Chapter one: confession

Percy swam through the murky water, trying to find the ring. She would be thinking that he had simply left her! His head popped above the water gasping for air, he may be on the swim team, but he was still human, he could only hold his breath for so long!

"You know Seaweed Brain, if you're trying to ask me to homecoming, you're doing a pretty stinking bad job at it." Annabeth called as she held up a small silver ring lined with blue crystals.

Percy felt his face grow warm, "I...uh…" He stammered. "I was just seeing if you could…uh… find the ring! You know, if not, then I would have asked Rachel!"

Annabeth scowled at the mention of Rachel's name. "So are you saying that you would have gone with HER!?" Percy immediately knew he had crossed a line.

"So she kissed me once, we weren't even together yet! And, mind you, I never wanted to kiss her!" he smiled. "So, is that a yes to homecoming?"

"I don't know Seaweed Brain," she smiled. "Depends on what the price of the ring is."

Annabeth and Percy went to school the next day ready to publicly announce their being a couple, they had been together since Percy's birthday a month ago when a bunch of their friends died on the bus to the district wide track event, Annabeth was resting in the hospital room and opened her eyes to see Percy sitting in a chair across from her bed wearing a grim smile on his face, "we won" was all he said.

Annabeth snapped out of her daydream as her friend Piper nudged her in the shoulder. "Hey, you ready for the big test in science?" she asked.

"When have I ever not been ready for a test? My mom is a bit of a study freak, I've inherited her habits." She said sarcastically.

Percy came walking over with their friends Jason and Grover. Jason had transferred to their school a few months ago when; Grover had been living at the boarding school since he was young.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Percy asked. Annabeth swore he just winked at her, unfortunately Piper saw this too.

"WHAT ARE YOU WINKING AT ME FOR?! I HAVE A BOYFRIEND YOU DOLT!" Piper screamed at Percy.

Suddenly Jason whipped around to face Percy and stand next to Piper at the same time. "Bro, not cool." He said with his eyes like daggers.

Annabeth didn't know whether to laugh or help out, she decided laughing might be best, and it wasn't hard to do after one quick glance at Percy's horror-stricken face. Apparently Grover thought this was funny too, for he started to burst out laughing even before Annabeth herself. Soon everyone, but Piper were rolling on the ground laughing.

"JASON! How could this be funny?! You're supposed to go all, SUPER –CRAZY-PROTECTIVE boyfriend! You shouldn't be ok with having your best friend wink at me!" Piper had no idea that Percy and Annabeth had even the slightest intention of dating each other. This was quite funny because her mom was one of those super popular mach-makers, and Piper herself was also very good at mach-making.

"I wasn't winking at you; I was winking at my girlfriend!" Percy blurted as he was laughing. Suddenly only Percy was laughing, in fact the whole hallway was silent.

Percy finally realized this and stopped laughing. "THE'RE TOGETHER! THE'RE TOGETHER!" A kid ran screaming around the corner.

Suddenly everyone was laughing again and Percy and Annabeth were blushing like crazy. "OH MY GOSH, How did I not see this before?!" Piper whispered under her breath as she paced around her locker blushing almost as much as Percy and Annabeth.