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Percy sometimes wished Apollo would take a vacation. Why did everything have to be so bright in the mornings? He just wanted like an extra hour of sleep without seeing red under his closed eyelids from the bright light spilling in through the windows. He turned over and opened his eyes to check the time, the clock read 8:00am. Gods damn it, Why did he always have to wake up so gods damed early especially on his birthday?
He really should have asked Annabeth to add curtains when designing and decorating their apartment in New Rome. But how was he supposed to know that having huge windows without curtains or blinds was a bad idea?
Annabeth always said she liked getting up early because then she had more time to work and get stuff done for her college architecture course. Percy did not like to get up early though he would rather sleep in. Well there was no ignoring the bright light burning into his eyes. Percy moved the covers and rolled out of bed.
Once he got into the hallway he noticed that there was a smell wafting from the kitchen Percy’s stomach growled, he made a beeline to find out what his girlfriend was cooking and if he could have some.
As he entered the kitchen he noticed a couple things one Annabeth had been up for awhile already, two she made eggs bacon and toast, three sitting on the counter was the ingredients to make blue cake with blue frosting. Percy sidled over to Annabeth wrapping his arms around her waist from behind and resting his chin on her shoulder.
“Good morning wise girl”
“Good morning seaweed Brian I see your finally awake”
Percy smirked, “ya I couldn’t resist the smell of the delicious food you made”
Annabeth turned around in Percy’s arms so they were facing each other “who said I made any for your seaweed Brian”
There was a hint of playfulness in her voice signaling to Percy that she was joking.
“Only the fact that you love me wise girl and it’s my birthday” Percy quipped back
“mmm” Annabeth hummed “well I guess I can share”.
They both sat at the counter to eat “so what is all this stuff for” Percy asked knowing exactly what the cake mix, blue food coloring, eggs, oil, water, and blue frosting and sprinkles were for.
Annabeth humored Percy though since she was just finishing her breakfast “well” she said after swallowing her last bite of eggs and bacon. “It’s the birthday of someone who really likes blue food so I thought they might appreciate an all blue cake with blue frosting and sprinkles, what do you think”
Percy laughed “I think this person would be very happy and would also like to help make this blue cake.”
Soon enough the two demigods had on aprons. Percy like an overexcited puppy almost knocked the bowl of cake batter off the table at least 3 times in the last 15 minutes. Covered his hands in blue food coloring, and even managed to get four in his hair even though they were using a box of cake mix. Finally, Annabeth had enough and didn’t want a whole cake to go to waste so she told Percy to sit and watched while she finished. He whined a little bit but understood that it was in his best interest for him to listen if he wanted the cake to survive long enough for him to eat it.
5 minutes later and the cake was baking in the oven.
Percy and Annabeth sat on the couch and chatted until the timer went off. Annabeth got up and took the cake out of the oven.
After letting the cake cool in the fridge they started frosting it. By the time the cake was fully frosted with sprinkles Percy had gotten blue frosting all over Annabeth and himself although this time it had been on purpose.
Percy had just wanted to get a little bit of frosting on Annabeth’s nose but soon enough they were in an all-out frosting war.
After cleaning up the two Demigods head out the door, blue cake in hand.