Child of Time

Chapter Twenty-Five: Is This What Boredom Feels Like? // I'll See You Soon

PERCY

I hate being bored. Being bored is boring and that just makes me mad and being mad is boring.

Bianca and Nico were out getting to know the titans while I'm stuck in my room doing nothing. Not even alfredo sauce is helping and that's the worst.

And what's worse is that before they left me here they told me I couldn't go a day without cursing. They're probably right, so now I have to say substitutes or something.

Just a load of bull crap. Insert sad face here.

So I'm going on a walk. Insert double sad face because I forgot to bring my skateboard.

And now insert happy face because I "accidentally" shadow-travelled myself to New York, five minutes from Camp Half-Blood.

Guess I'll pay some people a visit.

I climb into a tree and sit down on the branch, leaning against the tree trunk.

"-wear you mope around doing nothing while Perseus is gone."

"I only just realised how boring it is without him." Glad to know I'm missed by someone.

I pick up a hard piece of bark and throw it at them.

"Ow! What the heck?" Yup, that's Annabeth.

I grin and throw another one. "What the fuck?" And that's Luke.

"You got hit too?"

"No, I just said 'what the fuck' for no reason." Luke said dryly.

Annabeth scoffs. "You even got his sarcasm."

"I just miss him." I grin and quietly take out a piece of paper from my pocket (don't ask why I have that) and a spare pen (don't ask about that either). I write down a small sentence and throw it in front of Luke so he'd step on it.

"What was that?"

"I stepped on a piece of paper."

"Why is there paper out here?"

"How should I know? I'm not a fucking seer."

"Just read it!" I hear the crumble of paper.

"It says 'Miss you too'." Luke says slowly.

"And now you have a stalker congratulations. Or Perseus is here hiding from us."

"Shut up." Luke says quietly and takes a step forward, right under me. I grin and jump down, landing on his back.

"Hi, Lukey. How's life?"

Luke took me off his back and turned around in record time and engulfed me in a hug.

"Alright, alright. Let me hug him, he's not just yours you know." Luke just tightens his hold on me and stuffs his face in my hair.

"No, he's mine." I roll my eyes at him.

"I'm nobody's you fu- freaking retard." I grimace as I said that. "Oh, that was awful."

Luke pulled away with a wicked grin and started poking me. "Is Percy not allowed to curse anymore?"

Annabeth pulled me into a hug as she smiled widely. "No, I hate it and it's stupid. Gods dang di Angelo children. Making my life a living Tartarus." I grumble and pulled away from Annabeth.

"You'll be fine."

"I will not be fine. I always say a cuss word and now I can't even fudging do that! This is as wack as mother-trucking Zeus on a stick over lava. Dang it!" And of course Annabeth and Luke are laughing their heads off. "You know, I came here because I missed my friends and my stupid boyfriend but if you're just gonna keep laughing I'll just go..."