I can count the number of days until the Son of Neptune on one hand- that's very exciting for me! Yippee! It's about time for me to finish my own Son of Neptune story then, isn't it? The last chapter of the epilogue will be out tommorow on Fanpop. AHHH!

Anyways, please review and check out my new oneshot, Counting! (if you can stand anymore of me after this). Thanks to those who come keep reading!

Disclaimer: The rights to the Percy Jackson series can't be found on ebay, therefore I have no way of getting my hands on them. Sad face.

5

No Rude Remarks

Travis' face was starting to get comfortable, being squished on the counter of the Camp Store.

See; his logic was that if he became responsible more he'd have an easier time being good. Seeing as being good was about as easy as dragging a plane via wire attached to eyelid, he was ready to try anything.

Running the Camp store was boring.

Bo-ring.

B-b-b-b-boring.

Bo-rrrrrrrrr-ing.

So boring he was muttering 'boring' out loud in a million different ways.

"Umm, Travis, you okay?" Someone asked. Travis turned his head and saw Percy.

"No." He let his head roll back and then got up.

"I'm b-b-b-b-borrrrrrrrred." He said popping the 'd'.

"Okay." Percy said. "Umm, look, I ordered something the other day and Jake said he'd send it here so nobody would see it."

"What is it?" Travis asked. "Is it illegal?"

"No, it's just Annabeth goes in the forge often and she couldn't see it."

"Oh. Is it a ring or something? Are you getting married?"

"Shut up, Travis." Percy said. "And it's a necklace."

"Okay." Travis said.

"Did Jake give it to you or I don't know…" Percy said.

"What's it like?"

"Well, it's an owl."

"Aren't you being a tad predictable, Percy?"

"Shut up, Travis. Do you?"

"What's the owl like?"

"Well it's small and celestial bronze and has these weird glasses."

"An owl with glasses?"

'Definitely predictable' was next in line, but that probably counted as rude. He heard Katie rattle on. He's trying to do something nice for his girlfriend and it's really sweet and you shouldn't laugh at him Travis, because then he might not do it, and think of how happy it would make Annabeth!

Yeah; she'd definitely be thinking from everyone's point of view and supporting them all (minus the rude one, so sadly him).

"I mean- cool."

"Do you have it or does Jake? Just tell me so I can get this over with."

"I haven't seen it."

"You haven't even checked." Percy noticed.

Very good Percy.

But as you can probably guess, that's not what Travis said. He went with;

"I've been counting everything for 2 hours. Did you know we have 300 different postcards and stamps to over 34 countries? Does that seem unreasonable to you?"

"Umm, I don't know."

"I'm so bored I'm doing math. Math, Percy, math! What is wrong with me?" His head slammed back to the counter, but bolted up.

"Hey, can you take my shift? I'll do whatever job you have to do- we can switch or something, I'm desperate."

"No," Percy said. "I'm the new sword fighting instructor, remember? I'm supposed to be at the arena in 10 minutes with Demeter and Dionysus."

"Please can we switch!" Travis begged.

"Okay, this job is stressing you out way too much Travis." Percy said. "You might want to take a break or something. See you later." Travis was about to say 'you suck', but that was rude, right? Yeah; he was pretty sure it was rude…

His head slammed back down on the counter.

He. Hated. Being. Good.

But he did like Katie Gardner…

Percy walked to the Center Green where Katie was sitting with her neck stretched, like she was hoping to see the counter for the Camp store. Annabeth sat next to her with a book.

"What did he say?" Katie asked as soon as she saw Percy.

"Well, he's bored like Hades," Percy told them.

"Was he rude?"

"Travis isn't a rude person Katie."

"Well, was he being a smart mouth?"

"Not even." Percy said.

"Hmmm…" Katie said. She leaned back on the bench.

"Seaweed brain, out of here, this is girl material." Annabeth said.

"You're welcome for the help, by the way." Percy said sarcastically, before going to the Sword Arena like he was supposed to.

Annabeth turned to face Katie.

"What do you think?"

"I didn't expect Travis to do it," she mused. "Impressive, and he's not even cheating behind my back…"

"Impressed?" Annabeth said, raising an eyebrow and smiling.

"Not yet." Katie said, before that ship sailed. "Not yet."