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SO…on with the story.

I ran my palm along the trunk of the tree, a painful reminder of the past Thalia and I shared. Some things never change… but some things do and not always for the better. As soon as this insanely philosophical thought crossed my mind I kicked the tree, to bad I was wearing flip flops…yeah, Newton's third law came into play and I ended hopping on one foot holding the other. That seriously didn't do anything to make me feel better.

Limping I exited the place where I was hurt, both emotionally and physically. I walked painfully a few yards but then the frustration I was feeling overwhelmed me and I started running ignoring the pain that streaked through my right leg every time I landed on it.

I was sick. Sick of being the one who never got his girl. Sick of being left behind. Sick of being a worthy friend but never good enough to be dated. Sick of waiting…

I ignored my surroundings, ignored the stares I was getting from people, ignored the pedestrians' angry yells every time I bumped into them, ignored the honking of cars when they had to screech to a stop every time I crossed the road without bothering to watch out for oncoming traffic.

I was breathing hard, on the verge of passing out from exhaustion but kept going. Anything is better than this.

And I came to a stop only when a car rammed into me as I was crossing the street to my home.

"Oh gods, I'm so sorry." came a girl's voice

I looked up, squinted, trying to get a better view of my culprit.

Who the fuck is trying to kill me when I'm already dying?

A girl stepped out of the car. She was young, probably my age, wearing a T-shirt and jeans. As my eyesight cleared I realized she was really pretty. Blonde, curly hair, slight tan, perfectly light pink lips and absolutely devoid of make-up.

"Are you alright?" she inquired, tucking her hair behind her ear.

"Yeah…I guess."

She held out her hand, I took it and she pulled me up.

When I was in the same plane as she was I got a better look at her face and an involuntary gasp escaped from my mouth.

She had the most amazing, intimidating, gorgeous, scary stormy gray eyes I had ever seen.

I couldn't break out of my trance no matter how much I tried. There was something about her eyes that captivated me, holding me prisoner right where I was standing.

"Stop drooling like an idiot." she finally said.

What?

OK, it was my fault for staring at her. Really rude I know, but I was too darn upset with my own problems that I couldn't help but snap back at her.

"Really nice…You almost ran your car over me and rather than apologizing you insult me."

"Hey, I apologized."

"Sitting in the car, not even knowing who your victim is and not meaning what you say doesn't constitute an apology. I'm sure that's what you would say even if you ran over a mouse who is innocently trying to cross the road"

"Excuse me, you were the one who jumped in front of my car!"

Her voice was slowly increasing in volume and judging by her expression I could see she was close to hitting me.

Go ahead, call me stupid but the next thing I did would put a four-year old to shame.

I bent down, picked up a rock and flung it at her car's windshield. Quite obviously it shattered at the impact and then showing impossibly high levels of maturity I stuck my tongue out at her, crossed my arms across my chest giving her my signature look which says 'your turn, moron'.[AN: In my case she was actually on a bicycle and I punctured it.]

"You actually didn't do that." she screamed in fury.

Being a smartass that I am I walked over to her car, touched a piece of glass hanging from her damaged windshield (which fell on contact) and then said, "Apparently I did."

She growled once and popped open her trunk taking out a baseball bat.[AN: She used her badminton racquet]

Holy shit.

I tried to run but moving impossibly fast she grabbed my shirt and threw me on the ground. Then she raised the bat over her head.

Before blacking out from the pain, I heard a concerned (and possibly amused) yell-

"PERCY"

Ah, my best friend Grover will avenge my death.

With this comforting thought in my mind I smiled slightly before darkness consumed me.

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