CHAPTER 25

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JASON

He added another shiny paperclip to the neat pile and started to make gusts of wind to vacuum up Cabin one. Humming happily, Jason was quite happy with cleaning the place up for the third time that week.

"Hey bro." Percy said, walking in, dirty and soaking. He got mud all over the floor, causing Jason to scream. 

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF CLEANING THE PLACE UP!" he squawked. 

"Woah... Bro..." Percy put his arms up into a time-out signal. "I'll clean it up!"

A whoosh came from the lake as a ball of water rose out of it and floated over to the cabin, coming through the do and dropping down, washing the ground until it sparkled then returning the water to the lake.

"New trick I learnt." he said casually. 

"Can you clean yourself up now?" Jason asked, still angry. 

"Yeah, sorry." Percy got another ball and did the same to himself.

"Thank you." he sighed. 

"So, bro... I was wondering if you wanted to go for a walk?" Percy asked.

"Once I've finished colour-coding my paper-clips, sure." Jason replied. 

"Bro." 

Percy was completely oblivious as to why someone would want to do that.

"Yes, bro?" Jason was putting grey paper-clips inn one pile, black in another and white in the third.

"Color-coding your paper-clips? You. Me. Woods. Now." Percy turned to the door. "And I'm not asking. I don't want to lose you to the clean side, man."

Jason smiled, knocking down all the piles of paper-clips.

"Alright, bro." 

In the woods, they were wandering around together silently, just letting the beauty of the place sink in. Sunlight bounced off leaves and branches on the gorgeous, tall trees. Percy's dark hair glittered in the light. Jason wanted to stay there forever. 

"It's such a nice day." Percy was blushing as he said it. 

Then Jason's eye caught on someone in the woods. Two people. Piper and Annabeth.

"Sh..." he made a small line of rain drop down next to them. 

Getting the hint, Percy used the rain to make a big ball of water and raised it in the air, directly above their ex-girlfriends. 

"CANNON-BALL!" he exclaimed as he dropped it down on the.

"OH MY GODS, PERCY!" Jason heard Piper exclaim. They ran up to the girls, who were taking their soaked jackets off, revealing dark tops that clung to their skin. 

"You are gonna get it now, Sea-Weed Brain." Annabeth smiled devilishly, rolling up her long sleeves.

"Don't let him get all the credit!" Jason grinned. 

"Oh, trust me, he won't." Piper's face resembled the same expression of her girlfriend's. 

"Well, if that's the case..." 

Jason made it rain more, on all four of them that time, and Percy didn't let a drop hit the ground. Together they built up another massive ball of water, and every time they did, it dropped and got all of them soaked. It broke into an all-out battle-field -- without weapons.

Annabeth would punch Percy repeatedly, but he'd just heal himself with water. Piper was trying to charm-speak the boys, and it worked a few times, but they were too used to it. 

"Stop making rain, Jason. You don't want to get wet, do you?" Piper said, but Jason just snorted. 

Accidentally snorting in rain. 

"Oh my gods..." Jason stopped making the rain, and was trying (and failing) to get the water out of his nasal passages, but he was laughing too hard. "Oh my gods... I surrender..." 

"Pipabeth slays again." Piper said, fist-bumping Annabeth.

"Pipabeth. Nice name." Percy grinned. "Bro, we could be Jercy!"

"How come I only get one letter?"

"Jercy it is then"

The two of them walked back to Cabin One. They sat together on a bunk, legs kicking, smiling. 

Then Jason did what he'd wanted to do for a while.

He lent in and kissed him. 

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