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Anyways, to my old readers that read the old version of this, I'm planning on starting each chapter with some song lyrics . . . it's just that I forgot to do that for last chapter. Whoops.
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Chapter Two: The very scary elevator and a relization
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Hey, I've been spending all my time just thinking 'bout you,
I don't know what to do,
I think I'm falling for you
- "Falling for You" . Colbie Caillat
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Age: 13
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Annabeth
"Hey," a voice greeted me softly.
I had just finished strapping on the straps of my kitten heels when someone appeared behind me. The smell of the ocean along with a hint of Axe told me immediately who it was. A smile stretched on my face as I turned around to meet a pair of mischievous sea green eyes and a bright grin.
Dressed in black slacks, a black vest and matching tie along with a green button down and leather shoes was a sheepish looking Percy with his messy hair much more in disarray than normal. His tie was slung carelessly slung across his chest, loose and so close to being undone. His shirt was buttoned all wrong and his vest was inside out. I wouldn't be surprised if his shoes were on the wrong foot.
"Percy," I sighed, walking in front of him. "What will you ever do without me?" I asked rhetorically as I went to work on him.
He gave me that floppy smile of his, all goofy and sweet. "I'll be looking like this for the rest of my life."
As I straightened his tie and vest, I took a step back to look at my work. Perfect.
We were getting ready for Sally and Paul's wedding reception, just inside city hall after Percy's birth father had pulled some strings. Everyone else went ahead of us and now, it was only the two of us who aren't there yet. I grabbed my bag and dragged Percy out of the back of the church, leaving behind our clothes that we had just worn for the wedding. I sighed; I always hated changing in between the wedding and the dinner.
"Ow, ow, ow," Percy repeated as we walked to the building. "Stopping my blood circulation here," he whined.
I glanced down at the sight of my fingers gripping his wrist tightly, right where his veins were. I rolled my eyes. He is really dramatic at times.
"Come on," I said, tugging at him. "We're late. I don't know about you but I don't want to be deprived of food for the whole four to six hours of speeches, heavy alcoholic drinks –"
"Oh my god, hurry! They're going to eat all the cannoli!" Percy gasped in horror, switching positions so now that he was the one grabbing onto my hand. He started running really fast, almost inhumanly possible.
If I wasn't athletic, I would probably be sweating my guts out and spasming on the sidewalk theatrically, but luckily for me, I am. We ran as if we were running for our lives, which is really what we're actually doing since we didn't want the other guests to eat all the food. Along the way, we sprinted past this elderly couple and did you know what that old lady said to her husband?
"Aw, look at those two. Such a lovely pair. Their children will be absolutely beautiful!"
Our faces were so red, I'm afraid our faces would be red enough to blend in with a fire engine.
By the time we reached to the city hall, we were gasping for breath and were so close to fainting on the cool sidewalk. As we jogged up the stairs, Percy flashed me a smile.
"Greatest entrance ever."
I gave him a dirty look as we stepped into the marble floors of the lobby. We were about to take the stairs where the dinner was taking place. We stopped short at the sign that read, "Please take the elevators. Stairs being painted."
"It's not even correct grammar!" I exclaimed.
Percy rolled his eyes at me. "Come on, polka dots, yelling at the sign for being written wrong is wasting our time so let's go to the elevators before they eat all the good food and we're left with vegetables." He shuddered at the last word.
"It's not polka dots," I snapped at him as he tugged me toward the elevators. "I thought we've been over that months ago."
"Hey," he shrugged as we stepped into the open elevator. "You got to admit, the look on your face was priceless." He grinned at the memory while I made a face.
"Tch, whatever," I huffed, turning around, my back facing toward his face. "You're a pervert, you know that?"
I heard him laugh at me and I resisted the urge to turn around and smack his head lightly to get rid of that seaweed floating around in his head.
A frown came on my face as the elevator came to a sudden stop, just a floor before the floor that we were supposed to get off on.
"What-" I started but then the lights flickered on and off before shutting off completely.
"Sh-shoot!" I heard Percy shout and I heard him accidentally walking into a wall.
I looked around the darkness, feeling a sense of dread. Not many people know this but, I'm afraid of the dark. Ever since some burglar broke into my house while I was home alone during a thunderstorm when I was eight, I had this fear of the dark. Only Percy knew what really happened. And now, I'm silently freaking out.
And I could've sworn I felt something with eight legs crawl up my leg.
"Oh my god," I chanted. "Oh my god, there's something with eight legs crawling up on my leg. I hope it's a mutated ant. Please let it be a mutated ant."
I squeezed my eyes shut and I just realized something. It is hairy.
"Oh god," I said, horror setting in on me. "It's a freaking spider!"
It was a good thing that I didn't shriek or I would've died of embarrassment right there. Where is Percy anyways? I hope he didn't knock himself unconscious after walking into a wall.
"Annabeth, you okay?"
I blew out a sigh of relief as Percy's voice filtered through the darkness.
"Yeah, I'm fine," I lied, opening my eyes. "Yep, totally fine," I squeaked a bit as the thing was now at my kneecap. "Just fine."
"You're lying."
Damn, he knows me so well. I turned my head toward the direction of his voice and called out,
"There's a spider crawling up my leg. I don't know what to do. And it's dark!"
I could hear Percy sliding down a wall, and I automatically knew that he was sitting at a corner.
"Annabeth, calm down. Just follow the direction of my voice and when you reach me, I'll get it off for you."
I took a deep breath and took a step forward, and then another as Percy's voice spoke to me softly. I felt his legs brushing against my own and then I tripped and fell into his arms.
"Well, this is quite nice. I always knew you would 'fall for me'," Percy teased me.
"Percy!" I almost shouted at him. "Forget that! What about the spider?!" My voice cracked at the last sentence.
"Oh, yeah. Forgot about that," he said and I could tell he was smiling sheepishly at me. "Now where is it?"
I sat between his legs, the back of my head covering his face (ha! We're the same height now! Can't call me short, now can he?) and I grabbed one of his hands and guided it toward the enemy. His fingers brushed against my kneecap softly and then, as quick as lightning, I felt the hairy spider get lifted off my leg.
The sound of Percy's leather shoes hitting the floor of the elevator told me that the spider was killed.
"You better wash that shoe later," I warned him, "for all you know, that spider might've been a mother and has her baby eggs in her body. You crushing that body could have released those eggs and now they're on the bottom of your shoe. They could hatch and –"
Percy covered my mouth with his hand.
"You're rambling."
I glared off into the darkness as he once again, laughed at me.
"Aren't you going to say thank you to your knight in shining armor?" Percy joked.
"More like dork in shining tinfoil," I said, rolling my eyes. "There's no way I'm going to make your ego bigger than it already is."
"Why is that?" He inquired. "You know you're falling madly in love with me now that I just killed that spider for you. Don't deny it, polka dots."
I turned around and smacked his head lightly with my hand. "Don't call me that!" I hissed at him.
"I'm trying to make you forget that we're stuck in an elevator!" He said, shrinking away at my blazing eyes.
"Oh," I said softly. I looked around in the darkness and I tried my best not to cower. "Um, thanks." I bit my lip as I tried to figure out a way to get us out of this mess.
"No problem." Percy answered back.
I sighed. "It's going to take us forever to get out."
"Well, at least you have me for comfort," Percy said, lightening up the mood.
I leaned back in his chest. "Yeah, not to mention, you're cuddly like a teddy bear."
"You just knocked down my ego!"
My elbow jabbed his side at his comment and Percy pouted. His arms were wrapped around me as I snuggled in his embrace.
"You know, if I ever have a choice of choosing who I would like to be with if I'm ever in a situation like this, I would choose you," I told him truthfully.
"Me, too," he agreed. "Why don't you sleep a little, I could tell you're a little tired."
I frowned. "I don't think that's a good idea."
Percy shifted his body until we were in a much more comfortable position. "Don't worry; they'll come soon for us. I'll be here when you wake up."
"Alright," I said, sighing. "But only for a few minutes."
Closing my eyes, my head rested on his shoulder. His arms were holding me tightly and he drew his legs close to warm my legs. He spoke to me softly, prattling about useless sea animal facts to help me sleep.
And perhaps then, that was when I realized something.
I like Percy.
It shocked me to say the least. The mere thought of it had my heart racing. I didn't want to accept it. Who would? But then, Percy had did something that was so like him, something that he would do for me every day but yet had caused me to feel so . . . light.
He ruffled my hair and gave a small peck to the cheek to say goodnight. Something he had done for years. But this time, it was different. To me, the pieces of the puzzle had shifted and now I am looking at him in a different light.
He's goofy but good-looking. Slow but also intelligent. Funny but can be serious. And . . . well, he's Percy. I opened my eyes and looked at him, really looked at him, trying to find a way to find out if he had changed. He hadn't. It was me who changed.
His green eyes blinked at me, inky locks brushing his forehead. I searched for any flaws that I deemed as imperfect. There were many, but I had accepted them a long time ago. I sighed and went back to my original position, closing my eyes again.
"Percy?"
"What?"
"I saw your seahorse boxers before we stepped into the elevator. Thought you might want to know that."
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So sweet, no? Hehe, aren't they just adorable?
So many of you are wondering why the heck I'm rewriting this. Well, you see, a few weeks ago, there was something wrong with my computer. So we sent the problem to technical support. They fixed it but everything on my laptop was wiped out and the second I turned on my fixed laptop . . . it was just like the day I bought it and everything! I even had to make a new account on my computer again! I only had one copy of my outlines and future chapters of this and it was on that laptop! So, I decided to redo the whole thing since I just reread it and realized that it was not my best work at all! And that's how this rewrite came to be!
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