Unknown Friendship

Chapter Nine: Rain in the Sky

Katie Gardner's POV

Katie was positive, that after Percy found out that he was achild of Poseidonand was therefore banned from the sky, he would lose his obsession.

She was an idiot for thinking so.

She was sitting in the Jackson's kitchen, Ms. Jackson baking a batch of her famous blue cookies. There was a storm outside, lightning and thunder arriving every minute or so. Rain was pounding the windows and the lights had flickered once or twice already.

But there was no Percy Jackson in sight, which was strange, because again, his mother was baking her fabulous blue cookies. Nobody could resist those cookies—especially not Percy.

Ms. Jackson didn't seem in the least bit worried, humming to herself and swaying to the music in her mind. After covering the counter in flour, she began rolling out more dough, even though she had a freshly baked batch right next to her and another in the oven. More thunder shook the sky, and Katie felt the urge to yell at the swirling clouds near the Empire State Building to calm down!

"Katie, honey, could you get Percy?" asked Ms. Jackson.
"He's probably in his room doing something with that brain of his." Ms. Jackson rolled her eyes to the roof, and Katie could tell that she was wondering why her son didn't use that brain in school.

"Okay, Ms. Jackson. I'll go get him right now."
Her voice was high and pappy, so she could hide her own thoughts on the situation. Grabbing a blue cookie, she skipped down to Percy's new room, for he no longer live in that old ratty building with Smelly Gabe. Standing in front of the door, moving her pursed lips from side-to-side, Katie dwelled on her opinion on where her best friend was.

Truthfully, she had no doubt in her mind that he wasn't in his room. She thought this for mainly three reasons;

       
        1. Percy wasn't this quiet. Only when he was aware of his every movement and thinking long and hard on every action was he ever silent. Okay, maybe that was an exaggeration, but he definitely wasn't this quiet when he felt safe and secure.

          2. Percy would hear everything going on in the kitchen. Katie could think of several moments when Percy was mentioned, and, knowing him, he would object nearly every single word spoken about him with a yell. Plus, he would hear the beeping of the oven when it went off, and then he would rush out of his room to grab a plate of cookies as soon as he could.

            3. Percy would want supplies from the around his home. Not everything was in his room, and sometimes he would have to leave his hibernation to snatch some materials here and there. Or maybe even a toaster. Percy had taken and used a toaster before.

Katie barged into the room without knocking, and was not surprised at all at the emptiness of it. Percy's laptop whirred on his messy bed, blinking every few seconds. She flicked on the light, because it wasn't even on, and made her way around the room. She tapped her fingers along the top of a canvas that had a painting of a flower on it; Katie knew it was in memory of *her.

She then headed over to his bed, where his laptop sat untouched; ever since Percy learned he was a demigod, he had left his electronics alone more, but he still couldn't live without them. The screen flashed again, and she realized that it wasn't the computer lighting up but the sky. Lightning cracked across the sky, filling the room with a blue hue. Katie turned to watch it out the window, but was distracted by the smallest of things.