I grabbed a plate from the counter putting some blue cookies on the plate and getting two glasses and filling them with milk as I was walking up the stairs my Mom came around the corner.
"Im going to the store and should be back in an hour hour and a half."
"Okay." I mumbled through the cookie in my mouth.
My mom just chuckled and smiled. "Paul will be home around seven but I'll be home before him. And make sure you finish your homework and tell Annabeth the same." She yelled walking out the door.
I walked up the stairs swallowing the cookie and opening the door. Annabeth sat at my desk face buried in her advanced calculus homework. Her blond princess curls fell in her face. The only makeup she had on was the stuff left over from school. she had on her Goodie uniform skirt and blouse her jacket and tie lay forgotten on a chair in front of the window.
"I come baring food." I said setting down the plate of cookies in front of her and giving her a glass of milk. Her still facing the desk looked up at the cookies and milk I put my chin on her shoulder, the smells of lavender and lemons flooding my nostrils.
I spun the desk chair around so she was facing me.
"Well hi there." She said smirking at me and I was a goner, She had me wrapped around her finger.
I leaned in and kissed her it started out sweet and caring but because heated and lustful. I reached down and picked her up my lower arms hands on her but and thighs she wrapped her legs around my waist and I led us over to the bed.
About ten minutes later our shirts lay forgotten on the floor somewhere and I was on top of her when the door to my bedroom opened.
"Percy the store was closed cause they lost power from the rain..OH MY GODS!" mom yelled shielding her eyes.
"Mom you need to knock." I said handing Annabeth her shirt and we blushed feverishly.
"Percy." my mom said eyes still covered. "Come down stairs for a second.
"Okay" I said sighing and following her down the stairs.
"What was that!" she yelled in a whisper tone so Annabeth couldn't hear.
"Is this what you do when I leave you two home alone?!"
"Well I mean sorta..." I said trailing off rubbing the back of my neck looking down.
She crossed her arms. "Percy you know I love Annabeth but take it slow your seniors in high school you don't need ot be having sex right now."
I almost laughed a little and she must have saw it too.
"And even if you have," She added, "It doesn't need to be a regular thing enjoy being young you don't want to have a baby at 18 and have that screw everything up."
"Mom we know what were doing we're not stupid!" I yelled. How could she believe I was that irresponsible?
"In just don't want you to screw up your life you have athletic scholarships and Annabeth is getting scholarships too and I don't want you to have to stop your life because of a baby." She said.
"Mom we're going to get married someday we can do what ever we want!" I told her.
"Woah woah woah." She said putting her hands up shaking her head. "Slow down honey, cause one day your going to look back on these times and want it back. I don't doubt that you two could get married but for now your 18 enjoy it. You won't get married for a while just enjoy now." she said to me.
I shook my head agreeing with her.
"Now why don't you and Annabeth go see a movie or something." She said shooing me up the stairs.
I walked up the stairs to my room Annabeth was back at the desk doing her homework again.
"Wanna go see a movie?"
"Sure are you in trouble." She asked turning around to face me.
"Nah we talked about it, but lets go to that movie." I said grabbing her hand and pulling her down the stairs and out the door to my car.
I cut the steam down on the last white rose in the pile placing it into the vase. I lifted the vase and set it on the dinning room table admiring my work. All in the bouquet were white flowers but each a different type, orchids, lilies, and roses being some of the few.
Not to shabby I thought.
I walked into the kitchen and took some Champaign out of the refrigerator and placed it on the counter. Walking to the cabinets I pulled up the bottom of my dress allowing some leg movement so I could get onto the granite to reach the Champaign glasses. I set down the glasses but then tried to face the problem of getting down in a skin tight dress and 4 inch pumps. I reached out over the gap space between the place I was and the island. I was in a downward dog yoga position between the counter and island.
"Annabeth?"
flipped my head up my hair flying in all directions. Sally, Paul, and Percy stood there staring at me like I was crazy.
"What ya doing?" Percy asked.
"Ya know doing yoga in the kitchen." I said "In four inch heels."
Percy walked over. "Give me your hand."
"No Percy I can get down myself." I said shooing him away.
"No Annabeth you can't, let me help you." He said.
" I got it! I got it! I got it!" I said as Percy grabbed me around the waist lifting me to the ground as I flailed my legs.
He set me down and I straitened up brushing the shirt of my dress with my hands and fixing my hair.
"Sally, Paul, How are you guys doing?" I said hugging them. Percy stood off to the side trying to contain his laughter."
"Were good how about you?" She said smiling setting down a plat of blue cookies.
"Were doing well." I said grabbing the Champaign glasses and pouring all of us a glass.
I took a sip "Been going to yoga as I can see." Paul said causing me to chock on my champaign for a second.
"Of course gotta keep this one prepped for the season." I nodding my head in Percy's direction and Sally and Paul laughed.
"Well Paul you wanted to go to that movie?" Percy asked
Paul checked his watch. "yea we should go now."
Percy walk over to the key rack and grabbed the keys to his maserati off the hanger chugging his champaign and setting the glass down on the counter.
"We'll be back in like 2 hours loves." Percy said kissing his mother's cheek then giving me a peck on the lips before him and Paul walked out the door.
Sally watched them leave and turned back to me and smiled. "Can I see your new bedroom?" She asked.
"Of course I said walking with her down the hallway to Percy and mine's bedroom. I pushes open the double doors and we walked in. When we first moved in a few months ago we had all the rooms furnished but some of the custom furniture had just arrived recently.
"wow!" Sally said.
The color pallet was still the same of grey, blue, and white. but the giant white fabric head board with blue and grey detailing had come in and was up and two white chairs with patterned grey and white pillows sat in front of the floor to ceiling window. And the coffee table in front of the chairs that was made of light brown logs was no there.
"It's perfect Annabeth." Sally said.
"It fit us right now I said as we sat down in the two chairs and looked out the window over Manhattan.
"But." I said turning to face Sally a gleam in my eye. " I think in a few years we'll have at least one kid and we can get a brownstone and I can use my architecture expertise and fit it up to our liking and I'm thinking we stay around this area cause we love the restaurants and family stuff..."
"Hold on wait wait wait Annabeth." Sally said shaking her head.
I stop talking and sat back surprised.
"Just slow down." Sally said shaking her head. "because you are going to miss this."
"Miss what?" I asked.
"This, just being the two of you, yes one day you do want a family and I want grandkids but enjoy this now. This isn't going to last long and you want to enjoy every minute of it." Sally said. I nodded and looked around. I guess i would miss this when It was gone.
"MOMMMMMMMY" Liam yelled out from his height chair.
"No No No" I said begging with him, "Mommy is upstairs getting herself and the girls ready please eat your cheerios." I said to him.
"NO Daddy." He said throwing the bowl of dry cheerios to the ground.
Oh the terrible twos.
As I cleaned the floor I heard a scream and a a loud bang.
"Brady!" I yelled running to the living room cheerios forgotten.
I went into the the living room to see a lamp broken on the floor with Brady running to the next table to find his next lamp victim.
"Oh no no no!" I said running after him and scooping him up taking him to the kitchen screaming.
"PUT ME DOWN." He screamed and yelled.
I lied maybe it's the terrible fours.
Annabeth came down the stairs chasing Remi Kylie on her hip.
"Stop right now Remi Scottland." Annabeth yelled after her.
"Make me." Remi said running away.
Annabeth fumed and grabbed her arm with her free hand leading her to a chair at the island and sitting her down. Then she put Kylie in her height chair and walked to the other side of the island and put her hands in her face.
"Mommy?" Brady said. "Do you love us?"
"Do you want the truth because right now honestly..." She started.
"Annabeth." I warned her before she said something she would regret.
"Yes I love you very much but sometimes..." She said.
"Annabeth." I said.
The doorbell rang and all four of the kids screamed in unison. I thought Annabeth and I were going to lose it.
"OKAY NEVER DO THAT AGAIN" I yelled walking to the door and opening it to find my mom.
"Hi honey is this a bad time?" She asked holding a bottle of red wine.
"NO! totally come in." I said taking the wine debating on drinking the whoel thing there and then.
I lead her into the kitchen.
"NANA!" the kids yelled.
"Hi babies." she said kissing each of them.
"Honey how are you?" She said to Annabeth.
"Surviving." Annabeth answered with a smile hugging Sally.
"Why don't you two go into the living room and talk and i'll call the nanny." Annabeth said and I lead my mom into the living room with the wine of course.
I poured three glasses and my mom and I talked.
"So the kids are rambunctious." She said smiling.
"I sometimes wish we would've spaced them out in age cause having four kids under five is draining." I said.
"And who's fault is that." Sally said smiling.
"Ew mom were not getting into that I'm a grown man." I said.
"Okay Okay but you know what I'm saying." She said."Any big plans."
"Well Remi starts Preschool soon." I said.
"That's so exciting! Sam place as Brady?" She asked.
"Yup, It will prepare them well for school and we have Brady starting to play sports I mean he needs to be the sportsman in high school." I said smiling thinking of my son's potential.
"That's exciting!" She said almost jumping in her seat.
"Yea and Annabeth is teaching the kids a little ya know so they have an idea of what their doing before they go to school." "We just can't wait to get past this stage have them grow up a little and be able to be cool and collected with them." I said and she shook her head.
"Honey slow down." She said. "Enjoy this now cause you will never have your kids at this age again these are special times. You are shaping these kids to become great adults and these moments make that." She said. "You need to slow down sit back breathe and enjoy cause this will be gone in the blink of an eye."
I smiled at her. "You know your the best?" I asked.
"Oh of course." She said smiling kissing my cheek.
"I can't wait to get away from these annoying people!" Liam said in the passenger seat next to me.
"Same." Kylie said from the back seat.
I had to drive them to school today cause their car was in the shop and Percy had to take the other car to work.
"Well your seniors and your almost done just got to get through this." I said stopping at a stop light.
"I talked to Remi the other day on Skype and she said college is so much better then high school people don't try and get in your business." Kylie said.
"So did Brady." Liam said.
"It's just everyone needs to now all the drama 24/7 and I'm sick of it." Kylie said.
"And I want the freedom and if don't like someone were on a large campus and I don't need to see them." Liam said.
"I feel you bro." Kylie agreed.
"And then I'll go to med school you are going to fashion school and we can be who ever we want to be." Liam said.
"And I can be a model and a magazine editor someday and you can be a surgeon."
"Okay." I said.
"Hold on, slow down, These are some of your best years you may not believe me now but you will miss this." I said throwing them off guard. "These years go by in what feels like minutes and you may feel like you don't want to be here but in a few years you will give anything to go back to the stress free world of your youth so enjoy it."
"Sorry mom didn't mean to make you upset." Liam said.
"No i'm not upset I just want you to know that you need to enjoy it. I said as we pulled up to the school door.
"We will mom don't worry we're just being complainy." Kylie said getting out of the car.
"Love you" The twins yelled back.
Love you too!" I said as I watched my two youngest walk into school.