Hey this might not be that long but this is Annabeth's point of view and it's a couple days before Percy's point of view. I own nothing…
CRASH
I shot out of bed and ran to the kitchen. There stood my boyfriend covered in egg and flour. I started to laugh when he noticed I was standing there.
"Yeah laugh at the guy who was trying to make you a nice breakfast before your important meeting." He said while starting to clean up the mess.
"I will, don't worry." I said still laughing. "Go take a shower I'll make breakfast." He left and I cleaned up the kitchen and finished making breakfast. Then I went and sat in the living room of our apartment. I should probably introduce myself, I'm Annabeth Chase. I live in Los Angelis, CA and I'm an Architect. That man who was covered in breakfast foods was my boyfriend of two years Carson. He is a Lawyer here in LA. We both work at the same firm that's how we met. He is in legal and I'm the architect. I used to live in New York ,but moved here. I went to college here and I have a little secret that Carson doesn't know about. I'm a demigod, daughter of Athena. My life is pretty normal now though, the last crazy thing that happened to me was about four years ago dealing with a hellhound…Mrs. O'Leary. She was my ex-boyfriends and smelled one of his old shirts at my place. When I got home my apartment was trashed and there sat Mrs. O'Leary.
My ex-boyfriends name is Percy Jackson. We broke up because of the long distance. Let me tell you it never works out…ever, so we broke up. Don't get me wrong I loved him and we didn't want to break up, but we had to.
Suddenly I felt someone sit next to me. "Hey Annabeth… Earth to Annabeth…Hello?"
"Yeah sorry I spaced out."
"Are you nerves about the meeting today?" He asked
"No I was just thinking about somethings."
"What is somethings?"
"Oh my friends and family back in New York, my life before you."
"Yeah you never really told me about them what was it like living in New York?"
"The roads were easier to navigate for one thing." I said with a laugh
"What New York is all cramped out here we have space." He said defending his home city.
"My friends there always had my back no matter what."
"Wait, were you in a gang while you were there?" He said with a smile
"Yeah you know me the rebel." I said sarcastically while going to change into my work cloths.
When I got into my room I went to my closet and saw the box I always see, my camp box. It holds all my pictures and most of my clothes from that time. I don't get out much, so most of my clothes are business attire. "Yeah you actually don't know the real me."
When Percy left, I focused on my schooling and once I was out of school I looked for a job. I wasn't the same Annabeth you that most of you know and love. I was…uptight. I was working all the time and lost contact with all my old friends. I never even see Chiron anymore. I bet if my friends saw me know they wouldn't recognize me. I'm in a suit most of the time, I don't even train anymore. I still have my knife like always, but I really don't need to worry, because the Romans handle most of the monsters here.
I walked of my room dressed and ready for the important meeting. The meeting was about our firm expanding branches across the US. I was the Project manager for my section of the firm, so I was the boss and all the bosses were to decide with our executives where the new firms were going to be and who was going where.
We got to our building and Carson went to his floor after giving me a kiss which I returned. He didn't notice and walked away I went up and saw, Cathy my receptionist.
"Hello Ms. Chase the meeting will begin in 25 minutes." She said while giving me some folders.
"Thanks Cathy." I said while taking the folders and heading to my office. I was the youngest Project manager in this firm's history, so I was sort of a celebrity in the Architecture business. I was an intern at this little firm in LA and then I designed this amazing library and I was being Head hunted by bigger firms. I then picked the current firm I'm in and was put on teams that designed amazing buildings. I was one of the youngest people in the building and the executives were impressed I was so good. It wasn't fair to the other workers though… I did get to redesign Olympus. I had plenty of practice.
I looked up at the clock and the meeting was going to start soon. I got up and walked down to the conference room. When I got there some of the people were already there including one of the worse people ever Kyle. He was always flirting with me and he was just so annoying.
"Hey Sweet thang, what are you doing tonight, Maybe we could go out."
"Well as much as I would love to do that, I sort of have a date tonight…with my boyfriend…your brother…Carson". Right, one more thing Carson and Kyle are brothers and their dad owns this firm. By this time everyone else showed up and Kyle sat beside me. Kyle's dad, Mr. Wilson started to talk. I was listening until I felt something on my leg. I looked down and saw Kyle's hand resting there. I gave a small smile and looked back at Mr. Wilson then I stomped the heel of my shoe down on Kyle's foot.
"OUCHHHH"
Everyone looked over at us and I was still smiling sweetly. Mr. Wilson gave me a knowing look and smiled.
"Do you need to leave son?" Mr. Wilson asked
"No I'm good." And for the remainder of the meeting he didn't look at me. We were talking about building plains then finally about the firm branching out. Mr. Wilson started to speak again.
"We are looking in cities like New Orleans, Miami, Chicago and New York. Once we settle on a couple of places a few of you will be sent there as well. You are all some of our finest so you will run things. I have already chosen two places and four people." My ADHD kicked in and I started to think about the places. New Orleans would be amazing to be at with all the French inspired architecture. Miami would be similar to LA sunny, beachy, and hot. Chicago would be interesting. The weather would be unpredictable. It could be March and it might still be snowing. Then there was New York. The place where my true home is. Where I lost some of my best friends, the place that I have cried and laughed so many times I forget. I could picture all my friends and Percy…that's the second time I thought about him today. I didn't notice but I had a smile on my face. I started to think about all the times I was with Percy. My smile didn't go unnoticed.
"So, Ms. Chase what do you think about New York?" Mr. Wilson asked
"Ah" I thought about something one of my Professors told me. "I think New York is a forever changing tapestry that only a handful of Architects get to Change." Mr. Wilson smiled and continued to talk. "Well then how would you like to run the new, New York Office.
I was taken back. "You would like me to go?"
"Yes, you would of course be there with my son who will help you run it." Mr. Wilson said. I look next to me at Kyle then back at Mr. Wilson. "Oh gods no." then everyone started to laugh.
"Not Kyle, Carson." He said after the laughter died down. I totally forgot about Carson.
"Oh yes I would love to."
"Fantastic you will pack up your office today and tomorrow you can pack up your cloths and be out of here by Thursday." He dismasted everyone but told me to stay.
"Annabeth are you okay?"
"Yes, it's just; I haven't been to New York since before College."
"I know, I also have a surprise for you, Cathy will be your assistant there." And with that he walked away. Mr. Wilson reminded me a lot of Chiron. I walked out of the conference room and started toward my office when someone put there arm around me and kissed my cheek.
"Hello Ms. Chase how are you today." Carson said
"I'm doing amazing" I said while walking into my office. "I got the job. I'm moving to New York." The next thing I know I'm being picked up and spun around.
"I knew it would happen." And he gave me a kiss.
"We get to go to New York, together." I said while I started to pack up my desk.
"Yeah, the only thing is that I'll be going later. I have some things I have to do here for a building. I'll be there by the end of the month at the latest. Is that ok?"
"Yeah, I was going to go see my uncle when I get there anyway. When am I leaving again?"
"You're leaving Thursday morning at eleven." He said while handing me my ticket. He gave me another kiss and left I called Cathy in and told her the news.
"Oh my gosh Annabeth that is amazing." She said while jumping up and down
Once we stopped acting like twelve year old girls at a Justin Bieber concert she helped my pack up my office. Then we ate lunch and I helped Cathy pack up her desk. Cathy is one of my friends here. She has been friends with the Wilson's for a long time so that's how we met. Then she got laid off and Mr. Wilson gave her a job. We got done just a little bit after quitin' time, we said goodbye and I went looking for Carson. He was deep in thought looking at some papers.
"Hey Carson, I'm going to head home and start packing, are you coming?"
"Yeah." He said looking up from his papers. I gave him a smile and waited as he got his things together. Once we got home I started to get out my suit cases. I put some business cloths in there then I looked back at my closet. I walked over to the box on the floor I picked it up. I then duped its contents on the bed I was the same size I was when I was 18. I packed the cloths also. I stopped when I saw the familiar orange shirt. I picked it up and saw another one under it only that one was bigger. I set down mine and picked up the bigger one. I didn't relies I still had Percy's Shirt. I changed out of my cloths and but on some shorts and Percy's shirt. It smelled like the ocean even after all this time. I took my hair out of my bun and the curls descended down my back. I sat on my bed looking at old pictures of me and my friends at camp. I was going through them and was laughing at some of them and crying at others. The last picture was of me, Percy, Thalia, Piper, and Nico. Me and Nico were smiling as Percy and Thalia were asleep with make-up all over their faces. Piper did the make up for us. When they woke up they both screamed. It was one of the last memories I have of Percy. We were all at the Roman Camp. The longer I looked at it the funnier it got and soon I was laughing so hard that Carson ran into the room.
"Are you okay?" He asked and just like that the moment was ruined. "Yes I was just packing and I saw these pictures so I got them out." I said while quickly packing them away. He just shrugged and said dinner's ready. I walked out and got my dinner then sat down on the couch with Carson. We watched TV for the rest of the night. Until he asked "Where did you get that shirt? I never have seen you wear it before."
"It was a shirt from a camp I went to back In New York. Went there since I was seven, I lived there year round until I was twelve."
"Why did you live there year round?"
"Me and my dad didn't really get along." I simply said and turn toward the TV hoping to leave the conversation there, nut of course it didn't.
"What was the camp for?" he said
"It was for kids with ADHD and Dyslexia" I smoothly said until I remembered he didn't know I had either.
"You have ADHD and Dyslexia, why has this never come up."
"I didn't think it was really that important, can we just forget about it." I said while getting up and taking my dishes into the kitchen.
"How have I not noticed?"
"I don't have Dyslexia that bad, it only happens when I stare at the paper for a long time. The good thing is I don't stare at papers that long because I usually get bored, so I do something else, thanks to my ADHD. They are good they balance each other out." I tried to joke
"I just can't believe we have been dating this long and I didn't know that."
"I'm sorry." Said and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I'm going to go to bed alright."
"Sure I'll be in, in a second." I walked into our room and took all the stuff off the bed and laid down. Once I was out I had a dream of me and Percy at the beach with Rachel and Nico. We were joking around and having a good time…I missed that.
I woke up and the sun was shining through the window. There was an arm wrapped around my waist. I slowly got out of the embrace at went to take a shower. Once I got out and walked into my room Carson was gone. I got dressed into sweat pants and another old shirt and walked into the kitchen. Carson was getting some cereal and milk when he noticed me.
"Hey want some?"
"Yeah, sure." I looked at the clock and noticed he should be at work right now. "Why aren't you at work?"
"I'm taking the day off to help you pack and hang out with you." Then he came over and gave me a kiss.
"Oh that's nice of you." We ate breakfast then got started packing. He gave me some of the pots and pans along with some of the bowls. Then we packed the TV in our room and the DVD player. The rest of the day went like that. We packed and reminisced about the apartment and all the good times. We finally got to my closet. We were almost complete until he pulled out the box that I had out the other day.
"Do you want this box to g-?" And then he tripped over one of the boxes and everything spilled out.
"Annabeth I'm so sorry" he said once he regained his footing. "I didn't see the other boxes…who is this? And he picked up a picture. I looked up from the pictures I was cleaning up to see who he meant. He showed me is jean shorts and my camp shirt on with my hair down with Percy's arm around me acting like he was going to throw me in the lake.
"Oh that is Percy one of my old friends at camp." I said and continued to put things back into the box.
"Oh you never mentioned him before that's all." And he looked like he wanted to say more but thank the gods he didn't. We got that done and finished packing. We got dinner ready and turned on the TV we didn't pack away. We ate then we both went to bed. The next morning I got up and got ready. I threw on some jeans and a plaid shirt. Then I put my hair in a high pony tail just like I always did. I walked out with my carry on. The other boxes were being taken there early this morning by Kyle, so I just had my carry on. Carson was dressed and ready to go to work. He gave me a kiss and he left. I walked out to the car that was taking me to the airport and left.
I got off the plane and let me tell you it was the greatest plane ride of my life. I was in first class no little kid was kicking my seat and I didn't hear any crying babies. That is a win for Annabeth. Then it hit me I'm back in New York…I'M BACK IN NEW FUCKIN YORK! This is the greatest day of my life. The boxes were going to be sent to my new apartment that I will go see when I go and see it. I walk out and get a cab and tell him the address. Once we got there I paid him and got out. I walked up my apartment and opened the door. I walked in and see a nice big open floor plane. There was a small kitchen with a bar and there was one bathroom and a bedroom. I heard a knock on the door and knew it was the movers they started to bring in boxes and then they left. I was getting ready to unpack then thought I don't need to be at work till Monday I had three days to do what I wanted. I grabbed a jacket from one of the boxes and grabed my bag and put a few outfits in it then walked out the door. I went down the three flights of stairs and out to the streets of New York I got a cab and gave it the address. After a while I so excited to see it again. I looked out the window and saw the familiar hill and tree. I told the Cab driver to stop and obliged. I gave him the money and got out. I put my bag over my shoulder and ran up the hill. There I saw the familiar cabins and the canoe lake. And the big blue farm house that always welcomed you home. I smiled and ran down the hill. It was night time so the campers were supposed to be asleep. I walked up the big houses stairs and knocked on the door the door opened and I saw an older looking man in a wheel chair. He saw me and gave me a warm smile. We didn't say anything, we didn't need to. I dropped my bag and gave Chiron a hug. I let go and Chiron simply said "Welcome home."
I thought that was a pretty good place to end. Hope you guys enjoyed it this is my longest chapter I have ever written ever, but then again this is only my second story. Well since you guys now know that this is my second story I would love for you guys to give me some pointers and advise. Hope you guys have a nice night.