Okay this chapter takes place when Percy and Annabeth are both 17 and are dating. It's probably summer break and they are staying at CHB. Now, on with the story! Enjoy! Oh, and Please Please Please review! I love it when people review and I usually check out some of their stories! (So you should review...)

P.S. I am going to be posting chapter five for Kylie Cole right after I am done with this, so please read it!

-JaZmIn11

"No, Britney. I'm not going to go out with you. In case you didn't know, I have a girlfriend." I said.

"Come on, Percy. You don't want to date Annabeth when you could go out with me." She squeaked.

I was standing outside my cabin talking to Britney, a daughter of Aphrodite. She kept begging me to go out with her even though I'm dating Annabeth. Britney had short brown hair with regular brown eyes. She was the same age as me, 17, and had a really annoyingly squeaky voice. She has been stalking me all morning.

"Yes, I do want to go out with her. I hardly even know you, and I have known Annabeth for almost five years. We are best friends and boyfriend and girlfriend. That's why we are perfect for each other."

"You two should stay best friends. You can be with somebody so much better looking. You should be with me. You should at least be with an Aphrodite girl."

"Annabeth is beautiful. She doesn't need to looks to be perfect. Even if she was ugly I would still go out with her. Why do all the Aphrodite girls want me to go out with them anyways?"

"Because you don't need to go out with Annabeth. You deserve somebody that is as pretty as you."

"Annabeth is beautiful." I protested.

"But she isn't Aphrodite beautiful." Britney mumbled.

"Really? I met Aphrodite a few years ago, and when I saw her face do you know who's name I almost said? Annabeth's." I said matter-of-factually.

"Oh, yeah. I believe that. You probably only thought that because you were thinking about her, and you liked her."

"I'm still not going to go out with you no matter what you say."

"Just break up with her. I would be a way better girlfriend for you than some stupid daughter of Athena."

"Annabeth is not stupid. She is the smartest person I have ever met."

"Blah, blah, blah. Wow she knows a bunch of useless facts about boring stuff. Who cares? Nobody wants to be with somebody smart when they can be with somebody beautiful."

"Why does everything have to be about looks? I hate those people who just go out with another person just becasue they think they are cute. It's pointless, you're not going to get anything out of the relationship. And I want to be with Annabeth."

"No you don't! Break up with her, go out with me, and actually be happy!"

My voice rose from a regular 'inside voice', as teachers would say, to a shout."Yes, I do want to be with her,and I am not going to go out with you, and I am happy now! I will never break up with her or do any thing else that would make her want to break up with me!"

"Why not?"

"Because I love her!" I heard a small scream come from nearby, but nobody was around besides Britney and me.

She hesitated before she said sarcastically,"Sure you do."

"I do."

"Ugh! You're too complicated! I'll just wait until something happens and you two break up." She started walking away towards her cabin.

I leaned against the wall of the Poseidon cabin and slid down until I was sitting with my back pressed against the outside wall. "Yeah, were diffidently going to be breaking up soon." I said to myself with heavy sarcasm. I closed my eyes and breathed slowly.

"Percy?" a girl said. I immediately knew whose voice it was. I opened my eyes and saw Annabeth, taking her Yankee's hat off, standing over me. Her curly blonde hair was tied back in a high pony tail. She was wearing her CHB t-shirt and faded blue jeans. Her eyes were watery.

"Annabeth, were you listening to that whole conversation?" I asked afraid that she heard the part were I said that I loved her. I did love her, but I wasn't sure if she loved me back. It might have been too early in our relationship to be saying that we loved each other.

"I'm sorry, Percy. I was walking over to your cabin and saw you talking to Britney. I wanted to hear what you guys were talking about, so I went and grabbed my hat and kinda eavesdropped on you. I heard most of the conversation."

"Oh."

"Did you mean everything you said about me?" I lifted my head and nodded slightly. "You meant it when you said I was beautiful and smart and that were perfect for each other? Did you mean it when you said that last part to her? That you lo-"

"Annabeth, everything I said about was completely true. I do think that you are beautiful and incredibly smart. I do think that we are perfect for each other. I do love you, Annabeth. I really do."

Annabeth sat down hard on the ground in front of me. She pulled her hair out of her pony tail and shook her head. She put her head in hands, and I scooted closer to her. I took her hands and wrapped mine around them. I took our interlaced hands and lifted her head. I looked her in the eyes.

"Annabeth, I really don't care if you don't love me back. As long as you care for me, I would be happy."

"No, Percy, of course I love you back. I just wanted to hear it come from you to me first. I didn't want to over hear it by accident."

"Annabeth, it doesn't matter where or how you heard it as long as you know it's true and that I mean it ."

"Okay." She said softly.

I leaned closer towards Annabeth and kissed her softly on her cheek. I was leaning back when Annabeth grabbed me by the shirt and pulled me into a better kiss on the lips. Her lips were cold dispite that warm, summer air. She kissed me until we heard a growl. I pulled back and looked over Annabeth's shoulder. She saw me looking and turned around.

Britney was standing there glaring at Annabeth. "So, I'm guessing you didn't break up with her yet." She said through gritted teeth.

"He's not going to break up with me." Annabeth spoke for me.

"Give it a week at tops. You two will be over and Percy and I will be the new couple."

Annabeth stood up fast and took out her Celestial Bronze knife. She pressed the flat of the blade against Britney's neck. "Shut up, and I won't press this blade right through your neck."

I would have said something, but I knew if I did that blade might be pressed against my throat.

Britney held up her hands defensively. "That's what everybody from the Aphrodite cabin thinks."

Annabeth's hand that was holding to her knife dropped to her side, and Britney let out a soft sigh of releif. Annabeth turned around and faced me. She looked me in the eye and said to Britney, "Well, you all are wrong. We aren't going to be breaking up because I love him, and he loves me. So just get out of here and don't ever flirt with my boyfriend again, or this blade will have your blood on it."

Britney scampered away without another word.

I walked up to Annabeth and hugged her tightly. She hugged me back, and I heard her blade dropped to the floor. The conch horn sounded, signaling dinner time. I pulled back from Annabeth and grabbed her left hand. I played with the finger next to her pinky, the ring finger, and thought to myself, I can't wait until I propose now.