Percy POV

I heard Jason and Reyna having a go at each other, but thought nothing of it. Piper wouldn't be too pleased, though.

I heard him leave, and slam her door before storming down the hall. Men on their periods these days. I mean, I don't have one but some act like they do.

Girls are so confusing when they're on theirs. Like, one minute they're crying the next they're yelling at you to, and I quote, "STOP EATING THEIR CHOCOLATE BECAUSE BEING A GIRL IS HARD AND MEN JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!" un quote. Fabulous words of my sister.

Speak of the devil and she shall appear, Paisley opens our room door, having a very heated conversation with someone.

"Lashton forever. They're so- Oh hey Percy!" She says chirpily, sitting on her bed as I watch her strangely. Sometimes I question my sister's sanity. Then I remember she almost did go insane so...

"Who're you talking to?" I ask, standing on my bed, ready to jump onto hers. I launch myself onto her bed. My heavy weight on her bed made her go flying off the end and land on the floor.

Some teenage girls would be yelling and screaming at me right now. No, not my sister.

"That was awesome! Do it again!" She says, forgetting there's someone on the phone.

However, I remind her of that.

"Oh!" She says, picking up her old phone, "Sorry, I gotta go Liz."

I close my eyes, and relax on Paisley's bed until she sits on my stomach. She's not heavy, and is most likely underweight for a girl her height and age, but her butt is bony and it's really uncomfortable. It feels as though someone's digging wood into my organs.

"Get off." I wheeze, shoving her so her butt slid off me.

"What do you want for Christmas?" Annabeth asks, as she held my hand, flexing my fingers at painful angles.

I wince, and pull my hand away from her, before wrapping an arm around her shoulders. She relaxes into me while I trace small patterns on the back of her hand.

"Hmm." I say, thinking. I haven't thought about Christmas, but I know it's alarmingly near. "Maybe a new skateboard. Someone ran over my other one that I got a few years ago."

"Seriously?" Annabeth says, pulling away from me slightly to look at me. Her expression was shocked, and it makes me want to curl into myself. "Percy, I saved up for a year to get that for you!"

To tell you the truth, I can't remember that she got it for me. Whoops.

"Sorry." I say sheepishly, "What do you want?"

"Books." She says, not really having to think much about it. She leans back into me, and her other hand that's not occupied with mine is fumbling with the TV remote.

"Oh! They're already playing Christmas movies!" Annabeth squeals, jumping back into me, making me laugh. She was just too cute sometimes.

"Home alone is the best movie ever." I tell her, as I watch the kid get lost at the airport.

I can understand the struggle. I lost Mum at the shopping center. Yeah, that was a few months ago. Don't judge me, okay? I was wearing Jason's glasses to see what it felt like.

Don't look at me like that unless you haven't tried it before.

"Mhmm." Annabeth says, as Leo and Calypso come into the living room where we are.

"Oh! I love this movie!" Calypso says, tugging Leo over to the other side of the couch so they could watch as well.

Slowly, everyone arrived into the lounge and watched it with us.

"I swear it was just you and I twenty minutes ago." I murmur to Annabeth, who giggles and slaps my chest lightly.

"The more the merrier!"

"Dude! That's my pick!"

"No, I swear on the river Styx, it's mine."

"That's my drum stick!"

"Mine!"

"Where's the sheet music?"

"We're practicing now! Go away!"

"What the hell! We are!"

I argue with Thalia, as the others shout around us, their conversation blending with ours.

"See? On the schedule on the wall?" I say, pointing at the sheet of paper, "It says Outcasts is now. You guys are later."

"You read that wrong, you twit! That was yesterday!" Thalia banters, "You are later!"

"Children, Children!" Venus snaps, "Pipe down!"

Her hair was pulled back intricately, and her clothing suggested she was a laid back sort of person. Her expression didn't match. Her scowl could make soldiers want to run back screaming for their mothers as they almost wet their pants.

We all shut up.

"As you can see on the wall over there, it's actually Roman Recruit's turn on the kit." She says calmly, making Octavian look smug, Reyna look proud (When does this chick not?) and Frank and Hazel blush for their band mates bad sportsmanship.

"However," Venus continues, "You can share your picks and drumsticks and things. It's not a crime."

Octavian's smirk drops, and he frowns. Reyna is taken back a little, as she was the one arguing with Jason about the drumsticks.

"Sharing is caring." She says, pointing at us, her stare daring us to say otherwise, "There will be no more fighting, at all. Am I understood?"

We nod like the little school children we are.

"Now, would those of you who are not in Roman Recruit please kindly leave?" Venus asks us.

I turn around and exit the room, along with the rest of mine and Thalia's band.

"Well, turns out it was neither of our turns in the room." Thalia says to me, "Sorry for accusing you of stealing our slot."

"Apology accepted." I smile, "Did someone record that, because I don't know if that's ever going to happen again."

Later that day, we all went to the beach again. And yes, yes I brought sunscreen because now will I not only have Aphrodite on my back, but I'll have Venus and Annabeth and Mum too. And that is a force I am not willing to go against.

After slipping on a pair of board shorts and a white baggy tank top (You know, the kind where your sides are on view), and a pair of Jandals, I was ready to roll.

"You have sunscreen, ay Percy?" Annabeth asks me as we head out to the beach which was just a few blocks away.

"Yes." I tell her, knowing that everything I need is in my backpack. Well, Paisley's. She's carrying it, "And I also have a towel and that magic stuff you used on my back before to cure the burn."

Annabeth heartily laughs, making me grin too. Because laughing is that contagious.

"Percy," Annabeth managed in between laughs, "It's a herb, or a plant. Not a magical substance of amazing qualities. Though it may seem like it, it's not."

I huff, knowing that it actually is magical and she is just off her rocker today.

I spot Paisley and Nico's hands joined and I swear I almost saw red.

Almost, because I know if I tried to stop it, Paisley would hit me.

I would hit me if I was in her place.

We all walk in near dead silence towards the beach.

As we get nearer and nearer, the sound of waves crashing and people chatting gets louder.

Calypso starts humming the tune to "When I'm Gone" from Pitch Perfect.

"I got my ticket for the long way round." She starts, seeing if anyone will join.

"Two bottles of whiskey for the way." Thalia joins.

"And I sure would like some sweet company, and I'm leaving tomorrow what do ya say?"'

It was almost like in the movies, but everyone was off pitch and out of timing and people weren't joining in. They were giving us weird looks.

They be jelly of our awesome-ness. We're just so hashtag amazeballs that they cannot compete. No one can.

"Catch, Percy!" Paisley yells, making me stand up straight and look at her. She throws the backpack into the air before taking off her shoes and throwing them as well.

I one handedly catch the backpack, and the shoes hit my head. As I gather my bearings, and get everything off the hot, scorching sand, I notice she's run off. Well, aereled. I think that's what you call a no handed cartwheel.

"Here, in the shade." Annabeth says, setting up an umbrella and putting her stuff underneath it.

Everyone dumps their things under, and races to the water, which I hope is cooler than out here because I sweat less than this when I go to the gym. I don't go often but man do I work up a sweat when I do.

"Have you put on sunscreen?" Asks Annabeth, as she takes out the blue bottle of SPF 30.

"Yes." I lie through my teeth, knowing she can tell that I'm lying.

"C'mere." She says, tugging my hand towards her and slapping her sunscreen filled hand on my arm, smearing the creamy liquid-y stuff over my skin, before doing the same to my back and other arm.

Piper came back from the water for a drink, but I watch her rummage through the bag her and Jason decided to share, I saw her smiling face drop like a rock off the side of a cliff.

"What?" Annabeth asks her, kneeling down beside her so she can see why Piper was upset.

I did the same, accept on her other side.

In the bag was a bikini. And it wasn't Piper's.

A/N

Hey guy's!

Merry Christmas!

I got a curling iron from mum, so now me, the girl with the worlds straightest hair has a few failed attempts at curls in her hair. I kinda burnt my finger.

On another gross note: I stubbed my toe and part of my nail came off. I know. Eww, right? I'm dreading going swimming because it is going to sting like a word I really shouldn't say.

If this is in, like, a different font or something, it's because I'm using a different app.

~KaleidoscopeColours

Can someone make me a new summary? Comment it and I'll give you credit for it. I seriously suck at making them, like, oh my gods.

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