Chapter Two

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Percy

"So, how're you taking this?" Nico's smile is smug.

It was Saturday and we were hanging out in his basement. We were both sitting on the leather couch while the others were lying on the floor and stuff. The TV was paused of the video game we were playing.

I shake my head. "Taking what?" I ask. Grover snorts a little and twirls his controller. "C'mon, Jackson. You should know," he says. I shrug. "Guess I don't," I said. Jason stuffs his mouth with chips. "Percy, it's obvious that Nico was talking about Annabeth," Jason's mouth was open. Some pieces of food fell out but he didn't seem to notice. Beckendorf (A/N: I forgot how to spell his name...) was ignoring everyone and studying the game's visuals. Luke was listening but he stared off at the TV screen. Travis gives a mischievous smile to his brother.

"Oh." How was I taking this? I mean, I was a little surprised that Annabeth didn't fall for me. Normally, the leaning in and breathy voice would get girls to faint. Maybe I didn't use the right technique to get her. Maybe I should've ran my fingers through my hair or something.

I shrug in reply. "Eh, not much," I tell the guys. They smirk a little. "Really?" Jason asks. "I don't think so. I think you're taking this terribly."

I shake my head. "Of course not," I say. "I'm just a little...surprised that Annabeth didn't come for a confession. Or something along those lines." Luke snaps out his blank stare and then gives a perverted grin. "Speaking of lines...Annabeth's are just...wow." We don't say anything. It was normal for Luke to do/say stuff like that. But when he said this, it just seemed wronger than it usually did.

Then Nico gave a grin. "Hey, Percy. I have an idea," he says.

"What?" I ask. I was hoping it wasn't the same idea as he had yesterday. Yesterday, his idea was a bet about going out with Annabeth.

"Well, since Annabeth is the first girl that you ever approached to not fall in love with you and you're not taking this too well-"

"What? No, I'm taking it fine-"

"Of course you are." He rolls his eyes in sarcasm. "Anyway, I have a bet to make with you. How about you try to, you know, get Annabeth to fall in love with you until the next month. You have to date her. Become boyfriend-girlfriend." It was the same idea as yesterday. Why won't he shut up about it?

I shake my head. "No, I'm not doing this," I disagree. Luke adds in helpfully, "Yeah. Don't pressure Percy to go out with Annabeth." But not everyone was helping me. Grover started to nag me (can you believe it?! Nagging. Of all things) Jason kept saying crap like, "Oh, you two would be such a cute couple." Even Beckendorf joined in. And Connor ended up sneaking some chips into my shirt (I don't even know how. It's like you can't see them do sneaky stuff).

And while I was protesting, Grover unpaused the game and killed my player.

"Hey!" I yelled at him. Jason throws some chips at me. Beckendorf snatches my controller and Nico gives me another smug grin. "If you win the bet...I'll give you fifty bucks. If you lose, you give me fifty bucks. Simple," he explains and continues pressing the buttons.

"What if I don't do the bet?" I ask while reaching for my controller. I was too lazy to get up and tackle Beckendorf for it.

"Then we trash your car!" Jason suggests and sends a violent attack to Grover's player. One of the horns of Grover's player gets blown off. I laugh at his whine. "Anyway," he says after complaining. "That's a great idea Jason! Percy, your car will look like it was robbed after we're through with it!" Everyone else agrees and I could start to feel the anger boiling inside. It wasn't the best car in the world, it was an old blue truck. But my famous multimillionaire dad who barely had time for me bought it for me. I chose it myself even if I could've asked for a Ferrari or Maserati. And I loved it. I couldn't let my friends harm my first car.

"Fine," I snarl at them. "I'm in the bet."

The guys cheer and Beckendorf tosses my controller back. We restart the game.

I killed everyone's player.


I'm now at my house with only Grover this time. We're in my room, him hogging my computer and me sprawled onto my bed. We don't really say anything to each other, he's too interested in what he was doing.

"Percy," Grover breaks the silence.

"Yeah?" I look up at him. He motions me over. "Come here."

I walk over to him. He was on a blog. "Really? A blog. Why would you be on a blog?" I narrow my eyes at him. He shakes his head and points to the latest post of the blogger. "Just read this, Percy. This is...weird..." he says. I furrow my brow as I try to read. My dyslexia was kicking in right now. I could barely read the letters. Grover realizes that. "Oh, sorry. Here, I'll read it aloud."

"Percy Jackson's phone number. That's right, people. It's the real thing! But I won't JUST give it up so easily. I have a riddle for each digit," he stops. "Hey, I'm not going to read the riddle. I don't want to confuse you," he says. I shake my head, frowning. "Just read it. I want to see if this is a hoax or something." He shrugs and reads the riddles. (A/N: His phone number is just going to be (1)-847-555-5555 which isn't a real number.)

"First digit: the first for everything. Second digit: the number of the legs the Octopoda possesses..." He reads the last clue. "Last digit: the fourth digit after the decimal of pi." While I got lost, Grover was writing down the answers. He reads out the numbers. They were all correct.

"What-how would this blogger have my number?" I exclaim. He shrugs but continues looking over all the posts he/she posted. "Almost all of these posts are about you. The person only has three posts since he or she joined yesterday. The first one was about popularity. The second one is your phone number. And the last one is about a book. But it's creepy how this person knows your phone number. Oh, wait, another update!"

"What would YOU do if Percy Jackson asks you out? Luke? Which guy is better? Why? How?" I snort at that. "It's definitely a she," I decided. But Grover raises his eyebrows at the screen. "I don't know. It can be a gay guy, too." he says. I smack him in the shoulder. "I like lady admirers than guys. It's weird," I say to him. He shrugs.

His phone beeps. "Oh, it's a text message from Juniper," he says, love struck. "I gotta go. We're going to the park." I didn't really see what he had for the tree loving girl but I didn't say anything. For a guy, he's also kinda obsessed with nature.

He left and I was all alone. I didn't expect my phone to ring soon after.


Annabeth

All the blog posts weren't my ideas. Like, I did the fourth one. I received one hundred eighty-three comments right after I posted! And that rewarded me with an extra thirty-seven followers! I couldn't believe the attention I-I mean, Goode's Anon was getting. So far, I had ninety-four followers! Thalia congratulated me and then she got a call from her twin brother, Jason. She had to go pick him up from his friend's house.

After Thalia left my house, I kept thinking whether I should call Percy or not. I did saw the post it note yesterday. And he gave it to me for a reason...right? I kept on wondering if I should or shouldn't. Maybe I should just text him. But that won't prove that I really am Annabeth.

I give up. I'm just going to call him.

I carefully dialed his number. He answered right away. "Hello?" Percy's voice, don't get me wrong, sounded really attractive.

I gulped nervously. "Um...Hi, Percy. This is Annabeth."

He seemed surprised. "Annabeth? How'd you get my number? Wait, did you see that blog, Goode Anon or something?"

Did he figure it out? My heart started to pound and I felt like throwing up. "What?" My voice was too shaky. "Wha-What do you mean? Goode A-Anon?" I was a really bad liar and my voice even squeaked a little at the end. But thankfully, Percy didn't seem to notice.

"Oh, I see. Anyway, how do you have my number?"

"You wrote the post-it note in my notes."

"I did what?"

This was confusing. If he hadn't written the note who had?

"Wait..." he said. "I think one of my friends did that."

"Oh."

There was an awkward silence.

"Hey...Annabeth?" I think there was a sigh at the other end.

"Yes?"

"Can you...sit with me at lunch on Monday?"

"But you usually skip school on Monday," I reply without thinking.

"So...you noticed?"

My ears turned red and hot. Was he thinking that I watch out for him? That I liked him?

"Um..." I said. "Well...I guess there's no point in lying. Yeah, I noticed." I was glad that the words came out smooth and even.

"Oh. Well, I'll see you then."

We said goodbye and hung up. I kept on thinking about sitting next to Percy during lunch. Every popular kid would be staring, wondering why a loser like me would be sitting with Percy. I blushed thinking of all the attention I would get. I thought about the people who would be sitting with us. There were the two twins, the blonde jock that Piper likes, the crippled kid who was dating the president of the Recycling Club, the guy who can fix almost anything that Silena is dating, the dark kid that Thalia has a crush on, and...

Luke.

I smiled wide. I would be with Luke. I couldn't stop thinking about him as I was doing my homework.


Monday came too fast, honestly. But lunch seemed to be taking forever.

I explained to all my friends that I would be sitting with Percy during lunch. They all gave me sympathetic looks, which was a little funny.

And then lunch came.

I walked nervously to the cafeteria with Thalia. She was blabbing on and on about Goode's Anon, but I ignored her. I couldn't stop thinking about sitting with Luke.

As soon as I entered the cafeteria, Percy walked up to me. He slid his arm around my waist so casually and we just stood there in the doorway. Thalia shot him a hateful look but she walked calmly (yet tensely) to Silena and Hazel and them. I couldn't take in all the stares I was getting. Especially from Drew and the other popular girls. Their eyes were full of jealousy and hatred. I looked around nervously and then glanced up at Percy. He was giving his friends a smug smile.

"Hey, Annabeth," his voice was actually breathier than yesterday. And his face was closer to mine. I blushed immediately, unsure of what to do. "Hi, Percy," I say, staring straight into his beautiful sea green eyes. His free hand started to clear the hair out of my face, making me blush even more. "Annabeth, you're red as a tomato," he comments, laughing lightly.

Okay, I was kind of falling for him.

"I am not red," I said defensively even though I knew it wasn't true.

He puts his hand on my cheek. "Your red face is hot too. Are you sick or something?" He sounded genuinely concerned. Honestly, I felt a little sick because of all the attention I was getting. "No, I'm fine. Thanks for asking," I mutter. He smiles and leans in even more, until we are literally only two millimeters apart. "No problem," he whispers and pulls me closer to him.

I'm confused. What was going on? Was he putting on a show?

"I'm kinda hungry, Percy. Can we go sit down now?"

He smiles and leads me over to the table. Percy puts my seat closer to his even though we were already sitting next to each other. "So, Perce," Juniper's boyfriend said. "Whose your new girlfriend?" Percy laughs and intertwines his fingers into my hand. "I would say more of a not-so-secret crush," he replies.

I wasn't uncomfortable with what he was doing. I just felt uneasy with everyone in the cafeteria still staring at me.

I didn't dare move away my hand. I study everyone sitting at the table. When I got to Luke, I noticed he was already staring at me. I blush a little and quickly look back at Percy. He was talking to all his friends, ignoring me, except for the fact that his hand was still holding mine. I stay quiet. It was too awkward for me.

"Annabeth."

I look up at Percy, and realize that he wasn't the one who called me. Then I turn to Luke. For sure, it was him who called me. "Yeah?" My voice was a little rusty because I didn't talk the whole time. Luke gives me a friendly smile which I thought was gorgeous.

"Annabeth, your hair looks beautiful today." Luke's compliment rings in my ears. I give a thankful smile.

Percy soon notices this. He let go of my hand but wrapped his arm around my waist again and pulled me closer to him. Percy mouthed something to Luke and Luke only glared back at him.

Again, what was going on?

Ah, a confused Annabeth, a romantic Percy, a jealous Luke, and a blog rising with fame.

What could all this possibly lead to?! Please review your thoughts and such! I would be really pleased to get more follows and reviews (just saying c;)! Lol, thanks for reading!