Chapter Two: The Day They First Met Part Two

Disclaimer: I do not own Rick Riordan's
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
and the Heroes of Olympus Series, and I do not
own the songs I put into this book either.
I only own my fan made characters and of course
the plot line.

Added Songs – In Order of Appearance
No One – Alicia Keys
Everytime – Brittany Spears


~Author's Note~

Enjoy this part two; I hope that you do enjoy it very much.
N.B - Chasing Cars is by Snow Patrol and Boomerang by Nicole Scherzinger, are mentioned in the chapter, but the lyrics are not actually used in any part of the story.

Sorry, I made a mother mistake. I changed a lot in the chapter and I forgot to upload the chapter and I posted my draft of it and not my new version. my bad. Do forgive me, besides, I like this chapter better. So here is me, correcting my major boo-boo.


Anna smiled as put the phone down, very nearly squealing with excitement. She calmed herself and walked back through to the sound booth. "Annabeth, why are you in disguise again. I thought you were out of your Anna Olympia phase." A deep voice groaned from a tall woman with straight shoulder length hair, looking roughly twenty-three, nearly twenty-four years of age, electric blue eyes and she wore a pair of black tights and a black buttoned up blouse.

She looked steamed right now, looking at her best friend and Annabeth knew that she was in trouble. Anna sighed, having been caught out by her best friend, reached up and twirled her index finger through a single lock of her curly black hair refusing to make eye contact with her best friends piercing gaze, and Anna thought to herself, that is looks could kill, she would be dead right now.

Eventually admitting defeat to her best friend's superiority, groaned in defeat as she grabbed a clump of hair and pulled off the wig upon her head and revealed her real hair. Long curly blonde hair cascaded down her face and she ran her fingers through her hair, fluffing out her natural blonde curls and tangles from having her wig on all day.

She pulled a hair band off of her wrist and tied her hair into a ponytail and stared at Thalia. She pulled out a small case from her jean pocket, popped it open and reached her hand up to her eyes and removed the electric blue contacts she wore in her eyes, revealing her youthful and vibrant grey pupils and placed them in her case and tucked it back in her pocket.

"Thalia, I have told you this before, I love being the music phenomenon that I am but I want to be a regular person too, who goes on regular dates." Annabeth blushed and her best friend of nineteen years stared wide-eyed at Annabeth. "Oh, I kind of have a date for tomorrow with a really good looking guy." Annabeth admitted guiltily and Thalia was more shocked than angry now.

"No Annabeth, no, seriously. No, come on." Thalia shrieked as she stomped over to Annabeth gripping your shoulders. "You convinced a guy to go out with you as Anna Olympia, not as Annabeth Chase. Remember what happened last time you tried to be with someone as her." She panicked as she tried to shake some sense into Annabeth.

"Yeah I remember Thalia, but it happened when I was me, you don't think I remember what he did to me, how he broke me, did you already forget that I was there!" Annabeth growled, completely enraged at the comment her best friend made, "Thalia, I need to try, or else I will always be this scared little three year old, I never want to feel the way I have felt for past ten months since I found out the truth,."

Thalia's gaze softened, she had completely forgotten the pain Annabeth had been through and not just with Luke, with everything in her entire life. Annabeth didn't have an easy childhood, she barely had her mother around because all her mother cared about was her business and he personal projects, and she was never allowed to be a regular child, got punished by her mother for failing a test by one mark, she was stripped of all of that.

Annabeth even got punished for being friends with Thalia, she could only have friends that her mother approved of and one of them was Luke (her music producer) and Juniper (her manager), and even through the brutal punishments, Annabeth still disobeyed her mother and remained friends with Thalia because she was the one person who helped her through it besides her father.

Annabeth had only been with two people, one was a fellow singer, Michael Yew. They started going out the day they met to work on their duets for each of their albums (Annabeth's first album) but their relationship was too much to handle, it got in the way of their work so they ended their relationship with a mutual agreement and Annabeth and Michael were young, they were only seventeen.

Annabeth didn't enter another relationship until just over a year later, when she started her university studies (she took night classes), she had to fly back and forth between to get to her classes and sometimes she had to Skype to her lesson but she did it and graduated with a perfect distinction like her mother wanted. But the year she started her studies, Luke kissed her and they started going out.

He was her first serious relationship; they were together for four years until Luke cheated on her for a girl called Calypso and broke her heart, completely destroying her. "Well, this one is different Thalia. I just know he is, and Anna is meeting with him at the park for coffee tomorrow. So deal with it. Can we just rehearse now?" Annabeth complained and Thalia sighed.

"Fine, I just hope you know exactly what you are doing." Thalia said as she exited the booth. "What do you want to rehearse Annie?" Thalia groaned in defeat ready to get to work.

"Let's start with 'No-One' and then go into 'Chasing Cars,' and work out the kinks before we get the band in and get recording." Thalia nodded and called the band in, consisting of Silena Beckendorf (Previously Beauregard), back-up singer and violinist, Clarisse Rodriquez (Previously La Rue) on drums; Drew on bass guitar, Piper McLean on lead guitar and Annabeth sat at the piano.

"Ok, take one on 'No One', ready Annabeth?" The producer Luke Castellan asked as the tech crew came in to record. Juniper Underwood, Annabeth's manager and close person friend next to them. She recently got married to this guy named Grover Underwood. She was happy that Juniper was happy. They were together since high school so he was like a family friend to her.

"Alright, ready girl." Juniper hyped and Annabeth nodded as she positioned the mic stand to the height that she wanted and put on her head phones. "Ok, No One, run-through, take one, in five, four, three, two, one."

The music started soft and Annabeth grabbed the microphone as she began the song...

I just want you close
Where you can stay forever
You can be sure
That it will only get better

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's going to be alright
People keep talking they can say what they like
But all I know is everything's going to be alright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

It was heavily ironic that she was singing this, she wrote this song about her feelings for Luke and someone had already started to make a change within her and she had only just met him and she felt as though he was the one, maybe it was her inexperience in the love department or maybe it her second chance starting but she felt different inside today.

When the rain is pouring down
And my heart is hurting
You will always be around
This I know for certain

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's going to be alright
People keep talking they can say what they like
But all I know is everything's going to be alright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel

Inside her, she felt the words meant nothing and yet she was singing with so much passion as she sung her heart out. She still felt the pain and sorry inside her but it was slowly vanishing.

I know some people search the world
To find something like what we have
I know people will try, try to divide, something so real
So to the end of time I'm telling you there ain't no one

No one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh[x2]

Everyone cheered; Annabeth was talented and owned that song. It was flawless, she had a smile on her face that couldn't be broken, and it was absolutely awesome. She felt so much better than she had since she found out what Luke did to her behind her back, and honestly, she didn't care.

"Ok guys, let's get to work on recording the next one, I want to get home as soon as possible cause I have a very important meeting tomorrow." Annabeth announced excitedly with a blush creeping on her face. Everyone stared at her but let it slide and Annabeth prepared for her next song.


A few hours later...

"You were awesome today Annabeth." Luke cheered as he hugged his favorite artist. "You killed it today." He responded excitedly. Annabeth was hesitant to hug him but did anyway, because it was awkward between since the break-up but they were still friends, you could say.

"Thanks Luke." She appreciated the support she had from Luke, he loved it. But he was just flattering her like he always did for the last ten months since the incident. He just did it to make her cry and she barely noticed because usually as soon as she left, she burst into tears but today she didn't, which was odd for her.

He did it as a way to mock her, since he cheated on her, any comment he said to her hurt her because at the night of the party, he admitted to her that everything he ever said to her was a lie, so she is very sensitive to anything and everything he says to her and emotionally breaks down even though she is stronger than that.

"So, Annie, I was wondering if you wanted to go for a drink with me tomorrow, so we can hang out." Annabeth smiled awkwardly, having to decline such a wonderful but horrible offer, considering their history, well considering that Luke basically ruined her, exposing his affair in front of her peers at her fourth album release party last year and basically embarrassing her in front of everyone.

"I wish I could Luke but I already made other plans concerning my day off tomorrow. Sorry, but another thing that you should already know, I don't date cheaters. Oh, and another thing, I am done hanging onto what I had with you, so stop trying to flatter me and make me feel miserable, see you tomorrow Mr. Castellan." Luke tucked his hands in his jean pockets, slightly embarrassed and he sighed. He was pissed off right now.

"Yeah, that's cool, whatever." He tried to act casual, as if he hadn't just asked her out and got turned down, sighing and departed from the room without so much as another word. Annabeth sighed, she liked Luke but he more like a brother than a possible boyfriend and he hurt her badly, he used her and ended things but they were still friends but it was a struggle for her to be his friend again.

No matter how hard Annabeth tried, she couldn't picture herself with Luke, she was caring and sweet but they had nothing in common and they were in a way, family. And on top of that, he was a lying, cheating bastard. They were together for four years, and then she found out he had been seeing her arch rival in the music business. He was seeing Calypso Greaves behind her back for three years and he dumped her.

And yet she always remembered the day that Luke kissed her, because that was the first real connection she had ever had with a person before, that relationship in some ways helped her music grow, as well as the break-up but the day he kissed her, changed her entire tune of her music...


Annabeth and Luke were furiously working on her newest song track, Boomerang but they were arguing a little about what was best. "Come on Annabeth, it won't work that way, it won't work with the song." Luke argued, trying to show Annabeth the sequence he thought was best.

"But I see it this way Luke, we need to use track version fourteen not thirteen 'cause it ruins the beat of the tune." Annabeth tried to stretch across the board to hit the track number she wanted and Luke blocked her hand with hers and they stared into each other's eyes but it was different this time.

A blush had crept up across her cheeks and she nervously bit her lip, their noses were basically touching, they had never been this close to each other before and it had never felt so unknown to Annabeth. "I think that we should use track fourteen. Um...But I think we should ask for the band's opinion, don't you think so. Maybe get a second opinion." Annabeth suggested nervously, the position they were in was getting a little awkward for her.

"Yeah, it's the best way." Luke agreed and Annabeth nodded in agreement before she turned away from Luke and she pulled her hand away from Luke's, but she didn't expect Luke to grab her hand and pulled it. Annabeth turned to face him but instead of meeting Luke's eyes, she was met with a kiss from Luke.

Annabeth was as stiff as a log, she never expected Luke to kiss her, this was her first kiss with anyone, and she had no idea what to do. It was a very short kiss, and Luke pulled away quite quickly and he stared into Annabeth's grey eyes with his. "I like track fourteen better than thirteen." She squeaked nervously as a blush formed on both of their cheeks.

"I agree." Luke said nervously, behind them, snickers and whispers could be heard and the two turned round and saw Thalia and the band bouncing up and down like a bunch over-excited teenage girls. Luke and Annabeth started laughing but neither of them could hide the blushes on their faces.

Thalia bounced towards Annabeth, she wasn't a typical girly girl, but she was a seriously overreacting. "I knew you two liked each other." Annabeth was giggling and jumped up and down with her best friend, Luke was being patted on the back by all of the band and he went up to Annabeth and grabbed her hand and smiled at her.

"How about we go and catch a movie tonight, first date." Luke proposed and Annabeth nodded and his free hand went under her chin and tilted Annabeth's head up so he could look into her beautiful gray eyes with his and smiled at her.

"My mother wouldn't approve of me having a relationship but honestly, I don't care what she thinks anymore. I am living my dream with music, she doesn't own me anymore. I will go to the movies with you Luke." He had a bright smile on his face and he leaned down and pressed a gentle kiss on her lips and pulled away, leaving a smile on both of their faces and a shrill of screams from the girls. This was going to be an amazing time.


Annabeth always found herself smiling every time at that memory and then she remember that he cheated on her. She remembered that period of time, that two month period where she was locked up in her apartment and no-one knew she was there until the day that Thalia knocked on the door and they had a disagreement and then what happened afterwards.


As usual, Annabeth sat on her couch, hugging her favorite big fluffy soft tiger, that she named Mr. Whiskers when she got it when she was seven, she never let it go. Her tiger was one of her favorite things; whenever she was upset, she always cuddled her stuffed toy to make herself feel better. After what happened at her album release party, she has felt like that same little girl since.

Annabeth felt like a porcelain doll, her heart felt hollow, she felt completely empty since she found out about Luke and Calypso. Not only did she feel hollow inside, she felt broken, she felt like Luke had just picked up her fragile heart and threw it against the wall, completely shattering it. She had never felt so destroyed before, never felt so betrayed before. She wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

There was a loud banging on her apartment door. Nobody knew Annabeth was here so she chose to ignore it but it got louder. "CHASE, OPEN THE FLIPPIN' DOOR THIS INSTANT!" A loud and all too familiar voice boomed from outside her apartment. "CHASE, OPEN UP THIS DOOR THIS INSTANT, YOU MISERABLE HAG OR I SWEAR TO GOD THAT I WILL KICK IT DOWN MYSELF AND DRAG YOU OUT OF THIS APARTMENT BY YOUR HAIR ANNABETH CHASE!" The voice bellowed furiously and Annabeth just couldn't ignore it.

Annabeth groaned as she chucked her blanket off of her and hugged Mr. Whiskers as she sobbed into her soft teddy, walking slowly to her apartment to sobbing, "I'm coming Thalia." She felt so sorry for herself as she grabbed the door handle and pulled the door open a crack and glared as best as she could at Thalia in her current state. "What do you want?" Annabeth whispered in a stuttering manner due to her tears.

"I am here to get you out of your slump; you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself Annabeth. It isn't like you. Come on, you haven't been to the studio in months, your dad and your younger brothers are freaking out because you won't answer their calls, you missed Christmas and new years and Bobby and Matthew's birthday, to boot, it's already the middle of January Annabeth. Come on, we are sorting this out now, starting with a shower." Thalia yelled sternly, she wore a disgusted look on her face as she shoved the door open and knocked Annabeth onto her bottom and Thalia closed the door behind her.

"Thalia, what are you doing?" Annabeth demanded as Thalia dragged Annabeth to the bathroom and turned on the shower and pushed Annabeth in, all of her clothes still on and Annabeth started fighting with Thalia to get out of the shower. "Just leave me alone!" Annabeth sobbed as she shoved Thalia hard and Annabeth slid down onto the floor of the shower and sobbed into her knees as the water rained down on her. "Get out and leave me alone Thalia. Just leave me alone to wallow in my misery, to just crawl into my dark hole to die. Please Thalia; I am begging you, just go!" Annabeth cried.

Thalia was heartbroken to see her friend so broken; she had never seen anyone so broken, so shattered before. Annabeth had never been hurt as badly as she felt currently. Thalia obeyed Annabeth's wish but not before she turned off the running shower and knelt down and looked into Annabeth's red-tinged stormy eyes. "Alright, I will go for now, but I will be back with reinforcements." Thalia promised and then she stormed out of the shower and out the room, Annabeth heard the door of her apartment open and then slammed shut.

Annabeth remained seated on the floor of her shower, pouring her broken heart out into her knees, feeling so sorry for herself. She had never felt this hurt before, nothing her mother did to her while she was growing up compared to this, not even all of it combined compared to the pain she felt right at this moment, she felt so sorry for herself, thinking that maybe all this time, her mother had been right about how evil love and relationships were.

She heard noises coming from outside the bathroom but she didn't move an inch, she just wanted to stay in her dark hole and die. The door of the bathroom creaked open and Annabeth looked up sobbing, "Just leave me alone Thalia." But it wasn't Thalia, it was her mother. "Mom what are you doing here." She demanded angrily.

"Thalia pulled me out my office like a crazy woman and told me what has happened between you and Luke. Come on Annabeth, please get up off of the floor. Thalia has a rough way of getting people motivated, come on." Athena encouraged her daughter as she grabbed a large Egyptian cotton towel and stepped into the shower in her designer suit and wrapped the towel around her shivering wreck of a daughter.

Annabeth stood up and her mother led her out of the shower and into her lounge where there were many familiar faces standing and seated on the floor and couches of her apartment. Annabeth stared at everyone who was in her apartment. "What is everyone doing here?" She questioned all of her family and friends in the room.

Her entire band was standing in front of her television, he dad, step-mom and her brothers were seated on the couches, Thalia stood against the apartment door with her arms crossed, Juniper was leaning against the kitchen counter with her husband, Grover right next to her, Apollo stood next to Thalia and Athena went and grabbed a stool for Annabeth to sit down on and went and sat down next to Frederick Chase.

"What are you guys doing here?" Annabeth asked as she sat down on the stool and started drying her wet matted hair. She was shivering like crazy because of her wet clothes. "I want to be left alone, to drown in my own misery, please why can't you just leave me alone." Annabeth begged as tears formed in her eyes once more, as she remained seated on her stool.

"Annabeth, you are a woman not a child. Shut up and be quiet, open your ears and grow up. This is not how I raised you to behave." Athena said sternly, trying her best not to blow a gasket. Annabeth's lip quivered as she lowered her gaze from her mother's eyes as she started to sulk, she hated being treated like a child even though she knew that she was acting like one at the moment. "See, she would not be acting like this if it wasn't for you Frederick, I always said that..."

"Mom, this has nothing to with how I was raised." Annabeth interrupted.

"Annabeth, I will not be spoken to..."

"Mom enough. I am a grown woman, I do not need to be treated like a four year old. I am not going to let you walk over me. I refuse to listen until you stop treating me like a baby. I am allowed to cry, I am allowed to act prematurely but I am a grown woman and you must respect that you don't run my life. So until you treat me like a person and not an assistant, I will be in my room, you can show yourselves out." Annabeth stood up and started walking towards her bedroom but Thalia dashed and stood in Annabeth's path.

Annabeth could tell that Thalia was glaring death at her dear mother but honestly she didn't care. She was glaring at Thalia, mentally telling her to move and Thalia was telling her to go and sit down. "Please Annabeth, just go and sit down, as your friend, I am begging you to please just sit down and hear us out. Athena, I know you don't care for my friendship with Annabeth but none the less, she is your daughter and whether or not she wants to admit it, she needs you." Thalia begged in the most convincing tone she could muster.

Athena rolled her eyes and stared to the side for a moment and then huffed out a deep breath. "Fine Annabeth, I am sorry, please take a seat." Annabeth felt satisfied and sat back down on the but that didn't mean that Annabeth was going to listen. "Annabeth, I know what you are thinking. Please, we just want to help you, that's all. So it is your turn to listen now." Athena said sternly, making Annabeth want to sulk as she stared down at her lap, twiddling her thumbs, thinking deeply about what her mother said.

"Fine, I will listen for now but as soon as you are done, will you promise to leave me alone if I chose to ignore your advice." They all nodded, agreeing to Annabeth's terms and she sighed. "Alright, I am all ears; you have ten minutes, enough time to each say something and when you are all done you can leave me alone." Everyone looked at Athena and she groaned as she stared at her daughter.

"Fine. I will go first." Athena said calmly to her daughter. "Annabeth, we all know you deserve so much better than you received from Luke. Now I know that I may not be the best mother in the world, considering I hate your career choice but I do know that you can't let this hold you back, we all care much about you and want to help you back onto your feet, you need to stop behaving like a four year old."

Annabeth opened her mouth to argue, but her dad interrupted "Annabeth, your mother has a point." Frederick spoke up, defending his ex-wife. "You are so much more than this, I know that you are hurt, but you can't neglect your life, it is just stupid to sit around here, hiding out and feeling sorry for yourself." Her father spoke sternly, trying to make his daughter see how silly she was acting.

"You are my best friend in the world. I can vouch for the band when I say this, that you have been the biggest and greatest thing to have walked through the doors of the studio." The entire band nodded in agreement with Thalia's statement. "You are stronger and better than this, it's time to hike up your skirt and grow a pair. You should be focusing on your career, it's more important than moping over that sorry ass."

"But how can I when he made a mockery of me in front of everyone, he destroyed my worth, how can I just move on when I am all alone." Annabeth shouted, but her voice cracked so her statement came out garbled like she was sobbing once again.

"You are so wrong my dear girl." Apollo spoke calmly. "Heartache is painful, yes but you can't let it hold you back from life, I know what you are going through, it happened to me but I didn't let it hold me back, yes I was broken and beaten down, I felt like dying but you get nowhere feeling sorry for yourself, you need to take those first steps back to your life and you have all of us." He said softly as he walked to Annabeth's side, not caring that she was dripping wet and hugged her.

"We are here to help you through it, but you have to try. You don't want him to be right, you are not worthless, you are not hopeless and you are certainly not a phony, don't let him win. A Chase does not lose to anyone; don't let him win the game when you are already a winner." Athena spoke highly and Annabeth felt a spark of something hot brewing within her.

"Are you going to let him win Annabeth? Are you a failure, are you washed out and are you a nobody?" Thalia growled sternly and Apollo released Annabeth and she stood up and looked at everyone, seeing their faces and feeling their support was making all the difference.

"No…"


That day, that day they were all there for her, she felt stronger than she had in her entire life. She was ready to start up her life again but she decided that Luke should stay because he was still her friend, she was softer and more prone to hurt than anyone realized and she cried everyday he mocked her and ignored her and she felt so stupid for that.

That day that she stopped feeling sorry for herself was ten months ago and she was still trying to move on but now she believed she could. Through those ten months, she always wanted to be back with him because she was madly in love with the man and she wanted him to be with her but he didn't feel anything for her, that's why he was with Calypso. She never got any answers to why he did that to her because she was too hurt to try. Now, everything was actually different, because she met Percy.

She could clearly see herself with someone like Percy. She could vaguely hear Thalia's voice saying, 'Annabeth Chase, you would be better off telling the guy who you are first off instead of lying to him.' Thalia wanted Annabeth to be happy. She decided to take a moment, to weight her options, to take a look back at the life she had, to see if any of this was really worth it.

All Annabeth, all she knew, her entire life was dedicated on how to be a hard working and focused student. That is what her mother made and wanted her to be, Annabeth never had time to be a regular child, to be a regular teenager, let alone to have a normal social life. Yes she had friends, but she could only have friends that her mother approved of, which was Luke, and her mother hated Thalia, and Annabeth lied to go and hang out with Thalia and she was badly punished, whenever her mother caught her with her best friend.

When she was sixteen, and got this career opportunity from just singing on the street to a song on her mp3 player, it was her favourite back then. She was singing on her way to Thalia's house in the country by her dad's house and not to her mother's house in the city. Annabeth never really had a mother to look up to, she just had a hired mother to stay and look after her, and very rarely did her mother actually come and be at home because she was focused on her work, her empire that was Chase Industries, the top architecture firm in the USA.

She closed her eyes, wanting to see that day again, to feel the excitement she did when she was offered a chance to follow her real dream, and not her mother's dream for her daughter to succeed her when she passed down Chase Industries to her daughter. It was a quiet Friday afternoon, and she was walking down to the bus stop so she could ride it out of the city to her father's house in the country...


Annabeth was walking down, through the main street of her home city, California. It was filled with so much life and everyone was driving down the road to get to lunch as soon as possible. It was the lunch hour rush and life was far too busy for a sixteen year old girl such as Annabeth.

She has her earphones in, and she is searching for her favorite song, Everytime by Brittany Spears. She hummed the tune to herself as she arrived at the bus stop, waiting for the bus to arrive like she did every Friday at lunch.

Everytime I try to fly
I fall without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you baby

She loved singing, but her mother always told her to shut up and that is a waste of time and that she should be focusing on her studies and not this stupid singing dream of Annabeth's. As Annabeth sung, she noticed someone watching her and she pulled out her earphones looked at the middle aged man with a smile on his face.

He was wearing a casual pair of old worn out baggy jeans with a hanging chain belt, a pair of white designer sneakers and he had on a plain white t-shirt with nothing on it and a set of dog tags around his neck. He had blonde hair and he looked young and seemed to have a deep story to him.

"I am sorry if I was disturbing you sir." Annabeth apologized, feeling embarrassed for bringing unwanted attention to her, and she tucked a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear and tried to hide the blush creeping up onto her cheeks.

"No, I was quite enjoying the little show." Annabeth couldn't help but laugh at this strange unknown man but he seemed like quite a relaxed and laid back man. "Say, have you ever considered going into a music career at all because your voice is very beautiful and unique."

"I have but my mother believes that I will never be able to make it in the business, all she believes in is work, work and more work." Annabeth admitted to the stranger. "If I got the chance to be a singer, I would take it because I want to follow my dreams, not my mother's."

"Well what would you say if I could make your dream come true." The man said in a curious tone as he stood up and walked up to Annabeth and handed her a car. Annabeth looked down at the card and her eyes went wide. "I am Apollo Solace, owner of Apollo records and I have been scouting for young talents, and I am offering you a record deal."

Annabeth wanted to scream for joy but her mother would never let her do this. "I wish I could but I am just sixteen, and mother will never agree to it, so I have to sorry but I cannot."

"I believe that I can make you a big name, in fact, take me to see your mother, next Friday, you can meet me here and take me to see your mother and I can convince her that you can make it big, does that sound fair enough, umm..." he offered his hand but he wanted to know the girl's name.

"Annabeth Chase, and I would appreciate it." Annabeth grasped the Apollo's hand firmly "I will give you her number and you can give her a call." Annabeth said as she took a pen out her pocket and started writing her mother's personal number on his hand and smiled. "I have to go, hope to be working with you someday." Annabeth said hopefully and she climbed onto the bus that had pulled up and waved good-bye to Apollo who smiled and began thinking about her possible future...


Annabeth never thought of how different her life would be compared to the life she had previously, it was different to see what her life was like now and to see how much better she was. It was just incredible, it excited Annabeth, and her mother basically swore her out when Annabeth told her that she was going into a music career.

Her mother said absolutely not and only agreed to the terms of the career as long as Annabeth finished her studies and got her degree in architecture, but Athena Chase only agreed to let Annabeth go for her music career believing that the music career was going to fail, and look where she is now, on top of her game now.

The only person who supported her from her family side was her father, he was always there for her, he tried everything to give her the free life his daughter deserved but his ex-wife wouldn't have it. Annabeth was the reason they got a divorce, when she was like six, nearly seven, she found out that her father had been seeing someone else, a woman named Susan and she was pregnant with Annabeth's half brothers, Athena honestly didn't care who her husband was sleeping with and they decided together to separate.

It was best for them, Athena could finally focus completely on her career, on her empire, and Frederick Chase, could finally have the family he wanted with a kind, caring and attentive wife. He always visited Annabeth but Athena would never let Annabeth go and be with her father because he was a distraction to Annabeth's focus and he always tried to help his daughter, but she always got punished for him trying to help his daughter try to have a decent life but it was so unsuccessful and ended up hurting Annabeth, even though all of that happened, he was still her bright light.

Percy was different than most guys, just from looking at him, she saw he had a deep story, the way he spoke to her on the phone, he was very hesitant, so he obviously had a hard and strained life, that was from a logical point of view, but from a first impression, he was laid back, relaxed persona. She could see by his mildly swollen eyes and hesitant nature that he had a rough life, the way he stood was as if he there was a grey cloud hanging about his head.

She tapped her finger lightly on her thigh, as the gears of her mind, cranked and turned as she thought about all of Percy's tells. Like she thought before, even though he had a bright and infectious smile, he seemed to be in a dark place by the way he walked and even talked. Something about him seemed…off, however even with that in mind, she was intrigued by this man, with his wind-swept messy black hair and his deep sea green eyes reminded her of the Atlantic, and he had that salty and addicting scent that made Annabeth crave for more.

She noticed that he was wearing quite comfortable clothes but they were covering something, so that added mystery to him. Annabeth wanted to know everything about this complex soul that was Percy Jackson but she had to approach this from a sensible and logic angle, not from a crazy, love struck teenager point of view.

Besides Luke, she had one other relationship but it wasn't even worth remembering in her mind, he was just a loser in her mind, not even he made any kind of difference in her life and they were only together for a month, very short and that was before she became an item with Luke, for four years, she regretted ever giving that poser a chance. She finally felt a sense of relief, a weight had been lifted off of her shoulder and she finally felt at peace with herself. All she needed was time to think and she finally had done it.

Annabeth sighed, feeling better than she had ever felt in a long time and she smiled as she grabbed her bag and made sure she had her disguise. She walked out the back and climbed into her car with her driver Charles already seated inside. She smiled as she climbed in the back and Charles started the car. "Oh Charlie, I have a date tomorrow as Anna so I need you to take me to the north entrance to the park tomorrow, and mention if the guy sees you that my name is Anna."

"Don't have to remind me again, I always do so Anna." Charlie grinned and Annabeth returned a smile, ready to have fun on her date tomorrow. Just by looking at Percy today, she felt something, sensed something different about him. He was handsome, well-built and so caring and conservative. But behind that cool and composed facade she could sense a depth to him; she could sense that he had a deep story, a past was that haunted him, she could see that he had a sad story that made him sensitive and caring.

She liked that about Percy and she didn't even know anything about him yet. She wanted to know everything about him because she could see everything and it made her curious and she was always the inquisitive one. She was looking forward to getting to know Percy, maybe just maybe she might have just found the right man she could possibly love and maybe he might fall in love with her too. The possibilities were endless and she would only know tomorrow when she meets him for coffee tomorrow.


I hope you enjoyed my first chapter, Please review, favorite, PM, do anything, I want to hear what you think and I appreciate any insights you have and I want to make a shout out to my awesome Beta Reader, round of applause for Akakuro4869, you rock and I owe you a lot for helping me out with this. You Rule. Also, a huge thank you goes to Captainravenworld for all the fantastic advice you have given me. Just a heads up, the next chapter will be up soon, this is good-bye for now, see you on the next chapter, Peace Out Fictioneers.

~Michaela~