CHAPTER FOUR: AWKWARD IS JUST TOO SMALL OF A WORD

STUPID HOMEWORK. I HAVE FIVE PROJECTS DUE NEXT WEEK IN FIVE DIFFERENT CLASSES. PLUS OTHER HOMEWORK FROM THE SAME SUBJECTS. I SWEAR THAT TEACHERS HOLD MEETINGS TO DECIDE WHEN THEY SHOULD ASSIGN HOMEWORK...THEN THEY ALL ASSIGN IT ON THE SAME DAY. NOW THAT I'M ALMOST DONE VENTING, HERE'S CHAPTER FOUR.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN PJO OR HOO. I OWN THE IDEA AND PLOT THOUGH, SO TRY TO STEAL IT. I DARE YOU. IT WON'T BE A HAPPY ENDING FOR YOU.

PERCY JACKSON'S POV

I was having trouble processing the situation.

"I'm a daughter Athena," Annabeth told me, waiting for my reaction. We had sat down in the narrow alley, across from each other.

"That explains a lot," I told her, "Like why you always know the answer to any question someone will ask you. And how you can memorize your lines in one day. And how you always show people up."

She scowled at me when I said the last one, "I better have heard that wrong."

"Oh, but you didn't," I said.

"I'll get you for that later. So, obviously, Athena couldn't teach me how to fight so I learned to fend for myself," She told me.

"Why couldn't Athena teach you? Isn't she the war goddess?" I asked.

"Do you really think that she has the time to teach me? She's a goddess for crying out loud!" Annabeth cried in disbelief and a little bit of hurt. I realized that I had just asked a very stupid question. I hurt me a little bit too that I had only seen my dad on a couple occasions in my life, so I could understand where she was coming from.

"Does your dad ever visit you?" she asked.

I shook my head, "I've only seen him about three times in my life. So, back to your story," I said, trying to lighten the mood a little bit.

"I leaned to fight at a really young age. The monsters came after me once a realized what I was. I ran away when was seven," she told me, inspecting the ground.

"Why would you run away?" I asked. That didn't really sound like Annabeth.

"The monsters were coming after my family. My two half brothers, my step-mom, and my dad could have been hurt. I needed to get away from them, they were in trouble," she explained to me.

"How did you survive? Any demigod that young would have died," I wondered in disbelief.

First she fixed me with a menacing glare then she said, "You just implied that I was weak."

"No, no. I just meant that-" I didn't finish because Annabeth interrupted me.

"I met two demigods along the way, Thalia and Luke. They helped me and became my new family," she told me. The name Thalia seemed familiar to me. And the other name too...Luke... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up a sec. Luke? Luke Castellan? The guy she dated two years ago? He was a demigod?

"You mean Luke, as in Luke Castellan?" I asked.

"Uh, yeah," she said.

"Didn't you date him for a couple months two years ago?"

"Yes," she said slowly, "How do you know that?"

"I-I, uh," I stuttered. I was blushing and I felt my face heat up. I was completely obsessed with Annabeth Chase two years ago, right before I became a big-time actor. Hopefully, I was over the whole obsession thing. Not to sound stalker-ish or anything, but I had know everything about her. Well, I thought I did, but it turns out, most of the stuff written in articles and magazines are lies.

I tried changing the subject, "Why did you break up?"

"I felt like I only loved him as a brother. Nothing more," she told me. I felt slightly happier when I heard that. I didn't really know why, "You still didn't answer my question."

"Um, I, uh," I stammered intelligently.

"You know what? You can tell me later. So, I eventually went back home, after a while. After that my life gets pretty boring," she said finishing off her story.

"Boring? You became a famous actress. One of THE most famous actresses, I might add. I'm not seeing what the problem is," I said.

"Okay, I see your point," she said smiling, "But is being an actor anything like fighting off monsters everyday? Wondering if you'll wake up alive the next morning?"

"Actually, it's not possible to wake up dead in the morning. Because you wouldn't wake up at all," I told her trying to sound smart. All it did was earn me another glare.

"Don't you ever feel afraid that someday there will be a challenge that you'll die to? A fight that you'll lose to? A battle that you can never win?" she asked.

"Sure," I agreed, "Remember last week when I left the studio and there where a couple hundred girls waiting for me? You had to drive me home in your car."

Annabeth laughed quietly, "Yeah, I suppose that if there were anymore girls there that would have been a lost battle. But I was serious, Percy. What if one day, you face a mountain, so massive that you can't climb over it?"

"I wouldn't climb it. I would find another way over," I told her quietly. I was serious now because I knew she was being serious. This was her life she was telling me about.

"Good answer. I wish I had thought of that," she said.

I stayed quiet, not knowing what to say next.

"There's not much more to my life. But you still haven't told me about yourself," she said looking a me.

"Okay, but my life is way less interesting than yours," I told her, "So if you fall asleep... don't say I didn't warn you."

"Okay, well, continue," she said.

"Alright, so-" I was interrupted by my phone ringing. I didn't answer it.

"Pick it up, Percy," Annabeth told me.

"But I'm talking to you," I told her.

"Percy," Annabeth warned.

"Fine," I grumbled taking my phone out and sliding the answer bar. Input it to my ear.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Percy, where are you? It's nearly twelve," Nico said through the other end. I looked up at the sky and saw that it was dark. Annabeth looked up as well. I guess we where so caught up in out conversation, we didn't realize how long it had been.

"I'll be there in half an hour," I told him. Nico was staying in my apartment while his was being renovated.

"You better be. Or I might just get bored and hang out in your bedroom. Where all you stuff is. All your secrets..." he trailed off and then he hung up.

I got up really fast. Who knew what Nico would do with the information he got from my room? "Annabeth, I'm gonna have to take a raincheck on the story telling thing. I've got a brat to deal with."

"That's fine, I better get home anyways," she said, standing up and dusting herself off, "But you promise to tell me?"

"Tell you what?"

"Your life story, genius," she rolled her eyes.

"Right," I said, "Come on. I'll give you a ride home."

"Thanks," she said.

We got into my car and she gave me directions to her house.

She got out of the car and rummaged through her purse for her house keys. Her eyes got wide and she dumped everything onto the ground and searched through the contents of her purse again.

"Something wrong?" I asked.

"I forgot my keys at the studio," she squeaked.

"Smart," I smirked. For once, she was the one that made a stupid mistake.

"What do I do now?" she cried.

"Ring the doorbell," I suggested. Duh.

"I live alone," she told me.

"You live alone?" I asked.

"Well, Thalia lives with me, but she's in San Francisco right now," she said, biting her lip, probably deciding what she should do.

"What can you do then?" I asked.

"There's one thing," she said nervously.

"You can break into your own house. I bet the police will think you're completely sane," I suggested helpfully.

"No, uh, Percy, can I ask a favor from you?"

"Yeah," I said slowly.

"Can I maybe stay at your place tonight?"

Well, what am I supposed to say? No? There were no words to describe how awkward this night had been.

"Yeah, I guess so."

I really hope that Nico would be asleep when we got home. Or he would hold this against me forever. Bring a girl home at one in the morning and your friends are guaranteed to tease you for life.

Annabeth got in the car and I started driving home as the car filled up with an awkward silence.

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