Chapter 9

Hazel's pov

Percy excuses himself to the bathroom, and Piper tells Justin that they should play something different. Justin shrugs and Juli follows him into the play area. Leo says something to Jarvis then comes back here.

"Great news, guys! We are only about half an hour away from our destination!"

"We found something to play!" Juli pops up in the middle of us. "Sardines!"

"Yeah! But it isn't fish, it's a game!"

"What's sardines?" Gee-Gee asks.

"It's a game like hide and seek, but backwards. One person hides, and the other people look for them. When they find them, they hide with them and then you keep doing that until only one person is left looking, and they hide. Who wants to hide first?"

"I vote Hazel!" Frank says. Everyone else shrugs, so I get up and they all close their eyes. I walk into the kitchen, where the giant fridge is standing away from the wall about eight inches. I squeeze back into the corner and wait.

A few minutes later, I hear, "Ready or not, here I come!" and hear people move around. Footsteps come into the kitchen and I see Katie's head poke around the corner.

"Crap, I can't fit back there!"

"The fridge is empty, turn it off and take out the shelves!'<br>Katie quickly does as she's told, then climbs in. I hear shouts of, "Where's Katie?" Then Juli sticks her head back.

"Found you!" Then she squeezes back and giggles. "Did Katie find you?"

"Yeah, but she couldn't fit, so she's in the fridge."

Juli goes to check and sees that another three people could fit in the fridge. Then we see Annabeth come towards the kitchen and finds us quickly. She squeezes back and then we see Percy's smirk.

"I only had to follow you," He whispers to Annabeth. The fridge door opens and we hear Travis exclaim. Then he climbs in.

Over the next few minutes, everyone finds us and is either in the fridge or behind it, except for Frank and Leo. We hear footsteps and suddenly, Leo is looking at us.

"LOSER!" he yells in joy. Frank scowls at him, but the bus stops first. We all get out of our hiding places, stretching.

"Wow." Nico labeled it correctly.

We are looking at a three-story mansion, white with a black roof. It has a big enough garage for all our cars. We pile out of the bus and enter the house. It is amazing.

It has a large dining room, kitchen, living room, a library, an aquarium, a greenhouse, and other rooms for personal amusement, and rooms for us plus another next to all of them, connected, for our children. We claim rooms and Frank and I get one in the second floor. I help Leo set out the cars in the garage and then they expand to full size, and we all unpack as much as we can. The kids play outside while we sit on the giant porch. After a while, we start to peel off, first Annabeth, and Percy, and on and on until I'm alone. Then Leo calls me to the aquarium, where everyone but Annabeth are sitting.

"Next Saturday is Annabeth and my anniversary," Percy explains. Piper squeals in excitement.

"For when you started dating or when you were married?" She asks.

"Both." Piper sighs with happiness.

"What anniversary?"

"First marriage."

"Alright, we have work to do. No one let Annabeth into the ballroom, we'll have it there. I'll give you guys jobs," Piper commands.

She hands out sheets of paper, and my job is to decorate the ballroom, with Rachel, Clarisse, and Chris using the supplies that Katie and Travis will buy. The decorated team heads into the ballroom, which is huge.

Piper comes in and hands us all keys to the ballroom. Apparently, we are supposed to lock the room after we leave.

Then we start planning.

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