Hey :) I am sorry that this chapter took so long so put up, I will try and update my stories more regularly now but I can't make any promises as i have LOADS of really important work for school to do:( Anyway, I hope you like it, any reviews/follows/favourites are really appreciated :D

That night I was too tired to get to sleep. Once he dropped me off at my cabin all I could think about was him. I know, I am starting to sound like an Aphrodite girl, but there is no other way to explain it, I felt like jumping up and down on my bed singing Taylor Swift songs. But I am dignified so I wouldn't do that.

Any smart person could blatantly see that I have liked him for ages, too bad for me that he is a seaweed brain. Ever since I kissed him in Mt. St. Helens I didn't know whether to bring it up or not. At the time he looked pretty shocked, but that was probably because we were in an active volcano and he was about to run off to what was more than likely his death. As I laid down on my bunk I thought about all of our quests, all of the times where he almost died and I saved his butt, and all of the times that I almost died and he saved mine. And I remembered what it felt like when I thought he had died, and I remembered my heart breaking and my legs feeling like jelly, and I remembered falling to the ground as I stumbled out of the labyrinth. I remembered the look on Chiron's face when I told him what had happened, as if he had aged fifty years with the news. And I remembered what it was like to lose my best friend. And I thought about the coming summer and what it would bring and then realised that it all still might happen.

As you can probably guess I didn't get much sleep that night, so when Malcolm woke the cabin up at five thirty, I wasn't best pleased. After a lot of screaming, shouting and debating about who should get to use the showers first, the entire cabin made its way to the pavilion for breakfast. As we walked in I caught a glimpse of Percy walking sleepily towards his bench. He had obviously just got up no more than five minutes ago as his hair was even messier than usual and his t-shirt was inside out. Before I could walk over there and tell him what an idiot he looked like Travis shouted,

'Percy! Do you still need help getting changed?' Percy looked down himself and realised that his t-shirt was on inside out. And apparently forgetting where he was (like the seaweed brain he is) just took his t-shirt off. In the middle of the pavilion. In front of the entire camp. My, and probably about a dozen other girls jaws dropped. He was ripped. It's not that I hadn't seen him without a top on before, because I had, I just had never really looked before now. I closed my jaw before anyone could notice. But I am certain someone did. Realisation flashed across Percy's face followed by a small blush as he realised what he had just done. He looked up around the room and said:

'Like what you see?' flexing his muscles and strutting around the table, trying to laugh it off. There were a few cat calls and several people laughed before he put his shirt back on and sat down for his breakfast. I rolled my eyes, turned my back to him and kept on walking towards my table.

After I had finished eating I walked over to the Poseidon table and whispered in Percy's ear:

'Quite the show you put on.' As I said it he jumped out of his skin and spilled his food everywhere. 'Nice going Seaweed Brain.' I said as a smirk appeared on my face. He brushed the spilled food back on to his plate and got up from the table.

'Hey Annabeth,' he said, 'it was quite a show wasn't it?'

'To be honest I think you should go onto a talent show with that.' I replied as we started walking out of the pavilion.

'Maybe, but somehow I think I would be one of those people who are actually rubbish at what they do but everyone loves anyway.'

'Perhaps, but I thought it was great.' I said.

'At least I have one fan.' He said with a wink. Before our conversation could go any further someone called our names:

'Percy, Annabeth!' my head whipped around to see that it was Grover.

'Hey Grover!' I shouted over.

'Hey G-man.' Said Percy as we got closer.

'A bunch of us are going to play truth or dare again, do you want to come?' said Grover.

'I am not sure… after last time-' I said, but before I could finish Percy cut me off.

'Of course we will!'

'I am so getting you for this later.' I said under my breath as Grover lead the way.

'Sure you will.' He replied.

We walked with Grover towards Zeus' Fist where everyone was already sitting waiting for us.

'Ok, so are we all ready?' asked Grover.

'You betcha!' shouted Travis, obviously ready for another day of embarrassing people. 'Ok… Clarisse, truth or dare?'

'Urm, truth.'

'Truth? I thought you of all people, Clarisse would have the guts to take a dare from a Stoll. Apparently not…'

'No, I am not that stupid, plus, I have nothing to hide.'

'Ok then, do you have any secret talents?' asked Travis.

'What kind of a question was that?'

'One where I had to think on my feet.'

'Whatever.' She paused for a while. 'Yes, I do. I can play the oboe.' Silence covered the clearing faster than you could say Hades' underpants. Followed, of course, by a raging roar of laughter.

'When did you learn how to play the oboe?' asked Chris.

'Before I came to camp. Is that a problem?'

'Of course not!' said Chris defensively, before he could get himself into any trouble. Clarisse folded her arms across her chest and cleared her throat.

'If you have all done laughing at me, I believe it is Connor's go.' She said, whilst setting her gaze firmly on Connor and smirking.

'Fine, dare.' Said Conor confidently, starring right back at Clarisse.

'I dare you to swap a piece of clothing with the person to your right.' Connors head slowly turned towards his right, to face Silena.

'Oh, great thanks Clarisse!' exclaimed Connor. 'Now I have to wear girly clothes.'

'Excuse me?' said Silena, turning to face him. This was going to get ugly I thought as she carried on speaking. 'Are you saying that my clothes are not completely cute and the best in this room? You should be lucky she didn't pick to your left otherwise you would have been swapping with Juniper and that is not something you want to be doing.'

'Hey!' Protested Juniper, but Silena carried on.

'You should thank the Gods that she didn't pick just anyone in the room! Like, if she had picked Percy, you would have been wearing a top that was inside out and that would really not look good on you.'

'Like it did on me.' Percy butted in.

'Sure, whatever.' Replied Silena, waiting for a reply from Connor.

'So what do we have to swap?' asked Connor.

'I think t-shirts would do.' Said Clarisse with a big grin on her face.

'But her t-shirt is frilly. And pink!' shouted Connor in horror.

'Don't be such a wimp Connor, give me you t-shirt.' Demanded Silena. Connor looked sheepishly around the group and then took off his top. Silena grabbed it and ran behind some trees to change. Once she had, she ran back towards the group in Connors oversized t-shirt and gave him her one.

'Do I really have to do this?' said Connor.

'Yes!' everyone shouted back at him, I for one was definitely looking forward to seeing him in a girl's top. He stood up, turned around, and squeezed it over his head then shuffled the rest of his torso into the t-shirt. He then slowly turned around to show us, but as he did Percy got a camera out and took a picture of him.

'Hey give me that!' Screeched Connor as he dived for Percy's camera. We all burst out laughing as they fought.

'That is revenge for that video of me you put on the internet!' said Percy over the noise. Percy managed to get up and lead Connor away from the group back to the Pavilion, (and quite cleverly on his part, towards the rest of the camp). We watched them run into the distance as we all slowly started to follow them.

Well, there you are, chapter 5. I hope you liked it and any constructive feedback would be great :)

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