Hey! Please R&R! This is a story about Percy's 10 year camp reunion and how he deals with his feelings for Annabeth. This is a Percabeth story-- you'll see later. Thanks for reading! ~Jonny (WhiteHouses28)

I was both excited and dreading my 10 year camp half-blood reunion. I couldn't wait to see all my old friends again, most notably Grover and Nico, but I couldn't help feeling slightly nervous about meeting Annabeth again. It wasn't that we still weren't friends--- it's just, the last time I'd seen her, we had got into a pretty bad argument about something pretty significant and the result had been us not making up for almost 6 months now. Today, I planned to do just that. I had known Annabeth for too long too well to just let our friendship slip through my fingers.

I arrived at the entrance to the camp about a half-hour late, which wasn't too bad for me, I had been known to sleep later than this. I passed easily through the borders of camp and made my way over to the big house where the reunion was taking place, and saw a sign that read in big letters: "WELCOME PET COMBERS!" No, wait that wasn't it. "WELCOME PAST CAMPERS!" Yeah, that sounded right.

As soon as I entered the entrance hall to the Big House, I found myself looking at a huge crowd of people milling around and chatting. I barely recognized some of the people, which was a bit pathetic seeing as how I grew up with them, but there were others I did see who I remembered. I scanned the faces to see if I could find Grover or Nico anywhere, but before I had time to plunge into the crowd and search, I felt someone tap me on the shoulder and I turned to see Grover grinning at me.

"Hey Grover! What's up?" I said excitedly. I was glad to see him. It had been too long.

"Hey Percy," he replied. We then proceeded to catch up on the last couple of months that we hadn't seen each other. It was all going great and we were busy laughing together when Grover asked a question that I was hoping he wouldn't.

"Have you talked to Annabeth yet?"

I sighed. "No, not yet."

"Well, you'd better do it soon buddy, she's not planning to stick around very long."

"She's not? Why?"

Grover shook his head. "I think it's something to do with prior commitments, but your going to have to ask her for the details."

I wasn't done asking questions, but just then Grover noticed one of his other satyr friends and went over to talk to them. Besides-- he was right. He wasn't going to tell me anything and it would probably be better to speak to Annabeth myself in stead of discussing her behind her back. I couldn't keep hiding from her, no matter how much she could scare me sometimes.

After a few brief minutes of searching, I spotted Annabeth standing over in a less crowded area, next to the punch bowl table. She was talking to Chiron animatedly about something. Knowing Annabeth, probably architecture. I walked up to them and quietly cleared my throat. They both looked at me. Chiron greeted me enthusiastically, but for some strange reason, Annabeth didn't say anything. After a small chat with Chiron, he pointedly moved off to talk to some other people. I think he got the message that I wanted to speak with Annabeth by myself for a bit. She looked beautiful. Her gray eyes still sparkled and her blond hair was just-- if not more-- pretty than she had new feel of sophisticatedness about her that only made her feel more influential. Same old Wise Girl.

"Uh, hey," I said awkwardly. Great Percy, I thought. Real smooth.

"Hey," she replied. Why was she looking at me so coldly? Our last fight hadn't been that bad, had it?

"Umm. How are things?" I asked. Annabeth looked into her punch glass absently before giving a plain reply.

"Oh, good. Work's enjoyable. I like my latest job. I finally got into architecture and design school, and got my degree. So, my job involves a lot of that sort of work."

"Oh! That's great! You've wanted to do that forever and now you have... yeah, great."

This was not going well. The conversation was as dry and Hade's Fun-Filled Water Park. This was nuts. Why wasn't she comfortable talking to me anymore? We'd been best friends as children, were we just going to let a little squabble ruin our whole friendship? I decided to try at conversation again, but I guess Annabeth wanted to try to because we spoke at the same time and ended up making no sense of each others words .

"What?" we said in unison.

"You go first," I said.

"Ok," She said. "Um, look, first, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner but I didn't know... I mean-- after our argument, I didn't know how to tell you this, but---"

What was she going to tell me? Hope flared in me for a moment. Maybe she was going to tell me that she missed me, that she'd hated the time we'd spent part, and never wanted it to happen again. Maybe she was trying to tell me she wanted to spend forever with me-- just like I wanted to with her. Then, she dropped the bombshell.

"Percy, I'm engaged."

My whole world crashed. Annabeth. Engaged. No, no... That wasn't supposed to happen, not like this anyway. She couldn't be... He hadn't even known she was seeing someone.

"Oh--- that's, nice." I was really working hard not to show any emotion either way, but I wasn't sure how well I was pulling it off, so I looked away slightly.

"Percy, look-- I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner but, it's like I said. I didn't know how."

Annabeth wasn't giving me the cold look anymore. She looked sorry, like she was sad she had to tell me this news.

"Right. It's fine, Annabeth." I said. " Um. Who's the guy?"

She looked happy as she began to discribe him to me. "Oh, he's a great guy. He and I met in college, and he's planning to be an architect just like I am. He's the one who suggested I take my job. He works there too. We've been going out for awhile now."

I nodded. " You love him?"

Annabeth smiled thoughtfully. "Yeah, Percy. I really think I do."

I kept trying to make myself feel happy for her, but my own stupid feelings kept getting in the way. "Is he-- you know-- mortal?"

Annabeth nooded."Yes, he's a mortal. But he can see through the mist, so he wasn't too shocked to find out about the gods and stuff. He's pretty smart."

"He must be perfect for you," I muttered. She's happy, I thought. She's happy with who she's with. He loves her and she loves him. You can't change that.

"My mom thinks he's a good choice for me. She likes that he's mortal. She thinks it'll be safer this way. I'll be able to lead a more normal lifestyle. Not like I would if--"

Annabeth stopped short and looked at me. I perked up. I looked up at her and she quickly averted her eyes.

"I should go." I said, a lump in my throat.

"Okay, it was nice to see you gain Percy." Annabeth smiled at me. She was really beautiful. Her feancee was one lucky guy.

"Yeah, you too," I replied. And then, I hurried away from her and departed all the way out of the Big House, leaving the reunion behind me. Somehow, seeing my old friends didn't matter anymore especially since my best friend was still back there and I had to let her go.

There's more to come!