How Do You Say Gods- Last Olympian

25: I AM DUMPED

"Again? Jeez Perce, how many times does the girl tell you no?" Alex said more in surprise than a real dig at him possibly still trying to keep Rachel and Annabeth in his life in a way neither girl might approve when Magnus read the new chapter title.

Percy rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly as the skin prickled with agitation. His first instinct was that Alex was wrong, that he and Rachel were just friends and this had to do with Annabeth...but then what context was he missing that she was sitting here comfortably holding his hand?!

Nobody steals my pegasus.

"Annabeth stoll Blackjack too?" Nico smirked.

"None of you idiots are funny," Percy rolled his eyes.

"You're right," Will said with a significant smirk. "We're hilarious."

Will was lucky Percy didn't have the book or he'd have smacked it over his head, even getting his lazy butt up to do it.

Not even Rachel. I wasn't sure if I was angry, amazed, or worried.

"You really do just go through the emotional ringer with that girl," Annabeth sounded gentle. Trying her hardest not to be overtly rude to Percy about this past relationship anyways.

"Seems to be a thing with all girls I meet somehow," Percy said with a frown. Why was his mom the only exception to that like everything else about her?

"What was she thinking?" Annabeth said ...an idea, that filled me with dread.

She'd seemed happy, confident, perfectly normal while she'd been in here for a brief time, Percy tried to assure himself as he kept taking deep breaths. Surely if she'd gone through with this, she'd have been a babbling mess about...whatever haunted her future? What would she even have recurring visions about? Her dad's death? Whatever the next prophecy would be? Percy's boring average future?

Okay, he was off track now on crazy ideas, but his panic at least was staying at bay.

...Everybody was on the streets gawking at the war zone damage.

"Yeah, why is that again?" Will groaned. "The amount of people I forced myself to walk past who obviously should not be walking around with those cuts and messed up limbs just gawking at the sewage backup speckled with monster trophies and cotton candy vendors stuck in icicles should not be normalized!"

"One of the most basic human activities we all participate in though," Annabeth brightly reminded. "We all like to sit around and gawk at things."

Will still looked mildly huffy, but they were pretty sure it was because he hadn't gotten to stop and help all those people to the proper building they needed to be in.

... no possibility of catching a cab, and the pegasi had flown away.

"And that stopped you from whistling them back, because?" Jason frowned.

"They were exhausted man, they'd done enough in the battle. I cut them some slack and went for another ride," Percy shrugged.

... Party Ponies had disappeared along with all the root beer in Midtown.

"Also I'm just imagining the headache of getting them to agree to take you anywhere while hopped up on that," Thalia agreed.

... Annabeth said. "Peleus will eat her."

"You said that with a little bit to much more hope than I think you meant to," Nico offered, pinching his fingers together as close as he could without connecting them.