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Before I start the story that will embarrass me in front of you people, let me just say this-- this thing, will stay with us. Just us. Okay? Cool.
Let's get down to business, folks. Now this happened one lunch break in my entire(miserable) college life. I went out to grab something to eat with Annabeth. She's my better half, even after we broke up I still call her this because she really is my better half. She's taking up architecture- you know, first time I entered their building I thought I entered a house full Annabeths. Like, man, it's like she has a whole bunch of clones in there. Anyway so we got out of campus and decided to hit up the nearest McDonald's. Actually it's my idea. I managed to convince her to eat there. She's really stingy and would just prefer those sandwiches sold in the canteen but I got all the trouble because I HAVE TO TRY THAT NEW BUBBLEGUM ICE CREAM DIP.
Once we got there, I headed straight to the desserts counter. Annabeth left me to order her own food. I decided to buy her ice cream. I'm a good guy. Don't be surprised.
After a few minutes of wait, I finally got what I need. The heavenly sweet scent of bubblegum that swirls around my nose and when I bite into it, oh man I thought I saw the gates to Elysium. Oh, did I mentioned it's blue? Well, it's blue.
When finally I got Annabeth's, I decided to stalk to the main counter. I found her pretty quickly thanks to her golden locks. Y'know I always wanted to call her 'Goldilocks' but I'm a bit scared she'll shove her rulers down to my throat if I did. She's a scary woman.
Anyway so I walked up to her, catching some of the gossips about stuff from the people in the line, and tapped her shoulder, ice cream in hand. "Hey." I said casually and I swear, the look she gave me as she spun around was so freaking terrifying. I don't even know why she's irritated-- okay maybe because I insisted to eat here or maybe she found out that I lost her bookmark or maybe because the queue's taking too long.
It took a second before she realized I'm not a monster and that I just used the butt of the cold treat to nudge her(that will result to a blue disaster if ever she swatted my hand).
Okay so by now, you might have the idea on how things went. We got our food, we searched for an empty seat, we ate and left peacefully. But no. That's not how things went. The Fates love me and always try to make my life full of memorable stuff that will either make a wonderful story for my future kids or a great blackmail material for my dudes.
Twist #1. Remember when I said I easily spotted Annie because of her gold locks? That's a lie. Well not really. I DID spot her at 0.9 seconds but what mattered is that I spotted another blond first.
I don't know what's with this guy but he stood among the crowd of ordinary people. Maybe because he's blond? Maybe because he's fair skinned and is practically glowing? Maybe because he's tall(only a few inches taller than me!) or maybe all of the above. The point is, he stood there and it's just like I've been hit by a mega lightning and there's ringing in my ears saying 'Hey Perc notice me'. And me being the oh-so-kind person that I am, noticed him alright.
As we walk to our table, I told Annabeth about this blond dude. Blondude. And Annabeth, praise the heavens for her subtlety, spun around to look for Blondude to see for herself. I wished the mega lightning would come back and zap me out then and there.
Annie's superior subtlety and stealth didn't end there, mind you. Because at the middle of our 'peaceful' eating with consisted of our usual playful banter and whining, Blondude, with all his graciousness, casually sat on the spot adjacent to ours. Right there, facing me. And I, Percy Jackson, master of acting dumb act and amazing reflexes, just sat there dumbstruck and slack jawed. This is where Annie make a valuable entrance. This is where I legit prayed to all the gods known to let that mega lightning strike me down. Because the moment Annabeth saw my dumb expression, she just, turned around to look what I'm looking at(for a few seconds only because I know it's not nice to stare!) and muttered a loud 'Oh.'
I was sure that at this moment, all the gods ever existed, had just turned against me.