Chapter 4
Annabeths POV
My forth day with him went by quickly. I had gotten up early to go have an orientation at my new work and I had only come back late in the evening. Percy was asleep when I got home so I went straight to bed.
When I woke up in the morning I went upstairs to my small lounge. As I walked I saw Percy there with 2 cups of coffee, one in his hands and the other on the table. "I made you coffee."
I nodded and made my way to the couch he was on. "I'm sorry." He said, making me confused. "My phone interrupted our conversation 2days ago. Was there something else you wanted to tell me?" He asked.
I thought for a bit. "Well not that I know of." He smiled, a bit relieved. We both sipped our coffee's. I looked out my glass doors into the cold, misty day. I put my head on Percy's shoulder, only realizing thee reflex after I had done It. "Sorry." I Said, moving my head away. "No it's fine." He said with a smile. I put my head back on his shoulder. "I missed this." He said, making me look up at him. We looked at each other for a while. Just as I was starting to lean forward the front door was opened with a loud voice saying,
"Wazzup!"
We jumped apart at the voice level. In came 8familiar faces. "He- Percy? Percy!" The 8 friends came running up. We both stood up. Percy got attacked with hugs from the girls and Grover and did bro hugs with Jason, Frank and Leo.
Everyone found a seat in my lounge. Oh yay! A bunch of crazy high school friends to make my day! I thought, sarcastically.
Once everyone had settled down Leo had to ask, "So, um, what is Percy doing? In your house? You two alone?" ,wiggling his eyebrows. Percy and I laughed. "He crashed his car on a way to who knows where and he knocked on a random door and it happened to be mine. I'm letting him stay till his flight on-" I stopped myself thinking about it. "In 2days?" I felt a little sad that he was leaving so soon.
"It's so good seeing you guys getting along after Percy told you about leaving. I grimaced and the tension in the room rose. Percy cleared his throat. "Anyway, how are you guys? Don't get to see you with all my traveling." He smiled at all of them.
They started catching up. I got up. "I'm gonna make coffee while you guys catch up." They all nodded and gave big grins. As I was walking near Thalia to go to the kitchen she giggled and said, "Nice pj's Annie!"
I rolled my eyes and turned so that I was facing all if them. "At least I'm not wearing boxers like Percy." He stuck his tongue out and I stuck mine out at him too. We chuckled and I left to make 10 coffee's.p
Percy's POV
I chuckled as she walked out the room. Immediately as she was in the kitchen the others moved close to me and Piper asked, in a hushed voice, "Do you still like her?" I smirked at the question and said, "Why?"
The others exchanged looks and said, "She never got over you. She got a new boyfriend to try forget about you but it didn't work. She's still in love with Perseus Jackson." Hazel said, smiling.
I thought about it for a bit. "Maybe." I said. They all started doing little dances. chic knuckled at their childishness. "Nice to know you guys are finally mature."
Annabeth came in holding a couple mugs. "What's with the dances?" She asked, eyebrow raised. The all sat and got a mug from her. She shot me a glance and I shrugged. She got the last few mugs and sat down next to me, handing me mine. "So what are we going to do today?" I asked her. She turned to me. "Perce, you've asked that everyday you've been here. I don't know!"
I frowned. "Sorry, just that tomorrow's my last day here before I go to New York." She rolled and tried for a smile. "I'll find something for ALL of us to do. Together." She smiled at everyone.
"Okay! Then we're going ice skating!" Thalia said, jumping up and down with excitement.
I finished strapping the skates on. We all sat there, waiting till all of us had our skates on. We all stood up and shuffled to the rink. The guy opened the door and gestured for us to go in. Annabeth and Thalia were the first ones in. They had a race to the other side. They were really good! This is going to be embarrassing, I don't know how to skate!
I let the others go in as I stood there by the door, just watching them, deciding when I should go in. I didn't notice Annabeth come skating towards me. "You don't know how to skate, do you." She said with a small smirk. I smiled sheepishly. "No."
She took my hands and pulled me onto the rink. She stood in front of me, skating backwards, and looked me in the eyes. "Look at me, not the ground." I watched her as we both slowly skated around, holding onto each others hands. She slowly let go off me and showed me how to skate on my own. I chuckled as Leo knocked Grover over. It was like old times.
I went into a little group with the guys and we all raced around the rink. We were near our finish line, A.K.A. A little girl holding tightly onto the railing of the rink, when the girls seemed to move slightly in front of our paths. The other guys veered to the side to go around them but I went straight for Annabeth.
As I got close to her I bent down a bit and wrapped my arms around her waist, pulling us both along the ice. She was laughing so much and I was chuckling at the sound of her laugh. It was so cute. I grabbed her hand and we both stood in the position of doing the waltz. "Care for the waltz, Milady?" She smiled, "Why yes sir."
We skated along as if moving around a ballroom floor. I was doing turns with her when 2 kids started throwing snow balls at us. We both went tumbling to the ground, laughing. I lay there on the cold ice, Annabeth over my stomach. I stood up and offered her my hand. She took it and got up, looking at me with a twinkle in her eyes. I had only seen that twinkle when we were dating.
"That was neat!" Hazel said, skating past us, hands intertwined with Franks. "Since when are you two dating?" I asked, a chuckle after saying it. "I don't know, 4 years ago?" Frank said, smiling ear to ear.
When we were all done we took the skates off and went to the little coffee shop around the corner. We all got our coffee's and sat down. I smiled at the others and they all exchanged looks. "Just like old times." Thalia said, a twinkle in her eyes.