I'm warning you ahead of time not my best chapter. It was definitely just a filler chapter to get me to the next chapter so sorry. Also sorry about the long break I was on vacation then spent all week catching back up at work, but now I'm back and I've got 2 chapters for you.
Annabeth's POV
By Thursday the daily schedule became routine and I found myself falling into the pattern that I had set up for myself. Wake up, go to school, wait for Percy (he is always late), go to classes, eat lunch with Percy's friends (they were my friends now to, except Kristen who I treated like a neighbors pet as long as you don't acknowledge it, it won't acknowledge you. It was best for both of us that way; it meant I didn't have to kill her.). Go home, do my homework, cook dinner for me and Thalia (Thalia can do many things, but cooking is not one of them) and occasionally Percy or Nico if they came over, go to bed, restart.
It was because of this that I snapped I think. I know you're probably thinking wow 4 days is all you can take way to be a mentally tough daughter of Athena, but hey I'm a demigod. Blame it on my ADHD, I get bored easily.
It was lunchtime on Thursday, and we were sitting with our normal group and I was off in my own world, ignoring the group's conversation when I just burst it out. "Thalia and I are having a party tomorrow night to break in the new apartment," I announced to the group startling many of them and cutting off whatever Austin had been saying, something about sports.
"We are? Nice." Thalia asked looking a little confused yet still excited. I guess I wasn't the only one who wanted to shake things up.
"Yep, just like we talked about the other day. We will be inviting all of our friends from camp, and you guys are all of course invited." I told them turning to the group addressing them for the last part.
"Wait not camp," Austin said with fake shock in his voice, "not the camp Percy goes to every summer and is always so mysterious about. You mean we finally get to meet the people he talks so much about?"
"Yes that camp," I told him laughing, "and we have a pool so bring your suits."
They all started off on their own conversations about the party and meeting people from camp.
The rest of the day passed in a blur, and before I knew it the final bell was ringing letting us out of school on Friday. Thalia and I headed home to get ready, we tried to get Percy to come help but he had swim practice until 6. Everyone was going to just head over after practice.
We had a very nice apartment, and as far as they go it was rather large. It was a one story complex that formed a box around the large pool/backyard area. We were the apartment furthest from the entrance to the complex. The living room had two couches and a 72" LCD TV. The kitchen was kind of small but not cramped. By the front door there was a little video monitor with a button to buzz people in the complexes front door. Off of the living room there were five doors, the front door, the public bathroom, a sliding glass one that led to the backyard, and two bedrooms. Our bedrooms connected through a shared bathroom.
Luckily we were both neat people, me because that's just how I am and Thalia because she was so trained in the hunt to keep everything so you can leave on a seconds notice, so it was pretty easy to clean up before the party.
I made a big bowl of punch. I know you're probably thinking high school parties usually have alcohol not punch, but I don't drink. It clouds your mind and you can't have that when monsters attack. The mortals we invited with the exception of Stacy are all on the swim team so they had to sign a contract saying that they wouldn't drink or smoke during the season.(My high school really had those contracts.) I set out bowls of chips and we ordered pizzas. I went into my room to get dressed as the buzzer went off and told Thals to get it.
When I came out Thalia was in the kitchen talking to Jason, Piper, and Leo, while Katie, Travis, and Connor were checking out the backyard through the glass door. The buzzer went off again and I let in Clarisse, Chris, Grover, and Juniper. A few minutes later Nico shadow traveled in and I showed them all the apartment and we sat around talking about camp. After about a half an hour Percy showed up with our mortal friends and we introduced them to everyone.
Again I know this chapter is shitty and I'm sorry for that. Before anyone points it out as a mistake. I know Juniper can't go far from her tree but in this story she is so deal with it. Also I said TLH never happened but I like the characters so I put Leo, Jason and Piper in the story.
