Can't Nobody Love Me Like You: Chapter Five
Annabeth P.O.V.
Percy stared at me. "Do you want to sit?" I snapped back to reality. "Sure." We walked over to a table and like a gentlemen, he pushed my chair out. I blushed and sat down. He pushed my chair in then sat down across from me.
A waiter came over. "Hey! I'm Thalia, Thalia Grace! Welcome to Daddio's Ice Cream! What can I get you?" I browsed the menu. Percy spoke before me. "Could I please have a medium vanilla ice cream with whip cream?" The waitress nodded and wrote his order down. "May I please have a medium chocolate ice cream with sprinkles?" I asked. "Rainbow sprinkles or chocolate?"
"Chocolate." The waitress nodded. "Ok! I'll be right back with your order." I smiled at the waitress. "So, you're more of a chocolate person?" I looked at him. "Live it, learn it, love it!" He laughed. "I don't see how people like chocolate ice cream." I gasped in fake shock. "How can you not like chocolate ice cream!" He laughed. "I just don't really like it. I'm more of a vanilla person." I smirked.
"So if there was battle between vanilla and chocolate, you would side with vanilla?" He cocked his head. "Why would there be a battle between ice cream?" I smacked his arm.
"Ouch! Yea! Go Vanilla!!" He shouted. People turned to look at him. "Shut up dude. You made scene." He put his hands up and down. "I was made for the screen, Annabeth." I shook my head.
I noticed a girl was glaring daggers at me as she walked out of Daddio's to our table. Then I recognized the girl. Drew Takanka. The school's female cow. I groaned loudly. "Something wrong?" Percy asked. I smiled at him. "Cow, 3:00." He furrowed his eyebrows. "You want to go eat cow at 3?" I rolled my eyes. "No-" She had reached our table.
"Hey handsome." Percy looked up. "Hi?" Drew laughed. "I-I didn't say anything funny.." He stated. Drew batted her eyelashes. "Why are you on a date with her?" I blushed bright red. Was this a date? I looked up at Percy to see him blushing too. "We're just hanging out." I nodded in agreement. Drew rolled her eyes. "Ok whatever. Who ordered the Vanilla?" Drew asked. Percy raised his hand. "That means you ordered the chocolate with the chocolate sprinkles." She pointed at me. Then she gave me the ice cream. "Chocolate makes you fat." I looked up at her. "Don't you agree Percy?" He looked at her. "I drink got cocoa all the time." Drew laughed again. "Here is your vanilla ice cream with whip cream." She handed him his ice cream, touching his hand a little too long for my liking. Then she walked away, moving her hips as she walked.
"Who was that?" I groaned. "Wait..was that Cow?" I laughed. "Yes Percy. That was Cow." He laughed along with me. "Hey who's that?" He pointed to someone behind me. I turned around to see Zoë Nightshade. "Oh that-" Half of my ice cream was gone. He had chocolate all around his face and a smirk played at his lips. "You little liar!" I roared. He laughed so hard he fell of the floor. "You ate my ice cream!!" I continued. "There's still some left!!" He argued. I grabbed his ice cream and threw it on the ground. "Now we are even." His mouth opened and closed. "My ice cream.." He sniffed. "You destroyed Avery."
"Avery?" I asked. "Yea. I named her Avery." I rolled my eyes. "How do you know it was a girl?" I joked. "Because I had to pay for it." I fake gasped. "Rude!" I sat back down while he laughed. The girl named Thalia walked up to us. "Do you need another spoon?" She asked. He nodded. "You know I was joking about it being a girl..right?" I nodded. "Yea. I thought it was funny, but I'm not offended. Thanks for paying for the food." He smiled at me. "Anytime."
Thalia walked back up to us with a spoon. She handed it to him. Then he shoved the spoon IN MY ICE CREAM! "Hey!" I protested. "Shhhh." Percy teased. For the rest of the 'date' we joked and ate ice cream. Then, just like that, it was over and he was walking me home.
"I think a chocolate sprinkle flew into my brain," Percy noted. I laughed. He had given me my hoodie because I had had a huge brain freeze. "Lets play Questions." I demanded. "How do you play?" He asked. "Well, I ask you a question, you answer it, then you ask me a question, and I answer it. It's a way to get to know someone better." He nodded. "What's your middle name?" I asked him. "It's a secret." He laughed. I hit his arm playfully. "My middle name is Orion." I nodded. "Do you have any siblings?" He asked me. "Yea. Two. Bobby and Matthew." We arrived at the building. "Why did you move?" I asked him. He clicked the elevator button. "Because my dad got offered a better job here, he works at La Rue Companies." I nodded. We were going up. "Who's your best friend?" He asked. "Hazel Levesque and Piper McLean." The elevator reached our floor. "Are any of your friends coming here?" I asked. "My friends Grover and Jason are coming to visit Wednesday." I nodded. We had reached my apartment. "Have you ever kissed someone before?" He asked. I blushed. "You, and in the 3rd grade a guy named Luke kissed me but it was for a dare." He breathed a sigh of relief. I narrowed my eyes. "Was that girl your ex girlfriend? The one who you were talking to yesterday?"
Percy looked at me. "Yea. She uh still misses me." I nodded. "Thanks again, for the ice cream." He chuckled. Awkward...
"No problem." He kissed me on the cheek. "I enjoyed our..." He looked at me. "..date." He finished. I blushed again. I unlocked my door and faced him again. "Careful Jackson. You might be moving on too quickly.." I laughed. He rolled his eyes. "Would you suppose me to mourn and be stuck on her forever?" He asked. I groaned. "Your problem Seaweed brain, not mine." He smirked. "Nicknames already? This must be serious." I laughed. "Seaweed brain. Your hoodie smells like the ocean and you have a brain that's full of seaweed." He had a smile on him face. "Speaking of hoodies..." I giggled. "You can have it back when you take me out on a date again." He rolled his eyes. "Stubborn." I gasped. "Seaweed brain!" I shut the door and laughed.
Today was..
Interesting.