It was a Wednesday afternoon, Piper was with Claire at Trish's room, doing one of the things she avoided the most. Reading gossip and girl's magazines. But it made Claire happy. Maybe a little too happy. It was like she was on sugar overdose. Maybe it had something to do with all those candy bars.

"Ooooooohhhh, read this one!"

"Trish, Trish, you HAVE to read this!"

"Trish, here is a test, let's see if works with you too!"

"Here, look this picture!"

"Trish, what do you say about we try this recipe?"

"You would look soooo pretty with this dress"

"What do you say about this haircut? Should I try it?"

"I need more candy bar, where are they?"

Piper quick put a pillow over the remaining candies.

"I think you ate them all, Claire"

"Really? Ooooohhhh, can we go buy some more?"

"I have a better idea, why don't we call for a pizza?"

"Oh, I guess that's okay. TRISH, have you read this one?"

Nice save.

If she eats anymore sugar,we'd have to put her in a cage to avoid mass destruction.

With that much sugar in her blood, she would fight her way out by gnawing at the bars.

I don't doubt it.

"TRIIIIIISH"

How much until the sugar overdose wear off?

Hours.

Great!

The problem is not the sugar from the candy bars. If that was the problem, it could be dealt with. No, the problem is that when she get here, she's already drunk with sugar, and there's nothing we can do.

The phone lit up with a incoming text.

PJ: I need your help.

P: Sure, whatever you need. It has something to do with Annabeth?

PJ: Yes, I need to break up with a girl and don't know how to do it.

WHAT!?

What is this?

He fell into Tartarus for her and now wants to break up with her?? How dare he?

Shame on him!

What?

I just wanted to say that.

P: But I thought you loved her!

PJ: Why did you think that? She is too clingy!

How dare he?

Shame on him!

Stop it!

PJ: And she is not my Wise Girl.

Wait, I'm lost now. Who is who?

I'm lost too.

P: Who are we talking about?

PJ: Peter's girlfriend. She is one annoying mermaid.

P: We're not talking about Annabeth?

PJ: OF COURSE NOT!

PJ: She is my Wise Girl, and I would anything for her. Which includes breaking up with Peter's girlfriend,doesn't matter how much he's mad at me for this.

PJ: But I have no idea how to break up with a girl!! Annabeth said to drown her.

That's a little harsh.

I told she knew how to be scary.

You know, if she's a mermaid, she can't be drowned...

Let's focus on the problem.

"Who is this?"

Piper jumped and turned to see Claire standing behind her, reading the texts over her shoulder.

"Ahn... a friend from another school. That I met on the internet"

"OOOHH, you're a giving love advice now? Quick, make some room for me"

Piper moved a little so Claire could sit beside her.

"Okay, let get this party started. Ask him how they started to date!"

"What are you doing?"

"Two heads thinks better than one, right?"

Well, in this case we already are two... so three better than two?

I hope so.

P: A friend is helping me now, so she's reading your texts. How did you start to date?

PJ: At a pool party.

P: I asked how, not where.

PJ: I have no idea.

P: Ask a friend!

PJ: He said that he have no idea. I was drunk. And she started to sing around me...

So typical...

I know! She is worth of her nickname...

Nooo silly! I mean... man don't know how to gossip!

"We need more details, dude!"

P: You're not helping. More details, Jackson!

PJ: We've been together for two months and a half.

"This is not a detail! It's a fact! We need things that come from his heart!"

Don't listen to her! Less romance, more facts! I'm the queen of the homewreckers! Just need to read my articles!

I know what you do and I don't approve it. But I think it'll be helpful right now.

"Ok! Let's make a list about details that we need to know!"

Claire was writing at speed light:

Pool party of whom? Who introduced one toanother? Who showed interest first? When was first date? Where? Firstkiss on first date? Peck on the lips or tongue? And it was just akiss or a reeeeally good kiss? They made their romance clear for theentire school? He likes her friends? They like him? She likes hisfriends? His friends like her? She was a bitch with someone?

The question about the kiss is important? If it was good or not?

I don't think so. But in name of a good gossip, I'd like to know...

"Gimme his phone number! Let's call him! Poor boy... Wait, what is his name again?"

"Percy"

She knows him for Peter.

What about keeping his identity safe?

No fun.

P: We're gonna call you. Be aware, you'll be on the speaker! And don't forget to call me Trish and call your trouble mermaid! Oh, and say things like you did, not Peter!

PJ: Is this a good idea?

Claire called from her phone and he answered.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Percy. My name is Claire and I'm helping Trish to help you with this entire weird thing called...loooove!"

Piper answered as well.

"Hi, Percy."

Is Claire ok?

She loves the love. A pure romantic. Don't ask me why...

Claire started with the questions:

"Whose pool party?"

"No idea, I just crashed there"

"Next, who introduced one to another?"

"Can't remember, partly because I was alittle drunk, partly because I didn't care"

Claire turned to Trish: "He is NOT helping!"

Piper shrugged.

Man are the WORST to gossip!

Can't argue with that.

"When was first date and where?"

"Can't remember."

"Were you drunk again?"

"No, completely because I didn't care"

Piper and Claire facepalmed. In Trish's case, she mentally facepalmed.

"I don't have much hope in this question, but here we go. First kiss? Peck on the lips or tongue?"

"Little drunk. Can't remember"

"Is she a good kisser?"

"Can't say"

"Oooohhh, secret?"

"Not a secret, I just can't say if she is a good kisser, but I bet it's nothing against my Wise Girl"

Claire was almost beaming at that.

"OOOOOOHHHHH THERE IS ANOTHER GIRL IN THIS!!! LOOOOVE TRIANGLEEE! LOVE IT!"

"Claire, calm down. It's just a girl that he likes and the reason he's breaking with this mermaid"

"EVEN BETTER! Soooooo cute! Ok, back to tracks. Your romance went public?"

"What?"

"The entire school knew you're dating?"

"Yes"

"And?"

"I answered your question"

"What did they think of it?"

"Who?"

"The entire school!"

"Of what?"

"You two dating!"

"Sorry, I can't understand what you're asking"

"Trish, pass me the pillow"

When Piper gave her the pillow, she stuffed her face in it and started screaming.

What is she doing?

Taking off her frustration for men's stupidity in the pillow.

She let go of the pillow and caught the list back from her lap. Piper threw the pillow behind her.

"Do you like her friends? Do they like you?"

"Never spent much time with them"

"And?"

"That's it"

"Trish, pass the pillow again"

While Claire was screaming at the pillow, Piper read the next question.

"Does she likes your friends? Do they like her?"

"No and no"

Claire said in a hurry: "But is she good or just polite to your friends?"

"They don't have a lot in common, except the hate for each other"

"She has some habit that really bothers you?"

"Everything!"

Piper decided to cut off the interrogation:

"We should start making some plans of break up."

"Wait, one last question. The other girl, do you like her very much?"

"I love her"

"Oh! Soooooo cute!"

Cute?

Like Frozen, just let it go...

"You could ask the cheerleaders to do a little routine on the break singing and spelling the break up? It would be CHEERful."

I'm liking her even more.

It's lovely idea but everybody in the team hates him because Vanessa does.

"I'm not in such good terms with the cheerleader squad, so no."

"Write at the school's wall: MERMAID, WE ARE OVER!"

"Ahn...no. It'll earn me another detention"

She is completely crazy, but I'm loving her ideas.

He can use a wig and sunglasses for a week until she forgets about him? I don't know, mermaid, half fish, fish memory...

"Ahhh! I had a brilliant idea! He can put a note INSIDE her sandwich with: Honey, our time together was awesome, but I've met someone better. We're done! Enjoy your sandwich!"

Are you sure she really knows something about love?

I said she loves the love, not that she knows something about it. On a different matter, Sirena is so stupid that she would swallow the note.

Yeah, in the end, nobody was going to be apart.

I would be more than happy to help and open her stomach to give her the missing note. She's always on a diet, she'd not miss the stomach.

Are you trying to be as scary as Annabeth?

I try my best... Oh! I can write a paper about it...

NO!

Percy shared his own idea:

"Can I go up to her, say: ENOUGH! Turn my back and leave?"

Piper answered that one:

"She'll think that you're talking about school."

Yeah. Just to remember: SHE IS DUMB!

Claire asked a question that wasn't on the list.

"Do you want to make love with her first?"

"NO!"

And break up right after? That would be so PERVERSE! I LOVE it!

Disgusting! He dates my bestfriend! I'll have nightmares all night long about it!