Never mind, I'm going to post another chapter right now because I don't want to pack (also my brother is watching Master Chef and I want to see how the elimination challenge finishes up). Hope you enjoy this chapter!

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3. Bouquet: "we've been dating forever, and you just caught the bouquet at our friend's wedding"

Jason normally tried to stay as far as physically possible from water as possible, but he hadn't even groaned and moaned that much when Percy and Annabeth had confirmed that they were taking the cheesy route and getting married on Montauk beach. They'd promised that Poseidon would include Jason in his oath to keep the event monster-free for demigod guests and there was something pretty great about weddings. He wasn't quite used to non-roman wedding traditions, but Percy and Annabeth looked happy and he'd been told there would be booze, and he really couldn't find the energy in him to care more than that.

"Wow," Piper said, sneaking up on him from behind. "You even took your shoes off."

"I'm feeling particularly adventurous today," Jason said. "Maybe I'll even wade into the water for five seconds before running out screaming."

"Ooo la la," Piper smiled.

Piper got caught up with a gaggle of her sisters who were absolutely overjoyed with how this entire wedding had turned out. Jason snaked through the crowd trying to find Reyna who could sympathise with his uncertainty about weddings (this mostly due to Juno being such a troublemaker in their lives and her realm being convenient to bitch about, of course).

After an ample amount of pictures had been taken, a still teary-eyed Grover Underwood took the microphone by the open pavilion and made the announcement for guests to take their seats and that no, they hadn't really bothered with assigned seating, because half of their godly guests hated each other's guts anyways and how were you supposed to keep up with their brand of drama?

Leo grabbed the mic. "Also Annabeth's recently been informed that she absolutely has to throw the bouquet and we firmly believe that being bitchy with Aphrodite on a wedding day is a major faux-step, so if everyone could just freak out and make wild grabs for it, that would be great."

Jason wasn't sure what was going on, but half the girls and a quarter of the men at the wedding immediately made a bee-line for a small huddle. Annabeth threw the bouquet of flowers, which made sense to Jason because Annabeth had hated the struggle of picking flowers more than Jason could properly retell. There was a flurry of movement to catch it. Piper had climbed up on Mitchell's shoulders and she caught it with a smile on her face before tucking a flower behind her brother's ear as he raced around the surf in a victory run. Piper laughed and distributed flowers to others all around her. Hazel chased Nico around, trying to weave a daisy into the man bun that she'd deemed "unacceptable" since its first apparition. They were so carefree and light, both children of Hades even splashed in the water on their wild race.

"Well, will you look at that," Reyna said grinning at Jason.

"What?" Jason asked.

"Don't you know what the bouquet tradition is?" Reyna asked. "Start looking for a ring, Grace- you really need to stop beating around the bush now…"

"Exactly," Piper said creeping up on them and weaving an arm through Jason's. She tucked a flower into his breast pocket.

"How do you know I don't have one?" Jason said.

"Then start finding a way to give it to me, karma's knocking," Piper said before kissing his cheek and disappearing again into the happy, merry crowd.

"Shit Reyna, what does the bouquet mean?" Jason asked.