Annabeth's POV
The sound of her heels clicking on the floor was all that Annabeth could hear. With her luggage in tow, she stomped her way over to the elevator, avoiding eye contact with any coworker's -ahem- ex-coworkers.
Fired? She thought angrily, what do you mean fired?
Riding in the taxi back to her apartment, Annabeth tried to stay calm and figure out her next step.
Obviously I'm going to need a new job. Next rent isn't for another couple weeks and I still have some money saved up for necessities- Annabeth's ring tone broke her train of thought. She fished out her phone and answered immediately.
"Piper!" Annabeth answered, happy to hear a friendly voice.
"Hey girlie are you free tonight? My boss is letting me leave early."
"My boss is letting me leave early too! And by leave early I mean I was fired…"
"Fired? What do you mean fired? I thought you said this was the one?!"
"Gods, you make it sound like I just got dumped. And yeah, I thought this job was gonna last me well into my career… but I guess not…" Annabeth said sighing.
"Did they say why?" Piper said as Annabeth paid the taxi driver upon arrival to her apartment.
"Just some bullshit reasons, but I know they found someone new. I could see the name on the computer screen as he was firing me. " Annabeth said followed by a long sigh. "Whatever though, I'm tired and I don't care anymore"
"Well, wanna do a girls night? I can be at your place with Chinese food in 20?" Piper said enthusiastically.
"Sounds good, you can spend the night if you want to, I'll see you then!" Annabeth said walking into the apartment building. She hung up, and dragged her feet over to the elevator. As she headed up to her floor, her mind raced with all the 'what ifs'. It was hard to believe she lost her job, especially considering she had never been fired before. What was she gonna do? Landing any job now would be harder, having to explain why she was laid off. What if she couldn't afford her rent with whatever job she had to get? What if she didn't get a new job? She tried to push the horrifying thoughts from her head, but they lingered like a headache.
She unlocked her apartment door; collapsing on the couch, face first into the pillows. After sitting like that for some time, she decided to take a quick shower before Piper showed up, so she unlocked the door and headed towards the bathroom. She stepped out of her work clothes, and started the shower, and plugged her phone into the speaker, turning on a random play list and stepped into the shower.
It felt like hours sitting in the shower thinking about where to go from here, when she figured it had been long enough that Piper was probably here. She stepped out, wrapped in a towel and headed towards the kitchen to tell her she would just be a second longer.
She walked into the kitchen to see Piper with a big bag of Chinese, accompanied by Percy and his roommate. All of them stared at her, stood in the hallway opening wearing just a towel.
"Hey Annie, I ran into these guys in the elevator and invited them to join us…" Piper said avoiding eye contact with Annabeth. Annabeth made a slightly obvious coughing noise and headed back towards her bedroom, hearing 'I'll be right back' followed by rushed footsteps from Piper.
"Piper what the hell?" Annabeth said whispering to avoid them hearing.
"Well, I bought more than enough, and they seem nice enough, and Jason is kind of cute, and I thought with the whole job thing maybe you'd like this.." Piper said quickly, before being cut off.
"Its fine, okay. Just not the introduction into my apartment I wanted to give them.." She said sighing. I'll be out in a sec, just let me change and do something with my hair."
"Perfect!" Piper said slipping back into the hallway.
After changing and drying her hair in record time, Annabeth walked back out to join the group for food.
"Hey sorry about that, we didn't kno-" Percy started to say.
"No its cool, just a surprise is all" Annabeth said playing it off with a smile. She dug into the chicken and broccoli, the others served themselves and they sat around the TV looking for a movie.
"So Annabeth, Piper kinda told us about your job, sorry to hear that." Jason said stabbing a piece of chicken.
"Yeah, not the ideal Friday I was hoping for, but what are you gonna do?" She said flipping the channel to the Avengers.
"Well there are other jobs out there, you are an architect right?" Jason replied.
"Yeah, its just hard to find a good firm to work for, most companies aren't looking for independent architects." Annabeth said
"I don't know if this is being blunt, but my company is looking for an architect to help expand a few of our offices.. I could look at your resume, get my people interested. I am the CEO, after all. I could get you the job." Percy blurted out. Annabeth looked over wide-eyed. Of all the people to offer her a job, it was Percy Jackson. All within a few seconds, she considered the offer. It would be working with him, but it would be a job. No doubt it would be more than enough pay, it was a fourtune-500 company after all. But would it be worth it?
"Really?" was all that came out of her mouth, though.
"Yeah, I would be happy to help you out, I mean, I've seen your work, this buildings amazing!" Percy said smiling, making my judgment fuzzy for a second. She hadn't realized how cute he was, she had been to focused on his title. Maybe he wasn't as stuck up as she thought?
She shook the silly thoughts from her head, and tried to think logically again.
"Sure, I can't thank you enough. I can get you the resume by the end of tonight!" Annabeth said smiling.
"Yeah, that's perfect! I can probably get you an answer by Wednesday at the latest." Percy said, smiling back.
They finished the movie late, and the two boys said goodnight and thanked Annabeth and Piper for the food. Annabeth gave Percy one of the copies of her resume, and they left. As soon as the door closed Piper would not shut up about Jason.
"I don't know, I think he's really cute, and I think he was flirting with me during the movie, but I don't know, Annabeth what do you think?" She said excitedly.
"I think you need to go to sleep, and so do I." Annabeth said laughing.
"Yeah probably…" Piper said laughing along. We both set up in my bedroom, and Annabeth was out like a light, a million dreams floating around in her mind.
And that's a wrap for Chapter two! Thank you all for being so patient with me, things changed, but I will hopefully be writing on a better schedule from now on! Thanksgiving is coming up so I hope to get a chapter out before then as a little gift to you all! Thanks for the hearts and follows, more to come!
