It all started with a proposal

The unexpected addition

I had been feeling strange at the wedding, and I thought it was just nerves, but the thing is, I still feel this way after everything is over. I think it might be something else.
Children of Athena can love someone so much that they make a baby without actually doing anything. It just kind of appears. That's how I was made, and all my half brothers and sisters.

I called Piper as Percy was at an important meeting and Thalia was always with the hunters, and probably wouldn't receive an iris message. Another reason that I didn't want to tell Percy is that I was ashamed. What if he didn't even want this baby? I mean if it is a baby and I don't just have a weird flu or something.
Piper arrived in a matter of minutes. "What's up?" She asked.
"I think I might be pregnant." I said trying to hide my millions of emotions.
"That's great! Oh My Gods! Have you taken the test?" She screamed.
"No not yet." I didn't know if I was happy, exited, nervous, or angry.
"Well.... what are we waiting for? Let's go." We rushed outside and asked Argus to drive us to the local store. There are stores on site but they weren't packed with pregnancy tests, plus if there were some in the store I still wouldn't go there just because I want Percy to be the first person to know, apart from Piper obviously.

It was about a fifteen minute drive but it felt much longer. I was dreading this. I hadn't even finished uni yet, and with a baby, I would never get a degree. No one would hire me and then I wouldn't be able to support the baby.
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I set the test on the basin and went and sat on Percy's bunk with Piper. I did it in his cabin because it's only him and Tyson that share their cabin, and my cabin always has my half siblings in it. I knew Percy would be gone a couple more hours, and Tyson was with his other siblings in Poseidon's underwater palace.
"Are you ok?" Piper said concerned.
"I don't know. I'm just scared. That's all."
"I don't believe you. You know how you feel. And you always have a plan. How can you be scared?"
"I don't know how Percy will react. What if he doesn't want a baby and he leaves me, or he forces me to get an abortion? I couldn't live with myself. I would be distraught."
"You don't seriously believe that, do you? Do you think the dude that you just married a week ago and has had a crush on you since you were twelve would leave you because of a baby, that I know he will want when you tell him. I bet the first thing he will do is give you a huge smile and say 'that's amazing I'm going to dance around the kitchen chanting I love Annabeth and baby Percy' don't you think?" I giggled. Piper always comes up with a way to cheer me up.
"The timer is up. I'm going to check."I said nervously.
I walked in to the bathroom and stared at the stick, knowing that it could tell me if my life was going to be normal or if it was going to turn upside down very quickly.
I slowly lifted it off the sink and turned it over.
I'm pregnant.