Chapter 16 is ready! When I uploaded Chapter 15, it was nearly complete sooo…now it is :D!
Many of you thought that this story has ended. No way my friends ! I haven't finished…having fun toying with them :P! I know that makes me evil…but it's the way of the writer :D!
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ON WITH THE STORY!
Chapter 16 – Not For Now
~Bianca's POV~
Christmas.
Today's the day.
Today I'm going to tell Malcolm who I am. Nico did it yesterday and things turned out for the best for him. Turns out, Thalia is a daughter of Zeus. Lucky him.
Right now I'm praying that Malcolm accepts me for who I am and doesn't reject me. I'm also praying that he's a demigod too…but that's beyond impossible.
How was I going to tell him? Simple. Shadow travel in his room. I know it pretty well.
Right now it's 8am. He should be waking up by now, so I travelled to his room.
When I arrived I was greeted by an empty bed.
Damn it! He's already awake.
I was about to shadow travel again when I felt a pair of arms snake their way around my waist and pulling me closer to a body.
"Took you long enough," said someone.
Malcolm.
I turned in his arms and asked "What do you mean?" trying to look innocent.
He chuckled. "Bianca I know you're a daughter of Hades. Nico told me."
I gritted my teeth. "He what?"
"He told me who your father was," he said as if it was nothing. How could he act so coolly?
"And?" I asked, half afraid of what he might say.
"And I think it's awesome because since my girlfriend is a demigod, I don't have to leave you just because I'm a son of Athena," he said casually.
This was not something I was prepared for. He was a son of Athena? And he was LEAVING me?
This fact I found more important than the fact that he was a son of Athena.
"Wait. You were going to leave me?" I asked as I pushed him away and walked to the window. I couldn't believe it. I thought he loved me.
As if reading my mind he said "I love you. And that's why I was going to leave you. A demigods' life isn't that easy and since I thought you were a mortal, I didn't want you in any danger."
Then he came to me and, like before, hugged me from behind. "But ever since I figured out what you are, I was extremely happy because I get to spend my life with you."
I smiled, a small tear dropping. He wanted to spend his life with me. Awesome!
I turned in his hands again and brought his head down for a kiss.
This was by far the best Christmas morning ever.
~Percy's POV~
Turns out, the small crash we heard before was Bobby and Matthew. They had destroyed some robot made out of Lego.
After finishing dinner and cleaning up, Annabeth and I decided to call the others to see if they could come over to Annabeth's house and hang out. They all said they'll come.
We told our parent's that we'll be waiting in Annabeth's room for the others and they all nodded with a smile. Turns out, Bianca told Malcolm this morning that she was a demigod. But he had already been told by Nico, so I could imagine the surprise she had when she figured it out.
"Be good children OK?" said Fredrick.
I grinned at him and Annabeth rolled her eyes. She took my hand and we went to her room.
She pushed me inside her room and closed the door. Then she exhaled, still facing the door. I guess she was thinking that we finally got some privacy. And after 4 months seeing her, I really wanted to be alone with her. I slowly crept up to her and wrapped my arms around her waist. Even though I couldn't see her face, I knew she was smiling.
She put her head back, placing it on my shoulder and exposing her neck. I leaned in and kissed it slowly and softly, not wanting to mark her just yet. I trailed up her neck, then her cheeks and then went to her left ear, placing a trail of soft kisses. When I arrived at her ear, I smiled and blew gently in it, causing her to shiver. I chuckled at this and she whined. Then she smacked my arm. "Stop it."
"You know you love it," I said grinning.
"So you love doing that to me more than you love me?"she said laughing lightly. But I didn't find this funny.
I sighed. "I love no one and nothing more than you. You mean everything to me."
"Gods Percy could you be more cheesy?" I heard someone say causing both of us to jump.
Both of us turned and found Thalia in Nico's arms and Bianca in Malcolm's arms.
"How did you guys get in here?" asked Annabeth. Oh right, she was still the only one who didn't know.
"Shadow travelled," said Nico simply. Wow , nice way of breaking the news.
Annabeth gasped. "So that means you're a-"
"Demigod. Even Bianca. We're the twins of Hades," he said again smiling.
Annabeth sighed. "Any other demigods I should know about?" Wow she seems to be taking the news well.
All of us shook our heads. "Not that we know of," I said.
"Good because I-" but she was cut off by Bianca's loud gasp.
"What?" I said as my hand went for Riptide.
"Annabeth where did you get that necklace?" she said. I sighed. So much for giving me a heart attack.
Annabeth blushed a bit. "Percy gave it to me. Now we're married," she said, air-quoting 'married'.
The others grinned at me. "Nice man. Congratulations," said Nico. "And I'm guessing she gave you the one you're wearing."
Annabeth gasped. "No. Poseidon gave that to him and he told him that I should've given it to him. But I didn't get him anything." She hung her head. "Sorry Percy. I'm a terrible girlfriend."
I smiled and lifted her head by her chin.
Looking in her eyes, I said "Seeing you smile after these 4 months is enough of a gift for me." Then I kissed her.
But we were rudely interrupted when the others yelled "Cheesy!"
Annabeth pulled away and said "Shut up guys! I like it when he's cheesy!"
Thalia and Malcolm gasped and then started laughing.
"What?" she asked.
"I wish I taped Annabeth saying that! You have no idea how much you sound like one of Aphrodite's daughters!" said Malcolm.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Sure laugh it up. Let's see how long we'll have to wait before you start saying cheesy lines to Bianca!"
Now it was Bianca's turn to laugh. "They started looong ago!"
We joined in her laughing as Malcolm blushed a bit.
When the laughing calmed down, we sat on the floor and just talked. Well it was more filling me in on what I missed in these past 4 months. They told me of some funny things that happened and it turned out that Annabeth did have fun and did some funny stuff which was a good thing. At least she had some fun. Shows she's not some clingy girlfriend.
After an hour or 2, the talking ended up on some place called Camp Half-Blood.
"You guys should definitely come next summer. It'll be awesome," said Thalia. "You'll meet our teacher, Chiron. He's great but a bit strict."
"Sure," I said. "But I'm not looking forward to the strict teacher."
"Don't worry my young friend. I'm only strict when I have to," said a new voice, causing us to jump…again!
All of us turned to the window and saw an iris message. In it was a middle aged person with brown hair, brown beard and eyes that look really old.
"Chiron!" yelled Annabeth, Thalia and Malcolm at once.
Chiron laughed. "Hello everyone. I hope your Christmas is going as you wished."
They nodded, smiling.
Then Chiron seemed to notice Nico, Bianca and me.
"And who are they? It seems I should've taught you how to manipulate the mist," he said.
Annabeth smiled. "They're demigods Chiron."
His eyes widened. "I see. Well that's good. Who's god are you?"
"Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. And this is my twin sister, Bianca, daughter of Hades," said Nico. Bianca said a simple "Hello sir." Chiron's eyes widened even more.
His eyes landed on me. "Percy Jackson sir. Son of Poseidon."
When I said who I was, I swear his eyes were going to pop out!
"C-Children of the Big 3! How's this possible! We have to meet as soon as possible!" then he seemed to remember something. "Ah yes. The reason why I called. The camp's having it's 1st Christmas week. I forgot to tell you 3 because you left early," he said to Annabeth. "And if you can, please bring your friends."
All of us nodded.
"Good. The week starts tomorrow. I'll see you here," he said before swiping his hand through the iris message.
Silence filled the room. I got bored so I asked "Is this camp far?"
"Nope. It's on Long Island," said Annabeth. She was right, it wasn't far. Maybe 20 minutes by my car. Yeah, I got my own car. Poseidon gave it to me this summer. It's an awesome Audi TT with green rims and blue neons. My mom threw a fit when she saw it because she told me that it was too fast, but I told her that I won't make it go very fast. Seriously all I've ever made it go was maybe 60 because of her. Now that I get to go a bit away from her, I'll test her true speed.
"So, what do e do now?" asked Thalia.
We remained silent until Malcolm smiled. "Why don't we go pack and leave? This way we'll get to show them the camp before the others come. There will be a few year-rounders but the camp would be deserted."
We all smiled and nodded.
"Great idea Malcolm," she said, giving him a kiss.
"Thanks baby," he replied smiling, causing the rest of us to smile and roll our eyes.
"Well we'll be going now. See you guys in..say..2 hours?" said Nico. We nodded. It was 4 pm. Then he shadow travelled home and Thalia thunder-travelled home as well.
"We'll be going too. You 2 play safe OK?" said Bianca causing us to roll our eyes and blush.
They laughed at that and Bianca shadow travelled Malcolm home, leaving me and Annabeth alone.
She turned to me and said "What now?"
I smiled. "Now we go tell our parents."
She smiled. But her smile wasn't the innocent one I knew.
"We'll tell them later," she said as she came closer. Then she put her head on my shoulder and whispered "You have no idea how much I've missed you."
I smirked. She pulled her head away but I kept her in check. I leaned in and just before I kissed I said "I think I might have one."
Then she attacked my mouth.
You'd think I, being the guy, would do something cool like take control of this hot kiss and kiss her back, making her melt in my arms.
But honestly, all I did was well, basically….nothing.
Don't get me wrong, I mean I liked this side of Annabeth. So wanting. So controlling.
But then things started to go wrong.
She pushed me on her bed and came on me. Then she kissed me again. Ok, so far nothing was bad. Just a simple make out session.
Things started to go bad when she started to unbutton my shirt.
At 1st I felt excited. I mean…which straight guy wouldn't want this.
But then I saw her eyes. They were filled with lust and wanting.
Sure I would've loved what we were going to do. But I just couldn't do it to her now.
I tried pushing her away, but apparently she found some new source of strength because I couldn't budge an inch.
She had managed to unbutton all the buttons, slid her hand under my other shirt and was running her hand over my chest.
Damn this felt good. What if I just let go and…
NO!
Percy focus you idiot! You're not ready for this step!
"Annabeth stop," I said but she didn't hear me. She kissed me harder to try and stop me. She shoved her tongue in my mouth but I quickly pulled away.
She smiled. "Playing hard to get now are we?"
What happened to my sweet, innocent Annabeth?
"Annabeth I said stop!" I told her again but it was like talking to a brick wall.
Then she tried to remove my belt.
"That's it," I thought.
Gathering all my strength, I grabbed her arms and turned her, me ending on top.
"Annabeth stop!" I said firmly, slightly out of breath.
She looked in my eyes. Tears started to form in hers.
"Percy. I want this. Please. After all that happened to me, I know that I want you because you're not Luke," she said and tried to get up to kiss me.
But I pulled back and the look on her face hurt like hell.
"Annabeth, we're not ready for this," I said calmly.
"I don't care!" she said, raising her voice a bit. "I deserve everything after what happened to me!"
"Yes you do!" I said, matching her voice level. "But not this. Not now."
She started to cry hard and I loosened my grip slightly. "Please Percy. If you love me…please. I want to show you how much I love you."
I sighed and looked away. "No."
When I turned back to her, anger and sadness filled her eyes.
Then she yelled something at me. It was more like driving a sword in my heart.
"I HATE YOU!"
My grip on her slackened. I felt like my heart was about to explode in pain.
Realization dawned on Annabeth's face as her eyes widened. She got up from under me and started crying again as she ran to the bathroom, locking it.
I just sat on her bed staring at the bathroom door.
Surely she didn't mean it. I mean, after all we've been through. Ok, so maybe we didn't spend much time together BUT during that little time, I've gotten to know her faster than anyone else. And she meant everything to me.
But her voice sounded serious, despite her crying.
So if she hates me, then why do I want to teleport myself in that bathroom, hold her and tell her that everything's OK?
Oh that's right. Because I still love her more than anything.
She may hate me but I defiantly don't.
The door burst open and in came our parents.
"What happened? We heard a door being slammed shut!" asked Fredrick. He saw me with my unbuttoned shirt and came with a very close assumption of what almost happened.
I said 'very close' because he came to me, grabbed my shoulders and angrily said "What did you do to her?"
I wasn't angry at him though. He had every right to be angry.
"Nothing," I said. I got out of his hold and buttoned my shirt. But before I left I said "Probably the hardest nothing I've ever done."
I turned to Helen, who was looking at me suspiciously. "Chiron called. She's going to camp with the others. Make sure she goes. They'll be here in maybe an hour and a half. I won't be going."
With that I grabbed my jacket and left. Before I left, I made sure I looked normal, put on my jacket and left.
I headed for Central Park. There I would calm down.
I hope.
~Thalia's POV~
With Nico, I quickly transported us to Annabeth's room.
Her mother just called a few minutes ago and she told me that something happened between Annabeth and Percy.
When we arrived there, we found Annabeth crying in her mother's arms.
I was already worried from the phone call, but this made me panic.
"What happened?" I asked.
No one replied, so I went to Annabeth and she gave me a hug.
"Annabeth what's wrong?" I asked softly.
"I'm a horrible p-person Thalia!" she said through her crying. What could have possibly happened that would make her so heartbroken?
"And why is that?" I asked again.
After some more crying, she calmed down a bit.
"I t-tried to f-force him to do m-me but he d-didn't want to. I k-kept p-pushing on but he s-still held me b-back. I told him that I d-deserved and w-wanted to after w-what h-happened with L-Luke, but he s-still refused. And then…" but she couldn't hold it any longer, so she continued her crying.
I was very shocked at what happened. So she tried to force him into bed with her, but he refused. He actually had that much self control? Amazing.
"Then what?" asked Nico.
Through her crying, she said "I told him that I hated him! After all he did for me, how could I say that?"
None of us knew what to do, so I comforted her, telling her that everything will be OK and that Percy doesn't hate her. A small side of me knew that there might be a chance that that wasn't the truth. But come on! After how he stood up to Poseidon, I don't think Percy will hold it against her. but I was pretty surprised that Annabeth tried to do it with Percy.
We spent an hour like that, Annabeth letting everything out while Nico, her mother and I comforting her, telling her that he doesn't hate her.
"Why don't we take you guys to camp? Maybe that place will help you clear your head and think straight," said Helen suddenly.
Nico and I nodded. Annabeth shook her head.
Helen sighed. "Annabeth, Percy told me that you are to go and I agree with him. See? He's still looking out for you. He doesn't hate you."
"Yeah Annabeth. I mean, he loves you very much to just leave you," said Nico. I nodded.
"So is he coming?" asked Annabeth.
Helen shook her head. "No."
"See!" said Annabeth yelling/crying. "He doesn't even want to see me."
I quickly hugged her. "He's just giving you some space that's all." Nico and Helen nodded.
"Please Annabeth. If you don't come, Chiron will be worried as will we. Please," I said pleadingly.
She sighed in defeat. "Fine let's go," she said half heartedly.
All of us smiled and Helen got up to prepare Annabeth's luggage.
Half an hour later, we were ready and in Helen's car. Nico and I came with Annabeth while Malcolm and Bianca went with Nico's mother.
After 20 minutes, we saw the camp's border. I smiled when Annabeth smiled the moment she saw the border. This was like a 2nd home to her. It was like that to all demigods.
We got out of the car and met up with Malcolm and Bianca. They gave Annabeth a hug and told her that Percy still loved her very much. We had phoned Bianca and told her what happened. We also told her to tell Malcolm but she told us that he was with her. No surprise there.
Annabeth shrugged when they told her that Percy still loved her and walked silently towards the borders.
"You 2 ready?" Malcolm asked the twins.
They smiled and nodded.
Together, we made our way to the Big House.
We met some campers on the way there, having a laugh ourselves.
Some guys winked at Bianca and one of them came to her and asked "Who might you be beautiful?"
She smiled at him and said "I'm out of your league." Then she kissed Malcolm.
The rest us burst out laughing, even Annabeth. Who knew Bianca had an evil side? Must be something about being the daughter of Hades.
The guy kept on walking with his laughing friends. Now I recognized them to be sons of Apollo. Typical. Trying to hit on girl. Like father like son.
Just as we were about to arrive at the Big House, a group of Aphrodite girls came walking towards us. How did I know? They were wearing expensive looking jackets and, since the wind was in our direction, I could smell the perfume.
I sighed. The same episode that happened a few minutes ago was going to be replayed.
When the girls laid their eyes on Nico, they started giggling and waving. I couldn't blame them. I mean, he still looked hot, even though he was wearing a jacket and a bunch of other clothes. It was freezing. But still, he was my boyfriend, and they were not going to steal him away.
One of them, Sarah Collins, came up and said "Hey. Are you knew around here?"
Nico nodded. Her smile widened and the others started giggling. I mentally gagged.
"So, do you need someone to tour you around? Me and the girls would love to," she said in a semi-flirty voice.
I was about to tell her off when Nico put his hand around my shoulder and said "Thanks but I'm covered. I'm sure my gorgeous girlfriend would love to give me a tour."
I blushed furiously, despite the stupid smile on my face. The others laughed at both our facial expressions.
Sarah's smile faded. "Oh ok. Bye" But before she left, she gave me a glare which I happily returned. She retreated to her friends and they disappeared.
I looked at Nico. "Thanks."
"No problem babe," he said, making me blush some more.
Again, the others laughed a bit at my behavior. I was not known for being the shy one.
But I guess when you're in love, everything changes.
When we (finally) arrived at the Big House, we found Chiron talking to the Stoll Brothers. They were already in trouble? Impressive!
The brothers left and then Chiron saw us, which made him smile!
"Hello everyone. I wasn't expecting you till tomorrow," he said smiling.
"We wanted to tour the others before the other campers came," said Malcolm.
"Wise choice," said Chiron. Then he looked at Nico and Bianca. "So you 2 are the twins of Hades?
They nodded. "Yes sir," said Nico politely.
Then Chiron seemed to be searching someone…oh no…Percy!
"And where is-" I was going to cut him off but Annabeth beat me to it and said "He doesn't want to come because I told him that I hated him."
Everyone's smile fell.
"I see. Nico, Bianca we'll talk tomorrow. Annabeth, let's talk shall we?" said Chiron. The twins nodded. Annabeth shrugged and went inside. He turned to me and said "Show Nico and Bianca their cabin."
I nodded and he went inside. We took off for the cabins.
We passed each and every cabin and told them which cabin belonged to which god.
Then we came to the Big 3.
"This is my cabin," I said. Nico grinned. "Good to know."
Bianca and Malcolm rolled their eyes while I put my bad inside and joined them again.
We skipped Poseidon's cabin and came to Hades' cabin.
"And this is yours," said Malcolm.
Nico and Bianca looked at their cabin for a moment. Then Bianca turned her attention to Poseidon's cabin.
"So that's were Percy should be staying?" she asked.
I nodded.
"It won't be empty by the end of this week. You'll see," she said determined.
"We're hoping so," said Malcolm.
"I know so," said Nico.
I can really see the bond between the twins and Percy. It's much stronger than just friendship because they believe in him so much.
"Malcolm, go show Bianca your cabin," I said, trying to keep my voice casual and not sounding like I wanted some alone time with Nico.
But who am I kidding, trying to fool a son of Athena?
"Fine Thals. If you wanted to have a few moments to suck face with Nico you should've asked," he said grinning. "Have fun," he said before taking Bianca's hand and leaving towards his cabin.
Nico turned to me and grinned, making me blush lightly.
"You know you're cute when you're blushing," he said as he placed a cold hand on my face. It was winter. What do you expect?
It was a cheesy line but I smiled at him.
"Let's go to my cabin shall we?" I said.
He smiled and nodded. "Sure."
With that we headed towards my cabin. We made sure the door was closed, so that no one would barge in on us. We already had that experience with Nico's mother. I wasn't actually…decent. My upper half only, just to let you know. But it still earned us a lecture on how we're too young to be this intimate. In other words, we got the sex talk…for about the 5th time I think. We're naughty children.
I had changed into my pj's so that I'd be comfy. Nico stayed in his casual clothes.
After a breath taking make out session and a couple of intimate, but not sexual, moments later, we decided to go to sleep. I should've warned Nico about the camp rules, but what the heck. It wasn't my job to tell him. That job was Chiron's. So he didn't know. Plus I don't think Chiron will want to punish Nico since he is the son of Hades and a demigod of the Big 3 that he didn't know about.
When we got under the covers, I snuggled closely to Nico and slept, both arms on his chest. He had one arm around my waist and the other under my head, which meant that he could pull me closer if he wanted to. And I wouldn't complain. Besides it was cold.
And that's one of the reasons I'm loving winter!
~Malcolm's POV~
Bianca and I left the other 2 to do whatever they wanted. Right now I was slightly nervous.
See, I was never known as the romantic one. I even screwed up my fake date with Annabeth. Yes I was so desperate that I went out with my half-sister just to build my confidence. I was always very nervous when it came to relationships. But with Bianca I felt more at ease.
The reason I was nervous was because I knew my sisters and brothers wouldn't let it rest that I finally got myself a girlfriend.
Before we arrived at the Athena cabin, I turned to Bianca and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
She giggled. "What was that for?"
"I won't be able to give you many of those when we arrive at my cabin," I said.
"Stop worrying baby," she said before giving me a kiss back.
I smiled "Let's go."
When we arrived at my cabin, the door burst open and out came 3 of my sisters : Julia, Maria and Stephany, all of them 16.
They tackled me to the ground and hugged the air out of me.
When we got up, they had huge smiles on their faces.
"What's up girls?" I asked, hoping that they hadn't noticed Bianca who was laughing like mad.
But who am I kidding!
"Who's this?" asked Julia, looking at Bianca.
Bianca smiled and came next to me. "I'm Bianca di Angelo, daughter of Hades."
They smiled. "Wow. We didn't know Hades had kids," said Stephany.
"Yeah. And why haven't we seen you before?" said Julia.
"1st off I didn't know this camp existed. My father gave me a necklace which hid my scent as a demigod well so I could live a normal life," said Bianca. I smiled at her and she returned it.
Maria seemed to notice this and said "What's going on you 2?"
I smiled nervously. "See..Bianca's my…ugh…" I faltered. I didn't know what to say! See what I mean about being a hopeless romantic.
But thankfully, my lovely Bianca put her hand around me and said "I'm his girlfriend."
They all looked at me, jaws dropped. "You have a girlfriend?"
I smiled and nodded.
"For how long?"
"About 4 months, right Bianca?" I said, looking at Bianca who just nodded.
"Wow! You have a girlfriend and she's been with you for 4 months. Impressive brother," said Maria.
"So when did you get together?" asked Stephany smiling.
But my smile and Bianca's faded. It wasn't such a great night. It was when Percy was taken away.
She noticed this and said "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. Everything's fine," I said but they didn't look convinced.
Just then, I noticed Annabeth coming towards the cabins
I turned to my sisters and said "Listen, who else is here?"
"Just us," said Julia.
"Good. If Annabeth tells you that nothing's wrong, leave her be ok?"
"Ok but why?" asked Maria.
"We'll tell you guys later. Just don't pester her ok? She's going through a really rough time," I said and they nodded.
Just then Annabeth arrived.
"Hey. You ok?" I asked.
She shrugged. "I guess." Then she went inside without talking to the girls.
They were pretty surprised. "That bad?"
I nodded sadly. Annabeth was pretty good friends with the trio and mostly hung out with them when Thalia wasn't around. So for her not to talk to them is pretty bad.
"Girls I'm going to give Bianca a tour of the camp. Could you put this inside please?"I said, handing them my bag.
They smiled at me and Julia took my bag.
"Hey Bianca, do you have any other relatives?" asked Stephany before we left.
She nodded. "Yeah I have a twin brother." When she said this, their eyes lit up.
"But he's already taken," I said quickly.
Their smile faded. "By who?"
I grinned "Thalia!"
They gasped. It was slightly annoying the way they did stuff together.
"Are they here?" asked Julia.
Bianca and I nodded. "Where?" she asked. Thalia and the trio where also good friends and Thalia was like Annabeth, not very open to boys.
"Zeus' cabin," I said. But before they took off, I stopped them and said "Knock before barging in ok? We don't know what they might be doing."
They grinned and ran to Zeus' cabin.
"That was evil, you know?" said Bianca smiling.
I grinned at her "But you still love me right?"
She rolled her eyes, still smiling and gave me a peck on the lips.
We went inside to put in my bag on my bed. On our way out, we went to see how Annabeth was doing.
She wasn't crying, which was a relief, but she was still looking very sad. I went to her and gave her a hug.
"Malcolm, do you think he'll ever forgive me?" she asked.
I sighed. "Annabeth, he was never angry with you. After all he did-"
"Exactly," she yelled, crying slightly. "After all he did for me, that was how I said thanks!"she fell back into my arms. I gently stroked her hair while Bianca gently rubbed her back.
"Annabeth, I've known Percy way longer than you have. And I know that he isn't the one to hold grudges. Holding grudges is the fatal flaw of children of Hades. His fatal flaw is that he cares too much and would die to protect you. He has a big heart and he loves you," said Bianca. I nodded.
"Why don't you rest Annabeth?" I said. "This Christmas sure was big for you."
She nodded and went under the covers. Bianca and I left in peace.
Checking the time, it was 8:30pm. Wow. This Christmas sure went by fast.
Bianca yawned next to me and I chuckled.
"Looks like everyone's tired," I said smiling.
She nodded.
I took her hand and we went to her cabin. When we went inside, I expected to find Nico but I was wrong. Seems like Thalia didn't tell him the camp rules. But what the heck, Chiron surely won't be mad at them.
Bianca changed into her pajamas. I looked away of course.
She went under the covers and patted on the spot next to her.
I took off my shoes, jacket and belt and slid under the covers. For those who might be having dirty thoughts, I took off the belt because the buckle hurts when you sleep on it.
At that moment, I knew I was breaking camp rules too. But if Thalia was breaking them, why shouldn't I? My mother would defiantly be mad at my thinking. But I didn't care much..
I loved Bianca and I wanted to stay with her.
She gave me a kiss and slept. I followed soon.
But my thoughts went back to Annabeth.
Please Percy! Come back to her soon! Please!
AND THAT CONCLUDES CHAPTER 16!
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