[Everything Has Changed]
['Cause all I know is we said "Hello"
And your eyes look like coming home
All I know is a simple name
Everything has changed
All I know is you held the door
You'll be mine and I'll be yours
All I know since yesterday is everything has changed]
AU
Pairing: Percy x Annabeth
Percy x Rachel (Mentioned)
Annabeth x Luke- Mortal man (Mentioned)
Warnings: Fluff, Percy and Annabeth as parents. OOC. Cussing (Not a lot)
Word Count: 1,001
A/N: I'm trying but there's no guarantee that this will be the least bit good as MaydayParade123 which is, sadly, what I'm aiming for. It'll never compare, but hey, why not try. Excuse my inaccurate commas, I apologize in advance.
They were together before everything happened.
The doubt, that is.
But rumors start, and as much as he'd hate to admit it, it's pretty easy to believe them.
But who would believe that the power couple that dated from sophomore year in high school, the couple that was voted most likely to get married, broke up at the mere age of 18?
Well, a bunch of people actually; and anyone who knew anybody at CHB (A high school in NY- I'll be damned if anybody actually knew what it stood for) knew that her mother and his father hated each other. So, a forbidden romance of sorts, I guess. And some people just guessed that their friendship, which lasted from 6th grade to senior year, had, to put it simply, run its course.
But either way, it they had ended it. Or she had, from what he remembered.
And either way, the source of the break up led back to the rumors or more importantly, the rumors being slightly true.
It wasn't even like he wanted anything to happen between him and that redheaded girl, but you have to admit, in some ways, Annabeth and Rachel resembled each other.
And maybe that's what made Percy want to give in.
Maybe that's why when Rachel asked for a kiss, and Percy hesitated, an onlooker saw and mistook that hesitance for cheating; in whatever crazy way one's mind can work.
But either way the mysterious persons had seen the scenario, it still spread, and it spread fast. Like wildfire.
A friend whispering to a friend, a stranger overhearing everything; that kind of thing.
However the rumor that started at a random high school party, it somehow led back to Annabeth at school the next day. Don't ask Percy how it happened, but it did. And boy was she angry. All Percy remembered was being pulled into a closet and being screamed at by the girl with startling grey eyes and blonde curly hair that was always pulled into a pony tail. Percy couldn't remember all the big words that were once used in teasing, now being thrown at him as insults. But Percy could remember the tiny details. The way she ran her fingers through her hair multiple times, eventually causing it to fall out of its pony tail; she didn't notice. Or the way her startling grey eyes that only held nothing but love and affection for Percy, now only had hurt and disappointment, with the occasional tear slipping down her cheek until they rapidly started pouring; she didn't notice. But he did. He noticed everything about her, and he so desperately wanted to brush the tears away and pull her close and tell her that everything was all right. But he was the one causing the pain. And it wasn't alright. None of it was at the moment. Not for her, or him, or them –if there even was a 'them' anymore. Percy seriously doubted there was. So when Annabeth had screamed those two words that had imprinted themselves into Percy's mind 'We're done' his mind had mentally prepared himself in advance. So he told himself he would be fine and stared blankly at the slightly shorter fair haired girl. However it only seemed to enrage her more, so she let out a string of cuss words before she ran out of the closet, with tears pouring down her tan cheeks, and into the seemingly silent, but crowded hallway.
She furiously wiped away her tears as she came to a stop in front of their spot. More tears fell as she dropped to the ground pulling her knees to her chest and then wrapping her arms around her knees. She laid her head in her arms, stifling sobs that were threatening to come out, thinking that she couldn't have picked a less sensitive man then him.
Little did Annabeth know, as soon as she left Percy broke down, dropping to the ground as heart breaking sobs slipped through his mouth. And little did she know, that no matter how much Percy thought it was very Lifetime movie-ish, he could swear he could hear the sound of his own heart breaking over his cries.
So Annabeth called her mom –who had her driver immediately take her over to the school while she composed an email to his dad- and went home not long after calling home.
Percy stayed but halfway through the day couldn't handle the sympathetic stares sent his way, so he skipped.
And the next day, everything seemed strange.
The two groups of Percy and Annabeth that had merged together had split right down the middle, finally going their separate ways; and only a week before graduation too.
But the groups carried on as normal, both going as far as to not mention the others name.
And when Annabeth would cast a fleeting look at Percy, Thalia would steer her away. And when Annabeth was mentioned by someone just passing by Percy, Grover and Nico would do their best to get his mind off of it, even if Grover couldn't lie and Nico wasn't very good with emotions.
So that's how it passed for the next week; longing glances and blank stares. And when graduation finally came, Annabeth couldn't wait to finally haul her ass out of there. And she did.
She left quickly with no time for a graduation party and she didn't even have time for goodbyes. But she couldn't take all the suffocating memories, so she simply left.
Percy, though, wanted to still be close to his mom (Always the momma's boy) so he picked a college only a two hour drive down in the heart of Philadelphia.
And eventually both his and her college years were filled with trips back to New York –at different times of course- and questions on how each other is doing.
And little did they know this was only the beginning of everything that's going to happen in the next years.