Chapter 8

Percy's POV:

I again woke up to Annie's hair. I yawned and smiled into her lemon scented golden locks.

"Good morning camp mate." She mumbled.

"Ah so Sleeping Beauty awakes!" I say as I sit up to get food. Annabeth makes no attempt to get up, so she just flops down onto the pillow that was underneath my body.

"I'm worried Percy," Annabeth says as she finally walks into the kitchen.

"What if your mom comes back?" My face paled as I relized how long my mom has been gone. Almost a month. That's the longest she's ever been gone.

"Whats wrong?" she asked, looking worried. I rushed to the house phone and typed in my moms phone number. Ring, ring, ring, ring.

"Hello." A gruff voice came on.

"Hello, I'm looking for my mom she's been gone for a month and I'm really worried-"

"Hold on kid, your mom is right here."

"Hello, Percy is everything alright." My moms lovely voice came on.

"Mom, where are you!?" I shouted. She paused.

"Percy… I'm with your father." My mind froze. My dad. MY DAD! I hung up and decided to go for a walk.

"Percy. What's wrong." Annabeth asked as I walked into the kitchen.

"Nothing." I grumbled. "we're going for a walk so get on some regular clothes and be ready in five minitues." She nodded and walked into my room to get a shirt.

Annabeth's POV:

I'm scared. Percy looked really mad and I was worried if I did something. But I quickly got dressed and put on some shoes. When I walked out Percy was waiting a I smiled at him. His angry face softened and he smiled back.

"Percy, what's wrong?" I asked him, his face got all angry.

"My mom is on my dads ship with him. That's why I'm mad." Puzzled I nodded. Why was that a bad thing? I wasn't going to ask him though.

"So where are we going?" I asked.

"We're going to take a walk in the woods for a little while."

"Percy."

"Yah?"

"We're in the middle of Yokosuka. There's no woods for miles." I told him. Then Percy looked like he was mentally facepalming himself. I smiled and giggled. He smiled at me.

"Then we're going on a road trip." My smile disappeared with a puzzled frown.

"Don't we need to pack for that. Remember I don't have any of my clothes." Percy nodded, still smiled and said "That's why we're stopping by the mall before we go." I smiled and grabbed my coat, and he grabbed his coat and wallet.

Once we got to the mall I immediately ran to Hot Topic (( idk if they habe them in Japan, because I don't go to the mall for clothes much but just imagine it there)) to get some shirts and then went to wherever to get pants. He also got some shirts and pants. We even got a matching MCR shirts. Then we stopped by a drug store to get some asprin (just in case), some mini deodarnts, mini shampoos and conditioners, and some other emergency "stuff" for me. Then I saw the food section and bought a bunch of epic food, like Wheat Thins, Oreos, and some assorted chips. I walked over to Percy and he was holding our favorite soda: A&W Rootbeer. ((sponser for all that stuff)) I high fived him and we went to check out all of the stuff with a final amount of $55.00 which me and Percy both payed for.

"We should go to the ATM before we go" Percy said carrying plastic bags. I nodded, and shifted my aching arms, which were carrying all the clothes bags, and some plastic bags.

"But can we drop this tuff off at your car first?" I groaned. He laughed at my tense muscles and nodded.

Percy's POV:

"WOO ROADTRIP!" I shouted as we got onto the highway. Me and Annie had been driving for hours, and now we were almost out of the city. It was 8:00 and dark out, but Annabeth and I weren't even close to being tired.

"WOOOOOO!" Annabeth shouted, wind flying through her blonde hair. The roof was down and the Japanese people in there cars were looking at us weird.

"Wait were are we going?" I asked. Annie looked at me liked she was shocked.

"You don't know were we're going!" she shouted over the wind. I shrugged and nodded. She thought for a moment.

"Lets go to Tokyo until Sunday." It was a Friday. So we'll have a day there when we get there. I nodded and stopped at a rest stop with a Starbucks. I laughed at Annabeth as her eyes widened in excitement.

"I. love. Starbucks." She said a little to calmly. I nodded and put the roof back up.

"And I need the caffeine to stay up and drive." I said as I got out and locked the car. Annie laughed and dragged me to the door.

"Ladies first." I said as I bowed and opened the glass door. She giggled and curtseyed as she walked into the warm building, filled with the scent of coffee and donuts.

Annabeth's POV:

I walked over to the counter to be met by a young Japanese waitress, ready to take my order. I smiled at her, and looked down at the English menu to find my drink. After a quick survey of the coffee's I found a Mango Frappactiono and almost laughed as I ordered it. I never thought that anyone would think of something as funny ever. But I actually think it may work.

"Six, tall regular coffee's please. No foam." Percy said after I paid for my drink. I stared at him shocked that he would have THAT much coffee. The waitress on the other side of the marble counter, widened her eyes and put it down on the computer.

"Percy," I said pulling him away after he paid for his coffee's. "You don't need that much, I can drive too."

"No, no Annie, I'm going to drive us." He replied with a sincere look in his green eyes. I wanted to argue, but I didn't want to drive anyways, so I just nodded and tried to look annoyed.

"Annabeth if you really want to drive that much, I'll let you." Percy said as he carried over our seven drinks.

"Oh no. I wouldn't want to ruin your macho ((is that the right word?)) or whatever." I said as a took the cold, orange slushy out of his hand. Percy rolled his eyes and took a sip of his coffee as we strolled out of the warm coffee shop, into the cold night air.

"Hey, I'm going to sleep and if you start to get tired wake me up so we can switch ok." I said as I got comfortable, using a sweatshirt I had bought as a pillow. Percy nodded and started the engine and drove up to the highway as I drifted off into a warm dreamless sleep.

Peryc's POV:

After about 30 minitues of driving, we finally made it to Tokyo. Now all we needed to find was a place to sleep. I drove into an empty parking lot for who knows what and thought for a minitue.

"Annie, wake up." I said as I nudged the sleeping blonde awake.

"Are we there yet, or do I need to drive?" she mumbled as she sat up.

"No, you don't need to drive. We're in Tokyo. I don't know where to sleep though."

"We can just sleep in the car."she said rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, and stretched. I frowned, because I'd gotten used to sleeping with someone. I was just about to say so when Annabeth said

"Just as long as I get to sleep with you, I didn't have any dreams and I always have dreams with you." I nodded as she slid over and onto my chest. This felt normal for me, so it didn't bother me. With most guy's who where in the friend zone like this, wouldn't take it as well. But I just got comfortable as I pulled back the chair. The car was still going and figured that I should probably turn it off, and I did so.

"Goodnight" Annabeth said as she snuggled into my arm.

"Goodnight." I replied wrapping a blanket over us, and drifted into a sleep filled with happy dreams and warmth.

Who likes it? I was inspired by the road trip because I LOVE road trips! And I got a suggestion, that stated something about being in the woods so they can be alone. But I changed up the senario (I suck at spelling) and they're still alone. I'll give the person who gave that idea credit, next chapter because I didn't look at the username! So if your the awesome person who inspired this, THANK YOU! And thanks to all the others who gave me other ideas that I will surely use later in the story. (^.^)

Hannah