Percy:

I walked into school the next day. Rachel was waiting at my locker but I had been expecting that.

"Why are you such a jerk?" she asked. First you ignore my texts for hours then you text to tell me to shut up?" This was news to me.

After showing up late to my house soaking wet and having skipped school I had gotten into a little trouble. Just a little. Mom took my phone... for a month! And Paul had decided to text some of my friends. Annabeth didn't show up to school today and since she already hates me I really hope Paul didn't send her anything. I had to spend homeroom explaining my phone issue to a hand full of my friends that had gotten messages.

As soon as I got in the lunch room Piper raced up to me. "A. your an idiot! B. Why didn't you tell me you liked somebody?" she asked me. This was the first time she had had time to talk to me all day.

"Why am I an idiot?" I asked totally ignoring her question. Piper was always trying to set people up and I didn't want her doing that, especially since the two people I liked were two of her best friends. Yeah telling Piper would be a bad idea.

"Nevermind why your an idiot it's none of your business. But why didn't you tell me before you decided to date Rachel?" Piper sounded both hurt and accusatory. I wondered why. I mean the hurt was probably meant as a joke but...

I shrugged and sat down at my usual spot at the table. Our whole group squeezed around one large round table everyday. I wondered again why Annabeth wasn't at school when I saw Luke sitting across from me instead of her. Next to me was Frank and next to me on the right sat Rachel.

Rachel looked up and smiled as I sat down and everyone started peppering me with questions that I did my best to avoid. Then I noticed Thalia looking down on her phone and not paying attention to the conversation at all. She looked at Piper before telling me she was talking to Annabeth. Then she started gathering up her stuff and stood up.

"Where you going Thals?" Luke asked her.

"I'm going to go talk to Annabeth. She sounds... upset," Thalia told him before quickly rushing off.

Annabeth:

I woke up around 11ish to find the house empty. Last night I had shut off my alarm. If dad had been ho.e it wouldn't have made a difference but he had been on vacation for a week and wouldn't be home until tomorrow. My step-mother could care less if I made it to school so noone woke me up to make me go to school. I knew I'd regret it later but I didn't want to see Percy and Rachel together.

I took a shower and got dressed. Then I checked my phone for messages. I had two. From Percy. "Good morning gorgeus!" It said. The next one asked me if I was free Saturday.

I assumed he had simply texted the wrong person. I texted Thals. I told her about the messages he sent. I did this before realizing that unlike me she was probably at school. Thankfully it was lunch time. I was only half surprised when she showed up on my doorstep twenty minutes later.

She explained what happened with Percy's phone. I was surprised when Percy showed up. He asked me about why I hadn't been in school and I told him I was sick. He didn't seem to believe me but he let it go. He wanted to know what his step-dad had sent me so I showed him because it's not like it could hurt anything.

As soon as he saw them he turned red. Bright red. He took a step back, tripped over a cord, and landed flat on his face. It was funny and I let out a little snort.Percy looked up at me. staring right into my eyes. I felt a jolt of something. I turned away from him and as I did there was something I saw in his eyes. When I turned aroiaroind it was gone and had been replaced by his regular twinkle as if he were debating whether he should cause some mischief or not.

He was distracting me again. I was glad Piper wasn't here to tell me I was staring. "Are you going to lay there all day or do you plan on getting up sometime today?" I asked harshly. His eyes flashed quickly with hurt but Percy quickly shoved it down.

"I'll get up sometime today," he said slowly.

"Percy," Thalia said shooting me an evil grin. "Annabeth would prefer it if you stayed here all day. And all night," I felt my face growing red but all Percy did was force hihis fake smile to grow wider.

Then my phone rang. It was Percy. Well I guess it was his step dad. "Hello is this Percy's girlfriend Annabeth?" a voice asked.

"Grover!" Percy yelled from the carpet.

"I'll take that as a yes!" his friend Grover said. "I'm down here for a week so you better have her meet me. Your first girlfriend and I missed you asking her out!" he continued.

I was blushing but I didn't think Percy noticed. He was to busy pulling the hood down on his sweater to hide his own face which was so red he could blend in with a strawberry patch. All he would have to do is dye his hair green.

"Grover," he said in a strained voice, "this isn't my girlfriend!"

"Oh so this must be the other one you like! The me-" Grover started to say but Percy cut him off.

"Grover? How's Juniper?" Percy asked with a smile.

"Sh-sh-Sh-sh-she i-is f-f-f-f," Grover started slowly stuttering out a sentence. Percy ran out the door looking back with a sheepish grin and at the rate Grover was talking Percy would be home before the sentence was done.

For a second she smiled at the hilarious scene that just happened but then she thought about it. If she was the other one Percy liked then she was "the mean one" because she was sure that's what he had been about to say. Sure she was a little mean but she didn't want to be described to strangers that way! But even that couldn't keep her upset. Percy liked her!

She was ready for school tomorrow even if it was going to be awkward.

A/N

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