Fall Into The Sky
(a hundred moments, a single love)
5: outsides
"You're covered in paint."
"Thank you, I hadn't realized."
"Sarcasm unnecessary, Wise Girl."
"No, Seaweed Brain, sarcasm is infinitely necessary. You see, it distracts me from my anger and keeps me from killing you."
"What did I do?!"
"I'm covered in paint!"
"Which is my fault how?"
"Percy - "
"Don't sigh at me, I'm serious! I hadn't even seen you today until two minutes ago!"
"Look, Percy, I...my brothers decided to have some fun with paint-filled balloons and my car, and I've stopped at every gas station between here and the airport trying to get this disgusting orange acrylic paint off of me, but it won't come off, and then the first time I see my boyfriend in three weeks the first thing he says is 'Oh, look, paint!' I'm just pissed, okay? I can't deal with this right now..."
"Annabeth..."
"You're using your pity voice."
"I'm not using - I don't have - pity voice?"
"Pity voice. You know, the 'Oh I feel sorry so I'll say something I don't mean to cheer you up' voice."
"I don't have a pity voice, and if I did I wouldn't use it in this situation! Look, I'm sorry...I missed you. Really I did, so much. Nico threatened to change his number if I called him to talk about you one more time, and Grover stopped answering. Thalia said that I was being stupid, that you would be back soon, but still...stupid seminar. Why didn't they allow phones?"
"Because the whole idea of the seminar was to show our dependance of modern technology, Percy. A cell phone would have kind of defeated the purpose."
"Screw the purpose, I missed you. See, look, you're smiling! I missed that too. I missed a lot of things."
"Clearly."
"What, no 'I missed you too, Percy?'"
"No."
"Wha - ?!"
"Kidding, kidding. Touchy, Seaweed Brain. I missed you too, you insecure blob of jelly."
"I am a very well-defined, good-looking blob of jelly, thank you very much."
"Modest, too."
"Oh yes. Infinitely."
"Come here, my infinitely modest devilishly handsome blob of jelly."
"Mmm."
"Mmm indeed. I missed that quite a bit."
"Must agree with you there."
"You know - mmm - if it, ah, helps any - ahh - you look great in orange."
"Oh, you are so on the couch tonight."