Percy groaned hearing the one sound everyone in the world hated, the sound of an alarm clock going off. Maybe I can press snooze just one more time. He let out a sigh seeing the time on the clock. Okay Percy, it's time to get up. Just don't think about how warm the bed is, or how tired you are. He stood running a hand through his messy hair. It was 8, earlier than anyone she ever have to wake up on a Saturday. But, it was going to be worth it. Today he was going to the zoo with one of the few friends he had left. Standing up he looked around the floor for a pair of jeans. Finding a clean enough pair he pulled them on over his boxers. Trudging over to his closet he pulled out the first shirt he laid eyes on. It was a red one, with the Avengers simple on it. Fully dressed he walked out to the small living room of his apartment. Sally looked up with raised eyebrows and a smile, "Wow, look who's up before noon." Percy lifted a finger to his lips making a shush sound. "Wow, aren't you the morning person." He walked past her waving his hand behind him. Sally let out a laugh. "There's fresh coffee in the pot and I made blue pancakes." Percy walked into the kitchen smiling seeing all the food, "Love you."
By 8:30 Percy was out the door and on his way. In his hands he held a 2 portable coffee cups with lids radiating warmth from the coffee inside. He reached Emmy and Annabeth's house sooner than expected. Not sure what else to do he just sat down on the steps leading up to the front door. With out anything else to do he started sipping on his coffee setting the other one next to him. "Is that by any chance for me." He turned around slowly, letting out a breath seeing it was only Emmy. "As a matter of fact it is. French roast with Almond Joy creamer." Emmy smiled sitting on the step taking the cup. "Well, I did some research. The zoo doesn't open until 11. So we have two hours to kill. Ideas?" Percy tapped his fingers against the side of the cup thinking. "We could go get some breakfast." He had already eaten, but that didn't mean he couldn't eat more. "Sure, I still need to pick up my pay check from the dinner. We could go there." Percy nodded and stood, "Sure, sounds like a plan." Emmy stood up next to him, "After you."
They reached the little hole in the wall not a few minutes later. "Hey you go ahead and order, I'm going to go get my check." Percy nodded and sat down at one of the booths looking over the menu. Emmy returned to the table looking like she wasn't the happiest camper. "What's up?" He asked before taking a sip of Dr. Pepper. "One of our fry cooks quit. If we don't find a new one soon we will have to go to shorter hours." Percy perked up slightly, "So, there's a job opening?" Emmy nodded, "Well I would be happy to do it. I've been looking for a job for the last 6 months." Emmy bit her cheek, "Um, I guess I could put in a word. But there's no guarantees." Percy smiled, "I'm okay with that." The words had just left his mouth as the waitress walked up to them. "Hey Emmy." The blonde turned to Percy. "And Emmy's guyfriend. What can I get for ya?" Emmy smiled at the girl. "You know my usual Jessica, though I'm not sure what Percy wants." The girl turned to him with a wide smile, "Alright Sweetie how can I help you?" Percy was taken aback by the fact that he had just been called Sweetie. He wasn't sure if she was just being kind, or flirting. "Oh, um. I'll have the Lumberjack special." Jessica wrote quickly on her note pad, "And I take you for a bacon guy. Am I correct?" Percy nodded awkwardly, "Then the food will be right up."
Percy's eyes widened at the amount of food that was placed in front of him. Two pancakes, a ham steak, biscuits and gravy plus 3 slices of bacon. He gulped, "Oh Gods." Emmy laughed at him as she started on her one pancake with 2 fried eggs. "Were your eyes a bit to big for your stomach?" Percy picked up his fork and looked up at her, "I think you underestimate my abilities." The both smiled and returned to eating. Percy swallowed and looked back up at her, he was a biscuit down and only one pancake was left. "So, how did you get that scar?" Emmy was already done eating and raised the scarred eyebrow, "It's a long story." Percy looked at his watch, "Well, according to this was still have at least an hour." Emmy sighed, "Alright, just you aren't allowed to laugh." Percy raised his hands, "I would never." He smiled cutting into the his piece of ham waiting for her to begin. Emmy took in a deep breath before starting. "Okay, so it was six grade." Percy nodded, continuing to stuff his face. "And that's the time in everyone's life where they want to fit in." She paused, reluctant to continue, "Well there was this group of girls that I desperately wanted to be apart of. I guess you could call them the populars. I went to them asking if they would accept me. Their answer was my eyebrows were to manly." Percy looked up at her, her eyebrows looked perfectly fine to him. Not perfectly shaped, but that was good, it made her look real, not fake. "So distraught I went home and tried to find something to fix them. I came across my father's razor. But it wasn't one of the normal ones, it was the type of razor Sweeny Todd used." Percy smiled at her reference, at least he knew she had good taste in movies. "Well I started to use that to trim these bad boys. I finished the first one just fine, but by the time I got to this one my mother caught me in the act. The problem was when she found me, she made me jump causing me to slice my eyebrow open. Luckily it didn't get to my eye, but the scar never left." Percy tried hard not to laugh, but he just couldn't help in. He let it out and Emmy gasped but still smiled, "Hey, you promised not to laugh!" She shoved his shoulder from across the table. Emmy looked up at the clock above the counter, "Hey, you almost done. We might want to head out soon, incase we run into some traffic." Percy nodded looking down at what was left of his food, "Alright, I give in." He pulled his wallet out of his back pocket and pulled out a 20, "Don't worry I got this." He laid the bill on the table and stood before Emmy could argue, "All right but I'm paying for zoo entrance." Percy nodded, but knew he wasn't going to let her do that. He held out his elbow, "Ready?" She nodded and placed her hand in the crook of his arm. "You know it." They walked out the door and haled a cab, ready for their day at the zoo.