ULRICH POV
I had to scale up a wall to get to my bedroom window; luckily Odd got my text and opened the second story window to let me in. I was ten minutes late to my fucking curfew. Worst of all, Yumi probably hates me. Isn't my life just great?
At last, I reach the window and Odd pulls me in, "Where were you? You're all sweaty and you can't shower now."
"Yeah, I know, I know!" I grumbled. "Long story."
"We've got time. Tell me or next time I'll tell Jim to bring you into the door."
"Fine, morning then. I'm exhausted." That was a total lie, I was wide awake all night. I had sex with Yumi. I don't even remember it. I talked to Yumi, drank water, and talked some more. After that, things got gradually fuzzy. Was there something in the water?
Wow, I lose my virginity to a girl I've loved forever, she probably hates me, and I remember nothing. Am I really that unlucky?
Morning came creeping by and as soon as the clock read six, I went to go take a shower to try to forget last night. No such luck.
When I went back to the room and realized I left my key on my nightstand. "Odd! Let me in!" I pounded on the door. Another thing to add to my list of bad luck, a roommate who sleeps like a rock while listening to loud rock music. I had to wait out in the hallway wearing only a towel.
Jeremie, Aelita, and Yumi came around the hallway, dressed and ready to go. Percy, Jason, and Leo marched like zombies behind them. The other demigods were nowhere to be seen Yumi met my eyes, and we both looked away blushing, remembering last night.
"What's wrong?" asked Aelita.
"Odd won't let me in," I told them "He's a heavy sleeper listening to loud rock."
"I've got this." Jeremie walked up to the door and pounded on it shouting, "Odd, you missed breakfast. It was pancake day."
"That isn't going to work," I told him, only to have odd open the door with scared eyes three seconds later. "Your food senses never cease to amaze me," I told Odd as I walked in the room and looked for a clean pair of boxers, I removed the towel from my waist and shoulders.
As soon as the towel was off, my shoulders, Percy's eyes snapped to my left forearm where I was stung last night. He marched over and grabbed my arm and brought the bite closer to his widened eyes, "When did this happen?" He asked.
"Yesterday at Yumi's, why?" I asked. At that moment, all the girls except Clarisse and Hazel waltzed in, hair still wet from their shower. Percy and Annabeth locked eyes and an unspoken agreement settled in the air. Frank and Hazel came in three seconds later, not meeting each others eyes.
"If you did not get stung yesterday, get out," said Percy, his voice like steel.
"Why?" asked Odd.
"Just do as he says," said Annabeth, her voice equally harsh. The others left, Leo looking around as he walked out the door. Something must have added up in his head because his eyes lit up as he closed the door.
In the room, Jason and Piper sat in Odd's bed, Jeremie and Aelita on mine, Frank and Hazel sat on the floor between the beds. Yumi leaned against the door as Percy and Annabeth talked in hushed whispers by my desk. I stayed next to the closet, Slipping on cargo pants and a green shirt on.
"All of you got stung?" asked Percy as I put on my dark green jacket on. We all nodded. Aelita snickered and Jeremie blushed at the word stung. I started getting a slight headache, and Yumi rubbed her temples. "You drank water?" Again we nodded, my head started pounding so hard I had to sit down, so did Yumi. Is she mimicking me?
"You two okay? Whats wrong?" asked Annabeth.
"Headache," Yumi and I said at the time. Apparently, that freaked out the two. the other demigods also seemed freaked out about this. Jeremie and Aelita looked confused.
"What happened after you drank water?" asked Percy.
"Uh, we blacked out," said Jeremie.
"Same," said Yumi.
"And when you woke up?" Yumi, Jeremie, Aelita, and I blushed furiously. Frank and Hazel didn't meet each other's eyes. "Ok, Frank and Hazel make sense because they are demigods, same with Jason and Piper, but the others?"
"I don't know," replied Annabeth. "Unless," she dug through her bag and brought out something that looked a lot like a Kindle 4. She went over to Yumi and pricked her finger at the bottom of the e-reader. The e-reader made a series of beeps, long and short ones in a seemingly random order. "Leo! He still cant make it in an understandable language."
"That sounded a lot like morse code," said Yumi. Jeremie nodded. "Spelled out DB-27."
"My morse code must be rusty then," said Jeremie. "I got DBVS."
"DB-27?" Annabeth asked Yumi. She nodded. "OK, Demigod Blood 27%. Oh Fuck!"
"Wise girl, what does that mean?" asked Percy.
"It means that everything that affects demigods, except celestial bronze, will affect them." She replied. "Namely, potions, ambrosia, and necter"
"So the every-so-often is the same as well?" He asked, she nodded.
"What is the every-so-often?" asked Jeremie.
"Well, the every-so-often is sex, and you have to have it every so often otherwise you might get headaches that might make you pass out. Distance from one another also gives you the major headaches." said Percy. We all stared at him.
"You're joking right?" I asked.
"Nope," said Piper. "I don't know the details, but I can tell if they are lying about this potion"
"I'll tell Leo to give the others the abridged version to the others outside," said Percy.
"Way ahead of you." Said Leo's muffled voice through the door. Percy and Annabeth looked murderous while everyone else became red with embarrassment. Even I felt my cheeks heat up.
"Then come in," said Percy through clenched teeth. Everyone outside, including Clarisse and the Stolls came in and found a place to sit down. Odd looked at me and Yumi and said,
"About time you two. A little unconventional, but still." He turned to Aelita and Jeremie. "Didn't know you had it in ya." The four of us blushed furiously, and I imagined killing that purple cat in several different ways.
"How often is the every-so-often?" asked Travis.
"Wow, Leo really explained well, huh?" Percy said with anger present in his voice.
"Please," said William "He repeated it word for word doing voice imitations." Jason who was sitting next to Leo slapped the back of his head.
"Here comes the awkward part," mumbled Annabeth. "For about a month or so, the every-so-often is every night." Everyones eyes popped wide open. Every night with Yumi? Oh gods, kill me now. It's awkward now, how about every night. "Should we tell them or, will it want them to compete against fate?" Annabeth whispered to Percy, who shrugs a response.
"Do you guys compete against things out of your control a lot?" asked Percy to Jeremie.
"Only X.A.N.A. really, and now, Gaea. But fate? Not really," he replied.
"So if I tell you something about your fate, you would feel nor obliged nor opposed to do it?" Percy asked.
"Nah, fate is kind of a guideline to us, we fill in the blanks however," I told him.
"Good, so now I can tell you," Annabeth sighed and said. "The potion only affects soulmates." Yumi's eyes popped out of her head, so did William's. I'm pretty sure mine did too.
"Soulmates?" asked William, clearly disappointed. I kind of did a little happy dance inside of my head.
"Yes. Aphrodite comes together with the fates and they pair two people together, thus soulmates. You see, Helen and Paris were soulmates, but that didn't work out, so Aphrodite created the potion for that exact reason. She made them to bring soulmates together, however, X.A.N.A. or Gaea got the ingredients and used it for their purpose of distracting us," said Annabeth. "Now the mist only goes so far, so we got to go all mission impossible for the every-so-oftens. We need to... shit!" said Annabeth, remembering something before she finished her last sentence.
"What is it?" asked Percy. Annabeth just stared at him, and somehow got the message, and paled. "Travis, Connor, come here." Annabeth widened her eyes at him. "Our debit cards are monitored by Delmas, we can't buy this." He whispered something on the brothers' ears and the smirked at the message.
"Want us to get rubbers while we are at it? A box each?" asked Travis.
"Night that is, each night for each," Percy slapped both f them at the back of the heads and handed them a navy baseball cap.
"Be back before breakfast!" He yelled after the two as they ran out the room.
"What are they getting?" I asked him.
"Nothing, just... uh... Tell you later. Anyways Annabeth," Percy continued. "Mission Impossible?"
"Right!" she replied. "Well, we should speak in Greek in case any passerby's or Sissy tries to listen in." We all nodded in agreement. "Well, we need to figure out how to get together. The rest of you need to cover for us as we do this. Ulrich can just sneak out the window to go to Yumi's house." Yumi blushed brightly at that, and I wasn't too thrilled with seeing her frisky window and tree. "That okay? Because that is what would work out best for the overall plan. If not, we can figure something else out."
"It's fine," said Yumi. "But my walls are paper thin." She pictured her father's face if he heard and walked in on us. Wait, how do i know that?
"So are the walls here at Kadic," commented Annabeth. "Which is why Leo is going to soundproof the dorm walls as well as your room at your house."
"Leo is going to do what now?" Leo asked, jumping up from the floor. "Annabeth thats going to take all day!"
"You are going to have the mist on your side, You'll be fine!" She replied. "Moving on. Hazel, all you have to do is sneak past Sissy, and William can sleep in Ulrich's bed." The three nodded. Poor William will have to sleep next a snore fest. Yumi giggled from the other side of the bed.
"Ok then. Leo will have to make a bed that can easily be hidden in a closet and sleep here, and Clarisse, you'll have a room to yourself."
"What else will 'Leo" have to do?" asked Leo bitterly.
"Actually," Annabeth started. "Sound proof the rooms as well as Yumi's house, make a lock that will lock Jim in his room from eleven pm to five am, a minibed that can stow away, hand holds and foot holds for Ulrich leading up to the window, a lock that can be opened by this dorm key on this window, and call phones and laptops that wont send up a flare to monsters."
"While I work all day, You use the night to play?" asked Leo. "How is that fair?"
"Shut up man!" said Jason. "Please continue."
"Alrighty then," said Annabeth. "Piper and Jason can use Jason's and Leo's room, then. Hazel sneaks into Frank's room, William and Leo come into Odd's room, Ulrich goes over to Yumi's and as for Percy, Jeremie, Aelita, and I, that actually doesn't matter because it could work either way, so we can think over who prefers which or toss a coin and decide later."
"That leaves three rooms for six members of the virgin club," commented Odd.
"One," said Clarisse "One room for three virgins"
"What? Are you kidding me?" asked Odd
Annabeth shook her head. "Travis and Katie Gardener, a daughter of Demeter, are together, and Connor has had several slutty girlfriends."
"What about you?" asked Odd to Clarisse.
"My boyfriend's name is Chris Rodrigez," she said, smiling smugly.
"So the virgin club meets in my room?" The others nodded "Alrighty then."
"We all leave at exactly eleven at night and return at exactly five in the morning" Annabeth continued. "Any questions?"
"Yes, actually," said Aelita, who has been quiet this entire time. "The Demigod blood 27%, does that mean we have godly ancestry in our blood?"
"No," replied Annabeth. "Anything else?"
"So the virgin club meets in my room?" The others nodded "Alrighty then."
"We all leave at exactly eleven at night and return at exactly five in the morning" Annabeth continued. "Any questions?"
"What are Travis and Connor going to steal for us?" I asked in plain English. "And we will not leave until we know the answer."
"Well you see," said Percy, switching back to Greek. "Sometime's the potion is a natural contraceptive, but there is no way of knowing but only one thing that is sure is that while under the influence of the potion nobody was using protection so the thieves are getting the girls some pregnancy tests, please don't freak out" He said in one breath.
Oh shit. I might be a father and I don't even remember conceiving it. Fuck my life: Yumi started feeling nauseous and she desperately hoped it wasn't due to morning sickness. She remembered that Annabeth told her and Aelita that because of demigod blood, she would conceive faster than the ordinary mortal, and now she had demigod blood. Man, she must really hate right now.
"I don't hate you," Yumi said to me. I sent over a confused look. "You said I must hate you but I don't."
"Ulrich didn't say anything," said Odd
"I though it," I said.
"That's normal," said Percy. "The Potion allows the couple to communicate telepathically." Well can this day get any weirder?
At seven, the cafeteria opened and we all got a table. Yumi used to eat at home, but she told her parents she wanted to spend more time with her friends. Travis and Connor ran in with their pockets bulging and oversized bellies, and they proceeded to walk the girls to the bathroom. I was trembling and so was Jeremie. Jason was silently praying that the test came back negative. Percy was the only one who looked semi-normal. Frank was gone, but William told me he might be a small animal somewhere.
"How the fuck are you calm?" I asked Percy.
"Oh, I'm scared as fuck," replied Percy. "This just isn't my first pregnancy scare, so i know how not to act."
"How many pregnancy scares have you gone through?" asked Odd.
"Nineteen." We all stared at him. How the fuck? He's only seventeen!
"Didn't you get the hint to wear condoms after the first time?" asked Odd.
"I got shot with the potion nineteen time, dumbbell!" said Percy. "Besides, next year, I'm getting a vasectomy."
"Don't you want to have children?" asked William. "You know, in the future?"
"You see guys," started Percy. "Demigods fight wars, a lot. This is my second war where I'm one of the main ones in the prophecy. I can't have children now! What if i die? What if Annabeth dies? What if both of us die? Demigods don't normally pass the age of twelve. I am both incredibly lucky and in increasing danger because I am so old. If i make it past 25, then I'll get it reversed. If not, oh well." He talked about him dying so calmly, as if he were resigned to the fact that he could die any minute now.
After what seemed like an eternity, the girls came back. "Negative," was all the said and they sat down with us. Travis smirked at me and slipped something on to my lap. It was a box. A box of...
"What the fuck Travis?" He and Connor started laughing.
"You're going to need it tonight," said Connor as Travis handed the others each a box of Trojans.
"You could have given it to us later," I told him.
"Yeah but it wouldn't be as hilarious," said Travis, snickering. Percy slapped both of them on the back of their heads.
"Leo, you better start your projects now," said Annabeth. Leo sighed and slid his tray over to Odd before getting up and walking over to the dorms. At the door he stopped, and turned around.
"Yumi, what's your address?" he asked. Yumi took out a red pen from her book bag and Leo told her to write it on his arms. "I lose papers," he said. "It's pretty hard for me to lose an arm without me noticing it." After she wrote down her address, he snapped his fingers and walked away.
We went to class as usual, and by the end of the day, X.A.N.A. had not attacked once. Although something equally as weird happened.
We were all in my room, which seems to be the preferred spot for us, when a shadow appeared and started strangling Frank. It didn't look like the typical X.A.N.A. shadow, but we thought it was Gaea. We were about to attack when Percy shouted,
"Nico! Do not send the poor boy to your father!" at that moment, a fourteen year old boy no taller than Odd wearing an oversized aviator Jacket stepped out of the shadow.
"This son of a bitch you-know-whatted my baby sister!" he shouted. Frank was reduce to just flailing his arms and gasping. Hazel ran over to Nico and grabbed one of his arms which allowed Nico to lose balance and Frank to drink some air. Before Nico could grab Frank again, Percy tackled him.
"Chill cous," said Percy. "You know the effects of the potion as well as anyone."
"Don't care, he could have let himself get dehydrated!" Nico shouted.
"Hazel could also have gotten dehydrated!" said Annabeth.
"Annabeth, please realize that when I'm angry as I am now, logic doesn't matter or make sense to me," he said from under Percy. Right then, Leo walked in wearing a hard hat and pulling an infinite amount of tools from his belt.
"Sup," he said not even looking at us. "Hey Nico."
"Wow, you don't even notice that Percy tackled Nico?" asked Odd
"I noticed," said Leo. "I assumed that he had a good reason to do so, and this isn't the first time he's done it. Now if you you excuse me, tengo que hacer muchas cosas, por que Annabeth quiere que yo trabaje todo el dia y no duerma" he said as he installed a lock on the bedroom window.
"Leo!" shouted Annabeth. "I somewhat understand spanish!"
"Puta," He muttered under his breath.
"Leo!" Annabeth shouted. "You're the only handyman. Who else could have done this."
"But you don't give a guy just one day!" he replied.
"We don't have but one day."
"Fine, whatever, I'm done."
"And yet you give me grief?"
"Dad came by and helped," he said. Everyone's back straightened.
"What did he say?" asked Jason.
"Nothing concerning you, something personal. Just get ready for tonight." And He slammed the door behind him.