not all love is perfect...
Percy Jackson was always fascinated by the Idea of soulmates. His mom used to tell him the stories of her friends and how they met their soulmates. The soulmate mark appears when you meet your soulmate, it is the name of your soulmate written on the inside of your wrist.
He was first introduced to this Idea when his classmate in 4th class met her soulmate. The moment was enchanting, because when the saw each other, they were enveloped bu a bright white aura.
His mom used to tell him that when somebody meets their soulmate, their life changes for either good or bad.
Percy believed that he would meet his soulmate when time comes.
The moment finally came when he was 14, His school was of that day so he decided to visit the beach, but his step dad paul proposed that they go to the museum that day as he wanted to visit it forever and Percy was reluctant to go at first, but then later he accepted when his mother promised a vacation in montauk that year.
He was moving, his eyes barely skimming the showcases when he saw a head of blond curls then the next moment, he was the enveloped in a bright white aura. The girl looked at him and scowled. Percy's mind was filled with emotion, because the girl was pretty, and she was his soulmate, which was clearly a very exciting moment. Just as he was opening his mouth to say something, the girl turned and ran. He followed her but what he saw broke his heart. The girl was kissing a boy, who was very tall and looked athletic. When he saw that, he felt something inside him break and he was clearly enraged. He searched for his mother and left the museum, without even a second glance towards the girl who was destined to be with him.
The incident changed something inside him. Previously, he was a very happy and easy going person, but after wards, he realized that he will always be alone.
He became independent and extremely hard working. He did not look back and kept his secret only to himself.
His life was limited to only a few people, and his parents.
10 yeards later...
"sir, do you know about your soulmate?"
"does annabeth chase know about it?"
"sir, why don't you contact her?"
Percy ignored all the reporters and hurried towards his sports car.
perseus jackson was a professional swimmer, dubbed by many to be the best. He was a very mysterious personality, because he ignored all his fans and never boasted about his talent. He had not attended even a single interview in his professional career of five years. He was a very closed person and only very few people were allowed inside his house. He did not even allow his soulmate, miss chase to enter his house. Miss chase was a professional architect, and one of the best the world has to offer. Both the soulmates had reached world fame, but they refused to acknowledge each other.
It all changed one day.
"percy, you have to meet her one day or the other or you will live your whole life being single."
"Piper, please leave the subject. I do not want to talk about it.", percy said, extremely annoyed, but keeping his face devoid of expression.
"but percy, why don't you meet her, please, just try this once, then we will leave you alone."
"shut up Jason I do not want to talk about it and it's final.",Percy spoke in his no non sense voice.
"but just please tell us the reason you ignore her". piper prompted.
"you do not want to leave me alone piper".
"Please percy at least tell your two best friends. Please?"
"SHE LEFT ME FOR SOME OTHER BOY OF WHOM I DO. NOT. WANT. TO. SPEAK."
Piper gasped while Jason flinched because of his friend's raised voice.
"I met her when we were fourteen in a museum.…."
and told the incident to piper and jason who were his friend and each other's soulmates. He had met Jason in high school and they had instantly become friends. He did not have even a single other friend except the both of them.
They finally met again in coffee shop, where they both had come in disguise. They both came at the same time and collided in the doorway. They both promptly fell down with Annabeth on top of percy. HE quickly got up and offered her a hand.
"I am very sor-", but his apology died in his throat when he saw who she was. When she looked up, he quickly turned away and started running. he felt anger and sorrow coursing through his body as she start ed following him. He turned in a dark alley, but met a dead end. He turned back and saw her right in front of him. All his insecurities when he was a teenager returned and he felt tears pricking in his eyes.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?", he yelled at her. "please, listen to me, we need to talk", she cried, her voice breaking.
He took deep breaths to calm himself. And then spoke in a deadly calm voice, "There is nothing left to talk about. You have already broken me once, and I cannot afford to let it happen again. So please ma'am, it would be better if you leave me alone."
"I am sorry", she said trough her sobs.
Percy could not bear the sight to see anybody cry, even if they have broken hi heart. He gave her a tissue from his pocket and ran away, leaving her alone, crying in a deserted alley.
That day percy went home, but he could not sleep as he remembered his sleepless nights and days spent working out so that he could keep his mind off the girl with curly blond hair. He remembered how he used to spend countless hours in the pool to calm himself and hide his tears. His parents had noticed it and one day his mother confronted him about it.
"what happened dear?", she asked him in her beautiful motherly voice filled with concern.
Percy could not lie to his mother, so he told her everything from the museum to his depression and his resolve to become independent. His mother was sad but she did not say even a single bad thing about the annabeth chase and her main focus was to soothe him. She was the very reason he could protect himself from being depressed.
Their next meeting was very high. Percy was returning on a flight from europe where he was going for the olympics, but he preferred to travel alone, so he never went with the team and lived in the shadows except when swimming. It was his idea of an escape from the real world as he dived into his work. His main advantage over the other swimmers was that he did it not only for passion, but he also poured all his emotions out through swimming. Piper and Jason sometimes wondered after his revelation how he managed to cope up with so many pent up emotions. His fear of flying was certainly going to act this once as it did every time. He was one of the first ones on the plane, and he went and promptly sat down on his window seat, shutting the window as soon as he could. He was relieved to see that there was no one besides him, because the last thing that he wanted was some person asking for his autograph. But, his relieve was short lived, because the next moment, a person came and promptly sat on the assumed empty seat. Percy always traveled in economy class to disguise and not make a big show. He looked up from the flight magazine he was reading to see who the person was, and promptly did a double take when he saw the obnoxiously pretty face of his soulmate. Excellent, now he was stuck on a 15 hour flight with the person he had been avoiding for the past ten years.
When she saw him, she promptly gasped and she too almost fell down from the seat. Once she recovered her bearings, She said, "Please listen to me, I am really sorry", he shut the magazine and fixed her with a glare which could cause even the most courageous person to look away, and Annabeth obviously flinched, but refused to back down.
"I am really sorry" she said again. Percy again wanted to shut her up, but he just cocked his head to the side, prompting her to explain while keeping his face expressionless, because there still was this tiny sliver of hope inside him that he would get along with his soulmate.
"I was very immature at that time. Luke made me believe that we were made for each other, and I too thought that we two were soulmates, but then you came", she tried for a 'I am sorry look', rather than a blaming one, so he just ignored the comment."I tried to hide it from Luke until he thought that we both had no soulmates, but he had other ideas. As soon as he met his soulmate, who ironically was my best friend Thalia, he left me in the cold for her." she took a deep breath, "I was devastated. The only person I loved, my first kiss, my first boyfriend had left me. That wasn't the worst thing. "she was crying now, and her breath came out shaky, "this made me realize how you must have felt, and I was hit with tremendous amount of grief and guilt, which broke me from Inside. That is why I decided to be an architect, or actually I wanted to be a teacher, but I withdrew myself from society, not unlike you actually. My friend ship was limited to only a few people. What I want to say is that I just want us to be friends. I will not force you or anything, but please just consider my offer.", she finished and gave him her phone number. Percy was feeling a lot of emotions at the same time, including sympathy understanding, but still there was a lot of anger and resentment, so he requested her to let him take some time.
He closed his eyes for the rest of the flight, and just as he was going to sleep, the flight began to shake. Percy got very scared and emitted a very unmanly and high-pitched shriek, simultaneously holding Annabeth's hand for dear life as if he was clinging on to her. They spent the rest of the flight holding hands.
Percy did not know when he fell asleep, but when he woke up, he was feeling very happy for some reason, that is when he saw annabeth and remembered her explanation.
Percy waited for a week and a half before contacting her again, in which time he figured out that he was willing to take the risk of meeting her, because he wanted to be happy, though he was content with his life, ho was not satisfied, because there was an Annabeth-shaped hole in his heart.
"annabeth"
"hello, Percy"
"I have decided, meet me at the coffee shop and text me the time you want to meet me at.
When Percy arrived at the cafe, he found Annabeth waiting for him at a table. He quickly went and sat opposite to her.
"I was thinking that we could talk and ask each other questions to get to know the other better. I will start, What is your age?"
"I am 24, born on july 12. MY turn, how great is your family?"
"My family is not much, only my mother, step father and step sister. Yours? are you close?"
"My mother left us when I was just a baby and my father got married to my step mother. I also have two step brothers."
And they went on and on of how percy loved, the ocean and mostly ate blue food he loved his mother and family and was a mamma's boy. He told her about his high school days and his best friends.
They soon became close friends and went on a lot of dates. Their relation ship was not perfect, but they were slowly approaching towards it.
Thanks and please R & R.