AN: This is my first FanFic, so please review! Its set in an AU where Percy and Annabeth aren't demigods and dont have any powers.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. All the characters belong to Rick Riordan.
Chapter 1
Silena's POV
"Mmm, sunblock smells so good," I said as I lay on my beach towel.
"You're so weird, Silena," Annabeth said. "You tell me that every day, and nothing's changed," I reply. The Atlantic Ocean was freezing cold even though it was July and 90° outside, so we decided to lie out on our beach towels instead of swimming. I had gotten terrible tan lines from the track season, and needed to get rid of them before homecoming.
Every year on the 4th of July, our families came out from Vermont to the cottage we shared by Montauk. This year, Annabeth and I somehow convinced our parents to let us come out here alone so we could spend time together before our senior year started.
The sun was shining and making the ocean turn a deep blue, and cute boys were in abundance. I felt my eyelids get heavier and closed them, and soon I drifted off to sleep.
Annabeth's POV
I woke with a burning sensation on my shoulders and chest. I turned to look at Silena, whose shoulders and nose had turned a bright shade of lobster red. I looked down at my own body and realized that I was in the same predicament.
I shook Silena awake and she screamed, "Ow, Annabeth that hurt!" Then she slowly realized that she was badly burned and got an astonished look in her eyes.
"What time is it?" I picked up my phone and saw that it was 4:30, two and a half hours after we fell asleep. We quickly pulled on our cover-ups and ran to my car as fast as we could.
"We're screwed," she said as she hopped into the passenger seat. I pulled out of the parking lot, pressing the gas pedal a bit too hard and backed into a passing car.
Silena's POV
I turned to look at Annabeth, who was staring straight ahead with a scared look in her eyes.
"Mom and dad are gonna kill me," she muttered as she stepped shakily out of the car. I peeked out of Annabeth's new fire-red GT and saw an angry boy step out of the victim car.
"I didn't come here to be hit by some stupid girl," the boy said as he slapped his number into Annabeth's hand. He looked about our age with curly black hair and sea green eyes. "You're lucky there's no damage done."
Annabeth looked dazed for a second and then snapped back to her senses. "I didn't come here to meet beach bums either." She marched back into her car and took off high-speed back to our cottage with the radio turned up all the way. I was holding on to the edge of my seat the whole ride home.
Annabeth's POV
I stepped into our cottage and immediately turned on our TV. I needed to get my mind of that jerk. I was somewhat shaken. How could he scream at me like that? I didn't even know him.
The movie Sky High, an old one that Silena and I used to watch in elementary school with one of our best friends, was on, and was watched in silence. Silena finally got up and retuned with a bag of Twizzlers and sunburn ointment. Then she broke the silence.
"It's not your fault, you know. The sun got to your head. If I were driving, I would have done the same thing." Another half hour of silence passed and the movie was finally over.
"It's not the crash that bothered me," I said, in sort of a trance. "It was the boy. How could he be such a jerk? It was an honest accident. People mess up." Silena got some pop and sat down next to me.
"Call him," she said. "Tell him." I pulled my phone out of my hesitantly along with the Post-It note that had his number on it. I took a deep breath and started dialing.
AN: Please review if you want more chapters, but i can't put them up soon because i have finals.
