Summary:

Annabeth loses her job and starts living with her boyfriend, Ethan Nakamura. But will a certain Red-Head that we all love complicate things? And how does Percy Jackson tie in? Pre-written so I'll update frequently. Don't worry; they'll be plenty of PERCABETH! T for language and some suggestive material. AU, met at school and college and stuff. Everyone is 26 unless specified. First chapter is shorter than the rest will be.

A/N: hey, this is the second story on my account, but the first one that I actually wrote. I have a question, I typed this AN on the Word Document, is that how it works or can you do it through fan fiction?

Annabeth POV

I can't believe that son of a bitch Will! He fired me to hire that stupid girl Rachel! Rachel went to college with me and harassed me the entire time! She stole my old boyfriend, Conner, (A/N I know, messed up in so many ways) and got me kicked out… or maybe I got kicked out for almost knifing Conner's brother Travis… the world will never know. I ran up the stairs to my apartment that I shared with my best friend, Thalia. I've known her my entire life, and since we have college loans to pay off, sharing an apartment seemed like the best idea.

"Hey, Bethy!" Thalia said as soon as I opened the door.

"I'm not in the mood Thals," I replied and sulked off to the kitchen to get some coffee.

"What happened?"

"I got fired."

"By Will." Thalia said, it wasn't a question, it was like she knew.

"How did you know?"

"He posted it on Facebook?"

"WHAT!" I don't want everyone to know I got fired! As if on cue my cell phone buzzed. Thalia stifled a laugh and I knew she was enjoying my pain. I looked at my iPhone 4 (Verizon rocks!) and saw it was my boyfriend, Ethan.

"What?" I answered.

"I heard you got fired. It's okay though, Cocktail waitresses are over rated." Was his answer.

"Don't. Talk. About. It!" I said. Thalia came over and grabbed the phone.

"She's not in the mood, Ethan. She'll come over later with Pizza, and then you can tell her."

"Tell me what?" I asked. I was already pissed, but I don't like not knowing thing. Thalia ignored me and kept on talking to Ethan for a minute. She hung up, handed me my phone and said, "I guess this isn't the best time for me to tell you this."

"What?" I asked, there was no way that my day could get any worse than it already was.

"Umm, I got a new job."

"That's great Thals!" I said, "Congratulations!"

"In California."

"I take back my congratulations." I can't believe that she was leaving me! There was no way that I could afford this apartment without her. I probably could have gone 4 months paying my share before I'd have to leave, but staying here for a week would clean me out.

"But I found you a place to live, and the rent is half of what you pay here while I'm here."

"So a 4th of the cost of this apartment?" I asked, kind of confused by her way of talking.

"Yeah, it's with Ethan, Luke is moving with me to Cali."

"Yeah, not really liking this…" I liked Ethan, but living with him would probably put a lot of pressure on our relationship. We've been dating for 8 months, but we haven't done… anything. And what was up with Thalia leaving me here and taking her boyfriend since forever with her?

"Gods, Annabeth, say something." Thalia said, I had been silent for 5 minutes.

"Why are you and Malcolm always setting me up like this?" I asked, Malcolm was my twin brother, married and had a baby girl. Malcolm and Thalia were always setting me up on dates that involve sex. Which is something that I have never done.

"Annabeth, face it, your 26, not getting any younger. You're probably not going to find anyone that great after Ethan. It's now or never."

"That is the weirdest thing that anyone has ever said to me. Which is saying something because I've spent a week bunking with Nico and Travis in my junior year."

"Annabeth, just go buy a pizza, and head over to Ethan's"

"Fine, because you obviously don't want me here!" I spat, "I'll pick up my things later."

I grabbed my car keys and ran out the door. I sped over to dominos then went to Ethan's. I took the elevator up to the top floor and opened the door using the spare key. I put it back and stepped into his apartment. It was a pent house. Somehow, Ethan makes enough money for this place, Luke barely helped out with the rent. I put the pizza on the granite top and headed over to the guest room that I had used a couple of months ago when we came back from Montauk late at night. I opened the door. There was a note that said:

Forget about pizza, meet me at Tina's at 7

Love,

Ethan

Tina's was the fanciest restaurant ever. I was still wearing my work clothes, a dark blue cocktail dress. I glanced at my watch, if I left now I would get there at 6:30, early, but I could grab a coffee at the small café across the street.

…

I sipped my coffee at a table for one . I set it down and got up to use the restroom. I was happy that I was wearing a trench coat. I learned the hard way that you shouldn't wear your work clothes outside during the day. You got a lot of weird looks from Men and rude looks from Women. On my way I spotted Rachel. She was making out with someone. I couldn't see who. I maneuvered myself around a guy my age who was staring at the girl open-mouthed. "Excuse me." I said. I broke his trance and he looked at me, his eyes were a little teary but I got a good look at his face. He had chiseled figures and gorgeous sea-green eyes. If I wasn't dating Ethan…

"Sorry," he said, "it's just, that's my girlfriend." He nodded at the Rachel.

"Rachel?" I asked

"Yeah, she was my girlfriend. It's obvious now that she doesn't want me. How do you know her?"

"She single handedly got me kicked out of college and has made my life a living hell ever since. And this morning she stole my job."

"Oh, sorry, I'm Percy, by the way, Percy Jackson."

"Annabeth." I shook his hand.

"So what was your job?"

"Cocktail waitress."

"Well, you look it."

"Thanks… I guess. It was a temporary job, I'm waiting to hear back from an architecture company. That's what I got my masters in."

"Nice." He said. He glanced at Rachel, who was getting up. I looked at her and once she moved I could see the mysterious guy she was cheating with. It was…

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