Previously on On The Outside...

Our lips were a few inches apart and I could feel his hot breath on my face.

We were closer... closer... closer... our lips were less than a centimeter apart when...

"I made-!" Sally saw what we were about to do. "-cookies."

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Annabeth POV

Sally awkwardly cleared her throat, seeing us.

"Well, I'll just leave these here," she finally said, after a few minutes of awkward silence.

I couldn't believe what I was about to do.

I was about to kiss a boy,

Sally placed the blue cookies on a nightstand and walked out.

I avoided my gaze at Percy and focused it on my bed.

Percy cleared his throat. "I.. I should go." He said gruffly.

Thank the gods he was leaving. Wait, wasn't this his room? Right?

Whatever. I had other things to worry about.

I nodded, still shell-shocked. "O-okay."

Did I just stutter? I don't even HAVE a stutter. What the hell, brain.

I'm officially going insane. First, I was gonna kiss a boy who I've known for what- a week? Probably less. Now, I'm stuttering.

He paused at the door and turned to look at me. " Elizabeth, if you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here...like literally. I live here." He finished awkwardly. I cracked a smile. But it diminished as soon as it came.

I nodded again. "Percy?" I called as he left.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"Thanks... Thanks for listening. No one ever cared enough to listen before." I said quietly.

I'm being WAY WAY too non-Elizabeth. I'm CARING. I'm letting out my feelings. NO.

The last time I let out my feelings, shit happened. And I'm not letting that shit happen again.

He shot me a smile. "You're welcome."

He walked out, grabbing the plate of cookies and munching on them as he left.

For a minute, a fluttery feeling ran inside me. What the fuck? I don't GET 'fluttery feelings' like the bitchy teenage girls do today. I don't! I told myself, from the beginning, absolutely NO acting like some girl from a stupid, cliche movie that everyone ends up loving and Rotten Tomatoes gives a 88% to, saying it was 'classic' and 'well organized.'

NUH-UH.

NO WAY.

NADA.

NOT A MOTHER FUCKING CHANCE IN HELL.

I will not be the girl from the movie, where the lead girl's parents died when she's young, and she becomes dark and quiet, with her friends who are dark and quiet. And I won't be the chick who lets her feelings out to her new foster mother's son, and lets him break the walls. (That's what she said). And I will most definitely not end up going out with him after we become best friends. NO WAY.

And if anyone, anyone, tries to get ME to be that chick, you know, who's so pretty and gorgeous, but quiet, and ends up getting lovesick for the main guy, I will beat the crap outta them before they start talking about turning it into a Broadway Show with me as the lead.

Okay, I'm rambling, my point is: I'm not falling for him!

I. Will. NOT. Fall. For. Percy Jack- well, speak of the devil.

"Um... I forgot that this is my room, so, uh, I'll be staying here."

*Cue high pitched opera voice* AWKWARD!

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Connor PoV

Hey oh! It's Connor! So right now, I'm at Percy's place. It's Saturday, btdubs.

It's kind of a thing, we all go over Percy's place on Saturdays to watch TV or hang out, but we all end up going. ALL OF US.

Me, my brother, Katie, Grover, Juniper, Silena, Rachel, Beckendorf, Nico, and everyone else.

And Leo.

Now, I hated, HATED, to admit it, but I was mildly jealous of him. He seemed to like Arielle. And I liked Arielle. Do you get my point?

We all go to Percy's and do nothing. We just talk.

Back to another topic:

So, there's this girl. Famous last words.

But seriously, is it that bad that I like Arielle?

Upon thinking about it, yes. It is that bad that I like Arielle.

She's really, well, badass. She's a hardcore, touch-my-earphones-you-DIE kinda girl.

And I'm just over here, being popular and pranking people.

The information I've gathered about her is simple. She likes music. She likes her leather jacket. She really likes combat boots. She can play the drums. She's really badass. She's awesome. And she's really sarcastic.

And me? I'm against leather (courtesy of Katie's nonstop, "ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE TOO!"), I prefer television over music, I really like sneakers, I can't play any instrument, and I'm just plain 'ol funny.

Two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT personalities.

Well, opposites attract, thought a little voice in my head.

Who the hell are you? I asked it.

Your emotional conscience, it thought back.

Great. This girl has LITERALLY made me go insane.

But isn't that love?

I mean, Arielle's nice... I think.

And she's funny... when she's not mean.

And she'd never like me anyways, so why not fall for her? See, simple logic.

So, I'm at Percy's. We're all watching random TV. Doing nothing.

And then Taylor walked down the stairs.

"EVERYONE WILL WATCH IT!" she was screaming.

"Give it back!" someone else shouted... it was Arielle. I sighed dreamily.

Then Travis looked at me like, "WTF BRO?"

Taylor ran into the living room, and inserted the disc.

"HEY!" the TV said. Who was it? It was... LEO! "It's Supreme Bad Boy, LEO VALDEZ!"

"And me!" someone piped up, but it wasn't Piper. It was... Arielle!

"And Arielle Collins!" Leo shouted.

"I remember this! That night we snuck out and got sugar-high!" Leo said.

"Yeah! Exactly why I wanted to get rid of it! We did some crazy stuff..." Arielle said.

"Like?" Taylor drawled, raising her eyebrows.

I felt sick.

"Oh, get your head outta the gutter! We did insane stuff, not gross!"

"Yeah! Like we spray-painted 'Whore' onto our foster mother's door!" said Leo.

"And we dyed her hair hot pink while she was asleep!"

The video had been playing the whole time, so I looked back at it.

"If-" Arielle started but couldn't stop giggling, "-If this was Mean Girls, I'd be Janis and you'd be Damien!"

"You're a lesbian? It's cool, bro, I don't judge," Leo said, giggling like an idiot.

"No! I'm not a lesbian!" and then they chattered on and on about Janis and Damien.

"Leo! Leo! Leo! Leo!" Arielle said.

"What?"

"If this was Mean Girls, you know who'd be Regina?"

"Who?"

"YOU!" and then they started laughing uncontrollably.

The scene shifted to another one, outside a door.

"Leo, mann the camera! Arielle, head prankster, TAKE THAT LEO!, will now spray paint profanities on Mrs. Willis's door!"

Just as she was ready to write, Leo shouted, "WAIT!"

"SH! And what?"

"Mrs. Willis? BRUCE WILLIS! BRUCE WILLIS'S WIFE! OH MY GOD! WE'RE VANDALIZING BRUCE WILLIS'S WIFE'S FOSTER HOME'S ROOM'S DOOR! WE'LL BE SUED!" Leo shouted.

"Dude! We're getting sued either way! Now shut your pie-hole..."

And the scene shifted to another one.

"HEY YO!" Leo shouted.

"SUP BITCHES!" Arielle yelled.

"Here's to FRIENDSHIP! We vow to be friends FOREVER!" Leo finished in a really high-pitched voice.

"Yes! Leo is now a badass chick by extension! Like Lily is a bro by extension! OH MY GODS! WHO'S THE MOTHER?!" Arielle started shouting.

"STACY!"

"MOM!"

"NARNIA!" they both shouted, and the video stopped.

"Is it wrong to say you're insane, Arielle?" Percy asked her.

"You're? More like we're."

"Damn straight," Leo said, and they did some sort of weird, sideways highfive thing.

"Okay. This has been sufficiently awkward, because I don't know the majority of you. Leo is my close friend. And that's that. Goodbye, strangers," Arielle brightly said, and walked back up the stairs.

That was strange...

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A/N- Hey! This chapter was weird. It was basically just a sum-up of Allison and Leo's friendship. It's two AM right now. If you're actually UP right now, that I salute you. I'm pulling an all-nighter for absolutely- oh crap, crap, crap! I THINK SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR! Anyways, peace out. If anyone actually reviews at 1:38 Am, up 'till 3 AM, I'll send them a shout-out, and a PM and they can have any idea they have incorporated into this story. Peace!

~Allilyn :)