Hey, thanks for the favorite, follows, and reviews! Here's another chapter. I wasn't planning on putting it up here until later this week, but I ended up having time on my hands. I was at work this morning when I fainted, so they sent me home early and my parents forced me to rest in bed. Since that's boring, I thought I'd get this done now, so enjoy!

Sounds Heavenly

"Ladies Clarisse and Silena," The guard announced. Annabeth stood at her spot at the table. Two girls, both sixteen, walked into the room. The Princess smiled at the two. They some of her best friends, yet they couldn't be any more opposite.

Clarisse scowled at her title and took a seat on Annabeth's left. Her dress was red as blood and Annabeth could tell she was itching to get out of it. Not many people knew, but her father, Sir Ares, wanted to have all sons. He had his wish with his first five children, but the sixth, and last one, was Clarisse. His wife had died after that and he was stuck with a daughter and no knowledge on how to raise her. So he treated her as he treated the rest of the children, like a son. When he started courting Lady Aphrodite, Silena's mother, it was already too late for Clarisse. Her entire personality was that of a boy with the looks of a girl.

Silena had a mother and plenty of sisters to surround her, as well as a brother who was the Clarisse of the family. She was the oldest, Drew being the second oldest daughter. Annabeth never really liked that girl, and neither did the third daughter, Piper. Piper had disappeared a year before. The family kept it a secret, but Silena had told Annabeth everything. Her brother Mitchell and the twins Lacy and Laurel all believed the same rumors that Aphrodite fed to the kingdom. That Piper was married off to someone who lived in the outskirts of the kingdom.

Anyway, soon after Aphrodite courted with Ares and Sir Hephaestus at the same time, causing a bigger uproar for gossip. Silena and Clarisse's friendship began to form then. No one would think that the beautiful blue-eyed girl was anyone but a princess. Instead, her best friend was a girl who once tried to cut off all her hair and pass off as a boy to please her father. Silena had talked Clarisse away from that one, but Annabeth suspected that Ares' daughter still thought it was a good idea.

"Annabeth, it's great to see you again," Silena's voice floated to the Princess, but it was a misleading statement. They had actually seen each other the night before when Annabeth slipped away from the palace. The three girls had discussed Percy's homecoming, but none of the guards listening in on their conversation had to know that. The trio made small talk, not speaking of the boy hidden upstairs nor of the fact that they regularly broke the law. The chefs repeatedly came out to greet them and made sure the food was okay. Of course it was, but it had been so long since the palace had received guests. Not since Malcolm, Annabeth's older brother and real heir to the throne was kidnapped. Not since the King outlawed music.

Annabeth remembered back to the last time the chefs had cooked for a large number of guests three years before. Malcolm had just turned eighteen and was to marry some Princess in Atlantis. The party was to celebrate the Princess' arrival. Annabeth was thirteen and thrilled to meet her new sister. The problem was, she didn't show up. The guests started to worry about the lack of her appearance a few hours into the party. Annabeth's father had convinced Malcolm to calm to them down. Before he could get their attention to do so, the hired musicians stopped playing their instruments, grabbed the Prince, and jumped out the window.

Annabeth shuddered as she remembered the grueling year afterward. The search parties, the palace on lockdown. She no longer had any sort of privacy. No more balls or parties, no more people visiting, no more Malcolm. Annabeth had become the Crown Princess through her brother's disappearance. She didn't wish for it, but it came to her regardless. In King Frederick's rage and sadness for his only son's kidnapping, he banned music for he saw the musicians who took him to be corrupted and evil. Little did the guards know that Annabeth and her friends were musicians in many ways.

A few months after the King stopped sending search parties for Malcolm, Annabeth found a way to sneak out of the palace. She was soon discovered on the street by a boy with sea green eyes.

"You know, you can't exactly blend in with those dresses," He had goofed off. The boy pulled her off the street and into one of the small houses. "Let me find you one of my sister's dresses."

"You don't need to, I'll just-"

"You left that palace for a reason, Annabeth." The first time he said her name put shivers down her spine. Not many people called her by her simple name. It was always Princess or Your Majesty or Miss. Never just Annabeth. "Is it alright if I call you that?" His grin was curious and playful at the same time.

"Yes, if you tell me what your name is," The Princess had smiled for the first time in a year.

"Percy Jackson."

Soon, Annabeth got out of the palace at least once a week, if not more. Percy was always there to meet her. He would bring her to a building near the market. It was supposed to be used as a storage warehouse for fish, but the fisherman that owned it had left years before and lent it to Percy, as the boy had explained to Annabeth once. It turned out to be a meeting place for Percy's friends, two of which were Clarisse and Silena. The more they visited the warehouse, the more Annabeth suspected these friends of his were hiding something from her. The looks they passed amongst themselves annoyed her to no end.

"Percy, you can trust me. Just tell me what you're hiding!" She had demanded one day on the warehouse to the warehouse. He didn't speak for a long time

"Do you miss the music?" When he finally spoke, Annabeth was startled out of her silent fuming.

"Of course," She had whispered. It was one of her biggest secrets, besides sneaking out. She would sing in her room, any song that she knew, just because she liked the way it sounded. "I miss it more than one might think," She had mumbled, the words almost not even there.

"I do trust you, Annabeth," The boy said as he took her shoulders and turned her around to face him, It was the first time they had been that close, his nose inches away from hers. Annabeth could barely breathe as they stared into each other's eyes. "That's why I am going to tell you."

He continued to tell the Princess everything. Which included the fact that he and all his friends broke the law banning music everyday.

When he was finished, Annabeth walked quietly beside him the rest of the way to the warehouse. Once inside, Percy confessed to his group that he had told her their secret. The rebelds groaned, but it was almost like they knew it would happen. Annabeth interrupted their groans when she started to sing. She didn't know a lot of songs back then, so it was one of the many lullabies that her mother sang to her when she was little.

When the song ended, Percy and his friends just smiles. That was the day Percy's friends became her own.

And the day she became a criminal, a rebel against her own father.

"Earth to the Princess." Clarisse waved her hand in front of Annabeth's face, which made several guards in the room tense up. She had been lost in her own memories.

"It's getting late. Would you like to stay the night?" Both girls smiled and nodded as the Princess sent the guards away. Annabeth always wanted to act like a normal girl. As she walked up to her room with her friends, giggling, she had never felt so normal in her life.

"Need anything else, tonight, Your Majesty?" The yellow clad guard from earlier approached Annabeth just as she was about to go into her room.

"Yes, please send a message to Lady Aphrodite about Ladies Clarisse and Silena's whereabouts." The blonde disappeared into her room, the two girls trailing behind.

"Hey, Jackson. Long time no see," Clarisse scoffed at the boy perched on Annabeth's bed. His eyes widened at the sight of her.

"God, Annabeth. The least you could have done was warn me that she was going to be here," Said Percy as he narrowed his eyes. Clarisse snorted.

"Well, I'm going to see Charlie." Silena pecked Percy on the cheek before heading to the closet. Charles Beckendorf was one of the guards in the palace. He and Silena had been courting for a long time. Percy smirked as he watched her go. He had spoken with the boy while the girls were at dinner. He was planning to propose to Silena as she as he found a ring.

Clarisse followed her.

"Hey, Clarisse," Annabeth called out.

"Yeah, Annabeth?"

"Have fun with Chris." She winked as Clarisse grinned wickedly.

"You know it, Princess." The girl ducked under the many clothes and Annabeth could hear the door to the passageway click closed.

Chris was one of Chiron's stable boys. He and Clarisse hit it off right after they met. He had gone to the market for carrots one day when he saw Annabeth. Curious, he followed the Princess to the warehouse. Clarisse found him and almost beat him up so he wouldn't tell anyone what he saw. He became one of the regulars that joined our group, but never really snag or danced. Said he wasn't that good, but both Annabeth and Percy agreed that he just came for Clarisse.

"Annabeth Chase! You have a boy in your room and you didn't tell me!?" A voice rang out from across the room. Two girls, both furious, descended upon Annabeth. One was slightly taller than the other, but it was obvious they were sisters. Their long dark hair, the fierceness in their eyes, and even the lean build was all the same.

"Hylla, I haven't seen you since before breakfast. How on earth was I supposed to tell you?" The taller one wanted to argue, but she ended up just pursing her lips.

Reyna had another reason to be angry. "I can't believe you didn't tell us you went to get him! We could have covered for you if a guard decided to stop by, but we didn't even know!"

"Calm down, Reyna. Like I said, I didn't know I was getting him until Father announced his departure at breakfast," Annabeth soothed. Reyna was still anything but soothed.

All she could say was something about leaving a note before the girls dragged the Princess into their room, which was adjourned to Annabeth's. There, they changed her out of her gown and into a nightgown. They brushed out her hair and washed her skin of any paint they had put on it that morning. Soon, the red lips and lined eyes were gone and Annabeth felt natural for the first time that day.

"Thanks, girls," She said as she touched her clean face.

"Hope you have fun, Annabeth!" Hylla said as the blonde started to head back to her own room. "Just remember what happened with Julio before you try anything!' With that terrifying thought of Hylla's last boy toy in her head, Annabeth left her maids and shut the door behind her.

Percy, who had been trying to run one of Annabeth's many brushes through his own tangled hair, jumped as she appeared next to him. He tried to pull it out of his hair, but the knots had gotten caught in the bristles. Annabeth laughed as she smoothly removed it from his head as well as all the tangles.

"You know, it's been awhile since I have been able to run my fingers through my hair." Percy laughed. "Two whole months in fact." Annabeth giggled and sat down on her bed. The boy sat next to her and put his arm around her waist. "I missed you so much, Wise Girl," He said quietly.

"I missed you, too, Percy," Annabeth curled up into his chest and soon, both were asleep. Later in the night, Hylla smiled as she found the two snuggled together. She covered them with a blanket and left them for the night.

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