Hey there, pretty people! I'm SO sorry about not updating in so long, things have been pretty crazy and all. I know it's been a really long time, but you guys would not believe how much my life has changed in the past year. I am now accepting new friends if anyone's interested. lol. So yeah, but summer's coming up in a couple months, so hopefully I'll be updating more, and I have a lot of new story ideas I might put up. So.. Yeah, that's it.
"If you fall in love with two people, chose the second one, because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second."
-Johnny Depp
(Percy's POV)
Wait what?
The entire class begins to whisper to each other, knowing that this can't possibly be good. I try to ignore all the pity looks I'm getting, as well as the snickers from those who know about my crush on Annabeth, which is pretty much everyone.
"Dude close your mouth."
Whoops.
I see Peter and Annabeth outside the classroom, arguing about something. Great. Just look at what I started. I walk towards the door, hoping they leave me out of this. But, that's obviously not possible; they both looked at me as I approach. Peter opens his mouth something to me, but Erica walks up to him, smiling. He gets one of those looks in his eyes and grins back at her and the two walked off together, Peter standing way to close to Erica for a guy with such a beautiful girlfriend.
I turn to Annabeth, she looks mad and hurt. She tries to hide it from me, but after knowing her for so long, you can tell when she's upset.
"Annabeth, I'm sorry this caused such a big deal, I can get Mr. Brunner to let us switch or something. You know, so Peter doesn't get mad or something." I say sheepishly, walking next to her, easily falling into the same pace with her.
"No, Percy, it's fine. He can learn to get over it. Besides, he didn't seem so upset over being paired with Erica." Annabeth replied, sighing.
"Oh, okay. So do you have any ideas for our project?"
I actually do have an idea; we could create a baseball team made of the Greek gods. That'd be pretty cool, right?"
"Yeah! That'd be really cool and pretty easy for us. We could give them all positions and make up stats. That's an amazing idea, Annabeth."
She blushed at my praise. "Thanks. So maybe we can hang out this weekend to start working?"
"Yeah, that'd be great." we were nearing the parking lot of the school and I realized that this conversation would have to end soon. "So, uhm, good luck at your game superstar. Knock one over for me will you?" I say grinning at her. She smiles back and my heart nearly melts.
"You too! Don't make them cry too badly."
And with that she walks to her car, and I'm left there to stare, thinking about how great this could turn out.
Then again, it could end up going so horribly wrong.
"Alright boys, get your minds straight. No distractions. It's game time. Now I know the last time we faced this team it ended badly, but we made silly mistakes and we're not going to let that happen again, are we?"
"No sir!" the teamed yelled in unison.
"Good, here's our lineup: batting first playing center is Beckondorf, batting second playing third is Luke, batting third and pitching is Percy, batting fourth and catching is Micheal, batting fifth play right Travis, batting sixth playing second is Jake, batting seventh playing shortstop is Nico, batting eighth sitting bench is Peter, batting ninth playing first is Grover and batting tenth playing left is Conner. Got it? Now let's play some ball!"
Since this is a home game, we take the field first. We took the field and the game began. First pitch thrown, a simple strike, and the batter hit a ground ball to shortstop and Nico easily scooped it up and got the out. One down, two more outs to go. Next batter's up, he hits one out between center and left and Conner, with his amazing speed, races over to catch it, making the second out. The next batter steps up, I throw another simple strike and he fouls it out. I notice that he's crowding the plate so I throw a curve going inside to back him off the plate. Two strikes on him and he's far off the plate so I throw one outside and he swings, and misses. Third out, courtesy of your very own, Percy Jackson.
We make our way to the dugout and get ready to hit. Beckendorf steps up to the plate and watches three pitches go by, all balls. The next one is close so he goes for it. He easily hits it over the third baseman's head and it bounces to the left fielder. By the time he fields it (not so cleanly might I add) Beckendorf is at second. Next up is Luke, the first pitch flys over the catchers head and Beckendorf easily steals third. The next pitch is straight at Luke, it comes in quick and nails him in the ankle, his bad ankle. As tough as he is, the ball obviously hurt him; he shakes it off and makes his way to first. Now it's my turn. I stepped up in the box and got ready for the pitch and it's on the ground, going past the catcher, Beckendorf steals home easily and Luke follows, and despite his ankle beats the ball to third. The play is over and I get ready for the next pitch it come in a little high, exactly where I like it, I drive it over second's head and take off, the ball goes to the right fielder and he fumbles as I round first but recovers and makes the throw to second I can see that shortstop is going to tag me, so I wait until the last second to slide into second so that I hit shortstop and knock the ball out of his hand. I'm safe. Micheal is up and on the very first pitch he hits the ball over the fence for a homerun. I think you can tell how the rest of the game went.
Later that night I was back at my house after celebrating our win with the team at Taco Bell. I had just taken a shower and gotten in bed when Annabeth texted me:
"Hey, how did you guys play?(:"
"We won 13-1, how about you?"
"Won 6-4."
"Good job superstar!(:"
"Haha, thanks."
"Yeah. Hey, I know we planned on working on our project this weekend, but a lot of us wanted to head up to the lake this weekend. Peter is coming but I didn't know if he'd invited you. You should come. If you're not going up with him you can ride up there with Luke, and Thalia, and I."
"He didn't actually. But Thalia did, so I guess I'll ride up with you guys. When are y'all leaving?
"Right after school tomorrow."
"Okay! I have a doctor's appointment around one so you'll have to pick me up at my place after school."
"No problem! You're not sick though are you?;b"
"Haha, no just a checkup for my knee, I have to go though. Goodnight! I'll see you tomorrow!"
"Okay, goodnight!"
I went to bed thinking about all the great things that happened today. I was excited about tomorrow, mostly to spend some extra time with Annabeth, not that I would ever admit it to anyone. While wondering about what kind of great things could be in store for me tomorrow, I fell asleep.
I know it's not long, and not really exciting, but it's an update! Hope you guys like it, please review and let me know!
