Eighteen

by Thatmusicalauthor

17 year old high school senior, Percy Jackson didn't think that he'd ever find the love of his life on an old bus. Or did he think that she'd be 5 years older than him with a job. Still, that doesn't stop him from loving her. So he does the first thing that comes to his mind. He lied about his age. Inspired by: 18 by 5 Seconds Of Summer

10. Chapter 10

Hey everyone. Sorry I've been gone for a while. Anyway, I'm back and that's what matters. Enjoy.

Stuck In My Head: Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the PJO characters or any of the songs used in the story.

Warning: Excessive use of the F word later on in the chapter

Chapter 10: I Forgive You

Percy's POV:

You know that feeling you get when you are missing something but you can't really figure out what. Yeah, I hate that feeling.

And that was the exact feeling I got when I woke up the next morning.

Opening my eyes to a face full of hair wasn't exactly how I pictured myself waking up. I expected myself to be at Silena's house passed out in the front lawn in only boxers. Suddenly I got scared. What if I was a Silena's and what if this person that was on top of me is someone I cheated on Annabeth with? I immediately reacted and pushed the person off of me. They fell off with a thump that was followed by an, "Ow!"

I knew that voice. It was my girlfriend's. Not a total stranger.

I shot straight up and held out my hand for her. "Oh my gods! I'm so sorry!" She took my hand and grumbled a, "Its fine." I let out a little laugh but then I winced when my head started throbbing. She got a look of concern on her face and rubbed the back of my head softly. "Hangover?" I closed my eyes. "Slight hangover." She nodded sympathetically. "Yeah, you took a pretty big fall yesterday." Before I could ask what she was talking about, she got up and went into the kitchen. I heard cupboards being opened and closed. I put my head in my hands and leaned my elbows on my knees. "Here." She said softly as she came back with a glass of water and two pills in her hand. I grabbed the pills and popped them into my mouth.

She held the cup up to my lips and gently poured some into my mouth. As I drank, I stared at her adoringly. She pulled away and put the cup on the coffee table. I sighed in bliss as the water sent the cool feeling into my dry throat. "Thanks." I said quietly. She snuggled into my side and I put my arm around her shoulders. After a while of silence, Annabeth spoke up. "Percy, there's something I have to tell you…" I looked down at her.

"Wha-"

RING!

My phone went off. I searched for my phone as Annabeth helped. "Found it." I mumbled as I pulled it from in between the cushions. Beck was calling me. It all came back to me. I was at a party last night. I got drunk and came to Annabeth's apartment. I went with that but then I got the feeling again. The 'I'm missing something' feeling. Answering the phone, I leaned back on the couch.

"Hey, Beck."

"PERSEUS JACKSON, WHERE ON EARTH ARE YOU?!" Beck's voice yelled into my ear. I pulled the phone away and winced. "Geez Beck, will you calm down? I'm fine. I'm at Annabeth's." I heard him sigh in relief. "Thank gods! I thought you were kidnapped or something!"

"Sorry but apparently my drunk self decided to come visit Annabeth at midnight." I heard shuffling in the background and then Beck spoke up, "Do you mind coming over to help us clean up? And you can bring Annabeth if you want." I pursed my lips. "I don't think that's a good idea."

"Don't worry. It's just us. And we'll inform the girls about you and your ordeal." I bit my lip and put the phone to my chest. "The guys need help cleaning up the trash we made at the party, do you want to come?" She nodded. "Sure, I don't start work until 5:00. I work late on the weekends." I grinned and put the phone back on my ear. "We're on our way."

…

Annabeth and I had to walk there. It wasn't that bad but it was freezing outside. We arrived there 20 minutes after we left. The lawn was littered with red cups, napkins, and, strangely, pool toys. That was weird because Silena didn't have a pool…

We held hands and glanced around the dirty lawn while walking to the front door. I rang the doorbell and waited. The door opened up to a very hungover Nico. He didn't have anything on, just boxers. Annabeth pursed her lips and avoided looking at him. "Nico!" I scolded. He put his hand on his head and groaned. "I know, I know, but I can't seem to find my clothes… or Thalia." I gaped at him. "You lost your girlfriend?!" He flinched. "Look, are you here to yell at me or help us clean up?" I shook my head and passed him on the way in. Nico shut the door and went upstairs. "Maybe she's up here." He mumbled to himself. The living room was worse than the lawn. The couches were flipped upside down. More red cups and napkins. Plates were scattered all over the place and there was even more pool toys in here.

"Looks like I missed a great party." Annabeth commented. "You don't know the half of it." Beck said as he walked in with a trash bag. He didn't look as hangover as I thought he would. He bent down and grabbed a couple of red cups with his large hands. "Rachel and Calypso are in the backyard trying to get some drunk guy to wake up." I nodded and led Annabeth to the backyard.

The backyard wasn't that messy. "Hey Perce!" Rachel yelled from where she was. I saw Annabeth scowl as we walked over to her and Calypso. "Hey Rachel. Calypso." I nodded towards them in a greeting. Rachel smiled and looked at Annabeth. "Don't I know you from somewhere?" Rachel commented. I nodded and answered for Annabeth. "Yeah you do. This is my girlfriend, Annabeth." I smiled at her reassuringly. Annabeth had met Rachel the day Annabeth said she loved me. Rachel held her hand out. "Hi, I'm Rachel." Annabeth reluctantly shook her hand. "Nice to meet you." Rachel said nicely. Annabeth chortled awkwardly and smiled a fake smile. "Yeah." She said quietly. "Hey, Perce. I'm just gonna go help Beck clean the living room. I'll see you later, okay?" I nodded and she gave me a peck on the cheek before heading inside. "She seems nice… When she's not jealous." Rachel concluded. I smiled at her and said, "Yeah. She's amazing." Calypso, who was poking the unconscious boy on the ground, spoke up. "Hey, Percy. Do you mind helping me wake this guy up?"

I crouched down next to her and patted the guys shoulder. "Hey, dude. Get up. You have to leave."

We finally got the guy to wake up and leave. Afterword, we started cleaning the backyard. "Hey, Calypso? Where's Leo?" I asked. She blushed when she heard his name and said, "He's in the front, cleaning." I shook my head and picked up a stray cup off the floor. "No, he isn't. I didn't see him there." She shrugged. "Well then, I don't know where he is." I laughed. "You and Nico need to learn how to keep track on the whereabouts of your significant others."

…

We finished a little before 12:00 (We had gotten there at 9:00). I dusted off my hands and stood next to Annabeth. "So, what are we going to do now?" I asked. Calypso went to go look for Leo and I had no idea where Nico and Thalia were. "Maybe go out to eat or something?" Beck suggested. Silena, who had come out of nowhere during mid-cleaning session, piped up. "How about that new pancake place that opened up a couple weeks ago? I heard that they had really good pancakes." Rachel nodded her head eagerly. "I could kill for some pancakes right now!" She exclaimed while rubbing her stomach. I laughed and turned to Annabeth. "You want pancakes?" She nodded. "Yeah sure." I grabbed her hand and smiled at her. "Let's go." I announced. They all let out a cheer and headed out the door. "Wait!" Yelled Silena. We all looked at her. "What about Leo, Calypso, Nico and Thalia?"

"Oh…" I volunteered to go look for them. Heading up the stairs, I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around. It was Rachel. I gave her that 'what are you doing?' look. "I'm going to help." She said simply. I nodded and continued walking up the stairs.

I knocked on one of the many doors. "Nico? Thalia? Are you guys in there?"

It took us a long time to find them. We eventually found them inside a closet, passed out and cuddling. We let them compose themselves and we went back downstairs. Everyone was sitting on the couches Silena had, including Leo and Calypso. "Hey, Leo. Where were you?" He groaned and rubbed his eyes. "Passed out on the roof." I made no comment and sat down next to Annabeth. She hugged my arm and looked warily at Rachel. I gave her a kiss on the top of her head and guided her attention to me. "Nico and Thalia are coming." Rachel said while leaning against the arm rest of the couch next to Leo.

The others talked for a while, Annabeth and I were just off in our own little world. I kissed her nose which emitted a smiled from her. "Percy?" I drowned out the voice and leaned my forehead against Annabeth's. She kissed me. I felt a hand hit the back of my head. I winced and Annabeth shot back, her fingers went straight up to her bottom lip. "Ow!" She said. I had bit her lip. I looked at the culprit that hit me. Rachel. It took me a moment to realize that everyone was looking at us, including Nico and Thalia. "Uh… yes?" I slowly asked. Everyone started laughing at us as Annabeth and I blushed.

…

We all chose to walk to the pancake place. The guys and I walked behind the girls. We discussed about random things and the girls talked about who knows what. "How did the girls take the news?" I asked. Beck averted his eyes. "What?" I questioned. He rubbed the back of his neck and laughed sheepishly. "Well…" He faded away. I scrunched my eyebrows. "What's wrong?"

"So do you go to our school or something?" Everything happened in a flash. The second after Rachel had asked the question, the guys and I went into action. We all rushed forward and claimed our girlfriends, trying to strike up a conversation with them to keep that out of their minds. Rachel was left alone though…

"Hey, Annabeth." I cheerily said. A little too cheery. She frowned and pointed her thumb to Rachel. "What does she mean 'do you go to our-" I interrupted her in a kiss. "You know I love you right?" I tried to distract her. She smiled a bit. "Yeah and I love you too but I was just asking about what Rachel said." I laughed nervously and intertwined our fingers, pointing at a large building. "Will you look at that huge building over there?!" I said a little too loudly. Annabeth looked at the building and nodded. "Yeah… It's a huge building…" I laughed quietly again. She raised one of her eyebrows. "Percy, are you feeling well?" I shook my head. "No, actually. I think I'm still a little hungover." She nodded in understanding and continued walking. I tried not to sigh in relief. Thank gods Annabeth had a short attention span like me.

I looked over at the others. Rachel kept looking at all of us like we were crazy. Leo and Calypso were talking about something and it must've been funny because they both kept laughing. Beck and Silena looked like they were having a heartfelt conversation. Nico and Thalia were looking at something on his phone. Beck finished up a sentence and looked over at me. We had a silent conversation. 'You didn't tell them?!' I widened my eyes accusingly. He grinned apologetically and shook his head. 'No. I'm sorry.' I just shrugged and looked away.

We arrived at the pancake place, which was named Pancake Platter, a little later. "Okay, will you head this way please? Table for 9, right?" I nodded and led the group to where the waitress was taking me. The place was packed but there was still certain spots free. We got a spot in the corner of the back of the restaurant. It was a large booth. "Will this be a good spot for you guys?" The waitress asked. I nodded and took a seat. "Yes, thank you." I said. Annabeth got into the seat with me.

Soon enough, we had plates, or should I say platters, of pancakes and several drinks all over the place. I wasn't going to lie. The pancake were delicious. So was the blue orange juice they had given me. I had asked them if they could make my pancakes blue and they said that they couldn't so they made my drink blue instead. I took my phone and texted Beck, who didn't sit too far from me. The seating arrangements were simple. Annabeth sat on the edge, then it was me, then it was Nico, then it was Thalia, then Rachel, then Calypso, then Leo, then Silena, and then Beck sat on the other edge, completing the semi-circle that was our table. Beck phone dinged when it got my message. The others didn't notice the ding because they were having a conversation about Sloths. Why they were, I will never know.

"But they're so slow! A wolf would definitely win." Thalia exclaimed. "Yeah and sloths would never win a race in general!" Annabeth said. Thalia nodded her head and waved her hand towards Annabeth. "See! I'm not the only one who thinks that." She told Nico, who shook just his head. "Okay but think of the race like the Turtle and the Hare. And who won that race?" Calypso, Leo, and Rachel agreed with Nico. "He's got a point." Calypso pointed out. Annabeth and Thalia still disagreed. Annabeth sighed in frustration and turned to me. "Percy, who do you think would win a race, a sloth or a wolf?" I thought about it. "It depends." They all groaned, except for Beck, who was barely looking at the text I had sent him.

"That's not a clear answer. Just choose." Nico demanded. They all stared at me in a menacing way. Wow, who knew a small little argument could cause so much seriousness?

"Uh, I choose the Ssssss…" I pulled out the letter out and hesitated when Annabeth's eyes told me not to choose Sloth. I stopped and sighed. "I'm sorry guys but I have to agree with my girlfriend. I choose wolf." They groaned and Thalia cheered along with Annabeth. Whilst this whole thing was happening, Beck was replying to my text.

Do you want me to tell them? I had texted.

No I'll tell them. You just distract Annabeth. He texted back. I put my phone away and nodded at Beck. He nodded back and went back on his phone. The others looked like they were getting into another heated argument but I pulled Annabeth out of it. "Hey, babe." I said quietly. She turned to me. "Yeah?" She whispered. "I, uh, have to show you something." I pulled out my phone and searched for a funny video to show Annabeth. I played the one with Thalia and Nico having a tickle war. Just then, everyone's phone dinged, except Annabeth and I's. She was too focused on the video to hear. They pulled their phones. Nico and Leo already knew about my secret so they looked at the girls to see their reaction. All the girls looked up and stared at the two of us. I tried not to pay attention to the stares. The video had ended and Annabeth chuckled. "That was cute."

She must've felt someone staring at her so she looked back at the others. Everyone was staring at her. "What?" She asked. Everyone cleared their throat awkwardly and said, "Nothing." Thalia spoke up. "So, like we were saying. Who would win a race, a turtle or a sloth?" All the girls smiled widely to each other and then to me, like they were sharing a secret. I looked at Rachel for an answer. 'Its fine' she mouthed. I smiled at them and engaged into their conversation.

"Anyway, I think a sloth would win that one."

…

After we ate breakfast, we stood outside the restaurant, wondering where to go next. "Maybe we can go bowling?" Beck asked. Most of us considered this, except for Nico. "No! The last time we went bowling, you beat all of us by like 100." I remember. It was really embarrassing too. These girls were next to us and we were so nervous that we kept getting gutter balls. Beck, though, won by a landslide. He had no one to impress because he was still with Silena at the time, so he wasn't nervous at all. "Yeah, no bowling." Leo agreed after he remembered the memory.

"Okay, so where to then?" Beck asked. "How about laser tag?" Annabeth suggested. Everyone cheered in agreement. "Good idea, babe." I whispered in her ear before kissing her cheek. "Laser tag, here we come!" Leo childishly yelled out before running down the sidewalk. "Leo that's the wrong way!" Calypso called out. Leo took a U-turn and ran back to us. On the way back to us, he started yelling, so when he passed us, his yell came and went. All of us started laughing and ran after the yelling Leo.

Since we were running and since the laser place wasn't too far, we got there in a short amount of time. Before we entered, Annabeth stopped me. "Wait, Percy. I need to talk to you. I know this might not be the perfect time but-"

"Hey, lovebirds. You coming?" Rachel interrupted. I turned to Annabeth. "We can talk if you want. We don't have to play." She shook her head. "I-I'll tell you later."

"Okay." I kissed her cheek and grabbed her hand, leading her inside. The place was basically like any other laser tag place. Cold and dark. Not many people were in here but the ones that were here were playing the video games the place had. I walked up to the front desk. "Hi, party of 9." I told the desk clerk. He nodded and typed something into the computer before printing out some paper. He slid them in front of us. "Choose your names please." He said. We all gathered around to read the small paper. Soon, we had chosen our names.

Me = Dark Waters

Annabeth = White Owl

(A/N: The white owl is an urban legend about an owl that brings death.)

Rachel = Van Gogh (Why that was even an option, I don't know)

Beck = The Hammer

Silena = Pink Mist

Thalia = Ozone

Nico = Grim Reaper

Calypso = Grass Hopper

Leo = Fire Ball

"Okay," The clerk took the paper back and typed in our names. He printed out some cards and handed them to us. "You're in luck today. You get a room to yourselves." I smiled and said, "Thank you." We all walked into our private room and got on our gear. There were two teams. Blue and Red. When the game was starting the countdown, our armor would light up whichever color and let us know what team we are on. I was on the blue team. And so was Annabeth. I grinned at her. "Nice." She adjusted her gear and said, "Your armor is crooked." She fixed it for me.

I looked around and saw that Rachel and Thalia were also on our team. "She seems nice." Annabeth said as she continued to fix my armor. "Who?"

"Rachel." I nodded. "Yeah." Annabeth tightened a strap and continued, "She's kind of cute." I raised an eyebrow. "I-I never thought about it." She kept quiet and finished up fixing my armor. "Hey, we're on the same team." Rachel stated happily as she and Thalia walked over to us. I nodded. "Yeah." I gave her a smile. "Okay, so what's the game plan?" Thalia rubbed her hands together and huddled us together. "Annabeth?" I asked. She rolled her eyes and told us the plan.

"We're all going to stay together. Maybe even camp somewhere. But there's an extra person on their team so we have to be more cautious. Extra person, extra careful. Got it?" She put her hand in the middle and the rest of us joined in. Usually you would yell out something at the count of three but since no one clarified what we were going to say, we ended up saying completely different things.

"Team!" Annabeth had said. "Let's do this!" Rachel had yelled. "Wolves over sloths!" Thalia and I yelled. We both don't even know how we said that at the same time. "'Wolves over sloths'? Really?" Annabeth asked while laughing. Rachel joined in with her. Thalia and I blushed.

"Everyone in positions!" A computer voice boomed throughout the large room. We all took our positions and got ready to run. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go!" We ran for it. We ended up going to the second floor and camping in the corner. So far we were winning. We all only had three lives. Once they were all done, you would have to head out and wait till the end of the game. I know camping was obnoxious but that was a good idea. Annabeth was taking a look at the first floor from the small windowless hole in the ledge. She laid on the ground and had her laser gun ready to shoot anyone she saw, like a professional sniper. Rachel and I took care of the only way to get into the corner/our camping spot whilst Thalia took care of spying on the ramp that led up to the second floor.

"You know camping isn't allowed right?!" I heard Beck yell. "Come on babe! Camping isn't right and you know that!" Nico called out to Thalia. I saw hesitated and put her gun down for a second before aiming it back at the ramp. She was falling for it. "Thalia, don't listen to him." I whispered to her. "I-I'm not." She squeaked out. Suddenly, a warbling sound was heard and a curse was heard. I turned around for a split second. Annabeth was shot. "Thalia keep an eye on the stairs they're coming up." She said as she waited for her gun to come back on. Thalia was shot next. "Shit." She cursed and sat down. "Keep an eye on them." She demanded.

Everything seemed to go in slow motion. The whole red team appeared in front of us and scared us shitless. Rachel and I didn't hesitate to start shooting. Warbles and laser sounds were heard all over the place until the shooting stopped. I let out a deep breath as well did Rachel. The whole red team was out. I laughed. "Take that." Rachel taunted. Annabeth appeared between us. "Actually, that wasn't you." She pointed to both of our chests. We got shot. I looked at Annabeth's armor. It was shining bright blue. "You shot them?" She smiled and nodded. "So did Thalia." The red team look pissed as they waited for their armor to turn back on. Thalia and Annabeth got in front of us and aimed their guns at the gun less red team. "Go. We'll be behind you." Annabeth ordered. Rachel and I ran out of the sight of the red team. By the time we got downstairs, our armor had turned back on, meaning so did the red teams. I heard even more warbling and shouting. I tried running up there to help but Rachel held me back. "No, Perce. You only have one life left." She pleaded. I had gotten shot earlier by Nico who looked pretty smug about shooting me but then my armor came back on and I shot him. He wasn't so happy about that. I looked back up at the second floor.

Laser sounds came in an unfamiliar sequence and I heard Annabeth and Thalia shouting. I looked back at Rachel. "I'm sorry but she only has one life too." I didn't need to clarify who she was. I ran off, Rachel had tried to stop me again but when she realized that I wasn't going to stop, she followed me. Leo tried to shoot me but I shot him before he could. "Fire Ball, please report back to the lobby. It's game over for you." The computer voice said. He groaned and pushed pass us. "Thanks a lot, Perce." He grumbled to me. I continued looking for Annabeth. Along the way, we got out Calypso and Silena. They all groaned and moaned that it wasn't fair and left the game. Annabeth and Thalia met up with us. I hugged Annabeth. "You okay?" I asked. She cocked her fake gun and said, "Never better." And with that, we got into our positions to take out Nico and Beck, the last ones on the red team left.

PEW!

"Oh come on!" Yelled out Beck. Thalia had taken him out. Now, just Nico. Beck grumbled as he went pass us. I kept an eye on where Beck came from. A glimpse of olive skin came and went. It seemed to be going right. In the direction of Annabeth. It wasn't until I saw him pick his gun up and aim it when I realized who he was going to shoot. I gasped and dropped my gun. Jumping in front of Annabeth, I was shot. Annabeth took notice and shot in the direction of where the shot was shot.

"Damn it!" Nico cursed. The computer voice started saying who won and who got the winning shot. Annabeth crouched next to me. She let out a little laugh and rubbed my cheek. "Are you okay?" I groaned. "Remind me when I take another bullet for you, not to land on my back." She laughed and helped me. She hugged me. "We won."

When we got back into the lobby, the others didn't seem at all happy. "Yeah, yeah. We know. You won. We get it." Nico said as shoved his armor back onto the hook. It was already time for Annabeth to get to work. "It was nice meeting you all." Annabeth said to everyone. They all said their goodbyes and off we went.

I walked Annabeth to work. I stuffed my hands in my pockets and asked, "Hey, didn't you have something to tell me?" Annabeth paled. "Uh, uh, I-I don't-"

"Annabeth?" We turned around. A guy around Annabeth's age was standing behind us with a to-go cup in his hand. He looked strangely familiar. Annabeth paled even more, if that was even possible. "J-Jake. What are you doing here?" He raised his cup and pointed towards the restaurant he just came out of. "I was just eating breakfast." He looked at me and nodded towards me. "Isn't he that guy who fell yesterday?" Annabeth shook her head and told him to 'shut up' with her eyes (She thought I didn't notice). I got that feeling yet again. "Uh, Annabeth? What's he talking about?" She grinned nervously and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her hair. "Percy, t-the thing I've been meaning to tell you about…" I tried to connect the dots. I looked back and forth between them. That's when it clicked.

All the real memories came back to me. I did get drunk. I did get Chinese food for Annabeth. And I did go to her apartment. But the feeling that I had been getting throughout the day. The feeling of missing something, something huge. I had figured out what the huge thing I had been forgetting was. When I got to her apartment last night, I found out she wasn't alone. No, she was with this Jake guy.

"Motherfucker." I muttered when I figured it all out. I didn't even wait for her to explain, I just walked away. I hit Jake's shoulder with mine as I walked pass him. "Percy? Where are you going?" I kept my hands in pockets as I walked away. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It turned me around. "Percy, I'm sorry." She started off. I shook my head. My nose stung. No. I will not cry. I will not cry. "How could you do that to me? I thought you loved me! I thought you wanted to be with me-"

"Percy, you don't understand. I-I kissed him and he took off his shirt thinking that we were going to do more but I stopped. I thought it was wrong and that I shouldn't be doing that." I raised my chin up and looked at her unbelievingly. "Percy, please. You have to believe me!"

"Why didn't you tell me?" I said calmly. "I tried to! I've been trying to all day!" We didn't say anything to each other. The guy was just standing there, behind Annabeth. Looking like he wanted to get out of the argument. I pointed at him angrily. "Who the hell is he?" She pursed her lips and proceeded to tell me who the guy was. "He's my best friend's boyfriend." I gaped at her. "You kissed your best friend's boyfriend?!" She nodded guiltily. "Yeah but he forced himself onto me Percy. You have to believe me when I say that! He forced himself!" I glared at Jake. "Why would he want to kiss you, Annabeth? Didn't you tell him you had a boyfriend?"

"Yes I did. But as I said before, he forced himself onto me!" Jake smirked at me. As if to say, 'Ha! I stole a kiss from your girlfriend!'. I flared my nostrils and backed up. "I-I need to get out of here." I really needed to clear my head. "Percy, please, no. Don't leave! I didn't mean it!" I shook my head. "Yeah, but you still cheated on me." I kept backing up as she tried to reach out to me. "Percy." Her voice cracked. I felt my eyes starting to water. "Don't." I told her as she tried to step towards me. "I'll see you later." I mumbled before turning around and walking off.

Annabeth's POV:

I felt tears starting to stream down my face. I turned to Jake, furiously. I hit his chest. He only flinched and let out a little laugh. "What?" Seriously?! He was laughing?! I shook my head and started walking away from him. He grabbed a hold on my wrist. "Wait, Annabeth." I tried to pull out of his grip. "Let go, Jake." He put his drink down on the concrete and grabbed the side of my waist, trying to pull me closer to him. I stepped on his foot and wrenched his hands off of me. I kicked over his drink.

He doubled over when I kicked him in the groin. "Don't think I'm not telling Julia, Jake."

"Do that and she will never forgive you." He strained out. It was true. How can I tell Julia that her boyfriend kissed me? She'll obviously wonder if I kissed him back and I don't think I can lie to another person right now. I tried to shake off the thought.

"Fuck off, Jake." I spat at him before heading off to work with my face tear stained and my heart broken.

Percy's POV:

I found myself walking to Nico's house. That's where they said they were going to after laser tag. I wasn't really paying attention to anything happening around me. A man wearing all black ran pass me and was followed by a bunch of cops. I still didn't seem to think any of it though. I was heartbroken. The girl that I loved so much cheated on me. I huffed to control my crying. I had put my hood on and kept my head down. This elderly couple passed me. "Percy?" I picked up my head. It was Hazel and Frank. I smiled at them but they just looked at me with concern.

"Hey, how's it going?" Hazel grinned sadly and said, "We're doing fine. How about you? You don't look to good." I wiped my eyes quickly. "Me? Oh I'm fine. Never better." They didn't buy it. "Percy, we may be old and not as smart as we used to be but we can still tell when someone is lying." Frank said in a gruff voice. I only frowned. "Does it have anything to do with Annabeth?" Hazel said in a mom voice. I nodded. "What happened?" I stuffed my hands into my jacket. "She-She cheated on me." Hazel pouted. "Aww I'm sorry. You guys looked so good together I thought you would've never broken up much less cheat." I bit my lip. "Actually, I haven't broken up with her. I just walked away. I didn't say anything besides 'I'll see you later'." Frank spoke up. "You still love her." He stated.

"I do." I stayed quiet after that. People walked around us as we stood in the middle of the sidewalk. I swallowed down a sob. "Well, I should get going. I got a lot of stuff to do and I'm pretty sure you guys do too." Hazel looked up at Frank. "Yeah, I have to get this goofball to his doctor's appointment." I smiled at the couple. "Good luck with that." I said. "I'll see you guys later. Maybe when I'm not sad." I let out a teary laugh. Hazel looked at me with sympathy. "Yeah, see you later. And I hope you fix things up with Annabeth. When you do, tell her I said hi." I grinned. "I will. Bye." I walked away from them and continued my journey to Nico's place.

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"Percy! You're back already?" Nico said as he opened the door. I walked in like everything was normal. I pointed to his clothes as I passed him. "Yeah and you changed your clothes." It was random but I had to get him from asking anything about Annabeth. He was now wearing a black shirt that had black and grey stripes on the long sleeves. Along with his black skinny jeans and black vans. He looked down at his clothes. "Yup, I did." He closed the door. "Hey, we're all going to start a game of Truth or Dare in the living room. You wanna play?" He wiggled his eyebrows and pumped his pointed fingers at me back and forth. I laughed and hung up my jacket. "I don't know. Are we still in middle school?" Nico frowned. "No but it'll be fun. I promise you won't lose your pants like last time." I laughed again and agreed to play.

"Hey Percy." Everyone greeted as I walked into the living room. I gave them a simple wave. Nico took his place by Thalia and got an empty soda bottle. Handing it to Thalia, she told us the rules. "We're going to play this my way. If you don't answer the truth someone asks you or the dare someone dares you, you have to give up a piece of clothing." Leo wolf-whistled jokingly as the insecure ones by the name of Percy and Jackson blushed. I tilted my head and looked pointedly at Nico. 'I thought you said I wasn't going to lose my pants this time.' I mind spoke to him. He put his hands up in surrender. 'I didn't know' he mouthed. I shook my head and turned back to Thalia who was barely getting back to the original spot she was in after she put the bottle in the middle of the circle we were in. Here's the locations of everyone. I sat in between Rachel and Beck. On Beck's left was Silena. Next to her was Nico, then Thalia. Then it was Leo, then Calypso, then Rachel. Then me again.

"Okay, who goes first?" Thalia asked. "How about we let the bottle choose?" Beck suggested. Thalia nodded and crawl over to the bottle. She gave it a spin. And it landed on… Me. I let out a sigh of relief. I chose my victim. "Rachel. Truth or Dare?" She thought for a while. "How about dare?"

"Okay," I thought of a dare. I couldn't think of anything. All that came up was 'I dare you to take me back in time and stop Annabeth and Jake from kissing'. "Uh hello? Earth to Percy?" She waved her hands in front of my eyes. "S-Sorry. Uh, I dare you to… to chug a gallon of milk." Rachel shook her head. "Do you want me to throw up?" Rachel accused. I raised my eyebrows. "Do it or lose a piece of clothing." I reminded. She sighed and got up.

…

"Why are you recording me, Leo?" He laughed. "Because what you are doing is actually a challenge on YouTube so I'm going to upload it." Rachel groaned. "What is the challenge called?"

"Gallon of milk challenge. Now stop stalling and drink up." She put the top of gallon on her mouth. "Not a very creative title." She muttered before starting to chug it. Usually when someone chugs that much milk, they are expected to throw up but not Rachel. She drank the milk like her life depended on it. We all cheered her on as the last droplets of milk fell into her mouth. "How did you do that without throwing up? That's like scientifically impossible!" Leo yelled as he stopped recording. Rachel threw the empty gallon on the grass (We were doing this outside in case she threw up) and ran to the back of the house. We started hearing gagging and chunks falling onto the ground. All of us groaned.

"Okay, never mind!" Leo exclaimed.

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We got back into the house and into our circle. "Okay, spin the bottle Rach." She spun it and it landed on… me. "What?" I said. "I'll just spin it again." Thalia shook her head. "No, no. Ask him the question." I protested. "But I already went." Thalia shrugged. "Too bad."

I sighed and turned to Rachel. "Fire away."

"Okay, truth or dare?" I didn't feel like getting payback from Rachel so I said, "Truth." She thought of a truth before saying, "What's the worst thing that happened to you?" I don't know what happened. I guess I just blurted it out. I didn't plan on telling the guys that way.

"Finding out that Annabeth cheated on me with her best friend's boyfriend an hour ago." My hands shot straight up to my mouth as everyone's jaw dropped. Everyone was too shocked to say anything. Leo broke the awkward silence. "Uh, uh. M-Maybe you girls should go. Percy has a lot to talk about." The girls didn't protest and left in silence. We all sat on the black leather couches Nico had. We each got our own couch. "S-So… She cheated, huh?" I nodded like I was in a trance. "I never liked her anyway." Leo sprawled himself all over the couch. I glared at him, "I haven't broken up with her yet." He sat up and cleared his throat. "O-Oh… You do know I was just kidding right?" I didn't say anything. "Right?" He tried again. "So let me get this straight, she cheated on you with her best friend's boyfriend?" Nico said and we all ignored Leo who looked like he really wanted to prove that he was just kidding about not liking Annabeth.

"Yeah…" I croaked out. "What are you going to do?" Beck said. I closed my eyes and leaned my head on the armrest of the couch. "I don't know… But I'm thinking of telling her my secret." Beck and the others paled. "Whoa, wait… She cheated on you but you want to tell her your secret? Cheating is a lot worse than lying Perce." Beck said. The others agreed. I sighed. "I don't know what to do guys. I just… I just don't know."

"Percy, if you love her, then at least hear her side of the story. After that, it's up to you."

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Knock-Knock

I waited a couple second before she answered. Her eyes were red and slightly puffy from crying and she looked absolutely miserable. "Percy?" She squeaked. I didn't say anything and kept my hands stuffed in my pockets. She opened the door wider. "C-Come in." I walked inside the familiar apartment and stood behind her as she closed the door. "Let's go s-sit down." We both sat down on the couch. "Explain." I demanded. She stuttered out an answer. "O-Ok-kay." She was basically shaking at this point. "Uh, well, it was yesterday and h-he came over to my apartment. He said that Julia, his girlfriend-"

"And your best friend." I interrupted. She winced. "Yeah, anyway he came over because he and Julia got into this fight. We talked for a while and reminisced. All of a sudden, he kissed me." I clenched my fists. "And he forced himself onto me." She turned to me. "Percy, you have to believe me. I didn't mean anything. I may have kissed him but that's because he forced me too. Please Percy. Believe me." I could tell she was telling the truth. I don't know how but I could just tell by the desperation in her voice that she really didn't mean it. I opened up my arms and she shot straight into them.

She sobbed into my chest. "Oh gods. I'm so sorry Percy, I'm so so sorry." I shushed her and rubbed her back. "It's okay. I believe you. And I forgive you. And I love you Annabeth. I love you so much." She looked up and kissed me. I don't know what happened. Suddenly that kiss turned into a make out session and then into something that I never thought of doing with Annabeth. I had even forgotten to tell Annabeth my secret.

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I opened my eyes and was hit the sun light in my eyes. I held out my arm to block the sun as I groaned. "Stupid sun." I grumbled. I turned away from it and snuggled into my bed. That was when I learned I wasn't alone. A flurry of blonde hair hit my face. "What?" I mumbled and I tried to get a good look of the person. It was Annabeth. What was she doing in my bed? I looked around. It wasn't my room, it was Annabeth's. Oh no. What happened last night. Annabeth turned to me in her sleep. It was at that moment when I realized that Annabeth's shoulders were bare. Unless she was wearing a shoulder less dress, which I doubt she was, then that could only mean only one thing. I slowly picked up the covers and looked under it. I closed them as soon as I opened them. "Oh shit." I cursed quietly. "Oh fuck, fuck, fuck." I cursed over and over again. All that was going through my mind was,

I, 17 year old Percy Jackson, had sex with 22 year old Annabeth Chase.

Oh boy, am I in big trouble now…

Yeah… They, um, did it. Anyway, I apologize again for being very horrible with updates and stuff. Sorry, if there were a lot of mistakes in this chapter, I'm running out of battery on my laptop and I don't have enough time to proof read. In other news, I made a new story called She's Got A Boyfriend Anyway. I only have the introduction up but I'm almost done with chapter two. You should go check it out. It's going to be one my most mature stories ever. But anyway, here's the summary if you want to check it out:

She's Got A Boyfriend Anyway: I would tell you that I have a great life with a hot girlfriend and a cool car and fantastic friends but I'd be lying. My life wasn't at all great. Hi, my name is Percy Jackson. I'm 17 years old and I am a fuck buddy with my friend of 17 years, Annabeth Chase.

As you can tell, I am extremely obsessed with Percabeth so that's what most of my stories are about. I am thinking of making a Solangelo fanfiction but now right now. And I also find it weird that I ship Thalico and Solangelo but whatever. #LoveWins.

Bye!

R&R