CHAPTER 1.

Annabeth's P.O.V.

"Percy, don't sweat it, it'll be fine" I mumbled.

Oh Gods, he was so irritating when it came to staying calm, as he couldn't do it, especially when it was about us. We were standing on the shore facing Camp Half-Blood, it would have been a beautiful view if not half of the camp standing in single file gaping at us with there (what now seemed) gigantic eyes. We were making out with Percy, when we heard a low voice say "Lookey here guys, the two lost birds". Clarisse was stalking all the time! Anywhere we went to have some time with each other, just to talk about something or even for a kiss, she would pop out of nowhere always bringing someone with her and talk about how it's gross and stuff. Percy always answered "Than why do you follow?" which was kind of a good cut-off as she would always give out and angry "Argh…" and go away. This time though, it was different, it wasn't just Clarisse with some random kid, it was Clarisse, yes, but with a half of the campers, all gazing at us. Percy was looking around, his face had the why-don't-you-just-mind-your-own-bloody-business expression which kind of made this seen funny, even though it wasn't.

We both turned round now facing the water. I wasn't sure what Percy was thinking about but he sure didn't wan't to turn round again. I reached his hand, tying my fingers into his. He looked at me and we exchanged these your-so-adorable looks. Percy was amazing, in every single detail he was the man I would choose to spend my future with, of course if I hadn't made that choice already. I looked deeply into his sea-green eyes and saw something that I couldn't describe, something stronger than love. My heart beat increased, it was now beating so fast I thought it would explode. Then Percy started running forwards, pulling me after him, we ran into the water and dived.

Now seriously, if you hate water (especially diving) you'd change your mind when swimming with Percy. He could create an air bubble underwater, he could will clothes to stay dry, he himself could breath underwater and will currents to move him where ever he wanted. All the sea animals listened to him (once I remembered we were swimming with sharks whom I found out are good fellows to be around). It was just great. Now he summoned a large air bubble, about four meters in radius. It was warm inside. He sat down patting a place next to him. I sat down to and laid against his arm. It was so warm. He saw that I was quite tired, my eyes were literally closing by themselves now. I didn't want to sleep, not next to this man-model. He was fabulous, everything about him. Amazing. I did love him, I really did, I just didn't feel brave enough to tell him. He knew I had a crush on him, that was almost everything he knew out our relationship, he probably kissed only like 3 times before and I felt the lust of kissing. "Hold on" I told myself "Not yet, when he'll know what you really feel about him". I wanted to tell him now, now when there was no one to interrupt, no Clarisse to pop out of nowhere and start giving us the oh-my-gods-I'm-gonna-puke looks. But I feared rejection, I had so much now, we were practically a pair now, one mistake and I could lose it all. "Not yet-" I thought "not now…". And with that sentenced I closed my eyes increasing my hold on Percy and fell asleep.

Percy's P.O.V.

"Annabeth?" I whispered shaking her as gently as I could.

She was beautiful, she was no daughter of Aphrodite, but she topped them all, no girl I knew was as pretty as she. I didn't think she knows what I really feel about her, I mean, you can't be too fast when doing things with girls, they can just say "Oh Gosh, you actually were such an idiot to believe that I love you? Your soooo pathetic, it's done!". But this was Annabeth, she never took things seriously without thinking it through twice. "No, I can't tell her, even though we could kiss every minute, I can't take the risk of her rejecting me. One kiss per three days is still good…" I tried to be positive about the situation "but not enough" I added. I took a deep breath. I could take the risk though, even if it wouldn't work out, Chloe, daughter of Demeter already told me she had a crush on me and would "wait for me in case something happened". I took one more deep look into Annabeth's face. The thought that I could lose her was unbearable, but I had to tell her, maybe she felt the same thing to me. I prayed to my dad that things would go smooth. Once I finished I started to wake Annabeth up. First I started whispering her name. No effect. Then I started squeezing her hand. No effect. So I started saying her name. It worked. She slowly opened her eyes, they were beautiful, a lively gray colour that filled me up with joy whenever I looked in them, I guess a silver collector would feel the same when looking in a silver object.

"Percy?" she asked slowly sitting up. I stopped her.

"Lie down, it's okay" I said calmly. It worked, she fell back and look deep into my eyes. I knew it had to be now.

"Annabeth, see, I need to tell you something" I looked worried which automatically made her worried "Good, means she cared" I thought.

"You're not dumping me, right?" she said almost crying.

I looked at her with misunderstanding but then smiled which made her relax.

"No, of course not, don't even think that" I said smiling from ear to ear.

She gave a weak smile and then returned to listening what I had to tell her.

"You see it's mainly about what I feel" I explained.

"Are you hurt!?" she gasped. "Yes! She cares!"

I smiled "No, it's about what I feel about you"

She didn't get the point, she looked as if I was about to tell her that she should change her attitude, her entire self.

"See-" I started "-we're a pair-" I stopped to ask if I could call us that but she just nodded telling me to continue "-over a month now and when I asked you about… you know… going out, and that other stuff, you we're all excited and you started saying that you've always had a crush on me and umm… I didn't kind of mean that. I did mean that thing about dating but not completely about that crush thing." I knew what I said was pretty much so tangled up that it didn't have any sense but then I looked up, Annabeth's eyes were full of excitement, I even saw a tear form in the corner of her eye, a tear of joy.

"So you mean…" she started.

"I mean that I love you Annabeth, and that I can't keep myself away from you for even ten minutes" It came out of me. I was probably all red by now, I wasn't looking at her, just to the side, as if someone who told me what to say was staining there and I was asking if I said anything right.

In the same time, something big hit me and I fell to the floor of the air bubble. Annabeth had her arms around me. She was looking directly into my eyes. I could see it, she was so happy. I smiled back and then she said:

"I've been waiting for you to say it for too long, I thought that you didn't… that you didn't feel the same, that you wanted it to stay as it is…." she said slowly crying of happiness. She dropped next to me still clutching her arms around my neck "Oh Percy… I can't keep away from you too!"

I wasn't sure what was going on but the next thing I noticed was that we were kissing. Passionately, not like kiss and go, but a real long kiss. Her body was so close to mine, I could tell exactly where the edges of her body where. I grabbed her by the waist and we continued to kiss. It was amazing, I felt as if someone wrote one function in my brain, "love", and set it to idle. When we stopped, I could see Annabeth examine all the contours and details of my face, her eyes shifted, form chin to cheek, then to the eyes where our gazes met. I couldn't be more happy. We came out of the underwater world after an hour of no-you're-more-pretty talk. We exchanged one more normal kiss on the shore. It felt like nothing compared to the one we had in the air bubble and I saw in her eyes Annabeth thought the same.

"Later, dinner's soon, we better change clothes." I said.

Annabeth pushed me to the ground and fell beside me starting to kiss me like in the airbubble.

"Dinner can wait!" she said returning to our kissing.

"I think it won't" we heard a low, enthusiastic voice above us. I moved my eyesight from Annabeth to the mysterious person standing above us.

"You know, I used to think spying on you and seeing you hug was extreme but now… now you're busted!" I noticed it was Clarisse. We slowly stood up and found ourselves in front of, not half, but the entire Camp Half-Blood...