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Chapter 4

Once it was night time and everyone was asleep, I snuck out and went to the nearest mall. I figured there should be one open since it was only nine o' clock and a bunch of guys probably forget to buy presents. When I found a mall, I saw a lot of guys going to the jewelry store it looked like they were having a sale, so I went in.

When I got in I found out they were having a ninety percent off sale because they were going out of business. I looked around and found a beautiful necklace with a diamonds shaped like on owl. I asked the business man how much and he said it was only fifty dollars. Luckily my mom gave me two-hundred dollars just in case of an emergency, I counted this as an emergency since I'm trying to help my brother out with his love life. So I gave the man fifty-five and asked him to wrap it for me. He came back with it nicely wrapped in wrapping paper with little hearts on it. I thanked him and left.

My next stop was to buy something for Jasen. There was a bakery next to the mall so I went in and bought a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting on it, it had hearts on it, and it even came with a card, so I wrote a letter in it saying how much I missed him when we were separated, and that I loved him.

After I snuck back to camp, changed clothes, and put the necklace and card in my drawer and left the cupcake in my lunch pack. Once I put all the stuff away I went to bed.

Once I got in my bed, I fell asleep dreaming of a man with dark skin and a look on his face like he's waiting for a fish. Then I realized it was my father, Poseidon.

"Sheila, I have been wanting to talk to you" with an odd look on his face.

"Yes?"

"Sheila, I need you to get back my trident from Arachne"

"What?"

"I need you to take Jasen, Annabeth, and Percy to go to Arachne's lair and retrieve my trident."

"But don't I need a prophecy?"

"Oh yes, well here it is.

The children of Poseidon will retrieve what's missing

From the evil, that is hissing

They will take two and retrieve a prized possession

And in the beginning, they will have confession

One will arrive, but three will depart

In the end, one will have theirs fixed but another will have a dead heart

Now you will have to wake up now since it is morning. Go tell them that you have to go on a quest with three other people."

Right after he said that I woke up, it was morning so I showered and changed. When I got back Percy was awake and nervous because today was Valentine's Day and didn't get Annabeth a gift, seriously how do you forget Valentine's Day and not get your girlfriend or boyfriend a gift?

Once I told him about my dream, he didn't seem surprised.

"Don't worry I know already. Dad told me in my dreams too." He seemed calm but in his eyes he was nervous.

"Really?"

"Yeah but we have to keep our dreams only in between me, you, Annabeth, and Jasen."

"What about Chiron?"

"Oh yeah him to, but we'll tell him after we tell Annabeth and Jasen."

I agreed with him and then went to eat breakfast. Today they were serving cinnamon buns and strudels shaped into hearts. I toke like three cinnamon buns, I'm a nervous eater, and so was Percy. I can tell because he was stuffing like a million heart shaped strudels in his mouth, I think those heart shaped strudels will affect his real heart.

"Percy, aren't you going to choke?"

He shrugged, "Fine with me, I'd rather kill myself than make Annabeth unhappy " and continued stuffing his face with food.

"I can't mess this day up. Annabeth is really special to me and if I get her the wrong gift I'll just be mad at myself. I can't think about what I would do without her." Percy said sadly.

"Percy, I think I can help with your present for Annabeth problem."

After breakfast I had ten minutes before I had to meet Jasen at the strawberry fields so I lead Percy to our cabin and went inside getting the gift from the drawer. Once I found it I came back outside , and gave it to Percy.

"Give it to Annabeth and for sure she will love it."

"Are you sure? This is a very big gift, I mean this gift seems very expensive"

"Don't worry I got it on sale, the store was going out of business and I got the necklace for only fifty dollars."

"Well okay, you are the best. I can't thank you enough"

"Well you already thanked me and you're my brother now, we're family. Now go on your date and have fun. I guess we'll see each other on the beach."

"Yeah, see you on the beach. I got a hot date to pick up" Percy ran off with a big smile on his face.

After he left, I went to go get the cupcake and the card and meet Jasen at the strawberry fields. Those strawberry fields were giant, it took me a few minutes to find Jasen. It looked like he had something behind his back.

"Hey, there you are. I've been looking for you," then kissed him.

"I've been looking for you too, I got you something" then gave me a teddy bear with our photo in it. It even said, I can't bear to be without you.

I smiled at the teddy bear, "I love it, I even got you something." I showed him the cupcake and the card.

"You got me a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting on it. How?"

"Last night I snuck out to a mall nearby to get you this and to get Percy a gift for Annabeth since he was stuffing his face with food last night because he didn't get a present for her."

"Well that makes sense, I was looking at your table and Percy had a nervous look on his face, and his face was full of pizza" I laughed really hard.

After that good laugh, we went to the beach where we saw Percy and Annabeth they were talking. Percy had his hand behind his back, he was holding the gift. We stood near them but far enough so then they won't see us.

Percy said, "Happy Valentines" and gave her the necklace, when she opened the box she screamed.

"This is incredible!", Annabeth said, " This must've cost a fortune"

"Actually, it only cost fifty dollars, it was on sale." Percy said with a nervous look on his face.

"Where did you get it?" Annabeth asked with a lot of curiosity.

"Um," still with that nervous look on his face.

"Percy, why are you nervous?"

"Annabeth I didn't get the gift. Sheila did, she went out and bought it at a nearby mall"

She was really angry now "I knew it. I knew you couldn't get me my own present!" then went rushing off.

"I need to go help her" I told Jasen.

"Go ahead, go help your friend, I'll try to help Percy" next to us Percy was killing a tree with his sword, I wondered how that tiny pen transforms into a sword.

"Thanks and good luck."

Now Percy was hitting himself with the hilt of his sword while repeating the word "Idiot".