A/N: Hey! This is my first Percabeth Fanfiction! It's AU, so, like, no CHB and stuff, but they are still demigods. Hope you like!
Annabeth
It was the week before term started, and everyone was trying to make the most out of it. Going fun places, and partying, and overall, wasting their time.
My friends Thalia and Luke literally had to drag me away from my computer at home. Fortunately, I was able to save my progress on the 3D printer….
Now we were walking around the place, going shopping, and waiting until evening came, so we could go out to dinner.
"So," Luke sighed, "Are you guys ready for term to start?"
"Of course," I said at the same time Thalia moaned, "No!"
He rolled his eyes. "It's not going to be that bad. Hopefully. Maybe there'll be some more demi-OW!"
Thalia had just elbowed him hard. "Are you mad? In front of all these mortals?"
"Oh. Right. Sorry. I'm just saying that maybe we'll get some interesting people this year. Last year, they were all Hermes, or Aphrodite, or Demeter, or Athena-"
Both Thalia and I smacked him upside the head.
"OW! You know, it's a free country! I can say whatever I want! THE GREEK GODS ARE R-"
I pulled my phone out of my pocket and smacked his head with it. "Luke, one more word about the students of Olympe High and I am going to go hunt some Hermes offspring."
Thalia grinned. "I'll come with you. We'll grind their bones to make our bread."
We turned a corner, and I banged into someone, hard.
My bag and some of its contents flew out, including the phone I had just smacked Luke with. On top of that, I also fell backwards, what with the force of the hit. The person I had bumped into also dropped some stuff.
"Watch where you're going, idiot!" The words came out of my mouth before I could stop them.
"What?!" Luke said incredulously.
"She was talking to me, not to you," the guy who I had bumped into said.
I cleared my throat and stood up. "Sorry."
"Me too," he said. He had mussed black hair and sea green eyes.
What an odd color….I had never seen those color eyes before…
I was frozen for a minute, staring at those eyes, before I realized he had collected his fallen items and was holding mine out to me.
"Oh…yeah, thanks." I took the stuff and shoved it back into my bag.
"No problem." He grinned and walked away.
"Wow," Luke said. "That was really weird."
"You think?" Thalia glared at him. "Some people just need to watch where they're going. See, Annabeth here was just walking, nicely, talking to her best friend, Thalia, when some idiot buffoon bumps into her-"
"Where's my phone?" I said suddenly, looking around. It wasn't on the ground, it wasn't in my pocket, I definitely didn't put it in my bag-
"That guy stole my phone!" I said loudly, turning a few heads.
"Really?" Thalia looked around.
"Yeah, it's the oldest trick in the book! Bump into someone, and steal their phone, or their wallet-we have to get that guy!"
We briskly turned around, running in the direction the guy had been walking. We turned the corner, and I finally spotted the back of his blue shirt some ten yards away.
Luckily, I noticed a police officer even closer.
"Officer," I said, walking up to him. "That guy over there, the one in the blue shirt, stole my phone!"
"Really?" He said, squinting to where I was pointing.
"Yeah! He just bumped into me-probably on purpose-and stole my phone!"
"Man, that's the oldest trick in the book! Come with me." The officer ran up to the guy, with me on his heels.
The officer grabbed the guy's shoulder and whipped him around. "Is this the guy?"
"Yes, sir." I put my hands on my hips defiantly.
"Sir, did you take her phone?" The officer raised his eyebrows at the guy.
It took him a few seconds to answer. "What?"
The officer sighed. "Can I see your phone, sir, please?"
"Yeah…" The guy reached in his pocket and pulled out a phone. "Yeah, it's mi-oh."
For he had just seen that the phone was not his.
"Oh, yeah…this isn't my phone, when we bumped into each other it must have gotten exchanged…"
"You mean when you purposely bumped into her," Luke snapped, snatching the phone out of his hand.
"So, this is her phone, sir?"
"Yes!" Luke, Thalia, and I yelled.
"Yeah," the guy said, frowning, "But when we bumped into each other, our phones got exchanged, so, obviously, she must be having my phone."
"Rubbish!" I said. "You stole my phone!"
He narrowed his eyes at me angrily. "Why would I steal your phone?"
"How should I know why people steal things!?"
The officer grabbed the guy's arm. "Sir, you're gonna have to come with me."
"Yeah," the guy protested, his voice rising, "But you need to check her for my phone!"
"Sir, you have the right to remain silent-"
"Remain silent? She has my-"
"Sir, the phone was found on you, you've admitted the crime-"
"Crime?!"
"If you don't come with me quietly, I'm going to have to forcefully arrest you!" He shoved the guy into his police car.
"But why are you arresting m-?" The rest of his sentence was cut off by the car door slamming. The officer climbed into the front seat and sped away, the sirens wailing.
"Ugh," Thalia growled, "Filthy thief."
"Shameless," Luke added, handing my phone back to me. "Come on, let's go, it's almost time for our reservation."
So we started back in the direction of the restaurant, when a ringing sounded. We kept walking, but it didn't stop.
"Dude," I said finally to Luke. "Pick up your phone."
"It's not mine." Luke said, waving his blank phone screen at me.
"Not mine either," Thalia said when I turned to her.
"Then who's-?" I traced the ringing back to my bag. "What-?"
I opened the zipper and rummaged through it, finally pulling out a sleek black phone that wasn't mine.
An incoming call was making the phone ring. I pressed accept and held the phone to my ear.
"Hey, Perce," a hearty voice came from the other end. "Happy birthday, dude! Where have you been?"
"Oh no," I whispered, pulling the phone down from my ear and ending the call. "It's his phone."
"What?" Luke said, stopping again.
"I-he-oh, it's nothing, you guys go ahead to the restaurant, I have to take care of something."
A/N: Hope you liked! Please leave a review if you did! Bie!