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School was the most boring thing a person could be expected to sit through. It was like torture. I hated school. Annabeth was cool thought. She was fitting right in. I sat next to her in like three classes and she was in homeroom. Luke and Nico had stopped fighting lately.

I was sitting in Shop waiting for Annabeth to walk in and when she did she sat next to me and across from Piper and on Jason's left.

"Hey how are you?" I asked her.

"Percy you just saw me two periods ago." Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"Well I didn't know if your mood changed through last period." I said.

"Well I'm the same as I was." She smiled.

"That's good." I smiled.

"Well I was wondering since you're super smart if you'd help me out with some of my studies. I need to get at least a 94 on my Algebra II exam to pass so I can stay on the swim team." I said.

She looked over at me, "Sure thing I'll help you. What do you need to know for you exam?" Annabeth asked.

"Well I've got the study guide and I was hoping that maybe you'd like to help me or something over break up until the exam." I said hopefully.

Annabeth nodded, "No problem I used to tutor back home."

"Thank you so much Annabeth I owe you." I sighed in relief.

"So when do you want to start?" she asked.

"Is tonight ok with you?" I asked her.

"Well Thalia was talking about her famous weekend long sleepovers that she always has, we can get together before that tonight and I can help you." Annabeth suggested.

"Sounds awesome so when do you want me there?" I asked her.

"Well we can start after school or something." Annabeth shrugged.

"Do you need a ride?" I asked her.

"Well we can go over to your place for a couple hours and then we can head back over to Thalia's and you can get your stuff while we're at your place." Annabeth said.

"Sounds like a plan." I grinned.

After school I waited for Annabeth at her locker. It didn't help that she was on the third floor for Architecture. She smiled when she saw me.

"Hey Percy." She said as she opened her locker.

"Ready?" I asked her.

"One minute." She said as she grabbed her backpack.

Thank God the teachers didn't load on a ton of homework this weekend because this was the weekend before Christmas Break and Thalia's weekend long sleepovers lasted usually until the following Monday and they were a blast.

"Ready." She said as she closed her locker and slung her backpack over her shoulder.

Thalia and Luke made it to their lockers and Thalia was laughing hysterically at something Luke was just muttering that it wasn't at all funny.

"What's so funny you two?" Annabeth asked.

"Nothing." Luke muttered.

"Well you know how we have Musical Theater last period?" Thalia asked between fits of giggles.

"Yeah ok." I said.

"Well the teacher made Luke sing a song from some musical form of
Hamlet that she found it was the greatest thing ever. I have it on video." Thalia said as she pulled out her iPod touch that was adorned in a black and white Green Day case.

"That is only for your eyes." Luke said as he plucked the iPod out of her hand and held it above her head making her jump for it.

"Luke was it really that bad?" I asked him jokingly.

"No it wasn't that bad but he was just so awkward about it that it was hilarious." Thalia said as she jumped once again for her iPod.

"Thalia's making it sound better than it really was. It was super embarrassing." Luke muttered.

Luke finally handed her back her iPod and muttered something that Thalia punched his arm for.

"Wait until I show them the yoga video from last hour." Thalia teased.

"Why the heck would you video tape me doing yoga?" Luke asked.

"Trust me it wasn't easy to do. Why did you take aerobics anyway

"So are you guys ready for a weekend of awesomeness?" Thalia asked.

"Totally but first we're heading for my place to study a bit." I said.

"Cool just be there by five with all you stuff. We're going to be making homemade pizza." Thalia said.

"Gottcha." Annabeth said before we walked out to my car.

Annabeth and I walked through my front door about twenty minutes later.

My mom peeked around the corner and smiled at us, "Hi you two."

"Hey mom." I said.

"Hi Mrs. Bolfis." Annabeth smiled.

"You can all me Sally honey." My mom smiled at Annabeth.

"Ok." Annabeth said.

"Annabeth, Percy are you guys hungry I just made some blue cookies?" my mom asked.

"Sure send some out." I shrugged.

"Annabeth do you like milk with your cookies?" she asked.

Annabeth nodded, "Thanks Sally."

"It's no problem sweetheart." My mom smiled before she disappeared into the kitchen.

Paul walked through the door, "Good afternoon Percy, Annabeth."

"Hi Paul." We greeted him.

"Ooh do I smell your mother's famous blue chocolate chip cookies?" he asked.

"She just made a batch." I said.

My mom walked out of the kitchen with a tray and handed it to me, "Take Annabeth into your room so you guys can have some privacy."

"That was the plan mom." I muttered as I took the tray.

"Have fun studying." My mom smiled as I led Annabeth up the stairs to my room.

"Your mom is so awesome Percy." Annabeth said.

"What about your step-mom?" I asked her.

"Why do you think I came to New York? She was the one who insisted on shipping me off to multiple intensive boarding schools because I apparently posed a risk to my twin step-brothers." Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"You got along with your dad right?" I asked her.

"My dad was ok but Helen was a living nightmare. She hates me because of the fact that my dad had me before she was married to him." Annabeth explained.

"That sucked. So your dad went along with all of this?" I asked.

"They would ground me when I was home for the dumbest reasons. I hated living there with them so I talked with my mom who was more than happy to move me to New York." Annabeth shrugged.

"I see." I said as I set the cookies on the

"What about Paul he seems really awesome?" Annabeth asked.

"Paul is awesome he was way better than my other step-dad Gabe who beat my mother." I said.

"He sounds horrible." Annabeth commented.

"He was." I agreed.

"So what do you need help with?" she asked as she took a seat on my bed.

"Well I don't exactly know yet…" I paused.

Annabeth giggled, "Well then I guess we can't study today."

"Nope I guess we can just hang out for awhile." I shrugged.

"Sounds like fun." She smiled.

"So how are you like school?" I asked her.

"I love it here. I have way more friends than I ever did at any of those stupid boarding schools." She said.

"Well I'm glad you like it here." I said.

"I think it's different from San Fran but I like it a little bit better." She shrugged.

"So what do you think of our little group?" I asked her.

"I've noticed that you guys are gossiped about a lot." She noted.

"Well everyone apparently finds us interesting sometimes it gets annoying." I shrugged.

"It has to. I mean it has to be when you're watched by practically everyone in the school who think that they know you guys when they really honestly don't." she said.

"I think you are one of the coolest people I have ever met." I blurted out.

"Same to you." She smiled.

I got my things together for Thalia's sleepover and stuck it into a bag making sure that I had everything I needed. Annabeth waited for me downstairs and I'm pretty sure my mother told her every embarrassing story about me from my childhood.

Finally I walked down the stairs and looked at my mom who was of course telling Annabeth every embarrassing story. She was trying not to laugh when she noticed me.

"Ok mom I think Annabeth has heard enough embarrassing things about me." I said as I came into my mother's view.

"Sorry Percy you know I like to talk." My mom smiled.

"I know mom, I know you like to talk." I said.

"Well you two have fun I'll see you Monday or whenever you get home Percy." My mom said as she kissed me on the cheek.

"I'll see you then mom." I said as we walked out the door.

Annabeth and I were the first ones to get there besides Luke who was sitting on the couch with Thalia eating what looked like gummy worms. They seemed to be locked in a very heated debate about something so I decided that I was going to go throw my things where we stayed.

Thalia's mom was gone for some form of acting thing that meant we had free run of the house. Thalia's house was huge because of her mother's money that she received for her acting role as a main character on some soap opera.

"No that would be a really stupid decision and you know it would." Thalia said as she ate another gummy worm.

"So what are you guys talking about?" I asked.

"Nothing just an idea that I had." Luke shrugged.

"So where is everyone else?" I asked.

Annabeth was sitting on the sofa, "Shouldn't Jason be here?"

"Jason's with Piper right now." Thalia shrugged, "The others will be here soon."

"Then why did I have to be here by five?" I asked.

"You're early Percy." Thalia rolled her eyes.

Sure enough I was half an hour early. I sat next to Annabeth on the sofa and we waited for everyone to get there. Finally five minutes later the door swung open and Jason and Piper walked in. They smiled at us and went to take Piper's things upstairs.

Frank and Hazel got there after, then Rachel and Apollo. After them Reyna and Leo got there, then there was Riley and the last to arrive was Nico. There were way too many cars in Thalia's driveway but whatever.

Finally we were all sitting around in the living room and Thalia was looking around at all of us, "Well are you guys hungry or what?"

"Yes!" we all sighed.

"Follow me then."

Thalia's kitchen was one of the coolest rooms in the house. Thalia told me once that it was one of her favorites in the house. Every time we did one of these extended sleepovers we always spent a lot of the time in the kitchen. It was a good way to talk to everyone and see what was going on.

"So find a pizza buddy to share with and then we will commence to the pizza making." Thalia said as she perched herself on the counter.

I ended up sharing with Jason because Piper and Annabeth like pretty much the same thing on their pizza and Jason and I shared interest in the same toppings so I got to spend at least an hour with Jason. Thalia's kitchen had a brick oven just for pizzas so we never had to pay for pizza delivery.

"So how have you been?" Jason asked me as we waited for our pizza to cook.

"Good you?" I asked him.

"Same." He nodded.

"So you're with Reyna right?" I asked him.

He nodded, "Five months."

"Wow that's pretty long." I said.

"Not compared to my sister's relationship. Three years coming up." Jason rolled his eyes.

"They've been together really long haven't they?" I asked.

He nodded, "Piper was talking about it the other night. She thinks it's amazing that they've made it that long."

"Yeah it is."

"So you like anyone?" he asked.

"Annabeth." I admitted.

"You two seem to get along pretty well." Jason shrugged.

"She's cool." I said.

After dinner we decided that we should play some party games. These were always the best, especially when we played our own version of Loaded Questions. It was a lot of fun seeing what people say…warning some of the things we say can get a little ridiculous.

"So what are we going to play?" Nico asked he had his arm around Thalia.

"Well we could play Loaded Questions, Taboo, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit Harry Potter, we could play cards, there are tons of options guys." Jason said he was standing in front of the open game closet.

"We could swim, I have an indoor pool." Thalia suggested.

Did I mention that Thalia lived in a mansion like Rachel but neither of them flaunted it? Actually Rachel, Thalia, Jason, and Piper lived in huge houses. They seemed to think that the money they had was too much and they never really cared to act like they had a ton of money.

"Swimming would be fun." I jumped in.

"Of course you'd think that you would live in a pool if your mom would let you." Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Well those of you who don't want to swim can use my hot tub." Thalia added.

"Well that actually sounds like a good idea." Frank piped up.

"So the pool it is then." Jason said.

Once we were all down there the pool was awesome. Ok maybe I would live in a pool if my mother let me but hey what could I say. I love the water. You couldn't keep me away from it for too long. Thalia's pool was pretty fricking awesome. The lights in the pool changed colors, the lights outside the pool could be dimmed to what you wanted, so we usually kept them pretty dim because the colors were so awesome. The pool itself was pretty big.

I jumped into the pool instantly; it was the best feeling in the world. I spotted Annabeth at the other end talking with Piper, Rachel, and Hazel. Thalia was sitting in the hot tub with Luke, Nico, and Frank. The rest of the gang was lounging about the room.

I swam over to Annabeth and smiled, "Hey."

"Hi Percy." She smiled.

Then a brilliant idea popped into my head, "Hey who wants to play categories?"

Everyone looked at me. We used to play that when we were younger. We had the best times playing that game for hours until we began to look like prunes from being in the water too long and our parents would have to drag us out.

By the time the words were out of my mouth everyone but Apollo was in the pool. He claimed that he would keep an eye on the game but we all know he hated the water.

"I'll be it…wait is there anyone who doesn't know how to play the game?" I asked.

No one raised their hands so I took that as my sign to start.

"The category will be favorite Seaweed Brain." I said.

"Hey that's not fair you're everyone's favorite Seaweed Brain!" Thalia and Rachel protested.

"That was the point." I smirked.

"Nice try Jackson pick another category." Thalia rolled her eyes playfully.

"Fine we'll go with favorite animal." I said.

"Platypus…octopus….iguana…lion….llama…." dang I thought that one would at least have Thalia, "Tiger…moose….unicorn…"

Bingo that was the one someone was waiting for. I dove in and somehow caught the person who went. I pulled them under the water and opened my eyes to find Annabeth blinking at me.

We surfaced and she splashed me, "You like unicorns?"

"No you just looked like you were floundering up there." She shrugged and swam over to the side to take her turn.

After everyone was sick of looking like prunes we got out and changed into pajamas to watch movies and do whatever else we decided to do with our time. Annabeth walked over to me and sat down next to me on the floor. We were all sitting in a circle.

"Hey what's up?" I asked.

"Nothing this had been a lot of fun." She said.

"It usually is." I smiled.

"I never did anything like this back home…there weren't many kids I could connect with." She admitted.

"I can understand that one." I shrugged.

Thalia walked over and sat down before we could say anything else. She smiled and offered us some popcorn. We took some and then the movie started. It was a movie I had seen a thousand times already so I just kind of sat there and recited the lines under my breath…it got Annabeth to giggle.

The next morning I woke up early…that wasn't like me at all. Annabeth was already up with Thalia, Nico, Luke, and Riley. Nico grinned, "Hey Percy I think you need to go to Dunkin' Donuts because I want donuts."

"Why can't you go get the yourself?" I asked him.

"Because you pick out all the good donuts when you go." Nico said.

"Nico's right you need to go get us some donuts." Luke nodded in agreement.

"Fine but I'm not going alone." I said.

"I'll go with you." Annabeth volunteered.

"Well then it looks like you guys are getting your donuts that require me to drive for half an hour there and half an hour back is there anything else you would like me to bring back?" I asked.

"Come to think of it…" Nico smirked and wrapped his arms around Thalia.

That earned him a glare from both Thalia and Luke who knew Nico was implying that I buy something dirty. We all know that nothing like that has gone on due to the fact that Thalia won't let it. So Annabeth and I set out on our journey to Dunkin Donuts to buy donuts and Thalia did ask nicely for us to pick up some orange juice.

When we got back everyone else was up and they were apparently happy that there were donuts. Thalia thanked me and handed me forty bucks.

"Thanks Percy." Nico called as he bit into a jelly donut.

"No problem guys." I literally bought five dozen donuts and the guy at the counter looked at Annabeth and I like we were crazy.

"Seriously thanks for the donuts man; the Super Sized McShizzle needs his donuts." Leo said.

I nodded and got myself a donut to join Thalia, Luke, Nico, Riley, and Annabeth. They were all sitting out on Thalia's three season room. I sat next to Luke on the wicker couch, Annabeth and Riley were on the other, and Thalia and Nico were managing to share the chair.

Soon enough we were all kind of doing our own thing. I happened to be playing Mario Kart with Annabeth. Thalia was trying to keep Nico and Luke from killing one another on Black Ops and the rest of the crew was doing about the same.

"So Annabeth you're naturally competitive?" I asked.

"Yeah I'm super competitive." She nodded.

"Are you into any sports?" I asked her.

"I play basketball and softball." She replied as she lapped me again.

"Cool so will I be seeing you on the court?" I asked her.

She nodded, "Of course you will."

"Beware of Clarisse though she can be a bit overwhelming." I warned her.

"I've already been warned." She smiled.

"Just making sure." I nodded.

"So Percy I was wondering if you wanted to see this movie that's supposed to be coming out this weekend. I asked Thalia to go see it with me but she said she had something to do on that day." Annabeth said.

"Cool what movie?" I asked her.

"Well actually it's a double feature kind of movie marathon thing, they're showing some Hitchcock films." I said.

"Like Psycho?" I asked.

She nodded, "They're showing Psycho and The Birds."

I shrugged, "What day?"

"Tuesday." She said.

I nodded, "Sure I'll pay for it."

"You don't have to do that." She frowned.

"I'll handle it."

"Are you sure?" she asked.

I nodded, "It'll be fun."

So I think I had a date with Annabeth but I wasn't quite sure about that. Anyway I get to see Psycho which happens to be one of my favorite movies. So that was cool right?