Chapter 14

It was two days before the wedding. And Percy was going to be at a gathering with all his close friends— and no, it wasn't a bachelor party or anything.

He put on his favorite pair of dark blue swim shorts and pulled on a white v-neck. Sliding his ray bans in the front of his shirt, he started to walk down the stairs, taking a hoodie with him.

His Maserati was waiting for him as he slid in and drove over to the mall to pick Rachel and Crystal up. They both came out wearing skimpy bikinis under crop tank tops which showed off their bare waists and some short jean shorts. How did he know they was skimpy?

He just knew.

Rachel's red wildly curly hair was pulled up and her designer Prada sunglasses were almost covering half of her plastic face.

Crystal looked like her twin.

The two witches slid into his car and they drove off.

Once they arrived at the beach, Percy saw that Nico, Jason and Piper were already there.

"Hey! It's the guests of honor!" Nico shouted, smiling.

They were all lying on the beach under the afternoon sun with a fire pit in the middle. The sound of waves were music to Percy's ears.

He sat next to Rachel as the others started to tell story after story about their crazy co-workers or roommates.

Soon, Percy heard a familiar voice.

It was Thalia's.

"Hey Guys!" She shouted just as loud as Nico. Percy had always wondered if they would ever get together. It was completely obvious that they liked each other.

He looked over to the parking lot, where Thalia came running over. Behind her two people were walking over. Other people would probably think they were the perfect golden couple since they both had blonde hair and all.

But, if you looked closely, the girl's hair was more golden and silken than the guy's. His was more of a dirty sandy color, which was made up with his mischievous blue eyes.

The two witches were already glaring daggers at the blonde girl as they came closer.

Here comes drama, Percy thought.

Thalia sat as far away from Rachel as she could. As for his ex-sister— Annabeth sat next to him on his left, which made his heart throb a bit.

She looked— amazing, to say the least.

Her grey bikini wasn't so revealed as the two witches' were. She wore a white tee over and a nice flannel over that.

Some nice fitting shorts hugged her legs as if made for her. Percy hadn't seen her in shorts since, well —ten years ago. And man, was her bare legs a sight to look at— all slender and nicely tanned from the California sun. It made you want to run your fingers over them again and again.

He was well aware of their closeness as well. The warmth of her presence was calming and nostalgic.

Her hand was almost touching his in the sand, as if it was barely resisting the magnetic force that their hands were controlled by.

His heart was beating rapidly and that same gut feeling was tugging at his stomach.

He kept asking himself the same question that had ben troubling him for a while.

Was this normal when seeing your ex-sister?, he wondered. Nobody could possibly give him an answer, since it was rare to have an ex-sister in the first place.

Gods, was his life complicated.

"Hey Perce." she said as she had sat down next to him.

"Hey sis."

She smiled back then was staring back at him, like she wanted desperately to read his mind. He didn't mind the attention he was getting from her, but there was obviously something troubling her— something that had to do with him…

Something was bothering Percy and he was pretty sure that it was Luke's hand that was resting on Annabeth's waist. It was slowly moving down further and further.

Annabeth didn't seem to notice, but Percy felt about to burst in anger and go jump in the waves to clear his rage.

Fortunately, Annabeth got up.

"I'll go get us some drinks from over there."

"You want me to come with you." Both Luke and Percy asked.

Damn the bastard, he thought, I said it first.

He felt like a total six year old for thinking it, but it was true.

Everybody stopped talking and was looking at them amusedly,

"Um, no. Thanks, I got it, guys." Annabeth said as she left for a bar beach store not too far away.

A few moments later, she came walking back with a bartender following her with a crate full of alcohol.

She was smirking away as the man followed.

Thalia and Piper were trying not to laugh as Annabeth finally reached where they were.

The bartender set the box down. He looked to be about in his mid twenties— the same age as most of us.

And his eyes didn't leave Annabeth.

She turned to him and smiled a sweet smile.

"Thanks, Dan, you're the best." She said in an even sweeter voice.

"You're welcome. If you need anything else, just ask."

He said, as he reluctantly started for the bar stand again.

Annabeth turned to us, "Drink up, guys. Refills are for free."

"Hell yes!" Nico shouted as he took two bottles. One for him and one for Thalia she smiled, thanking him.

"You, Annabeth, are amazing. Where'd you learn to do that?" Piper asked

"Living on the beach with a bunch of idiot beach boys does have it's perks." she said, smiling her smug smile.

Everybody laughed, except for the two witches.

"Alright, let's play a game!" Thalia said.

"What game?" Nico asked

"How about Spin-the-bottle" Piper said.

"Oh please, we can't spin the bottle on the sand." Crystal said.

"Good point." Piper said.

"Let's play a classic truth or dare then." Luke offered.

As twenty year old adults, truth or dare was probably going to be pretty intense.

"Alright, I'll go first?" Thalia said, "Piper, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

Thalia smirked, "Did you have sex with Jason before coming here?"

Hand it to Thalia to make the game interesting from the start.

Jason immediately choked on his drink and Piper turned as red as a beet.

"Um… yes."

Everybody started bursting out in laughter at their embarrassment.

After everybody settled down, Piper turned to Nico.

"Alright— Nico, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Fill your mouth with beer then go over and make Thalia drink it all from your mouth."

Everybody started snickering as he looked nervously over at Thalia who looked stunned, before chugging a beer and walking over to Thalia.

Piper gave Thalia a sly smile as if in payback.

Nico took a hold of Thalia's face and smashed his lips to hers, letting her drink all that was in his mouth.

Everybody was hooting and laughing as they took a whole minute before separating. They took longer than was needed.

Percy had never seen Thalia so red in his life.

Nico soon returned to his seat and gathered himself together before asking Rachel truth or dare.

"Truth."

"Are you pregnant?" he asked with a stifle of a laugh.

She looked in horror at him, her mouth gaping wide.

Percy had to admit, he was trying very hard not to laugh himself.

She gave the biggest 'no' ever.

"Okay, okay… No need to take it so seriously." Nico said.

Rachel huffed then turned to Annabeth.

Oh gods, Percy thought.

"Annabeth." she said, trying to keep her anger down, "Truth or dare?"

"Dare." she said.

"I dare you to strip all the way to your bikini and go to that Dan bartender and give him a big love bite before coming back and giving one to every guy in this circle, like a slut. That shouldn't be hard for you, should it?"

Everybody was glaring holes at her. But Annabeth remained calm and smiled as if her dare didn't affect her.

"Sure." she said, standing up. Oh holy shit, Percy shouldn't look, but he couldn't help himself.

Annabeth's stare was on Rachel, piercing through her as she slid off her flannel. Then crossing her arms to reach the hems of her shirt, she easily pulled it off, revealing gorgeous, tanned curves and a sexy midriff Percy had only seen one other time.

She then unbuttoned her shorts and slid them down and off her legs. All the guys stared. Luke looked really jealous seeing everybody ogling her stunning — everything.

Now almost bare, she walked over to the bartender, who had been watching the whole time absolutely awestruck. She gestured for him to lean forward a bit, before wrapping her hand around his neck and leaning down to bite on the skin of his neck.

He was, without a doubt, flustered and surprised when she pulled away and left the poor, confused guy there.

The next thing that she did brought Percy to a boiling point, probably because he was being a protective brother.

Damn these brotherly instincts, he thought.

She leaned down and then kissed Luke softly on the lips, before leaning down to his neck to bite it. To Percy, it seemed to take forever until Annabeth pulled away and went over to Jason and Nico to do the same. They both looked very nervous and uncomfortable, but she did it quickly so that they weren't put into that much pleasurable misery.

Her eyes then turned to him.

Rachel noticed and glared at her, "No, I didn't mean Percy. I thought it would be obvious that he's off limits."

Thalia broke in, "Well, you obviously didn't specify that. You said 'all the boys in this circle', which includes Percy, Rachel." she said, saying Rachel's name with disgust.

"But she's his— "

"No one can change or take back a dare, even the person who gave it. Didn't you know that, Rachel?" Piper said, "Do it, Annabeth."

Rachel was fuming as Annabeth looked to Percy again. Luke didn't look all too happy either.

Her eyes looked as confused and nervous as his probably were, yet hers carried a certain intensity in them that sparked something great in him.

Annabeth walked over to him and went on her knees. Her soft, warm hands met and held both sides of his face as she leaned down to his neck ever so slowly.

It was achingly slow.

Percy sat frozen still as her mouth found his neck and started placing light kisses. He had to bite down on his tongue to keep a moan from slipping. His mind went haywire as wave after wave of pleasure rushed through his body from each kiss.

It felt very wrong to have Annabeth, a girl he still considered his sister, do this to him.

But it felt so damn perfectly right— her lovable lips— her mouth—her heavenly tongue—and soon enough her teeth.

She bit and sucked a love bite into his skin and Percy couldn't help but breathe in a sudden gasp of air from the sudden feeling of it.

If this was how ridiculously amazing her lips felt on his neck, how would her lips taste and feel like on his lips?

It was both weird and exciting to think about.

She finally pulled away and sat again in her spot next to him.

Luke's hand went around her possessively again and Rachel's eyes had no hard time glaring bullets into her as if trying to make her drop dead that second.

As for Percy, he was still in post bliss mode. His head was dazed and he couldn't seem to get his thoughts together coherently. The spot where her mouth had been was burning.

Her mark was on him. It was definitely not repulsive to think about.

No girl had ever made him that way ever.

And that was probably because it was so weird to be given a hickey by your sister.

The game had already moved on, but he started to stand up.

Turning to everyone, he said, "Sorry guys. It's getting late and I'm a bit tired. I'm going to go home now."

"Oh ok, bye Perce." Nico said.

"What? Wait, how about me and Crystal?", Rachel asked.

"Take a cab." he said, standing up and leaving the beach.

As he was getting into his car, he heard footsteps behind him. He didn't turn until a soft, warm hand touched his shoulder, making his skin seem to burn.

He turned to see Annabeth with her clothes back on over her bikini.

"Hey." she said, almost in a whisper, "Could we talk?"

He raised his brows at her, "Right now?"

Her intense grey eyes looked straight into his.

"Preferably somewhere else." she smiled slightly.

"Will Luke be okay with that?"

She nodded, "He said he had work to finish anyway."

Percy nodded back and opened the passenger door for her. She slipped in and he shut the door behind her, then went around to slip into the driver's seat.

He pulled out of the beach parking spot and sped off.

It was silent between them for a bit, until Percy glanced at her before looking back to the road.

"Sorry, about Rachel's dare. She doesn't know how rude she can be sometimes." he said.

"Oh, it's fine. That's how truth or dare is supposed to be anyways. Though, I didn't enjoy the bartender's excessive sweating."

He laughed at that— how easily she could make him laugh.

"By the way, I have to thank you for the great ideas and designs you gave for the company's new building."

She seemed confused for a moment then smiled, "You're welcome."

"Did you know it was dad's business you were coming to on the business trip?"

From his peripheral vision, he saw her shake her head, "Nope. I didn't. So, I was surprised to meet dad there."

Percy glanced over at her again, "You saw dad again?"

"Yeah, I did." she said a bit more seriously than before.

"What did he say to you?" he asked, already knowing what he might have said to her—and fearing the next words out of her mouth.

"Actually, what dad told me was what I wanted to talk to you about." she said just as he parked next to a Frozen Yogurt place.

They got out and Percy led her into the store. It was quiet there and not many customers were there around this time.

He got himself a plain tart flavor and got a strawberry taro for Annabeth, which he knew to be her favorite. After paying for them, he then sat in the booth seat in front of her.

"Alright, shoot." he said when he was situated.

Her grey entrancing eyes lingered on her lovely mark on his neck before looking up to his eyes.

The next words that came out of those lovely pink lips were said in an all too soft voice.

"Dad told me about the contract."

Author's Note:

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