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Hello again people of the Earth! Yeah, I'm still alive, and I'm so sorry for the very long wait for a new chapter. I started two new stories (yeah, call me an idiot), but since 'Love the Babysitter' is almost (just the epilogue to go!) finished, I thought I could open myself to try something new. So, I hope you forgive me and enjoy the chapter!

It all started with a Love Song

"Memories of love

are melting in my arms

Memories of me

and you go on and on

Memories will stay forever

with your love

Memories of love"

–Netzwerk. –Memories.

Chapter Five: Memories of Him

Annabeth closed the door of her room with her leg, her hands busy with a pot of chocolate ice cream. She lay down on her bed, turned on the TV and started eating ice cream. It was Tuesday, and she had nothing to do, since her essay was at seven pm, and there were still four hours to go. She started doing zapping, watching if there was something interesting to look at three in the afternoon.

History Channel was showing the history of ancient Egypt, and as Annabeth already knew its history, she continued zapping. The cooking channels didn't call her attention, she was a terrible cook, and all she knew bake were chocolate cupcakes like her mother had taught her before dying in a car accident when she was six years old.

It had been a tragedy; an idiot drunk boy of 17 years old driving in the freeway, her mother driving peacefully on the other lane when the idiot turned and crashed her car sideway. Her mother died instantly, the boy died before reaching the hospital. Annabeth felt the pain in her chest burning till today. The lack on her heart reminding her that she could never be happy.

Annabeth shook her head trying to get those thoughts out of her head. It had been fifteen years since the accident, and although the pain is never going to go, she had to try to be strong for the good of all.

She ate more ice-cream as she continued watching TV. She knew she could just go to somewhere like Silena and Piper did, but she didn't feel like going out of her house. After more zapping, she let MTV when it was on commercials.

Her mind wandered of what had happened yesterday, from spending two hours with Percy to the questions of her friends for her strange reaction after seeing Percy again on TV (of course, they didn't know that). It just was too much for her. Sure, when they were 16 years they spent all day together in the summer camp, but after Percy's betrayal, she couldn't look into his eyes. It was as if the picture of Percy cheating on her was repeated in his green irises over and over again torturing her, making her heart broke like that day. Five years had passed, and the pain was the same. She felt so stupid, so sensitive and so fragile when he was around. But it was so difficult for her not to think about him; his eyes, his voice, his mouth, his smile, his hair, his body, his everything…

But he shouldn't be on her mind. She should be thinking about more important things, thinking about her boyfriend Luke. But she couldn't. And this made her sad, because if she didn't think about her boyfriend as she should do or at least people in love do, it wanted to say that she was not really in love with Luke, and if she wasn't in love with Luke, it wanted to say that the relationship couldn't continue, and she didn't want to break up with Luke, she needed someone to support her at this critical moment of her life. But if she didn't love Luke...

Argh, it was so frustrating. Why life couldn't be easier?

The boring commercials of MTV ended, and… yes people; Percy Jackson himself was in the program. Annabeth grabbed the remote control and was about to turn off the TV when she heard a question that the host did.

"So Percy, we heard you had three girlfriends on your life so far," the woman said in such a suggesting voice that both Annabeth and Percy raised an eyebrow. "Who was the one you wanted more?" Annabeth bit her lip. She had been one of his girlfriends, the first in fact. She didn't know that he had had two girlfriends after her, but she did know that he was single now. And that half the girls in the world were after him.

Percy took a moment to think about his answer, and Annabeth could see he actually knew the answer; he just was more dramatic than a high school girl. "Umm, I think the first one."

And it was when Annabeth's whole world crashed down. She was his first girlfriend. That wanted to say that of his other two girlfriends (who knows who they were), Percy wanted her more. Her heart began to beat faster with excitement, but also tears were threatening to fall down her face. If he ever loved her, why he cheated on her? There was no logical answer to that, but as some girls back in the camp said: 'Love isn't logical'. But surely for Percy, what they had wasn't serious, so there had to be some logical answer; she just had to find it.

The host sighed; of course she had to be a love-sick woman. "That's so sweet; you never forgot her, right?" Percy frowned, and he looked like he was thinking hard. Despite all her efforts for not to think about him, Annabeth had to admit that he looked like a little kid of seven years old that didn't understand a simple math problem.

Finally, Percy gulped. "I guess so…" And they were just three simple words, but for Annabeth, they meant more than an 'I love you' of Luke.

"Aww…" the host smiled sweetly at him. "What was her name?" Annabeth opened her eyes in the same time Percy did. He can't tell the whole world her name. Things would change a lot and her friends would ask her some questions about it, and she didn't want to talk about Percy.

Percy looked nervous, like he didn't know what to say. "Umm… I'm not gonna tell you, it's something private." Annabeth's body relaxed, and his did too. The host of the program raised her eyebrows, not expecting that answer. Percy smiled shyly, but he didn't look as if he would regret his response.

"Oh… well, in that case, I think you're right." The woman said, faking a smile. "Anyway, your fans send us a lot of questions for you, and they'll love you even more if you can answer some of them."

Percy smirked. "Sure, that would be awesome." The woman took some papers from who knows where and cleared her throat.

"Fine. Question number one, what's your little brother's name?" That was a kinda stupid question, but Annabeth knew the answer even before Percy could speak.

'Tyson', Annabeth thought as she rolled her eyes. What fan didn't know the name of the brother of Percy? Tyson Jackson, called 'Big Boy' by Percy playfully and because Tyson was taller than the others 12 years old kids. But, maybe he never gave Tyson's name to the public.

"Tyson." Percy replied proudly. Girls cheered, and Annabeth wrinkled her nose in disgust. Why they celebrated when her Percy spoke? 'Oh no', Annabeth thought. My Percy? Where did that come from? No, no, no, I'm Luke's girlfriend, not Percy's!'

"Which has been your best birthday party so far?" The woman asked again, and although it was a stupid question, Annabeth's heart was beating too fast. She remembered how they got together five years ago. In his birthday, August 18th.

Percy took a moment to think. "I think my 16th birthday 'party'" he made the quotes on the air whit his hands playfully and some people laughed. When the laughs ended, he added, "Scratch that, I'm pretty sure it was my best birthday ever." Despite all, Annabeth smiled. She remembered that day perfectly, and she was happy to know that he remembered it and considered it one of the best days of his life.

"I'm intrigued to know what happened that day," the host said, obviously expecting him to tell her, but Percy rolled his eyes.

"Try the intrigue doesn't consume you, Vanessa." Percy said. Annabeth actually laughed, Vanessa's face was incredulous, and she really missed Percy's sarcastic and funny comments. When the host regained her composure, she discreetly sent a look of disgust at Percy and cleared her throat uncomfortably before reading Percy's fans' stupid questions.

"So, another fan says, what's your favorite food ever?" Vanessa looked at Percy, and he sighed in desire. 'His mother's homemade chocolate chips blue cookies', Annabeth thought happily. Those cookies were heaven, and Sally's food was even better than the food of the best chef in United States.

"My mom's homemade chocolate chips blue cookies," Percy grinned, and Annabeth knew him too well to know he was thinking of his mother and her food. Sally was the kindest and most amazing woman in the world besides her mom (as she remembered) and Sally loved her like her own daughter. Annabeth didn't see her after her break-up with Percy, and she really missed that woman. Annabeth buried her spoon into the bowl of ice cream and found nothing. She lowered her eyes and saw that it had no more ice cream, she had eaten it all. Silena was so going to kill her later.

"What's your favorite song of The Demigods?" hat took both Percy and Annabeth by surprise, causing them to open their eyes. Percy frowned, thinking. In fact, he liked all the songs that were written by Annabeth. He believed that she knew express by words, and her voice was so angelic... that was one of the main reasons why he had been in love with her years ago. It wasn't that the other songs were bad, but he felt that Annabeth's were dedicated to him. But that was just his imagination, she never would write a song about him, she hated him and he knew she had every right to do so.

"Umm, I guess it's Sparks Fly, I don't know." He decided. "It's an amazing song." Annabeth felt her cheeks warm up; he liked the song she had written. She had dedicated this song to him some years ago, but Piper had found it in a notebook and had shown it to the record company, and she had had no choice but to record it with her friends.

"Interesting," Vanessa said. "Another fan says, did you fall in love at least once?" she asked, and Annabeth saw Percy's body get tense. Some seconds passed as he thought hard while Annabeth died of nerves. Was he ever in love with her? Did he fell in love with any of his other girlfriends?

When he opened his mouth to speak, the door burst open and Annabeth turned off the TV for anyone to see that she was watching Percy. Annabeth looked at the person who was there and saw…

"Luke?" she asked incredulously. She can't believe he was there, in her room, in New York. Luke smiled from ear to ear, and was holding a beautiful bouquet of red roses. He wore a simple white shirt and brown pants with white shoes, but he looked too formal. And she did not like that, and neither liked roses. Only a few people (cough, Percy) knew that her favorites were the cherry blossoms and lilies. But Luke seemed so happy, and he had traveled for her from the other side the country. She couldn't say that to him, he would be destroyed.

"Annabeth! I missed you so much!" Luke exclaimed, leaning and hugging her tight. Annabeth frowned and break the hug.

"It was just one day Luke, no big deal." Annabeth took the flowers from his arms and placed them on a table in her room before smiling at him. "But I'm so happy you're here!" When she hugged him again, she didn't feel safe as she did before. His arms felt cold, that embraced without any affection. It was rare and it was kind of scary.

Luke sighed. "Ah, I missed you smell of flowers," he said. Annabeth frowned again, she didn't have a flower smell, actually, her shampoo was of lemons. What was wrong with Luke? They broke apart, and Luke looked around. "Your room is very nice," he commented.

"Thanks," she said as she saw him lying on her bed. She grimaced, it was her bed. She didn't want someone lying on her comfortable bed.

Luke looked at the bowl of ice cream and pointed to it. "You ate all that ice cream? Alone?"

Annabeth raised an eyebrow. "Yes, do you have a problem with that?" she questioned, and Luke got up of her bed and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Of course not," he said, a decided gaze on his eyes. "It's just that I know you eat more when you're nervous or worried, and I want to know what the problem is. Do you want to tell me?" he actually looked worried about her, but there was a thing that didn't fix. She didn't know what, but something was wrong, and it wasn't her heart.

Annabeth gave in and let him hold her a while, but she didn't say anything. She couldn't tell her boyfriend that maybe she doesn't love him anymore because she's still in love with her ex-boyfriend, a guy who cheated on her but knew her like the palm of his hand. That could bring her some problems.

"I'll tell you later," she lied. It made her feel bad, but seriously, a girl could not say that.

He kissed her head and put his chin on it. "Fine, as you want honey." He said. Annabeth hated lames nicknames and the fact that he loved call her 'honey' or 'sweetheart'. That wasn't her style, and it will never be. "Wanna do something?" he asked her.

Annabeth shrugged. "Whatever, but I have to go to the studio at seven for the essay," she said, and she felt Luke frown.

"What?" he asked perplexed. Annabeth realized she never told Luke about the whole 'love song project' thing, and it made her feel so bad.

"Oh, I never told you!" she played dumb, and he actually buy it. Annabeth believed that after almost a year of dating, he would notice when she lied or played dumb, but he never realized it. She explained him that she had to work with Percy (he got tense here), that they had to sing a love song together and all that.

"Fine, but if something's wrong, don't doubt to call me," he kind of remained her. She rolled her eyes at it, and Luke kissed her softly in the lips.

And it felt cold and bitter.

A/N= Sorry for the long wait, forgive any grammar mistake, typos or OOCness. Hope you like the chapter and please review! It makes me happy! Any idea is loved here, if you have some doubt, send me a PM!

Love and until the next,

HappyOwl