As we walked, Annabeth droned on about the temples she was designing, how she wanted to create a an arch out of celestial bronze, and I tried to listen, honestly I did, for her sake, but my must have looked fairly distant because she suddenly stopped talking and looked at me, raising an eye brow she asked; "I'm boring you hu?"
I quickly tried to change my expression to that of interest (with limited success) as answered; "What? uh, no, I just, uhm..."
Annabeth rolled her eyes, "I do know you boy, you cant lie to me."
"Yeah I know, I know."
"I don't blame you, but I do wish you'd try to take an interest in my hobbies."
"I do try- Hey! since when did you take interest in my hobbies?"
"And what are your hobbies then hm?"
I realized I'd dug myself into a hole. I knew from experience that when that happens the first thing to do is to stop digging. "My hobbies, Wise girl? are caring about you. Well, that's not a hobby I suppose, its more of a way of life. one I'm extremely attached to."
She tried to hide her blush and ridicules grin, she didn't do all that good of a job of it though. "So when all else fails you turn to flattery eh Percy?"
"Are you saying it didn't work or that you didn't like it?"
Her red face got a little brighter. "No, I didn't say that."
We walked in silence a little longer, until she asked; "So where are we going then Mr. Silver toung?"
I smiled, "Roseletta's."
She was silent a moment, and I could practically see her brain working, trying to figure out if she'd heard right. "Uhh... witch Roseletta's?
"There's only one in town girl, the new place that just opened."
"Percy- the Roseletta's as in that new extremely fancy extremely expensive diner?"
"Yep."
"The one where the hold they Italian wine mixer thing?"
"That's the one."
"Percy! How- What- How did you even get reservations!? I mean, Percy that place is to expensive, You don't have to take me there!"
"Reservations are already made, you complaining?"
"What? No! It's just. I mean. Percy! How did you afford it?"
I didn't, my mind said, I helped Travis and Connor Stoll out in the past and now they were returning the favor, what I actually said aloud was; "I called in a favor." I didn't know what the brothers had done to get us reservations there, and frankly I didn't want to know, the two had all sorts of tricks, and I figured it better if neither I or Annabeth knew about them.