Hi everyone. I said I would try to update earlier than two weeks, so I had some free time and wrote the fourth chapter. I wanted to post this chapter since Wednesday but I didn't have my laptop yesterday, so I do now. I reread the last chapter and noticed that it was different from the others so, I'm continuing with Annabeth POV's for now. Try to make the best I can. Also, thanks everyone for your reviews that make me the happiest person on Earth and Underworld. Thank everyone that favored and followed and generally read the story too. Keep it up guys! Hope you like ;)

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4

Annabeth

So, my morning was so not how I had imagined it would be. First, I wake up naked with Percy. Who? Percy! Then, I find out that Percy and Beckendorf were building some freakin' wooden house and they didn't even bother to tell me! Who? Me! I'm the freakin' architect of Olympus and I could have helped them finish it in a day. But no, they had to keep it a secret so Percy would surprise me at some point. Although it would have been cute of Percy to do it, I don't think I like surprises that much. How do I know? Drinking led me to a morning blackout, only to find out that BOOM! Surprise! You have slept with your ex! Congratulations!

Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. After I find out Percy's little shelter –okay, I didn't find out, I woke up there- I realize I still have feelings for that stupid, stupid guy! Who is also sweet and funny and always there for me and cares about me more than I care for myself...

And I almost forgot about it, he's still in love with me. I know I should be jumping up and down because I have feelings for him too, but hey! I just can't help but feeling guilty about anything that happened about what? A year ago? A year and a half? Can't quite remember. You filthy, lying bitch. You know exactly how much time has passed. Fuck my subconscious. She doesn't know what she's been talking about. Don't push me lady. Either you will tell them how much time has passed or I will. Ha. Ha. Hilarious. I'm not falling for that subconscious. (Hehe, I won.) One year… Hey! Three months... Stop it! Sixteen days... STOP IT! I'M GONNA KILL YOU! You can't kill me you idiot. I'm your subconscious! I speak the truth! So, sixteen days... Okay, fine! You won. Bitchy subconscious... And about twelve hours.

-A year, six months, sixteen days and about twelve hours ago-

"Percy!" I yelled at him and he turned around with that smile that made those butterflies upset my stomach. Gosh, I miss that smile... Ugh... Sorry, got distracted. I was telling the story, right?

Right. As I was saying, he turned with that gorgeous smile and paced to me. "Hello my beautiful Wise Girl." He smirked and kissed me. Ugh, good times... Sorry, got distracted again. It must have been the hangover. "What's up?"

I was thrilled with the news I had just learned and the only person I wanted to tell them was him. "I got accepted!"

He frowned confused but he was still smirking. "Got accepted to..?" he shook his head waiting for me to complete his phrase.

"To Yale!" I screamed super-excited.

His face filled with happiness. "Yale like the university?" I nodded grinning. "Annabeth, that's amazing!" he said and hugged me tightly. Oh, I can still smell his gorgeous smell. Damn, I began to get all dreamy and rainbows and unicorns.

"I know, right? I mean, I had sent an application form there but I never thought they'd choose me!" I was so happy that moment. I couldn't believe how lucky I was. And that's when karma said: "What? YOU'RE HAPPY? Fuck, what did I do wrong?!"

Percy gave me a wide grin but it started fading away, leaving nothing but just a smile. I looked at him worried. "Hey, what's wrong?" I asked him.

"Nothing." he shook his head and felt my cheek with the back of his hand.

"You know you can't fool me, right?" I said with the same worried tone. Of course he couldn't fool me. Still can't.

"Damn, why are you so smart? Couldn't you be born with a bit of dumber brain?" Percy asked.

"That just doesn't make any sense." I answered shaking my head.

He sighed and took my hand. "Come on, let's sit somewhere." We sat at a bench near the lake.

"Now, what's wrong? Aren't you happy about me?" I asked kinda scared. You could never be sure about that guy.

"Of course I am. I am like the happiest guy on Earth to hear that. It's just..." he started but he stopped.

"It's just what?" I asked. I knew what he was worried about. "You're afraid that I might forget about you?" I asked kinda shocked.

He broke our eye contact and looked at the ground. "It's stupid, isn't it?" he asked and smirked. "I'm afraid that you'll meet another guy there in Yale who is as smart as you are and might like him more than me." he explained to me. Dude, how I would like someone more than you?

I let a laugh out. "Percy," I tried to start but the whole thing seemed to me so damn cute and funny. "I could never like someone more than you. And yeah, I'll probably meet someone as smart as me, but I love you! Not them. And I wouldn't give away my Seaweed Brain for anything in the world." I answered him. I kissed his cheek and he gave me a real kiss. I grinned against his lips and he grinned back at mine as he deepened the kiss. Ugh, if I only had known what would happen the same day and three months later... I would have changed everything.

(-End of the retailing-)

Are you happy now? Can't imagine how. My subconscious answered. Oh, she's so gonna pay for this.

Anyway, I remembered all of the above while I was pretending to study a blueprint for Olympus. It was an Aphrodite's statue in the middle of a fountain that had benches around it just across a temple of Aphrodite. It was a place for the Olympian sweet hearts to do all these cheesy, Aphroditish stuff.

Oh, I hate her. She gave me Percy and then she somehow made him forget about me. Not forget, she made him walk away from me. I blame her for that after spending weeks blaming myself. And maybe it was my fault but I can't help but having that feeling. I know she believes in the whole tragic/dramatic, endless love thing but girl! Show me some mercy! You got me begging you for mercy, why won't you release me? I'm gonna kill my subconscious one day..

I put the blueprint away and started thinking what I had done in the morning. Percy had told me he was still in love with me and we kissed. Just like that other time a year ago. Only this time it was more intimate. I had actually told him the words: "Meet me tonight after dinner at your wooden cabin by the beach." And I had no idea what he understood. I just wanted to talk to him, to clear things out. CoughcoughLiar!coughCough. Now, as much as I hated it, she was right one more time. I didn't want to talk to him. Or maybe I did, but that wasn't the reason I told him to meet me at his wooden cabin –okay, I'm gonna refer to it as Percy's cabin No.2-.

"Hey you." Malcolm said from his bed. He had just woken up and his hair looked like a bird's nest. He didn't look any better either. Oh, I was so gonna use this against him one day. "I think Percy was looking for you in the morning. Did he found you?" Damn, if you only knew..

"Yeah, he did." I must have taken on my really thoughtful, serious face because he frowned and came where I sat.

"What's up with you?" he asked. Hail Malcolm, drunk-but-still-smart brother. "Wait, I thought that you and Percy didn't talk since, you know." he murmured confused.

Wait, he knew about that? I glared at him and practically cut him off before he could say anything else. "Know? No, I don't know. Know what?" I asked sort of panicked. If he knew about last night, I was so doomed. I could not even have a chance to use his appearance today against him.

"You know, since the two of you broke up." he finished.

I sighed in relief. "Gosh, Malcolm. Why didn't you say that earlier?" I asked trying not to sound too guilty.

"I tried but your sudden panicking cut me off." he murmured again. "So, are you?"

"What?"

"Talking to each other again?"

I didn't know what to answer to that. Actually, I knew but the "oh, you know! We just slept together that's why we're talking" wasn't really an option. Think of an excuse. "No, not really. We're just working together on something."

"Oh, okay." he said and got up and paced to the bathroom. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asked just before he enters the other room.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I asked almost cutting him off again.

"You seem.. different."

"Different how?" I asked. Please Aphrodite, I won't hate you anymore, please don't let him figure it out.

"Well first, there's this glow on your face. You're glowing."

"What?! I don't!" Damn you Jackson and your tequila.

"Whatever. And second, you seem distracted and you keep panicking for a while now." he answered and gave me his hangover-smirk.

"Oh, I'm just trying to remember some things of last night. I had a little bit too much drinks or something." A little? Nice saving though..

"Alright then. See you later." he said raising his shoulders and walked into the bathroom.

I sighed and started a monologue. "What the heck is wrong with me? I'm talking to my subconscious if that's even possible! I even fight with it."

"It seems to me you're starting to get a little crazy." a voice was heard behind me. I turned only to see a redheaded girl with cute freckles on her face crossing her arms at me and smirking. "Missed me Chase?"

I laughed in relief. "Rachel." I said and got up. I gave her a tight hug and she hugged me back.

"I guess that pretty much covers my question." she smirked at me.

"What are you doing here? I thought you were starting college or something."

"I did. But I used a fellow demigod's help to get away from there for a few days."

I grimaced. This girl was willing to do anything just to take an illegal ice cream in her room or something ridiculous like that. "Oh, gods. Who was it this time?"

"No smarty-panties! –See what I did with 'pants'?-. I asked Piper to ask very nicely the principal and he just gave me a few days 'off'." she explained.

I laughed and sat on my desk chair. "So, what's up with the mortal's world?" I asked trying to avoid any personal conversations. Rachel would get to me immediately –just like Thalia- if I tried to lie to her about last night. If Silena was here, they would be like the Aphrodite's angels: knowing everything about what you did last night.

"Nothing much, nothing new." she said and sat on my bed. "But you; I can sense something on your aura."

Here we go. It would be so much easier to admit everything. Rachel was worse than Aphrodite in this stuff. The reason? She was one of my closest friends. "No, everything is still the same. My aura is really confusing right now because of a few bottles of tequila." I played cool.

She raised her eyebrow. Man, I'm screwed. "You're glowing, which can only means one thing; you and Percy started talking again! And don't tell me you're not 'cause I asked around and they 'informed' me that they heard your argument with that douchebag Steve."

"Yeah, I had an argument with Steve. These happen between couples." I tried to answer but Rachel had taken on her examining look. Gods, can't I avoid the Rachel Elizabeth Dare Inquisition for once?

"Something happened between the two of you though, didn't it?" she asked still with that damn eyebrow raised.

My eyes dropped on my bed sheets. "Steve cheated on me with that slut Sarah. I saw them hooking up."

Her mouth dropped wide open. Really though, it wasn't much of a surprise. I had previously mentioned that Steve was a rebound for Percy but still, I can't even realize what I was thinking when I made up with him. "I really," Rachel continued. "REALLY hope you broke up with him. Because if you didn't, I'm gonna tell Thalia and we're gonna beat the crap out of him and then, we're gonna come for you."

I chuckled. "I did. That argument you heard about? I broke up with Steve." I said and I felt my cheeks getting redder.

Oh, something told me the Inquisition was about to continue. "And then, something else happened didn't it?" she asked and that freakin' eyebrow was raised again. "Something Percy related?"

Gods, my cheeks were almost as red as a rose. Damn you Rach. "No." I denied. She raised her other eyebrow too. "Okay, fine. Me and Percy are talking again. Happy now?"

"Your aura says you're lying."

"Am not!"

"You are."

"Am not!"

"You are!"

"Am. Not!" I spelled her the phrase.

"You know it's pointless denying it, right?"

I sighed. "I do." I answered and we both laughed. "Okay, what do you wanna know?"

"You know. The hot, dirty stuff and all. So, you better begin because I have liked a week to get the two of you back together." she smirked.

I wasn't going to lie to her. She was one of my best friends and I was going to tell her at some point. "Percy and I- we had sex last night. I think, yeah."

Her mouth dropped to the floor. "Oh. My. Freaking. Gods. You are not lying." she said astonished.

"I don't. We got drunk and we went to one of his cabins and did the dirty, nasty thing."

"Wait, what do you mean you think?" she asked confused.

"I mean, I woke up this morning, naked, and he was hugging me. I'm pretty sure we 'went to the carnival' last night." I answered her.

"What?" she asked more confused. When she realized what I meant she gave me a disgusted look. "Oh gosh! Annabeth! You spend too much time with Percy!"

"I know. More than I should have."

She gave me her sympathetic look and I sat next to her. "Hey," she said and placed her hand on my shoulder. "It's gonna be fine. You didn't do anything wrong."

Ugh, Rach. If you only knew.. "Then why do I feel like that? He's still in love with me, Rachel! After everything that happened, he is. And I don't even know why.." I stopped and took a deep breath. If I continued, I would be like some miserable, common chick that cries all the time.

"You know, you can cry. It wouldn't be like you but you can. No one is gonna judge you, especially me." Rachel confronted me.

"I can't break down now. I just- I just want to so much." I paused. No, no, no! Don't you fuckin' dare let a tear stream down my face. Damn you Annabeth! I let that that tear stream down and immediately felt the need to let another ones do the same. But thank gods, I didn't. "I think I still have feelings for him. And after all that happened, I think I do. And it's so stupid! So stupid." I told her.

"It's not. You guys weren't fooling around. You were in love! This kind of feelings don't just go away." Rachel replied to me.

"Anyway, I have to go. I need to get ready for dinner because after that, I have to meet him."

"You're gonna talk about it or just give in to your emotions another time." she teased me.

I grimaced and got up. "Well, the way I told him I wanted to meet him later on wasn't exactly what I was aiming. I sounded so seducing and in a dirty mood." I said and smirked back at her. "Not to mention we had made out earlier."

"And you didn't mention cause.." she asked.

"Because we had bigger things to talk about." I answered.

Then, Rachel gave me her devious smile. "So, will you let me stylish you?"

I gave her my curious look. "Why would you want to do that?"

"Because I have missed it. Come on, let's go find Thalia and get you ready for your date.

~xXx~

You can't possibly imagine how ridiculous I felt even thinking that Thalia and Rachel could give me at least normal clothes.

"No! She would be better in Gothic clothes!" Thalia yelled at Rachel. "Not to mention H-O-T-T-E-R!"

"Are you kidding me? Annabeth with dark eye shadows and eyeliner and black lipstick and nails? Try to picture her like that." I was relieved for a moment. "Maybe a hot strapless dress."

"Annie in a dress?" Thalia asked sarcastically widening her eyes.

"Er, you two know I'm sitting right here, right?" I asked by the totally ignored me. Bitches!

"Yup, Annabeth would totally look hotter than Blake Lively in a dress." Rachel answered back at Thalia. No, not a dress. It didn't end up well the last time I wore that strapless dress I had. I woke up naked.

"You think?" Thalia took now her thinking face. "I mean, we have to make her look hotter than Blake Lively and Angelina Jolie together."

Rachel took her thinking face as well. "It's still a dress though, right?"

"Sorry to interrupt but I'm not wearing a dress." I stepped in. No way I would let them make me wear this thing. "The last I wore one was last night and I think I don't want to end up like this again tomorrow morning." Liar..

"I found it." Thalia announced with a pleased look, still ignoring me. "Mini-skirts."

"No way." I said my thought aloud.

"Maybe. I like it." Rachel agreed. Oh, karma is still mad at me.

"Hey girls!" Now both of them looked at me. "I'm not gonna wear anything that includes the word dress, skirt and mini. I'm not a whore! So, stop freakin' ignoring me and just think of something normal. Or I swear, you're both gonna regret it."

"Fine, I'll think of something with just jeans or shorts and shirts or T-Shirts." Thalia agreed and started a long, LONG conversation with Rachel.

After an hour or so, they had prepared me. Not that I needed personal designers or whatever they call them, but to my surprise, I looked even better than I thought I would. I mean, I might just wore a black and red checked shirt and jean shorts with my so-used grey Converse but I did look pretty awesome. Such a modest Annabeth.. Oh, shut up. I have the right to be confident about myself for at least a day.

I sat on Cabin's six table and Malcolm shot me a look with a raised eyebrow. People, when will you stop stealing my move?! I shot him back a 'what?' look and he turned back on his plate.

Then, I saw my freakin' Seaweed Brain. His jaw's had slightly dropped and he was staring at me. I flushed a little and secretly thanked my two besties.

When I finished, I took a deep breath and paced to the beach's direction. I reached Percy's cabin No. 2 and just stared at it.

Gods, what was I about to do? To talk or to 'reconnect' with Percy? I didn't even know which of them I wanted. Come on bitchy subconscious, now it's the time for you to speak. '…' Really? Now that I need you to speak you pretend you don't exist? Chicken..

I took another deep breath and felt a little dizzy. I must have taken a lot of deep breath in thirty seconds. I grabbed the door's handle and opened it.

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