Percabeth at Goode High

Cia's Nice Side

Cia

"Percy and I aren't partners," I complained to my besties the next day. I know that some think that they're just my minions but I honestly care about Del and Maya. "Yeah but you got with Piper which means you can invite us over to work on the project." says Maya. It's not a bad idea. "Who are you with?" I ask, "I honestly wasn't paying attention." "I'm with June," says Del, "And Maya's with Callie." "I'm going to go ask Perce if we can come over." 

"Percy," I say, "since all of my friends are partners with you guys, can we come over tonight?" Percy glances at his friends. "Sure, I'll write you the address. Oh, and we're ADHD, so we might get a little off track." he says smiling at his friends. "Ok sure," I say and strut away. The piece of paper reads, 1217 Poseidon's Avenue 6:00 PM in bold letters. I send my friends a pic of the paper and go home. Del and Maya come over a half hour later. "We have to look gorgeous!" Del squeals. So we do our nails, our hair, and our makeup and put on our outfits. At 5:30, we're ready to go.

We get into my car and drive over. Wow, they're mansion is 2x the size of mine. A butler answers the door. I'm about to tell him to take my bags but then Thalia comes down the marble staircase and says, "Richy, don't you dare take their bags. Go to the kitchen and have some cookies." "What am I supposed to do with my stuff?" I ask. "Bring it up," says Thalia and walks back up the stairs. We go up 3 flights of stairs before we reach our destination: the lounge. The lounge is epic. It takes up the whole floor except for the bathroom. The floor is marble. There's a giant TV on the wall with a blue shag rug under it and a 3 couches on top of it. There are also bean bags and a coffee table. There is a gaming area and a table with board games on it. There are some mats with boxing gloves on them and a couple mini fridges. Lots of backpacks are piled on top of each other in the corner. Even though there is enough space for all of them on the couches, there are some on the bean bags and some on the carpet. Thalia, Percy, and some others are drinking blue Coke on the couch and Reyna and Rachel are sharing a bag of chips and a Sprite on the rug. The Stoll twins and Leo are having a Nerf gun fight in the corner, Piper and Hazel are staring at something on Piper's phone, but the majority are watching Doctor Who.

Thalia joined the others without bothering to say anything, so I cleared my throat and said hi. I'm nervous. At school, I'm in my territory. At home, I'm in my territory. Here, I'm in their territory. My palms start to sweat. I throw my bags on top of the already-formed pile and Del + Maya follow my lead. I sit on the couch. After a while, Piper notices me and pauses Doctor Who. "Hey," she says nonchalantly. "Let's play a game." Leo and Connor pass out Nerf guns and we start shooting at each other.

Everyone's laughing when Piper pulls us three aside. "Come on," she says and brings us downstairs. She opens the 8th door on our left and I'm speechless. It's clearly her room, but it's so... cool. She takes us to one of the 3 doors other than the one that leads to the hallway. It opens to reveal a closet the size of her bedroom. "Take whatever you like," she says. I'm stunned. "Stuff it in your purse. But for now, wear something comfortable or you'll be uncomfy all night." For some reason, I agreed. I dressed in some of her sweatpants and a tank top. Piper calls us over. She wipes off all our makeup and puts only a thin layer on. I look in the mirror, expecting horrid results but I look beautiful. "How'd you do that?" I asked Piper, but she just shrugs. After giving Del and Maya the same treatment, she opens a cabinet and I gasp. It's full of hair and makeup supplies. And beautiful expensive jewelry. "Take it," Piper says, "I barely use it anyways." Then she asks if we brought swimsuits. "We didn't." She walks over to a sewing machine and a pile of fabric and 15 minutes later, 3 gorgeous bathing suits are waiting. "Thank you, Piper! Oh my gods!" we all say. Piper has proven herself to be super nice. She just gave us tons of gifts. When she asks to do our hair, we let her because we trust her to make us look pretty. I end up with a messy bun low on the nape of my neck. "Come on, they're probably pigging out or playing Stoll Dares. Maybe both." she says after a thoughtful nod. Going back upstairs, we find the group is pigging out.

We immediately sit and start eating candy too. Pretty soon, everybody's screaming. "Who let Leo have candy and caffeine?!" screams Callie, smiling, her voice rising above all the others. Pretty soon we're all laughing in a dog pile. Annabeth gets up, opens a window, and jumps out. Wait, what? I rush to the window and look down. There's a trampoline. Pretty soon, everybody's out the window and we jump around wildly. It's the most fun I've ever had. We climb out of trampoline and sit in a circle under an oak tree. "Time for Stoll Dares." One of the twins grins evilly. "Wait, what's that?" I ask. "Oh, so, in camp we love to do dares. But then, we discovered something better, Stoll Dares. They're super extreme and we usually only do them hyper." Hazel says, smiling. "So, who wants to go first?" says Leo. "I will," June speaks up. "Ok, Juniper. I dare you to... jump out of a tree and hope we can catch you, then..." he pulls Juniper in and whispers in her ear. She nods, smiling. She climbs the oak tree and we all lock hands. She jumps out screaming "SAVE THE EARTH!!" then runs off and we continue. After, Rachel Dare slides down one of the pool slides in a huge, ruffly, terribly ugly dress. She gets soaked. Juniper sneaks up on Grover covered in honey and leaves. "Ahh!" Grover screams and we all laugh. After more dares, including Percy running off the 4 story roof and into the pool in his undies.

We go back inside and then Annabeth reminds us all that we're here to work on our SS project. We all groan, but get our study things. We all decide to do the Storms of Manhattan, 1 year ago. Then Richy comes up and tells us dinner is served. We all sit at the table, still in the lounge, and Richy opens a small hatch. He pulls on a lever and food comes up. Cool, I think. We all stuff ourselves with pizza. It's 10 PM too soon and we have to go. But then I look out the window. It's snowing and raining and we're already locked in. Guess we're going to have to stay the night. "Sleepover in Piper's room. No boys allowed!" "Sleepover in Percy's room! No girls allowed." "Annabeth yells, "We call prank capture the flag!" And the boys respond from across the balcony. "We accept!" "What's this?" I ask out loud. Callie answers. "We get half off the house, they get the other half. We put our flag here. Their flag is in Percy's room. We set up pranks and then we go to the boys. They set up pranks and they come to our side. Whoever touches the flag first wins."