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"And I guess, what I'm just trying to say is, I've liked you since the day we've met and will you go out with me?" I said.
I heard a gasp from behind me and then the sound of someone running through the woods.
"What was that?" I asked Silena.
"Uh-oh," Silena said.
"What, uh-oh?" I asked her.
She walked over to wear a single owl earring was lying in the dirt.
"That's not good," Silena said.
"You don't think that means that-"
"I think it kinda does, Percy," Silena said. Then she gasped. "Oh my gods! She thinks you were asking me out!"
I began to pace. "Oh no. Oh no. Oh no!"
"Percy, you've got to talk to her!" Silena said.
"No! And say what exactly? That 'Oh hey, Annabeth, I know you were spying on me in the forest, but I wasn't trying to ask Silena out, I was practicing on trying to ask you out'," I said.
"Well, yeah!" Silena said.
"That just makes me sound like a jerk, an idiot, and a dork. I mean, that's not how I planned on asking her in the first place!" I practically yelled.
"Calm down," Silena said. "You just need to win her back."
"How exactly?" I asked.
Silena smiled. "Follow me."
I followed her back out of the forest and to the Aphrodite cabin.
"Girls! I have some news on our Percabeth project!" Silena sing-songed.
I heard a bunch of girls squeal.
"Percabeth?" I wondered aloud.
"It's your star name," Malory said, her voice oozing with "duh".
"I still don't get it," I said.
"Your star name is a mash-up of your name and your couple's name. Percy and Annabeth make 'Percabeth'. Or do you prefer 'Annacy' or 'Percanna'?"
"Percabeth's good," I said.
"Thought so," Malory said.
"So exactly what is 'The Percabeth Project'?" I read off of the huge pink binder that was sitting on Silena's bunk. "Wait. You have a whole binder full?"
"Yeah. Why wouldn't we?" Silena asked. I could probably think of a million reasons why they shouldn't, but I didn't want to make them angry.
"So exactly, what's in there?" I asked.
"Well," started Natalia, "it's got everything in it. From the very first words she said to you to the words when she was confirming your friendship and beyond. Also, your very first kiss!"
I blushed and looked away. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. On with it."
Silena cleared her throat. " 'First Day Of Meeting' " she read. "Oh! This is a diary entry from me that we put in here! 'Dear Diary, There's a new kid in camp. His name is Percy Jackson and he totally destroyed Clarisse. Major yuckage. But that's not what I'm writing about. It's about Annabeth, too. Can't they see they're meant to be together? I mean, she's been going around telling Chiron he's "the one". Now, I know what you're thinking, Diary, that's not what she meant, but did she seriously know what she meant? I mean, sure she's got a crush on Luke, but he's like majorly too old for her. And I mean, couldn't they feel the connection as she spoon fed him ambrosia and watched him drool in his sleep? They are so meant for each other, I think I might cry. Well, I'm going to help them figure it out. Just watch me.' "
"Wow," I said.
"Yeah. I have instinct," Silena said proudly.
"What else you got?" I asked.
"Okay. Well, we have her first words to you. Or the first words we know about," Casey said.
"Which are?" I asked her.
" 'You drool in your sleep'." Casey replied.
"Dang. You guys are good."
"Yeah. We know," Malory said with a wink.
"We also have that when you first saw her, 'she had hair like a princess' and 'she was pretty'," Silena read.
"I never said that!" I exclaimed.
"No, but you thought it," Gwen said.
"How do you guys know?"
"Mom told us," they replied, all at once.
I was silent, thinking.
"Do you guys have a plan?" I asked.
"Percy, we may not be the daughters of the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, but we were born from the goddess of crush wisdom and love strategy," they all giggled.
I rolled my eyes. "So what's your love strategy for this case?"
"Well," Silena started. "You're on your own."
I nearly choked. They wanted me to win Annabeth over by myself. I can't do that!
Well, I guess I could try. "Can I have her earring?" I said as I held out my hand. Silena dropped the earring into my hand.
"Good luck!" they all called.
I ran out of the cabin and began walking around the camp grounds. I finally found her in the sword arena tearing the fighting dummy to shreds. Woah. She looked mad.
"Hey, Annabeth!" I called.
She turned and her eyes were blazing and her face was splotched with water.
Then she tried to recover.
"Oh, Seaweed Brain," she said as her eyes softened and she forced herself to smile. "I didn't hear you come in."
The last was barely a whisper.
"I was just looking for you," I said.
She looked like she perked up, then perked right back down again. "Really?"
"Yeah! I need to tell you something."
She sighed. "What, Seaweed Brain?"
I laughed. She cocked a brow. I moved towards her and pushed back her hair covering her right ear.
She froze. "What are you doing?"
"I found this," I said as I attempted to put her earring back in for her. After fumbling for a second, I finally got it.
When I took a step back she touched her ear. "My earring?"
"Uh-huh."
"Where did you find it?" I asked her.
Uh-oh. "I, uh, can't remember." Was my genius answer.
She sighed in relief, I guess. "Oh. It must have just fallen out."
"Must have."
"So is that all?" she asked.
I nodded, "Uh-huh."
"Really?"
"Yep."
"Huh. Well, want to practice our sword fighting?" Annabeth asked.
"Sure!"
I grabbed a sword and we began to fight. Suddenly, she cracked up laughing.
"What?" I asked.
I liked her laugh. It was like the sound of bells. Wow, did I really just say that?
"Your facial expressions. Looks like you're thinking about something extremely important."
I smiled. "Kind of."
We continued to thrash our swords.
"Like what?"
"Well, like how I'm going to beat you, Wise-Girl," I said as I knocked her sword out of her hand. She looked dumbfounded for a minute, but then in one swift motion she picked it up and had her knife at my chin. She smiled at me.
"Funny, Seaweed Brain," she said. Then we both must have realized how close our faces were. We stood there frozen, just looking at each other. I stared into those stormy grey eyes that were looking back into my sea-colored ones. For a split second, I thought about kissing her, but then I remembered she thought I had asked Silena out and would probably punch me or something if I tried.
Then she started to lean in and I mimicked her actions. Then the lunch bell rang. She blinked and then hurriedly picked up her things.
"Time for lunch," she said as she ran out.
This was going to be harder than I thought.
