AN: Let's go! 2 days! Well, let me tell you,I barely did ANY WORK because 99% of this chapter was already written... I honestly could not find a good ending but I think this will hold you over until I update again (hopefully soon?) and right now my story font is unnaturally big? I'll check once it's posted but ok. Hope you love it!
"Please, Annabeth?"
Annabeth was walking to the Math building, with Piper hot on her trail.
"No, Piper! You know I have no time!"
"I'm just asking for a half an hour session, I'll by Pizza." Piper pleaded.
"Hmm... Now thats a different story. Fine."
"Thank you so much, Blondie!"
"No problem, Pipes. You are one of my best friends, after all."
"And I still have to buy you food."
"Yep."
"Just go to class, bitch."
Annabeth smirked, and headed of to Stats.
She walked to her class and took a seat in the back like always. She always finished first, and then she had time to work on other projects.
And then he sat down next to her.
"Blondie! When did you transfer into this class? You're a Sophmore?"
I took out my math notebook, and skimmed through it. "That I am, and for your information, I have been in this class all semester. You just apparently haven't noticed me until now."
He looked at me with wide eyes, "Really?"
"Yep."
"No."
"I'm serious."
"No."
"Ask Ms. Dodds."
He gulped, "I'd rather not."
"Thought so."
"You're such a Wise Girl."
"You don't know me."
"I do now. And I'm going to find out your name." He grinned.
"Have fun with that, sweetie." She never took my eyes off my notebook.
"Oh, I will."
I took out a Sudoku page I hadn't finished, and started scribbling down numbers in the boxes.
"Sudoku."
I turned my head to Percy, giving him a confused look, "Yes?"
"For fun." He gave me a weird look, "Who plays Sudoku for fun?"
"I happen to." I replied, going back to my puzzle.
"Apparently. I didn't think of you as the nerd type." He said smoothly.
"Because of the hair, I suppose." Annabeth grumbled.
"Maybe. But you also seem to sassy to be a smartie."
I didn't respond, but then Percy yelled, "Proffesor?!"
Ms. Dodds cringed, and glared at him. "Yes, Mr. Jackson?" They didn't like each other very much.
"What is her name?" He pointed at me, I glared.
She narrowed her eyes at him, "Ms. Chase."
"I mean first name."
"Annabeth?"
"Thank you, Ms. Dodds." He smirked at me and whispered, "Annabeth. I like it."
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Annabeth smiled when the her final class bell rang, and she hopped out of class. It was Friday afternoon, one of the days she would go to the school gym and use it for Olympic training. She got to go to the Sports Complex, and use the room for sports that fell into the "Olympic" category, meaning individual sports that don't have a team. The room had all the equipment an athlete could dream of. Weight equipment, boxing/wrestling arena, fencing court, archery targets, and other gym supplies. Annabeth loved it here.
Annabeth swiped her card that got her into the complex, and the door unlocked. She stepped inside and headed down the hallway, and to her training room.
She smelled the air, the janitor always sprayed some Frebreeze in room so it didn't smell like sweat and dirty jockstraps.
She pulled her gray gloves out of her bag, and put them to the side at first. She slipped in some ear buds. She started with some simple stretching, and then went over to the dumbbells and gym equipment. Then after an hour of that, she finally put on her gloves and made her way to the punching bag.
Right, left, left, duck, right hook, over back.
Those moves came in many different combinations, and she used all of them. Luke and Chiron had told her to keep opponents guessing, trying to figure out a strategy, but if they couldn't find a pattern, they couldn't beat you.
Annabeth swung hard in one of her routines, and her glove bounced off the punching bag carelessly and came back and punched her square in the nose.
"Shit!" Annabeth cursed, pulling off her gloves and her hands going straight to her nose. "How the hell did that happen?!" Her nose bled wildly.
She looked around for a first aid kit, but couldn't find one in the room. She grumbled, and looked up at the clock, 3:45. The other training sessions didn't start in a while, and Annabeth sighed in relief. No one was going to be here, and she could go to the Physical Therapy room and grab some supplies.
She pulled on a light see through t-shirt over her sports bra and put everything away, she took a swig from her water bottle. She had a small Nike sponsorship deal, and sometimes she had to take a train down to L.A. for a photo shoot. Annabeth hoped the sponsorship was for her skill, but one time the photographer had told her she was great for the shoots because she was hot. That gave Annabeth some doubt, but she decided to roll with it. Being in her revealing boxing uniform was what she usually had to do, so she really didn't care.
She grabbed her bag, and stepped out the door, holding her nose. She turned left to go to the PT room, when she heard "Annabeth?"
She whipped around, her hands never leaving her nose.
"Percy?" Annabeth shoved her Nike bag behind her back, hopefully he didn't see her gloves poking out of her bag. Annabeth was so surprised, she didn't notice he wasn't wearing a shirt, and dripping wet. He hadn't talked to her much in the last week, after their first encounter. When she realized he was shirtless, her cheeks flamed. "Um... Uh.." She stuttered.
He shot her a confused look, "Uh, I didn't know you played a sport."
"Uh, uh..." Annabeth gulped, "I-I don't... My friend does... And, uh, he had a class and he left his stuff, and asked me to get I for him. I was on a jog near campus, so I just swung over here. Yeah." Her hand still on her nose.
He raised an eyebrow, "Then why do you have blood running from your nose?"
Annabeth stiffened, immediately wiping her nose. "Oh! Th-that. It's nothing. I accidently walked into a punching bag. Really fast." Not completely lying.
"Okay..." He replied, biting his bottom lip. "Well, let's go get you cleaned up."
"N-no! I can do it myself." I glowered at him.
He looked at me, "Nope. I'm helping you no matter what. I wouldn't be a gentleman if I didn't."
"Some kind of gentleman..." Annabeth muttered under her breath. "I am NOT paying you this time, though, Jackson."
"Wasn't planning on asking."
They walked side by side down the hallway, and it took all Annabeth's self control not to stare at his six-pack.
Annabeth was suddenly curious, "Why are you here, anyway?"
He chuckled. "I had to get some extra reps in, for Olympic qualifying."
"Oh." Annabeth said stupidly. "Maybe I'll see you there." She added under her breath.
"What?"
"What?"
He gave her a confused look, as he stopped in front of a door, and opened it.
"Let me get the gauze, just stay there." He walked over to the cabinet and pulled a little white strip out of the box." He walked over and handed it to her. Then stood there like he expected something. "Put it in your nose."
"Ew! No thanks. I'm good." She gave it back to him.
He just looked at her weirdly. "Have you ever had a bloody nose before?"
"Well duh, it's a part of the-" She stopped herself, she had already given away too many hints. "Yeah."
"Well then, this is what you do! What do you do, when you get a bloody nose?"
"I just let the blood dry, and then I wipe it off later." Annabeth shrugged, cracking a grin. She placed the gauze under her nose.
"Gross."
They both laughed, then she noticed exactly how close Percy was standing to her, and may come back to the point that he was shirtless.
He seemed to realize it too, and they both took a small step back. Both their cheeks enflamed, and his hands immediately went to his hair.
"I should really get going now... But thanks for helping me with my nose." Annabeth said, blinking a lot.
He smiled awkardly. "Yeah... No Problem."
Then Annabeth left before it could get any more awkward then it already was.
AN: Ok hope you loved it! Please tell me, I need feedback. I also need help on how Percy and Annabeth should become good friends? Because I have almost everything planned out except for that. Please PM me I have one specific detail for the "getting close" part, but don't review, I won't except it because I don't want anyone to get spoilers! Love ya!
