There he was, Percy in all his glory. I realized that that's where he truly belonged, even if it wasn't with me.I headed down towards my cabin, all alone, blinking out tears. Soon I realized that Percy was following, trying to keep up with me, but I didn't want him to see me like this. I was Wise-Girl, daughter of Athena, not little wimpy emotional half-blood, that was NOT me.

"Annabeth, where have you been?" It was Percy, catching up to me.

"Oh, Percy, was I supposed to be somewhere?" I said, trying to play dumb (it was hard).

"Don't even say you didn't know about it!"

"Know about what my dear Perseus?"

"So now I'm your dear Perseus?"

"NO! You're my dear Percy!"

"Still dear!"

"Alright,whatever Seaweed Brain, just tell me where I was supposed to be."

"Um, I just saved camp!"

"Nothing out of the ordinary!"

"Yeah, but this time we got a party for us too!"

"We?"

"Yeah, both of us saved camp, so I think you should've been there, so why weren't..." his voice trailed off.

I finally turned around so he could see me. My face was now red from crying so much, along with my puffy eyes, and cracked voice.

"Oh...I'm so sorry, what's wrong?" I laughed at that, normally Percy knew what was up, and I assumed that he did, but didn't have the guts to tell me why he thought I was crying. "So what's going on Wise-Girl?" he continued.

"What's wrong?! Oh please, Seaweed Brain, you know what's wrong!"

"Yeah, but I would appreciate it if you explained all this to me, so I could make sure I was right."

"Where do I begin?" I started my whole long rant to him about everything that I was feeling. It was like all the things I had told myself not to do, I was doing. Before I knew it I was bawling my eyes out, with Percy wrapping his arms around me and my head on his shoulder, and I had to admit, it felt pretty good.

"Percy, do you know what's going on? Because sometimes I think you're completely unaware of what everyone else is doing, and I don't even know how you can seem so relaxed and calm knowing that the fate of like everyone is resting on your shoulders, yet you still find time for friends, like...like me." After recently finding out how I truly felt about Percy, saying that we were friends was weird. "Any second anything can happen. It's horrible, just waiting for something to come and get you. For any creature to just...kill you. That's why I was crying, okay Seaweed Brain, as if it wasn't obvious how I've been feeling lately. You have no clue Percy! No clue how it is, just being here with you, and wanting to make every moment count, I mean, who knows, it could be your last! But yet, I'm still just standing here, not doing much, totally in love with you..."