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Chapter 6

Annabeth's P.O.V.

I recognized the redhead that was with Percy. It was one of my friends, Rachel! I looked at her with shock... and maybe a little jealousy. So what? I still liked Percy a little bit. I just looked back at Luke, who stiffened when Percy had walked thorough the door. "What do you want?" Luke asked me. I just shook my head. "I'll order. What do you want?" He thought for a moment. "I'll have two scoops of mint chocolate chip in a waffle cone." He decided.

I nodded, heading to the counter. A guy with bad acne and grimy brown hair gave me a wink. I almost barfed. "Hey there sweetie. What do you want?" He asked in a high voice. I giggled a little. he took this as a good thing and straightened up proudly. "I'll have two scoops of mint ice cream in a waffle cone and two scoops of chocolate fudge in a sugar cone, please." I told him and he nodded, winking again.

"By the way, my name's Peach." He smiled and I didn't know if he was joking. Peach? I've never heard a guy named that before. Hmm, interesting. "LAERTES!" He hollered. Laertes... also interesting. Like the guy from Hamlet. A guy who should have been at the register came out from the back. He had silky brown hair, an even tan, muscular arms and beautiful hazel eyes.

"Alright bro, take it easy." He joked, while winking at me. Peach scowled at it. "Mom doesn't like you stealing my things. Especially MY girl." He said scornfully. Wait, these guys were actually brothers? The only same trait they had was brown hair. Laertes had dreamy hazel eyes while Peach had droopy, grey-yellowish eyes. Luke came to my side, his muscled arm going across my shoulders.

"Okay Peachy, this is MY girl, now get working Laertes, I'm not having that thing scoop my cream." He looked at Peach, disgusted. Peach glared at Luke, while Laertes nodded quickly, scooping the ice cream. I looked at Luke, who's blue eyes looked furious, his jaw clenched in anger. I watched as Laertes scooped the ice cream. He handed me my cone and Luke his.

Luke threw the money on the counter and we wnet back to our seats, licking the ice cream. I saw Percy ordering his and Rachel's ice cream. Laertes gave him two ice cream cones and he threw a ten on the counter, telling Peach to keep the change. I looked at Rachel and Percy talking. Even though he was rude at the hospital, I still had a TINY crush on him. Very small, almost microscopic.

Luke was staring intently at me. "What?" I asked and he glanced away, shaking his head. "Nothing. Its just... were you and Percy friends?" He asked, glancing at Percy. I was stumped. Was Percy my friend? Could I call him my friend? Does he think that I'm his friend? "Uh... maybe." I responded and Luke just nodded. Then he spoke again.

"The basketball game is tomorrow, would you be interested in going?" Luke bit into the cone part. "Sure, I guess. I don't have anything else to do." I answered and he smiled. "Who is going to be playing?" I questioned curiously. "Me, Jake, Sebastian, Percy..." He listed, but I raised my hand to stop him. "Percy is playing?" I choked and he looked surprised.

"Yeah, I thought you knew that." He said and I shook my head. To be honest, I was hoping that he wasn't going to be playing so that I could avoid him. "No, didn't know that." I mumbled. Suddenly Percy was right next to me. "Hey Annabeth." He said in a small voice. I rolled my eyes, turning to face him. "Hello, what do you want?" I asked politely.

He seemed to have trouble talking. "T-there''s a basketball g-game tomorrow. Are you going to d-drop by?" He stammered and I saw Luke smirk in amusement at Percy making a fool of himself. "Of course," He seemed to inflate. "Luke just invited me." I informed him and he deflated, giving Luke a hard glare. "So... you and Castellan are a thing." He snarled.

I blinked in surprise. I didn't think we were a thing, but Luke obviously disagreed. "Of course we are. Me and Annabeth are dating." He kissed my cheek and I couldn't help but blush. Percy looked in anger at Luke, who looked smug. "Dude, I don't think Annabeth like you like that." He glanced at Luke, then at me and back at Luke. Luke frowned.

"Do you Annabeth?" He demanded and I flinched. "Do I what?" I pretended to look clueless. "Do you like me like I like you?" Luke looked at me suspiciously. "That's a lot of likes." I said stupidly, trying to change the subject. "See?! She's trying to change the subject which means she doesn't like you!" Percy crowed. Luke looked hurt. "Is that true?" He whispered.

I thought for a moment. "No, its not true." I glared at Percy, who froze in shock. Luke growled, and tackled Percy to the floor. Percy aimed a punch to Luke's nose and I heard the crack and his nose started to bleed. Luke socked Percy in the stomach and held Percy's nose and covered his mouth, so that Percy couldn't breath. Percy was slowly turning blue and I couldn't let Luke kill Percy.

I jumped on Luke's back and he roared, flinging me off. He turned on me, his eyes glazed with fury. I dont think he recognized me. He aimed a punch to my stomach and I doubled over. He hit the back of my head. Hard. I gasped in pain. He did a quick upper cut to my face and my lips AND nose busted. Then he kicked me into a table.

Rachel gasped, and Luke's eyes cleared. He looked at me in horror. "Annabeth." His voice hoarse, but I didn't care. I ran out of the shop and ran to my house. I can't believe that Luke would do that, I thought to myself.

Man, there was a fight! Please review!