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Percy's POV

After seeing the cloud advancing quickly in the distance Percy did not question what the news said about it covering the Earth in an hour. Percy quickly ushered the girls into the house thinking that if the world was ending he should die a gentleman. The girls didn't see the cloud or at least showed no signs of it because they walked in without even a look over their shoulder.

They quickly exchanged names and Percy brought them to his office, assuming from their clothes, that they were here for some sort of business.

"So what has brought you here?" Percy questioned while sitting down.

"We are here to drop off the blueprints for your new pool and go over them with you if you have time," the girl named Annabeth replied. She looked like she had entered some sort of business mode.

"I have time," Percy responded, clearly marvelled at how composed Annabeth was. He was actually really excited about the new designs, but was trying hard to keep his cool in front of Annabeth. This pool was going to cost him a fortune, but it would all be worth it in the end when he got to see the little kids splashing in it. That right, Percy was donating the pool to the city. He wanted to spread his love of swimming to everyone.

Percy's thoughts were interrupted by Annabeth bringing out the designs.

"I hope these blueprints meet your standards Mr. Jackson. We were unsure on why you would want the slides and sprinklers designed for little kids attached to your pool, but we figured it would be better to have them off to the side," Annabeth explained. Percy was amazed. The pool had four lanes that were meant for people swimming back and forth. Then the pool divided off into four circles. The first circle was about two meters deep and had slides surrounding it. The slides were arranged so the kids wouldn't crash into each other. The next one was really shallow. The water would only come up to Percy's knees. This one had different forms of sprinklers and buckets that would tip over and dump water on the kid's heads. The third circle was very simple and only about a meter deep. It looked like an area that kids could just paddle around in. The last circle was not attached to the big pool and had a thick ledge around the circumference of the circle for people to sit. There were also several jets placed around it. This was obviously the hot tub. Annabeth went on to explain the pools features for a long time, but Percy completely zoned out. Luckily Annabeth did not notice. Once she was done explaining Percy quickly butted in.

"This looks awesome," Percy managed to get out. "I never knew it would be this good. There is a reason all the experts rave about you."

Annabeth's POV

After settling down in Percy's huge office Annabeth began to show what the pool would look like. Every feature she explained made Percy's smile grow wider and wider until it was covering his whole face. She personally didn't think the designs were that good, but Percy seemed to think so. She thought guys with big fancy cars and houses weren't impressed by little things like pools. Now that she thought about it Annabeth wondered how Percy did get all of this money. He must be a pretty good swimmer she thought to herself.

Once Annabeth was finally done explaining the pools layout she turned to Percy to get his opinion. She wasn't expecting him to tell her that all the experts rave about her and that it was amazing.

"Well thank you Mr. Jackson, but you aren't you paying me to make them good?" Annabeth questioned, not looking for an answer. Thinking that her time was done with Percy she stood up, but before she could wish him farewell, he beckoned her to sit back down.

"Stay here and talk. I still have twenty minutes before swim practice starts," Percy claimed. Annabeth nodded and then waited for Percy to say something.

"Have you heard about the cloud coming?" Percy questioned. Annabeth was taken aback.

"Oh not you too. Piper explained it to me the whole drive here," Annabeth complained. Piper looked a little sheepish in the corner. Annabeth hoped she didn't take that comment the wrong way.

"Well I hear its arriving soon. Hopefully it will not affect your drive home," Percy said with some concern in his voice.

"I'll be perfectly fine Mr. Jackson," Annabeth responded still trying to keep this conversation official. For some reason she really wanted to sit down and talk to Percy like a friend, but he was a client and she didn't drop out of her business facade in front of clients.

"Please don't call me Mr. Jackson, call me Percy. Do I look like an old man to you?"

Annabeth giggled out a no. Wait she just giggled. Annabeth doesn't giggle. It might be his amazing green eyes messing with her brain.

Percy must have thought that her giggle was a sign of her opening up to him so he began to talk again.

"You know this pool I got you to design is going to be donated to the city. I want all the little kids to be able to splash around. There are not too many pools around here anymore*." Annabeth was shocked. She thought he was building the pool just for the fun of it. Who knew he had a purpose behind it? Annabeth decided to drop her business tone and began to talk to him in a friendly tone she only used around Piper.

"That's so nice of you Mr. J-I mean Percy. I'm sure the kids will love it."

"Well I'm sure they will thanks to your amazing designs."

"They aren't that good," Annabeth quickly said blushing. Piper giggled in the corner looking at her red cheeks. Annabeth was going to kill her assistant later.

"They are amazing," Percy let out a little too loud. This made Percy blush putting them in a really awkward situation. Annabeth mumbled a quick thanks and it took Piper to break the silence after that.

"So Percy, win any medals lately."

"Well Olympics aren't until next year, but worlds are coming up in three weeks and I expect to get a couple gold's with the times I have been getting in practice." Annabeth was really surprised. She didn't know Percy was that good.

"So you race the in the Olympics and stuff," Annabeth exclaimed trying to make conversation.

"Um ya," Percy said rubbing the back of his neck. Annabeth thought it was adorable, but she wasn't going to tell him that.

"I'm surprised you never have heard of me," Percy carried on, "I'm always on the cover of magazines." He said this in a completely modest way; almost like he was afraid to tell her.

"I normally don't pay attention to that stuff. I assume you have many fans then," Annabeth said.

"Quite a few I guess," Percy replied. Piper took this moment to interrupt.

"Are you kidding me? You have tons of fans. Every teenage girl practically worships you," Piper screeched. Percy didn't seem to like the attention he was receiving so Annabeth sent Piper a harsh glare. Piper tended to go a little overboard when trying to prove her point.

"Sorry about that Percy, I think it's about time we leave now. Don't want to make you late for swim practice."

"Okay let me walk you to your car." Percy led us out the door and down the stairs, but then he randomly stopped. I looked back at him to see what had happened and I saw Piper and him staring at the sky. Cautiously I slowly tilted my head back and wished I hadn't. The blue sky that you could see an hour ago was about half covered. A low lying dark grey blanket was covering the rest. The problem was this blanket was cold and nasty looking, and was eating up the blue sky.

The cloud had come.

A slight cliff-hanger there at the end. Please leave a review to tell me what you think.

If you ever see one of these * in my story it means I need to explain something in the story. This chapter contained one so look bellow.

*I'm not sure how many pools there are in New York, but for the point of the story I needed to make it sound like there were few.

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