Sally's POV
I sat in my living room waiting for Percy and Annabeth to come over. They were both juniors in college Percy at NYU and Annabeth at Cal Berkeley. Even though Percy was just downtown at NYU his classes and sports kept him busy so I hadn't seen him since thanksgiving. It was a few days before Christmas now and Annabeth and Percy were going to be here any moment so they could spend their first week of Christmas break with us. Then they would spend the second week at Annabeth's brownstone that she never got rid of after high school with all of their friends.
I was knitting a scarf on the sofa when the door bell rang. I got up and threw open the door to see my little boy and Annabeth standing there. Percy was bundled in his blue Patagonia jacket tan beanie and tan kaki pants. He had his duffles thrown over his shoulder and one of Annabeths in his other hand. Annabeth had on black lululemon leggings and a denim button up a white knit scarf with a matching white knit hang hat on her blonde curly hair with chocolate brown uggs on.
"Percy! Annabeth!" I yelled hugging them.
"Hi mom" Percy said hugging me.
"Hi Sally" Annabeth said hugging me too.
"Look how you've grown!" I exclaimed cupping Percy's face in my hand. When he was in high school he was tall about 6 feet but now he was about 6'3 and towering over me at 5'6 and annabeth at 5'9.
"I know mom that's what happens when I eat lots of food and play sports for years." Percy told me escaping my grasp.
I rolled my eyes at him and moved on to coo over Annabeth. "You get more gorgeous every time I see you missy." I told Annabeth and it was true. She had always been beautiful but as she aged she became gorgeous and the kind of gorgeous that boys would die looking for and girls would kill to have.
"Thanks Sally I guess thats one good thing that came from our godly genes." She said with a chuckle.
It was true even though all demigods hated their lives a perk of being half god was the insane good looks they all inherited.
I invited them into the house and we all sat in the living room and talked for a while. Annabeth was head of her class like she has been since college started and Percy just started in a bowl game a week ago. Paul came home from the grocery store with all of the ingredients cause we were going to make Christmas cookies.
The four of us all went into the kitchen. "Okay Percy you and Annabeth can make the dough and Paul and I will do the cutting of shapes in the dough." I told them.
It started out really smoothly Annabeth kept Percy in line and we all laughed our way through the cooking process. We were on the last batch when Percy's ADHD started to take over. Annabeth was mixing all of the ingredients together in a bowl and Percy would not leave her alone. He kept trying to eat the dough, add blue food coloring, and kiss her cheek.(Which I thought was adorable.) Percy then started dancing around the kitchen to dougie.
"Hey Sally can you hand me the flour?" Annabeth asked.
"Sure sweetie." I said and reach across the kitchen to hand her the flour. But not without Percy knocking it out of my hand while trying to wobble and it flying all over him.
Paul, Annabeth, and I dove behind the island and peeked our heads back up to see Percy standing their looking like a ghost all covered in white flour. The three of us looked between each other and burst into laughter.
"This is your fault mom." Percy said with a pouting face.
"Okay," I said getting up from behind my safe spot behind the island chuckling, "It's my fault."
Percy did his fake pout at me.
"Here let me take your shirt and put it in the wash." I said grabbing at bis shirt.
In a second he flew back andwas pulling his shirt back down. "No thanks I'm good. He shot Annabeth a "help me" look. I glanced at them confused.
"No honey we need to get that out before it stains honey." I said agin reaching for the shirt and Percy backing away.
"Okay what's wrong?" I said looking between Annabeth and Percy, "I really don't care if he has a hickey you guys are in college and I totally..."
"MOM" Percy yelled blushing slightly.
"Hey I was young once I understand." I said with my hands up.
Percy closed his eyes and looked up with his hands to his ears. "I did not just get that mental image." He said.
I took this opportunity to lift his shirt up. I gasped at what I saw.
On his left pectoral was a trident TATTOOED, which is permanent might I add.
My hands flew to my mouth. I was shocked to say the least.
Percy pulled off his shirt and I got a good look at it. Most girls would have been drooling at his six pack and toned muscles but all I saw was the ink forever marked on my baby boy.
"Mom I can explain." He told me.
We all sat down in the living room and talked it out. He got it in august which was 4 months ago and he didn't want to tell me so he didn't break my heart. I cried a little but I understood where he came from with this. His greek origin was a big no huge part of his life my english background meant nothing in comparison but I mean if your dad was a greek god that culture would be a big part of your life too.
"You didn't get one too right?" I asked Annabeth.
She just smiled and chuckled. "No, no, but I went with him to get it." She said.
That made me feel a little better. But being the overbearing mother I am I had to make sure he did it safely.
"Did the man doing it know how? Did he use clean needles? Did he disinfect the skin first? was it in a tattoo parlor or in the back of a van? Percy please don't tell me you got this done in the back of a van?" I asked all at once.
"No mom," He chuckled I didn't get this done in the back of a van."
Once everything was asked and answered we went back into the kitchen to finish our cookies.
AN Hey so the next few chapters will be Sally finding out about each of Percy's tattoos...He's not going to have a lot and they all are going to be meaningful...not some Chinese dragon circling down his arm or anything. And sorry if you don't agree with Percy getting tattoos but I think subtle ones that aren't to visible or distracting are really sexy on guys sooooo ya review on my readers:)