Okay guys, here I am again. So, I'm gonna go out of station for four days so I won't be able to update soon. In order to make it up to you, I'm posting this long chapter. Enjoy!
nikitabella and YayPercabeth123- Awww! Thnx u guys! You are probably right. As long as I love writing this story, I'm gonna update it! Hopefully till the end! :)
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Percy's POV
"Annabeth! C'mon! You're gonna make us late," I screamed, pounding at her cabin door. Everyone from her cabin along with all our friends had already assembled in the pavilion.
"Oh shut up, Percy! Try wearing a dress next time and then we will see how long you take," Annabeth screamed.
I groaned. "C'mon! It's not like its gonna make any difference."
"What is that supposed to mean!" Annabeth screamed and then there was a sound of something falling. "Ow! Good! Now I'd have to do that again."
I sighed. This girl would seriously drive me mad. The angry mad. Guess that calls for a little revenge...
"Oh! It's the daughter of Aphrodites!" I shouted purposely. I heard shuffling of feet and then sudden silence from inside the cabin.
"Ooh! They look feisty!" I said. "Is that Drew? Holy Poseidon! She looks sexy! That dress just goes perfectly with her skin tone. Especially when it's so much exposed! I just love the off the shoulder part." There was a gasp from inside. "Not to forget that slit in her skirt that runs till her... Oh hell! It can't be! She's gonna get scolded by someone." This time it was a wild screech.
"And here she walks away... Oh god! Bonus! Its backless!"
Precisely at this moment, she stormed out the door and lunged at me so suddenly that I never saw that coming.
I just had time to glance at her. She was wearing a green gown with spaghetti strips. She had curled her hair and with a bit of makeup, she looked amazing.
"Vow Anns! You look amazing! Are you wearing makeup?" I said.
Annabeth blushed and said, "Silena said she would cancel my architecture enclosure idea if I don't wear any. But the point here is... How dare you checkout Drew!"
"Who?" I asked.
"That slut-" Annabeth then looked up and realised there was no one. Her eyes dawned with understanding and she looked back at me. Uh-oh. She's gonna blow!
"Percy! You jackass!" She started hitting me. "You"- punch- "bloody"-punch-"asshole!"
"Yeah Annabeth! Kill him! Percy don't just sit there. Hit her back!"
Me and Annabeth rolled our eyes and turned to exactly who we thought it was. Leo was standing right there. He actually looked decent today. He was wearing a black shirt and jeans. His hair instead of a mass of curls were straightened, falling on his forehead.
"Vow, Leo! What happened to your hair?" I asked.
"Silena happened," he simply said as if that explained everything. Actually... it did. "Now you two are staying the night there or what?"
Annabeth blushed and quickly got up from me and I followed the lead.
"C'mon. If the gods reach before us, you know right that they might get offended and turn us into christmas trees... or worse, Christmas pies!" Leo said.
"Man, you've the craziest imagination," I told him. I turned to Annabeth and said, "Let's go."
She huffed and stalked away, saying over her shoulder, "This isn't finish yet." I groaned.
Leo whistled. "You have managed to make you girlfriend angry on the Christmas Eve! Some piece of work man."
"At least I have a girlfriend," I said, glaring at him.
"Ouch!" Leo said, pretending to be hurt and keeping a hand on his heart. "Oh c'mon! You know every girl in this camp would die for Leo the Great."
"Well but your crush don't happen to be in this camp," I said teasing.
"Percy, my man. I've already told you it was a rumour. I do not like the Warrior Princess," Leo said disgusted.
"Oh c'mon! She's not that bad," I said.
Leo raised his eyebrows. "Uh-huh? You fancy the hardcore huh? Wonder what Annabeth has to say about it." Leo ran away towards the pavilion.
"Leo! No wait! She'd get her mother to turn me into an owl!" I screamed and ran after him.
Hazel's POV
"I'm not knocking this time," Frank said.
I rolled my eyes. "Oh c'mon Frank! Don't be a whinny," I told him and pushed him towards the door.
"Well, then why don't you do it?" Frank asked.
"Because I'm a girl. Now go!" I told him. He just wouldn't budge. "Don't worry. I've got your back."
"Well, then get my front," Frank said, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Eww Frank! You're sounding like L-" I stopped.
"Leo?" Frank asked. I nodded and he sighed. The first time I saw him, I was so shocked. He was a dead ringer for Sammy! It turned out that Sammy was his great-grandfather. In the starting it was all awkward around him, but Leo is a nice icebreaker. We were friends with the guy for a week or so, but he was so easy to hang out with. And then the hell broke loose. We do see him, now and then. But then we would have this tense environment around us. Leo would always crack a joke, trying to make things light. He was a nice friend. Even Frank, who is mostly shy, opened up to him. And he's kinda cute with his elvish features... In fact, if I already didn't love Frank, I might have considered him as something more.
Just then Jason stepped outside his cabin. He was wearing an untucked white shirt, black coat and blue faded jeans and his blonde hair were jelled up in spikes. He managed to look formal and informal at the same time. Hmm... that reminds me of...
"Hey! What are you two doing here?" Jason asked.
"We just came here to call you," I said.
Frank cracked and said desperately, "Man it was Hazel's idea! Don't hit me!"
Jason blinked and then started laughing. "Chill dude. I'm not doing anything. Sorry for earlier. I was pissed," he said.
"It's cool, man. I understand," Frank said and the two high-fived.
"Boys," I mumbled, looked from one to another and turned on my heels to walk out from the camp. The two jerks came on my either side and each wrapped a hand around my shoulder.
"So, what's the forecast?" Jason asked.
"Cloudy," Frank said. "This Christmas Feast is gonna blow up in our faces."
"So why are we walking towards it?" Jason asked.
"Because the alternative's even more horrifying. I mean I don't know about you two guys but I'm not gonna go to the hell hole again," I said, shuddering. The other two chuckled.
"Now that's my girl," Jason said.
"Uh-uh. My girl," Frank said and gave Jason a look, which would probably have been really tough because Jason dropped his hand from my shoulder instantly.
"Frank!" I scolded.
"What? Don't you remember when I was hitting on Pi-" he was saying and I understood where he was taking it and stamped on his foot. "Oww!"
I looked at Jason and saw the damage had already been done.
"Hey guys," someone said behind us. It was Reyna. She was wearing a yellow one piece that fell to her knees. It was a halter and fitted to her figure. Her hair was in a braid and for the first time she looked like she tried to dress up. She looked amazing.
"Vow Reyna? Tell me, did Lady Venus cursed you or something?" I asked.
"You mean that I can't manage to look pretty on my own? I'm offended," Reyna said playfully.
Frank leaned towards me and whispered, "Something's definitely wrong. It has been five seconds and she hasn't threatened to kill anybody." I stamped on his feet again. "Can you stop doing that already?"
"You look beautiful, Reyna," Jason said.
Reyna blushed and said, "Thanks. So shall we go?"
"Yeah sure," Jason said and the two walked away towards the Camp Half-Blood leaving us behind.
"What did just happen?" Frank asked.
"He's trying to move on," I told him, my eyes still on them.
"Is that a bad thing," he asked.
"For Piper? Yes," I said.
"She kinda deserve it. Don't you think?"
I sighed. "I don't think that is for us to decide."
"So? Shall we Miss Levesque?" Frank asked, offering his hand.
"That's realy-"
"Sweet of me?" Frank asked.
I rolled my eyes. "I was gonna say cheesy but... guess it would do for tonight." I wove my hand around his and we entered the sinister feast.
Drew's POV
"Ok, so to work," I said to myself. I thrust opened the closet and started ruffling though her clothes. "Lets see your color, baby girl. Sea green? Nah!" I threw it over my head
"Hey!" Piper complained.
"Turquoise would be just ridiculous... baby pink, not with that complexion of yours," I said tossing the rejected ones over my head.
"Drew?" Piper said again.
"Iron blue... Hmm... maybe. Canary yellow... Canary yellow? Shouldn't it be banned? Ugh! Cherry red, I like this. I'd keep this for me. It would obviously look better on me than you. Lets choose second best for you as you are... Ah-uh! White screams of you!"
I pulled out the white gown out and showed it to her, waiting for her flattened expression. Instead she gave me a grimace.
"What?" I asked.
"I'm not running to Vegas and getting married you know," Piper said.
"Oh c'mon! This would look nice and everyone's eyes would be on you," I told her.
"It would be too if I wear a monkey suit," Piper said pouting.
"C'mon! Don't you get tired of looking so ugly?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"Oh I love it. Now can you please pick something for me which Silena would approve and also wouldn't be very... flashy?" she asked.
"Silena would kill me!" I said.
"Please Drew? You know my style! Something both formal and informal," Piper said, making her kaleidoscope eyes all big. I groaned.
Generally I'm very mean to people and always have my way with them. When Piper first came to camp, I hated her. Especially when I came to know she shares my charmspeak power. But even though I was mean to her, she was always good to me.
The summer she arrived, me and Will had this big fight. First I was like whatever. I'm Drew Tanaka. I can get thousands of boys worth double him. But I knew I was just fooling around. Piper helped me when no one else did. She actually went to Will and scolded him for hurting me. Poor Will didn't even realise I was hurt. He thought I didn't care about him because of my cold attitude. He came running back to me, thanks to Piper.
After that Piper and I became really close. I just wished it was that simple between her and Jason. I would have done anything to get her love back to her... Well, I'm still trying... Hope Silena knows what she's doing.
"Fine! But stop looking at me like that!" I snapped at her. She jumped and hugged me.
"Drew! You're the best!" She said.
I hugged her back for a second then pulled back, "Ok that's enough. You need to get ready for your performance."
It was Piper's turn to groan. "You people are not gonna let me step down from that, are you?"
"No," I told her. "Now, time to find appropriate clothes for you..."
