Chapter 4
Annabeth POV
Yup! It's a party. A high school party, none the less. The music, the drinks, the cloths, the sorts, all present? Check.
Yes, I am a party person. People would go so far as to say that I am the life of the party. Maybe I am, I have no right to say.
I was enjoying right now or I would have been enjoying if Percy's piercing glare was not glaring through my brain.
Confused? Let me explain.
When the party started (translated to when I reached the party) I searched for Percy, to ask him if he really was alright. That day was kind of rowdy.
There were these amazingly cushiony clusters of sofas in the formation of a U with a square glass table in between. Rusty conversations floated through the air. The light was dimmed, or rather; it was a dim yellow colour. It was that evening fancy restaurant atmosphere.
Anyways, Percy was sitting on the middle sofa, claiming it for himself. No seriously, he legs were spread out and his back was slumped. He glared at everyone who even dared to come near his sofa; and if not, maybe glaring at his drink would be enough to turn it into plain water.
So I located him(seriously it was not all that difficult, there was a wide space around him) and walked towards him. He looked up glaring but kind of relaxed when he noticed me.
"So," I asked, taking a seat on the sofa on his left side, "you all right?"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"I see, not in a good mood today," I mused, a slight smile on my lips. Yup, today was the day when my smile would not turn off, no matter what, and this really happened on a select few days.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," he continued to glare at his drink. I relaxed onto my seat, testing the cushions.
"There's not much of our crowd," he shot out from nowhere, and I was shook out of my stupor.
"Huh!"
"Hello beautiful!" said a particularly seductive voice. I turned my attention from Percy to said stranger. The man was tall, handsome and kind of had the rich bad boy look. His fellow friends stood in a semi-arch around me. I smiled. Time to play a game I play best.
"Hello pretty boy."
"Oh! Thank you, but I kind of prefer the word "handsome", you know," he smirked.
"Of course you do," I threw my hand forward a bit.
"So miss, I was wondering he I could get you some drinks?" he said in a husky way.
"Sure." I smiled and licked my lips.
I could feel Percy's gaze on me.
The man's friend came and sat on my armrest, putting his arm round my shoulder, fingering it. "Hey, my name's Bran, wanna hook up?"
A slight glance towards Percy and I find him glaring daggers at Bran.
"I think your friend already booked me up. But you know I charge like $500 per hour," and poor Bran fell flat on his butt.
At the same time, my waiter came. "Why are you sitting on the floor, man? Fancy it more that the hot girls roaming about," he laughed at his own joke. "Here's your drink." And seriously I could feel Percy's blood boiling right next to me. I politely take a sip or two. "Maybe you are not as dumb as you look. So what say? Are you ready to go upstairs?"
I bit back a laugh.
"I would love too but let's, you know, first let's get to know each other. Then later tonight," I finished with a wink.
He seemed disappointed for a bit, but then smirked back. "Sure, babe."
Just then Bran seemed to recover from his little money problem. "Richard, she's $500 per hour."
Richard's eyes bulged out of his sockets, "WHAT!?" he practically yelled. "But I wanted to tap- ah, never mind we will do it the hard way then."
That is when I noticed that most of the people here were not our grade. They were probably gatecrashers. Why, Annabeth, why do you get yourself in trouble always?"
"I don't think we have any further business here that we would like stay for, let's go," Percy's deep, soothing voice washed over all of us. He stood up, setting his drink down and firmly placed a hand on my wrist. I sneaked out of it and led my fingers up to below his armpit, which I thought was far more comfortable and firm. I leaned close to him. He began to lead me away from there and towards the 'out' door.
"Hey, what do you think you are doing?" their whole gang exclaimed. Fortunately, the party was loud as it is so it didn't attract any unwanted attraction.
"Even if I was her boyfriend I wouldn't tell anything to because firstly, you would probably be too muddled to understand me and secondly, I don't know."
True to his word, before they understood what he said we were safely in his car and driving away.
"Annabeth, Annabeth, when will you grow up?"
"Oh come on, I only do that in front of you."
Maybe I didn't realise then, but that was a pretty heavy wording. But as I said, no one can dampen the mood tonight. Hell yeah.
"Hey Annabeth, where are you driving us?"
"Can't you guess?" I teased him.
"Of course I do," he replied haughtily, "I know these streets very well. But with me?"
"Who else, Percy? Who else?"
"I knew I was amazing."
"Very funny; but still you got into an accident."
"And it still hurts."
"Where does it hurt, poor wittle-little baby Percy?" I snaked my hands towards his tummy and poked lightly.
"Hey, no touching, eyes on the road. Not on this amazingly awesomely superbly, fantabulously fair and handsome boy cause he's taken."
"By whom? Annabeth Chase?"
"Maybe, maybe not. Annabeth, eyes in the road.
I stopped the car (cause we had already reached the beach) and looked incredulously at him.
He just stared back innocently. "My poor baby little Percy's got his head in a tersy."
"Tersy? What the hell it's supposed to mean?"
I Annabeth Chase will not admit that I had said a word without any meaning. "Just whatever your little seaweed brain can understand." I opened the door and went out. Jackson quickly followed.
Just when the cool wind hit my face and I saw he tress swimming in the air, I started laughing.
"I had so much fun tonight." I said.
"Yup it was pretty freaking amazing. Just like Disneyworld," he said sarcastically.
A few moments of silence. Then:
"I will drown you into the water."
"I will crumple you into the sand."
I narrowed my eyes, "Let the games begin."
Then begin our night out with our cries and laughter echoing around.
.
..
.
"Percy? Annabeth?"
SNAP
We both turned around at that, from our interlocked positions to Drew... and her fellow lackeys.
We both stood up and brushed down our clothes and hand-brushed our hair and stood there like spotted criminals.
"Oh my god? What are you doing here, alone?"
I knew Drew, our photos would be up tomorrow morning.
"What are you doing here, I wonder?" her eyes fluttering between me and Percy.
And we both began to speak at the same time.
"Nothing-who said we were here?-what-nothing at all-what are you doing here-we were just-playing around-truly-no lie- I swear-nothing else-what does it matter to you?-hey Drew?"
Drew in turn just gave us her signature sugary smirk and left us in dust.
She left me thinking about the letter I had given him.
Let's have a temporary truce.
A/N: So that's all done. I AM SORRY if you didn't like it. I am happy if you liked it.
Review.