A/N: I'm so sorry I haven't updated recently!!!! I feel sooooo bad. Please don't hurt me!!! (Braces self for harm.) Anyway, I want to thank my loyal followers who have been with me from the VERY beginning: SisterofArtemis, Sargent fuzzy bear, AnnabethChaseWiseGirl, and every one else!!! Anyway, here you go!!!

Percy and Annabeth's Travels Across America in Their Huge RV-Type-Thing.

Chapter Four

Sleep. Ah, the bliss. I thought, as I lay somewhat awake on my waterbed. Yeah, I know, it's pretty ironic the son of the sea god has a water bed, but I love it.

I was almost awake. And I knew it, but still, I just laid there, with my eyes closed. I knew that if I opened my eyes, I would be wide awake and would have to get up.

And if I fell asleep, I would be out for a couple more hours. That wouldn't be so bad, but I choose not to.

Relax, calm, yes. Think of peaceful things. Annabeth, she made me feel peaceful. Man, I loved that girl.

Calm, relax, peaceful, bliss. That's what I'm talking about. I sighed; I don't think I've been this relaxed since, well, never.

Comfort, calmness, relax, peaceful, bli-

And girl you're my one love, my one heart
my one life for sure
Let me tell you one time
(Girl, I love, girl I love you)
I'ma tell you one time
(Girl, I love, girl I love you)

I groaned. Not Justin Beiber of all people. I rolled over to my nightstand and started slapping stuff, hoping whatever was making the noise would shut up.

I heard faint snickering as "One Time" kept playing, apparently on repeat.

I opened one eye. Sure enough, at the foot of my bed was Annabeth holding a boom box.

"Oh yeah, laugh now but tomorrow you'll be waking up to "Party in the U.S.A." I said, rubbing my eyes. Annabeth's laughs got louder, and when I looked at her, she was doubled over laughing.

"You should have seen the look on your face!!! It was the funniest thing I've ever seen!" Annabeth said through her laughter.

"I don't care what you saw as long as you shut the 10-year-old-girl up." I sat up, pushing away the covers.

"Now, now, Percy. You very well know that the 10-year-old-girl is a 15 year old guy." Annabeth was slowly getting to her feet. Her laughing had died down abit, but not by much. You could tell she was holding back more laughs.

I stood up and walked to the bathroom, splashed water on my face, and came back into the bed room.

We had been living on the bus for a week. Somehow, we had managed to install fancy new windows that wrapped around the upstairs. It was nice.

Plus, we had stayed in our pajamas all week long. Well, of course we change pajama pairs like we would change regular clothes. I might be a guy, but it was still gross to live in a single pair of clothes for a whole week.

So, our outfits consisted of pajama pants for me, and a tank top and shorts for Annabeth. "Come on Seaweed Brain, let's go get breakfast." Annabeth said walking down the stairs.

"I hope you mean waffles." I said grinning ear to ear. Annabeth laughed. "Yeah, I mean waffles."

You see, waffles are our little inside joke. About our fifth day on the road, we had a full blown waffle war. We accidentally made triple the amount of waffles that we wanted, and well, what else are you supposed to do with your leftover waffles?

It took hours to clean up the battle field of the waffle war. But it was the most fun I'd had in a while.

So anyway, after a tasty breakfast of waffles, me and Annabeth turned on the news.

"A horrible earthquake struck New York City last night around midnight. Scientists are still stumped on what caused this. Be fore now, there has not been any earthquake activity around the big apple. A couple of buildings fell and several people were injured, and there has been a report of five deaths."

Annabeth and I stared at the TV with our mouth open, shocked. I stood up and grabbed a golden drachma off of the island.

"Come on Annabeth." I said, walking to the sink. "Let's make us some rainbows." After we made the rainbow, I threw the drachma into it and said: "Oh, goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering."

It disappeared. "Lord Poseidon, um… wherever he is." Annabeth looked at me with a shocked expression.

"Are you CRAZY!" I did the universal 'shut up' sign by putting a finger to my lips. Heartbeats later, Poseidon came into view.

"Percy? Is that you?" My dad said. I leaned back against the breakfast bar and crossed my arms. (No, it's not a girly thing, it's a I am sooooo mad right now, so I've got an attitude thing.)

"Hey Dad, can I ask you something?" Poseidon nodded. "Now please don't think I'm trying to be a smart aleck trying to make his father mad, but why??"

Poseidon looked confused. "What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the fact that you sent an earthquake to New York when you know I'm a New Yorker." I said with an attitude. Like I said, I was mad.

Poseidon's face was hilarious. He looked like a five year old that just got caught stealing a chocolate chip cookie from the cookie jar. I had to bite my tongue not to laugh.

"Umm… yeah, about that, I'm really sorry. But, I couldn't help it, Zeus ticked me off! You don't know how annoying younger brother's can be."

Wow, Poseidon was taking this better than I thought he would. I expected him to kill me there and then.

I sighed, "Dad, just please don't take your anger out on New York. Five people died. I may have a seaweed brain," I winked at Annabeth, "but that seems really bad."

"Listen, Percy, I'm really sorry. I won't try to destroy New York and the surrounding areas again, happy?" Poseidon said, rolling his eyes. "The only reason that I'm not destroying you for getting an attitude is because, well,"

"You like the fact that I'm not afraid to stand up to you?" I interrupted. Poseidon nodded, and then shrugged. "I have to go, keep up the spirit, kiddo."

Then he was gone. "Since when do you make sudden decisions?" Annabeth said, giving me a confused look.

"What do you mean?" I grabbed an apple from the fridge, and plopped down on the couch. "Well, normally, you would have to think about it, but today you decided really fast."

I grinned. "No idea, probably because I hang around you so much." I winked. Annabeth laughed, and plopped down next to me.

The rest of the day went by smoothly, complete with a Star Wars marathon and smores. Since we didn't have fire, we made them in the micro wave.

"So, where are we at now?" I asked. It was about 11:20 at night, and we weren't tired, just bored. Annabeth shrugged.

"No idea. But to be honest, I don't care. I'll enjoy the trip wherever we are." I nodded, agreeing with her. Suddenly I had a thought. I grinned.

"Say, Annabeth. You know how we have all that cool stuff down below?" Annabeth nodded. "So does that mean that we have stuff like, oh, I don't know, iPod touches?"

Annabeth grinned back and started bounce-step her way over to the stairs that led down stairs. A couple minutes later she came back into the living room. She threw a box at me and sat down.

I opened it. "Yeah! I knew it!" I said examining my new iPod touch. It had a light blue case with a darker blue trident on it. Annabeth's was gold with a darker gold owl.

If you haven't noticed yet, we like personalized stuff. So, we played around with them until midnight, and then went to bed.

Dreams didn't reach me that night, and I slept like a baby.

A/N: Sorry it took so long for me to get this up. I'm on Spring Break, so I'll update soon!!! I love you guys like siblings!!! ~LOL Fantasy