Darkness's Flower: Pulling It Together

Chapter 10: I Don't Want Your Spit

~Lilly~

I took the wrapper off of the sucker and put it in my mouth. A few moments later, someone took the sucker out of my hand.

"Hey!" I yelled.

I looked back. Percy had it in his mouth. He took it out and handed it to me, sitting down beside me.

"Mm. Blue raspberry. That's my favorite," Percy said. "Thanks, Lill."

I stared my sucker. "Gross, Percy! I don't want your spit!"

"I didn't want yours either, but I took it anyways. Suck it up."

I rolled my eyes and stuck it back in my mouth. I didn't care. This is Percy we're talking about. He put his arm across my shoulders. We looked at each other and grinned.

"This'll be fun!" I squealed.

Percy and I hopped to our feet. I looked at him.

"What shall we try this time, Lillian?" he asked.

I smirked. "I say we shall wing it, Perseus!"

We both started cracking up. Percy and me trying to be formal and fancy is like putting a cat and a bird in the same room. It doesn't go well.

We managed to stop laughing and Percy started throwing sprays of water in the air.

"Wait!" I said, causing him to stop. "Can you make something out of the water?"

He smiled. "I'll try."

His eyes squeezed shut as the water sprayed up, making a huge p, for Percy. I quickly froze it, making it stand above the water. I looked at Percy and he gave me his troublemaker smile.

"I can do this" he said.

He made another two things and by the time we were finished, we were both hunched over and breathing heavily. P&L was across the water. We stared at our masterpiece.

"Isn't it lovely?" Percy asked.

"Sure is!"

We both laughed and we sat back down in the sand. I pulled my sucker out of my pocket and took the wrapper off of it again. See, I had wrapped it up and put it there before Percy and I had done this.

"Oh, Percy. I still need my sword fighting practice," I told him.

"Oh, yeah! I forgot about that! Why didn't it work?"

I rolled my eyes. "I don't know, maybe because I was stuck in the Underworld for two months!"

He smiled and put his arm across my shoulders like he had earlier. "How about next week, say Monday?"

"Perfect. Thanks, Perc." I kissed him on the cheek.

"Anytime, Lill. I better go. See ya!"

He got up and walked away. I stared at the ice and smiled. I heard someone behind me and took my sucker out of my mouth. I looked back and it was Jason. He took it from me and out it in his mouth before I could say anything.

I sighed. "Percy had that in his mouth earlier, Jason."

He shrugged and handed it back to me. I looked at with with slight distaste. He sat down beside me.

"Thanks," he said.

"Nothing like two guys taking my sucker. Oh yeah. Definitely what I wanted. Ew. I don't want your spit either."

"Hey!" He lowered his voice. "We have kissed, thank you."

I shrugged and stuck it back in my mouth. "So did you ask Chiron?"

"Yeah. He said we could and to be careful. He wants us to tell a few people. I'll tell Piper and Percy and Leo."

"Alright. I'll tell Nico and Ash and Annabeth. They'll all tell each other. When are we leaving."

"Around four or five. I contacted Reyna and she's very excited to meet you."

"Does she or anyone else suspect anything?"

He smiled. "Nope! That's our little secret, Lilly. Be ready! I'll see you then."

He left me there. Then Nico came down and sat by me. I put my head on his shoulder and snuggled up to him.

"This is nice, Nico. Don't move," I said.

"Ooh! You have a sucker..."

I sighed and handed it to him. "Just to warn you, both Jason and Percy have had it in their mouths."

"Ew. Why did they have it?"

"Percy came down here and we made that, but he took my sucker. Then I just talked to Jason and he took it. Now you're taking it."

He shrugged and put the blue sucker in his mouth. He smiled and handed it back to me. I put it in my mouth and decided that was the last person to even look at my sucker.

"You didn't say anything, Lills," Nico said.

"Huh?"

"I'm surprised you didn't say something like I'm not swapping spit with you."

I giggled. "I'm sorry. I don't want your spit, Nico!"

"Whatever."

"I'm going to Camp Jupiter with Jason tonight."

Nico sat up straight. "What? Why?"

I lifted my head. "Jason is taking me to Camp Jupiter because I've never seen it."

"Lilly, I could take you! You don't need him to take you!"

I smirked. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're jealous!"

Nico looked out at the water, his face turning a deep red. "I am not!"

I started laughing and put my head back on his shoulder. "It's ok, Nico. I've been jealous."

He sighed. "Fine. I am jealous. I want to be the one walking around Camp Jupiter with you. I want to be the one to take you. I want to be the one with you."