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AT THE CONCERT (like nearing the end of it)

Thalia's POV
Oh. My. Gods. I think I'm in love... With a little thing called Rock! Seriously, I can't believe I ever said that I'm not a big fan of rock, 'cause obviously I was deaf my whole life until now! I'm planning on expanding my horizons and discovering new and exciting bands with the help of my best friend, and expert on all things rock, Annabeth Chase. I can't believe my parents banned me from listening this genre, it's fucking awesome! The concert, so far, has been awesome and Annabeth and Nico seem to be getting along great. Luke has been a perfect gentle man so far. I love the fact that there are no awkward silences between us, you know? The conversation just seems to flow naturally, and whenever there's a pause Luke always has a story to tell.(he's experienced so much already!). And I learned so much about Luke this way, he's really interesting and that smile, gods, that smile does things to me like no other thing could.

"Hey Thals, I'm having a really great time." Luke yelled at me (the concert was a little bit loud).

"Me too! I'm so glad you decided to bring me with you. Annabeth and Nico seem to be getting along great." I yelled back at him.

"You want to 'enhance' your first concert experience?" He asked me with his charming smile (when did he get so close to me?)

"What do you mean by 'enhance'?" I asked him, confused and a little apprehensive.

Then he showed me a zip-lock bag with these white sticks (?) in them. They kinda looked like cigarettes, but all white with the ends rolled up? I'm not really good at explaining this, but I'm pretty sure that that was drugs. All my life, my dad sheltered me from these things, so of course I was shocked to see this! I don't know how he could have gotten these! They're like illegal or something!

"Is that... How did you get this Luke?" I asked him apprehensively.

"Ehh, couple of my buddies know this guy that know this other guy, you know, the usual sitch. You want a drag baby?" He asked me with that charming smile of his.

"Umm, no thanks Luke. I don't think this stuff is good for you. Why can't you just enjoy the concert without it?" I asked him confusedly.

First he looked a little mad at me, so I was starting to get scared, but then he must've seen the fear in my eyes, because after he looked at me face he smiled again, smoothed out his features and said "You know what? I think I will. I'm on a date with a beautiful girl, got great music around me and good friends. Why would I need to smoke this? Thanks Thals, it's great not to need to do anything, you know? Around my other friends I always have to do something, or else "I'm out" whatever that means." and then he laughed, for a while. Weird.

I smiled back and said "Great! Let's go enjoy the rest of the concert then!"

And it was great. Nico was the first to get back to his place, afterwards the driver drove us back to Annabeth's house, where I was staying for the night. I told my parents that I was staying over at Annabeth's 'cause my parents would flip if they found out that I went on a date with the Luke Castellan. Sometime's you gotta be bad, ya know? Anyway Annabeth went in first, as to and I quote 'Not ruin you finally getting some, lord knows it's long overdue'. Don't I just have the best friend ever?

"Soo, I bet you one kiss that you had a great time today. In fact, probably the best time ever" Luke said haughtily.

"Luke, drop the act." I deadpanned.

"What act?" He asked me confused.

"The whole, 'Player' act, with the back-handed compliments and arrogance. I've known you for a while and I know that you can genuinely be a sweet guy. You know, that guy I fell for back in elementary and never forgot about?" I told him.

He coughed and said "Sooo, you thought about me all the time then?" with an arrogant smirk.

"No!" I exclaimed. "Not all the time. It's just... Whenever my thoughts wander, they always found their way back to you."

He took a deep breath. "Thalia... I really like you know? You make feel safe and it's like I'm 12 again with my whole life ahead of me. Like the biggest problem in the world right now is wether I have cooties because my best friend is a girl or wether I even care if I get cooties because I don't want to lose my best friend. I know I've been acting like a class a jerk, but it's just, I'm like super nervous right now. I've been dreaming about this for years and I guess I'm just scared that you'll realize how great you are and how shit I am." He admitted and then looked down.

"Hey, Luke. Look at me. You may have been acting a little bit like a jerk, but I know that deep down you're still a great guy. I don't care about what you've done since I last saw you, as long as you can promise me that from now on you'll be the same Luke that I fell in love with." I confessed.

"You're in love with me?" He whispered.

I looked at his hopeful expression, for once free of the always lingering arrogant and guarded mask he wore, and was reminded of the Luke Castellan with the mischievous eyes and crooked smile I really fell for way back in the day, and said with absolute conviction "Yes! My gods Luke, yes! I know we've only been on one date, and I hope I'm not scaring you off, but by the gods Luke I'm in love with you, and I'm not afraid to say it."

He smiled at me, but not his charming smile or his arrogant smirk, but the smile I used to see on his face before the world burdened him with reality and robbed him of his innocence. The smile he gave me, was filled with hope, happiness and innocence, the kind you'd see on a 6-year old boy who just found out he there's a chance that he's gonna have breakfast for dinner. And then he gently grabbed my face with his hands and brought my face closer to his and gave me my first kiss. It was short, sweet, shy and absolutely perfect.

Afterwards he whispered "I love you too." and gave me a small smile and then he was gone.

Nico's POV
I was right. I missed Gravity Falls, dammit! *sigh* Guess I'll have to watch it online. Well at least I made a new friend today and even gave her some fashion advice. I know! Me! I actually gave someone fashion advice. Mark my words, someday you'll see my name on a billboard with some of my designs, with Di Angelo written in some fancy script.

Anyway, I just told her to wear what she feels like wearing and to not give a fuck about what people think of her. If she wants to wear band tees, then she should fucking wear bad tees. You've only got a limited amount of fucks to give in this world, does you really want to waste it on unworthy, judgmental not to mention boring 'normal' people who look down on you because they're jealous of the fact that you do what you really want to do, or do you want to spend it on something worthwhile like yourself, music and people that want to help you? When I told her that, she actually agreed and even complimented me by saying "Huh, so you do have a brain up there." Having met and known Annabeth for all but a couple of hours, I took that as a small victory, to be honest.

-Line break-

So Luke and Thalia have been going out for a couple of months now, 6 to be exact, and honestly? They're pretty fucking annoying. They constantly speak to each other in this weird different language, I call it... Relationese (patten pending). It consists out of words like 'Snuggly-bear' and 'Honey-boo' and relies heavily on body language. Being alone with them is just so uncomfortable, you can literally feel the sexual tension and cut it with a knife. I'm just glad Annabeth and Austin were here, 'cause otherwise I think I would've killed myself. Luke though has been acting more like himself again. He seems to have stopped hanging around Ethan and his crew and instead opted for hanging out with me and Austin again. Which is great, I knew Thalia would be good for him. They're great for each other. Thanks to him Thalia seemed to have been experiencing new and exciting stuff and going on more adventures and Luke has been acting a lot more like his former self. They looked really happy together.

Everything, for once, was peaceful and calm. Little did I know, it was the calm before a storm.


I'm really sorry guys, for this way overdue chapter. There was this unexpected... Tragedy, let's leave it at that. I will focus on writing more, and to make it up to you guys I'll post a new chapter by tomorrow. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, it just flew from my fingers to be honest. I didn't really have to think about it, in fact, it just came naturally. Please, tell me how I can improve and what you'd like to see happening, or hey, if you have some constructive criticism it's alway welcome.

As to why there are different POV's, it's a lot easier for the story to progress if you can see the characters progress with it. I know, technically, Nico's telling Percy this story, but it saves a lot more time seeing how different Thalia was back then first-hand by knowing her thought process than by Nico explaining why she did something. See it more as a flashback, like in some movies where a character thinks back on this event where you see things that the character couldn't possibly have seen.

Btw, I know Luke's not a bad guy, but someone's gotta be the antagonist, ya feel? And to be perfectly honest, I don't really like Luke. I mean I acknowledge the fact that he was the one to end the war and I salute and respect him for it, but in a way, didn't he also start it? He did clean up the mess he made... And took away hundreds of lives with him in the process. He played a pivotal role in the war, and was the cause of the death of SO many demigods. A lot of demigods have had bad childhood, but that doesn't mean they'd side with the bad guys who lets be honest, probably would've treated them worse. All demigods resent their godly (and sometimes even non-godly) parents in a way, but they didn'T throw a temper tantrum and decided 'Fuck it. If I can't get what I want I'll make 'em regret it!' Like, WTF? He exploited innocent characters' love and trust for him, and placed a need for love about the duty of demigods. He failed to look beyond his own needs and acknowledge the limitations or, I don't know, Ancient Laws, that bound Hermes. Look at Thalia and Percy. They both had a reason to hate their godly parents and go against the gods, they both had a sucky home life, did they go against the gods? No! They knew what was the greater good and chose the lesser of two evils. Whew, sorry about that guys. Luke's kind of a sore spot for me. I just really did not like him. What about you guys? What did you think of him?

Almost forgot, I posted a poll and I think you guys should check it out. It's about who you guys want him to end up with. I sort of have a general idea in my head, and kind of a plot-line too, but I'm not sure that's what you guys want to read. Frankly I could see this story going different ways, with different outcomes. Right now though, it really depends on what you guys want to see. So please, vote (You get 2 votes) or tell me in the reviews and/or pm me.

That's all, so ciao for now!