Annabeth's POV:

When Percy left that night, I went back to my room, ignoring Piper and Grey's usual bickering. Seriously, they could be an old married couple if they weren't in their twenties. As I got back into my room, Matthew was asleep. I gently sat next to him. I looked at him as he peacefully slept. It reminded me when I would tuck in both him and Bobby. Bobby... Thinking of him, and looking at Matthew flooded me with memories. Memories with Percy in it. It wasn't the first time Percy had tucked in Matt, he also did with Bobby. Once we were watching a movie and they fell asleep on us, so we had to tuck them in, or that day when we sang all the High School Musical songs, Bobby and Matt were so tired that they fell asleep. The moment I looked at Matt, I was flooded with memories. I remembered that one time that they secretly watched a horror movie and had nightmares and came to me for comfort and ended up sleeping next to me. I remembered when dad died and they had nightmares, I would comfort them. I remembered when they would cry him and I would be there to comfort me, and soon after call Percy to tell him to come over to comfort me. I remembered when... I killed Bobby, when I pushed him, when I didn't see those roots and rock... how Athena wasn't there; how she scolded me instead of comfort me, how she treated me like I was some kind of robot and act like nothing ever happened. She wasn't there... she never has been.
Before I realized what I was doing, I had grabbed a pen and a notebook, went to Piper's room to borrow her desk and started writing a song. I just kept going, writing words and melody, I was like in trance and I didn't even realize that tears were streaming down my cheeks. I silently cried as I wrote the song... I cried, cried and cried, in fact some parts of the paper were wet with my silent, painful tears. As I was done, I looked at the paper and read the lyrics. I had stopped crying now, but the pain was still there. I closed the notebook, hid it in my desk drawer. I grabbed my pajamas, went to the bathroom and changed into it. As I got back to my room, I looked at Matthew again. His sheets were almost all off of him and he started to shiver. I walked to him and covered him with the bed sheets. I then sat on the bed next to him. I lightly stroke his face, which was exactly like Bobby's. Their only difference between them was that Matthew was slightly taller than Bobby. I leaned down to kiss his forehead, but something held me back... guilt... guilt that I had taken his twin brother away from him. I was about to sit back up to go to my bed but he wrapped an arm around my neck in his sleep.

"Annie, stay..." he said in his sleep. I tried to get up and go to sleep, but in the end... little brother cuteness won. I laid down beside him as he laid his head on my shoulder, in search of body heat and his arm tightened around my neck as his hand knotted in my now loose blonde hair. It was a habit both he and his brother had. At the thought a single tear ran down my cheek as I closed my eyes, but it didn't take much that I fell into a dreamless sleep.

Percy's POV:

Aaaaaaand...DONE! I had just finished a new song. I called it Begin Again. Getting that coffee with Annabeth inspired this song. I thought about that coffee meeting and how I felt with Annabeth. I haven't felt like that since... her. The one that broke my heart 8 months ago, but with Annabeth it felt different... I don't know, I just know that she was the only one who managed to inspire me a song, without wanting to. I looked at the clock and saw I was going to be late for class. I got up, went to the bathroom and took a quick shower. As I got out I put a towel around my waist and looked at myself in the mirror. Shave, or not to shave? That was the question. I have to get dressed, prepare my bag, go to the gas station or I would have to go to work by foot, and go to school all in 30 minutes... hmm... I looked at myself again in the mirror and made up my mind. Fry it! I look good with a little stubble anyway. With that final thought I got out of the bathroom, grabbed a pair of underpants, put on a pair of jeans, a white shirt and a black wool sweater and my favorite pair of Converse. I prepared my bag and after a crazy morning, I finally got to class. After my college classes I went straight to work. I wanted Thalia to listen to the song. As I walked into the building towards the recording room, I heard a screeching voice coming from inside. Thalia... and definitely not in the recording booth. In fact as I opened the door Thalia was arguing with Annabeth about the song.

"Annabeth, this song is too difficult and too high. I can't reach it without going in falsetto!" Thalia argued.

"If you go in falsetto the song looses a lot"

"Then you sing it and try to hit those notes without going in falsetto!"

"No, Thalia, I'm NOT singing!"

"Ha! You can't reach them either!"

"Of course I can, I wrote it!"

"What's the problem, ladies?" I asked, getting their attention.

"Annabeth here, wrote a song that, it's beautiful indeed, but it's too difficult!" Thalia explained.

"Let me see" I said. Annabeth passed me her song notebook. I read the song and looked at her notes about notes, melody, rhythm and all that other stuff. "Do you mind if I try it?" I asked them.

"Percy, I don't think you can do this song" Annabeth said.

"Why? Because I'm a tall man with a deep voice when he speaks and has low notes when he sings? You don't think I can get that high?" I said sarcastically.

"Apart from that, mainly because you're a man, and this song is a tuned for a woman. You should have a really big vocal extension to do this" she explained. I smirked.

"Try me" Annabeth raised her hands in surrender and gave me the paper with the lyrics. I got into the booth and put my headphones on.

"This is a temporary music track we did with the band" Thalia said. I gave her a thumbs up and the music started. (A/N: Look for "Trevin Hunte: The greatest love of all (studio version)" on Youtube. This is how I think Percy sounds)

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Everybody's searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs
A lonely place to be
And so I learned to depend on me

I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

And if, by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

When I finished the song, I nonchalantly took off my headphones and got out of the booth. Thalia was staring at me with wide eyes and her jaw on the floor. Annabeth had her arms crossed over her chest and had a slight side smile on her lips.

"Well, not bad for a 6'4" man, huh? Why don't you admit that I was awesome?" I said handing Annabeth back her song.

"Like if it weren't enough to boost your ego, Seaweed Brain" she said getting back her notebook.

"Love the lyrics, though" I added "Looks like the park is not only my place for song inspiration. Really, this song is beautiful. It's the special thing about your songs, they have lyrics that actually mean something" I said staring into her eyes.

"Oh, well... thanks, I guess" she said staring back.

"Ahem!" We were interrupted by Thalia's loud fake-coughing. "Okay, alright... you were good. Maybe you should sing this song"

"I think so!" someone said from behind us. We turned around and saw Chiron in an IM message.

"Chiron!" we said in unison.

"Hi, guys! How are you all?"

"Good!" Thals and I said while Annabeth shrugged.

"So, I messaged you because we are going to celebrate Christmas at Camp and we wanted to have a singing/dancing show in the Amphitheatre. Annabeth I already told Grey and Piper, and they agreed. You three should come, especially you three: T-Grace, Percy and Annabeth" Chiron said.

"I'm in!" Thalia said.

"So am I!" I added.

"I need to think about it" Annabeth said.

"Come on, Wise Girl! Don't be such a party pooper! This song you wrote was great!" I said.

"I don't want to sing!" she replied glaring at me

"There she goes with that crap again..." Thalia muttered not-so-silently

"Annabeth, if you want you can write the songs and play them and somebody else can sing them" Chiron said. Annabeth thought for a moment. "Please?" Chiron said "For your centaur dad?" he added. Annabeth sighed in defeat.

"Alright..."

"Great! Be here at Camp by next week, we need to get lots of things ready. Oh, and there will be both your mortal and immortal families" Chiron said and disappeared from the IM, before we could complain. We all looked at each other.

"Well" Thals said "Looks like we need to prepare some songs" she said clasping her hands together "So, Perce... you got any new songs?"

"Actually I do" I answered taking out my pieces of paper with the lyrics "Annabeth can you lend me your guitar?"

"Bring your own guitar" she answered. I glared at her.

"Next time" I said and grabbed her guitar anyway.

Annabeth's POV:

I sighed shaking my head as Percy grabbed my precious guitar and sat on a stool in front of us. He was about to tune it when I told him it already was. He then got rady to play and started strumming my guitar. The melody was nice, and soft. I liked it, and so did Thalia. Then he started singing. (A/N: I had to change a little bit of the lyrics)

Took a deep breath in the mirror
She didn't like it when I wore these shoes
But I do
Turn the lock and put my headphones on
She always said he didn't get this song
But I do, I do

Walked in expecting you'd be late
But you got here early and you stand and wave
I walk to you
I pull your chair out and help you in
And I don't know how nice that is
But you do

And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid
I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause she never did
I've been spending the last eight months
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
But on a Wednesday in a cafe I watched it begin again

You said you never met one boy who
Had as many Taylor Swift records as you
But I do
We tell stories and I don't know why
You're coming off a little shy
But you do

But you throw your head back laughing like a little kid
I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause she never did
I've been spending the last eight months
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
But on a Wednesday in a cafe I watched it begin again

And we walked down the block to my car and you almost brought him up
Then I start to talk about the movies that my family watches
Every single Christmas so you won't to talk about that
And for the first time what's past is past

'Cause you throw your head back laughing like a little kid
I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause she never did
I've been spending the last eight months
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
Then on a Wednesday in a cafe I watched it begin again
Yeah, then on a Wednesday in a cafe
I watched it begin again

Percy had kept his eyes on me for the whole entire song. That song was about me. He basically put in a song that coffee-hang out after we met at the park. I didn't know how to feel. Another thing that shocked me was the sentence he said in the song "What's past is past" it was the same thing my mother told me. The other thing was that, he basically said… he had feelings for me. Did I have to be angry? Happy? I don't know! I just know that the second after I realized that song was about me I got up, got my coat and bag and put them on as I got out of the room.

"Annabeth, wait!" Percy said, but I ignored him and carelessly closed the door behind me. I heard the door open up a second later. I didn't need to know who it was. "Annabeth, wait! Please!" Percy said catching up to me. "Wait! At least tell me why are you so upset" he said.

"I'm not upset!" I snapped.

"Then you would still be in that recording room, and not running away" That got me to stop. I immediately turned around glaring at him.

"What the Hades was that all about?" I demanded angrily.

"What?" he said not understanding.

"That song Percy! If you want to write a song about someone, at least make it a little less obvious. That song was about me! I get it that years back you wrote a love song about falling in love with your best friend, but that was because of an upcoming project, now what? Why did you write a love song putting me into it?" I yelled.

"Why? Because what happened was true. You know it as well as me that that day, you managed not to think about Bobby, not to feel guilty about something you didn't do! You said it yourself that the manticore hit Bobby in the head. The monster killed him, not you! You were trying to protect him!" Every word he said stung me with guilt. It was the story I told everyone... no one knows what really happened. No one knows I killed him. Anger boiled inside of me.

"Shut up, Percy! Don't you dare bring Bobby into this! You don't know anything! You weren't there! You weren't the one who saw her own brother die!" I had my coat still opened and I did probably the stupidest thing I could do. I grabbed the hem of my shirt and revealed the long scar that went from my stomach to my waist, just above my hip-bone. It was where the manticore had hit me. Percy's eyes widen as he saw it "You don't have a reminder of that day, craved in your skin! So stop bringing Bobby in the conversation!" I said and covered the scar.

"Annabeth, what happened that day?" he said looking shocked.

"You don't need to know and it's none of your business!" I snapped.

"I understand that singing, Matt's presence, me and all the things that remind you of Bobby hurt you, but if you don't let anyone in, you'll just keep hurting yourself"

"And what do you suggest?"

"Talk to me" he simply replied "Talk to me, but don't keep everything bottled in. It'll make you go insane. I know it hurts, but you need to move on. Life doesn't wait for you, you can't stay anchored to the past, you need to look at the present, think about your future. You told me that"

"I was just trying to push you so you could get into a decent University"

"It doesn't make a difference" he said "I thought about my future and successfully got accepted to all the Universities I applied to. Why can't you do the same when what's at stake it's not a University but it's your life?"

"How I deal with my life, is none of your concern!"

"Damn it, Annabeth! Since when did you become so unreasonable? Five years ago, reasoning would have been the only thing that would have gotten you to do something!"

"Things change, Percy and... people change"

"No, shit Sherlock" he muttered beneath his breath "You're right... people change" there was a pause then Percy spoke up again. "You know, most of the time, I feel like I'm talking to a complete stranger. I feel like I don't know you anymore" I feel like I don't know myself anymore... I thought. "But" Percy said "I believe that deep inside, the Annabeth I once knew is still there, and I'm determent to get her back"

"This is who I am, Percy. You don't like it, deal with it! You can't change who I am, give it up!"

"There you go again! The Annabeth I once knew would know better that I'm not trying to change you, I want to help you! Once you would have never told me to give up, because you would never give up on something! I know you, Annabeth and this is not who you are"

"Why do you care?"

"Because I'm your best friend"

"This still doesn't give you a reason to write a love song about me, when we both know that none of us has feelings for the other!"

"See? Why do you make yourself believe that nobody would ever love you?"

"Why would they? Since you said yourself that this 'new me' treats everyone like crap" I replied "That song you wrote years back, didn't mean anything. You wrote it for an upcoming project. With this song... there's nothing between us" I said.

Yeah, right... give me a break! Athena said into my head.

Shut up, Athena! Not now I thought back

You know he's right, though she said.

"Lucky was not just a song" Percy said looking at me in the eyes. I could see hurt in his sea-green orbs "It wasn't just for an upcoming project" he continued taking a step closer to me "And it certainly means something to me" that was taking me by surprise.

"Then care to explain! What does a love song mean between two people that don't have anything?"

"It means..." Percy trailed off looking nervous.

"What?" then he did the unexpected. He quickly took a couple of steps closer to me, grabbed my face between his palms and kissed me. What surprised me even more was that I kissed back and I felt something. It felt like when we were 17 again. It felt right and I felt like I liked kissing him. My hands tangled in his black locks as he placed his on my waist. Then as realization struck on me, I placed my hands on his chest and pulled away. I looked at him shocked and his expression wasn't much different.

"You shouldn't have done that" I said and walked away leaving him there. As I left, there was one thing he was right about: I can't keep everything bottled up. I took out my phone and dialed my house's phone number and one of my roommates picked up.

"House Cooper, Chase, McLean. Who is it?"

"Grey, it's Annabeth" I said. After that little argument between him and Percy it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do to tell him about what happened, but Grey no matter how hard I tried to get him to leave me alone was a close friend of mine. He probably was just being overprotective, like he had been with Piper.

"Whoa, what's that voice?" he asked as soon as he heard me.

"Mine?" I couldn't help it, it came out natural

"I'm serious"

"I need to talk to you"


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P.S.

You should definitely listen to Trevin Hunte