Annabeth walked in to her apartment to find Leo and Percy on the couch and Jason in the armchair, in direct mimicking of her and her friends' positions from the day before. They were staring at her.
"Uh-oh," she thought immediately.
"SEE?" Percy yelled.
"Oh crap," Annabeth exclaimed. "I see where this is going. Very funny, guys."
suddenly her phone rang. Annabeth narrowed her eyes. The guys were smiling innocently up at her. She checked the caller ID. It was Reyna. She picked up.
The sound that met her ears was like a clap of thunder. A series of the most disturbing, agonized moos she had ever heard exploded from the cell phone. It sounded like a cow giving birth.
Annabeth, dumbfounded, stared at her phone in complete bewilderment. Before she could even blink Percy had grabbed her and she was sitting on the couch sandwiched between Leo and Percy. Her phone was still mooing loudly.
"How was class?"Percy asked innocently, smiling cheerfully, completely ignoring her phone. Annabeth, startled, quickly hung up. "Oh, it was um, fine. What are you all doing here?"
"Coffee dahling," Leo drawled in falsetto.
"Very funny," she sighed. "You got Reyna in on this, right?"
"It is distracting," Jason said, still staring at her.
"Okay, ignore me," Annabeth mumbled. "I have stuff to do, guys. This was clever and all, but-"
she shrieked as a bucket of ice water crashed down over her heard. Percy, Leo and Jason howled with laughter."YOU GUYS!" Annabeth shouted, leaping to her feet. Water dripped off her clothed and still spiraled in an icy stream from the previously full sink. She narrowed her eyes at Percy. "I didn't do that to you!"
Her phone rang again. Both she and Leo lunged for it. Leo was faster.
"Hello, this is Cal from the Adult Fun Superstore! How may I help you?" He said chirpily.
"Annabeth?" came a boy's incredulous voice. Annabeth shrieked and lunged for her phone, tackling Leo and wrestling the phone from his grasp. "That is my cousin!" she hissed, grabbing her device as she dripped ice water all over Leo, pinning him to the couch. "Magnus!" she yelled into the phonre. "Oh my gods I am so sorry. That was my bonehead of a friend, Leo."
Magnus started laughing to the point of tears. The doorbell rang. Shooting a glare at her guy friends, Annabeth got up and stalked towards the door.
"I need to meet this guy," Magnus laughed in her ear.
"You'll regret it," she said sourly, hiding a smile as she opened the door.
Hazel stood there looking panicked. "ANNABETH!" she screamed. "COME WITH ME!" She grabbed Annabeth's arm and took off. Annabeth yelped. "Got to go," she cried into the phone. "I'll call you back."
She managed to pocket her phone, realizing her jeans were still soaking. She was soaking. She was vaguely aware of of the guys piling out of the apartment behind her. Before she could react, she was squinting into bright sunshine.
"Hazel, what-" she began, and then her vision focused. Her mouth dropped open. She started to laugh. She laughed to the point of crying, doubled over on the steps of her apartment. Percy came up behind her and had to prop her up.
There in the piazza was Frank as a magical unicorn cow, proudly mounted by Nico DiAngelo, bedecked in pink and purple glitter, flanked by two dozen skeletons dancing gangam style and throwing weapons at each other.