Kevin did not like Percy Jackson, which he suppose he kind of felt bad about, considering the fact that he had never even met him. Kevin had tried many times to get himself to like him, but, after all the things that he had heard about him, it was extremely hard.

Percy was well known in his small group of friends as being Annabeth's boyfriend. Back before he had learned the truth from his friend, Eric, Kevin had been picturing a small and skinny boy with glasses with a nerdy aspect about him. Of course, later when he had been talking to Annabeth, she had shown him a picture of a tall, muscular guy with windswept black hair and sea green eyes. Kevin, although surprised at how wrong he had been when he had previously pictured Percy, remained neutral about how he felt about him until Annabeth had told him more about him.

Apparently, Percy Jackson was some guy from New York City who had been kicked out of. . . seven or eight schools since the time he was in the first-grade. When hearing about this, Kevin had begun to feel a tad bit nervous, but he waited silently as Annabeth told him more about him. As he listened to Annabeth, Kevin had gotten more and more weary about Percy, until he had subconsciously decided that he did not like him at all.

It was just, from all that he had heard about Percy Jackson, he seemed to be the definition of a "Bad Boy", which- after all he had heard about guys like this- made him insanely worried about Annabeth, who he felt deserved better than that.

Over the months, Kevin had relaxed about Percy Jackson somewhat, since Annabeth hardly mentioned him at all, but whenever she had announced that he was coming to stay at her place for spring break- well, needless to say, he had had a small panic attack. So, as the days passed and spring break loomed closer and closer, Kevin had tried to remain close to Annabeth at all times that he was with her, to make sure that she was all right.

Now, however, the moment of truth had arrived, and he was finally about to meet the famous Percy Jackson.

Kevin was standing beside a small stone bench outside of his school as he watched the road in front of him. Behind him, Annabeth was reading a book, which he had been unable to decide was to speed up the time until her boyfriend got there, or to do the opposite, and make time go on longer.

Kevin looked back at Annabeth. "So, when's he supposed to get here, again?" He said, feeling the palms of his hands start to sweat tremendously.

"He's supposed to get here in about five minutes, although more likely than not it will be ten by the time he gets here." Annabeth said, not even looking up from her book.

"Oh." Kevin said, shoving his sweaty hands into his pants pockets.

Annabeth was half right about the arrival time of her boyfriend, since about seven or eight minutes later a blue car pulled up to them.

Kevin immediately tensed as he saw the occupant of the car through the window. Stay calm, stay calm, he thought to himself as the driver's door to the car opened. A guy of about seventeen or eighteen years of age stepped out, a smile stretching from ear to ear across his face.

"Annabeth!" Percy half-said, half-yelled as he raced towards Annabeth and pulled her into a hug.

"Hi, Seaweed Brain. You didn't take as long getting here as I thought you would." Annabeth said.

Percy stepped back, trying his best to look somewhat offended. "What, you thought that I was going to be late, or something?"

"Well, you are late." Annabeth pointed out. "I just thought you would be even later than this."

"Well, it sure feels great that you have such high expectations of me." Percy said sarcastically, and Kevin had to suppress a smile.

Okay, so maybe Percy Jackson wasn't as bad as he thought he would be, but he still didn't trust him.

At that moment, Percy looked over to Kevin, as if he finally realized that he was there. "Who are you?" He asked curiously.

Reluctantly, Kevin stretched out his had in greeting. "Kevin. Kevin Michaels. I'm one of Annabeth's friends."

"Percy Jackson, Annabeth's boyfriend." Percy said, shaking Kevin's hand.

Percy pulled his hand away and turned back towards Annabeth. "You ready to go?" He asked.

"Yes." Annabeth said, smiling.

Kevin watched as Percy took Annabeth by her hand and pulled her over to his car, carefully opening the door for her- which, Kevin noticed, amused, Annabeth did not like at all- and getting in on the driver's side and driving away.

Kevin stood there for a few more moments, thinking about what he had just witnessed. He had been imagining Percy to be extremely moody and rude to everyone, but- strangely- he wasn't, from what Kevin had seen.

Maybe he had been wrong about Percy Jackson. Maybe he was actually a really cool guy that Kevin could be really good friends with. Maybe . . .

Who knows, thought Kevin as he walked away, maybe we actually could be friends, someday.

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