Before It Explodes

By: xXxDaughteroftheKingxXx

AN: Hola. I had this REALLY random idea when I was bored and too lazy to write the next part of To Be a Friend... And listening to Charice's version of "Before it Explodes". Amazing song, by the way. And for some reason, it just reminded me of Percabeth. Pretty much everyone does the "and they lived happily ever after" crap, and don't get me wrong, I LOVE Percabeth, but sometimes, it's nice to have a change.

Well, I had help from my friend, Max. If you've read anything from my other accounts, you know we work together very, VERY often. She read this over, and we were GOING to make it Thalico, but it didn't really work. So angsty Percabeth it is then.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or the song Before it Explodes.

Don't make this harder than it is,

We both knew it'd come to

Better now than in a year,

With lots of tears...

They'd started out so damn well.

It was picture perfect, a fairytale ending.

Everyone thought that they would be together forever. That they would get married someday and have kids and just plain out live happily ever after.

But Aphrodite had other plans for the couple.

Everything seemed to be going wrong for them. He hadn't been the same since the Roman camp; he was so damn different than she remembered him to be. But it wasn't just him. She was drifting away, caught up with the stress of school or the stress of redesigning Olympus.

They fought almost every single day.

It was always something so, so stupid. "You forgot about our date?" or "Why haven't you been spending time with me?" Always the usual banters, but with each little argument, they were drawn closer and closer to their snapping point.

They couldn't handle it anymore.

Both of them were nearly ready to tear each others' throats out on bad days. There was no more love left; there was nothing left for them.

All the love, all of their past, it was just… gone.

Maybe it was for the best.

Maybe it was better to break it off before their friendship was broken into little pieces, just like their relationship. Before either of them could truly be hurt, they decided it was just over.

And maybe that's how it was supposed to be from the very beginning.

And we both hate each other

The fuse has already lit,

So how about a final kiss?

And just let it go