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Annabeth's POV

"I'll tell you everything, but first you need to tell me how you knew about the text." My heart was pounding out of my chest at this point and my hands were shaking uncontrollably. I hid them behind my back.

"Well" Percy started. "Remember when I dropped you off at the café yesterday?"

"Yeah." Percy rubbed his neck, a nervous habit I've noticed.

"Well y-your phone uh beeped and I-I was going to give it to you and I-I accidently clicked on it, and um saw the message!" he admitted sheepishly. His face reddened a little and my pounding heart melted for a second.

"I-It's okay. Thanks?"

"No prob!" The room fell silent for a second before he asked

"Soooo…who was the text from?" Here we go.

"I…you might want to sit down. This is kinda a long one."

"Okay" he said looking around before settling on my bed. I sit beside him. I turn to face him, but once I see his hypnotizing green eyes staring back at me I look away.

"It all started when I was in my senior year of high school. I-I think I was seventeen turning eighteen when everything started…happening. Back then I was confident and well weird. I was different from the other girls, but not in a good way. I didn't wear nice clothes like the rest of them, but wore raggedy jeans and T-shirts-"

"What's wrong with that?" Percy asked defensively. Shoot. I always say the wrong things!

"There's n-nothing wrong with it! I-It just didn't look good on me!" I stammered trying to cover up my mistake.

"I didn't mean to offend-"

"It's fine." He said blushing. "Sorry for interrupting!"

"It's okay… Y-You look nice in them!" I said awkwardly. I was mentally kicking myself. The words kept flying out of my mouth like mouth diarrhea.

"You always look nice! No matter what you wear, I'm sure you would have, like ALL the girls drooling over you! That is of course depending on the type of guy they prefer, but I'm sure you'll do-"

"Annabeth" Percy laughed.

"You're rambling" he smiled. He looked painfully handsome. He was on the bed leaning on his elbow for support, starring almost lovingly at me…but of course he's not!

This whole picture looks off! Percy looks like he came straight out of a magazine and I look like I came straight out of a garbage bag!

"I'm sorry! I'm just really nervous." I admitted. I was so embarrassed that I instinctively hid my face in my hands. I could hide my blush but I couldn't hide my red ears. I felt like screaming! Soft hands gently guided my hands away.

"It's okay Annabeth…I just want to help you." Percy soothed. God this is even more embarrassing!

"I-It's just really hard to talk about." Percy didn't say anything. He lowered my hands, but still kept his hold on them, his thumb caressing my knuckles. I took a few calming breaths before I decided to continue.

"Where was I?" I asked Percy.

"Huh" he asked his brow furrowed. He sounded dazed as if he just got out of a trance. What was he thinking about?

"Where was I…in the story." I gave him a small smile. His eyes brightened bringing life to his beautiful green eyes.

"Sorry! I got a little distracted. You were telling me about my poor fashion decisions." He dramatically joked. I smile and he yells

"Ah-Ha! I got a smile!" He does a fist pump in the air and claps his hands like a little kid.

"Do it again!" He teases and I blush a little.

"I can see how your related to Thalia." I mutter. He hears me and he throws his head back laughing like a little kid. When he does I get a funny feeling inside of me. Not the usual feeling he gives me, but a different kind. It felt weird that he was laughing over something I said.

Luke never thought I was funny. In fact, he told me I wasn't. The only time he laughed was when I did something stupid or said something stupid.

"This is what I'm talking about Annabeth." He says smiling at me. I looked at him confused.

"I like you like this! When you're being…you." I looked down sheepishly. I take my hand out of his and immediately miss the sparks.

"Why don't we get back to the story…"

Percy's POV

"Why don't we get back to the story…" she said looking back down. I could see the blush staining her cheeks and my heart swelled with happiness. She was too cute!

I felt really bad for yelling at her and giving her ultimatums earlier, but how else was I going to find out the truth? I know it was very jerkish, but I just had to know!

"So like I said I wasn't exactly the ideal girl…around that time a guy started to…well help me, in a way-"

"What do you mean?" I asked. I could practically see the wheels turning in her head as she chose her words carefully.

"He gave me the o-opportunity to be better. More acceptable-" What?

"Okay wait! I'm so confused here." I interrupted.

"What are you confused about?" Annabeth asked, but I could tell by her eyes that she knew what I was going to say.

"How did you meet this guy? Was he just some random stranger or-"

"I knew him before all that stuff happened I-I just didn't really talk to him…" I scrunched my eyebrows together.

"Then how did you get so involved with him?"

"Well he was very…concerned about me a-and he decided to step in and help. He didn't like how I was so he helped me become better." She replied.

"How did he do that?"

"He gave me tips on being more likable. He taught me how to act around his friends and how to act around him-"

"And how is that?" I asked. She gave me a confused look.

"How is what?"

"How are you supposed to act? I want you to show me!" I said. Annabeth shifted uncomfortably.

"I don't think I should. I couldn't really do it that good in the first place."

"Because it's hard to be something you're not." I said looking her in the eyes. Whoa! Where did philosopher Percy come from?

"Everybody is different Annabeth! We can't all be the same-"

"It's not about that Percy." Annabeth denied. "He wasn't doing anything wrong, he was just telling me the truth!"

"But changing everything about you isn't being true to yourself!" I argued. Annabeth shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly, but I could see the tenseness in them. I was getting to her.

"it doesn't matter…let's just move on with the story."

"Okay" I said, but we were definitely going to revisit this.

"So Lu-he would help me all the time. Whenever I did something wrong he called me out on it. Even if we were in public…" She whispered the last part and I could tell she was reliving a memory. She stared at her hands trapped inside her own head. She looked up, all of a sudden snapping out of her daze. When her piercing grey eyes caught mine I could see all the pain she was feeling.

"You alright?" I ask. Annabeth blinks and then lets out a nervous laugh.

"I'm sorry!" she says embarrassed rubbing her arm. "Just got a little lost for a second." I give her a reassuring smile.

"It's fine. Why don't we take a break, yeah?"

"Okay." She breathed and tingles spread through my face when her cool breath hit it. I mentally let out a sigh of pleasure.

"S-So what do you want to do?" she said folding her hands tightly, but I could see them visibly shaking.

She follows my gaze and her embarrassment evident in her red cheeks.

"Why don't we go in the living room and talk with Thalia? We could watch TV while we catch up!" Annabeth's face pales at the mention of Thalia. Strange.

"Y-You and Thalia are cousins r-right?" she asks shakily wringing her hands together.

"Yeah! Small world right?" I laugh. Annabeth gives me a weak smile, almost a grimace.

"Yeah…" she trails off. With that we get off the bed and left the bedroom. Annabeth lead the way, giving me a mini tour.

"Thalia!" Annabeth softly called out. Her voice was so sweet and smooth, it made me weak in the knees. Annabeth turned around and gave me a breathtakingly innocent smile. I gulped as I smiled a strained smile.

Her golden hair caught the sunlight making it glow even brighter. I stared at her unashamed. Had her hair been in its natural curly state…I'm pretty sure I would be dead right now! I couldn't help myself.

"Your beau-"

"What?" Thalia said annoyed, walking in. I blinked before pretending to look around the room. My face felt extremely hot!

"Hello? Am I invisible here?" Thalia yelled frustrated. I felt Annabeth flinch beside me and I glared at Thalia. How dare she talk to Annabeth that way!

"CAN YOU WAIT FOR A SEC!" I barked. She was annoying as hell! Thalia's eyes widened in surprise and Annabeth stiffened. Thalia's icy blue eyes turned to slits as she stared me down. Here it comes…

"Well how the hell else am I supposed to respond when you're just standing there like an idiot!" I took a threatening step towards her.

"Don't call me that!" I growled. Thalia didn't know her damn limits, and if she embarrassed me in front of Annabeth she would regret it…

"Or what bastard?" She snarled. I saw red.

"You heartless bitch!" I fumed. I heard a small gasp come from behind me. Turning around I found a shocked Annabeth. Her eyes were wide as she gently cupped her mouth. My heart dropped, the anger I was once feeling fading away. Dead silence filled the room.

I've never wanted the ground to swallow up as badly as I did that moment. it was the most embarrassing moment of my life! I was about to apologize, but before I could the strangest thing happened…Annabeth started laughing.

Her eyes twinkled as the melodic sound escaped her lips. She gave me a real smile as she giggled. That's right! I said giggled!

"You guys are so funny!" she smiled. I blushed, but smiled sheepishly.

"Why don't we just watch TV by ourselves Annabeth." I turned to Thalia giving her a small glare with my eyes.

"Sorry to waste your time." I snarled. Thalia rolls her eyes before walking back to, where ever she came from.

"I'm really sorry you had to see that Annabeth!" I apologized facing Annabeth. She gave me a reassuring smile.

"It's fine! I used to argue all the time with my brother Malcom." She said getting this real faraway look in her eyes.

"I didn't know you had another brother." I said, snapping her out of her daze.

"Let's watch TV" she said all of a sudden completely discarding my question. She walked away before I had a chance to respond. Okay…

I walked into the tiny living room and it was really cold. Not temperature wise, but it wasn't cozy, or anything…it was just a living room. There was a TV and a dull grey couch. It really wasn't much different from the break room at the café!

Annabeth and I sat down and she turned on the TV.

"Do you want to watch a movie?" She asked quietly, back to her shy self.

"Sure." We flipped through the on demand movies and shouted when I saw Nemo.
"That one!" I shouted. Annabeth furrowed her eyebrows which made her look unbelievably cute!

"Finding Nemo?" I nodded my head and Annabeth smiled.

"Percy? How old are you?" she asked.

"Twenty. Why?" I asked. Annabeth raised her eyebrows.

"No reason…" She pressed play and the movie began to start. I almost let out a squeal of excitement. I moved closer to Annabeth getting more comfortable.

"Can I turn off the lights?" I asked in a hushed tone. Annabeth nodded her head as she laughed. I quickly got up and turned off the lights before the movie started. I jumped back onto the couch, turning to a still laughing Annabeth.

"Made it just on time!" Annabeth shook he head smiling.

"Your so…different." I smiled and leaned down to whisper in her ear.

"A good different right?" I wiggled my eyebrows. Annabeth chuckled and whispered back

"A very good different." I couldn't contain myself as I admitted

"I like you." I knew she wouldn't understand what I really meant, but my heart still stopped at her response.

"I like you too." She gave me a small smile and despite the darkness, I could still make out the faint blush on her cheeks.

Sighing I leaned back on the couch. I felt extremely happy being here with Annabeth, but I know we would still have to talk about earlier. My smile faded when I thought about the way I treated her.

I snapped at her and forced her into telling me a secret she didn't want to tell. I was a huge jerk…I don't even want to think about what my mother would say!

Annabeth chuckled and I looked down at her. She had her feet to her chest, her eyes glued to the screen. She looked so comfortable and so happy! I can't help, but feel a little sense of pride that I was a part of that…

"This is a really good movie!" she whispered.

"You know we can stop whispering right?" I teased. She looked up at me and my heart skipped a beat.

"We're in a movie theater! You have to be quiet." she said in a "duh" tone.

"How could I have forgotten?" I joke. "But this is like my favorite movie! I must've watched it about a hundred times at least!" Annabeth gave me a crazy look.

"Really…Well don't spoil the ending." I nearly choked on my own saliva.

"This is your first time watching it!" I give her an incredulous look. Annabeth giggles at my expression.

"I've always heard about it and how it was a really good kid's movie…I just never found time to watch it."

"Wow." I said flabbergasted. "This is just mind boggling right now!" When I got over my shock we continued to watch the movie. I took little glances at Annabeth every now and then taking in her beauty. I don't think I will ever get used to it! We were half way through the movie when Annabeth's phone rang.

"It's your phone." I whispered.

"I thought we weren't whispering anymore!" she laughed. "Could you pass it to me? It's at your side."

Picking up the phone from the couch I see the caller ID.

"It's your mom."

Cliffhangers! Don't they just drive you mad? That's it for now everybody! Another chapter of BFC is up so you can go check that out and I was pleased to see more people reviewed so keep it up! The success with this story is just growing with every chapter. Just know before you to sleep at night that…PERCABETH IS THE BEST!

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