Annabeth

"Break it up, lovebirds!" Coach Hedge yelled, entering the room rather rudely.

Percy pretended to pout, then gave me one last quick hug before walking out of my room.

I decided to talk to Hazel about the whole Leo thing. Walking into her room and closing the door behind me, I said, "Hey girl. How are you?" She motioned for me to sit down next to her on the bed.

"Have you ever—I mean, before you and Percy…were you ever confused about who you liked?"

I laughed, "Hazel, every day I woke up thinking about Luke, then walked to breakfast and saw Percy. It was this constant battle for me, the guy I've idolized for years, or the new guy with a huge crush on me? Eventually, I realized that Luke didn't really care about me and that Percy was so much better than Luke could ever hope to be." I paused, "Why?"

Hazel sighed, "Well, I've liked Frank for a long time, but now I think I'm starting to like Leo. That scares me because he's…like, the opposite of Frank. And now Frank's life is in danger and Leo just told me that he really likes me and that he has since we met. Frank and Leo don't get along as it is, I can't imagine what would happen if they fought over me." She giggled girlishly. "It's weird to think of two guys fighting over me."

"Leo would get pulverized."

"I know."

"My advice to you is this: think about what you like about each of them. And don't leave Leo hanging. Tell him your true feelings."

"Thanks Annabeth."

"Any time."

Percy

This Leo/Hazel drama is causing stress everywhere. Jason's been on edge all afternoon and I think he Iris-Messaged Piper six times. When we gathered for dinner, Leo told us that we were scheduled to reach Frank's house in an hour.

"Alright, we need a plan." Jason said, leaning forward in his chair.

"I'm assuming we can't just walk in the front door." Leo smirked.

"Nope." Annabeth said. "It has a heavily armed security system designed by Frank's grandma. The only way we can get in is through the skylight in the roof."

"Cool! But, uh…what are we landing on?"

Annabeth grinned with a gleam in her eyes, "I found this blueprint on my laptop for reverse parachutes that use mechanotransduction and immuochromatigraphing technology-"

"English please, Annabeth." I interrupted.

Annabeth sighed and rolled her eyes. "Basically, I can make some parachutes for us that will expel a giant pillow beneath your feet when you tell them to. And they run on nectar!"

"Sweet!" Leo said. "And uh…do those big words actually have anything to do with the blueprint for the parachutes?"

"No, I just wanted to see all of your lost expressions." She laughted. "Mechanotransduction causes the senses of touch and balance in your body, and the immuochromatigraphic system is the technology used in a pregnancy test."

Hazel blushed and fanned her face with her hand. I guess talking about pregnancy tests was pretty risqué back in her day.

"So when we get there, we need to have someone hover the ship over the house and stay with Coach Hedge because I don't trust him in my ship alone." Leo said, glancing towards the satyr's bedroom door.

"And I don't want him inside. He might set off the alarm system." Jason added.

"So the rest of us need to drop through the skylight and disable the security system, then try to find the…clue." I said.

"Yes, and Leo, we have exactly…" Annabeth glanced down at her watch, "37 minutes to make these parachutes, so I'm going to need your help."

"Ok let's do this." Leo replied, flexing his fingers.

That left the rest of us to decide who was staying with Coach Hedge. We played go fish and Hazel won, so Jason and I arm-wrestled to see who got to go. I beat him easily.

He, however, insists that it was close.

Annabeth

Leo and I finished the parachutes with 3 minutes to spare, and I must say, they look pretty cool. Each one is personalized with a name and that person's favorite color.

Soon, Hazel, Percy, Leo, and I were dangling over the mansion's skylight.

"I thought you said this was a house!" Leo yelled.

"Sorry!" Hazel yelled back.

Once we got through the skylight, we unhooked our cables and dropped inside. The parachutes worked perfectly. We found the alarm controls easily, and Leo disabled the whole system in 15 seconds flat.

I was exploring one of the rooms when I heard a loud crash coming from the main hallway.