The Life and Times of Percy & Annabeth
(one lifetime, one love)
3. All Grown Up
Sally Jackson had never felt so sad and happy at the same time.
It was overwhemling; this mixture of feelings. To be so happy she could jump up with joy and yet sad enough to want to cry.
How? How had this happened all so quickly?
It was bound to. He was growing up, he was soon going to be out of high school, out of the apartment, out of her life busy leading his own.
But he'd always be in her heart, and, no doubt, would she be in his. But she had learned that she had to share his heart now.
It was so strange seeing him smile as he ate breakfast right across the table from her and know that his smile was from a special feeling, one feeling she had experienced a couple of times in her life.
It was so strange seeing him stroll into the house whistling for no reason, laughing in spite of nothing, being so joyous just on the thought of someone else.
It was so strange watching him race to the home phone, everytime it rang, and the look that sprung on his face when it was the person he had been waiting for to call.
And the way he could spend hours talking in his room on the phone with this person made her heart ache.
Maybe she had figured it out, at night when she came ot check up on him and hear him mutter one name, one name that now meant the world to him.
It was made her sad to think that now his secrets were not told to her, but whispered to another girl, who now held his heart's full attention.
It made her want to cry when she thought of him saying 'I love you', not just to her anymore, but to this girl.
It made her feel heart broken when she realized that he would no longer be running to her for hugs and kisses, but to his girlfriend.
It made her want to freeze time and hold her son for only a moment longer because now once he had fallen in love, she had realized how quickly he had grown up right before her very own eyes.
However, it made her happy to see her son so enchanted, so happy, so....in love.
She was thrilled to accept this girl as her daughter.
She screamed with joy on the inside when she saw the way the two of them looked at each other as though no one else in the world existed.
She was pleased - no, ecstatic- that he had found the one for him, the one who cared for him, the one who completed him.
She was even more ecstatic to know that the one very special person that was meant to be with him, the person who kept his full attention at every movement was none other than Annabeth Chase.
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