YAY PERCABETH (: Ha ha, okay. My name is Emily and I also write a fan fiction for House of Hades. This was a contest winner. I wanted to write another story besides HoH, but I couldn't choose, so I had my readers review. I'm honestly happy this one won(:
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Snow Day
I trudged up the stairs to my apartment building, sighing as I went. The elevator door was broken and it had started to snow. This was the sprinkles atop the crap day ice cream sundae I had just had. When I got to the door, I rummaged around in my pockets and back pack for my keys. I didn't find them. They were inside the locked apartment and that didn't do me a damn bit of good. This was the cherry. I turned around and leaned against the door, banging my head against it. My headache had worsened at that point and now it just got worse.
Suddenly the door disappeared from behind me. I almost fell on my butt into my apartment. But then I did fall when an unknown force tackled me to the ground, somehow turning me around and shutting the door as they went. I opened my eyes and saw Annabeth hovered on top of me.
"Hi," She said, smiling.
"Hey," I said back, smiling back at her. She looked absolutely beautiful. Her hair was loose around her shoulders and seemed extra blonde today. Her cheeks were flushed and her skin looked golden. She sat up a bit so she was sitting on my stomach. I could see that she was wearing skinny jeans and a blue tank top. She reached for my hair and her finger came back with a snowflake on top of it.
"Is it snowing?" She asked me, her eyes lighting up. She loved snow. She had lived in California for the past couple years and it didn't snow there. And at camp the put the magical protection on so it didn't get inside the camp and we acted as if it were summer again. The snow even melted around the border because the temperature was still set to seventy-five degrees. So, she rarely gets to see snow. She made me promise that we build a snowman and have snow ball fight during winter break.
"Yeah, but it's just flurries," I told her, breaking her heart. Her face fell. The snowflake melted.
"Bummer," She mumbled as she got up. She offered me her hand and I took it, but I pulled her back down onto me.
"I have to tell you a secret," I whispered in her ear. She giggled as she nuzzled into my neck. "It's supposed to snow all night." She sat up again with the biggest smile on her face.
"We can build a snow man!" She said excitedly. I laughed and let her pull me up this time.
"Do you want to watch a movie?" I asked her. She nodded, still smiling from my recent news. We walked into the family room. I plopped down on the couch and she made her way over to the TV.
"What do you want to watch?" She asked as she rummaged through the movies. We had a lot because my mom got a new job at Best Buy so she gets a discount and Paul really likes movies so we have a bunch of his. But his are all Disney movies which made me laugh because I didn't take Paul for a Disney guy.
"I don't care, you pick," I told her. Which may or may not have been a bad choice, because she had a knack for picking educational crap.
"Oh! Let's watch Brave," She said, looking back at me. I wrinkled my nose. We had just watched that last night when Paul came home with.
"We just watched that," I told her. She nodded and put it back.
"My roommate and I saw it when it came out. Merida reminds me of Rachel," She told me, grinning back at me. I snorted. Her hair and Rachel's hair is about the same. Merida's is just longer.
"What about the Little Mer-"
"Yes."
"-maid," She finished, smiling. I love the Little Mermaid. I have all of them and watch them all the time. Annabeth pushed the disc into the DVD player. She plopped down next to me.
"It's Blu-ray," I told her.
"I know," She replied with a smile. She curled up next to me and I draped my arm around her shoulders. I pressed play with the remote and we settled in for the movie.
Towards the middle, she fell asleep. We had shifted by then so that I was laying long-ways on the couch and she was lying on my chest in between my legs. I pulled the blanket around her face. She nestled in even closer. She had a hint of a smile on her face. I sighed and leaned back. I never wanted this moment to end.
I woke up to my mom shaking me gently. She had the biggest smile on her face.
"Hey mom," I yawned.
"Hey, honey. It's late. You and Annabeth should go to bed." I looked at the clock. Crap. It was ten o' clock. I shook the grogginess out of my head and removed the blanket from Annabeth and myself.
"Crap. I still have homework to do," I mumbled.
"It's okay. The school called. Snow day," She whispered. She nodded down to Annabeth. I smiled. She'll be happy about that. I positioned Annabeth so I could carry her bridal style to the bed. I set her down and debated on changing her into her pajamas. I didn't know if that was crossing a line or not. Thankfully, she woke up and I didn't have to make a decision.
"Hey, babe," I whispered as I kissed her on the cheek. Her eyelids fluttered a bit and she sat up. I liked watching her wake up. Her face is all puffy and her eyes are droopy. It's cute.
"What time is it?" She asked me, yawning in the process. I shrugged my shoulders.
"Like ten-ish."
"Oh. Did you have homework?" She asked me. I shook my head. I wanted to surprise her with the snow day so I had to lie in order to keep that a secret because she would ask too many questions, or worse, make me do it. She nodded, relieved. She always wants me to do well in school, which I have been. She comes over every weekend and helps study because she goes to the boarding school down the street from my school. She managed to get my D's and C-'s up to C+'s and B-'s.
"Where's your stuff?" I asked her as I looked around my room.
"It's in the kitchen," She mumbled as she flopped back down on the bed. I walked down and grabbed her bag. When I got back to my room, she was asleep again. I groaned.
"Percy, you can change me. I won't kill you. Just for future reference," She mumbled as she sat back up. She smiled at me and took her pajamas out of the bag. She yawned and padded down to the bathroom to change. I changed quickly into mine as well. She changed really fast and didn't think to knock and I didn't want her to see my One Fish Two fish boxers. She walked in right as I was putting my shirt on. Her cheeks flushed and she climbed into bed. I grinned sheepishly at her and pulled my t-shirt over my head and climbed in next to her. I only had a twin bed, so we were always really close together.
"Goodnight," I murmured as I kissed her nose. She curled up on my chest and kissed me.
"'night."
When I woke up, Annabeth was still sleeping. I craned my neck to look out the window. There was a white glow and the tops of the buildings had snow on them. Annabeth started to stir, so I rubbed her back to wake her up a bit. Her eyelids fluttered open and she smiled at me.
"Morning," She mumbled as she leaned up to kiss me.
"Morning," I said, kissing her back. She sighed and settled back into me. She looked at the clock and frowned. It was nine thirty.
"Don't you have school?" She asked me. I shook my head. She frowned again.
"Snow day," I told her. It took her a minute to register. When it did, she scrambled out of bed and ran to the window. I laughed at her. She smiled and opened the door to the fire escape. I watched her as she scooped some snow into her hands with the biggest grin on her face. She then put the snow back onto the railing neatly, as it had been before and then ran back inside. She grabbed her bag and ran to the bathroom. She changed into jeans and a hoodie in record time. She ran back into the bedroom and grabbed my hand, hauling me out of bed. I stood up and stretched. Today was going to be a long day. Annabeth grabbed some jeans and a shirt and shoved them in my arms.
"Go get dressed!" She urged. I smiled and kissed her cheek. I slowly walked to the bedroom.
"Percy!" She half- begged, half-scolded. I smiled back at her and continued at normal speed. When I was done brushing my teeth and getting ready, I walked to the kitchen. Annabeth already had her coat, boots, hat, and gloves on. She was holding my coat in one hand and my boots in the other.
"Breakfast?" I reminded her. She scowled and handed me my stuff and then walked into the cupboard with the breakfast stuff, grumbling as she went. I put my stuff on. She came back with two water bottles and two granola bars.
"Now?" She asked. I rolled my eyes and nodded. She swatted me on the arm for the eye rolling, but she got over it and grabbed my keys from the table. I wrote a quick note to my mom on a post-it and we left.
Annabeth made me build two snow-men with her and a snow fort, and we had a snow ball fight in Central Park. When we got home, we made hot chocolate and curled back up on the couch. She fell asleep instantly. I smiled. She looked beautiful this way too. Her nose and cheeks were red and her hands were freezing. Her hair was wet from the snow. I smiled again and kissed the top of her head.
"Percy?" She murmured, looking up at me through her eyelashes.
"Hmm?"
"I love you," She said, snuggling up to me some more.
"More than snow?" I asked. She laughed.
"More than snow."
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