The Secret of Us (PJO X KOTLC crossover)

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Sophie's pov

"GET UP GET UP GET UP GET UUUUUUUPPPPPPPP!!!!!" Sophie jolted awake by the sudden screaming coming from her roommate, the one and only Marella Redek.
"WHATTTT????" I groaned, turning over onto my belly and covering my head with my blanket.
Marella took my blanket off me and slapped my back with it, " I said 'GET UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP'!!!!!!" she screamed, lifting me off bed, leaving my feet dangling and screaming my head off.

"What's the hurry anyways?" I mumbled as I got dragged into the bathroom and got splashed with cold water on the face.
"We're going out today!!!!!" She squealed. Marella was always the outgoing type of girl while I was.... while I was the total opposite of her bubbly, outgoing, sunshine-y personality. "Ughhhhhhhh where to?" I ask, we rarely get the chance to go out so of course she's excited.
"Do you have to be so poetic this early in the morning?" she teases and gives me a slight nudge. I nudged her back playfully and replied "Why yes I do for only, and only my friend ma'am.".

There was a knock on the door as I stepped out of the bathroom to get the door. The door swung open and I'm face-to-face with the one and only Fitz Vacker.
"O-oh u-uh h-hey!!" I stuttered out. Stupid Sophie, this is NOT how you talk to guys—especially CUTE guys!! I mentally slapped myself.
"Hey, my dad heard some intense screaming so he wanted to ask if you all are alright?" he asks in his cute accent.
I was about to answer the question when Marella cut me to it, "Yup, we're all okay here. No harm done. Now thank you and BYEEEEEE" she screamed in his face and slammed the door shut.

"That is NOT how you talk to boys!!!" she practically yelled furiously. "I gotta give you a lesson on talking to boys, especially to cute boys..." she mumbled to herself.
There was a moment of silence before Marella's gaze snapped to meet mine and yelled, "Well, what are you looking at?? Get your damn stuff and let's get going!!!!!!" she sang.

She practically bounced out of the orphanage and bounded towards the shopping centre.

-time skip-

After half a day of exhausting shopping, (we were provided with allowances by Alden since Marella is supposedly one of his favorite clients) I finally got my half day trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It requires some road trip, sure but at least we convinced Alden to allow Della to accompany us there.

Marella knew that I wasn't into Arts, so she bombarded me with questions after I convinced her to let us go.
"Why do you want to go there?" *bombastic side-eye*
"Did you secretly like art and I never knew?" *sarcastic gasp*
"Or are you there to meet some secret guy I never knew about??" *eyebrow wiggle*
"Or is there another reason?" she asks and her tone softens.

"Well....... Annabeth always wanted to go there together and I thought that now that I have a free half day maybe I could at least still just go there?" I replied, fidgeting with my seat-belt.
Marella pulled me into a hug—which is a very un-Marella-like thing to do since she isn't the type of girl who likes physical contact. So this...... this means a lot, especially if it's coming from her.

"It's okay, I've got you now Sophie." she said, stroking my hair gently and making me sink into her arms.