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Here's the detention for all who were waiting for it! Enjoy awesome people!
Love the Babysitter
"Let's see if with it you all can fix those criminals behaviors that you have," Mr. D murmured placing the key in the black iron gate.
Annabeth, Thalia, Leo, Lou, Nico and Percy were standing in line next to each other in that order behind Mr. D. Everyone looked at the fat man open the door frenetically, as if anxious to punish students. Annabeth wondered if he was. Maybe so. She wiped her hands on her pants, wiping her sweat. Her nervousness was not helping at all. It was her first time punished.
"I think this man is crazy." Thalia whispered in her ear. She was taller than Thalia. Annabeth nodded in agreement.
Finally, Dionysus opened the door and stepped inside. "Come! Come!" he said, waving his hand indicating to enter. All exchanged a dubious glance, trying to decide whether to enter or run.
'Running sounds good', Annabeth thought.
Finally, Lou took a breath and entered, followed by Leo and Nico. Thalia sighed and walked in; Annabeth bit her lip and followed. Percy walked behind her and closed the door behind when they were all inside. Annabeth looked. They were in a narrow corridor, the creaky wooden floor, walls painted with strange drawings, filled with dirt and cobwebs. She swallowed. There should be spiders in that room.
She felt Percy's body behind her, touching her sometimes. He was close, too close. Her body shuddered. She frowned, this was the second time that her body shuddered because of him and she became more nervous and her heart skipped a beat. This wasn't like her.
She was so focused that she didn't notice that they had arrived in the room, so she collided with Thalia. She looked around. This was definitely not what she expected. It was a big room like a classroom, with wooden floor, walls painted with different graffiti everywhere, small couches on the sides, puffs, coffee tables, easels, pots of paint and brushes and all kinds of paints instruments. But it was full of dirt, cobwebs in every corner and old furniture, cabinets were covered by dirt and there was paint, paper and more dirt on the floor.
"Mr. D," Annabeth said looking at the room "I thought we were going to clean a warehouse," She looked at him confused, but the man only looked at the room in disgust, but a triumphant smile was on his face.
"This is the future warehouse, Miss Carter." he said.
"Chase," She muttered upset. Percy looked at her amused, because he was close enough to hear it. Annabeth rolled her eyes at him.
"Why will you destroy this?" Lou pointed around "This is a great room, this can serves for an art room, and which many students want." she said, crossing her arms. She looked defiant, as if questioning others to challenge her.
But Mr. D didn't flinch, so he approached her crossing his arms and looked at her "I am the director," he said as if speaking to a child of 5 years "and I do what I want." He looked at her a moment, challenging her to replicate. Lou didn't move even a hair. He finally looked away and turned to the other "Anyone else wants to say something?" Nobody said anything "Okay, that's what I thought." He walked to the door "In 45 minutes I return, I expect to see progress," he glared at them "and you all tired." And with that he left.
"What a lovely man," Leo said. Everyone laughed except Lou, who was still staring at the door upset. Annabeth smiled a little shyly. She approached her friend and squeezed her shoulder, comforting her.
"Hey, it's okay Lou, that man sucks," she said. Lou let out a small chuckle.
"You're right," Lou said, looking into her eyes "As always." Annabeth rolled her eyes, but could not prevent a smile to cross her face.
"Okay, okay, beautiful friendship, but I think we should start" Leo said, a crazy smile on his lips. All murmured an agreement and went to the corner of the room where there was three brooms, a mop, sponges, water, rags, furniture polish and other cleaning things.
"Umm," Nico said "Never clean anything in my life." Percy and Leo nodded in agreement. The girls laughed as they blushed.
"You gotta be kidding." Thalia said, laughing, looking at Nico. He looked down ashamed. Thalia laughed more. She looked at him, this was the first time she looked him like that, and she thought he looked good. He wore a black T-shirt with dancing skeletons, dark jeans and dark blue slippers. His black hair was tousled and his brown eyes showed shame and humor. Thalia chided herself. She must not think of him like that, Bianca was angry and she swore forget her silly crush.
"At least I know how to use a broom," Percy said, grabbing one of the three brooms.
Nico sent him a death glare "I know how to use one, idiot." And he grabbed another. Percy rolled his eyes and walked to the middle of the room. Nico followed him.
"I'm gonna clean the cobwebs," Leo said "But I don't know how to" Lou rolled her eyes.
"I'll show you how," she said, grabbing Leo's arm and one broom to one of the room's corner.
Thalia and Annabeth exchanged a glare and smiled. Both grabbed rags and furniture lubricator and went to an old empty showcase. It was big, with two glass doors, carob wood and empty shelves. It was the only old thing in the room.
Thalia and Annabeth start wiping the furniture. Percy and Nico start sweeping, Lou starts to show Leo how to remove a spider web from the ceiling. Everyone is silent. Annabeth thought she would explode. She loved the silence, but only when reading or watching television. Now she wanted noise. She needed noise.
'Stupid ADHD,' She thought disgusted.
Her eyes fell on Thalia, who was passing another rag to the old furniture. She glanced at the others and then approached her best friend, whispering:
"You could talk to Bianca at English?"
Thalia looked at her and sighed "No, still ignoring me."
Annabeth nodded "I never thought she would take it so bad,"
"And I never thought I would be so stupid," Thalia said, shaking her head, as if she seriously couldn't believe it.
Annabeth opened her mouth to say something, but a cry won.
"Idiot! I'll kill you Valdez!" It was Lou. Annabeth looked where she was and had to hold her laughter. Leo was with a broom in his hand, looking embarrassed. Lou was standing beside him, filled with dirt and roof pieces in her hair and shoulders. Her eyes were furious, and her fists were clenched.
"Umm, I didn't mean to, sorry-" Leo began to apologize. He dropped the broom to the floor and raised his hands in defense, taking a few steps back, slowly, frightened by Lou's expression.
'Maybe pull the broom was a bad idea,' Leo thought when he saw that Lou picked it up, her eyes fixed on him.
Lou raised the broom as if to hit him, and Leo ran around the room, with Lou chasing him with the broom in her hands, screaming at him. It was a hilarious scene, because, come on, not every day you see an angry girl chasing a guy with a broom, right?
'Maybe,' Annabeth thought while laughing with others 'Detention is not so bad, after all.'
-.-.-.-.-
Katie sighed, sitting at the counter of her parents' flower shop. She placed her books and binders in front of her and ran a hand through her chestnut hair. She looked at the different flowers that were arranged in bouquets, vases, wrapped in paper. There were roses of all colors, jasmine, lilies, daisies, sunflowers, dandelions and many others. She loved flowers. Just like her mother and father and sister. It was like something familiar.
Her father came out of a back door of the store. Katie looked at him questioningly, waiting for a response. Her father, Laurence Gardner, better known as Mr. Gardner, sent her an apologetic look.
Katie sighed again "Okay, but, where's mom and Miranda?" she said, but she had the feeling on her neck that she was forgetting something.
"Demeter is on a reunion and Miranda's out with some guy," her father said "I'll come back soon dear, thank you so much for doing this." And then, he left.
She started thinking about her sister, Miranda. She was fifteen years-old, with brown hair and the blue eyes of their father, pale skin, and perfect noise. In fact, she has a lot going for her. She get any guy she wants, is popular on her school and a lot of (fakes, Katie insisted) friends.
Katie wasn't jealous, or that is what she wanted to believe. As she watched her father get on a taxi and go away, she remembered. She has to meet Travis at the Starbucks on the corner of the block. She blushed at the thought.
No, this wasn't a date, but the biology teacher had put them together on a project that they had to give at the end of the month, and Katie had insisted start the sooner.
Travis had said, 'Okay Gardner, but I don't see why so soon, we have a month!'
'Because it is a long project and I want to finish as soon as possible to avoid having to see you!' She had told him. She smiled; she was a good little liar, as her father said.
'Okay, okay! Don't get mad!' He had raised his hands in defense, but a mischievous smile was playing on his lips 'Meet me at Starbucks one hour after school, the one on the corner of your flower shop'
She had furrowed her brow 'How do you know I have a flower shop?'
He had moved his eyebrows 'I have my contacts,' and with that he was gone.
Katie came out of her trance and looked for her cell phone in her purse. She grabbed her iPod and noticed the time. She had to be in five minutes at the Starbucks. She bit her lip and looked in her contacts.
Stoll, Stoll, Stoll.
'Aha!' she thought when she found it. He had given her his number of things about the project and that, nothing more. She dialed Travis's number.
Ring, ring, ring.
"Hello?" a voice said from the other side of the line.
"Travis, I'm Katie." she said, and could bet that Travis was smiling although she couldn't see him.
"Well, well, well, look who is calling me." He said, an arrogant tone in his voice.
She rolled her eyes "Shut up, Stoll" she said harshly "I can't go."
"Why?" he said, and possibly it was her imagination, but she thought she heard a tone of concern in his voice?
"Because I'm alone in the store and I can't leave," Katie explained.
"Oh, okay," Travis said, but after a moment he added "See you in a few minutes." And with that, he hung up.
Katie blinked a few times looking at her cell phone, wondering what just had happened.
A/N= Hello again! 1960 words and 10 pages. Okay, first, thanks to everyone for everything.
And second, I have some questions: 1) Liked the chapter?
2) Favorite quote?
3) You think I need a beta, because I was considering getting one, but I want to know your opinion.
4) You like the new cover?
Love always,
Charlie.
Umm, no HappyOwl.
