AN Okay so yeah I'm still on vacation, but I have 11 thousand hits! YAY! I know this chapter isn't that long and it's like 2,634 words without any authors notes, but that's because this is more like a buffer chapter of whats about to happen. But also I am working on the next chapter as you read so if you review you will get a sneak peek, but it might be later because of this internet connection that I constantly complain about. But anyway's right now I have 130 reviews 64 fav's and 54 alerts and personally I think that means I should be getting more then 15 reviews MAYBE each chapter. So come on people I promise to update as soon as I can, but if I see less then 10 reviews it takes me longer to type because I feel discouraged that people don't even care enough to comment.
Ugh sorry I feel like I'm griping you guy's right now, but anyways I have 130! And I'm happy about that and this is chapter 15 so I'm even more happy about that! Sorry for the long authors note and please I beg you continue to read! :)
~Anna
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the PJATO series.
Annabeth POV
I walked down the stairs and glanced at the clock. it was the 8th of July and I was surprised at the time more than anything. It was around 12pm ,but I was surprised because I went to bed all of 7 hours ago and I never just sleep 7 hours and wake up voluntarily. Rubbing my eye's I looked at the couch to see if Thalia was still there ,but for some reason she wasn't till of course I heard a voice from the kitchen.
"Ow dammit-stupid freaking counters-hate these things," It was Thalia muttering quietly to her self as she hopped one at a time to get to the toaster which held some wheat toast. I noticed she didn't have her crutches which made me wonder what the hell she was doing walking or well hopping around the kitchen without them. I looked around to see if they were anywhere and then I spotted them in the living room propped up against the couch were she was supposed to be sleeping. I gave her a look, which made her glare at me, "I forgot I had this damn cast on and I was hungry what the hell was I supposed to do?"
I rolled my eye's and walked over to the couch and grabbed them, "Well for starters you could use your crutches so you don't break your other leg you know.." I said giving them back to her as she balanced herself on them, "And secondly you could stop swearing at the furniture for all you know they have feelings too."
"Annabeth you are such an idiot. Oh and Percy called like 30 minutes ago apparently he didn't need to sleep for that long because when you were at the hospital he slept like the whole time for some strange reason." She threw me the phone which I caught easily and looked to see 1 new message which must've been from him.
"And you couldn't get this when he called so he didn't have to leave a message?" I said impatiently as I dialed the answering machines number. Thalia just smirked and knocked on her cast as the answering machines voice with Thalia's bored to death voice on it,
"Hi you have reached the Grace household. Either I didn't want to talk to you so I ignored the phone or I was sleeping, choose one and leave a message. If you are trying to reach Zeus you are out of luck and call his cell phone and leave a message there because sometime within 2 day his secretary will get back to you. Don't ask me what the number is I don't care. Leave a damn message and hang up." After Thalia's voice stopped the automated voice started,
"You have one new message from a Percy Jackson from 11:38 to view this message press 1."
I pressed one wait for the message to start, but it took what seemed like forever on this stupid phone.
"Hey Annabeth, I woke up early and remembered that in two it will be the one month anniversary of when we met. I don't know if you noticed that, but now you do, but I was wondering if you would like to go with my to 6 flags because I heard that you have never been on a roller coaster and why not start off with a boo? Anyway's if not we can go to some stupid dinner and not go to the place with 6 flags of fun," He paused to yell at someone in the background which I assume to be Nico, but I heard him mumble something close to 'shut up Grover!'. He continued with a slight annoyance in his voice which I can only assume was from his friends, "So anyway's if you want to go just call me and I will have it covered...bye."
He sounded nervous that he was asking me and I was kind of glad about that because it meant that he still liked me because if your too over confident about someone people assume and then bad things happen. But I obviously wanted to go and I hoped that the first thing we went on would not be a roller coaster because you need to warm up. Oh well...
"Why do you look like you are frozen in time?" Thalia said sipping a disgusting protein shake and biting into a waffle. How the hell does she not puke when she eats that? I think she might be used to it.
"Well, I have to call Percy back because-" I was talking, but Thalia interrupted me when I started talking.
"Hear a chick in the background?"
"No"
"Called you a name?"
"No"
"Broke up with you?"
"No"
"Asked for money?"
"No"
"Asked for drugs?"
"NO! No! No! And NO!" I screamed because every single time I was about to think she would start talking. "Does Percy seem like he would do any of those things?" I asked impatiently waiting for her to answer hoping she wouldn't interrupt me.
"No.." She said slowly like I was going to start chasing her like I used to and try to punch her in the face. We had some interesting bonding memories of camping, but that's another story. "But then why on earth would he call you and need you to call back?" She said like those were the only reasons people would ever dare to have someone call back or even call.
"Well he invited me to go to 6 flags because in two days is the month marking of day we met thank you very much." I said dialing his phone number quickly on the phone and shooing her out of the kitchen so she wouldn't scream 'Annabeth pass the drugs!' like she always did when I was on the phone with anybody, but mostly my parents. I don't know if she was finally mature enough to stop yet, but who the heck knows and I would rather not take the chance.
"Hello?' A tired voice said on the other side of the line. "Whadda want it's like 4am..?"
"Nico can you please put Percy on?" I said frustrated at Nico's idiotness because not only did he think it was 4 am, but he also started insisting that Percy was asleep just like every other human being on the planet at that time, "No Nico! It is not 4am do you not see out a damn window?" I heard a pause and some light jugging which I can only guess was done by Nico and a string of swears when I'm guessing he looking out a window and saw that it was in fact day time and I had been right. But I was wrong because then Nico said this,
"Oh my god I feel betrayed!" I'm guessing it was Nico shouting because I heard some laughing in the background. "Dude first off you didn't even tell me Grover was even coming over and then you start a damn marathon game of Black Op's without me! What in the name of Hades has the world come to!" Nico shouted again causing more laugher.
"YES! Head shot FriskyMinatour3 is down!" I heard laughing and high fiving in the background before Percy spoke again. "Um Nico who exactly is on the phone that you are holding?"
"Oh Annabeth.." He said slowly and I can only imagine he was holding the phone out of him. I heard from moving of furniture and it sounded like Nico being slightly strangled while someone shouting, "Percy! Helldogpound killed you they just broke the damn streak!"
"NICO WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SHE'S CALLED! I ALMOST HAD A DAMN NERVOUS BREAKDOWN WHILE CALLING HER! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE WAITED FOR THAT CALL!" I can only assume it was Percy who was talking because I heard a slightly evil laugh and Nico say, "Dude it's on speaker.." And more laughing till someone picked up the phone and hit a button.
"Hey Annabeth, I guess you heard what just happened didn't you?" I could hear traces of embarrassment in his voice as he spoke which made me let out a few laughs before stopping.
"Yea I kind of did, but that's okay from what I heard I'm wondering if Nico's okay. Did you try to strangle him because that's what it sounded like.." I said slowly trying to suppress my laugher so I would get him embarrassed because the one thing the people hate more then anything in embarrassment. Or well so I've heard and even personally think.
"Eh.." Percy started and I guess he was looking at Nico because he chuckled slightly before continuing. "Only a bit and not enough to actually hurt the kid. Just like a little loss of air, but I think it builds character." He said. I could literally picture Nico scowling at what Percy was talking about. "Ugh so yeah you called about something..?"
"Yeah well I can go to the theme park and it sounds fun. Plus I totally forgot tomorrow is the month-anniversary of when we met!" I said surprised and truthfully. I'm known for my memory too so it confused me how on earth I could forget that and confused me more on how Percy remembered. But then again it proves that Percy is smarter then the stupid Seaweed Brain impression he gives off at first. Or maybe it was because when we first me I turned him down then the next time he managed to get me out on a 'just friends' date with him that ended...differently.
"Well it was hard to forget for me. Anyways I got the whole thing covered it's going to be so FUN!" He sounded like a hyper kid in a candy store which made me wonder what it would be like in two days. "Anyways all you need to bring is a bathing suit, spare shoes if yours get wet, some flip flops for the same reason and your ID because apparently they need to see it when I bring people into the park!" The last comment made me wonder a bit because don't you buy tickets for this sort of thing? But then again I have no idea because I have never been there myself.
"What do you mean 'bring people in' don't you need like tickets and stuff?" I said raising my eye brows which made me feel kind of stupid because I was on the phone, but I waved my hand in the air almost like I was swatting away the thought.
"Well, see my dad met the owners or well managers of the park and they got it off well. Now I can just go into the park for free, but as your boyfriend I cover all other costs too because it is what a gentleman does." He said slowly waiting for my reaction, "But either way there is one ride you need to go on and it is absolutely terrifying and I love it!"
"How on earth can you love or even go on something that goes at 6 mph on a track and goes high in the air. The odd's of it breaking down are crazy not to mention everything else that could happen." I said going over the possibilities in my head.
"Yeah well there was that one guy who died, but some say he had a heart problem. Anyways that's the fun and the adrenaline rush is crazy don't worry nothing will happen to you and I will make sure of it." He said defiantly. "Oh and I'm picking you up at 6am in the morning..."
"Wow can't believe you would wake up that early to ride go to some stupid amusement park.." I said smiling into the phone as I heard Percy laugh.
"Well it's in Massachusetts and I want to get there so we can get fast passes early. I hate waiting in lines for things, but also all you have to do is be dressed in Pj's and we can stop on the way for you to change into normal clothing."I would say I could hear the smile on his face, but I didn't need to hear it to know that it was in fact there.
"Okay will do, but you might have to carry me to the car you know." I said laughing a bit because I knew that Percy had no problem carrying me before. Also I really didn't mind it when he did.
"I don't see that as a bad thing you know," He laughed and I heard someone yelling in the background to 'get off the damn phone or I'll punch you in the face!'. And Percy yelled something about strangling them again so it must've been Nico.
"See you in two day's!" I said in a sing-song voice into the phone and I heard a quick 'Bye Love' which reminded me of some English accented person I had met at the supermarket in the store the last time I went. I walked out of the kitchen with a crazy smile on my face because of the word 'love'. Obviously he called me that, but maybe it meant that he loved me or maybe he was being an idiot either way, truth be damned I knew that I at least think I love him. And if I think I do which means that I was in love with Percy Jackson and I could say it in my head all I wanted now. But hopefully I could have the courage to say it out loud soon because for a silly little word I wanted to say it so much.
"Annabeth and Percy sitting in a tree f-u-c" Thalia started laughing on the couch, but I shushed her before she got any further because I could feel my face start to heat up which meant I was blushing.
"Thalia! Not necessary!" I snapped looking at her and grabbing the remote like I trained for it my whole life, which living with her it's had.
"Hey! Don't steal the remote from the cripple it's against the law!" Thalia complained reaching for her crutches which were luckily out of her reach. Then again it's not really luck if I moved them because I knew she was going to try to hit me with them. So it's more like forethoughtedly (if that's a word) they were out of her reach.
"I took a You and the Law class freshman year of high school and memorized the book just in case I wanted to be a lawyer so tell me where in the world is that law. I've never heard of it," I smiled to myself flipping the channels on the TV. "Besides Phineas and Ferb which I know you were originally watching is over now and some stupid show that has something to do with the boy from Hannah Montana back when it was good is on it."
"Fine lover girl, but I know your facial expressions and right now you think your in love which means that you are-" I opened my mouth ,but she continued speaking over me so I just decided to not say anything, "There are two phrases that effect people. They are eerily similar because both start with 'I' and end with 'You'. In between there is one single four lettered word. You have to be very careful with both because there is a fine line between the two that can't be crossed."
"And do tell me what they are oh great one," I said mockingly because I thought it was going to be something stupid.
"I love you." Thalia said at first and continued with a nod from me, "I hate you."
I hope you like the chapter and I don't care if you flame because it means people think at least they should tell me, but I don't get much or any of that anyway's. If you spot my spelling mistakes I love you and anyway's if you review about anything you get a sneak peak. If you tell me that I suck I will literally say Thank you and give you a sneak peak. I hope you like the chapter and I promise to update soon.
PS: Sometime in the future there will be a contest of some shorts about something for this and it might involve something. (I know suckish details), but hey I've been going crazy in the warm weather that I am forced to be in right now!
~Anna