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Annabeth POV
After On The Border, we drove to Allison's house. Her family is pretty rich because her dad works constantly so they have a pretty big house. So does my family, but it's not as big as hers.
"Hey! I have an idea!" she said.
"Oh no.."
"My ideas aren't always bad!"
"Oh really? Remember that time you tried to fix the dent in the wall? And you ended up making a hole?"
"That was one time!"
"One time too many!" We started laughing.
"Soooo.." she said a little too casually. "What do you think of.. Percy?" and then she started smiling.
"He's nice."
Her grin faded. "Just nice?" she said pulling into her driveway. "You sure looked cozy when you were hugging him!"
"Well he was like a teddy bear!"
"Hey! You changed the subject!"
"How?"
"Okay so back to my GREAT idea! Jon and Percy should come over tomorrow and come swimming with us!"
"That actually could be kinda fun.." I said thinking about it.
"You want me to call them or do you want to?"
"I can" I said
"KAY! Here!" she said and threw me her phone. "Dial 18!"
After a few rings, someone picked up. It didn't sound like Jon so I said:
"Jon?"
"No, this is Percy."
"Oh alright!"
"Is this Allison?"
"Oh sorry. No, this is Annabeth."
"Oh well, hello there Annabeth." he said.
"Hello there, Percy!" we both laughed.
"So is there something you needed?"
"Oh yeah I almost forgot! We were wondering if you and Jon wanted to come swimming with us tomorrow at Allison's house?"
"Sure. I'll ask Jon." he said. A few moments later, he came back.
"He said he would love to."
"Alrighty. See ya then!"
"Bye Annabeth." he said. Then we hung up.
"Hmm…." she said. "I'm guessing that wasn't Jon… who else could it have been?" she said looking thoughtful. We both knew she was faking. She knew who it was.
"Could it have been… PERCY!" she screamed at me.
"Allison! Calm. Take deep breaths." then we both laughed.
"Hey I know what we should do!"
"What?"
"Lets watch a movie!"
"Kay…. Which one?"
"Lets go look!"
"But that'll take ages!"
"Will not!"
"You have like a ton of movies!"
"Fine then you pick one off the top of your head!"
"I Am Number Four?"
"Ooh! Nice choice!"
"Thanks?"
"I'll go get it!" she said. Then ran downstairs very enthusiastically.
"HEY!" she called from downstairs. "I'M LETTING THE DOGS IN!"
One more thing about her? She loves animals. She has 4 dogs and 3 cats. Her mom loves animals too. So that's another reason why they have so many animals.
"KAY!" I yell back to her. Then I hear a bunch of thuds coming from the staircase. Here come 4 dogs charging at me. Full speed. Then I get knocked over.
"Uh! Oh goodness! Hi baby girls" I say and start petting them all.
"Sorry about them!" she says to me. "Millie! Jasmin! Paisley! Shiloh! Get off of her! You know better than that." she says and they all walk over to her.
"Got the movie?" I ask.
"Yuppers!"
"I'm pretty sure you're the only one who says that."
"Don't hate!"
I laugh.
She pops in the movie and we watch it about 20 times before we both fall asleep.
The next morning we wake up to the doorbell. It's ringing like crazy and I'm about to rip my hair out. They won't stop ringing it! So I wake Allison up and we walk downstairs. Both still in our p.j's.
"These people better have a good explanation for why you had to wake me up so early." she muttered. They wouldn't stop ringing the bell so she screamed
"I'M COMING! JEEZ CALM DOWN!"
"You always were a morning person."
We open the door and standing there is Jon and Percy. They both had on swim trunks, t-shirts and sunglasses.
Percy laughed.
"Did we wake you guys up or something?" he said
"Yes you did actually! I was catchin up on my beauty sleep!" Allison said.
"Well excuuuuuse us!" Jon said.
"So what are you guys doing here so early?" Allison said.
"First of all. It's not early. It's 2 in the afternoon. And second of all you invited us to go swimming remember?" Percy said.
"Ohhh yeahh! I forgot! Silly me!"
"Well go get dressed!"
"Kay! Be right back!" She said then slammed the door in their faces. She opened it back up.
"Sorry… Come in!" We all started laughing at her stupidity. She glared at me like she could read my thoughts.
"Now we'll be right back" I said.
We ran up stairs and I realized I didn't have my swimsuit over here.
"Hey Alli? Can I borrow one of your swimsuits? Mines at my house and I don't feel like going to get it."
"Sure!" she said then threw me a bikini. It was pretty cute. Strapless though. It showed a lot, but I didn't really mind. (a/n: I'm not even gonna try to describe it. Look it up on my profile!) She was putting on a strapless one too it had a little ring where the.. cleavage is. (a/n: Not describing look on my profile if you wanna know.) Mine had strings connecting each.. cup.. together.
"And why are we dressing like sluts?" I asked her.
"Cause we both have people to impress!" she said while digging for cover ups. Thank God we're wearing those. I really don't know what I would do if we didn't have those. Wait. Did she say we BOTH have people to impress?
"Who do I have to impress?"
"Percy! Duh. I don't know what you would do without me. Like honestly I don't…" she said.
"I honestly don't know either.." we both started laughing.
"Okay! Got the cover ups! Now hurry and put it on." she said
Mine was just plain. It was a dark peachy color with white stripes. Hers was just plain white with decoration around the neck. (a/n: both on profile with swimsuits.) They were both pretty cute.
"YOU GUYS READY UP THERE?" Jon called. Well at least I think it was Jon it didn't sound like Percy.
"JUST A SECOND!" Allison called down. Then turned to me "Okay I have to teach you how to take off your cover up so you can get Percy to notice you!"
"Uh Allison.. I know how to take one off."
"Not in a sexy way though! Now just follow my lead when we get downstairs. Got it?"
"Nooo!"
"Yes! It'll work! I know how these things work! You never listen to me so listen to me now! He will fall for you if you just follow my movements."
Then she strutted downstairs and I really had no choice but to follow. Might as well follow her 'movements'. Who's it gonna hurt? So I walk down like she did and when I got to the bottom of the stairs Percy's jaw dropped. Allison looked over at him then back at me. She had a smug look on her face and mouthed 'told you so. Thank me later.'
"Took ya long enough" Percy said.
"It takes a while to look this good" Allison said. "Doesn't it Annabeth?"
"What? Oh yeah. Definitely." came my smart reply. Percy smirked.
"Well are we ready?" Jon asked.
"Yup!" Allison said. They walked out holding hands.
"Ladies first?" Percy said.
"Such a gentleman." He laughed at my comment.
"That I am." and then we walked out laughing.
I'm guessing Allison heard so she turned around and grinned. She then elbowed Jon and he turned around and looked at us, he then smirked and turned back around. I started blushing.
"Hey Annabeth?" Allison said. "You look like you have a sunburn. Make sure you put on some sunscreen. Don't wanna make that worse!" I started blushing harder and of course she had to notice. "I didn't know you could get a sunburn that quickly!"
Jon and her were laughing their heads off and so I look over at Percy to say sorry and realized he was red too. Well, at least I'm not the only one.
"Wanna jump in?" he asked
"To get away from further embarrassment? Yes please." I said "Just let me take off my cover up." Allison must've heard (Damn she has good hearing.) so she got up and said
"Hey I'm gonna take off my cover up. Just a second" so she stood up. And she took off her cover up very slowly. I have to admit that it would make a girl look a lot hotter if she did it that way. So why not try it? So I followed her lead. Jon was staring at Allison(good boy) with his mouth on the ground. So I looked at Percy's reaction. It was exactly the same except he was looking at me. Hm. I guess it does work!
I love Allison for a lot of reasons, but the main reason is because she speaks her mind. Like now.
"Boys. Close your mouths. You look just plain stupid." Jon knew that if he didn't she would slap him or something so he closed it and said
"You look beautiful."
"Such a charmer." she said. Then both the guys took their shirts off and I have to say. Percy. Is. Hot. Just plain hot. He had like a freaking 8 pack! Jon did too, but still. I was just staring at him for like a whole 10 seconds before he snapped his fingers in front of my face and I started blushing like a maniac.
"Ready?" he asked. I blinked a few times to get my head straight.
"Yup!" So we ran and jumped in, splashing Allison and Jon in the process. Oh well. Serves them right!
"Annabeth. Wanna know something?" Allison asked.
"Yeah sure."
"I HATE YOU!" she said then ran and jumped in the pool right next to me.
She came up and said "Just kidding.. I love you!" then Jon came and jumped in right behind and she screamed like a little girl.
We all laughed except Allison. She was too busy glaring at Jon. Then she jumped on his head.
"Hey! Guys! I have an idea!" she said after she was done.
"What is it?" I asked.
"We should play chicken!"
"Yeah! What are the teams?" Percy said.
"Hmm." then she got a mischievous look on her face and said "Me and Jon and you and Annabeth!"
"Let's go!" Jon yelled. So we all swam to the shallow end. Allison got on Jon's shoulders so I got on Percy's.
"ONE, TWO, THREE" Allison started.
"WAIT! We need a plan." I said and bent down in Percy's ear.
"Simple plan. Whenever they say go, push me off your shoulders then I'll jump and attack Allison. Got it?"
"I think so." Allison had a scary look on her face and I knew they had a good plan too.
"Count of three! ONE TWO THREE! GOOO!" she yelled then Percy pushed me and I jumped, but Jon went underwater and so I ended up falling and they ended up winning.
"HA HA HA HA! YOUR… FACE.. WAS.. SOO… FUNNY!" Allison said between fits of laughter.
"I quit!" I said.
"Aw.. Party pooper!" she yelled at me. I got out of the pool and everyone followed. We sat on the side of the pool and just talked about everything. Then we got on the subject of baseball and the guys said softball is just an easier version of baseball.
"It is not!" I said
"Yeah it is! The ball is way bigger so it makes it easier to hit."
"But" Allison started "that means it's heavier so it's harder to make it go far, and harder to throw!"
"Yeah and baseball's are easier to throw cause they're so small."
"they may be harder to hit, but if you do hit it, it goes pretty damn far!" Allison said.
"Fine you guys win." Jon said.
"I knew we would!" Allison said.
"Lets get back in the pool. It's getting hot." I said
"Kay!" Allison said then jumped in.
Jon went after her and then me and then Percy. The day went on like that. So all in all it was a fun day. Eventually the guys had to go so when they left, Allison, of course, had to say something about how Percy and me should SO get together.
"You and Percy! Oh my goodness! You guys are like perfecto!" then she put her hand to her mouth and made a kissy noise while pulling her hand off.
I just ignored her. "Hey can I crash here again tonight?" I asked
"I don't think so. I got church tomorrow!"
"Oh yeah today's Saturday! I have church tomorrow too! Bye!" I said
"Stupid!"
"That's me!"
"I hate you."
"No ya don't!"
"How did you know?"
"I'm just smart!"
"Sure you are."
"Rude! Bye!"
"See ya!" she said then I walked out the door. I bumped into someone while I was walking out.
"Sorry!"
"Annabeth?"
"Percy?"
"You still here?"
"Just leaving actually."
"Oh."
"Yeah. So what are you doing here?"
"Forgot my sunglasses."
"Nice." I said.
"Yeah. Hey. Can I ask you a question?"
"You already did but you can ask another if you want." he laughed.
"Uh. Do, uh, want to, um, go out with me tomorrow night?"
"Yes!" I said a little too enthusiastically. "I mean, uh, yeah that would be cool. Walk me home?"
"Sure just let me get my glasses."
"Kay." So he knocked on the door and Allison's mom answered.
"Hey Annabeth! Who's the handsome fella?"
"Hi Janis! This is Percy."
"I see. Are you two?"
"Noooo!" I said.
"Oh you should be! Aw young love."
"Janis!"
"Oh right. Sorry dear! What can I help you with?"
"Percy forgot his sunglasses here earlier."
"Oh I know where those are! Let me go grab them!" she closed the door. Then re-opened it. "Sorry… Come in!" Déjà vu much? Like mother like daughter I guess. She came back about five seconds later.
"Here ya go darlin!" she said then handed him the sunglasses.
"Thanks."
"Alright bye, Janis!"
"See you two later!" Percy just waved.
He walked me to my house and we stayed in comfortable silence the whole way. He's easy to be around.
"Well see you tomorrow. On our.. Date." he said.
"Bye." then he kissed my cheek and left.
Wow. Today was a good day.
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