Percy's POV:
I was just coming out of my room with my surf board when I hear someone clear their throat behind me. I turn around and see Nico leaning against his door frame with his arms crossed.
"Where the heck do you think your going?" He asked raising his left eyebrow and looking so much like mom it scared me.
"Surfing, duh." I said picking up my board.
"Percy you know you can't go surfing now." He said sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Why?" I whined.
"We. Have. Visitors!" I humphed.
"I care freaking less!" I yelled.
"Do not take that tone with me!" He hollered.
"Oh gods! You sound just like mom!" I yelled even louder.
"Whoa! What's going on here?" Grover asked coming out of his room.
"I do not!" Nico yelled at me going all red.
"Guys don't fight, please, we have visitors," Jason sighs coming out of his room.
"Why are you fighting for this time?" Travis asked coming out of his room with a bowl of popcorn.
"Duffus here wants to go surfing!" Nico hollered.
"Shut up, Corps Breath!" I yelled at him and received a few gasps from the others.
"Oh you really wanna go there, Seaweed Brain," My turn to turn red now.
"Guys break it up!" Grover glared getting in between us.
"Shut up, Gaeo!" Nico glared at Grover.
"Whoa guys chill!" Leo said.
"Put a cork in it, Twitch!" Leo began quivering with anger. And then the punches began flying.
Jason's POV:
As I saw my brothers fighting I sighed.
"What in the world..." The four of us that weren't fighting turned to see the 8 princesses looking wide eyed at the 4 clumps on the floor beating the crap out of each other.
"Well it's pretty clear that they are fighting," Travis says through a mouth full of popcorn.
"Shouldn't you like...break them up or something?" Reyna asked. I eyed Charlie, Travis, and Chris and we just grinned at each other.
"Are you kidding! And get into the fight also? No thanks. Plus we do this about what? 3 to 4 times a week?" Charlie said.
"Plus it'll be over soon." I said.
"Twenty bucks says Percy wins." Chris says eying our brothers rolling on the floor.
"Yeah right! Nico's put on some muscle, Twenty on Nico!" Travis said.
"I bet on Grover," Charlie said patting his pockets for his wallet.
"Leo, matter of loyalty." I said taking out 20 bucks.
"You guys are retards!" Selena said.
"Twenty on Percy." Clarisse says and our mouths fall open.
"Clarisse!" The girls screamed.
"I think Chris is in love," Travis joked. I turned to see Chris with his eyes popping out staring at Clarisse. I looked back at the fight. Dang it, Leo! You are freaking losing!
"Kick him in the...!" I stopped myself before I said what I was about to say. I looked over and saw everyone staring at me. I just shake my head and turned back to my brothers when I heard a grunt, a few curses and a sigh. And there goes Leo. I go and help him get up. He begins to massage his cheek. "Dude!" I smack him on the side of his head. "You just lost me 20 bucks." He glares at me and the girls giggle. I turn and see Piper trying to restrain laughter. Gosh she was cute.
"Well I'm sorry that I couldn't get freaking Gaeo off me!" I sigh and pat him in the back.
"Gaeo?" Thalia asked.
"Grover's nick name. He loves nature stuff so it's like Gaea but for a guy." Travis explains watching the fight intensively. The next one to go out was Grover.
"Sorry, Twitch. It was you or me." He explains cleaning his bloody lip.
"Twitch?" Reyna asks.
"Leo's nick name. He can never sit still." I explained.
"Whatever." Leo said rolling his eyes. Now it was only Nico and Percy. Then Percy hits him very hard on the stomach and Nico rolls over in pain. Percy
stands up tries to catch his breath.
"That...will...show...you...to...not...mess...with ...me...Corpse Breath." He said.
"Corps Breath?" Katie asked. "Wait let me guess, Nico's nick name?" Nico nods clutching his stomach.
"Shut up, Seaweed Brain." Nico says groaning.
"And that will be Percy's?" Annabeth asked trying to hide laughter as a cough.
"Yep." Charlie said.
"Well, I'm out." Percy said picking up his surfing board.
"Dude!" Nico hollered standing up.
"Surfing, can I come?" Annabeth asked and Percy's and Nico's mouth fell open.
"Awwwww, Percy's in love." Leo jokes and that earns him a punch in the arm.
"Yeah sure. Do you have a board?" She nods. And leaves to her room.
"Well, this took a twist in things. I'm going riding." I say and leave.
"Can...can I come?" I turn and see Piper right behind me. I nod and she smiles. Whoa, I was stunned for 4 seconds. Can't like her, can't like her. I chant in my head as we make our way to the stables. And why not? Another side of my brain asked. I... I don't really know. I respond to myself. Great I'm going nuts! This sucks!
Percy's POV:
I wasn't sure who was more surprised. Me or my brain/heart. I didn't know she liked surfing. And I certainly didn't expect my heart to begin raising when she came back with a gray and light blue surfboard with patterns of flowers on it and a bathing suit. I was pretty sure I was drooling but I guess she didn't notice. She was just wearing some jean shorts and her bikini top and I was having trouble controlling my male hormones. Come on, Perce, keep it together. We made it to the garage and I opened the door of my car for her. She smiled and murmured a thanks. I grinned the Jackson grin and I'm pretty sure I saw her blush.
We got to the beach and had not said a word on the whole ride. It wasn't those awkward silences it was more like peaceful silence. We got out of the car and I heard her catch her breath. "It's so beautiful." She said gasping.
"Yeah, I love it here." We stayed there for about 5 minutes taking in the scenery until I broke the silence. " So you know how to surf?" She nods with a big smile spreading across her beautiful sculpted lips. Whoa, where the hell did that come from.
"Yeah, I've surfed since I was 5 years old. You?" I shrug.
"Since I can remember, there wasn't a day I wasn't out here. There's a competition about to go on actually. You can still join if you like."
"Oh, you mean the National Surfing Olympics? Yeah I've been dying to enter since I was little but never got the chance. I think I will this time." I smile, I could use some competition. "Have you been in it?" She asks and begins to take her shorts off. It took me a few seconds to process her question for I was very interested on how she looked when she was bending down. Thankfully I snapped out of it before she noticed.
"Been champion 4 years running." I say proudly. Her eyes go all wide.
"Wait, you are Seaweed Brain Jackson. I should of figured it out ages ago!" She sounded exasperated.
"Never send your brothers to sign you up for anything." I sigh remembering how I told freaking Nico and Travis to sign me up because I was sick. She begins to giggle and I swear my heart beat begin speeding up. "So you ready?" She nods and without warning begins to run to the waves.
"Too slow, Seaweed Brain!" She yells and I race behind her.
Travis' POV:
Grover and I took Juni and Katie to see the gardens. I understood why Grover wanted to go but I really didn't understand why in heavens I was going. The 3 of them begin talking about the different types of plants and stuff like that and I just stood in the background staring at the back of Katie. I had to admit she was cute, but totally not my type. I shrug the thought off. I see a soccer ball and I begin to kicking it to the wall. On one of the kicks I missed and kicked it towards Katie.
"Hey can you pass the ball?" She nods and kicks it. I see it rushing towards me and then it all goes blank. I open my eyes to see the heads of Grover, Juni, and an angel. "Are you an angel?" I ask and Grover begins laughing his ass off. I look aver at Juni and she is trying to cover her smile while Katie is on the verge of...tears? She runs off and leaves all of us staring at her retreating back.
"Katie! Hold up!" Juni's about to go after her but I grab her shoulder.
"Let me go. I'll try to fix this." She looks at me and then back at her sister running from us and sighs.
"Fine," I smile at her and begin to stand up. "But if you make her cry more I'll have to castrate you." Me and Grover laugh but she keeps a serious expression that made the smile come off our lips. I nod curtly and run to find Katie.
I don't know how long I looked for that chick. When I was about to loose hope in finding her I heard some crying coming from the side of the gardeners' tool shed. I creep slowly and turn to see Katie on the floor sobbing. "Hey," I whisper. She looks up and her eyes are swollen and red. She wipes her eyes as I sit next to her.
"Oh...hi," She chokes out. We stay silent for a few minutes, giving her time to compose herself.
"So...um...what happened back there?" I ask. She sobs a little.
"The thing was that... you...you might think this is stupid but...I had a boyfriend...his name was Luke...and...and he...cheated in me!" At the end of that sentence she began crying again and anger bubbled inside me. I tried to control the anger that I didn't know where it came from. I put my arm around her and she sobbed into my shoulder.
"There, there. He was not worth it. Come on..." It was getting akward, I was never good with tears. " What I don't get is why you ran off when I called you angel."
"That was his nickname for me!" She says and harder.
"Don't cry, Beautiful. Come on the guy was a jerk. There," She kept on crying and I was sure my shirt was soaked. "Katie not to be rude but...I was never good with tears, I don't know what I'm supposed to do." She looks up at me with teary eyes and I get lost in her beautiful grass green eyes. Then she surprises me by giggling. It sounded like a very pretty melody that I couldn't help but smile too.
"Thanks Travis. I...I don't know why I told you all this...I guess I feel like I could open up with you. Thanks." And she surprises me again by giving me a kiss on the cheek. I was pretty sure I was blushing and didn't know what in the world to do next.
"No problem," I say after a while. "I'm glad to make you feel that way. Now come on Juni will be worried." She groans and hides her face between her
knees. "What's wrong?"
"I don't want to go to her and face interrogation time with her right now." She says looking up at me. I brush my pants from all the grass that stuck to it. I grin down at her.
"Well we can always go somewhere else." She looks at me questionly.
"Where?" She asks and I hold out my hand.
"You'll see." She looks at my hand for a while and then grins up at me and takes it. I help her stand up and lead her to my secret hiding place still holding hands.
Another chapter! Please alert me if you see an cuss word! Though, I'm sure I got them all.
Credit to slytherindaughterofhephaestus
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