hey guys! this story is a percabeth fan fic where they are both mortals and they go to prom. enjoy! (btw: all characters belong to rick riordan)

A sunny day today, such a nice day, yet so unfortunate that today was the day of the dreaded prom. I know, I know any regular girl would be super excited to go with her cute boyfriend, aka Luke, but the truth was, I didn't even like Luke. My best friend Percy assumed I did and set us up, even though Luke was a fine excuse for a high school blonde jock, I just didn't.

Didn't like him, didn't even want to kiss him when he came and swept me up, when I really only wanted one person in my life to do that, and that was my best friend, Percy, who did that when I was sad, needed a hug (that time was a sad time for me, I had gotten a 95 on my test…) And then when he was bringing me somewhere and I was lazy.

Anyway, I got up and did my normal routine: wake up, brush, get dressed, and go to school. I walked to school, eating my apple on the way, and hoping that my day would have to be really good to make up for the fact that I had to go with someone that I didn't even like to my first prom.

Now, as a little girl, I had always imagined my first prom to be magical, to go with the perfect guy, to fall in love and marry each other and everything, but 16 year old me knew better than that.

I was not on any terms excited to go to this prom. I just wanted to rip up that stupid dress and stay at home with my favorite date: netflix.

Someone ripped my out of the blissfulness of my thoughts when they said, "Hey babe!"

I groaned and then discreetly turned it into a yawn.

"So babe what are we going to wear tonight?" Luke asked excitedly. And then he murmured, "I mean it won't even really matter that much because by the end of the night, all of it will be off anyway…" He smirked at my expression and I slapped him hard.

Then I ran into the building, leaving Luke standing there and grasping his cheek in shock.

I would like to say that my day got better after that, but I was wrong. Two tests, and even though I am pretty sure I did well on them, I wasn't exactly thrilled to take them either.

And then there was prom. My sister Emily helped me get ready, and I put on some beige wedges, with a sea green top, and my hair in a half ponytail curled, down my back. I had just sat down on the couch, dress and all, and turned on the tv to watch some of my favorite: Fixer Upper! It was all about designing and architecture and I was hooked!

Then my doomsday date arrived, and he looked fine, I guess, but he smiled at me expectantly, like I should either gasp dramatically at him and say "OMG Luke you look so hot right now," or I should tap dance in 3 inch heels. Guess which one I would rather do right now.

He drove me in his car, and the whole ride was filled with uncomfortable silence, as I twiddled with my sea green dress fabric. On the way to the gym, I had realized that I didn't see Percy at all today, and I started to get worried.

However, those faded as soon as I saw him grinning on the steps of the school, at Luke's truck and he opened the door for me grinning. I hugged him and he whispered into my ear,

"That dress is the exact color of my eyes and my tie," he whispered, and it seemed like a thousand volts of electricity went down my spine.

Now that I think about it, I could have worn a kind of pretty light blue dress, but that would match Luke's eyes and I guess I just slowly drifted towards the sea green one…

Kind of like how instead of going on dates of light blue-eyed Luke, I went to sea-green-eyed Percy's apartment instead. Maybe it was because he invited me more or that I liked him in the way that I never liked Luke.

I mentally slapped myself with the same slapping hand I used on Luke. I didn't like Percy that way. But the way he was looking at me right now, I could have said differently about him.

He was gazing dreamily at me, like he just had a great gift or something like that. His eyes slowly moved down… lower and lower until I lifted up his chin smirking.

I didn't want to embarrass him too much so I just said,

"Shall we enter?"

Percy nodded uncomfortably, and I almost laughed. But instead I locked arms with him and headed inside, aware of Luke's glaring eyes on my back, but at that moment I didn't care.