I watched her, focused intently on her book, one strand of blonde hair falling beautifully out of her ponytail. Who knew bookworms were so cute?
I was supposed to be reading for my summer list they had given me, and Annabeth had happily set a date for us to meet up at the library and read, her favorite pastime.
I flipped my hair out of my eyes and she looked over at me from the top of her thick novel. "Hey Seaweed Brain." She said gently.
"What?" I asked, smiling at her. She smirked at me.
"Read." She replied, immersing herself back into her book. Sighing, I turned back to my copy of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, attempting to focus on the tedious words and even more tedious storyline.
"I don't know what the hell is going on." I muttered. She sighed and walked over to me.
"Where are you?" she asked. I pointed to a line blindly.
"Percy, you're only on the fourth chapter and you've been reading this book every day since two months ago." Annabeth said, irritation creeping into her voice. I shrugged.
"It's really not my fault, you're distracting me." I said, she raised an eyebrow at me and then got close to my face.
"You're so sweet." She breathed. I could only nod and lean forward.
Instead of my lips connecting with hers, a book connected with my nose. Tears flooded my eyes as I clutched my nose. "Ooh fuck," I moaned. Annabeth pointed to the line I had claimed to be reading.
"Read the book, Seaweed Brain." She said, sitting back down in her chair and disappearing behind her novel.
I glared at her and slammed my book shut. "I am trying to tell you something here and all you're concerned about is me reading this stupid book!" she looked surprised, her gray eyes wide.
"Oh really now? What are you trying to tell me exactly?" she challenged. I stood up and crossed the distance between us, putting my face right in hers.
"Well-erm, that I… um… That I…" I felt my face redden as she raised an eyebrow at me.
"That you um?" she said, unimpressed. "If you read more maybe you'd have a better vocabulary Percy. Go sit down and read your damn book." She ordered. I bowed my head and returned to my table, where I read without further demands for the remainder of the time.