We walked back to the dorms and we all rushed in. All of us were frantic and Jeremy looked liked he was on the verge of fainting. Andrew's face was drained of his blood and Sam looked dumbfounded, which have almost never happened.
Mr. McKenzie, the President, and Silena were pacing around, worrying about what to do about this whole mess.
Flashback
I instantly let go of Annabeth and try to run forward to grab Reporter Jim's camera. He whipped it away from me so that it was out of my reach. Although, other reporters were there now, capturing every scene.
I turned back and nodded at Annabeth. She nodded back and fled to go tell A.J what had happened. Even though other reporters were there, I was pretty sure that Reporter Jim was the only one that took the picture of Annabeth and I kissing.
"I hope that this makes the front page," he yelled excitedly. I gave him a hard glare, but he didn't change his mind, nor budge.
"Reporter Jim, please give that back. It's our personal lives and it'd be really great if you could just let it go." I try to reason with him, but my my teeth were gritted. Reporter Jim did not look convinced.
"Sorry, Percy. Even though you're the lead singer of the band A.J, I don't think that I'll be able to do that. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go." He walked away, leaving me there, wondering what to do.
End of Flashback
When we told the other members they weren't looking so good. And just when JAS and A.J were almost getting along.
"This will make the first page!" Mr. McKenzie yelled, worried for his life. No one disagreed, but I wished that someone did.
"This is not good. Percy, what were you doing with my sister?" Andrew asked. I blushed. Annabeth and I had only said that we were hanging out with each other, but if this goes public, Andrew would have a reason to hate me.
"It was nothing," we both cried in unison. Our faces were flushed with red and I wanted to disappear.
"But it won't matter anymore, guys," Sam said. "If this goes public, it doesn't matter what you guys did, so you might as well tell us right now." I met Annabeth's eyes, but she nodded.
"We kissed." They didn't look too surprised, but they weren't happy about it.
"Well, what's going to happen when everyone finds out?" Jeremy asked. The President shook his head.
"We won't be able to avoid it. Let's just brace ourselves."
"But," Jeremy continued, "they'll say that Percy doesn't care about meeting JAS or that he stole Sam's girlfriend, or that right after Rachel, he got himself another girl, or that-"
"JEREMY!" everyone yelled. He immediately shut up and smiled cheekily.
"Anyway, let's just brace it."
After a while, everyone decided to go home or go to sleep. I completely forgot about Rachel being there. She walked up to me while the others were about to go to their bedroom.
"What do you want?" I ask her, harshly.
"Nothing. Just, what are you going to do when all this comes out?"
"If. If it comes out." She looked at me like I was kidding. And I know that I was.
"Seriously, Percy. Though, I do have a plan."
"And what is that?" And she whispered her plan into my ear.
When I got back into my room, Annabeth was already there, standing by the my desk and staring at the things that I had collected. I walked over and reached for her hand, squeezing it gently.
"Don't worry. Nothing bad will happen," I whisper in her ear. She squeezed my hand reassuringly.
"I'm just worried about you. What's going to happen. The press and everyone thinks that I was dating Sam. Even though it's been two years since we 'broke up,' I don't think that they'll go easy on us." There was a bit of sadness in her voice and I couldn't help but want to hug her.
"Don't worry. I'll be fine. It's you, you should be worrying about. Not me. Don't worry." I clenched her hand once more and let her continue to look at the stuff on my desk.
"You know," I started, "when you were in Europe, I collected every single letter that you sent. I didn't even throw them away. None of them." She turned around surprised.
"What?" I nodded, embarrassed.
"Yeah." I reached over and picked up a letter from my desk. I opened it up from it's envelope, took the letter out, and read it out loud.
"'Dear Percy,
I feel really nice here in Europe! Everyone that I've met is nice to me and Andrew really picked a good class. The professor already chose me as his apprentice! How cool is that! Also, I got to visit Colosseum, and then, the Roman Forum, Trajan's Column, Circus Maximus, the Arch of Constantine, the Pyramid of Cestius, and The Bocca della Verita. Of course I didn't go to all these places in one day, but I went with a friend of Andrew's. We traveled to all these places and I had an amazing time. I hope that one day, if you aren't busy, that we'll be able to come here and enjoy the day together. I really miss you and everytime I look up at the stars, I think of you.
Love,
Annabeth Chase."
I smiled as the letter ended and Annabeth smiled as well.
"I can't believe that you collected all of these and didn't throw them away. That's...amazing." I chuckle and walked over to the telescope that was peering out the balcony. It was pointing towards the sky and the stars twinkled.
"Remember when I said that we would watch the stars together?" She nodded. It had been a terrible day. It took two years later to actually watch the stars with her. "Well, every night, I would take around ten minutes out of my schedule and gaze at the stars. When you said in your letter that you remember me when you look at the stars, I was thinking the same thing."
There was a small twinkle in her eyes and I smiled as her beautiful face was framed by her long, curly hair. It took me a while to take in all the changes about Annabeth. Her personality had changed a little. To an immature girl, to a wise woman. I adored her.
"Thanks, Percy," she said back. She walked over and looked through the telescope with me.
"Hey, don't hog the telescope!" I teased her. She smiled.
"Well, don't be such a Seaweedbrain!" she called back. My mouth dropped open.
"D-did you just call me a Seaweedbrain?" She nodded, still staring through the telescope.
"Yup." My eyes widened.
"Jeremy called me that name two years ago, at the big concert. Were you the one who said it?" She looked back up at me surprised.
"He did? Well, I did say it first." I wrapped my arms around her like I was a bear, and lifted her up. She let out a scream. "Percy! Let me down!"
"Nope! You called me a Seaweedbrain! I need to give you a new nickname now, too!" She laughed.
"What's wrong with Pig-Rabbit?"
"It's what you were two years ago. Now, you're Wisegirl!" She laughed.
"Wisegirl?"
"Lame, I know. But you've really grown." She was still in my arms and I let her down. She stared up at me with her eyes glittering.
She smiled at me and I remembered the quote that she had told me.
"I didn't know you had the guts to know what love feels like." It was if she was telling me the same thing right now.
"You know what?" I ask her. She shrugged.
"What?"
"I was wondering about the future." Annabeth looked up at me confused.
"The future?" I nodded.
"Yup. And what's going to happen." I walked over to my bed and sat down. Then, gestured Annabeth to sit down next to me. She walked over and listened. "When I was younger, I've always wondered about what will happen in the future. When I was thirteen, I got signed with A.J Entertainment. I didn't know that we'd get this popular. However, I've always hidden myself. I didn't want anything to do with Sam or Jeremy, but they really grew on me. They were my only friends and I didn't want to let that slip away.
"When I met you...I seriously thought that you were a man." That earned a chuckle from Annabeth. "But after a while, I noticed how determined you are. And then, the next thing I knew, you were growing on me." I blushed. "You didn't give up and you didn't let anything bring you down. You don't know how much you've changed me. Everytime I was with you, I felt the need to become more professional, since you make me feel really weird." Annabeth was laughing at this point and it was not making me feel any better.
"You are NOT making this easy for me," I told her. Annabeth smiled.
"I'm never going to make it easy for you, Seaweedbrain. Get use to it." I smiled along with her and continued.
"I've never really told you about my past, have I?" I ask her. She shook her head.
"No. All I really know is that your mom died in a fire. Your dad got married to Adeline Regan, but he died as well. And now, you have your step-mother, who was almost my step-mother. That would've been weird."
"That was exactly like how I was going to put it." When I stood up to stretch my legs, Annabeth lie down on my bed and closed her eyes. I knew that she was tired and I wanted to make sure that she had enough sleep. Today was a busy day and I was positive that she needed the rest.
"Goodnight, Annabeth," I told her. She let out a small voice.
"Night, Percy." I walked over to the door and turned off the light switches. I got back to the bed and slid in next to Annabeth. There was a strand of hair that was in front of her face, so I pushed it away and behind her ear.
"Goodnight, Annabeth."
Annabeth's POV
I woke up the next day and found that Percy had already gotten out of bed. I slowly got up and groggily walked over to the bathroom, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair, got a change of clothes, and back out.
I decided to see if the other three were awake and saw that they were all in the living room. There was a newspaper in the center of a coffee table. A sinking feeling took over me. It must be the newspaper about Percy and I.
I was reluctant to pick up the newspaper and read it, but I did anyways.
~Are The Angels Really Angels?~
Just last night, Percy Jackson, of the popular band, A.J, was found with his bandmate's ex-girlfriend, Annabeth Chase. They were found in front of each other, what seems to be like kissing.
There was more to the newspaper, but I decided not to read it. At the top, there was a picture of Percy and I, kissing. You could barely see my face, but it was definitely Percy. I bit my lip and looked at the other members. They were just like me, anxious and doubtful. They didn't know what to do.
"I'm sorry, guys," I tell them. They turn to me and shook their heads.
"Don't worry," Sam said.
"Yeah, it's not your fault," Andrew agreed.
Jeremy nodded. "Right. It was Percy's fault!" Percy looked offended.
"Hey!" But he reconsidered it. "It wasn't Annabeth's fault, though."
I nodded, but I still felt like it was all my wrong doing. I felt responsible for the bad things that are now happening to A.J.
Suddenly, there was a ring at the door. I walked to the door and opened it, shocked at who I was was looking at.
"Hey," Jase called.
"What's up?" Aiden said.
"Dude, today is HOT!" Shane yelled. The A.J members were just as surprised and walked over to greet the guests.
"What are you guys doing here?" Percy asked them. They held up another copy of the newspaper.
"This." I looked down at my shoes and Percy turned bright red.
"Sorry, dude," he apologized. But they disagreed.
"No, man. It's cool. We actually came here to help." I looked at him like he fell from the moon.
"Help?" All three of them nodded.
Aiden said, "We were informed by Rachel of this plan that could help you guys. But, in order to do that, I would need you guys to cooperate and tell us everything there is to this story."
I thought about it. A.J was making a huge gamble. There was a chance that we couldn't trust JAS and they might just go blabbing everything. It could ruin A.J.
But what other choices did we have.
The members of A.J looked at each other with skeptical eyes. Then, they came to a silent agreement.
"We have a deal."
I'm soooo sorry for not updating quicker. I've been reading the Mark of Athena and I could just NOT put it down! Anyways, thank you for reading!
