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Chapter 3

"ANNABETH!!! GET YOUR FREAKING LETTER!!!"

Ugh. Melissa had been PMS-ing all week… Which means Annabeth is not happy. I ran swiftly down the stairs and snatched the letter from her hands, returned to my room. I opened it deftly.

Dear Annabeth,

You know that I haven't seen Grover since the battle in Manhattan? I haven't seen Thalia or Nico, either, for that matter. Do you still talk to any of them? I wonder what they're up to…

Wow. A library. Well, read your heart out.

Well, about that… I'm not exactly moving in by myself… um… yeah.

My parents are good. I probably don't need to tell you about Poseidon, since you see him more than I do. Mom is good. It's so weird, because she just had a kid too! I guess I can call myself Big Brother now. It's a boy (thank goodness), his name's Eric. Paul is cool with the whole demigod thing, though it's all pretty much over now. He's still pretty jealous about the whole thing with Poseidon, but…

Parents will be parents, I guess.

Your Seaweed Brain 4ever,

Percy

I reread a certain line over and over. I'm not exactly moving in by myself…" What the hell was that supposed to mean?

Oh my gods.

Does he have a GIRLFRIEND?

Oh my gods, oh my gods, OH MY FREAKING GODS.

Thunder rumbled.

"Sorry! Scratch that." I muttered under my breath.

The thought of the words "girlfriend" and "Percy" in a sentence together was pretty hard to believe. Tears started welling up in my eyes. He loves someone else…

But he signed it "Your Seaweed Brain 4ever". Is that supposed to mean something? Or is it just a mindless farewell he'd put down there?

Shut up, Annabeth. I scolded. He broke your heart, remember?

Well, yes, but it wasn't necessarily his fault! I argued with myself.

That annoying, pessimistic voice in my head kept going off. He apologized. That's all he did. He didn't break up with Amber to be with you.

SHUT UP!!!!

I drummed my fingers on the desk. Why does life have to be so complicated? UGH. Life was so much simpler when boys had cooties.

You love Percy, you love Percy, that aggravating voice teased.

I clenched my fists. Then I relaxed, and sat down on a beanbag with a plop.

What had happened after I saw Percy and Amber in the woods? I started to remember…

I ran to my cabin. Everything was blurred because of the tears streaming down my face. I didn't even remember breaking down on my bed, but I found myself surrounded by my bedspread. I felt my siblings' eyes on me, pitying, but I didn't care. Someone put a box of tissues next to my hand, and soon I was surrounded with a pile of the scrunched up paper. After I felt like I could cry no more, I sat up, and walked myself out of Cabin number 6, and to the cabin facing the water, as if in a daze. I knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" I heard Percy's voice through the door.

"It's me."

The door opened barely a second after I said that. Percy's eyes lit up, like I was some Christmas present he'd been waiting so long to open. "Annabeth!!! We need to talk."

I just stared blankly at him.

"Well, what you saw in the woods wasn't my fault at all. She threw herself at me," he rambled, words tripping over one another. "You're the only one I really love, Annabeth, and…" He stopped. "You aren't listening, are you?"

I shook my head.

"Oh. Just say something, please."

"Something."

"Annabeth. Will you ever forgive me?"

I looked at his face. We'd been through so many adventures together, and I'd come to love those piercing green eyes. Those lying, cheating, no good, scumbag green eyes…

I slapped him.

His face fell, and straightened up. "Well if that's the way you want it."

I felt rage bubble up inside of me. I wanted to scream at him, to hit him, to make him sorry he was born.

But I just turned around and started walking toward my cabin.

Then I stopped.

I swiveled to face Percy again.

"Percy? I just want you to know one thing."

"What is it?"

I stuck my middle finger at him.

Percy seemed devastated.

I smiled for the first time in days.

Oh yeah. I was a little… out of control back then, wasn't I?

"Annabeth? Why do you keep zoning out all of the sudden these days?"

Melissa had snuck up to where I was sitting on the beanbag.

"It's, uh, about… Percy…" I grimaced.

Melissa moved closer. "Ooh, now I'm interesting."

I sighed, and told her what the letter said, and finally about the day we'd broken up.

When I was finished, my roommate had actual tears in her eyes. "That was like something on a soap opera…"

"I know. And let's not talk about it anymore, okay?"

"Sure. But you have to write him a reply."

Oh yeah. I looked over his letter. "Right."

I read one line over and over again. I grimaced, took out a fresh sheet of paper.

A/N- Ack!!! I haven't updated in, like, a year. Whoops!!! Oh well. I'm just super busy these days. I was also working on a little Thuke story… it'll probably be up in a day or two.

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