A/N: Hello! I know a second time that I've posted two chapters in two days. I'm sure you're all excited that I am! I love weekends because they give me so much more time to do this! Yay! I switched back to Percy's POV for this one because it seemed like it was best that way. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks, again to those who favorited and followed this story, you're all the best! I feel so blessed that people like this story enough to do that for me! :) You are all the best!

sportsfanforever2: Thanks! Well here's the next chapter extra early! *smiles extra brightly* I'm so glad that you find this story that enjoyable!

Forever-Fangirl-PJO-HP: so I take it you had some Percabeth feels? I hope so… I know I did when I was writing the last one :) You should enjoy this one as well! I've switched back to Percy's POV because I missed writing from his viewpoint and thought it'd make this chapter a bit better! Enjoy!

I hope you all enjoy this chapter!


Percy felt like he had stared at the door for a good five minutes just trying to figure out what to do. He didn't know if Annabeth was thinking the same thing he was; if she was wondering what she'd done or, why she'd done it. But then he remembered that Annabeth was one of those girls who had everything figured out. He wished he were like that right now, because how was he supposed to understand the mind of a female?!

He walked home in a state of disbelief plastered to his mind. And although his mind did wander from Annabeth every once in a while, but that was only to stray to the idea of food.

Of course, though, his mom picked up on his change in mood and began questioning it immediately, "What happened? What did you do to her?"

He sat down in the living room chair and looked up at his mom. Her eyes looked like they were worried about him, but he didn't know why. He sighed and leaned his elbows on his knees, "She kissed me, mom." Sally's eyes began to sparkle again.

"Oh, really?" She asked.

Percy nodded, not really sure what else to do.

"And…?" She pried from her son. He shrugged, nothing was spoken and Sally knew exactly what that meant, "You don't know, do you?"

"No, I don't." he sighed and stood up, "I'm going to go swim, I'll be there for a few hours or so." He got up and started packing his swim bag and threw it over his shoulders. He knew that a good long swim would help put everything in perspective.


He had swum for years, and he could never remember a time that before this summer that he hadn't. But of course that really wasn't his own choice to make. Surgery made that decision pretty clear for him. A shoulder surgery would take about six months to heal completely from so he'd just hit his seventh month out of exercise and decided that now would be a great time to start!

So he would start off with just kicking to see how he felt. And honestly he felt slower than the seventy-something year old man that had no experience swimming in the lane next to him. He worked up to a little bit of freestyle, but was taking profuse amounts of time to rest after about a hundred. He felt so upset with himself for hurting himself, but hey at least his mind was off of Annabeth!

He pulled out his kickboard again and began kicking once more. He scoped the whole pool area and his eyes landed on a pretty blonde girl. Honestly if he hadn't known better, he would've been sure it was Annabeth. The girl was reading something on the bleachers, not even thinking to get in the water like any normal person would do.

Then he saw two little boys swim up to the side of the pool and attempt to splash her, "Matthew, Bobby! Stop it!" He heard the girl shriek, throwing her book far behind her as if to save it. Her head whipped around furiously, and he caught her eyes quickly. The girl had gray eyes. It was Annabeth. Fortunately she hadn't noticed him yet. If she did, that would be mortifying. He'd probably move to Alaska and change his name to Chuck. Yeah, that's exactly what he would do.

One of her brothers got out of the pool and told her something and her eyes automatically snapped to Percy. Great, just great. He saw her go red and look away, letting her ponytail block her eyes. Percy knew this move all too well from his school back in New York. Girls did that when they didn't want boys knowing that they were watching you.

She didn't get up and come over to him, so Percy was more than grateful for that, but once he'd wrapped his towel around his waist and slung his bag over his shoulder, he knew he'd have to walk by her, giving her a good opportunity to talk with him.

He saw her look up at him when he was nearing her, and then she set down her book. Not a good sign for him. He tried to hurry past her, but she caught his elbow, "Percy?" she asked not even looking at his eyes. He turned back around, gathering as much courage as he could, but honestly he felt like he was going to be sick, "Uh, yeah. Hey." He gave her an awkward wave. He felt totally out of his element. Why did he have to egg her on to kiss him for "good luck"? Why did he have to be so charmingly handsome that she listened?

"Uh listen, I'm sorry about-" his stomach dropped. No his heart didn't stop, because that would be even more clichéd than this.

"Why are you sorry?" he asked crossing his arms over his chest. He looked at her for an answer.

She shrugged her shoulders, "Well, obviously because it's just really awkward and tense between us."

"Then let's make it less awkward or tense…"

"Annabeth!" He heard someone shout. Luke. He worked of all places at a rec center, "How are you? I haven't seen you in forever." So now the guy was all happy-go-lucky and wanted to actually talk to her, "Anyway, I'm having a party tonight, would you want to come?" She looked over at Percy who was standing there uncomfortably.

Still she shrugged and replied, "I don't know, maybe. I'll see what I can do." With a curt nod, Luke was gone.

"Sorry about that… I don't know why he does that…." "Obviously it's because he likes you!" Percy's internal monologue cried, but didn't say anything.

"Well I'm sorry if I was interrupting you or anything." He didn't mean for it to come out harsh, but it did.

"Percy!" She cried with frustration. She caught a few of his fingers and whipped him back to her, "You weren't. Actually I'm glad I saw you." If Percy was being honest, he loved it when she blushed because it was kind of cute to him. Okay, so more than just a little cute, it was freaking adorable and he knew it.

"So why were you swimming here?"

"Ahh, getting down to the real questions are you, Ms. Chase?" he laughed, "Well I felt like I needed to swim, so I paid to swim here. Nice pool." He added faintly. He could still feel her hand tinkering with his fingers. And before he could stop himself, he was leaning closer to her. She wasn't stopping and neither was he, and finally he kissed her.

He could feel her fingers begin twirling his hair, and he'd be lying if he said that he didn't enjoy it.

He finally pulled away and saw her smiling, "Wow, Wise Girl, who knew you could kiss like that…" She glared at him, but didn't dare pull away.

Instead she said, "Who knew you even knew how to kiss with your head full of seaweed." He laughed at that one. Then he pulled back a little, "So do you want to go out some time? Er, like, um more than uh friends?"

"Hm… I mean I'll have to clear my entire schedule, and that might take some-" He was looking at her with those huge eyes and pouted lips, and she couldn't take that look much longer, "Geez, Percy, no need to make me feel so guilty. Of course I will!" She punched him in the arm.

"So I'll talk to you later- er I mean that I'll find- no I didn't mean it like that!"

"I know, Percy. I'll call you tomorrow, okay?" he started to wave and move away from her, when the logical side of her realized that she needed to get his number, "Wait, Percy! Umm, I don't have your number…" He nodded.

"Well if you wanted it Chase, all you had to do was ask earlier." He laughed writing it down on her hand. Okay, the pen may have shaken and made the numbers kind of hard to read, but he still gave it to her!

Percy had never felt so giddy in his life and was utterly ecstatic that she was going on a date with Annabeth Chase. Wait, he was going on a date with Annabeth Chase. He had to look nice; well at least decent. He had to get a restaurant booked… but he didn't even have a day. He was so helpless.


A/N: I hope you enjoyed! If you have anything you think I could do better, please let me know! This is to make up for the amount of times I've been really slow for updating or when I don't have time to update! Thanks!

-Swimmy