Annabeth's POV

Percy. Gods, he was so infuriating. 'Annabeth, what's this say?' this and 'Annabeth, what are we doing again?' that and gods dam 'I'm sorry, Annabeth, I wasn't paying attention. Can you repeat that?' that he'd asked over twenty times in the past five minutes. And why did I have to repeat something, that I had at least five times, again to him? He should be listening. Right now, he was trying to make the right shade of blue. He'd told me he'd wanted me to 'see the shade of blue they are! I swear to the gods, Mom makes the best blue cookies ever!' Sure, it was kind of cute, but it was five times more annoying.

I looked over at him and sighed in frustration, hoping he'd pick up on it. I sighed loudly. Nothing. I huffed and grabbed my pencil and an owl sticky note from my pencil case that had the seven wonders of the world painted on it by my friend, Rachel, and scribbled furiously on it.

I hate my lab partner. I slid the note across to Piper who was sitting at the same table, but a few feet away from Percy and I as we were in separate pairs. She looked at it curiously, but I gave her a firm look that said 'read it or die'.

"I.." she began reading out loud. Oh no, oh no, oh no. This was not going to end up well. "hate my lab…" I frantically made cut-it-out motions with my hands as I sliced the air viciously. "partner..? I don't hate my lab partner, I love my lab part- oh…" She trailed off and her eyes widened. I wanted to slam my head into the desk, but that could get Percy's blue cookie serum or whatever on my stuff- oh, and on me. I settled for just rolling my eyes. Usually, Piper was smart… "Oh…" No, no, no, no Piper! "You hate your lab partner."

Percy's head whipped up and I sighed.

Percy's POV

She hates me? What? How could Annabeth Chase, smartest girl- student- in school, one of the prettiest, most patient, kind hearted, and athletic girls in this school, hate me? She was a tutor, for gods' sakes! Everyone knows only the kids who have horrible learning ethics and the worst attitudes need tutors, and she put up with them for two hours every day. And she hates me?

I scribbled on a blue sticky and reached my arm behind the two girls between us and handed it to Jason. "She hates me..?" No. Jason, dude, what are you doing? He's doing exactly what Piper just did. "Piper doesn't hate me! She literally just said that she loved me when she was talking to Annabeth about the sticky note she handed Pip- oh… Annabeth hates you." I smacked my head on the desk and both Annabeth and I jumped. Great, I lost more than half of my pretty blue stuff. Oh, and it was in my hair.

Annabeth's head whipped up, "I don't hate you!" I rose an eyebrow, "You're kidding, right? Every time I say, or even do something, you just glare at me or make a snarky comment about me. I thought it was like, our thing, or whatever, and that you'd make mean jokes and I'd smile and laugh it off, but…" I stopped. That sounded stup¡d even to me.

"Yeah? Well, that's just 'cuz, uh…" Annabeth's tone started out defiant, but her voice softened as she continued. "I'm like," her eyes widened and she took on a slight pout, as if someone were scolding her. Was she, I tried not to laugh, chiding herself? That's actually really… cute… "I'm like, pulling on your pigtails or whatever." It sounded casual enough, but she sounded angry. She turned back to the front and slid the lab tray over to her side, dumped out my pretty blue potion, "H-hey…" and then began mixing a bunch of stuff, making cool smoke and puffy stuff.

Wait… I don't have pigtails…

You guys know how boys pull girl's pigtails means they like that girl and stuff? She's implying she's more man in the relationship than Percy- and that she likes him in the first place. But, obviously, she's in denial, I mean, just look at the title! So, yeah... Two (really short, I know) updates today! YAY!

Anyway, I should probably post this semi-important AN below, sorry in advance for it being boring.

Hey, guys! Sorry if you were actually expecting a chapter. I think I stated in 'Princess Marco- Uh, Margo that I'd start posting summaries or little blurbs in the beginning and just ask that you guys review which ones you want continued. I have a lot to write, so I think I'll be doing this a lot. I'm writing a different Starco right now and a Percabeth one too. I'm going to just be copying and pasting this in all the summaries/blurbs I'll be posting. Enjoy the little idea blurby thing below (above in this case (too lazy to copy and paste this above but I'm apparently not too lazy to type all of this out)! Love you all and I'll get back to working on more fan fictions and (if- no, when- I get a new idea) editing my summaries to make them as appealing as possible to my spazztastic readers.

But yeah, that's already in one Starco fanfic and was mentioned (as mentioned above) in a different Starco fanfic. So... yeah!