Hi. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. That's all I have to say… okay bye.
Favorite Band: The Cab
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Chapter 2: Wrong Numbers, Meet Ups, and Songs
"Okay, okay. Hold up. Did you say she was 22?" Nico asked. I told them about Annabeth after we finished practicing and I don't think they believe she's even real. "Yes."
"Whoa. Good job Perce." Leo gave me a fist bump. "Thanks Leo. At least you believe me." I said. "Oh come on Percy. Meeting on a bus? That sound too cliché to be real." Beck said. "Well, if you don't believe me, then you'll believe her." I said while pulling my phone out. Leo looked astonished. "You got her phone number?"
I smirked. "Yep." I pressed her contact and put it on speaker. The guys gathered around me. It rang 3 times before the person answered. "Hello this is Pizza Hut. What can I order for you today?" The guys immediately started cracking up. I frowned. "Um…hello?" I said. The guy over the phone said something but they were laughing too loud for me to hear him. "Guys, will you quiet down?!" They started controlling their laughter by taking deep breaths and pursing their lips together.
I turned back to the phone. "I'm sorry, uhh… is there an Annabeth Chase there?" I said hopefully. "Who?" He said. I sighed. She gave me a different number. Probably on purpose. "Sorry. I must've gotten the wrong number." I hung up.
I slouched down on the couch, miserably. "Hey come on man. There's other fish in the sea." Leo said. "Yeah and maybe some that are actually your age." Beck said. Nico snickered. I glared at them. "You guys don't understand. I just really felt like she was going to be an important person in my life." Nico looked at me with a guilty look on his face. "Look, is there any other way you can contact her? Maybe try to convince her to go out with you?" He said.
"Well…" I pondered for a moment. "She did mention she was an architect at some place called Athena's… something. I don't remember where." Leo and Becks eyes widened. "Athena's Parthenon?" Leo asked. "Yeah. How'd you know?"
"Our dad helped build something for them one time." Beck explained. "Dude I think I still remember where their office building was." Leo said. I was suddenly excided. "Can you take me to it?"
"Yeah."
"Fantastic." I got up and ran to my room. I grabbed my favorite shirt. It had a picture of my favorite singer, Kurt Cobain (Lead singer of Nirvana), on it. I also put on a pair of jeans and my converse before sprinting straight to Becks truck.
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The guys told me words of encouragement the whole way there but that didn't stop me from being nervous. Beck parked in front of a 30 story building. "Okay we're here. Are you ready?" Leo asked. "No."
"Okay. Good luck." Leo said before shooing me out of the car. They said to call them when I was ready to go home and then they drove off. I started walking to the building when all of a sudden, a flash of blond hair showed up on my right. I turned towards in to see Annabeth walking out of the building and walking farther away from me. She was wearing her black jeans again except this time she was wearing a black blazer. The wind blew on her, allowing me to see that she was wearing a white shirt. And then, of course, her heels. I started running my way towards her. "Hey! Annabeth! Wait up!" I called. She turned around and smiled after realizing it was me. When I caught up to her, she gave me a simple wave and said, "Hey."
I headed straight to the point, not even bothering to say hi. "Annabeth, what happened? I thought we actually liked each other." She frowned. "What do you me-" I cut her off. "I mean you gave me a wrong number. You gave me the number to Pizza Hut. I like pizza but I'd much rather see you than some random delivery guy."
"I didn't give you the wrong number. Let me see your phone." I took out my phone and gave it to her. She slid her finger across the screen a few times before she saw her contact. Her eyes widened. "Oh…" She looked at me. "I'm sorry Percy. I did put in the wrong number." She looked at my phone again before she started to tap the screen. After a minute, she gave me back my phone and told me, "I put in the right number." I looked at her skeptically. She rolled her eyes with a smile. "Go ahead and call it."
I pressed the new number and waited. I heard a faint sound of ringing coming from Annabeth. She took out her phone and showed me the screen. It said Percy on it. Annabeth answered it and said, "Hello?" I put the phone on my ear. "Hi."
She smiled. "So I was wondering if you wanted to go to Jamba Juice with me. You know as an apology for giving you the wrong number." She said into the phone.
"I'd love too."
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When we arrived at Jamba Juice, I immediately knew what I wanted. Annabeth ordered first. "I'll have a Caribbean Passion please."
"And I'll have a Strawberry Surf Rider please."
"Okay that'll be a total of 4.98 dollars." Annabeth reached into her purse and was about to give the guy a 5 dollar bill but I was quicker and paid for the smoothies. Annabeth stood there shocked as I took the smoothies of the counter. I winked at her and walked to a booth. She followed me and sat on the opposite side of me. She took her smoothie and glared at me. Which was the most terrifying sight I've ever seen in my life but I played it off by taking a gulp of the strawberry and peach deliciousness. "Percy. I told you I was going to pay for the drinks. This was supposed to be an apology for you not me."
I just smirked at her. "I wanted to be a gentleman and pay for the lady." She rolled her eyes. "Okay fine. But next time, let me pay."
"So that means there's going to be another date?"
"Don't get cocky." We both started laughing. When we finished our laughing fit, Annabeth started scowling at something behind me. "What's wrong?" I asked. "That 17 year old over there. He's always here and likes to flirt with me all the time." I turned my head slightly and saw the guy walking over here. "Hey babe." He said trying to kiss Annabeth only to receive a push from her. "Matt, I already told you. We're not dating." I finally got a glimpse of his face under the hoodie and I was filled with fear. It was Matt Sloan. My middle school bully. I wasn't scared of him or anything but I was scared that he was going to tell Annabeth my real age.
Matt looked at me. "Who are you?" Oh thank gods he didn't recognized me. "Matt, this is Percy. My-"
"Boyfriend." I completed, holding out my hand. He looked angry. "Boyfriend? Annabeth, you're cheating on me?" He slapped my hand away. Normally, I would've already been all over this guy but because I was pretending to be a 22 year old, I had to be mature. I just looked at him in shock. "Matt! Please. Get out of here. You're going to cause a scene." Annabeth whisper-yelled. Matt looked at her and then back at me. "This isn't over yet. I will fight for her." And with that he left. Annabeth and I continued drinking our smoothies in an awkward silence before she said, "I like your shirt."
I looked up and said, "What?"
"I said I like your shirt. Kurt Cobain from Nirvana, right?" I stared at her. "You know Nirvana?"
"Who doesn't?" This girl keeps getting better and better. "What's your favorite song by them?"
"Definitely Smells Like Teen Spirit." I felt my jaw fall down slightly. I must've looked funny because she started laughing. I recovered from my shock and started chuckling with her. "I never would've pegged you as a punk rock girl." She grinned. "There's a lot of things you don't know about me." She took a sip of her drink before saying, "It's getting late. We should head home." We both got up and walked out of Jamba Juice.
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After 5 minutes of debating, Annabeth finally let me walk her home. "So, is Smells Like Teen Spirit your favorite song or is it another song?" I asked after 5 minutes of silent walking. "My favorite song is by Bon Jovi. I'm pretty sure you can guess what song it is." I smiled. "Livin' On A Prayer?" She smiled. "Yep."
"You know my friends and I did a cover of that song one time."
"You sing?" She asked. "Yeah." I said sheepishly. "My friends and I have a band."
"A band? That's so cool." I smirked. "You should come to my house one day and hear us play something." She looked excided. "I'd love that." She stopped walking and said, "This is where I live." She lived in a condo. The condo's looked really fancy. "This is really nice." I said. "Thanks. My mother designed it." I forgot her mom was an architect too. "Well, I'll see you later Percy." She was about to open the door when I called out to her. "Hey! Maybe you could come over to my house tomorrow and listen to our band? I mean you probably don't want to ever see me again but it doesn't hurt to ask right?" She grinned and walked back to me. "I'd like to see you perform. And don't worry Percy," She gave me a kiss on the cheek. "I'm here to stay." She walked inside her condo. Leaving me there, happier than when she sat next to me yesterday.
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"That was a really bad idea to invite her." Leo said. We were currently driving back home at 12:28 in the morning. "I know. But I really want to see her again so I told her she could come watch us practice."
"What are going to do about your mom? I mean we can't really tell her that you're dating a 22 year old." Nico said. "Okay first of all, we are not dating, and second of all, I'll just ask her if she could go get me medicine from the store."
"What does medicine have to do with it?" Beck asked. "Well, my fellow band members, I'm going to send my mom to the store to go look for a medicine that I'm going make up." I said.
"What?" Leo asked. Nico sighed. "He means he's going to make up a medicine brand name and make his mom go look for it. And since it doesn't exist, it'll take her longer to find it."
"Ohhhhhh! That's genius." Leo said. We all started laughing at Leo's slowness. After we finished laughing, we stayed in a companionable silence until Nico whispered, "Percy…how much do you like her?" I was taken aback by his question. "I thought it was obvious." I replied. Nico sighed. "Percy… you're my best friend. And best friends don't like to see other best friends get hurt."
"How would I get hurt?"
"Annabeth." I looked at him, confused at what he was getting at. "Look Perce. Annabeth is 22. And 22 is the year where people try to find someone to spend the rest of their life with. If she ever finds out you're really 17… she might move on to someone else."
"Are you telling to give up on her?"
"No. Well, yes. Maybe you should back out before you dig a bigger hole."
"What?"
"He means you should give up before your little lie goes awry and you get your heart broken." Beck interrupted.
"I'm not going to back out. No matter how much you try to convince me, I'm still going to find a way to date her."
Leo rolled his eyes. "Let's just let him make him own decisions on this one guys."
They all agreed and we continued driving home.
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Next Morning (Sunday):
I stayed up all night making a song for Annabeth to hear. When I woke up, there was only 45 minutes left before Annabeth arrived. I jumped out of my bed and sprinted down the stairs to see my mom watching t.v. "Mom!" She jumped. "Oh! Percy, you scared me."
"Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Hey, I have a stomach ache. Can you go get me some medicine from the store?"
"Oh, sure." She got up as I told her the fake name of the medicine. "I'll be right back." She gave me a peck on the cheek before leaving. I immediately called the band over and rushed to my room to get ready. Tyson woke up when I came out of my room, dressed and showered. "Hey Tyson."
"peanut butter." He muttered sleepily. You see Tyson has Autism and has had it all his life. He is 13 years old and the sweetest person alive next to my mom. Once in a while he'll spurt out random words and his favorite thing to say was: Peanut butter.
"The guys and I are going to practice, you want to come see it?" That seemed to wake him up because his eyes widened and he ran straight to the garage. The doorbell rang. I went downstairs and opened the door to see my best friends there. "Hey guys. Hurry up and get ready. She should be here in 10 minutes." I said rushing my friends inside.
Annabeth arrived at exactly 12:00. This time she wasn't wearing a fancy blazer. She was wearing a white shirt with her light blue jeans rolled up to the ankles. She also had on light brown ankle boots. In other words, she looked absolutely beautiful. "Hey." She said giving me a hug. I hugged her back. The moment was ruined by Beck. "Hey Perce. Was that he-. Oh… sorry. I'll just go back into the garage." He walked back into the garage, leaving me and Annabeth blushing.
We walked into the garage and Leo's jaw dropped. "Well, well, well, well, well. Who is this fine lady?" He said kissing her hand. "Annabeth Chase. Pleased to meet you." She shook hands with the guys and I told her to go sit down next to Tyson. Tyson meeting Annabeth was probably the funniest thing ever. He stared at her the whole time she was talking and I might've seen him drooling a little bit. "Hi Tyson. I'm Annabeth. I've heard a lot about you from Percy."
"You're pretty." Was all he said. We all chuckled. "Okay so Annabeth. Our band is called the Demigods." Annabeth nodded slowly. "Cool name."
"Thanks. And um… I kinda wrote you a song last night. Do you want to hear it?" Annabeth looked honored. "Sure." I handed the guys a copy of my song and we started playing for Annabeth.
End Up Here by 5 Seconds Of Summer
(P)=Percy (A)=All
(P) You walked in
Everyone was asking for your name
You just smiled and told them "Trouble"
My head spins
I'm pressed against the wall
Just watching your every move
You're way too cool
And you're coming this way
Coming this way
(A) How did we end up talking in the first place?
You said you like my Cobain shirt
Now we're walking back to your place
You're telling me how you love that song
About living on a prayer
I'm pretty sure that we're halfway there
And when I wake up next to you I wonder how
How did we end up here?
(How did we end up here?
How did we end up here?)
(P) Next day out
Everybody thought you were so insane
'Cause you were so far out of my league
My friends say I should lock you down
Before you figure me out and you run away
But you don't and you won't as you kiss me
And you tell me that you're here to stay
(A) How did we end up talking in the first place?
You said you liked my Cobain shirt
Now we're walking back to your place
You're telling me how you love that song
About living on a prayer
I'm pretty sure we're halfway there
And when I wake up next to you I wonder how
How did we end up here?
(P) Call me lucky 'cause in the end
I'm a six and she's a ten
She's so fit, I'm insecure
But she keeps coming back for more
(A) How did we end up talking in the first place?
You said you like my Cobain shirt
Now we're walking back to your place
You're telling me how much you love that song
About living on a prayer
I'm pretty sure that we're halfway there
And when I wake up next to you I wonder how
How did we end up here?
How did we end up,
How did we end up here?
How did we end up,
How did we end up here?
When we finished, Tyson was clapping loudly with his big hands. Annabeth looked stunned. I tried to catch my breath as the guys clapped each other's backs. I walked up to Annabeth and sat next to her. "Did you like it?" She looked at me still stunned. "No." I frowned. She didn't like it? Why not? "I loved it." Oh thank gods. "So you guys have had this band the whole time and never bothered to try and become famous?"
"Well, we did once but the guy we performed for didn't like us so we just have been practicing and getting better since then."
"That's shocking because you guys are really good." The guys smiled. "Thanks." They said in unison. "Well, we'll leave you guys to hang out and talk. The boys and I will be in the living room, drinking apple juice out of a box and watching Spongebob. Come on Tyson." Leo stated. Then they left.
"So… I loved your song. Can you like record it for me so I can listen to it on a daily bases." Annabeth asked. Percy laughed. "I'll have to talk to Leo about that."
"In the song, you said I'll run away when I figure you out. Is there something you aren't telling me?"
"No. No. Um… I'm not hiding anything. I just put that there for fun." Annabeth frowned for a while before shaking her head as if she was dismissing an idea out of her head. She looked at me and hugged me. "I trust you enough to know you're telling the truth. I mean if you really were hiding something, it couldn't be that bad."
Oh Annabeth. If only you knew how bad it really was.
As you can see, Percabeth is slowly building into a couple. Hoped you like this chapter because it was over 3000 words. And just a little news I have. I'm getting a puppy! Yay! And guess what I'm going to name him. Tyson. Yes after Percy's half-brother. Anyway, bye!
R&R