Quest Of Warning

Chapter 5: Clover Chase

At first, I thought the idea was crazy.

We would be getting kicked from camp and I would never be able to see Annabeth.

But then I agreed to doing it.

Eventually, after Will decided to go.

We went when no one was watching.

We entered New York soon after. We rode a bus that was awfully crowded.
They dropped us off near the stand.
The sun had just begun to set, so Missy offered to give us a place to stay.

"Are you sure?" I asked her as she went up to her apartment door.

"Yep." she says, knocking.

Gabe Ugliano answers the door.

"Missy?" he says.

She smiled.

"Hi Gabe."

"WHERES MY CAR?" he shouts.

"Sh. Your car is donezo..." she says.

He frowns.

"But don't worry." she walks past him.

"Ehm, who are these people?" 

"These are my friends. Clover is from school and Will is some stranger I met and became friends with. We need a place to stay." she said.

"Sure. You've got your room. We'll be down here." Gabe said, staring at us as we entered.

Will crept to the right of me, avoiding his gaze from my left.

The house smelled of spoiled beer and moldy pizza.

And, not to mention, it was completely trashed.

Will leaned his head out of the door and gulped a deep breath of fresh air, then bolted past Missy to the door saying, "Missy."

I ran to Will, holding my breath.
I entered the room, exhaling and breathing deeply.

"How... do... you... live with this?" Will and I asked.

She shrugged.

"Guess I'm just used to it. I'll go get some pizza."

She quickly sprayed the room with perfume from her closet, and I gagged.

"No moldy pizza please." Will said.

"That's even worse!" I say, gagging.

"He orders a new pizza, like, every five minutes." she cracks a smile and ran downstairs.

I opened the window quickly.

"I'll go get some sleeping bags from Percy's closet." I said.

"You've been here?"

"Yeah, once. When Sally was here." I said.

I run to Percy's room, raid his closet, then run back.

Will carefully put the sleeping bags to his nose, then dropped them.

"Nope, they smell." he said, frowning.

I, hesitantly, grabbed the stinky perfume and sprayed them.

Then I gagged.

"Well, somewhat better." Will said.
Missy came back with a fresh pizza a bag of chips and a bowl. 

"Oh, good, fresh pizza."

I emphasize fresh.

"CHIPS!" Will said, grabbing the bag.