After listening to Steve blabber on about Nico and all the fun times they had together for the entire car ride home, I was getting pretty tired of him. I was ready to boot Steve out the back window and put the gas peddle to the floor. Instead, I patiently waited until we got back to the Avengers tower, then dropped him off. Then I sped off like a maniac with Annabeth shaking her head in the seat next to me.

#noregrets

My mom's house was actually not that far away from the tower, giving me a five-minute ride to calm down after spending so long cooped up in the car.

"Did you Iris Message Sally and tell her coming?" Annabeth asked. Oops.

"Uh, was I supposed to?"

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "You're supposed to give fair warning before you randomly show up at someone's house, Percy. What if they're out at dinner or something?"

I shrugged.

"How would you feel if people randomly showed up at our house like that?" She added. Now it was my turn to roll my eyes.

"Have you met our friends?" I pointed out. "Leo shows up at three in the morning at least twice a month and the Stolls consider our place to be a 5-star hotel."

She laughed at this, unable to find a disagreeing point. I loved moment like this. Just Annabeth and me, talking. We weren't kissing or fighting for our lives for the time being. Don't get me wrong, I love kissing her, but she was still my best friend and talking to her was one of the best things in the world. Better than blue food.

"Percy, we're here," Annabeth shut down my train of thought by stopping me from driving by the house I lived in for nineteen years. How could I have lived in the same place for so long, yet still miss the turn to get there every single time?

Annabeth and I decided that we didn't want to move too far away from Mom and Camp, so we got our little house in New York, about a fifteen-minute drive from Camp Half-Blood and semi-close to Mom's apartment on the upper East side.

As I pulled up to the apartment complex, I parked the car and remembered to lock the doors. It wasn't a great neighborhood. Annabeth and I climbed the stairs to the third floor with our hands intertwined. Anticipation grew in my chest. I had seen my mom last week but I still felt like this every time we saw her. My mom was the only person that had been constant throughout my entire life. Annabeth entered the picture when I was 12 but my mom? She's been here for me since the day I was born. I rapped my knuckles against the door. I had a key, but I forgot it at home.

"Percy!" Her sweet voice enveloped me almost as soon as her open arms did. She hadn't worked at the candy shop in many years but still somehow managed to smell like sweets. My mom was magical.

"Hey Mom," I greeted her with a lopsided grin and a kiss on the cheek.

My mom pulled away to give Annabeth a hug. "And Annabeth! Oh, my dear it's so good to see you! How's the baby doing?"

That's the first thing everybody asked when they saw us. How's the baby doing? The baby is fine! You would know if anything was wrong!

"Perc?" My little sister stepped into the room with a confused glance. "Percy!" Mirra was in her third year of high school so I didn't get to see her often. She jumped into my arms and wrapped her legs around my waist so I fell down. "You became an Avenger?! Why didn't you tell me?! I know all about the Avengers! I-,"

"Well, I didn't exactly know," I cut her off. "I became part of the team on accident. And why aren't you at school?" I added. She rolled her eyes dramatically, something she totally didn't get from me.

"It's parent-teacher conference week, no school." She excused, crawling off of me and tugging me to my feet. "How do you accidently become an Avenger?" She asked. Annabeth scoffed as if to say "Yeah, that's what I want to know."

I shrugged innocently and tried not to meet her eyes. "It's um, a long story," my voice raised a couple octaves as I tried to avoid the topic. I knew she'd laugh at me.

She plopped herself down on the couch and my mother looked at me expectantly. Mom was worried. She was always worried about me. I wanted to assure her that everything I did was 100% safe, but I feel like if I did then the fates would drop a piano on my head just to prove a point. Annabeth leaned into my arm.

"You know she's never going to let this go," she whispered.

So I sighed, took a deep breath, and told them everything."So I was at work when this crazy lunatic tries to take a selfie and fell into the shark tank..."

(Hey peeps! Sorry for the short update but I'm getting ready for Easter with my family tomorrow so I don't have a lot of time. Please comment what you don't like and what you'd like to see next and I'll try to include it in future chapters. Thank you!)