Annabeth nodded, "makes sense. Greek Gods, Roman Gods, Christian God, what's next? Egyptian?"
Thalia chuckled, "who knows?" Soon the three feel silent as Annabeth put the book away, Thalia was right, she needed a break.
"So.." Nina spoke up drawing everyone's attention, "you and Percy."
That statement alone made Thalia pause. She knew about Nina's feeling for Percy, and she frankly felt for the girl. She liked him for the same reason Thalia did. Percy saved her life when she was at death's door and helped protect her from one of the scariest night in her life.
"Ah...yeah," Thalia nodded as the awkwardness set int.
"When did you guys...you know, admit it?"Nina asked.
"He ah, he kind of saved my life," Thalia told her, "but before that I kind of got drunk at a party and may have kissed him. So that and well....one thing lead to another and we just kind of.....got together."
Nina nodded, "you kissed him huh?"
Thalia nodded, "yeah."
"Damn," Nina cursed, "so that's what I should have done." Thalia and Annabeth blinked as Nina chuckled at their reactions, "what? You thought I was going to be angry? Well I am, but...it was kinda my fault. He saved my life too, should have made my move then and there. I would have had an entire year head start on you....but that's life, regrets and all."
Nina looked so sad, Thalia just wanted to hug her and tell her it's going to alright, but that would make her feeling seem kind of.....worthless. She didn't need nor want Thalia's pity, and Thalia respected that about her.
"So tell me Thalia," Annabeth spoke up, "how does Percy kiss?" Thalia blushed as Nina looked at the daughter of Athena in surprise. "What?" Annabeth asked with a shrug, "I'm curious."
"Really?" Thalia asked, "you are curious about how he kisses?"
"Yeah," Annabeth nodded.
"Annabeth I don't really think-"
"-Actually now I'm curious," Nina interrupted, "I want to know how he does it. You know considering I can probably never get one from him considering you threaten to electrocute anyone who even looks at him funny."
Thalia blushed as she rubbed her head, "yeah well, I'm kind of possessive."
"So is he," Annabeth said, "now...spill."
Thalia blushed, "well....I guess he's....he's amazing. It's like kissing a pillow, like a really warm pillow that hugs you back. But then there are these times when he's...well" target="_blank">s...well, just like goes into this phase where he's so demanding and pushy. Then he feel like....well like a wave, just sweeping me off of my feet."
Nina stared in wonder, "wow."
Annabeth nodded, "wow is right. I'm not in love with Percy and I still want to know how it feels to kiss him."
Nina blushed while Thalia chuckled. "Oh and also," Thalia began,"there is this one thing he does where kisses me and places his hands on my hips. He like slowly works into it, and then bamn! Both his hands are on my ass and he just pulls me closer, it honestly feels amazing. One time I didn't remember to stand and my legs just kind of gave out, but Percy just held on."
Annabeth and Nina looked at Thalia starry eyed as a feeling of want rose in their hearts, along with a little envy in Nina's case.
"So....." Annabeth began.
"So...." Nina repeated, "you guys think Clarisse and Michael are going to start dating by the end of the day?"
"Totally," Thalia agreed grinning as the three quickly dived into the new topic.
Percy and the boys were having a blast in the big wave pool. Decker swam along the waves as Nico and Percy make the waves in the pool bigger. It was easy to do as Percy quickly gained control over the water systems and started making the waves bigger. But he made sure not to over work the system, don't want one of the machines to break or anything.
After some time the small group quickly moved on. Percy noticed that Thalia, Annabeth and Nina had all become closer as they spoke in hushed tones. Percy could eavesdrop on them, but he decided not to.
But he did use his Empathic powers to try and figure out why the girls kept sending him weird looks and realised that they were all having feeling of lust directed towards him. Thalia was obvious, and so was Nina, though there was also a little bit of envy mixed in with that. But the biggest surprise was Annabeth, though those feelings were far less in intensity than Thalia or Nina.
Soon they came onto a water slide called the 'Alien Invasion'. The ride was huge with a big funnel like structure on the very top. The slides turned and knotted all over the place before opening up to a poll of water in the bottom. Needless to say Nico and Decker were excited to try it out.
Since it was a four person ride Percy and Thalia decided to join the kids as they climbed to the top of the water ride. They quickly got onto a four person water tube as the sat around facing each the center holding their hands.
The employee who worked there pushed the tube into the big funnel like structure, giving it a little spin.
The water tube slowly started to revolve around faster and faster as it began to circle the funnel. Percy's head was spinning but thanks to his advanced reflexes he could still clearly make out where they were. But the rush and the excitement still filled him with happiness as the tube finally entered the slide like tunnel.
The inside of the tunnel was glowing with different lights as strange music blared in the background. Nico and ecker cheered in happiness as Thalia and Percy giggled in joy. They hadn't had much time to act like a kid, this was definitely a feeling they missed.
Soon the ride ended and Nico and Decker wanted to go again. This time Annabeth and Nina accompanied them leaving Thalia and Percy by a bench that seemed to be littered all over the camp.
"This is fun," Percy told her as they looked at their friends around them. Percy noticed Katie and Castor walk around as they chated about the fertility properties of grapes. Katie waved to Percy who waved back.
"Yeah, it is," Thalia admitted, "it's nice to let kids....well be kids. Nico and Decker aren't the only demigod kids we have in camp, they all deserve days like this."
"And you gave it to them," Percy said holding her hand, "you did, not me." Thalia smiled as Percy continued, "remember that time so long ago when you still hated my guts? The first time we had an actual civil conversation?"
"You mean that time you were perving on me?" Thalia asked grinning.
"First off I wasn't perving on you, I was Observing you, and second off can you blame me?" Percy asked looking her up and down.
Thalia chuckled but said nothing. Percy smiled, "do you remember what you said back then?"
Thalia nodded, "yeah. I said that you were better than me, and that you were the one who should lead the camp, not me."
Percy nodded, "you said that because you thought you weren't worthy, that you would fail them. You believed that they wouldn't follow you-"
"-But you did," Thalia cut in, "you believed in me. You said that you would support me, that people cared about me."
"Like you cared about them," Percy squeezed her hand, "and I was right. You gave them what I never could Thalia, a chance to be kids. While I was too busy making sure they were strong enough not to die in the war to come you treated them like the children they were. You gave them a chance to be normal. You said before you don't think they would ever follow you into battle....tell me, do you think the same now?"
Thalia looked at the demigods that roamed the park, they smiled and waved at her and Percy. They were all so happy, and knowing that she helped make this possible made her happy.
"No....before I was an outcast, they wouldn't have followed me. But now...." Thalia turned to Percy smiling, "they would. Guess you kept your promise Percy."
Percy smiled as he kissed her gently, "I guess I did."
After going a few more rides the day just flew by. Before they knew it a message alert played on the park's speakers told them all to meet up at Picnic Grove, which was in the edge of the park, for lunch.
The grove itself was huge with a buffet of sorts placed here and there in stalls. It didn't seem like this was the usual practise here, but considering they were the only one's here Percy guessed the park must have made an exception.
Percy grabbed a plate and went through the buffet filling his plate with everything and anything he could find. Thalia simply shook her head at Percy's appetite while the mortals just looked on in wonder.
Thalia then found Michael and Clarisse sitting with Annabeth and Nina. Thalia guided Percy, who was holding onto his plate with both hands, and they sat down with the others.
"So did you guys have fun?" Thalia asked as she winked at Clarisse who blushed back.
"Yeah we did," Michael said a with a grin, "we went into this call dinosaur falls, I think it was one of the biggest slides in the water, totally awesome!"
"And....?" Nina probed further.
"And...what?" Michael asked.
The girls, including Clarisse sighed. "Nevermind," Nina said as she returned to her food.
"So what did you do Percy?" Clarisse asked as she looked at Percy only to pause for a few seconds. Percy currently was going at super speed putting away food like he hadn't eaten in days.
"He's, ah...currently occupied," Thalia said sighing at her boyfriend's lack of table manners. "We had fun," Thalia continued, "mostly Nico and Decker dragged us all around the park pushing us to try new things."
"I know what you mean," Michael nodded, "mostly the younger kids went on the rides while the older ones just kind of enjoyed their day off. And the rest, well...you know those cabanas located all over?"
Annabeth nodded, "you mean those mini changing room things? Yeah, what about them?"
"The older kids started using them to make out," Clarisse supplied as she glared at Michael who blushed.
"And how do you know this?" Percy asked as he was halfway done with his plate.
"We ah, might have accidently stumbled on Selena and Chris....you know," Michael blushed.
"We had to run before we got spotted," Clarisse said, "so we kind of hide in one of the cabanas and well....we heard moaning coming from the other ones. It didn't really take a child of Athena to figure out what was going on."
The others nodded as he finally got the picture that Clarisse was portraying. She was pissed because while Michael and her were trapped in that small room he didn't try and kiss her or anything. Even Percy, who was kind of dense about these things, understood what was going on.
"Hey Michael you guys are done with your food right?" Percy asked.
Michael looked at his and Clarissa's empty plates and nodded, "ah, yeah. Why do you ask?"
"I want seconds," Percy told him as he finished the rest of his food, "come with me."
"Why can't you get it yourself?' Michael asked.
"Because seeing your beautiful face will improve my self control," Percy said rolling his eyes as he got up and grabbed Michael, "just shut up and come."
Michael huffed, "okay, okay, shes," the son of Apollo grabbed their plates and walked away. Percy looked at Thalia and Annabeth and a silent message was passed between them. At the moment they had one goal, get Michael and Clarisse together.
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Get Clarisse and Michael together
Rewards,
+50 Exp
+1 point
Failure,
Clarisse might end up killing Michael
Micheal might end up crying to sleep every night
Do you accept?
YES/NO?
Percy immediately pressed yes as the quest box disappeared. He then lead Michela back to the buffel while Annabeth and the others began talking to Clarisse.
"You know she likes you right?" Percy told him as they walked to the buffe.
"W-what?!" Michael stammered out blushing.
"Clarisse," Percy stated, "she is totally in love with you."
"Percy have you been drinking some of the chlorine water?" Michael asked sarcastically, "because you sound crazy right now."
Percy rolled his eyes, "you are the son of the God of truth. You know I'm not lying."
"I know you think you're not lying," Michael told him as he put away his finished plates, "but that might not be the truth."
"Michael you are not that stupid so don't act like it," Percy grumbled as he began to put food back onto his plate, "you like her, you know she likes you, so what's the problem?"
Michael looked like he wanted to argue a lot more but stopped himself. He sighed and began again in a low tone of voice, "I don't think I'm good enough for her."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "what the hell are you talking about man?"
"Clarisse,' Michael repeated, "I don't think I'm good enough for her man. She's...well fuck she's perfect. Sure she might not be funny or witty, but she's awesome in her own way and you have seen those abs right? She saved my life that time with Polyphemus and ever since then.....everytime I try to talk about it with her I just freeze up. All my confidence just kind of melts away. I keep thinking, 'what if I'm not good enough? Would she leave me?' And honestly Percy....I don't think I can take that."
Percy sighed, "Michael, I love you man, you are one of my closest friends, but by the Gods sometimes you act like a idiot."
Michael blinked, "w-what?"
"Look in any relationship there is always the chance of a break up. Maybe someday even Thalia and I might drift apart or even just stop being together for no proper reason. But I honestly don't care about that, for me....for me it's about the now. Right now she's the one I want and right now I am the one she wants and I fully intend it to be that way for as long as I can."
Michael noded sadly, "yeah....but what if Clarisse doesn't like spending time with me? What if....what if she doesn't feel the same way I feel about her."
"Then that's her problem Michael," Percy told him, "but honestly tell me," he stared into the demigod's eyes, "do you really think she feels like that?"
Michael looked at Percy for the longest time as the gears in his mind worked overtime. He blinked, "fuck this."
Michael turned and walked away from Percy. The son of Poseidon blinked, 'well that was unexpected.'
"Michael wait up!" Percy called as he grabbed his plate of food running after his friend, "if it's something I said I'm sorry!"
"Shut up Percy," Michela replied, but it had no malice in it, if anything it was said more as an afterthought.
Michael walked behind Clarisse surprising the girls who were suddenly taken out of their conversation but Michael. "Clarisse we need to talk."
The daughter of war blinked as she turned to Percy who just shrugged in confusion. She got up and turned to Michael. "What about?"
