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Chapter fifteen

Wednesday

The week was half way through and it wanted to kill people. Drew refused to work, meaning we would probably both fail the assignment and Thalia had practically come into school crying. And she never cries. She had had a huge fight with Luke, he had bailed on her like the 5th time and then went on to blame her for the whole party situation. Apparently he punched the cop because he was protecting her and if she hadn't mouthed off, he wouldn't have swung so the entire thing was her fault. Oh and the fact that she didn't stop him from drinking, once he had had enough.

Her reply to that "I'm his girlfriend, not his mother" she bitched, placing a t-shirt back on the rack. We had come to the mall for some much needed girl time, in hopes that we could at least calm Thalia down. Jason had even come, claiming he had to get a present for his mum for her birthday. Thalia never bothered with that kind of stuff – not being very close with her mum and all – just signing her name on the card. She may not even do that this year because she wasn't talking to either of her Parents, both of who were still pissed about the party.

The only reason she was out was because they were both working late.

"How dare he blame the whole thing on me anyway, I didn't force him to punch the cop"

"What actually happened anyway" I asked, tailing after the other two with arms full of clothes You've never actually explained"

"Well" Piper started "We got to Luke at around what 8:30ish and started helping him set up"

"You know" Thalia butted in "Putting out food, fulling the alcohol table, doing a couple of shots"

"The usual anyway, people started arriving, coming in and drinking, the Party not fully starting until like 10:30. That's when the Beer Pong came out"

"Beer Pong?" I asked. Sometimes with there two I felt really out of the loop "Yeah, you have to bounce ping pong balls off the table into cups full of beer. If you get it in your opponent has to drink the entire cup and then take it off the table"

"And everyone ends up smashed" Piper smiled "It was Thalia and I vs. Jason and Luke, the girl won"

"Of course we did" Thalia laughed, hi fiveing piper before going back to shuffling through the racks trying to find suitable pieces of clothing. "Anyway, the alcohol started mixing. Beer, vodka, baileys, sambuca, everything ended up in the cups" Piper shuddered

"And there was that punch bowl"

"And ring of fire"

"Oh shit I forgot about ring of fire"

"And the shot contest" Piper said, leaning against the nearest mirror as we both just watching Thalia. When she shopped she was a real force to be reckoned with. "Shot contest? What shot contest?"

"Yeah one of Luke's new friends from collage ended up like doing 19 shots in a row." why, all I could ask was why.

"How did I miss that?" Thalia asked, looking a little put out. To be honest, I was just glad she wasn't crying. She hated fighting with Luke, usually because he would storm off or hang up and ingor her for days on end. Luke can be a cool dude at times, but there was just something about him that I didn't like. Like when he would do this to Thalia. She would be so vulnerable and he would hurt her. I have been tempted to break into his room and punch him in the face.

"That's because you and Luke disappeared to go find a room"

"oh yeah" Thalia smiled indulgently, placing another top on the pile in my hands. "So when Luke and I came downstairs, everyone was pretty much throwing up on the dance floor aka Luke's dining room with all furniture removed" I knew the place, I had been there before.

"We decided that we needed a little clean off. So everyone jumped in Lukes pool out back" Luke had a huge built in pool in his garden, one that I have no doubt could fit a lot of drunken people in "Well all jumped in in our clothes and got them soaked"

"So how did you end up in the next door neighbours hot tub?"

"Luke decided he wanted to warm up, and a couple of his friends dared him too" Piper explained checking out some of the jewellery on display. "And of course, my Luke can never say no to a dare" a bitter tone was in Thalia's voice, probably because it had just been one more thing for Luke to blame her for "So we watched him do it, then decided to copy. We stripped off, climbed over the fence and in the hot tub. Next thing you know, the Police have arrived, the neighbours having called on behalf of the noise we were making and found us trespassing. One of them grabbed me, which made Luke become all protective and punch him shouting "Get off my girlfriend""

"which is why you made the trip to the station. We needed to wait for school to be over before we called you"

I burst out laughing, wishing I could have seen their faces "What does Leo know?" I asked, knowing that if Piper's little brother had found out, he would not let here hear the end of it. And unfortunately the child genius that he is, he probably would have found out form somewhere "He knows I was arrested, but hasn't been too bad actually. He's kind of in awe actually"

"Has he changed your screen name back yet?" I smiled, knowing it was still a sore spot for her "No, and I really can't figure out how to change it back myself. Guess i'm going to be queen-McLean for a while"

Friday

My alarm clock didn't wake me up this morning as it usually did. I did hear the annoying buzzing sound It usually made. I did however feel someone wrapped around me. Instincts kicked in, my elbow jabbing back as hard as I could to release myself and spin out of bed. I almost pulled out my knife, but then I heard "Good morning to you too wise girl" and stopped dead. Swiveling back, I stared at the guy in my bed "Percy, what are you doing here?" not that I was complaining, my sexy shirtless boyfriend was in my bed. "Your mum let me in last night" he grimaced rubbing his belly "I wanted to see you. But you were already asleep when I got here, and it just looked so comfortable" he smiled, giving me the puppy dogs eyes he was so good at, melting the ice around my heart.

"Don't you have our first swim meet today?" I asked, climbing back into bed. If he was here, I was so making the most of it. He pulled me into his arms, so my head rested on his shoulder as I curled into his side. Thank the gods dad had gone away for the week. Apparently some artifacts had been found somewhere. I don't know, I got the information from mum and she hadn't really been listening to him.

"Yeah, I do" he sighed, not looking me in the eye.

"What's wrong?" I asked. Moving so I could look at his face properly "What's wrong is I haven't seen my girlfriend all week. I'm sorry" we had to skip a couple of maths sessions this week as well, which had been bitter sweet. On one hand it had been less time with him. On the other hand, I wouldn't be so close to him without being able to touch him. We had rules during our tutoring sessions, no kissing, no touching during the whole hour. And whilst I had missed him, it would have been torture.

"You've been busy swimming and I know how important that is to you"

"Keeping my girlfriend happy is also important to me. Which is why we're going out tonight"

"Percy Jackson are you asking me on a date?" I smiled, thankful I had something to look forwards to. Between Drew spreading her rumors, doing half of the English paper and no Percy, it hadn't been my favorite week but finally, after the first swim meet, the pressure would be off and we would be going back to normal. something i was very much looking forward too.

"Well, the Squad is going out after the meet, and I was thinking tonight a little pizza with everyone then you and I sneak off and see a movie or something"

"sounds perfect" I gave him a small kiss, snuggling back into his side for a few extra minutes before we had to make it into school.