Well helllooo, thank you for choosing my story to READ! haha, well. just to fill all you new readers in. this is a BETTER version of what i first wrote. the first one was all dialogue! D: how absolutely terrible is that? I'm going to try and update all the "bad" all dialogue chapters to something like this as soon as i can. so bear with me if it randomly changes to all dialogue. okay? well, review plz? i haven't gotten one in a while.

"Percy! We can't do this… alone!" I gasped, Percy Jackson, my all-time crush standing next to me. We were standing at the edge of a cliff, in a little clearing surrounded by tons of trees. There was no way I was jumping off that cliff without a parachute, hang glider, even just a tiny parasol so I could float easily down into the roiling waves beneath us.

"We have to try!" He yelled. I knew he was right though. There was no other way to get to the ocean fast enough, and the oracle had told us about this exact spot. There was an important message we had to tell Poseidon in person. We grasped each other's hand, took a gulp of air then sprinted off the cliff ahead of us. I had to shut my eyes or else I would have passed out looking at the white waves rolling and crashing below us.

"We're INSANE!" I bellowed over the howling wind, as we free fell, heading straight for the water. No turning back now.

"I know! The oracle told us to! Never question the quest!" He was so right. Why did he always have to be right? I liked being right sometimes too…well I guess everyone does. WHY THE HELL WAS I THINKING ABOUT THIS NOW? WHILE I'M ON THE BRINK OF DEATH!

"I know, but…"-My voice was cut off, as our laser straight bodies sliced through the water, barely making a ripple. Luckily we missed the razor sharp rocks to our left that I was so sure we would hit. Percy had nothing to worry about, being the son of Poseidon. I had a little harder time accepting the fact that we were jumping off a cliff! The ocean was no place for a daughter of Hades.

Percy's voice rang out loud and clear through the water, "You okay?" His sea green eyes showed up inches away from mine, and I about died.

I nodded.

His voice rang out again, "I'm going to make an air bubble around us, so you can talk and not just nod." He laughed, and I glared. This was no time to be making jokes, I was about to drown and he was making a joke? Are you kidding me?

A bubble of air surrounded us, "Thanks, next time make it a little quicker so I don't DROWN!" I yelled, hoping he would get the idea that I'd rather not die the next time we jump a cliff. Which will NEVER be again.

"Oh, um. Sorry about that. I was just, trying to lighten the mood." He looked ashamed. I didn't feel one bit bad, I could have DIED.

"Yeah, think next time, will you?" I scolded him, sometimes I felt like his mother. Not a good way to feel towards your crush.

"I was too caught up in my own joke." He said sheepishly. Well, DUH. I thought to myself. The joke wasn't even that funny anyways.

"Thank you, captain obvious." I rolled my eyes. Can't we just keep going? I want to get back to camp as soon as possible. I didn't even know what this message was, only Percy knew, but he needed someone to go with him so he didn't die alone or something.

"You're welcome, lieutenant sarcasm." He replied, obviously trying to be a smart ass.

I laughed lightly, "Don't make me laugh!" I'm still a little shaken from that jump, and almost drowning!" I reminded him of his one mistake that could have been deathly.

"Sorry."

"Stop being sorry about everything, Lighten up." I replied skeptically. My laughing mood was wiped away, why did he say sorry so much?

"Okay, um. Sorry?" There he goes again. Saying that stupid word, just move on!

"Stop being overly… sorry!" I exclaimed, there was no reason to keep using that word when there was nothing to be sorry about.

"I'm-"

"If you say sorry one more time, I might have to kill you. Besides that word is out of order." Wow, how lame did that sound? "Out of order", phish, I'm so clever.

He burst out laughing, "Don't make me laugh! You don't want this ocean to get any worse!" I knew he was making that up, just to make me chuckle. He succeeded. For a few minutes, we forgot our quest, and for once were just… teenagers.

"Shouldn't we try and contact your dad now?" I asked breaking the mood. I should have left the laughing mood go on a little bit longer, but I was starting to get cold and I wanted to do something productive.

"Yeah, probably." We stood there for a few seconds. Percy didn't make a move. Not a head nod, a twitch, or even to scratch his nose or something. Just stone.

I looked at him expectantly, "Um, aren't you going to contact him now?"

"I… don't know how." He looked down.

"You what?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. We just jumped off a cliff for NOTHING?

"I don't know how we contact him!" He admitted. Oh, great. Now I would have to sit in this stupid cold ocean longer.

"Oh, just great. Why don't you call him through a shell phone?" I laughed, even though that was probably the oldest joke in the book, I thought it was clever and a good comeback.

"Ha-ha, very funny, but no. We can't contact him that way." Percy didn't even laugh at all. Not even a little smirk to show he thought it was just a little bit funny. Damn, this message must be really serious.

"Darn, there are tons around!" I laughed again, I was on a roll!

"Stop making fun of me!" He exclaimed exasperated. He thought I was making fun of him? Not good…negative points for Emily. I need to get some positive ones! He has to like me!

"I'm not! Just having a little fun. Jeez." I apologized, couldn't he take a joke?

"Sorry-" He started to say.

I stopped him immediately and said, "Out of order."

"What?"

"That word is out of order! Remember?" I explained, gosh I guess when Annabeth said he was a "sea-weed brain", she wasn't kidding.

"Oh right."

"So… now what?"

"I really don't know."

"You really didn't think this through did you, Percy?" I asked. We had come all this way to get stuck in a bubble under the ocean with no clue what to do.

"Nope, not that much. I just thought it would lay out in front of me as we went along."

"Taking a leap of faith, I guess." I trailed off, realizing how true that really was.

"Literally." He replied. I giggled, because we really did take a leap, of a freaking CLIFF!

"So maybe we just, wait?" I suggested, not really sure about this plan either. It seemed better than nothing, maybe some dolphins would show up to take us to Poseidon!

"Easy enough. So…" An awkward silence settled around us.

"What Percy?" I asked, trying anything to bring up another topic. Anything to break the silence, silence is also negative points.

"Um, hi." He replied, waving a little bit.

"Hi, Percy!" I smiled wide; he was just so stupid it was funny. "What was that for?"

He answered just as stupidly as I thought he would, "Just bored."

"Okay?" I extended the "Y", just to see if he would use the word "sorry" again.

"Sorry!" He yelled out, obviously a little mad we weren't doing anything. Which of course, I was too, but what else could we do?

"Stop using that word!" I bellowed, a little too loudly that I intended. I didn't mean to sound legitally mad, but I did.

"Okay, okay." He backed down.

I admitted, "Alright that was a little harsh.

"You think?" He rolled his eyes, but I had thought of the perfect comeback to lighten the mood.

"I can't say sorry though." I raised my eyebrows, hoping he would get the hint to laugh or something.

"Why not?" And his stupidity shines through once again, how did I fall in love with this dip wad?

"Out of order." We both said at the same time. Then both fell down laughing. I knew he would remember it eventually.

"You're okay Percy." I said, because I really wanted to see what he thought of me.

"Same to you." Of course he thought that.