Chapter 2
Annabeth's POV
"Here we go" I thought to myself. "It can't get any worse, right?"
The situation for now was under control. Me, Piper and Jason were lined up in front of the big gate the ship had.
"How do you think they will react?" I asked.
"Not good… Not good… I mean, look at us. We look awful." Piper said in a serious tone.
She was right. Although that the ship was very, very nice, we looked like we walked all the way from New York to San Francisco! That was because we stayed up all night. I couldn't fall asleep and they joined me to talk about different things and calm me down. They are good friends… Really good…
Boom.
"God, Leo you could at least warned us that we are landing!" Piper exclaimed nervously.
"Sorry. Okay guys, ready?" Leo asked, coming closer to us.
"No, but no one really asks me." Jason replied.
I didn't pay attention to what he said. I just stared at the door. I just wanted it to open. "C'mon, work with me here!" I thought.
Yeah. It did. It's like it actually read my thoughts.
It started coming down slowly. Slowly… At some point I could see about 40 people' heads. They all were staring directly at us like we were some kind of green, one-eyed aliens. And trust me – I felt like one.
I walked towards the people. I wanted to know if Percy was there. He had to. He just did.
"Welcome!" Someone said behind my back. "I'm Reyna. The praetor of the 12th Legion at Camp Jupiter. I'm the demigod daughter of Bellona, goddess of war." Great.
I turned to face the girl. Chocolate brown hair delicately curled over her left shoulder and dark brown eyes.
"Hello. I'm… Oh, Gods!" He was there. He was fucking behind her. Breath, Annabeth, breath.
"Umm…" The Reyna girl tried to interrupt me, but I was just staring at him. At Percy. At my boyfriend.
I got ran to him. We were looking right at each other. The moment I've been waiting for. And what did I do? I slapped him. Oh, yes, I did. I slapped him again this time harder. Tears were falling from my eyes. I started crying more… He just stayed there. Looking at me. Directly at me. Doing nothing. Absolutely nothing.
"How can you do that to me…" I whispered, but I continued to hit him. I was breaking down. Breaking down slowly…
"Hey, Annabeth stop!" I heard him say taking my hands in his. "Wise girl…" And I did. I stopped. To hear this from his mouth, in this fucking moment meant a lot. He pulled me closer, put one of his hands around my waist, raised my chin and I fell for his eyes. His beautiful green eyes. And he kissed me. GODS, HE KISSED ME. I…I…I was speechless. I felt… incredible!
"Percy…"
"Shhhh…"He said pointing that everyone was looking at us and smiling.
Awkward.
I saw Jason walking out of the ship, smiling and grinning like a full-time idiot.
"Howdy, guys. Guess who's back!" Jason said in a sarcastic tone.
Piper and Leo appeared too.
"Anyone else?" Reyna asked.
"Nope. Only us 4." Jason said hugging her.
"We missed you." I heard Reyna say in a low voice. Then she raised Jason's hand and exclaimed:
"JASON GRACE, EVERYBODY! Welcome home!"
"JASON!JASON!" Everyone started clapping and repeating his name.
Percy let my hand and went close to him.
"Nice to meet you. I heard alooot bout you." He said.
"Yeah, me too. Some people can't really keep their mouth shut." Jason laughed shaking Percy's hand and looking at me.
"I don't know who can't keep their mouth shut now." I thought to myself, slightly blushing.
"Okay so again welcome to Camp Jupiter. We probably should talk about the things which you're here for, but I think we should give you a couple hours to just look around and do something else." Reyna said slightly marking the words "do something else" and smiling a bit.
"We'll meet here in about five hours. Be sure to…"
She was interrupted by a very, very bright light which made me close my eyes.
"Annabeth?" Percy said removing my hand from my eyes and smiling. "It's okay."
"What happened?" Piper asked curiously.
I noticed that Reyna was standing there, looking a little bit nervous through us.
"What's wrong?" I asked as I turned around.
