After the battle between the gods and the titans, and Percy, declining Zeus' offer of making him literally a god, which Annabeth still doesn't understand that he refused, she and Percy had been in love. Annabeth have never had a boyfriend before, so it was all very new to her. She was very excited to be around Percy and she would ache for him when their trainings weren't lined up. She would spend most of the time in camp thinking about him, and whenever they had free time, they would tend to cling together in one of their cabins. There was of course most room in the Poseidon cabin since Tyson had moved out, and Percy was the only halfblood to be staying in it.
Annabeth had become one of the trainers at the archery range, and this specific day, she was very unwatchful, despite the new recruits who had come to camp just a few days prior. She had her attention on Percy. Although he wasn't at the range, he was at the climbing obstacle just a few hundred feet away from Annabeth.
While helping one of the new kids aiming the bow at the target, she found herself glaring towards Percy. She saw how his muscles were flexing in the sunlight, sweat dripping of him and onto his firm torso. Her attention was not on the sharp arrow about to be launched.
Focus! She told herself, as she directed her attention to the kid, who accidentally already had launched the arrow. She just about caught the arrow out of her eye, as it swooshed past the target, out of the range and plummeted into the lake. The child certainly wasn't one of Apollo's children, that much was sure.
"You need to practice a lot more if you're going to be using that bow in an actual fight with a monster. You could've hurt someone, you know?" Annabeth snapped as she seized the weapon from him.
The kid looked embarrassed and kindly apologised to Annabeth. Although she didn't really blame him. She knew that he would miss terribly if not she held the aim for him. It was her responsibility to help him. But she was elsewhere. She couldn't stop staring at Percy. Oh how she loved to know the he was all hers.
At lunch, they always sat next to each other. Chiron had been very accepting towards letting Annabeth skip her own table and join Percy at his. As Annabeth was leaving the archery range, she just spotted Percy going into the redressing building. When doing the obstacle courses, the half-bloods were required to change into fireproof clothing. Annabeth saw her opportunity to talk to Percy before lunch, and quickly headed over to the wall of the room Percy went into. The big marble bricks that the house was build out of, was hot against her legs as she leaned up the wall to look through the windows. Inside, she could see a bench with all of Percy's clothes and a closed curtain. A smile quickly formed on her face as she patiently waited for the curtain to fall.
"What are you doing?" Annabeth fell off of the stub on which she was standing. She landed in the grass, face up, looking into the blue eyes of Travis Stoll, who was looking very wondering down at her.
"Nothing! I was just… cleaning the windows." Annabeth regret saying that, the moment the words left her lips.
"As if. You know, you can just go in, he probably won't mind" Travis said, as his face was one big grin.
Annabeth was too baffled to say anything. She just rolled around, got up on her feet, and ran for the lunch table.
The tables were set in a big circle around the fire. By the time Annabeth reached it, a lot of the other campers were already at their dining tables, waiting for Chiron to get the food on their plates. As she sat down at the Poseidon table, she heard some of the Aphrodite children talk. There was a chit-chat about some of the ships that was happening at the camp. One of the Ares kids had fallen for one of Athena's house, and had been literally chasing her for the majority of the holiday. Meanwhile one of the Apollo girls were getting very involved with Connor Stoll from the Hermes cabin, and had often been seen around the camp, behind logs of wood and buildings, making out with each other. There of course was the usual gossip around how Percy and Annabeth must be having the greatest sex by now, since they have been together for a few months now, but Annabeth stopped listening at that point. She was very aware about how much people were talking about her and Percy, but the truth was, they had never slept together. They have had some quite intimate kissing and make-out sessions, where Percy have had his hand up her shirt, but nothing more than that. Although Annabeth was starting to feel like she was ready and really wanted Percy, she had never had the courage to actually ask or even subtly suggest that she really wanted to sleep with him.