Good morning! Sorry, there was an error so couldn't upload the slats night. Just a quick reply to two reviews:

hproxx1999 : I think you're gonna be really excited. And don't worry, I have things planned out. ;)

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Chp 10
Annabeth's POV

I smiled as I checked the time and went down to the lobby. Percy said he was taking me out somewhere. It was already four in the evening so I thought he might be taking me to pizza but he said to where something you usually where to the beach.

So I put on Jean shorts, a loose black tank top and my bikini under it, and wore vans. I waited outside and spotted his pickup truck. He jumped out his car and came to greet me. "Ello!" He said, giving me a hug. I smiled at him and he opened his car door for me. I got in and he closed, running to the drivers side and getting in.

We drove with the windows down, enjoying the air cooling us down in the hot weather. Us driving gave me time to sneak a glance at him. He was wearing a pair if board shorts and a t shirt that said Summer on it. He wore vans too.

His composure was laid back, his body not tense. He looked over at me and smiled. I couldn't see his eyes through his sunglasses, which sucked because I really wanted to stare into the sea of greens and blues. The eyes that looked at me with care and protection.

I watched the surroundings and soon found us slowing down and come to a halt. I got out the car and looked at the surrounding. We were at the bottom of a hill next to a lake. He brought out a cooler bag and blankets and pillows and sat in the back of his truck. (You know the part that is open?)

We ate some really good cheese and ham sandwiches and had blue chocolate chip cookies for dessert. We just chatted and laughed. We then walked down to the lake and stood with our feet in the water. We started splashing each other with water but we both ended up falling over and getting soaked.

I stood, knee deep in water. We both laughed and he splashed we one last time. Then we just stood there, smiling at each other. It was the first time I noticed I could see his toned body through his soaked top, and that he could probably see my body through my wet white top.

My hair dripped with water and I probably looked weird. I just chuckled and walked forward going past him and towards the car. He caught up and we sat in the back of his truck. He draped a blanket over my shoulders to dry me. I smiled down at my hands at the thought of the gesture.

I only noticed the darkness of the sky when we lay down on our backs. We looked up at the sky, the flaming balls of fire illuminating the sky. The stars cascaded across the sky, the Milky Way visible as we were out of the city and it's light pollution. The moon shone brightly, casting a glow over the lake.

"There's Arion's belt." He said, pointing out the three stars in a line. "And the southern cross." I pointed out. He looked at me and said, "You know about the stars?" I nodded with a smile. "Yeah, I was taught about the stars from a young age." I said. He smiled. "Same, my dad used to come here with me and would show me the stars."

I looked up at the sky, searching for any courage that I might tell him who taught me. Mom. I missed her. I saw the star we had found once and felt my eyes start to mist a little. It was a little red star that we found while looking through a telescope. It wasn't noticeable to the naked eye as it was so small, you wouldn't even say it was red. But it was. And I always found it above the southern cross.

I wiped at my eyes and sat up. Percy sat up with me and we leaned against the little window that allowed a driver to speak to someone in the back part. The blanket had fallen from my shoulders and my skin was touching his. The tingle had slowly turned to an electric shock wave that made my head go dizzy.

"I bet the sky wasn't this clear in San Fran." He joked. I just laughed, shaking my head as I had found a place just outside the city where the stars shone brightly and amazed me. But these stars did seem brighter, more cheerful, more of them out there.

"Yeah right." I joked turning my body to him with a smirk on my face. He did the same and leaned a little closer.

"Well then tell me about these stars that are better than these." He said his face was firstly mischievous but it slowly softened and we both noticed our proximity. His face was very close to mine, that if I leaned forward our noses would brush. I could pick up every color in his eyes, noticed the creases on the side of his eyes made from how many times he's smiled.

He shifted his eyes to my lips and started leaning forward. This was it. I felt my heart beat faster till it was on over drive and I was afraid he could hear it. I wondered if my lips were dry, if I'd remembered to reapply my lip balm.

I tried not to think about it. My mind just tunneled on him and this simple action. He slowly guided my face up to his with his finger. Memories of when we met up until this moment flooded through my head in the last second before I felt his soft pink lips on mine.

My thoughts of him hitting me in the face with his locker door, going out to coffee, tutoring him, ditching our friends to hand out at a pizza parlor, his romantic gesture at the beach- they disappeared and it was just us.

My exes name, my past, my family, my insecurities, my breakdowns and emotional barriers, hell, even my name just vanished out my head. It was like breaking down a wall. It just collapsed and whatever had been there was gone. And now it was just him and me alone in the back of a beat up pickup truck under the stars away from the public eye and friends and family and we were having complete bliss.

Our lips moved in sync, slow and simmering. He finally pulled away for air first, his forehead on mine still. His hand was cupping my cheek and my hand hovered between his collar bone and his cheek.

I slowly opened my eyes to be met with his beautiful clear green eyes. We both smiled and kissed again. It was slightly more heated, both of us adding to it. I felt like I was floating on a cloud, not in the real world but drifting through it.

I hit a blank and then found myself lying on my side, him on his back with a protective arm around my shoulders and my hand and head on his chest. His soft breathing tickled my neck and I felt him pull me closer.

He let out a sigh and I was afraid he was going to say something and the serenity would be disturbed. But he stayed quiet, staring at the stars. I guess I ate my words as I broke the silence. "So do we tell people? I mean, are we - is this a thing?" I asked, rolling onto my stomach and gesturing between us as I talked. Me and my stupid always moving my hands when I talk thing.

He smiled. He tucked a stray strand of hair behind my ear and cupped my cheek, running his finger of my cheek. "One, were definitely a thing. I mean- if you want to be others wise it's cool and-" I cut him off by kissing him.

"Two?" I mumbled against his lips. He looked up at the sky again and shrugged.

"Do you want people to know? We could maybe just tell our friends and hope nothing gets leaked. Or just not tell anyone and be that secretive couple." He said, making his voice mysterious at the end, making me laugh.

"I dunno, I don't know if I would be able to not kiss you when I see you in the morning at school, not kiss you when were out of fear of being seen, leaving it to you only kissing me when you drop me off at my place. And that's with our friends knowing." I said. He just laughed.

"I wondered why you were so quiet the past ten minutes. It's because you've been mapping this out and over thinking it." He said, then flipped so I was on my back and he was lying next to me, looking down at me.

"I say we just live in the moment right now. It's Friday, we have the rest of the weekend to figure stuff out." He said, doing that rubbing my cheek with his thumb thing before leaning down and closing the gap between us.

I smiled into the kiss. I returned his kiss with an open mouthed kiss. He returned it and then pulled away. We switched positions and resumed lying in the old position. His breathing pattern righted again and I found the soothing sound of his breath making me drift off.

~ Line Break ~

I awoke to soft sunlight filtering through the trees. A sleeping Percy lay next to me. I rubbed my eyes and tried to remember last night. I sighed as I starting to wake up and registered we had just fallen asleep. After kissing. A few times. And possibly started dating and have to figure out what we want to do.

I yawned and leaned over, checking my phone. It was six fifteen in the morning. I sighed and tried to imagine the English paper I had to finish. Bad enough I was dyslexic.

I jumped a little when I felt a hand touch my shoulder I turned to see Percy leaning on his elbow and rubbing his eyes. "You okay?" He asked. I smiled and nodded. I leaned over and captured his lips in mine. He quickly responded, kissing me back.

He pulled away and checked the time. "Shit." He muttered under his breath, getting his phone out and reading something. "Is something wrong?" I asked, afraid I had messed up some plan he had for today.

He looked up and gave me a quick smile before typing at his phone. "Yeah, I just forgot to tell mom I might be staying at Nico's or Jason's for the night." He said. I frowned.

"But you weren't there." I said, raising an eyebrow at him. He raised an eyebrow at me with the traces of a smirk lifting at the corner of his mouth.

"Yeah, I just say to my mom 'sorry mom, fell asleep with Annabeth in my truck. By the way she's my girlfriend now. What did you have for supper?'" He joked, making me blush as I realized how his mom would read it. "At Jason's you were." I said, making him laugh.

"And also I forgot I had a swim practice at eight. So if you don't mind, we kind if have to go." He said. I nodded and we both started moving, collecting the blankets and pillows and whatever else and packing it away before getting in the two front seats and driving back the way we came.

He dropped me off at my place, giving me a kiss before I hopped out his car and walked to the front door. The doorman was sitting on the front couch with a cup of coffee and the newspaper. He raised an eyebrow at me with a suspecting smile on his face. It just made me blush and rush to the elevator.