I had fun writing this!
Disclaimer: I do not own PJO, RR does. :(
Annabeth POV
I had fun at Rachel's place. I told her about Percy and she was excited for me and said that "percabeth" will happen. I showed her the picture of Percy and I swear she nearly died of excitement even though the image was blurry.
I walked out the door in my jogging clothes and took a walk to Starbucks to get my daily morning caffeine. The sun was shining awfully bright this morning unlike yesterday and the day before. I opened one of the double doors to Starbucks and noticed it was disturbingly empty unlike its usual buzz of people talking excitingly. I walked up to the register and ordered my usual, an iced coffee. I took a seat in a chair in the corner and thought about what to do because it was summer and it got to the point where it was boring instead of exciting adventures. I looked up at the cash register and the guy working behind it made eye contact with me and winked. I blushed and went back to thinking. He was cute, but not my type. He had dirty blonde hair and was pretty good-looking and had a good height.
"A tall iced coffee for Miss… Annabeth!" he announced.
I walked up from my table and collected my drink.
"I'm Adrian, by the way, and I'm pretty sure you're Annabeth, unless you're one of those people who tell us a fake name." he laughed softly at himself.
"Yeah I am Annabeth, Annabeth Chase actually," I laughed, "and no, I am not one of those people who tells you a fake name."
"Cool, maybe I'll see you around. I'm new at working here; by the way, I work on Monday mornings and Wednesday afternoons if you wanna see me anytime soon."
"Sure, I always come on mornings so I'll see you around." I laughed and held up my drink, "Now, I will go on over there and enjoy this."
I walked and sat down where I sat before. The double doors opened and the bell dinged. I turned around to see who it was because Starbucks was pretty much empty except for a couple of people. The person who walked in was Percy Jackson. Frick. I turned my head down quickly and away from him. Please don't notice me. Please don't notice me. Please don't notice me. I heard him order and waited the longest minutes of my life until he finally got his drink. I prayed that he won't come over this way and hopefully get out without him noticing. I didn't hear any footsteps so I peered over my shoulder and sighed. He wasn't there anymore so I figured that he left and took his order to-go. I turned back to face the table and at the other side and in the other chair was Percy. He smiled with an overconfident smile and leaned across the table and whispered in my right ear.
"So we meet again, Annabeth Chase." I felt his smile brushing across my ear as he leaned back in is chair.
"Are you stalking me now?"
"Nah. I just so happened to be here at the same time as you."
I sipped at my drink with a poker face. His hand clutched his drink while the other resting on the chocolate colored table. He looked good, I have to admit, but I didn't like him. I glanced back over my shoulder and Adrian gave me a confused face. I turned back to face Percy.
"Okay, I believe you since you seem like someone who doesn't lie." I did not at all believe him but smiled sweetly anyway.
He raised an eyebrow at me in amusement.
"Sure you believe me, sure."
"Well! I got to go jog back home, bye, I guess."
"Wait… jog?" he stood up with me, "hey, I came with my car; I can drive you home if you want."
"No, I don't want a ride. I want exercise." I pushed past him.
"Hey, take my offer or I will… follow you as you jog back home."
"Really?"
"Yes really, now are you going follow me to my car and take one break or suffer the consequences of sun, heat, and dying lungs."
"I'll take the dying lungs, thank you very much."
"Hey, hey. Back at the subway you must've thought I was good looking or something because why else would you take that sneaky picture of me?" I now hated him with a burning passion because of that lopsided smile of his, "You owe me."
"Sorry but I don't go into cars with strangers, that's like telling a child if you want candy, you don't do that."
"Yeah but you are old enough, sixteen? Plus, you have my number and I have yours so if I do something to you they could track me down easy."
"Wow you really thought about this didn't you? Well where's your car, I might as well take a risk in knowing you better since I have nothing else better to do during the summer."
He clapped and rubbed his hands together like he's freezing.
"Well," he walked to his car and opened the door for me, "shall we?"
"I could've opened the door myself, sexist."
"Okay then, a girl with a strong, independent mind, I like that."
"What do you mean by 'I like that'?"
"It means that it turns me on, duh."
"Ugh, disgusting hormonal teenage boys." I murmured hoping he wouldn't hear as he started the engine and backed out of the parking lot.
"Hey, I heard that you know, its nature, not disgusting."
A few minutes of silence went by except for a few questioning and answering for direction until he finally spoke up otherwise.
"You want to hang out tomorrow?"
"Sure, I got nothing else better to do."
"Wow, the child of never-doing-anything agrees to go on a date with me."
"It's not a date; it's a friendly hang out."
"Okay but I hope you will change your mind soon about this situation." he smiled like a little boy just got his candy.
"I'll meet you tomorrow at Starbucks then and we'll leave after I get my morning caffeine?"
"Sounds good to me."
He stopped his engine outside my house.
"See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow, Annabeth Chase." he winked at me as I got out of his car and shut the door."
It's summer so expect a lot of chapters!
~christina (AKA: percystrident)
