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The air smelled like gunj, and the ground was littered with cigarette butts and crushed beer cans. It was the quintessential high school party. Selena's eyes scanned the crowd for her old friends.

"Didn't you say they were all here, Beck?"

"Uh, yeah, they're, um, around, I think."

"Oh, look! There they are, come on!"

She dragged him to their friends, moving people out of the way in her pursuit.

"Silena!" Piper noticed her first.

"Piper! I missed you!"

The two embraced, and then she embraced her other friends. Connor, Travis, Jason, Thalia, Leo, Katie, Calypso, Rachel – they were all there except for one.

"Guys, where's Annabeth?"

Beck was the first to answer. "Uh, Sil…"

"Beck, what happened?" She slowly turned to him.

"What happened to my friend? Is she okay? Why are we here if she's hurt?"

"Guys, I got this. Silena, come on, we need to talk."

"Okay, what is going on Piper!"

They were a considerable distance away from their friends now. "Look, Annabeth isn't the goody-two-shoes you remember, or probably has been feeding you."

"Are her grades dropping? What happened to her?"

"Well, her grades are fine. But she's becoming increasing rebellious, hanging out with the wrong crew, doing a lot of drugs, and uh, she's in a bad relationship."

"She's in a relationship?!"

"Yeah, she didn't tell you because… well, because we haven't been the nicest to her about it."

"What? Are you guys not supportive? She's your friend!"

"Okay, let me give you the run down. We forced her to come to a party one day, and she tried alcohol, tried some more, and someone offered her some pot."

"This doesn't sound good…"

"It's not. We couldn't find her, but she had said she had found a ride home. We probably should've checked with her parents, but… well, we found out from some kid who stayed that she had gone home with a drug dealer. He's probably 25 now."

"Oh…" Silena's eyes wandered around, trying to look for her friend.

"Yeah, they've been a thing ever since. Even took her virginity. He gives her shit, and she's become sort of a druggie. But you know 'Beth, she's still doing great in school, but she's hanging out with us less, talking back to teachers, getting in fights with her parents. I even heard she'd been to shit like strip clubs and accompanied the guy on deals."

Whatever Silena had been expecting, it was not that. Not at all. "Wh-wh-what?!" she spat out.

"Yeah…"

"Is she here today?"

"Yeah, I was going to bring you to her after telling you all this."

Piper led her over to the porch where the people who were hosting were sitting. She saw Annabeth's definitive blonde curls, sitting on the lap of a black haired… man. They were sharing a joint, and she was leaning against his chest. As she got closer, she heard them talking. Her voice was that sort of semi-hoarse voice that some guys really liked, a change from last year, when Silena left.

"Sil?"

She had seen her, and handed the joint back to… her boyfriend? Silena didn't know what he was.

"Beth!"

They embraced each other tightly.

"Oh, Silena, I missed you so much! How's college?"

"It's going great! Who's this?"

"Percy, get up and meet Silena!"

He picked himself up, wearing just jeans and a tshirt, not like the khakis and Vineyard Vines tees usually worn by New Orleanian prep school kids. He held out his hand for her to shake.

"Nice to meet you, finally. Annabeth talks about you all the time, she's been so excited that you came back for break."

"Well, I can't say the same about you, unfortunately. Annabeth's never even mentioned you."

Picking up on the bite in her voice, his grip tightened and he turned to look at Piper, and his eyes narrowed. But just as soon as he did, he turned to Annabeth, and his expression softened.

"I feel offended."

"You should, Seaweed Brain. You're not important enough."

"Thanks," his tone was nonplussed.

"No problem babe." Silena's hand was empty by now, and she watched Annabeth kiss Percy on the lips chastely. They separated, and his hand snaked to her waist.

"Do you want to go hang out with your friends?"

"You don't mind?"

"Nah, it's cool, go catch up. I got some stuff to do. I'll be back in an hour." They kissed again, this time longer and more heated, before he went off and Annabeth rejoined her friends.

"So, how's Syracuse?"

Silena wanted to talk about what the fuck had just transpired, and what Annabeth was doing with a twenty-five year-old (she knew what a twenty-five year-old was doing with Annabeth, for sure). However, she knew that now was not the time. Not when Annabeth was high and they were about to get shitfaced.

"It's been great! Beck and I are really enjoying it! The winter has been terrible, so I'm glad NOLA's still 70 before Christmas."

"Well, it wouldn't be New Orleans if it wasn't."

Ω

An hour-and-a-half later Percy still hadn't showed up, and drunk Annabeth was really worried about him. Probably too worried.

"Is he dead? He isn't answering his phone! It goes straight to voicemail! What the fuck is he thinking!"

"Ever wondered maybe he shouldn't mean that much to you? I doubt you mean anything to him."

"Shut up, Piper, I don't want to deal with you right now. Percy's in peril, and you don't even care! He makes me happy, can't you deal with that?"

"He made you try molly!"

"I wanted to try molly!"

"You were in a shootout with him!"

"So?"

"He endangered you!"

"He didn't! The dumbass who wanted five dollars off did! He didn't need to open fucking fire!"

"How many side bitches does he have, besides you? He doesn't care about you!"

"I know all of them, bitch, so shut the fuck up!"

A ringing sound broke the argument. "Percy? Percy? Baby, where are you?"

"You can't just leave me hanging like that! I was so worried baby!"

"I know that you're sooo strong but I'm worried!"

"I love you too baby. See you soon."

'ILY' was not at all the stage Silena thought this relationship was in.

"Hey, guys, guess who got a case of Miller?"

"Leo!" Jason, who seemed to be happy to not have to deal with the drama, enthusiastically greeted the offer.

Annabeth, who had had five during the half-hour Percy was AWOL, had two more, and was now completely wasted, along with high.

It was a relief when Percy finally showed up, to take the nearly-broken Annabeth off their hands.

"Baby… I… I misseded you."

"I missed you too, how much did you have?"

"Not much, I pwomise."

"Annabeth…"

"Okaayyy, god, you're so mean. I had one, two, three, plus four equals seven."

"And a joint, and a few shots with me."

"I had fun. I just want to have fun."

"Annabeth, you had fun, now we need to go home."

"You always kill my fun, why do you even care? Don't you deal drugs or something?" She giggled.

"That's so hot."

"Annabeth, let's go."

"Pewcy, please let me stay! I have to talk to Silena! She's my friend!"

"You can talk with her tomorrow. It's Saturday, remember?"

"But, but, but but but homewerkkkk."

"You did that Friday. " Silena was nearly touched by the fact that he was being so comforting, and not taking advantage of her, and that he had just brushed her hair behind her ear. But she didn't lnow what he was like in private.

"Oh."

"Yeah, how about I take you two to dinner tomorrow?"

"Sounds great! Let me as… Silena." Annabeth's eyes wandered, even right over Silena.

"Ask her tomorrow, come on, we need to go."

"Meanie…" she said, but she was leaning against his chest, and now tried to wrap her legs around his waste. "You smell good."

"Thank you."

"You're wewlcome."

"Let's go, okay Annabeth?"

"Okay…" she yawned, and the duo walked off.

"I thought you said it was a bad relationship?"

"Even bad things have their moments," was Piper's reply.

This has been sitting around for a while... it's a weird Percabeth story, but I really like the age-gap Percabeth and adult fanfiction stuff. Not just the sex part, but also understanding that in a real world, kids are doing a lot of drugs. Also, if you're wondering, the relationship is neither open nor abusive, but Piper doesn't know that. If you guys want more, I'd love to continue.

Also, I am just coming to realize that Luv is Rage 2 is a literal masterpiece.

I'm also working on three more Preppy chapters: the lemon, a small drabble that I have in my head but can't write, and a Mardi Gras oneshot that will end up being pretty long. So, that's the lowdown on my other story.

PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! I NEED 'EM TO CONTINUE WRITING!

Thanks,

Loverboi (yeah, I'm a guy)