SAM POV

"Something is wrong with you. You're acting very distant from the time you came back from Olympus today morning" I told Stacey at the bonfire. She looked away from the flames and turned to me. "Nothing is wrong with me, Sam" she replied. I narrowed my eyes at her and said, "You cant lie to me, Stace. What happened there? Why was Zeus angry with you?". She looked away and said, " I told you, Zeus was angry that a demigod-sorcerer had come to camp, despite his warning". I didn't push her more to tell me. She always shares everything with me. If she didn't want to tell me, then it must have been something personal. After sometime she looked at me and asked,

"Is anything coming up? Like anybody's birthday or anything?". I thought for a while and said, "I guess it's Jason's birthday tomorrow". "1st of July?" She said. I nodded. "Give me a minute" she said and walked out of the amphitheater, her phone in her hand. I got the feeling she was up to to something.

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Stacey and me bent our heads over our ancient history books the next day when Stacey's phone suddenly rang, startling both of us. "Will you please change your ringtone? That Adele song gets on my nerves" I complained as Adele's 'Set Fire To The Rain' rang out. She scowled and received the call. Her expression changed and she started nodding. She kept the phone and got up. "Where are you going?" I asked her. "C'mon. Hanna and Damon are here" she replied. "What? Why did they come here?" I shot out of my chair. "A delivery" was all she said and started going towards the entrance of the camp. I ran after her. We reached there, and sure enough, there they were. Are two best friends, Hanna and Damon.

Hanna is also Stacey's cousin. The leader of the cheerleader squad and one of the girls around whom boys run in the school. She has dark red, almost maroon hair and startling gray eyes. You would think she was bitchy and mean, like those popular girls you read about, but in reality she was not. She was a lot like Stacey, except that she was girly and hated sports and pranks. They were like poles apart but also very similiar. Same temper, big heart and always ready to help. But while Stacey was into songs, she was crazy about dancing. Hanna is one if the best dancers at school. Also the second most beautiful girl in the school, after Stacey.

Damon was the only boy in our friend circle. The captain of the football team and the girl magnet at school. Every single girl at school wanted to date him. He has dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. Not light blue, like Jason, but dark blue like midnight and a warm smile. He was the only one who could control Stacey when she would fly into one of her tempers. He and Stacey were the pranksters in all of us. He was the clear minded and mist patient one in all of us. Always there for us. If Stacey needed a partner for basketball, he was there. If Hanna had had a break up with somebody, he was always ready to comfort her. If I needed help in any experiments or advice, I only had to go to Damon. And should I add, I had a little, just a little, mind you, crush on him. It started 2 years back. Only Stacey knew about it, since she was very good at reading me. Hanna and Stacey loved to tease him. Since he and the guy in Vampire Diaries shared the same name, they would always call him only Damon Salvatore. It would always drive him crazy.

Anyways, there they were standing. Hanna was wearing a crop top and a pair if shorts, her red hair pulled back in a loose bun. Damon was in a pair of shorts and a sleeveless shirt. My heart did a few flip-flops at the sight of him. I quickly straightened my shirt and ran my hand through my hair. Stacey smirked at me and attacked both if them in a giant hug. They hugged her back and we all did a group hug. Damon smiled at me and my heart started racing. "Hi. Wassup?" I stammered. He nodded and motioned towards Hanna and Stacey, who were talking in Gaelic fervently in another corner. "Any idea why Hanna dragged me here? And why didn't you tell me you were a demigod? When Hanna explained it to me, I thought she had even lost the few brain cells she had. But turns out she was telling the truth" Damon told me, peeping to look behind me at camp. "You can see camp?" I asked him. "Uh, yes. I'm not blind" he said, looking at me as though shocked I was asking such a stupid question. "Stacey! Hanna! Come here!" I called out.

They walked towards us, Stacey holding a big box in her hand. "What?" Hanna asked me. "Damon can see the camp! He can see through the Mist" I exclaimed. Stacey raised her eyebrows at him. Damon looked at us in fright. "I'm not blind! What is wrong with all of you?" He asked. "I've got to examine you, buddy. Let's see if you have got magic in you" Hanna said. Damon just blinked at her. I explained to him about the Mist and how it veiled the sight of mortals. He relaxed at what I told him and noticed the box in Stacey's hand. "What's that?" He asked. "Nothing" she replied and her eyebrows widened in surprise as she saw behind Damon. It was a motorbike. Complete black with a few streaks of silver. Just looking at it made me sick. "A motorbike!" Stacey shrieked and jumped up. "Yeah. I go it it for my birthday" Damon said. "Oh. My. Gods. An actual motorbike!!" Stacey shouted. I covered my ears while Stacey started jumping around Damon. "Can I drive it? Can I drive it? Please, please??" She asked, jumping like the easter rabbit. "No, no. You'll damage it" Damon said, shaking it.

"Please, please. Pretty please with sugar on the top? With cherry on the top? With sprinkles on the top? With..." She started shouting. "Shut her up, Damon. My ears" Hanna shouted. He looked helplessly at me, asking what to do. "I..." He started when Stacey pulled a cute puppy face, something which nobody can say no to. Even Damon, who is usually firm with her. "Okay, fine. But only once. And you do anything..." He threatened, but couldn't continue because had pulled him into a choking hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!!" She sang. "Can't...breathe..." Damon choked. I pulled her away from him and she ran to the motorbike. She stood in front of it and turned back to Damon. "Teach me" she demanded, her eyes shining like a child on Christmas morning. "Don't, Stacey. You'll get sick. I almost fainted on it" Hanna warned. Stacey waved her off and listened intently as Damon explained. "You came here on the bike with him?" I asked Hanna. "Yeah. The car was broken so no other choice. Worst decision if my life" she shook her head in fear. I laughed, trying to keep the jealousy out of me. "I'm ready" Stacey called out.

"Go. But remember, Pendragon. One scratch..." Damon left the threat hanging in the air. She nodded her head and started it. "Woo hoo!" She shouted as she sped away. I burst out laughing along with the others. After 10 minutes, we could see her coming from the distance. She stopped near us and got down, dizzy. "That. Was. Awesome!" She declared. "We need to go. Bye guys" Damon said. "I'm not coming in that monster!" Hanna said. "Then you can walk home" Damon replied. She scowled and snatched the helmet from him. "Bye Sam" Damon said and before I could react, kissed me on the cheek. My mouth was hanging open. He kissed me? He grinned at me and sped away in the bike. "C'mon, lovesick puppy. Let's get this party started" Stacey smirked at me and pulled me to camp holding the box in her hand.

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ANNABETH POV

After dinner, everyone crowded around the Zeus table to wish Jason on his birthday. Stacey walked over to him and handed him a big box. "Happy birthday, Grace" she wished. He narrowed his eyes at her and said, "Since when are you acting so chummy?". " Why? Am I not supposed to give you a gift? " she asked. "No. I don't trust you. What if you have done something to it?" He said, hesitantly. "On yeah. I've set a time bomb in it which is going to blast in your face" Stacey replied, rolling her eyes.

"OK, fine" Jason smiled and took the box in his hands. Everyone's crowded around him to see what was in it. He opened it and we saw a huge cake was in it. It was a chocolate cake covered with chocolate icing. On it, written in blue icing was "Happy Birthday, Grace!".

" It looks really great" Jason said, licking his lips. "Then cut it, Grace" she said. Jason hesitantly picked up a knife, but stopped in mid air. "Dude, cut it. You're torturing us" Leo called out. Stacey slowly moved back. Something was fishy. Before I could stop Jason, he plunged the knife in the cake and the entire cake exploded into his face.

"What..." Jason stammered. Stacey and all of us had exploded into laughters. Jason's entire face was covered in the chocolate cake and icing. "How did you do that?" Piper gasped. "A balloon. The cake had a balloon in it" she replied. "Stacey, you're gonna pay for this" Jason said and took a chunk of it in his hand. Stacey's eyes widened and she said, "You won't do it, Grace" she replied. "And what if I do it?" He challenged and ran towards her. She shrieked and tried to run, but Jason caught her and smeared the entire piece on her face and hair. "My hair!!" She shouted and pummeled him to the ground. He managed to get up and went towards the cake, but Stacey bet him to it. She snatched a big piece and threw it towards him. He ducked at the last minute and it hit Nico right in the face.

"Stacey!!" He shouted. "Oops!" She flinched. Nico took a mound of it and threw it at her. She moved out of the way and it landed in Calypso's hair. "Nicoooo!" Calypso shrieked and not long after that, it erupted into a cake fight. Cake was flying everywhere and everyone was running around and taking aims. I reached close to Stacey, who was aiming at Jason. "How do you do it?" I asked her. "What?" She replied. "Put more life into parties?"

"I don't know" she laughed and threw it right at Jason's face. She looked at me with a face smeared with cake and smiling. But it was not difficult to notice the grief stricken look in her eyes. No matter how much she smiled, her eyes gave her away. I wonder why?

Notes

This is a kind of filler. I'm going to have some serious action soon. Till then, bye bye. And COTE!!