CHAPTER 7
Solace awaited Annabeth's response. She sat there in the back seat of the company car in her grey silence with her arms folded across her chest.
"It's true. They knew each other since childhood. I'm not sure of their relationship though." he said as he handed her a photo.
She took it, still with her expressionless face and grey hard eyes. It was a picture of Percy Jackson and Reyna Arellano taking a selfie in their cap and gown at their high school graduation. They both looked genuinely happy. Annabeth had never seen Percy smile like that.
"Miss Chase, you should have waited until I gave you the report before you went and dated him. You don't know who he might truly be, Miss."
Her eyes snapped up to him, making him flinch a bit.
"I make my decisions myself. You just do your job and stick well to it, Solace."
"Yes, of course, Miss."
"Good, if you find anything, be sure to report."
"Yes, I will." he said as she opened the car door and got out.
She wasn't going to tell Percy that she knew anything. It didn't matter...
It all didn't matter...
Unfortunately for her— She was in deep.
Fallen completely in love with the green eyed man who surely had ulterior motives of approaching her.
Annabeth shook her head, ridding of her thoughts.
It didn't matter.
It just didn't matter…
two weeks later….
"Hello beautiful." a green eyed beautiful man said as he wrapped his arms around the blonde's waist. He pushed her hair to the other side of her shoulder and kissed her neck, "How was your lunch date with your friends?"
She turned her head and smiled up at him, "Rather nice. How was work?"
"Bearable." he said against the skin of her neck, "I need to take you to work with me more, though. I'm lonely without you."
He couldn't help but genuinely mean it.
She turned around to face him and placed a hand against his chest and the other against his cheek, making him lean into it, "Did you have dinner yet?"
His lips turned up in a sweet smile, "Yes, I did."
She let her lips reach his neck this time then she started kissing his warm skin as her fingers started unbuttoning a few buttons of his shirt and dipping under to feel his bare chest.
"Good, cuz I didn't have time to make anything..." she said with a smile against his skin.
He shuddered from her hot breathes and sweet caresses. Her fingers continued their way down his shirt and then made their way to the buttons of his jeans. She then pushed him down on the couch and got on top of him, successfully making his heart flutter in his chest. It was usually Percy who was in charge of the girl he was playing, but the blonde on top of him wasn't like any other girl. She liked to be dominant and he admittedly liked that trait about her.
Her soft lovely lips kissed down his chest and abdomen.
"Annabeth…" he breathed heavily, bringing her face up to kiss his lips.
He couldn't let her go any further. Ever since they started dating, he had always stopped things from getting too passionate from fear that he might lose it and…...- ruin her even more when she finds out that he was simply playing her for his revenge...
— by being intimate with her. He just couldn't bring himself to do it. He would have done that easily to any other girl.
Did that mean?
He shook his head and pulled away from her, making her groan in frustration. That beautiful expression of hers was so curiously unreadable- it almost made him lose his resolve. He used his fingers to gently brush away the strands of her hair and hold her chin.
"I'm sorry, Annabeth. But, I should go take a shower and go to sleep. My work shift is early tomorrow."
Her grey beautiful eyes narrowed slightly at him as she got off of him, "I don't mean to sound like some sexually desperate girlfriend, but…" she ran her fingers through her hair, "Why do you never seem to want to sleep with me?"
Her question made Percy's eyes widen with shock.
He continued to play with her hair and gave her a smile, "Because…I want to wait…make it special with you— You get that, right?"
She looked at him for a moment with her striking grey eyes, then broke out into a smile. She brought her lips down to kiss him, before standing up to go up to her room.
"Go take your shower, Percy. I'm going to take one too before going to sleep." she said before looking back at a wide eyed Percy, "Night."
The blonde then went up the stairs, leaving Percy to sit there with his shirt and pants buttons still undone.
She knew something...
"Annabeth…" he said softly to himself.
His phone started ringing so he picked it up.
"Hello?"
"I heard you and Annabeth are dating officially now." A familiar voice said to him.
"You're a few weeks late, Reyna."
There was silence at the other end.
He heard her let out a scoff at the other end, "Why are you dealing with my step daughter so slowly? You work faster than this, Percy. Aren't I right?"
"I'm not going to let her go until I'm done with you."
"Ha, don't blame your childish revenge. You're falling for the girl, aren't you.. Jackson?"
"No." Something flared in his chest when he said it, "I'm guessing you can't come up with any other ideas of trying to stop me, Reyna, seeing as how you're desperately trying to batter me down with your words."
He could hear her hesitation through the phone.
"I could get rid of you right now if I could, Percy." she said in a dangerous tone.
"But you won't."
More hesitation.
Percy smirked, "Because, Reyna…
I know that…
you still love me..."
After hanging up his phone, Percy sat there on his couch with his head hung low.
From these first few weeks he and Annabeth had been dating he had noticed so many endearing habits of hers that blazed something further inside of him. It felt foreign.
He was scared of it.
Scared of the effect she had on him.
The plan was to play Annabeth Chase and use her to get back at Reyna, but…
there was no denying it..
He was slowly starting to genuinely care for her.
He was the one falling deeper and deeper dangerously fast.
His thoughts for revenge were slowly dwindling.
Because of one girl?
Annabeth lay on her bed with the back of her palm rested on her forehead.
Percy Jackson: complete player of girls…
She only assumed, but since Reyna warned her that he might be a player that one time— it was probably right.
A soft light smirk appeared on her lips.
She fell for a player.
Letting out a sigh, she rolled over to her side.
I must really have fallen deep for him, because I can't bring myself to hate the guy at all...
How pathetic...
She suddenly heard Percy open the door to her room. She kept her eyes closed as he went up to her bed and got in with her. His warm arms slid around her waist and he pulled her closer to him making her heart beat faster. His lips lightly brushed over the back of her neck and she barely caught the words that escaped from his mouth.
"I'm sorry…" his breathes rolled over her skin, making her heart skip a beat, "Annabeth…."
Reyna sat on the edge of the bath tub in the bathroom from her room, staring down at her phone in her hand.
Her fingers gripped hard around it.
She was the one who had chosen her way to the elite way of life over her greatest love. She was the one who had made Percy into a revenge thirsty monster.
So that's why she had to be the one to take care of and end this situation.
Percy Jackson. You've underestimated me.
Annabeth woke up still in Percy's arms. She let out a soft breathe and turned around in the man's warm embrace to face him. He looked absolutely gorgeous asleep. Her fingers lifted up and touched lightly over his closed eyes, his nose, and then his lips.
His hand suddenly went up and caught her wrist gently. Percy's eyes opened and he stared into her grey ones.
She gave him a smile that lit him up inside, "You were awake?"
"Yeah." he said, leaning over to kiss her nose then her lips before getting off the bed towards the bathroom.
Percy went inside and splashed water on his face.
If she knew something, wouldn't she be angry as hell?
He let out a breathe and brought his hand up to press against his forehead.
As always, he couldn't read her at all…
He turned his head to the slightly opened door of the bathroom. Her back was faced to him as she pulled off her shirt to put on another one. He averted his eyes from her exposed back. He had seen her exposed before, but seeing her expose herself nowadays made his heart beat faster and his face get hot-really hot. He didn't know what was going on with him. This wasn't just a simple attraction to some hot girl's bod. This...was just so different. So different it was unsettling. He splashed more water on his face to clear his thoughts, then wiped his face with a towel.
He then walked out of the bathroom to see that Annabeth had fully dressed into a dark navy sweatshirt and grey leggings. She sat on the edge of the bed with one leg propped up so that her chin could rest on her knee. He leaned his arm against the wall next to him and smiled at her, "Hey, if you don't have anything planned today, I'd like to go on a date with you."
She smiled back, "Is it some special occasion?"
"Do I need a reason to want to spend a day with my girlfriend?"
Her smile grew larger, "No, I guess not."
They stood hand in hand in front of a restaurant Percy had led her to. It was fancy and one of the many restaurants he took all the girls he met to. But, as he expected, Annabeth didn't look impressed. In fact, she looked a bit troubled about something.
Percy wrapped his arm tighter around her huggable waist, and led her into the restaurant. They were seated by the waiter who became very nervous seeing Annabeth there. He knew who she was and made sure that they got the best seat next to the window.
Percy noticed Annabeth's expression again "What's wrong?"
She looked up at him with her striking grey eyes that matched the cloudy blanket that was the sky outside the window.
"This is all appreciated and all. But..."
"But what?"
"What I really want is a normal, authentic date with you, Percy."
"This is-"
She smiled and reached out to hold his hand across the table, catching him successfully off guard, "No, it's not, Percy. You're trying to impress me and don't get me wrong-I think it's really adorable that you would do that for me." she smiled even wider, making him blush a bit, "But I'm sort of tired of the same old fancy lifestyle. I already had a lot of those fancy dates. What I really want- is a real date a regular couple has."
He scratched the back of his head in a nervous way, "Well, I've never really gone on a real date in a while, so I don't- I just have no-"
She took a hold of his hand, stopping his stuttering, "Come on, I'll help you." The blonde beauty then started pulling the shocked green eyed Percy out of the restaurant, ignoring the judging glares she got from the other customers, and to the subway station.
Annabeth then took him on a couple dating spree. They went to the movies, they ate burgers, they went to an arcade, then finally went to take a nice, relaxing walk in the park. He was now sitting on the grass with his legs outstretched and Annabeth's head rested in his lap.
Every spot they went to, every second with her- there was never a boring moment. It made him notice so many more things about the girl...
Like how she constantly ate popcorn throughout the movie and never let go of his wrist at the frightening moments.
And how she blamed him for never showing her the delicious world of fast food and the burger.
And how she beat him at every arcade game.
And how she lightly brushed the soft tips of her fingers over his knuckles when she held his hand...
He brushed through her blonde waves gently with his fingers as she fed him a spoonful of frozen yogurt after she had her own bite. She smiled when she accidentally got yogurt on his nose. He gave her an exaggerated frown, to which she laughed a laugh that was music to his ears.
"Wipe it." he said, pointing to his nose.
"No." she said still with a laugh, "You look good with yogurt."
"Oh, really." he said pondering it for a moment, before wiping the yogurt off his face and onto her nose. "You do too."
It was her turn to give him a mock frown, "I hate you."
He laughed genuinely at that, "I love you too."
"Now you have to do something for me."
"Why?"
"Because you're the guy in this relationship."
He chuckled again, "Alright, what do you want me to do for you?"
"Carry me all the way home."
His brows raised in amusement, then to her surprise, he suddenly swung her up in his arms bridal style.
"Percy, I was kidding."
His green eyes sparkled down at her, "Oh, It's fine. I owe you one anyway for making this the best date ever."
"Aw. Thanks, Percy. You know what though? You can give yourself... 2 percent of the credit."
"Wow, that's so much. I couldn't-really."
She broke out into a smile at his sarcasm, "Alright." she said as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "2.5 percent of the credit."
"Thanks, I will" he said as he started carrying her over to their apartment.
She rested her head comfortably in the crook of his neck.
"Good."
-Line break-
Annabeth had fallen asleep by the time they got to the apartment. He smiled sweetly at the blonde and carried her up to her room. He then pulled the covers over her and leaned down to kiss her lightly on the forehead, then the nose and lastly the lips. He remained on her lips for a while before finally pulling away.
Percy then looked down at her with troubled, brooding eyes.
Shit.
He was falling for her...
Author's Note:
Here it is! The next chapter! Enjoy it guys. :D