Percy's POV
-Flashback-
I was sitting down on the beach while watching the moon and the flow of the tides. The moon was shining very brightly tonight. Most probably Lady Artemis was in a good mood.
The tides were hitting the end of my feet which felt really nice. I guess it would feel nice for any son of Poseidon. I was really nervous about the thing Annabeth wanted to talk to me about. She seemed different then when we got together. I was wondering what made her change because she would always ignore me when I asked her what was wrong. She asked me to come to beach but never said what she wanted to talk about.
I was knocked out of my train, when I saw Annabeth waking towards me. She was wearing her orange camp-half blood T-shirt, with some blue pants and some sandals. Even though I always see her wearing this I still feel my stomach making flips and I was blushing like crazy. Gods I am spending too much time with those Aphrodite girls. When she came up to me she was a little behind me, I wonder why? Usually she sits down with me.
She then looked at me and said, "Hi seaweed brain you got here earlier than I expected." She then smiled at me.
I replied, "Yeah, what did you want to tell me? Is something wrong?"
She took a deep breath. "There are all of new campers here now," she said trying to ignore my question.
I looked at her and then said, "Yeah there are but what did you want to tell me?"
She then looked at me and said, "Percy, I um… um… think that we are going too fast."
I did not know what she was talking about and asked, "What do you mean?"
"I think that maybe we are going too fast through our relationship. I mean we've been best friends and then suddenly after the war we became you know lovers?"
"Yeah so? We aren't doing anything inappropriate. I don't get why you are saying that we are moving too fast, we only kiss we haven't done anything else."
She sighed and said, "What I mean seaweed brain is that maybe we just got caught up in the heat of the moment because I just realized something"
I took a heavy breath "What did you find out?"
"That what I felt about you is that same thing that I had felt for Luke"
I tried to calm myself while holding back the tears that threatened to spill and said "so what do you want to do now?" those words surprisingly didn't turn out to be a sob like I expected.
She didn't seem to notice the way I was feeling. She told "I want us to be just like before just what we are before we face the war. Best friends?"
I turned my back away from Annabeth so I could hide the tears that were flowing down my cheeks and said "Friends?"
"ok if that's what you want," I said shakily.
Annabeth beamed at me and said "I'm glad our conversation went well so I guess I'll be going then see you tomorrow, okay?" and with that she left
Little did she know that she had actually broken my heart.
I didn't know what to do so instead of walking back to my cabin, I was going to go to Atlantis and see my dad, Poseidon.
