Summer Nights
Chapter 11
Annabeth's POV
I woke up the next morning with strong arms wrapped around my body. I opened my eyes to see the one and the only Seaweed Brain. I smiled to myself at the thought of sleeping with Percy beside me. I took the opportunity to study his face. His untamed hair was everywhere and covered some of his eyes. I looked at his long eyelashes that make his beautiful sea green eyes stand out even more. Then I looked at his mouth. The same mouth that I wish I could just lean in and kiss. It was opened just a little bit and there was a tiny bit of drool coming out of the side of his mouth. I had to hold in my laughter.
Then it hit me that we had fallen asleep. Together. In the same bed. With only our swim suits on. Oh gods I hope Thalia didn't come home and see this. If she had then she will never let me hear the end of it. I rolled around to grab my phone. 6:03pm. Good, Thalia wasn't supposed to be back until around 8 or 9.
As much as I didn't want to (and trust me I really didn't want to) I knew I had to wake up Percy before anyone came home and saw us like this. I started to shake his shoulder slightly. After a couple minutes of that I gave up. I moved his hand off my waist and got out of the bed. I looked through my dresser and pulled out a t-shirt not really paying attention to which one it was and threw it on.
"Nice shirt." Percy said with a tired grin, "You know, I used to have one exactly like that."
I looked down and noticed that I was wearing the shirt Percy gave me after the park. My face started to turn red. I started to take off the shirt so I could hand it back to Percy but he shook his head.
"You can keep it. It looks good on you." I didn't know what to say. All I knew was that my face was getting redder by the minute.
"You drool in your sleep." I stated trying to change the subject.
"Oh um sorry." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"It's okay. It was kind of cute." Once I realized what I had said my face started to turn red again. Percy started to laugh.
"Are you hungry?" He asked.
"Yeah I could eat." Percy got out of bed and took my hand leading me downstairs to the kitchen.
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We decided to just order some pizza and have it delivered. Once the pizza got here and we paid Percy suggested taking the pizza to his room so we could watch a movie. I agreed and followed him to the elevator.
Once we got to his room Percy opened the door and motioned for me to go in first. I realized that this was the first time that I had been in Percy's room except for the time I came in here to prank him. I walked in and saw that his room was a mess. He had posters hanging up everywhere and clothes on the floor. He had a desk in the corner of his room but you could tell that he didn't use it. His walls where blue, just like most of everything else in the room. And he also had a balcony overlooking the ocean.
Percy walked towards the couch he had in the room and put the pizza and drinks down. I sat on the couch and waited for Percy to put in a movie.
"What do you want to watch?" He asked
"I don't care. You choose!"
"Finding Nemo it is!" Percy said with a huge smile on his face.
"Finding Nemo? Really?" I said with a laugh.
"You said I got to pick the movie."
"Okay! You really are obsessed with the water aren't you Seaweed Brain?"
"Kinda. It runs in my family though."
We watched the movie and ate the whole pizza. And by 'we' I mean I ate 2 slices and Percy ate the rest. After the movie was over we were still the only ones in the house. I had no clue what was taking everyone so long to get home but they should've been back by now.
"Now what do you want to do?" Percy asked.
"How about we take a walk?" I suggested.
"Okay, sounds good to me."
Once we got out on the beach we started to walk in a comfortable silence. After about 10 minutes of walking I noticed a light house not too far from us.
"Do you want to go in the lighthouse?" Percy asked
"Umm, how could we do that? It is locked isn't it?"
"Yeah, probably." But he kept on walking towards the lighthouse anyways. I followed him until we reached the door. I pulled on it to prove it was locked.
"See. It is locked." I said knowingly.
Percy pulled out his keys and grabbed a certain key and put it in the lock, unlocking the door. I just stared at him.
"Why do you have a key to the lighthouse?"
"Because my dad owns it Wise Girl." Percy said with a smirk. "After you."
We walked up the stairs to the top of the lighthouse and Percy got out another key and opened the door to the top of the light house. We walked into the room and I was taken aback by how beautiful the view was from up here.
"Is this another special place you have?" I asked
"No there is normally someone up here."
"Oh. Okay" With that he took my hand and led me out to the balcony of the lighthouse. You could see everything from up here. I feel like the ocean went on for miles. I could see lights from ships in the distance and I even saw some dolphins jumping out of the water.
"Wow. I could definitely get used to seeing this. It is so beautiful. You are so lucky that you get to see this everyday Percy."
"Yeah I guess so. But New York is cool too. There is definitely more to do there." He pointed out.
"I mean yeah, but there are so many people and after a while you even get bored of New York. I would much rather stay here. At least here I wouldn't have to see Luke and Rachel." Crap. I let that last part slip.
"Are Luke and Rachel the reason you don't want to get close to anyone?" He asked. My face turned pale and I realized that I couldn't get out of the situation now.
"Sorry. Um you don't have to tell—" I cut him off.
"No its okay. Luke was my first boyfriend. Well my only boyfriend really. I was the nerd at school and I had a crush on Luke since the 8th grade. The summer between 9th and 10th grade year Luke asked me out. I was completely shocked, I didn't think anyone like him could like me. We ended up dating and I thought everything was going great. It was our 6 month anniversary and I was to meet Luke outside the football field and wait for his practice to be over so we could go eat. I waited for 20 minutes. I was getting cold so I decided to see what was taking so long. I walked beside the bleachers and see Luke and Rachel, the cheerleader who had been bullying me since the 6th grade, having sex behind the bleachers. I took my books and threw them at Luke and ran into the girls' restroom locking myself in there until Thalia came to pick me up."
Percy just stared at me. By this point I was crying. This was the second time Percy had seen me cry but I didn't care this time. It felt good to tell someone besides Thalia and Juniper. It felt good to know that someone cared.
"Annabeth, he doesn't deserve you. Don't let that asshole ruin you. You are perfect the way you are and if Luke couldn't see that then he didn't deserve to even be around you." Percy took his arm and wrapped it around my body. And I sat there and cried into to him taking in his ocean scent. I finally pulled away after about 10 minutes.
"Thank you Percy. I really appreciate that you—"
I stopped talking when I noticed Percy was leaning in towards me. Before I realized what I was doing I began to lean in as well. Our lips were now only centimeters apart. Percy looked into my eyes as if he was asking if it was alright to keep going. I smiled, giving him the answer he wanted. He crashed his lips into mine. At first it was a small kiss but the longer it went to more passionate the kiss got. Our lips were moving in sync as if they were meant to be together. We finally pulled away from each other and we were both grinning like crazy.
"You don't know how long I have been wanting to do that." Percy said with his famous smile. I responded by punching him in the arm. "What was that for?"
"If you wanted to do it then why didn't you Seaweed Brain?"
"I'm sorry?" Percy guessed. I couldn't help but laugh at the look on his face. Percy didn't know whether to be scared or happy. I smiled at him and he took to opportunity to lean in and kiss me again.
A/N: Short chapter! But there was finally a Percabeth scene! I am so happy to write that. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. I am going to try to make the next one a lot longer and mostly in Percy's POV. Again if you have any ideas please give them to me! I am always open for your suggestions! Thank you guys again for all of the reviews and the follows and the favorites!
