A/N This takes place two weeks after the war. Percy and Annabeth are NOT together. Yet. ;)

I was sitting on the beach thinking about random things here and there when this huge wave came up and soaked me from head to toe. I shrieked.

"Seaweed Brain!"

Then I turned to find none other than my best friend, Percy Jackson, standing there laughing his butt off.

"I'm going to kill you, Seaweed Brain!"

"Ha-I'm-ha-ha-so-ha-sorry-Anna-ba-ha-ha-beth, I couldn't-ha-ha-resist!"

I looked at him scary calm and said in a dark and dangerous voice, "And I can't resist this."

I ran at him full speed. He immediately stopped laughing and looked scared, but by the time he could react, I had tackled him to the ground, full force.

He landed with an ooooff!

I was about to hit him when he rolled over me suddenly with an evil glint in his eye. I wouldn't admit it, but I may have been a tad scared.

I knew he wouldn't purposefully hurt me in any way, but he could still be pretty evil…

But then he started tickling me.

"Ahhh! Oh my gods! Stop! Ha-ha-stop! P-please-ha-ha-Percy! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" I laughed.

He was laughing and had a light in his eyes that he gets every time he's with me.

He was my best friend, but I wanted more. He really was an all-around hero.

But he doesn't like me that way.

"I, Percy Jackson, have taken down thee, Annabeth Chase, most talented and powerful female demigod!"

"STOP!" I shrieked. "Please-ha-ha-I gi-ha!-ve up-ha-ha-ha!"

He smiled brightly and stopped tickling me, but kept hold of my hands. He pulled them over my head to hold them there, with his knees on either side of me.

"Fine, but you so owe me for being so nice and letting you go."

"You haven't even let me go, Seaweed Brain." I pointed out.

"That is because I need you to pay me back somehow…"

Oh boy, I thought

"What do you want?" I asked curiously yet cautiously.

"Just a few, simple words."

"Like what?"

"I'm just going to need you to say: 'Percy Jackson is my bestest friend in the entire world and he is the all-around awesomest person ever. I am so lucky.'"

"First of all, like half of the words in that first sentence aren't even words."

"So what? I made them up specifically for you."

I rolled my eyes. "Oh, yay. Percy Jackson made up words for me." I said with heavy sarcasm.

"Do I need to get the tickly monster…?" he said like he was talking to a 5 year old.

"Ugh! No…let's see: Percy Jackson is my bestest" I cringed. "friend in the entire world and he is the all-around awesomest" Shudder. "person ever. I am so lucky." I finished with no emotion.

"I don't think that will do…." He prompted, indicating that my 'no emotion' thing wasn't going to cut it.

"UGH!" I complained. I may like the guy, but he still drives me so insane sometimes that I want to bang my head up against a concrete wall until I bleed.

I repeated the phrase with exaggerated emotion and Percy laughed.

"Okay, I guess that will do…"

But he didn't get off of me. He stared at me and slowly came closer and closer to me.

We both started closing our eyes when we heard someone squeal.

"Ouch!" a voice followed.

"Oh, shoot, sorry."

Percy jumped off of me and then offered me a hand which I took, staring at the ground to avoid awkward eye contact.

"Way to go, Kathryn. Now you ruined their moment." An angry Grover said.

"I'm sorry…it was just so darn cute and romantic!"

All the while this conversation went on, Percy and I stood there awkwardly. Kathryn, my new favorite Aphrodite camper since Silena, came running over to us and smiled apologetically.

"Why don't you two get back to where you were, and we'll just…leave." She suggested.

I laughed nervously and ran a hand through my tangled curls.

"Uh, we were just talking, so there's nothing to really 'get back to'". I put air quotes over the last three words.

"No, you guys were just about to kiss." Kathryn protested bluntly.

Percy laughed an embarrassed laugh.

"I-uh- actually got to go clean my cabin for inspections." Percy stuttered. Good old Seaweed Brain. Doesn't even try to deny that we were seconds away from kissing.

"Oh, shoot! I'm inspecting today!" Kathryn stated. "Well come on, your cabin is on the way 'll walk together."

"It's actually on the other side of the commons area…" Percy trailed off.

"Well I guess we'll be taking a detour, then, won't we? See you guys!" Kathryn shouted over shoulder as she skipped and pulled Percy with her.

"Bye Annabeth, I'll see you at the campfire?" he asked over his shoulder.

"Sure thing, Seaweed Brain." I said trying not to sound as excited as I felt.

"Oh, sure, don't say bye to me, Percy. Just talk to your girlfriend and leave me out. That doesn't hurt at all." Grover joked.

I didn't know who was redder: me or Percy.

"Ha-ha, Grover. I'm still mad at you."

"Wahhh! Cry me a river! You wouldn't even have known I was there if Kathryn would have stayed quiet!"

But Kathryn just pulled Percy away. Not away from my mind, unfortunately.

"Percy and Annabeth sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I—" I covered his mouth with my hand and glared at him. He just laughed behind my hand.

"I don't see why you don't just ask him out. He's crazy about you Annabeth. Why can't you just see that? He won't hurt you."

"I know he won't hurt me, I just-I don't know. I don't think he likes me the way you think Grover."

"But-" I cut him off.

"I know you're a satyr and can feel people's emotions, but you must be getting the wrong 'signal' or whatever."

GROVER'S POV

I laughed. She made it sound like I was a radio or something.

What I couldn't tell her is that Percy had come to me two weeks ago, when the war ended, and told me he loved Annabeth. That he had for a while.

But I couldn't tell Annabeth that. I mean, what kind of friend would I be If I told everybody's secrets? I didn't tell Percy anything that Annabeth said, so I had to give Percy the same respect.

So I just shook my head and told her she should just trust me.

Kathryn and I had a goal. We had to get Percy and Annabeth together before the end of summer, which was in exactly a month—thank the gods camp would be going late this summer—and those two would be so much more happy if they were together instead of having all this love pain.

So did you like it? Let me know in a review! Also, I want to know if you want me to make every chapter in each person's POV? Like how this chapter is in Annabeth's POV, do you want the next chapter to be the same one but in Percy'sPOV? Because I know I like to know both sides of the story, but if you want me to just get on with the regular plotline flow, just let me know. The best way to do that?

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