Hey guys! I'm home and thought I'd update.
Someone reviewed on my last chapter, "I guess this is the end :(". WHAT?! NOOOOO. I guess it seems like a conclusion BUT IT IS NOT. I haven't even started the branching off thing yet, just light foreshadowing that you will be hard-pressed to find in the last chapter, unless you're a Hufflepuff ;)
Anyway, here you guys go. Thanks so much for your continued support!
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Chapter 7
Percy's POV
I led Annabeth eagerly through the streets. Central Park was the perfect place to go. She hadn't been yet and I knew she would love it. She walked side by side with me, smiling absent-mindedly, not talking. Her hand hung loosely in mine.
"Central Park?" She asked as we neared our destination.
"Well, yeah. I know it's cheesy but I just think that since you haven't been yet, we should go because it's fun and stuff."
"Yeah, I think it's great. But weren't you hungry?"
"Right." I stopped to rummage around in my backpack. I found what I was looking for and pulled it out of the bag triumphantly. "Redvine?" I asked, offering her the bag.
"Sure. What the Hades can't they do?" She grabbed it out of my hand and stuck it in her mouth. We continued to walk down the street until we finally reached Central Park. After walking around for a little bit, we sat down on a bench and talked.
"So how did you even convince your dad to let you go?"
"Well, I told him that I needed to work on Olympus and that Olympus is in New York, and I would be following my dreams on a more direct path if I could design Olympus while I was there. That pretty much sold him."
"So nothing about me?"
"No offense Percy, but I don't think my dad would be too happy with knowing that part of my reason for coming is to see you," she joked, leaning her head on my shoulder contentedly. "I missed you."
I smiled. What three words could do. "I missed you too, Wise Girl. A lot."
"That's such a stupid name," she mumbled into my shoulder.
"You know you love it."
"You know mine is ten times more creative."
I considered. "Fair enough." She smiled and looked up at me.
"What time is it?"
I looked at my watch. "Eleven."
She jumped up. "Eleven?! We need to get back to school if we want to be on time for class!" She grabbed my wrist and hauled me up from the bench. She was surprisingly strong. She started running down the sidewalk at lightning speed and I had to sprint to keep up with her.
"Annabeth, it's fine we have like fifteen minutes and it only takes us ten to walk back."
"I will not be late!" She called over her shoulder. I chuckled and ran after her. Same old Annabeth.
We reached school ten minutes before our next class started.
"See Percy, we would have been late if we hadn't run here," Annabeth said. She was standing over me while I sat down on a bench, catching my breath. Normally, I would have told myself to get in shape if a girl could run better than I could, but this is Annabeth we're talking about here. If anyone could outrun me, it's her.
"We still have ten minutes," I argued pointlessly.
"Ten minutes is not a very long time Percy," she scolded.
"Well, well, well," someone said. She stiffened and turned around to find Hayley staring at her.
"Hayley."
"Annabeth."
"What's up?" Annabeth asked cheerfully.
"What's up is that you and Percy will never happen. You don't deserve him and you never will. You know why? Because you're just a girl he knows that he'll dump for me in no time, because you're just a phase. He doesn't really care about you at all, really. He's just trying to make me jealous." My eyebrows rose higher and higher as she spoke. "You're just a little lost puppy he keeps around out of pity."
"Mm, bet you're real proud of yourself thinking that one up," she said calmly. I was about to step in but Annabeth put her hand on my chest to keep me back.
"I didn't come up with it, it's true. You and him won't last a week. He'll leave you for me and that's the end of the story. You're a pathetic little loser, and I'm, well-" at this she laughed and tossed her hair back, "I'm me. Which is ten times more preferable than you." She looked Annabeth up and down with a look of disgust. I was about to punch a locker.
Annabeth, however, seemed unfazed. "Well bless your heart sugar. You must've been the first of your litter." (A/N I really really really loved the Beautiful Creatures movie.)
Hayley looked somewhat taken aback, as did her friends, while Annabeth just looked bored, even though I knew it was killing her inside. I put my arm around her waist and tried to steer her away, but she didn't budge.
"No I'm going to finish this." I searched her face and all I could see what determination.
"Listen. I'm sorry I slapped you. But I know thats not what your mad about. You're mad about Percy and I. You can't wrap it around your head that we're happy. We've been friends since we were twelve. We started dating last summer, and I can honestly say that it's been the happiest few months of my life." I feel a smile start to spread on my face. I'm about to add that I feel the same way, but she's on a roll.
"The point is, we aren't breaking up any time soon. And if we did, he wouldn't want to date you because even if we weren't dating, we would still be friends, and Percy doesn't consort with people who are rude the ones that he loves."
Hayley looked like she had just broken a nail- in other words, mad. Before she could retaliate, Annabeth walked away. I caught up to her.
"That was... AMAZING."
"Thanks. Years of practice dealing with the bitch fires."
"What? I didn't follow any of that."
She sighed. "I've had years of practice with people like her saying things like that," she explained.
"You mean... people bullying you?"
"Yeah, but it really doesn't matter, let's go-"
"Yes, it does matter, Annabeth," I say, pulling on her arm to keep her in front of me. See looked like she would rather drown herself than have this conversation.
"It really doesn't."
"Is that why you refused to-"
The bell cut my off with a loud ring. Annabeth breathed a sigh of relief and started off to class.
"This conversation isn't over," I yelled as I started to walk in the other direction.
If someone had ever hurt Annabeth, I needed to know. And even though she didn't want to talk about it, I was going to find out.
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