Disclaimer: I do NOT own the characters they belong to their rightful creator, Mr. Rick Riordan. Just writing for pleasure and nothing else...no other incentive.

Summary: Annabeth loves her boyfriend Luke, but Luke's mouth gets him into trouble. This causes Annabeth to cross paths with the one Luke will face, Percy Jackson. Annabeth makes a deal with Percy, to save her boyfriend, but what will this lead to?

Longing

I have dated Luke Castellan for two years now, since we were freshmen, here at Goode High School. Luke was very handsome, he was tall and muscular, with short-cropped sandy hair and a friendly smile. We started going out when he wrote a poem for me in English class. See, we had an assignment where we were suppose to do a poem about what was in our hearts, and he wrote this poem about a gray-eyed girl with blonde curly hair whom he was interested in- and yes, you guessed it! It was about me. He asked me out right after class and we haven't been happier, or so I thought. Luke wanted to be in with the "in crowd" and he joined the swimming team. Our school is not good at football and basketball, but we are State Champions in Swimming, thanks to the swim team's captain who just happens to be the most popular boy in school, Percy Jackson.

Percy Jackson is an all-star athlete, his body reflects that. He is very tall with bright sea green eyes. He has spiky jet black hair. His personality from what I can tell is opposite Luke's. While Luke is sweet, caring, and studious...Percy is well, tough, skips class and a player, he beats guys if they insult his rep; while the girls just throw themselves at him. However, I, Annabeth Chase runaway from him every time I see him, he simply scares me-intimidates me. I am not like those girls who hangout with Percy. I am in honor and AP classes, I want to be an architect when I grow up. I am the daughter of a single parent, my father is a Professor he teaches History. My mother died when I was born, and he never remarried. He always said he never found anyone as wise as my mother. He truly never got over her but that's a whole different story.

Anyway, today was finally Friday and the weekend was just a few hours away, after classes ended for the week. I have to take the school bus today, because Luke was at swim practice. He joined the team, he wanted to fit in, but the rest of the team just wasn't buying into it. He was a decent swimmer, so the coach accepted him, but his teammates weren't happy. He was sincere and sweet and gods, he tried so hard to fit in, they called him a poser, it hurt his feelings, but he kept trying. So when I get to school and my best friend Thalia tells me that Luke is going to get beaten up after school by non other than Percy, himself, I freak. I really didn't know what to do.

All through first period I kept thinking of what was to happen at 3:16 when the final bell would dismiss us. I was suppose to be happy and anxiously waiting 'til school got let out, but now I was wishing it never did. It was during fourth period, when I realized I was so spaced out, I had forgotten my math book. Luckily, my teacher didn't mind me going to my locker to retrieve it. I went to my locker and retrieved it, but on my way back I saw Percy at his locker and I just couldn't stop myself, I walked towards him. By the time I got to his locker, I couldn't even make a sound. I was just so scared, I usually ran from him, but here I was at his locker waiting for him to notice me, I don't even think he knew my name. Ugh. What did I do? But it was already to late, because he had closed his locker and seen me.

"What can I do for you?" Percy said, as he noticed me there just starring.

"Luke" was all I could muster out. It was really embarrassing, I could feel myself sweat in fear, not an attractive feature.

"He's my..." I try to finish buy his stare makes me look down and struggle for my words.

"boyfriend" he finishes, which catches me by surprised. I didn't think he would know, for some reason.

I finally get the courage to speak, "Yes, he's my boyfriend and I'm here because I don't want you to hurt him"

"Did that little twerp send you, to plea for him" he asks

"NO! Oh gods, No, he doesn't know I'm doing this." Ugh, this is just what I needed to make things worse for Luke. Poor sweet Luke was scared (he wasn't admitting it, but as his girlfriend, I knew better) , but he was going to stand up for himself.

After a long silence he finally says, "Sorry Chase, but gotta do it, that twerp said something during practice in front of the whole team, can't let him get away with it."

"Yes, yes you can. You are Captain, you can just let it go"

Percy just looks at me and says "Sorry" before he starts walking away.

My legs just start moving following Percy like a puppy. Percy is way taller than me and his steps are just faster so it makes me kind of jog in the empty hall. I finally reach him and put my hand on his arm, this makes him stop. I freak out and retract my hand from his arm. The way he stares makes me walk backwards until I bump into lockers.

"I can do your homework for a month" I volunteer, Percy was well off, so I doubt that he would have wanted my money, but I knew he had to keep his grades up to at least a C average to stay on the team.

He smirks and leans into me and says, "I don't want you to do my homework." Gods, his smell is amazing, he just smells like the ocean breeze. I fight hard to find my words, but they finally arrive.

"Then, What do you want?" He takes a minute to think.

"I want to spend a day with you and at the end of the day, I want to kiss you goodnight" he whispers into my ear. I am unable to think, ME, Annabeth Chase unable to strategies an answer or even to compromise a deal, I just nod. NOD!

"Great, I'll text you the details and Annabeth, no excuses." Then he just leaves, I am left there all alone, thinking how could I have agreed to this. Hanging out would have been fine, but a kiss! Ugh. I loved Luke, even if I would to do it to save him, I'd be cheating on him. What have I done! Finally, the bell rings, and it is time for lunch. During lunch, all I could think about was Percy, how did he even know my name and last name, at that! We didn't have any classes together, and we certainly didn't socialize in the same circle, and how did he know my boyfriend was Luke. Then, it hit me, he didn't have my number he was just kidding with me! He wasn't really going to make me hang out with him and kiss him. He just wanted to make Luke's girlfriend sweat! Or so I hoped. Oh the uncertainty sucked.

Finally, 3:16 arrives and I am waiting for Luke by his car in the student parking lot. He wasn't going to fight Percy, or so I hoped. Then finally about twenty minutes later, I see Luke coming towards me and he has his full face still intact, still perfection no mark in sight!

"What happened, what took you so long" I asked wondering what delayed him.

"I went to meet Percy, and he just comes at me like he is ready to pulverize me and then he just says forget about it, we're even...even!" I can tell that Luke is relieved, he won't admit it, but I know my boyfriend. And just when I am about to get into his car, I see Percy walking towards his black mustang and turns to look at me and winks! Winks! I might have saved my boyfriend, but at what cost! Part of me still hopes that he just wanted to make me freak, and the twelve year old Annabeth, hopes he text.

I should mention that when I was twelve, I went to the same middle school as he did. Yes, he was still a bully, along with his friend Grover. They both would cause trouble and I ran from trouble, I still do, or at least I did. In this particular day, the location of my locker was going to be closed off to students, so the whole day I had to walk with all my books. As I was passing, Grover runs into me and makes me drop my books. He just laughs, doesn't even help me pick any of them! I wanted to just leave them there, but one of those books was my journal, a journal where I drew many designs (did I mention I wanted to be an architect?), anyways, I am collecting my books and he, Percy helps me. He hands them to me, and it was the first time I was mesmerized by his eyes, that was when twelve year old me started to have a crush, but he didn't date girls like me, he dated girls that kissed and went beyond that. He was to much of a bad boy for me, and I knew it then and I knew it now.

Okay, so here I am again...Author's note: I know there isn't much out going dialogue, but hopefully I can improve. Annabeth is telling her story after all, so you'll know what she is thinking. I am also working on Percy's point of view, although, I am not so sure if I'd be doing every chapter in his point of view or just random chapters. I am not sure either if I'll be posting them during this story or until the end...I have a couple of chapters already written for both...so just let me know what you guys think about this. Would you like to know what is in Percy's head during reading or until after Annabeth is done telling hers? I'll take it into consideration.