away, laughing.
I groaned loudly. 'My Seaweed Brain sure was sneaky,' I thought to myself and smiled, suddenly proud of him. Not at all upset about being it, I shrugged. 'Whatever, at least I still have my ice cream. My delicious ice cream.'
I took a lick of my ice cream as I thought, 'Hmm... I wonder how Percy would taste if I bit him...'
Sorry, I had to take something down.
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