Tread Lightly (PJO + Avangers) *FEM Percy*

Ocean Eyes

I love Billie Eilish.

On with the chapter!

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(This is now about two months after she comes back. She started going back to school and has made a few friends, but doesn't share everything with them. She mostly just makes up lies and stuff to make sure they don't find out about her being a demigod.)

At around 6:00, Mom and Paul make their way into the kitchen. Paul's eyes are bloodshot and his hair is a mess. He sneezes, then starts coughing a lot.

"Hey, Perce, I'm not feeling to good, I'm going to call the school to get a sub, but you go on ahead. Can you take the bus today?" His voice sounds scratchy and I wince in sympathy.

"Of course I can take the bus, you feel better. You'll have Mom to take care of you." Now that Mom worked from home, she could easily take care of my younger sister and anyone if they got sick.

I go to my room and grab my textbooks. I grab my demigod-proof-phone the Hephaestus cabin made and shove it into the back pocket of my jeans. In a few seconds, Riptide is already in my pocket.

(This is Percy's outfit)

I sling my bag over my shoulder and make my way out of the apartment, stopping to kiss my mom goodbye.

"I would hug you, but you're sick!" I announce to Paul.

"Yup, feeling the love," he jokes back. I laugh.

Walking down the stairs to the buildings lobby, I grab my earbuds out of my backpacks front pocket. They are tangled so I try unsuccessfully to untangle them.

Preoccupied in the task at hand, I trip and miss the bottom step. I fall, landing on my hands, then glance up to see if anyone was there to notice. There was one kid I saw, standing there, but he was outside and too into his phone, not paying enough attention to notice me tripping down the stairs.

I thought I recognized him and then it hit me. When I was gone questing or whatever you want to call it, Paul got a new teaching position at Midtown High School. The kid on his phone was Peter Parker. (Okay, if this isn't making any sense ask, alright? Not to sound like I'm trying to make this confusing, but now I feel like I am.)

I finally got my earbuds untangled and turn on some music. Let The Games Begin by AJR came on. I couldn't help but start dancing down the street to the bus stop. People started staring, but I ignored them. I mean I've had people look at me weirder because of monsters chasing me. Some people started smiling as they watched me. I just kept dancing around the busy sidewalks.

I was pretty oblivious to what was going on around me because my music was all the way up, so when a guy who was robbing a store I had just past burst out of the doors, I didn't even notice.

Robber's POV

I had just finished robbing a store. I think it was a gardening store, I'm not sure, but I just robbed it because, why not?

I saw a bunch of people outside on the sidewalk, and wanted to rob them, too. (I don't know how a robber's mind works, so this will be questionable...)

I go up to a teenage girl and hold a gun close to her head. Not touching, but close to it. She seemed pretty oblivious and naïve.

She was dancing along to something, had earbuds in, you could tell she wasn't paying attention to anything around her. She twirled around and smacked me in the face. I dropped my gun and clutched my nose, sure it was broken. 

She immediately froze and whirled around to look at me. The girl looked like she wad about to say something, then shut it and ran in the other direction.

Percy's POV

I was still dancing down the sidewalk, adding a twirl into my little dancing, when I accidentally smacked someone in the face. I quickly turned around to  apollo-gize, (heh, heh) when I saw the man drop a gun and hold his now bleeding nose. (I'm laughing because this used to say he dropped his nose 😂 Glad I caught that!)

I bolted to the bus stop, scared I did something. I almost missed it, but I quickly grabbed a seat and sighed. My day was not getting off to a good start.

Very slight changes. Typos and wrong words. Nothing major to the plot.