This is actually a true story. I might exaggerate a bit but, this has really happened to me.

"Hey Perce"

"H-Hi Thalia…so why'd you ask me to meet you here"

"Oh yeah, well.. Luke asked me out"

"…and."

"And I agreed!"

(Silence)

"Um…Wow?"

"Yeah…wow. Anyway, I'll see you later. Have to meet Luke"

"K. Bye and…um...ah good luck"

"Thanks"

With that she turned around and left with me telling myself 'The Moronic-Cowardly Perseus Jackson strikes again"

Yup, I'm Percy Jackson, the coward in question. See Thalia is (or maybe 'was' is a better word) my best friend and I had a huge crush on her. Somewhere along the line I knew that she liked me as well.

Yeah, yeah... I know what you're thinking-'Boy likes girl, girl likes boy… boy knows girl likes her, ask her out and live happily ever after. What's the problem?'

My problem is my guts. I won't get scared when I have to stand up against the biggest bully in the history of high schools in a fist fight I never knew I challenged him at until his fist connects with my stomach, I won't get 'chilled to the bones' when my uncle threatens to beat the shit out of me for stepping on his property, I definitely won't leave my ground when his daughter takes her car and tries to run it over me with it, and I sure as hell won't back down when her crazy brother advances on me with a baseball bat and challenges me to a duel handing me a straw.

But when it comes to expressing my feelings to a girl my amazing and extraordinary courage takes a hike. And that's what happened again.

Key word being - AGAIN.

Yeah it's happened before...

Twice.

In the past five years I have had 2 other crushes… well actually 6 but ,I guess, Hollywood actresses, supermodels, Olympic swimmers and a news reporter don't count. Coming back to the point, my crushes.

When I was 11 I fell for a girl named Calypso (pretty scary name…but trust me the girl was anything but that) and at 13 I started crushing on my pretty neighbor Rachel.

Before I began telling you about my tragic and practically non-existent love-life, I'll tell you a bit about myself.