87Frank didn't really like the dorm he was staying in right now.
He crawled under his bed and pulled the sheets up so it covered him entirely. Why? Well he certainly didn't need to be embarrassed or 'pranked', thank you very much!
The idea of being with Beckendorf and Percy and Jason, Travis, Connor, Grover and Leo seemed like a great idea at first. He shared a room with Percy, Jason and Leo because, unlike the girls' dorm, there were four to a room. He liked Percy for sure, and Jason was cool too, but Leo...something wasn't right with the way he looked at him mischievously. As if he knew something he didn't and was preparing to laugh at him. Frank didn't like it.
And it didn't help that the Stolls had already declared their 'Pranking Spree' to all of them. They were planning to humiliate them all. He didn't know what to think of it at first. Was he supposed be scared or freaked out or laugh at their apparent threat?
They're just bluffing, Percy had said. No need to worry, he said. What are they going to do? he said.
Well what happened next? Percy Jackson was made the first victim of the triumphant Stolls. Whipped cream wasn't that bad, Frank reflected. But then he recalled the fact that they exposed a picture of the sleeping jock all over Face book.
Yeah Perce, we totally do not need to worry at all.
Oh well, at least the others got a heads up on that. He was pretty sure that Grover had tried sleeping with his eyes open to 'keep alert' or something. He would love to see how that turned out. It must have sucked for him and Beckendorf to be sharing a room with those evil twins. So in a way, Frank was glad that he only had to be with just one annoying prankster.
Frank had this odd feeling that he was next on the list. They would have concluded to the fact that Bekendorf is a pretty light sleeper and he would crush them if they even tried to go near him. Jason slept in the furthest part of the room so they would have to get past all the other roommates to reach him, and if one of them woke up he would be alerted. Grover might be another target because he was a heavy sleeper and it would be easy to prank him, but he was also the one who was trying to stay awake the whole night. Percy would probably kill all of them if it happened to him again so that only left one person...
Him.
So there he was, wrapping himselfup in his blankets like some sort of an Egyptian mummy. The pros to that were that he wouldn't be able to be drawn on or painted on or whatever, they wouldn't be able to take a picture of him. Cons: there could still be something there when he woke up, there might be something hanging above his bed like a fake spider or something and he was getting really hot being covered with some bed sheets.
Then it occurred to him that they might not even play a prank on him while he was asleep. What if they thought it would be too predictable and it ought to be sometime else, like when they are eating. But then what if they didn't think that way. Or maybe they wanted him to think that way so he would be confused. Or maybe they weren't. What if they wanted him to think that they were trying to make him confused. What if they were trying to make him think that they wanted to make him think that they were trying to make him confused? Or what if they were trying to make him think that they were trying to make him think that they were trying to make him think that they wanted to make him think that they were trying to make him confused?
A million more 'what-ifs' and 'maybes' flooded through Frank's mind and it was giving him such a wonderful head ache.
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"How could nobody notice this?!" Rachel shrieked. "Are you sure? Positive?"
Silena nodded sitting herself onto the foot of Rachel's bed. "I'm very sure; I checked it out and..."
Annabeth frowned and folded her arms. "I cannot believe I did not see it that coming."
"Yeah, we can't believe it either."
Katie reached out for Silena's phone and whistled loudly. "Well, Silena you are the first to find out." Silena didn't really respond to that, still a little too flabbergasted and...well surprised really. That's why she called Annabeth and tossed her the device in her hands. Annabeth didn't really understand what was happening when she opened the door to find a wide-eyed Silena with an expression that seemed to look like she was trying not to voice the loudest and most horrifying scream on earth. But when she looked at the Facebook comments and the comment that was about to be posted she flipped.
Then Rachel and Katie were interrupted from their movie by two shocked roommates who thrust a phone into their hands. Rachel was really very mad about the situation, since she had only recently found out that Thalia had a brother and now to find out it was actually JASON...
Katie raised an eyebrow and said. "Really?" Annabeth had nodded. But it still didn't seem to get through her head because Katie kept stopping and looking at them for confirmation. "Really? Really? Really?!"
Rachel pursed her lips and got up with a grim "I'm getting Thalia."
"No!" Silena cried grabbing her arm and pulling her back down to sit. The redhead looked at her incredulously.
"But how could she not tell us that JASON was her BROTHER?!"
"And also, how could Jason not tell us that THALIA was his SISTER?!"
"And how could PIPER not tell us that her BOYFRIEND'S SISTER is now one of her BEST FRIENDS?!" They all started waving their arms about and muttering and questioning...
Annabeth frowned and rubbed her chin. "Maybe it never occurred to them that they all knew each other."
"I find that very unlikely," Katie said sneaking a snake lolly from a packet nearby. "I mean, we know everybody in our group and-"
"Jason has never been there when Thalia would sit with us," Annabeth reminded. She looked at them all seriously.
"Has it ever occurred to you that Thalia has never seen Piper and Jason together, and Jason never seen Piper and Thalia together, and Piper had never seen Thalia and Jason together? All their timetables are muddled up for different times and schedules so it's just a coincidence that they never met each other all together."
They all mumbled a few things. Katie still looked unconvinced.
"I think that's a little too weird, don't you? I mean Piper was bound to find out-"
"I was bound to find out what now?" Piper asked, her head popping out from nowhere and almost giving Rachel a heart attack.
Katie looked up at her. "Oh we were just talking about how Jason-"
"HAS A HUGE CRUSH ON YOU!" Silena interrupted. Katie gave her a weird look, but instead received a pointed glare in response.
Annabeth furrowed her eyebrows at that, because she never would've fallen for that. But Piper, being all giggly when it came to Jason, blushed and mumbled a 'Shut up' before walking back to her room. Silena smiled at her brightly until Piper closed the door to the room. With that, she glared at all of them.
"Guys, don't tell them! This could turn out to be really cute in the end!" she said crossing her arms.
Annabeth looked at the cheerleader weirdly. "How is it cute?"
"Well it's like a love triangle, except it's not because Jason and Thalia are siblings and that would be disgusting. But they don't know about each other, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!"
The blonde next to her rolled her eyes. Typical cheerleader...
Katie ate took a handful of popcorn and ate it. She was watching the Hunger Games and was rather irritated at everybody's arguing and accusations and blah. She also couldn't hear anything and this was the part where Katniss sang the lullaby to Rue. "Can you keep it down a little; you'll wake up Reyna and Hazel with all that."
Silena rested her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at all of them. "I SAID, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!" She started waving her arms about, because apparently this was a very serious situation. Unfortunately for her, it did not seem worthy among the eyes of her fellow roommates.
"No."
She almost flipped the bed over in rage. "You all are hopeless."
The door flew open and in front stood two weary girls glaring at them all. "Why are you all so loud?"
Rachel rubbed her chin. "Well Silena found out that Jason is Thalia's brother, and Piper is supposedly dating him without knowing that he's siblings with her, and Thalia does not know that her new friend is with her brother, Jason doesn't realise that they both have actually met..."
Hazel stared at them all from the brown curls hiding her eyes. Reyna just looked at them all with an expression unreadable. The two of them exchanged looks. The others waited patiently for one of them to start screaming or become extremely shocked or go all 'Oh no they di-din't!' on them...
Instead, they turned and walked away.
"Hey! Where are you going?!" Annabeth asked them running out of the room and into the hallway. "Aren't you surprised at all?"
Hazel's head poked out from the doorway. Her eyes were half-closed like she was acting mysterious and they both knew something they didn't, or maybe she was half-asleep. "If any of this leaks out," she said. "Reyna and I were never in this..."
The door slammed shut.
Silena looked at the doorway blankly and frowned. "I didn't even tell anyone what I was planning on doing." Katie nodded as well and continued to stuff the popcorn into her mouth. The door in front of them opened quickly.
Reyna snorted and flicked her braid over her shoulder. "Oh please! We know exactly what you are going to do!"
Rachel raised her eyebrow. "What?"
"You're not going to tell them."
Heheh sorry, no Piper or Jason or Thalia's reactions here. And for now, we have that scenario put away and in the next chapters we will put the spotlight on Annabeth and Reyna :D and maybe nico...
Also, I wanted to say that I am going to plan on rewriting some of the early chapters of this story. It won't be changed entirely, just fixed because I really hate how bad they are...but that will be when I have time. Oh and speaking of which, My HOLIDAYS ARE COMING SOON
MAYBE I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO HAVE A WRITING MARATHON :D
Please review, and thank you to those who did last chappie :) It means a lot
-Di Blythe :D