Chapter songs
To the end of the earth, Jessica Mauboy
Fucking perfect, Pink
Percy's POV
I awake to screams, I'm instantly out of bed my sword riptide in hand. All is silent now and I can hear only my Mum, Sally Jackson, and my stepfather Paul's steady breathing. I attempt to recall what I had been dreaming about, it all comes back to me.
Percy, where are you I can't see anything, I shout to Annabeth to walk towards me. She's not listening suddenly her screams fill my head, Annabeth frantically screaming for me, I try to run to her but she keeps moving away from me.
That's when I woke up. It wasn't some much a dream, it was a memory from when Annabeth an I spent a not so pleasant trip in Tartarus. I recap riptide, and lie back down in bed, my mind is still recovering from the memory, we'd both been suffering from dreams like this even after we defeated Gaia, and her giant spawn. Now our real challenge was to face the threat of high school life. We both were attending Goode high school, some may say it's a cinch, but when your a demigod and have been in two major wars for the gods it's not.
Annabeth's POV
I couldn't sleep, I had been pacing my room for hours when I finally decided to go out onto the small balcony. I'd just got outside when I hear a gut wrenching scream. I instantly went for my dagger before I remembered, that it was now in the depths of Tartarus along with Dealaudus laptop, and New York Yankees cap. It's coming from below me. I recognise the scream. Percy. As quickly as it started it stops, and in that moment I make up my mind. I write a quick note to Malcolm my older half brother explaining my actions and leave it on my door. I move back outside to the balcony, I swing myself over the railing, in dangling now in midair. I line myself up, and drop.
My calculations were correct, I landed with a thud on the metal balcony in a crouch. I stand up and thank the gods for all the training that I got from camp. I take a step forwards and look through The window, as to be expected he is lying in bed, looking at the ceiling. It must have been bad I thought to myself, we'd both experience the flashbacks since our return from our most recent quest. Reach out a tap his window a few times, I would have thought he would have heard me land. He up quickly and opening the window for me to climb through.
Once I'm through I'm instantly enveloped in his arms, and the smell of the sea hits me. "How bad was it?" I ask.
Percy pauses for a moment and the says " I love you Annabeth, and would never leave you. You know that right?" I nod in response and allow him to pull me over to his bed were we lie down. He begins to explain what he'd seen and when he'd finished, looks at me expectantly and asks "what about you why are you still doing awake, it's your first day tomorrow you should be resting up." I recount to him why I was still awake and when I finished let out a huge yawn. I feel my eyes get heavy, I snuggle into my Seaweed Brain a bit more and are just able to say "I love you Seaweed Brain." Before I'm asleep.
I awake to the warm embrace of Percy, and the insistent knocks of Mrs Jackson-Blofis shouting at Percy to get his butt out of bed. I go to wriggle out of the embrace, when it suddenly tightens. A husky voice in my ear saying " oh no you don't, not before I get a kiss." I roll over and see an annoying smirk on his face. I attempt to wriggle out but his hold on me tightens each time I try, until I eventually give in a give him a kiss. As soon as we stop I'm released I hop up. Percy clumsily rolls out of bed and moves to open the door, his mum takes one look at her son and then at his room, before her eyes finally come to rest on me. Sally isn't very strict and one of the reasons she agreed to having me live so close to her son was because, ever since our trip to Tartarus we both have flash backs that only the other can truly calm us down. "Good morning Annabeth, I wasn't expecting to see you this early today." Sally says with a smile, I normally eat breakfast with Percy in his apartment because Malcolm and I would usually just have a granola bar and piece of fruit.
Sally leaves us to get ready, I keep a spare set of clothes in Percy's room for days like these and same with him. Percy leaves the room and shuts the door to allow me to change first, I get dressed into a pair of jean cut of shorts, and grey V neck with sea green converse. I quickly brush my hair and put it in a pony tail, then walk to the door and out straight into Percy, he catches me from stumbling and holds me at arm length ad says " Wow, you look beautiful. Nice pj by the way, you looked hot!" And with that walks into his room to get changed. I blush at the comment about my pyjamas, I had been wearing a shirt that Percy had lent me sometime ago and light green shorts with blue spots.
After breakfast Percy says goodbye to his mum, and tells Paul he'd see him in English begins to walk to school with me. It was my first day at Goode, and the first time back for Percy after he went missing for most of the year. We talk about the teachers, and what the classes are like. Wen we final reach the doors Percy gives me an encouraging hand squeeze and I open the doors.