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Percy's POV:
I wanted to get off. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't fly. Although I was with Annabeth, I really couldn't calm down. I was hyperventilating and started breathing hard, trying to catch my breath. That was when Annabeth noticed me. She took my hand and sat closer to me.
"Percy," she said looking at my eyes "calm down, everything is going to be right."
"Annabeth, I have to go back. I want to go back to New York, where the floor is flat and my feet are as close to the ground as possible."
"Seaweed brain… Don't be idiotic! Just sleep and relax. It will be quickly."
"Please, Annabeth, I'll meet your parents another time, but please, I beg you, let's get out of this freaking metallic bird."
"First: it's a plane. Second: if you relax, I promise you everything will be fine."
I tried. I swear on the River Styx I did. But as minutes passed, I could feel the plane getting higher and higher. Suddenly, I felt it started shaking. I snap open my eye and saw a calmly Annabeth reading a magazine. The ones they give you on the plane (as far as I know). I was about to ask what was happening, but she immediately answered "Turbulence."
I looked outside the window and saw we were high up in the sky. I had only flew somewhere on Blackjack, but San Francisco was far enough not to go on him. Turbulence started, and of course, I had the intense urge to shout and demand Annabeth I wasn't flying anymore. I didn't obviously. I looked at my girlfriend and she was reading an architecture book. The one I had given her for her birthday. It was called 'How to Build an Architect in You'. I didn't tell her it had cost me fifty drachmas. She would have returned it, then. She seemed interested while reading it. It was kind of funny watching her. She bit her lower lip from time to time and she sometimes licked her finger to pass the page. Watching the most beautiful girl almost made me forgot about the turbulence. Almost.
"Percy, may I ask you a favor?" Annabeth's words pulled me back to reality.
"Whatever you want, honey."
"If any member of my family, and I mean any of them, insults me, or tells me that I am an idiot, that I am only good at causing trouble to them, would you defend me?" she took my hand as she looked at my eyes.
"Of course I will."
"Do you love me?" she spit out.
I laughed and then said "Tell me something, if I didn't love you, would I be on a plane?"
"You are right." She came closer and kissed me. It was a sweet kiss, but was all I needed to calm down and totally forgot about the whole turbulence thing. She passed her hands through my messy black hair as we continued kissing. We broke apart to catch our breath and then waited in silence until dinner came.
If I have to be honest, food was actually good. I know, Annabeth would say something that every single piece of food was good to me but well, you get the idea. After dinner, I talked with Annabeth for a while, until a voice said we had arrived.
We got off the plane and believe me, I had never been happier in my life. I could hear Zeus voice in my head saying "Next time, you'll be blasted."
After we did everything we had to, and then, got out of the airport. I could feel the cold on my skin and I knew Annabeth could too. I looked at every single thing that moved behind me. After the war with Mother Earth, all of us who had survived had become a little paranoid. And when I say a little, I mean a lot. We got into a taxi and told the driver where to leave us. The trip was quiet, so I could see through the window how San Francisco was. I don't want to sound like Annabeth, but it was a beautiful city. Everything was fine, until the taxi driver said:
"We are here." I paid and we got out. Annabeth looked at me.
"You ready?" she asked
"You want the truth?"
"Of course!"
"No, no I am not."
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