Percy and Annabeth-Their future

Boo!

September had flown by. I mean, I honestly don't remember much of that September. But soon enough, October arrived. The leaves had begun to fall off the trees, and that brisk autumn wind had begun to set in on Massachusetts.

By that time, Sophia had already started making friends. She'd been pretty outgoing, and was good friends with about 30 people, and friends with close to 90. But one girl had taken a special interst in her at the very beginning of the year. That girl's name was Kathryn Sorenson. She was on swim team with Sophia, and was apparently very nice according to Sophia. The other thing Kathryn was was an expert party planner. So of course, the second Percy mentioned to Sophia that we might be having a Halloween party and that she might be of assistance, she and Kathryn jumped at the chance.

So there we were, October 29th, setting up for our Halloween Party. Kathryn had offered to come over and help, so she and Sophia were busy making the house look scary. Ghosts on tracks on the celing flew through the rooms, the light bulbs were being switched to black and orange, and jack-o-lanterns were EVERYWHERE.

Percy had decided that we needed a good DJ, and it just so happened that one of the teachers at his school was an amazing DJ. He had been planning on inviting him anyway so he had some event for Halloween planned, but now he got to work (for free, much to our delight) at his favorite hobby.

"Mikey- How's the booth working out?"

"Pretty good!" Mikey Santino gave Percy a huge thumbs up from across the room, and seeing as Percy's hands were full with food, he just smiled back.

"Mom?" Sophia came rushing toward me, platters of cupcakes in her hands. Kathryn was right behind her carrying some orange punch that they'd made earlier. "Where did you put the balloon machine? We want to fill the basement ceiling with balloons."

Of course you do, I thought, but had no itention of saying it.

"I think it's still in the car." Kathryn nodded, rushing to go get it, the punch now on the table.

Percy and I were inviting about 10 families, some of which had kids, others didn't. Sophia had invited 15 of her friends with their families, and the rest of the kids had invited three friends and their families. That resulted in us having close to 150 people at our house at one time. It was going to be chaos. Pure and utter chaos.

We'd barely been finished showered for five seconds when the guests started arriving. Everyone was in costume, so it was almost hard to spot the people we knew, and the people we didn't. I could spot Sophia easily; she was a ladybug, with the bubmle bee (Kathryn) constantly by her side. Rion was not as easy; he was a zombie, and there must've been 4 or 5 zombies that were kids. I knew Rion was the tallest child zombie in the crowd. Lena was the Mona Lisa, and her costume may very well have been my favorite. She had a gold frame around her, and she dressed exactly the way the woman is in the painting. She even had that look on her face where she was always looking at you.Taylor was Taylor Swift this year; that wasn't much of a surprise, but she loved the costume, and she loved curling her hair to the extent that it was "Busily Frizzy" as she said. Luke was dressed in one of those full body morph suits, so I had no idea where he was. Percy and I had decided to be Athena and Poseidon, which was not our normal cotume. We were normally 'Greek Goddess' and 'Greek God.' This year, Aphrodite had gifted us their actual clothes, which was pretty cool. From time to time, I saw her mingling through the crowd.

Downstairs, we had Frankenstein on for the kids. The adults stayed upstairs for most of the night. Sophia popped up occaisonally, but only once did she summon me downstairs.

"Mom, you have to come see something," She dragged me by the arm downstairs, then put a finger to her lips. "Shh... Don't make a noise. Just look."