Annabeth POV

The tension in the room was unexplainable as we all anxiously waited for the results of the semi-finals. We were all great bands but it's survival of the fittest, and maybe, just maybe, my band wasn't it. We weren't the package. The X factor. The best.

And that scared me.

I mean, I still had my plan from before. Apply for University, maybe overseas? Get a degree in Psychology and become a certified Psychologist. Help people with their issues, and help people reconstruct their lives like I never had a chance to.

"Guys," Calypso finally broke out in the car, "We have a week of waiting for the results. Let's relax and take a chill pill, yeah? We'll be fine."

She sounded like she was trying to convince herself of that, but I wasn't going to point that out to her.

"It's all Cool Beans back here!" Percy face-palmed at his sister, who was grinning wildly from where she was on his back. I don't even know why he thought that it would be a good idea to piggy-back her at 1 in the morning, but he is and she's not letting him put her down.

"Okay…" Percy mumbled, dropping her onto her feet as we reached the two cars. She stumbled for a second before finding her footing.

As I reach out for the car door, Percy's hand beats me to it and opens the door for me.

One of us could be going home. And if that doesn't happen, we'll be against each other.

"Thank you," I smile at him, climbing into the passenger seat of the car as everyone else piles into the back, and some in the other car with Roman Recruit.

The silence in the car was very tense and awkward, but no one dared break it. It was quiet all the way to the house and in the journey up the stairs. And after that, no one felt the need to talk much, unless it was asking the other roommate to shut the door and turn the lights off.

"No. Percy, you have to find the area of the cross section and times that by the length of it. And you find that out by the radius squared times pi, not the radius times two times pi. That's perimeter."

"There's a difference?" Percy exasperated, (A/N I feel like I need to widen my vocabulary somehow. Please comment an interesting word and definitions please.) whacking his head on the desk in front of us.

"Yes. The perimeter is the outside of the shape. Like here. This," I draw a square. "Two centimetres by two centimetres. Add up the lines, base, height etcetera, and voila! Perimeter!" I throw my arms up into the air. My boyfriend is stupid, I swear. He knows this stuff.

"Persay," Leo came barging into the room, bearing a fruit basket? "Someone dropped this off at the door. It says: To Percy, I love you. From Your Biggest Fan."

Hon, I'm his biggest fan. Besides Sally.

Personally, I wanted to hit this 'number one fan' of his and tell him or her to get a grip and get her or himself a boyfriend of their own.

"Jealous there, Ann?"

"Don't call me that," I say through gritted teeth. "Percy, do you really want help with this maths? I know you can do it."

Percy sighed, and continued looking through the fruit basket. "There's no blueberries in here, Annie. How can they forget the blue fruit?" As if suddenly getting an idea, which didn't happen very often, Percy gasped. "Annabeth! We can dye the fruits blue! Go grab the blue food dye!"

"I have to go and meet up with the girls," I say. "And besides, Leo can help with the food dye, right? Just don't make a mess. I'm serious." I get up from my chair at the desk and force a grin at Percy.

"Okee doke, Annie," Percy replied, standing too to peck my lips. "Be back soon, yeah?"

"Okay," I briefly hug Percy, before bolting to the beach.

"We're dying the fruits blue, dying the fruits blue!" I heard Percy singing to 'Painting the Roses Red' from Alice in Wonderland.

"Should we be worried?" Piper said, hesitantly stepping into the kitchen.

Percy and Leo were standing by the sink, blue food dye covering their hands, as if they were slowly turning into smurfs. There was a pile of non-blue cut fruit beside Percy, and blue fruit besides Leo. They looked like quite the pair.

"We dare not stop, or waste a drop, so let the dye be spread." Percy sang loudly, wiggling his hips in a strange fashion. He span around, almost slipping on the tiles when he caught sight of us. At the last moment, as he cried out, he managed to grip the side of the counter.

"Annabeth!" Percy said happily, making me smile. "We're dying the fruit blue! Do you want a piece?" He held out a bit of what used to be Orange.

Thinking he better of my health, I shake my head. "No thanks, I think we're just gonna go…" I awkwardly make hand gestures towards the stairs.

"Okay. Do you guys want any?" Percy offers the rest of my band, which most of them shake their heads except Paisley who almost jumps.

"Please!" Percy hands her the fruit, and anxiously watches her take a bite. When she lets go of the fruit, her teeth are blue and the juice from the fruit is now running blue and sticky down her hands. She makes a sour face, causing Percy to break down laughing.

"Leo, I don't think she likes it," He says in between laughs. I couldn't hold back a few either. Her expression was priceless.

"You try it then!" She says, shoving the rest of the 'Orange' into Percy's hands. Her lips were blue and some food dye dribbled down her chin and stained. It looked like she was a vampire, coming back from a kill but the victim's blood was blue.

"Okay, I will," Percy says boldly, holding his chin high. I knew that this wasn't going to go well.

He bit into it, immediately spitting it back out. "Leo, this is disgusting! Try it!" I would never understand boy logic.

"Why-"

"We don't want to waste food!"

"Okay." And so Leo tried it too. Percy watched eagerly, and Paisley seemed frantic to get the taste from her mouth as she immediately darted to the fridge for water.

Just as we were about to start breaking out laughing again, Reyna came into the room.

"Whatever you do, do not eat the blue oranges," Percy advised her, to her very confused face. "They're disgusting."

"Another trust exercise? Really?" I stressed to Venus. "Two of us are going home tomorrow, so what's the point?"

"The point, Annabeth, is that when you leave here you will have a wider variety of friends so if you ever visited California you would have friends and they can help you out." Venus tries to convince me. "And it's Karaoke!"

"That's why I don't like it!" Thalia grumbled as we got into the car. She wanted to sit shotgun, but we had promised it to Calypso, who was already seated smugly.

"Why don't you like Karaoke, Thalia? It's quite nice, I mean you an all sing!" Venus looked at Thalia, confused. It was kinda funny. "Anyways, have fun! Don't get lost!"

We were going to attempt to drive to Apollo's house, but get this… Without a GPS. Or Venus.

We piled into the car, the boys in the car behind us, and began arguing over which way to go as soon as we got out of the gate.

Go left!"

"Go right!"

"Go C!" We all turned to look at Paisley, not impressed. "What? When in doubt, choose C. You are almost guaranteed to be right."

"Who said that?" I scoffed, not seeing the logic in her answer.

"Me. And my Math teacher. And Math teachers are never wrong."

"Wrong context, Pais," Calypso said for me, looking back over the console.

It took four wrong turns, five side-street "Short-Cuts" (suggested by the boys) and half an hour to finally arrive at Apollo's mansion.

When Apollo opened the door, he was chuckling. "Get lost?" He asked innocently, cocking an eyebrow in suspicion.

"Pssh, no?" Leo rolled his eyes, obviously being sarcastic.

"Well, don't want you standing in the heat much longer. Come inside, where the air-conditioning is cooler than a slide."

Apollo's poetry was not on Fleek.

"Okay," Thalia said, almost shoving past to get indoors, where, indeed, the air-conditioning is perfect.

"Just keep walking straight to the lounge. Karaoke is all set up for you, there is food in the kitchen and there are blankets and pillows in the cupboard." And other than that, he left us to find our own path.

"Honey, I'm home!" Leo called out teasingly, making Calypso lightly slap his chest with the back of her hand.

"Leo! Be polite!" She scolded, though the beginnings of a smile were caught on the edges of her lips.

"What?" Leo shrugged, seeing the smile too. "You found it funny! Hey! My girlfriend finally thinks I'm funny!"

"Oh hush," She says, sliding her hand over his mouth before he could embarrass himself further.

"C'mon sunshine. I'm hilarious, admit it. Mcshizzle is amazingly hilarious and handsome and funny." Leo took her hand off him lightly, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

"Put the songs in the hat!"

We had decided to pull the songs we were going to try and sing in a hat and we would have to draw one out and wing it.

I scrawled down "House Of Gold, 21 Pilots", and gods only know what the rest of them put inside the hat.

Once everyone had put their songs into the hat, we realised something. More so, Leo noticed something.

"Kyle! We're wearing the same shirt!" Leo looked stoked at his new discovery, his jaw skimming the ground. "We're twinsies!"

Kyle looked mildly disturbed as he dropped his song into the hat.

"Don't feel pressured to be his new homie. He realised that I also made jokes and I was his homie for a day and then I was replaced!" Percy cried out dramatically, falling over across my lap. The back of his hand hit his forehead, and he sighed. "Annie Bethie! Save me!"

"Who wants to go first?" I say, rattling the hat.

Nico slowly raised his hand. "Might as well get it over and done with, right?"

Well, he clearly didn't see Percy's smartphone in his girlfriend's hand…

He crawled over from where he was leaned up against the couch on the other side of the room. Diving his hand in, he yanked the one at the bottom out.

"Read it out!" Jason hollered.

Nico's lip curled, "Okay, the Adam Lambert is clearly the work of my oh so loving girlfriend over there. Paisley what have we told you about letting people keep their dignity?"

"But what song is it?" Jason asked.

"Strut, Adam Lambert." Paisley giggled.

I had to admit, the thought of Nico singing a song called Strut made me want to crawl into a hole and just keep myself there for a few years while I calmed down.

Percy pulled up the Karaoke for it, and as the Techno music began to play through the speakers, Nico finally grabbed the microphone as Paisley lifted the phone.

As Nico sang the song (Surprisingly well, considering Adam Lambert is queen and no one can top him) Leo began demanding that he actually strut.

Nico gave him a pleading look as if to say, "Please don't!"

"No! You have to! I'll do it with you!" Leo stood, pulling Nico up too.

"Let me see you, Strut! Strut!" Leo swooshed his hips to the beat, and half of us fell down laughing. This was certainly a sight.

"Okay, okay, stop! This is too much!" Thalia cried out, reaching over Percy to press the pause button.

Everyone seemed to get their kicks out of that one.

"Paisley has to go next because she's evil." Nico glared at his girlfriend as he sat back down. She was red in the face from laughing so hard. He uncurled her hand and placed the Mic delicately in her hands. "Go!"

"I'm going! Leo! Be my backup dancer!" She knee-walked over to me and grinned while digging her hand in. She wriggled it around for a little, even turning away and scrunching her nose while she chose.

"Any day now, Pais." Percy rolled his eyes at his sister as she finally pulled out a piece of ripped paper.

"Poisoned With Love, by Neon Hitch. Oh! I love this song!" She squealed, as Leo stood with her. "Ready backup dancer?"

"Ready!" Leo saluted her.

"Lets go!"

"This is not fair, I am beyond repair 'cuz of you." Leo and her twirled around for the remainder of the song, stopping after the first chorus, however. "This song is really boring, whoever put it in. I mean, great song but it's too slow."

She sat back down next to Nico.

People kept pulling songs out of the hat, and I had my turn (I got Hallelujah by Panic! At The Disco.)

And then finally, we were done.

"I wanna go outside!" Leo whined, rolling around on the floor.

"Let's go to the beach!" Percy suggested, sitting up beside me. He had been laying with his head in my lap, my hands drawing through his hair lazily. "Do you guy's have spare swimsuits? And can we borrow some?"

"I'm not swimming," Nico insisted, making Paisley shake her head. "And it's freezing."

"Grow some tits, it's California."

A/N

Sorry for not updating sooner.

And sorry for the crappy excuses you're about to hear.

I've had two math tests, a science test, an english competition and I've had two more assignments given to me in the last two weeks, and I also went on holiday with my family.

And I've found a new addiction in the form of Pineapple Lumps. They're golden.

~KaleidoscopeColours