The Children of Poseidon [#Wattys2016]

Chapter 5: Moving Day

Three chapters in one day! Is anyone proud of me? No? Well. I haven't updated since October, then I write three chapters in one day. I had kind of lost my will to write until I got a message from a nice user named Marian. Thank you Marian for inspiring me to continue this book. You are one of my favorite readers and I hope you go on to be a fabulous writer and I hope we can be good friends.

~Annabeth~

I woke up and remembered the events of last night. I'm engaged, I'm moving to Manhattan, and I'm going to college at NYU. I smiled and got out of bed. I got dressed in a sea-blue t-shirt, a pair of black jean shorts, and a pair of green converse. I threw my hair up into a pony tail and strapped my dagger to my belt. I put on my ring. I smiled down at it. Today, we were moving.

I ran out of the cabin and knocked on the Poseidon cabin's door. Brooke opened the door, dressed in a black t-shirt, sea-blue jean shorts, and green converse. I laughed at our matching outfits and she joined in. "Are you guys all packed an ready? Argus is coming with the moving van in thirty minutes." I asked my soon to be sister-in-law.

"I did all the packing, including Nico's stuff, so all we have to do is get them awake and get them to load the truck." She responded smiling.

"I'll take Percy, Jason, Piper, Rachel, and Frank. You wake up Nico, Addy, Hazel, Leo, Luna, and Thalia. None of them are morning people, that's why we gotta wake 'em all up." I told her and she ran out of the cabin as I went in to wake up my sleeping fiance.

~Brooke~

I ran to the  Hades cabin. I woke up Addy gently and got her dressed, I brushed her hair and got her last couple of things in her backpack. I woke up Hazel and pushed her into the bathroom with clothes and a hair brush in her arms. I then got to work on waking up Nico.

"Nico! Wake up! It's moving day! We're moving to Manhattan! C'mon, lazy ass, get up!" I shook his shoulder and he opened his eyes. He smirked at me and pulled me into the bed next to him. "If you don't get up now, I will never kiss you again." He sat up lightning quick, causing himself to fall off the bed. "Good, you're up. Now get dressed and load the stuff on the moving truck." I stepped over his body and grabbed Addy and her bag.

We walked to the Hephaestus cabin, Hazel with us, and knocked on the door. One of Leo's sisters opened the door and pointed to a bed in the middle of the room where Leo was sleeping. "Leo! Get up!" I yelled as I sprayed him in the back of the head wit the water that was in a glass on his nightstand. He sat up slowly and looked at me.

"Stop yelling! Go away!" He told me and threw a pillow at us.

"I'll get you candy if you get up, get dressed, and help the other guys load the truck." He was up in two seconds. I nodded to the girls and we went to wake up Luna and Thalia in the Artemis cabin.

Once we got in the Artemis cabin, one of the hunters aimed an arrow at my head. She saw it was me and pointed to the opposite side of the room, where Thalia and Luna were asleep. I thanked her and had Addy wake Thalia up, since Thalia isn't a morning person and she can't get mad at Addy. I woke up Luna and she got dressed. I then continued to help get Thalia up.

"Thalia!! It's moving day! Get up before I soak you!" She shot up and glared at me. I handed her a brush and clothes and shoved her into the bathroom. "Let's go see how Annabeth is doing."

Hazel, Addy, Luna, Thalia, and I found Annabeth, still in my cabin, trying to wake up my brother. "Perseus Jackson! Get up now!" He didn't budge.

"Have you woken anyone else up yet?" I asked her and she shook her head. "Hazel, wake up Frank. Luna and Addy, go wake up Rachel. Thalia, go wake up Jason. And Annabeth, go wake up Piper. I can handle my brother." They all left me in the cabin with a drooling Percy.

"Percy, Annabeth said that if you don't get up, she wont marry you." I whispered in his ear. He shot straight up.

"I'm up! I'm up!" He yelled.

"Good. Now get dressed and load up the moving van. Go! GO! GO!" He scurried to the clothes I had set out for him last night and ran into the bathroom. I smiled to my self. After about twenty seconds he came out dressed. "Now grab the boxes and get them to the van." He picked up a box and walked out the open door. I mentally gave my self a high five.

I jogged outside and saw all the boy carrying boxes back and fourth, even the Stolls were helping. Grover had come to see Percy off and was helping us out too. My mom and brother, Percy's mom and stepdad, Annabeth's dad, Addy's mom, Piper's dad, and a few campers were helping out as well. I smiled and grabbed two boxes. I carried them outside and they were taken from me. 

"Hey! What's that all about?" I yelled at the unknown person.

"Just didn't think my girlfriend needed to be carrying boxes." The person said from behind the boxes. I grabbed the top box.

"There, now you can see." We walked to the truck together. I handed the box to Jason who had been stacking them in the truck. I went back through all of the cabins that housed any of the moving demigods and there were no boxes left. I went back to the truck, that was parked next to my car, and said goodbye to the Stolls and Chiron. I got in the front seat of my car and everyone else got in, but Percy rode with Argus in the moving van. 

~Time Laps~
~Percy~

After a couple hours of following Brooke through traffic, we finally parked in front of the apartment building. I hopped out of the truck, along with Argus, and we all started carrying boxes to the sixth floor where we had rented out all of the apartments for the fifteen people moving in. Once we got all of the boxes into the hallways, Argus left and returned the truck.

"Okay. Boxes with blue writing go in Percy's apartment. Boxes with black writing go in the apartment for the children of Hades. The boxes with green writing go in my apartment. The boxes with red writing go in Leo's apartment. The boxes with silver writing go in Thalia's apartment. Let's move people! After this, we all get lunch! Move! Move! Move!" Brooke yelled, holding a clipboard.

After the mention of food, the moving of boxes into apartments took half an hour. "Wow, that went quick at the mention of food. Hey Ms. Baxter! Lunch ready?" Annabeth yelled down the hallway to Brooke's  adoptive mom's apartment next to her own.

"Sandwiches, chips, and soda! Come on in!" Ms. Baxter yelled and we all ran in and grabbed food. I thanked her for making me a blue sandwich and getting me blue chips and a blue mountain dew. My mom had made blue chocolate chip cookies. She decided since I was moving to Manhattan she wanted to live near by so she is in an apartment next to Ms. Baxter's. I was glad that my mom was only a few doors down from me. The thing I wasn't glad about, was unpacking after lunch.