Chapter 11
I was the first to wake up in our new home. It was early evening, around 5pm, and my stomach was going crazy from not having eaten anything. Annabeth was tucked into the crook of my neck, and I kissed her fingers softly. She inhaled against my neck and I felt her eye lashes tickle my neck, as her eyes flickered open. She craned her neck to rest her head on my chest. Before, she had her arm draped around my mid section. I was now pecking her soft, delicate fingers of her hand gently. She smiled lazily at me and stifled a yawn.
"Good evening, my beautiful girlfriend." I said in a rough, husky tone. I made a face at the sound of my voice, and Annabeth laughed at the face I pulled.
"Good evening, my handsome boyfriend." she said as she manoeuvred on top of me and started kissing my lips. I wrapped my arms around her curvy yet athletic figure and hugged her closer to me. "I liked this morning a lot, sorry I didn't say anything." She said kissing my neck.
I cuddled her a while before answering, "Its fine you don't have to apologise. I really enjoyed it, it felt really good but it was a pain. I just really wanted to... you know." I sighed and kissed the top of her head, "Don't get me wrong though, I was not expecting what you did, it felt amazing." I said as I rubbed her back. She smiled and let out an amused chuckle.
"Really? That was a first, I've never given one before. I didn't know if I was doing it right or not." I chuckled lightly and ran my hand up her spine. She shivered at the touch as I responded.
"Well you are amazing at them. It was the first time I have done that too." She beamed up at me before kissing her lips sweetly.
"I think we should do that more often." She mumbled playfully as she pecked my lips once more. I laughed, "Maybe, I think we need to leave it a while though, other wise I wont be able to keep it out of that master piece of yours." I whispered playfully in her ear, as I ran my hand into the dip of her ass. She moaned, blushed furiously and hit my chest playfully, then buried her head in my chest to hide her blush. I pulled out the hair tie and watched her beautiful hair cascade down around her neck.
My hand returned to its previous position, where I rubbed her lower back, "We should really get up you know." She nodded, nuzzled, into my chest and looked up, a glint of something in her eyes and tone.
"We could or-" My growling stomach said otherwise, ruining the moment. It was my turn to blush furiously as Annabeth threw her head back and laughed her ass off. She rolled off of me and kissed my nose, "Dinner?" She wondered.
"We didn't have any food, so it would be nice, yeah." I replied, groaning and rolling out of bed. I picked up a pair of shorts and I walked out the bedroom putting them on, with Annabeth in tow. I went to the ready stocked fridge and looked inside. I scanned its contents, there was a lot of things that would take time to make, so I pulled out a bottle of cider and two wine glasses from the cabinet. She raised her eyebrow at me in amusement and rolled her eyes. "I'll go call Darren to get us some food from a restaurant, what do you want?" I wondered, picking up my phone.
She pondered on the idea as she poured the drinks, "Can you get me a steak, fried egg and chips please?" I raised the phone and chuckled.
"Hey Darren, can you order some food for us and bring it to the apartment." I wondered as I listened to his reply,vaguely hearing a buzzing of a phone on a table behind me. "Can you get me, gammon, pineapple slices and chips and steak, fried egg and chips. Gammon and steak cooked fully, no red meat. Thats all, cheers mate." I hung up the phone, and grabbed the cider filled glass. I took a sip before saying, "At least twenty minutes." I placed the drink down and Annabeth was biting her bottom lip staring at me. "What's up?" I wondered. She put her phone down on a magazine, got up and sat on my lap pressing light kisses to my neck. I raised an eyebrow, "something to pass the time?" I asked.
She nodded slightly. Against my neck I heard her mumble, "I want you to meet my parents."
I was taking a sip of my drink and choked it down to refrain from doing a spit take. "come again?" I asked through a coughing fit.
She sat up straight and looked me dead in the eyes, all serious, "I want you to meet my parents tomorrow, they live down the road from Times Square." I chewed the inside of my lip.
"I don't mind, but, why? And what time tomorrow?" I wondered as I thought about meeting her parents for the first time.
She thought about it before responding, "We can go out for dinner? and it would be my step mum and dad."I shrugged and nodded.
"Okay. Well I have to go to England a week before the British Grand Prix. I have a race to do, it should be a surprise because Williams want me to race one of their old cars in the historic formula one. So my parents don't know so you can meet them then. Also for the British Grand Prix, I want you and the guys and girls to be there for me, is that okay?" I wondered.
She nodded and kissed my lips with a smile, "Deal. And here." She handed me the magazine that was under her phone. It came from the selection displayed neatly on the coffee table. It was already turned to a page that read, "Annabeth Chase and Mystery Man." I read the article and looked at all the different photos of us, walking hand in hand out her building complex, in the car when I stepped in and outside her studio set when they caught me and her kissing goodbye. Then there were the ones of us with the others walking in the restaurant. I was wearing glasses in them all so my face couldn't be seen.
I groaned. "My parents read this and wanted to meet you." She told me. I smiled.
"Id love to, I wish the paps would leave us alone for once." I huffed and said honestly for both scenarios.
She nodded, "I know right." and kissed my lips, wrapping her arms behind my neck and hugged me. That was when the 'ding' went for Darren and our food.
After talking and eating dinner, we toured the apartment. I brought her to the swimming pool last which was on the roof showing the amazing city scape of New York. "Hope you brought a swim suit." I whispered to her from behind. She shivered and leaned into me and shook her head.
"Nope." She said popping the P. I ran my hand up her stomach making her shiver at the contact.
"What a shame." I said sarcastically running my thumb over her waist in soothing circles.
"Looks like we have to swim in our birthday suits." She stated with a shrug, before she snuggled into my arms. I spun her around and kissed her softly on the lips and cupped her cheek.
She leaned into me and shivered as a cold breeze rolled over us. I wrapped her in my arms and walked into the apartment with her. It was about 9pm so we decided to go watch something on the xbox, on Netflix. As I made the popcorn she put on something I wasn't expecting. Farscape. I chuckled lightly as I advanced towards her.
"I didn't have you labelled as a Sci-Fi person." I told her. She glared playfully at me, her defence rising.
"I happen to love Sci-Fi and I haven't seen this yet." I held my hand up in mock surrender not one to complain to cuddling and watching one of my favourite Sci-Fi's.
"I'm not complaining. I haven't seen this in a while." I stated as I sat next to her on the comfy black leather sofa. She snuggled in close to my side, popping a couple pieces of popcorn in her mouth and throwing one in my open mouth. She laughed as it missed and hit me in the eye. After watching 12 episodes it was nearly 5am and Annabeth had already fallen asleep at the end of the credits. I placed the empty bowl of popcorn on the table, turned off the Xbox and TV and picked her up with my arm supporting her legs and my other her shoulders. Her head slumped against my arm as she nuzzled into it.
I chuckled lightly, so I didn't wake her, and placed her in bed. Thankfully she was wearing her PJs still. I stripped down to my boxers and laid down next to her, wrapping us in the covers. She sighed in content and draped her arm over me as she rolled onto her side. I pulled her close to me and gave her a chaste kiss on her lips, "Sweet dreams beautiful. Love you." I whispered. A ghost smile formed on her lips as she mumbled a 'love you too'. When I woke the next morning, I had Annabeth tucked into my side while she kissed my neck softly. "Morning Seaweed Brain." She smiled as she heard my long intake of air and a yawn.
"Good morning Wise Girl." I said back, like before my voice was husky and low. I rubbed my eye to rid it of the sleep.
"How'd you sleep?" She wondered. "fine, you?" I eyed her curiously wondering what her game was.
"Fine." She smiled then it faded and she sighed, "My parents said that they can meet us for lunch too, we are meeting them at Starbucks at twelve, so you have to get ready." She said all serious. I looked at her and she was already dressed. She was wearing a designer stormy grey short dress that went past her thighs, with leggings underneath with sandals. I looked at my phone and it was 11am. I rolled out of bed quickly and sprinted into the bathroom for a shower.
After I was cleaned up, I walked back in the bedroom to the chest of drawers by the bed, to pull out some new boxers and suitable clothing. I noticed Annabeth was still on the bed as I walked in and she bit her bottom lip while she checked me out. She noticed I caught her staring and turned a slight shade of pink. I chuckled and leaned over her to give her a quick kiss on her lips. I pulled the boxers up with the towel still around me and took it off, discarding the towel to the dirty washing bin and put on my black jeans with a No Fear belt, socks, my signature No Fear branded 'Atlantis Motorsport' boots and my Williams polo top. I styled my hair in the mirror running my hand through it giving it my natural messy look, and turned to Annabeth. "How do I look?" I wondered. She stood and smiled at me. After advancing towards me, she wrapped her arms around my neck, pulled me down, and kissed me on the lips instantly deepening the kiss. After I pulled back she looked up at me, "That good huh?" I questioned, earning me a smirk and a playful smack to the arm.
When we walked out the main entrance, we turned left to go to the car park around the back. She raised an eyebrow at me as I walked round the side. We stopped in front of a black Range Rover supercharged. I pulled out the keys that Darren dropped off and gave them to her. "I know I missed it and never gave you anything so, Happy Birthday." I said as I kissed her lips and hugged her.
She smiled up at me and squeezed my hands, eyes glistening. "Percy, you didn't have to." She said close to tears of joy.
I pulled her closer for another hug and whispered, "We really should go you know. We only have twenty minutes." I felt Annabeth nod against my chest when we pulled out from the kiss and we stepped into Annabeth's new car.
She started to drive down to Starbucks and we made small talk and plans. When we sat in a comfortable silence and about a couple of minutes away it sprung to mind, "Oh yeah, next weekend I'm at Bahrain from Thursday morning to next Sunday night so I might see you back at your place then, or early Monday morning." She pulled up behind a black ford fusion, and parked up.
"Okay, I was going out with the girls and guys for some drinks Sunday night so." I nodded.
"Okay, I will see you when you get back Monday morning." We shared a lingering kiss before we stepped out the car and into Starbucks.
I stopped next to her and said, "What do you want?" As I glanced to her then nodded at the menu looking back at her lovingly with a smile, waiting for her to decide.
"Get me a blueberry muffin and a mocha please." She kissed my cheek before I went and stood in the line. I stood behind a father and a boy about 7 or 8 wearing a Williams F1 hat with number 97 on it. Mine. I smiled at the boy when he looked at me and gasped. He shook his fathers hand and pointed at me. His fathers eyes widened and I chuckled lightly. I looked at his appearance and he was in one of the leather jackets we sold, limited numbers, only 100 made.
"Autograph and a picture with a couple of fans?" I wondered.
The man stammered, "I-if its not to much trouble." I nodded and took out my sharpie and two A5 pieces of card I always keep in my leather jacket pocket. It had a picture of my face, faded slightly, and a picture of me mid-race.
I leaned onto the table closest and signed them, "Who am I writing these too?" I wondered.
"My son Jason and Im Nico." I smiled at the names and proceeded to sign them.
I handed it to them both, "Thank you!" The boy, Jason, said cheerfully.
"If its not too much trouble can you sign my sons cap too please." He asked rubbing the back of his neck.
"Of course, picture too? I dont mind." He nodded sheepishly while Jason nodded enthusiastically. I signed my autograph on the base of Jason's cap and put everything away, ready for the pictures.
The cafe wasn't very busy and there was only a few people in front of us and some sitting at tables around us, all looking in our direction. We did a group photo with Nico's iPhone, he got someone in front of him to take the photo. Nico, Jason and I were in the first. Then one with just Nico and I followed by Jason and I. "Thank you." He said happily. I chuckled.
"No problem." They ordered their food and left with a goodbye to me. I waved goodbye and walked to the barista checking me out.
I subconsciously rolled my eyes and said, "Hi can I get a mocha, two blueberry muffins and a regular coffee with cream please."
She nodded and placed my order, "Named?" I shook my head.
"No thanks." I said smiling.
She nodded, and said, "$12. Please." I handed her the money and stood to one side. After a couple of minutes she gave me the order and said, "Have a nice day." I replied my thanks and walked to the back, not noticing the number she put on my cup. Great. I gave Annabeth her mocha and blueberry muffin smiled at her parents and sat down. Annabeth turned to me looked at my cup, glared and looked up at me again with an eyebrow raised.
"Helen, Dad, this is Percy." She said in a false cheerful voice. If they noticed the tone, they didn't show it.
Mr and Mrs Chase said, "Hello." I smiled and responded with a "Hi."
"I'm Fredrick." Said Mr Chase and he gripped my hand rather tightly.
Mrs Chase offered her hand to me which I shook and she proceeded to say, "Helen." She began looking over me with a warm smile. I took a sip of my coffee and turned it in my hands. When I placed it back on the table I mentally face palmed. The barista had written, "Call me" followed by her number on my cup. I groaned resulting in the conversation Annabeth and her parents were having to stop.
I turned red, "Sorry, I just realised why Annabeth looked like she was going to murder me." Mr Chase eyed me curiously and turned my cup around and chuckled lightly.
"Ah, that old trick." I smiled and pulled out the sharpie from before and proceeded to scribble out the number and message. I placed the pen back in my pocket, and put my hand on my knee under the table. Annabeth took my hand in hers and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
"So what did the boy and his father want, to make them cause quite a disturbance?" Mrs Chase wondered.
I took a sip of my coffee before I answered, "They were fans wanting autographs. I forgot to put my disguise on this morning." I replied rubbing my neck sheepishly.
"And what is it, that you do for a living young man?" Mr Chase wondered.
"I am a Race driver for Williams F1 team and I own a race company called Atlantis Motorsport, Sir." He nodded. After talking and getting to know each other, Annabeth and her step-mother excused themselves from the table, Helen for the toilet, Annabeth for a bottle of water. After they both left, Fredrick turned to me all evidence of a serious topic coming into play by his expression.
"Now. I don't want you to hurt my little girl and I don't want to be a grandfather at the age you are at." I gulped.
"Sir, I don't intend on letting your daughter go, and if I did I would be a fool. And you don't have to worry about that, I have sworn that off until Im married." I told him honestly.
He nodded and smiled at me, "Good. Because you wouldn't like the things I could do to you if push comes to shove." He said turning serious.
"Dad." A shriek came from behind. Fredrick slowly turned to glance over his shoulder to his daughter and winced at the death glare that was being given.
"Its fine. I wouldn't dare string her along if I didn't love her, sir." I replied directing it to her father. Annabeth came over to me still glaring at her father, and softened up as she kissed my cheek.
After that, things returned back to normal, we talked a while, her parents seemed to approve of me (I hope) after my honest answers about their daughter whenever she would disappear to get something, and then we found ourselves on the way to the shopping strip to get smart clothes for tonight. The journey was filled with an awkward silence as we followed her parents in their Ford fusion.
"Why are you so quiet?" She wondered. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
"your dad scares the crap out of me." I said honestly.
Annabeth chuckled lightly and gripped my hand, "He likes you don't worry, it's just the over protective father instinct kicking in. Helen likes you too, a lot by the looks of things." She paused and asked what was on her mind, "Will your parents approve of me?" She asked innocently.
I scoffed, "Approve is probably an understatement. You are my first girlfriend." I said sheepishly.
"You're my first boyfriend." She said smiling over at me. I squeezed her hand and we stopped outside the shopping strip in the car park. As I stepped out of the car and started walking with her parents and Annabeth, my phone started ringing in my pocket. I looked at the caller ID and saw it was Dad.
"I have to split for a while, I have some business to attend too." I said shaking the phone in my hand. Her parents nodded and Annabeth kissed me on the lips briefly.
"Okay, we'll meet you outside at the car when we are all finished." I nodded and they left, a short wave from Annabeth.
The conversation was about the improvements. The assembly line wing was nearly furnished with the machinery, and the engine testing wing was too. The test track was finished and had been used to get grip and a racing line going and the medical centre was being extended. After hanging up I went into a tailor they had down the road and proceeded to get a fitting. Three hours of torture later, I was paying for the suit when Annabeth called me, "Hey, I'm by the car with my parents, where are you?" I paid the man for the suit and responded.
"Tailors down the road. Just got my suit for tonight." It was a black suit with a white dress shirt with AM for Atlantis Motorsport sown into the breast pocket.
"Okay, well hurry up, we have to get ready and get to the restaurant for eight." I looked at the clock to see that it was 630pm and proceeded to exit with the suit.
"On my way now, see you in a bit. Love you." I could hear the smile in her voice.
"Love you too babe." and hung up. On my way back I walked past a TiffanyCo Jewellery shop and saw in the window an 18k gold necklace, with a diamond encrusted heart. I also looked at earrings that were rose gold and essentially the same, so I thought they went with the necklace. I walked in to the place and asked the clerk for them. Giving them the once over, I paid the $3,925 and walked out.
I saw Annabeth leaning on the car waiting for me. When I stepped over to her, she raised her eyebrow at the extra bag in my hand. "Its a surprise." I singsonged as I put on my sunglasses and kissed her on the lips.
"I have one for you too. My brother and sister are joining us for dinner too." My smile wavered slightly as we stepped into the car.
"Woo more people to hate my guts if I step out of line with their daughter or sister." I said sarcastically. She smiled and smacked my arm and drove back to the apartment. When we arrived, she got changed into a black dress, which hugged her curves perfectly so it wasnt too tight or too loose. She had black small heels on with light make up like usual. As she finished straightening her hair I gave her the box, engraved with the TiffanyCo logo, with the earrings inside. Her eyes widened at the box and slowly lifted the lid. A smile graced her lips as she examined the earrings.
She turned around to kiss me on the lips, "Stop showering me with gifts." She mumbled playfully against my lips.
"Never." I responded with a smile. She leaned her head onto my shoulder and smiled up at me.
"They are so beautiful. How much?" She wondered with a sigh.
"That is for me to know and for you to never find out. Its part of your birthday present." I told her, waving her off as if it wasn't a big deal. When she turned around to put them on, I slipped the necklace around her neck too. Her smile widened when she saw the necklace. I rested my arms around her front and rested my chin on her shoulder. "You look beautiful." I said as I kissed her neck.
She inhaled deeply and leaned her head on mine and closed her eyes. "Thanks. You look handsome too." She said as she slowly turned in my arms.
We both had our disguises on, she had brown eye contacts in and I had blue. "Brown doesn't suit you." I said looking in her eyes. She grumbled in agreement.
"Nor does blue for you." She frowned as I caressed her cheek as I smiled.
"Do you know what part of you made me fall for you and found makes you the most beautiful person ever?" She shook her head, "Granted, I fell in love with you for you, your personality and all but what I really love most is your eyes. They are the most beautiful stormy grey colour ever, and when you stick on eye liner, be it black or blue, it makes the stormy grey stand out and it turns a darker shade." I told her as I ran my thumb over her cheek.
She blushed and cuddled into me, "Thank you. That is by far the best thing anyone has told me."
I kissed the top of her head, "remind me to compliment you more often." She chuckled and shook her head. We stood, smoothed down our outfits, and we walked arm in arm out the door towards the car. Twenty minutes later we were pulling up at the restaurant where we were met by her siblings and their boyfriend/girlfriend and the Chase parents and their twin boys who looked identical. "Hey, I'm Daisy this is my boyfriend, David."
I smiled politely and shook their hands, "Percy, pleasure to meet you."
Her brother stepped in, "I'm Malcolm and this is Laura." I smiled at them too, "Hey, pleasure to meet you both too."
"And these are our boys, Matthew and Bobby." Mr Chase patted each of their shoulder to their names, left was Bobby and right was Matthew. I smiled and said hello as they just stared in awe up at me.
In the restaurant after ordering our food, I was being polite like always to them. "So Percy, what do you do for a living?" Malcolm wondered. Here we go, over protective brother mode engaged.
I responded politely, "I race for Williams in formula one and own a race company called Atlantis Motorsport." I told them.
Daisy blurted out, "I thought you had green eyes?" Then she looked down embarrassed on the outburst.
I chuckled lightly, "I do." and took out my contacts, "Really not used to those they kill your eyes." I said to know one in particular, though I got a chuckle in response. Annabeth was holding my hand under the table like always and I was rubbing a message on her hand, 'I love you' over and over. When our dinner came she kissed my cheek and whispered it back. Dinner was pretty eventful, joking around and talking, having to explain to the twins that yes I was in fact dating their sister, and eventually it was time to leave. "I enjoyed myself, I hope to do this again sometime, maybe with my parents?"
They nodded, I gave Helen a hug and shook Fredrick's hand, "Look after her." He whispered. I nodded and shook everybody else's hand before saying goodbye again and we both walked to the entrance hand in hand. She shivered as we waited for the chauffeur. It was 10pm, a very cold night, but being raised in England I was used to it, so I wrapped my blazer around her and kissed her head and she snuggled into my arms.
"That was fun." I whispered to her, earning me a chuckle and nod.
"Yeah, what is yours going to be like?" I laughed thinking about all of the reactions that would take place.
"Not a clue my family are full of surprises. My mum is getting worried on why I'm spending so much time out here, she thinks I've moved to America." I chuckled.
"So she doesn't know about me?" Annabeth wondered looking at me curiously.
I shook my head, "Only Tyson because he set us up together, but even he doesn't know the real you. He still thinks your Wilkinson." I told her to which she laughed and cuddled into me. Eventually the chauffeur drove up and we both hopped into the car.
We arrived back to the apartment and crashed on the sofa. Annabeth put her feet up underneath her, after taking off her heels, and snuggled into my side. We sat there talking about my family and everything until the dreaded topic came up, "Tomorrow when we go back to the airport, I will be dropping you off and then I have to go back to England for the week. The builders have nearly finished everything and then the production of our cars can be under way."
She pouted and looked up to me, "Can we stay here tomorrow?" She whispered seductively.
I chuckled, "If you want to yeah." She kissed my lips and I cupped her face to deepen it and we ended up in the bedroom, clothes being thrown to the ground by our bed, "You sure?" I wondered.
She nodded and replied, "I wanna do this tomorrow too." I shook my head with a smile etched onto my face.
"Fine." And so the make-out and pleasure sessions began. After an intense wrestle, and enjoying the presence of one another, We fell asleep in each others arms.