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Percy walked back to his dorm, deep in thought. Was Annabeth actually upset that she didn't go for Thai? Percy probably knew her emotions better than she thought. He wasn't that much of a Seaweed Brain… at least he didn't think so.

Percy got his swim bag ready to go for practice. His suit, towel, cap, goggles, and water bottle. He smiled as he remembered that Annabeth got him his practice goggles at the Secret Santa party. Coincidentally, he and Annabeth had gotten each other which gave them a chance to put thought into their gifts because they knew each other so well.

Percy walked into the locker room, breathing in the familiar smell of chlorine. His big swim meet was next week, and it was his last chance to qualify for Junior Nationals. (A/N I'm a swimmer, so I can assure you that Junior Nationals are a huge deal and really hard to make :) )

"Hey Percy, I need to talk to you for a moment." Coach Hedge pulled him over into his office.

"I need to know what you want to swim this weekend and what's going to get you into Junior Nationals. If a small group from our team is traveling all the way across country, I want at least someone to make Nationals and I'm betting it'll be you. Luke is prepared to go as well, but he's at least three or four seconds from making it, whereas you, are a few milliseconds away, and I know you can do it." Apparently Hedge was really serious about this decision because his usual goofy grin and cracking jokes were completely gone.

"I'm not sure, Coach. But I know that I could probably make it for the 400 IM, because it's long distance and I'm just a second away so it'll be easier for me to drop. Can I send you an email on my other decisions?" Percy needed time to think about this and clear his head from Annabeth.

After Percy's grueling practice, he called Annabeth and asked if she wanted to meet to go out to eat for dinner. He was pretty sure Annabeth felt especially bad for not being able to go to the Thai restaurant because after all, Percy had been planning that for a few weeks in advance. The restaurant needed reservations two weeks ahead of time, and it was kind of… er… a date to Percy, at least in his head.

"I'm so sorry Percy. I'm actually out with Luke right now, and we're at an ice cream place downtown, it'd be so fun if you wanted to come!" Annabeth sounded like she regretted going out with Luke, but nonetheless it hurt Percy.

"It's fine, I'll see you in the library later."

It was always Luke, wasn't it. That's what lit a fire under him everyday, and what made him work five times harder every day at swim practice. Now Luke was stealing Annabeth?

Wait, hold on? Stealing? When did I ever start to think like this? Do I even like Annabeth? In that way?

I like Annabeth… as a friend. We've been friends ever since Piper introduced me to her, and I guess we're sorta best friends? But why am I annoyed at Luke for being with Annabeth? Aren't they usually together? Why have I only now started noticing that he's usually with her?

All these questions came swarming, and made him dizzy. He needed to grab onto his dresser to hold himself steady.

"Woah, you ok?" Jason had come in to find Percy almost falling on the ground.

"Yeah, just got dizzy for a sec."

"Guess what just happened!" The excitement in Jason's voice was a certain change in tone.

"Mmhmm, what?"

"I just asked Piper out on a date, and she said yes!"

A/N:

I got a review from the first chapter about making these chapters longer, so it'll start being longer from chap 5 because chap 1-4 are pre-written.