I Spy Sea Green Eyes

Chapter 9

' "And then-" I paused to take a break from laughing my head off, "I saw Smurfs everywhere! On the counter, in a bottle of vodka, I think Papa Smurf was on the bartender's head!"

"Yeah, I bet that would be pretty hilarious if it was real," Percy said as he tried to support my swaying form.

"It was real!" I insisted."Why else would I say that if it wasn't?"

"Hmm,I don't know," Percy jokingly mused."Oh wait, maybe it's because you're drunk?"

"I am not drunk,Perseus Jackson!" I said as I tried to walk with the ground tilting beneath me.

"That's what they all say,Kay," Percy muttered.

"I'll prove it!" I said gallantly, and I shrugged his arm off my shoulder and started walking on my own,arms out for balance. I turned back to him and stuck my tongue out. "See, I'm not-" I was rudely interrupted when I accidentally fell over my own feet.

In the blink of an eye, Percy caught me just before I fell face-first onto the sidewalk. I grabbed the collar of his jacket to steady myself,then only did I realize that we were really close. He smelled like cologne.....and the sea. Why the heck was I registering that in my mind?

I snorted at the thought. Then I giggled. Then I laughed. All the while,Percy didn't let go of me, but looked at me with a confused expression.

"Why the heck are you laughing,Kay?" He asked,worry and confusion in his sea-green eyes.

"You're holding me," I giggled as he steadied me onto my feet,but he still held me close."It's like you think I'm gonna fly away or something!"

"Knowing you, that's extremely possible," He said. He unwrapped his hands from me and then propped me up with an arm around my waist."Let's get you home,Kay." '

"Are you freaking kidding me?" I yelled as I banged on Tritannus's office door.

"What do you want?" Tritannus said from the other side.

"More than anything? To kill you here and now," Was my reply.

"Holy Primordials,what did I do?"He said, sounding affronted. He opened the door with a bored expression on his face. He then looked at my hands which were in fists. "And I see you haven't got my breakfast for me."

"Well,that's because you ordered it already!" I said. "You made me run around this place for an hour,only to find out that you ordered!"

"Is that such a bad thing?" He said, stepping closer."If anything, that gives you one less job."

"Well,next time, you should-"

"Get back to work, Khloe,"He said." I have a video conference with the hippocampi, and I don't want to be disturbed."

"Just-"

He shut the door in my face. Yeah, he sure does like to hear people out, I thought to myself.

"And kill 'em with kindness
Kill 'em with kindness
Kill 'em, kill 'em, kill 'em with kindness
Kill 'em with kindness-"

"And stop humming!" Tritannus yelled from his office."Didn't I make the point clear last night?"

"We. Don't. Talk. About. It!" I said through gritted teeth.

"We don't talk about it, Your Supremeness," Came the correction from the other side of the door.

"Your Ultimate Awesomely-awesome Supremer-than-supremeness!" I yelled back, deliberately sugarcoating the words to annoy him. Then I remembered the song I was singing, and a strategy formed in my mind.