Sooooooo, I can't remember if I posted a chapter yesterday or not...so I will gift you all with two chapters tonight!

I do not own Percy Jackson or the Seven Year Hitch

Married life wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. That is until Annabeth decided to full on accept the role as wife. I thought married life was suppose to be peaches and cream and all that gooey stuff you see in chick flicks. Annabeth played the loving, doting, happy wife for all of a month. Then it started going downhill from there.

"Percy, you know what I've always thought?"

"That Baroque architecture is preferable to Medieval because you like the archways better, even though Notre Dame is your favorite cathedral?"

"Yes, but no. I was thinking about how much yard space we have."

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Well, I've been doodling a little bit in my spare time, and I was just thinking how lovely it would be if we had a gazebo. I have ALWAYS wanted a gazebo in the backyard, wouldn't that be lovely?"

"Of course it would, who are you thinking of hiring to contract it?"

"Oh silly, that takes so much time, I was just thinking you could do it."

"Why?"

Annabeth looked at me with those grey eyes I knew I could never refuse. But I tried. "I mean if it's too much I understand. I just thought with this being your last week of school and all, you would want something to do for the start of the summer. But if you can't, I can always get Luke to come over and build it for us. He's very good with his hands and maybe we'll use it later for an actual wedding."

If i was drinking something I would have spit it out. "No that's alright, HONEY, I'll do it. Just give me the blueprints and I'll get the lumber this weekend and start."

She batted her eyes like it was nothing, something a normal married couple would do. That's what every normal guy married to a woman does. Random building projects until she runs out of things to do. But if it meant saving her from the likes of Luke, it will be worth every splinter I get over the summer.

"So Annabeth, how's the plan to make Percy want to divorce you?" Juniper stopped by for lunch while Percy was out for some teaching seminar.

"Honestly Juniper? Not so good. He's done everything I've asked him to, no matter how crazy it is. I made him build that gazebo a while ago, he trimmed the hedges to look like perfect cubes, he regrouted the bathroom, and even got us new curtains because the old ones were "so 2000"."

I sat down unceremoniously on the couch, and threw my arm over my eyes. For the past three months I had been giving Percy the most ridiculous orders I could think of to get him to divorce me. What was I going to have to do?! Make him vaccuum the driveway?! I huffed out a long breath and tried to get myself under control.

Being married to Percy wasn't so bad, if I really thought about it. Nothing really changed between us. We still hung out because we were best friends, we were roommates before this anyway so our lifestyle didn't change. The only noticeable difference I could detect, would be if Percy and I would be laughing at a movie or something stupid he did, his eyes would light up and we would stop everything productive. But at the end of our giggling fits he would give me this odd look, like there was something he wanted to tell me, but he would just go back to whatever we were doing and life would move on.

As I thought about it more, over the past few years Percy had been giving me that look more and more. One of these days I would have to ask him what he wanted to say so badly, I could tell there was something on his mind that he was bottling up, but I guess I was too preoccupied before to notice. But overall, marriage wasn't that bad.

When the neighbors found out we had "eloped" they sent over enough baked goods and casseroles to last us for a month. When we went out with friends or just hung out together we held hands to seem legit, he would always pull out my chair like a gentleman, or put his arm around my waist if we were in a crowded area so he wouldn't lose me. It was simple gestures that he did that were really endearing, like he actually cared about me in a romantic way. But I knew that wasn't true, at the end of the day we still slept in our individual rooms, and we would wake up the next day and play pretend some more.

"Hey Annabeth?" Juniper asked me.

I hadn't realized I was dozing off. "Yeah June?"

"Does Percy sing "Can't Take my Eyes off You?"

What a weird question. I thought back in my brain, he never usually sang anywhere except in the shower or driving in the car. Now that I thought about it some more, one day I was running late and Percy was taking too long in the shower and I had to brush my teeth and do my hair still. He had forgotten to lock the door so I just came in quietly to do it myself. Unfortunately, the moment I turned on the water to brush my teeth he notice because his water got cold. There was a small argument that I eventually won, but he had been singing that song when I walked in.

"Yeah he sings it in the shower why?"

Juniper just shrugged her shoulders. "You were humming it a little while ago, and I was curious. Because I know you're more of a Beatles fan."

"Remind me again why we're here." I was dressed in the nicest clothes I could find in the closest that weren't teacher clothes or the penguin suit I wore to my cousin's wedding.

Annabeth rolled her eyes at me and continued to scan the crowd in front of us.

"You didn't have to come remember? I said I was going to a business party for Luke's company and you said you wanted to come along."

I grunted a response. The whole point of me wanting to come was to dissuade her from coming. But it hadn't happened. She felt that she had been "ignoring" Luke and this was her way of apologizing. She would show up and wow all of his colleagues and stay attached to him all night. Obviously I couldn't let that happen. So the new plan was to make myself scarce for the night until she caught up with Luke, then I would appear and remind her that we needed to go back home like the good husband I was.

Why can't things ever go as planned?