I smiled as I walked through the doors with my friends. I was in my first semester of my third year of university at NYU.

I had met some new fiends while I had been here, still knew a couple faces from my senior year. I had been given a scholarship to come here for my swimming.

I smiled as two of my friends, Lisa and Marc, walked in front of me. I remembered my friend I had had a crush on during high school, Annabeth Chase.

She was my best friend, but had left after graduating for her dream university, Colombia. I missed her, so much that it hurt. We still chatted when we could, but we were both so busy with work lately that we hadn't talked in a month now.

I regret not having asked her out, even after we went to prom only as friends. There were many chances were we could have kissed, when we were walking in the school memorial garden, when I took her home.

I shook my head and carried on down the hall towards the campus outside cafeteria. There weren't many people sitting at tables but quite a few scattered on the lawns.

We sat down at a table and put our bags down. I looked around at my friends, Evan, his girlfriend Catherine, Lisa and Marc, John and Leah. Leah, who was on my right, looked up and her gaze followed someone across the cafeteria.

"Have you guys met the new girl? She in my dorm! She's super sweet and she's really pretty." She said. John looked at the girl, who you could only see frm behind.

She reminded me so much of Ann. "You're right, she is pretty." He said, smirking. Leah smacked his arm and he rubbed it.

"I heard about her, I think her name is Annabeth, I'm not sure of her surname." Cathy said. I felt my heart start to ache a little. "Is it Chase?" I asked, hesitantly. "Yes, that's it!" Leah said, smiling.

I got up and ignored my friends questions as I walked towards the girl sitting at a table. "Annabeth?" I asked, biting my lip in anxiety as I stood behind her.

She turned around and her she grinned widely. "Percy!" She said, then got up and gave me a bear hug. I returned it, lifting her off her feet a bit. She laughed when I put her down.

"Oh my god! You've gotten so much taller!" She said, the smile plastered to her face. I was restraining myself from yelling out in joy. "You look the same as you always have been." I said, smiling. Beautiful.

"I've missed you so much." She said, giving me another hug. Annabeth chuckled a bit then pulled away. "My dorm mate and her friends a staring at us, do you know them?" She asked.

I chuckled and looked at my friends. "Sadly, yes. They're my friends." I said, chuckling. "Come, let me introduce you!" I said, taking her hand and pulling her along. She laughed and walked with me.

I smiled widely at my friends. "Meet my best friend from high school, Annabeth Chase. I know you know her, Leah." I said. Annabeth gave Leah a smile. "Ann, meet John, Lisa, Marc, Catherine and Evan."

Annabeth shook all their hands and gave them smiles. I didn't realize I still had Annabeth's hand in. Mine till John shot me a smirk. I took my hand out of hers. "I have an idea!" Cathy said, smiling kind of evilly.

"Why don't you and Anabeth go to Starbucks to catch up?" She said, in an obvious tone. "Sounds great." Annabeth said, smilin at me as she hadn't noticed the tone in Cathy's voice.

We said goodbye, got our bags and went to the car park. "Wanna get take outs at Starbucks? Then we can go chat at my apartment?" I suggested. She chuckled and nodded.

I went to my motor bike and gave her the spare helmet. I got on and she looked at the bike warily. "It'll be fine, don't worry." I said, holding out my hand. She gave me a smile and took my hand.

She wrapped her arms around my waist and I drove us to Starbucks. We ordered our things and I rode to my apartment. She was giggling when we got off the bike.

"That felt so good!" She said, clapping her hands. I laughed and took her up to my apartment. We went in and I put my keys and bag down and hung up my jacket. She had done the same and was looking out the glass walls and onto the city.

"You like the view?" I asked. She smiled at me over her shoulder. "Beautiful." She said. She was wearing jeans, boots and a lace top. Her hair was up in a messy bun.

I went through to my room to put my phone down, and she followed. She jumped onto the bed with our drinks and handed mine to me. I laughed and sat down across from her, cross-legged.

"So why did you move here?" I asked. She sighed. "Colombia's architecture program sucked, and I missed New York, and then I got the full scholarship to come here." She said.

"What happened to your boyfriend Luke?" I asked, sipping my drink while keeping her gaze. She looked down at her drink and put it on my bed side table.

"I broke up with him a few months ago." She said. "Why?" I asked, my expression filled with sympathy as y heart did a happy dance.

"He didn't make me feel wanted." She said, shrugging as she looked down at her hands. "You know the feeling?" She looked up at me, waiting for my answer. "Honestly I can't, I haven't gotten into a relationship for a long time." I said, my face a little red.

She laughed. "Sure, you're bound to have the girls knocking down your door." She said, smiling. We both laughed. I didn't dare tell her the reason I hadn't had a relationship since I was sixteen. If she found out about my long time crush, she'd think I was a weirdo.

We talked a lot, caught up on each others lives. I felt a weight lifted off my heart. I felt really happy, happier than I had been in a while. Ad it was all because of her.