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Chapter Eleven

Mum came stomping in, her passive aggressive smile painted on her face, her personal assistant Hazel tailing behind her, tapping away at her personal planner "Hey mum" I smiled, giving her a hug. Thankfully I wasn't the one behind bars, or else I would seriously be dead.

Thankfully, mum was one of those parents who didn't blamed the kids, but how they were raised. Yes, tonight mum would be on the phone to the Grace's and Piper's dad shouting at them down the phone for leaving their kids unattended "Officer Zhang? Hi I'm Athena Chase, I'm here for Thalia and Jason Grace and Piper McLean" she smiled, flashing her perfect teeth at Frank who stood there stunned. Though I wasn't sure if he was staring at my mother or Hazel, who had her head down still.

I almost interrupted her, telling her that Grover was part of the group as well, but Sally burst her way through the doors, carrying a try of brownies of all things and a paper bag, which she placed on Franks desk "Hey Percy" she smiled giving her son a kiss and shoving the tray in his hands "Hey Frank, I'm here for the other one"

He gave a sigh of relief, taking a ring of keys of his belt and unlocking the doors. Everybody was still in last nights clothes on, the make up was smudged and the smell of stale beer hung in the air. It was a pretty sight to witness.

I stood with my arms crossed, surveying my friends as they staggered towards us. Thalia obviously had a headache, her eyes hidden behind over sized sunglasses, stumbling over Grover who refused to move until Sally threatened his mum. Apparently, Mamma Underwood didn't tolerate any bad behavior. Which is why the brownies had been bought, to soften the blow.

Sally turned to me, hugging me like we had known each other our whole lives "Lovely to see you again Annabeth" she smiled at me before turning to my mother "And you must be her mother"

Oh god.

They were socializing.

Percy caught my panicked look with a mirrored on, but there was nothing we could do if our friends were to survived. And if there was one thing that distracted my mum, it was my social life. And there was finally a social life to be distracted with.

Giving my friends a look, we left to wait by the car for the mothers to stop gossiping. "What do you think they're talking about?" Percy whispered in my ear, slipping his free hand – the one that wasn't carrying the brownies – into mine and giving it a squeeze. Now my friends where here, and Percy was here I was nervous. I knew they'd be happy for me, but this was fast, something that would send warning signals to Piper. Thalia wouldn't fully care right now. She'd notice something, but too hungover to care. Now Jason was the one that would surprise em. If I started dating I didn't know what he would really do.

He'd become a sort of brother to me in the two years I had known him. He was the first person at our high school that I had talked to. He had introduced me to Thalia, who had then introduced me to Piper. He had become a sort of brother to me. But I still didn't know how he would react.

"Stop worrying Wise Girl, everything will be fine"

"How can you be so sure?" I asked him, stopping and turning towards him. He face me, wrapping his arms around my waist and planting a small kiss on my lips. I loved it when he did that "Because last night I was on a date with a beautiful girl, who is now my girlfriend. I'm so happy right now. And I don't have Mamma Underwood as a mother" he said, glancing towards Grover who had gotten his stride back, but was trying as best he could to hide his eyes from the sun "Is she really that bad?"

"Trust me, you do not want to get on the bad side of Mamma" he didn't elaborate, but maybe because our mothers had come out chatting like old friends. Which was really a scary sight.

With one more kiss and a whispered bye, Percy detached himself from me to get into his car. Sally's Restaurant was just around the corner so Percy would be driving Grover home. As for my situation "We will be having dinner with the Jackson's on Sunday" she smiled, putting her arm round me and leading me tot where my friends were crowded around my car

"Thank you Mrs. Chase" Piper smiled, giving my mum a hug. Mum really liked my friends, and was sort of sympathetic to their situations. She had become like a surrogate mother to the three of them, dad becoming the awkward father sort of. Well maybe that was a stretch. But ever since we had moved here and I had bought then home, they had always been welcome. And that kind of relationship was very useful in situations like this.

"Now do you guys want to tell me what you were doing?" she asked, her voice softening

"We went to Luke's party last night. And things got a little out of hand" Piper started to explain, being the one with the most brains at this point in time "How out of hand?"

"Skinny dipping in the neighbors hot tub out of hand" she finally admitted, squeezing her eyes shut as if it would block out the truth. I was silently thanking god for Percy. "Piper" mum exclaimed, but she could hardly talk, she had a few stories from her collage days. Some i'd rather not know. "I was just down to my underwear, but before you know it, the police were coming and we got arrested"

"Just the four of you?"
"Not exactly" Piper cringed again "Luke punched a cop" oh god Luke. He had worked so hard to get into Collage. Seriously, nobody thought he would even get in. I mean, he was smart in his own way, but he was more into fighting then the theory. It was thanks to one of the many sports scholarships the school offered that he could even afford to go. What was he going to do now?

"Right guys, you three, in my car. You're coming home with us and will be staying with us until I can contact your parents. Annie, i'll see you at home"

"Sure mum...where's Hazel?" I noticed the short woman that usually followed my mum around like a shadow, was nowhere to be found.

"Oh she's just sorting out some paper work for Officer Zhang. He offered to give her a lift home after she was done"

Go Hazel.