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Percy Jackson's Point of View

Oh my gods, oh my gods. The one and only Annabeth Chase is smiling at me, and asking me if she could sit with ME! What am I gonna do, what am I gonna do? My mouth was hanging open in shock. Her? Asking me? If she could sit next to me?

I was sweating bullets, and Annabeth noticed this. She grinned and offered, "Hey, I have a portable fan powered by batteries. Do u want to borrow it? You look really uncomfortable and sweaty." I snapped my mouth shut.

"Uhh, no thanks. I'm fine." I replied nervously. "Oh, and uhh sure. You can sit here. If you really want to." She sat down, and shot me a disbelieving look. "Why wouldn't i want to sit with you?" she questioned.

My eyebrows flew up. "I-I uhh, d-don't know." I stuttered. "Maybe because I'm an unpopular new loser, while you are the prettiest, nicest, most popular girl at Half Blood High?" I blurted out.

She grinned. My cheeks were burning. "I don't know about pretty, but I guess I am pretty nice and popular. And you're not a loser. Besides, you helped me at the park, remember?"

I nodded nervously. "Yeah, I guess."

She started eating her lunch, and then spit it out. "Yuck! What's in this stuff? This is the first time I'm eating the school food. I wish that somebody told me how bad this was, it looked so harmless and innocent before." I grinned, and suddenly, things didn't seem so awkward for me anymore. We had a similarity!

"So, you haven't had school food before," I questioned. "Well, yeah." She shrugged, and continued. "My parents used to pack me food all the time." She took in another breath as if to continue, but for some reason, didn't.

Typical Princess, I thought. Then I wondered why she doesn't have home lunch anymore, so I asked her why.

She took a deep breath and exhaled. "Well, I..." She bit her lip.

I cocked my head to the side and questioned, "What's wrong?" She tensed.

"Uhh, I would prefer not to talk about that." She said, looking uncomfortable.

"Oh, umm sure." I murmured.

Annabeth regained her composure. "Okay, so tell me a bit about your life, friend."

I tensed, hearing the word "friend", and replied, trying to look calm and not to jittery about the fact that she called me her FRIEND! She probably thinks that everybody is her friend, since she is so nice to everyone, I reminded myself.

"So, my mom works at a candy shop. And my dad, well, my biological one was on a ship, a wave overtook him, and he, well, disappeared. They never found the body."

Annabeth opened her mouth to speak, and then closed it again.

Then she opened it again. "I'm so sorry to hear that..." she whispered.

I gave her a weak smile. "It's life, you know. Never easy." She nodded, her grey eyes huge.

We then changed the topic, thinking it was way too depressing, and talked about other stuff. Oh you know, stuff like how Travis set the math teacher's pants on fire again. That was hilarious.

We exchanged stories, and later on, numbers.

She beamed at me, and said, "I'll text you tonight!" and the bell rang.

We all rushed to get our backpacks and went to class.

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Annabeth's Point of View (Yay!)

Percy was so nice, and sweet! I don't get why he was so nervous. I mean, I'm just a typical girl at our school.

I talked about all my worries, dreams, and confusions to my best friend, Thalia.

She just rolled her eyes. "Girl, you are NOT a typical girl. Have you not seen how boys drooled over watching you flip your hair? Or how you're so nice and generous compared to everyone else? And how pretty you are?"

Then she smirked. "Of course you didn't. You were too busy studying." She snorted.

Thalia was an awesome girl who was 100% honest, whether the person wanted to hear it or not. And she had black, spiky hair, with electric blue eyes so striking, you feel them penetrating into your soul.

She also hated boys. Even though any boy at this school would kill to be with her. At least, that was what I heard.

"Oh, umm okay?" I replied uneasily. Honestly, my blonde hair always frustrated me, people thought that I was a no-good Californian girl who just went around looking pretty, and having loads of makeup, and nah nah nah... And my boring grey eyes. I mean, compared to Thalia's, they just melted into the darkness.

I kept thinking about all my flaws until Thalia said something, breaking the silence.

"Annabeth, face the facts. That boy LIKES you. So what are you gonna do about it?" she questioned. I honestly didn't know.

Just taking in the fact that the adorable, sweet boy with sea green eyes liked me was... I don't know... crazy? I mean, all the other boys (who apparently liked me, according to Thalia) were like, ehh, but Percy was like, so hot and fun to talk to.

"Well?" Thalia asked, breaking my train of thought. "I don't know," I honestly replied to her.

She stared at me, looking for any signs of lies or discomfort. Finding none, she sighed.

"Well, you gonna have to do something about it, or that guy's gonna leave thinking that you don't like him, rejected, and never talk to you again."

I looked at her, bewildered. Was that true? I didn't know what to think.

Well, for now, he was my friend. I might try to get him to confess later on, and I can as well.

I keep thinking about this until one particular thought pops into my mind. Do I really like him? As a crush? And I just froze.

Do I? Or is this just another one of my fairytales that I am dreaming up that will never come true? I don't want this to turn into another dilemma like with Luke.

Me: And there you have it! Your third chapter! I'm sorry it wasn't very long, I just had to update. You guys really deserve it, for sticking with my story. Don't forget to review, but please, no hate!