"Mommy and Daddy are here! Come on Amy!" Bonnie squealed running down with her friend.

Only June, Freddie, Susan, Pam, Annabeth and Thalia were left. Everyone else had gone to meet their parents.
Susan sat by Thalia and Annabeth. "Are your parents coming?"

"Nah. My mom is dead and I never see my dad." Thalia replied nonchalantly, as she flipped through Annabeth's album, smiling at the memories it held.

"Oh goodness. I'm so sorry!" Susan apologised, feeling very meek.

Thalia waved it aside with a shrug and Susan wondered how the girl could take this so lightly. "So where do you stay?" She ventured hesitantly. "In the holidays, I mean."

"This really awesome camp or with with this group of girls." Thalia answered.

"Group of girls?" Pam asked, sitting down beside them. Having missed the start of the conversation she wondered at Susan's grief stricken face.

"Yeah. I'm kinda the leader." Thalia said, gesturing to the silver band around her forehead. "We don't date. Like ever. And we just go...camping in the wild and stuff. We like archery...a lot."

Pam turned to Annabeth. "And your parents are coming I suppose?" She asked before Susan could tell her not to for she feared that Annabeth's story would be something like Thalia's.

"No. I rarely ever see my mom and my dad is in California. He was gonna come but he called me and told me yesterday that he won't be able to because he's really busy."

"Oh." Pam said. Susan was still shell shocked about Thalia's mother.

"Don't you have any siblings?" Pam asked.

"I have two step brothers. But they're pretty young and immature." Annabeth said.

Susan definitely didn't miss out on the words, step brother.

"I have a brother." Thalia said, then she grinned maliciously. "And a soon to be sister in law in a couple years."

The two girls gaped at her. "They're engaged?"

"What! No! He's only nearly 17! But the rate it's going- but I think that maybe Seaweed Brain will propose to Miss Smarty Pants here first." She nudged Annabeth's ribs who blushed in turn.

"Shut up, Thals."

Susan and Pam exchanged looks of horror at that.

"Oh. My. Goodness." June said from across the room where she was peering out the window.

"What?" Susan asked, coming to her side, but her mouth fell open. Pam followed them and her eyes popped out of its skull...not for real.

A few seconds later, the few girls left in the common room were peering through the many windows.

Thalia and Annabeth went to the window too and looked out. Annabeth burst into laughter and Thalia snickered.

"Who the hell are those people?" Susan asked.

June gasped melodramatically. "Serial killers?"

"No!" Freddie shouted. "They're lawn mower people."

"I bet you ten pounds they're serial killers."

"Twenty pounds they're lawn mower people."

Annabeth laughed at that. "Thirty pounds I know who they are." She said.

June and Freddie turned around and faced her challengingly.

"You're on."

The girls all rushed down the stairs at once, the more sensible ones, slower than the others.

The girls were on the soft grassy sounds outside the school in no time. A white van was making its way down the driveway, the windows open and music bursting through. The words DELPHI STRAWBERRY SERVICES were printed on the side.

The grounds were nearly empty by now, only one or two students remained. So when the van veered out of the path and straight onto the grass, it didn't cause too much havoc.

"Definitely Serial Killers." June muttered.

"Sure. Serial Killers would most certainly have a van with the words, DELPHI STRAWBERRY SERVICES." Freddie muttered.

"Well, it could be their disguise." June retorted.

Pam rolled her eyes. "If they're Serial Killers, why are we waiting out here for them?"

"Idiots." Susan muttered.

The van pulled to a stop and the song turned off. The girls could hear voices inside.

"Leo! Give me back my glasses!"

"I told you fiery orange contacts would've looked better. What do these even do? It's all blurry."

"You do know that we are here right?"

"Uhh..." What sounded suspiciously like a goat bleating was heard. "Guys, Percy's sleeping."

"Percy..."

"Travis, stop pulling on his ear."

"Okay, Kit-Kat."

"I'm getting off."

"Oh my gods! The door's are locked!"

"Leo!"

"Why you looking at me?"

"Percy! Blue! Nemo! Annabeth!"

"Annabeth!!!" The door rattled as someone tried to bust his way through. "Leo! Open the door."

Some clicking and clacking followed by some impatient screams and finally the door flew open and maybe a dozen people fell out and landed in a heap. A black haired boy scrambled up onto his feet and saw Annabeth.

"Wise Girl!" He tried to run towards her, but fell over because his left foot was trapped in the mountain of people. He spat out some grass, stood up, pulled his foot away from the mountain and ran straight at Annabeth.

Annabeth smirked, and ran the last few steps into his arms. The guy spun her around and kissed her.

"Gods! I missed you!" He said with a laugh, setting her back on her feet.

"I missed you too, Seaweed Brain."

The pile of people started to stir and they all rightened themselves slowly after a lot of cussing, threats and shouting.

"Annabeth!" They attacked her in a huge group hug.

"Hey guys." Annabeth squeaked out from under them.

"Hey! What about me?" Thalia whined.

"Thalia!" The group moved onto their next victim.

Thalia had time to squeak out an, "Uh oh." Before she was engulfed.

Pam, Susan, Freddie and June gaped at the lot.

A pale boy dressed in black stepped out of the van groggily.

"Nico!" Annabeth shouted and rushed forward. "Nickie!" Thalia screamed, joining her friend after finally getting free from the stampede of weird people in orange shirts. The kid's eyes widened as the two girls attacked him in a hug.

"Uh...mind introducing us?" Susan asked faintly.

"Oh yeah!" Thalia said. "Susan, this is Pam, June and Freddie. Pam, this is Susan, Freddie and June. Freddie-"

"No- I mean-"

"Alright then." Thalia sighed. "Well this is Nico." The pale boy raised an arm nervously in greeting.

"This is Percy." Annabeth said. Percy smirked at them.

"Piper." A girl with brown hair and multi coloured eyes smiled politely.

"Jason." The guy next to her with blonde hair and bronze rimmed glasses grinned.

"Leo." A Hispanic guy with curly hair winked at them. Susan could've sworn that his nose burst into flames but she dismissed it as a weird hallucination.

"Calypso." She smiled at them and entwined her hand with Leo's.

"Travis and Connor." June and Freddie immediately identified them as pranksters.

"Katie." Katie smiled at them.

"Grover." He bleated and nervously fixed his red Rasta cap.

"And Will." A blonde dude wearing a green surgical shirt, loose jeans and flip flops waved at them.

Annabeth turned to June and Freedie. "Now, give me my thirty dollars."