Hey I'm sorry my spelling sucks! I can't spell and sometimes my spell check goes a little haywire! So sorry if you've come across words that make NO sense or just don't belong where they were put. SORRY!! Keep reading, it get's juicy here! :D

Seven o'clock was getting closer and closer. I have to admit my feeling are very mixed. I want to talk to him and everything to be his friend. But I'm having a hard time accepting that hes like me and stuff. Truth is, I don't want anybody to be dream wrecked, and creepy eyed. It just wasn't fair. But at the same time I was mad, mad he didn't speak up earlier, I mean it would've been nice to know! Another part just wanted to be quite and stuff, like I have all this time.

But I went, only because I didn't want to hurt his feelings. I knew it took the guts to tell me. I mean it's not like he could just come up to me and just say, Hi I'm Zach. I just so happen to know everything about you! Oh and ya know those freaky dream you get about Percy? Well I get them too, but your in the dream! That would just be random and unnatural.

So as I waited for Zach I stood still as statue, just waiting, a nervous wreck. I wasn't waiting for very long, I could hear his footsteps in the sand.

"Hey." he started.

"Hi" I almost whispered it, he was standing right behind me. I felt almost scared. I turned to face him and gulped. He was still wearing his red shirt and basketball shorts. I looked him straight in the eyes. His beautiful aqua eyes.

"So how is everything, ya know up there and all?" he tapped my head and smiled a brilliant smile. I found my self blushing a seep red.

"I'm really, well I have a lot of views and honestly I'm not sure which one I'm feeling."

"I know how you feel."

"Sure you do. How would you feel if someone knew everything about you and never told you?" I was relaxed right now, something about him made me calm. Then it hit me, people are really weird. I muffled a laugh of that thought.

"Look your smiling. You know, your a lot prettier when you smile. Your face, its just built for one. But you never smile, that needs to change. That is why I'm here to make you smile."

"Well you do a good job of it." I said.

"What gave it away," he started looking at the sun, standing a heroic pose. The sun made his brown hair glitter in the light. "My amazing good looks? Or huge muscels?" he flexed his arms, that seemed rock hard from shooting a bow and fighting with swords all summer. I rolled my eyes trying to hide the obvious smile building up.

"See we've only been talking for a minute and your already smiling your heart out. This will be easy." Hmmm, it was just so hard to believe that someone so cute could be talking to me. And who couldn't help but smile with him around?

"Come on, were gonna take a walk, I need to show you something." He held out his hand, at first I looked at it skepticaily, but I took it anyway. "Where are we going?" I asked.

"Somewhere. But you can think of it like Ding-Dong Ditch." he didn't drop off many clues. We started walking toward the practice arena. I was realizing how weird it was that he was holding my hand. My hand. No one has held my hand. I think I was blushing the entire way there.

"OK," He started. "Nothing will prepare you for what your about to see, so I ask you not to scream or make any comments about this." he said it like we were in danger, which I highly doubted.

He creaked the huge wood door open just enough for our two heads to pop in. At first all I saw was Mrs. O' Leary, Percy's pet hellhound he promised to keep about three years ago. She now lived in here because it was the only place we could find.

So I looked harder, and saw Percy himself getting all goo-goo ga-ga with his dog. It was pretty funny, he was saying things like 'Whos a good girl? Your a good girl!' and giving her belly rubs and stuff that little kids would say to a puppy. It was pretty weird hearing Percy talk a baby language to a hellhound. He was treating her like the pampered pooch in the Cottonale commercails.

Percy caught a glimpse of us starring at him trying to restrain out laughter. His face wasn't all cute and funny, it was mad. "Hay!" he yelled after us. Zach slammed the door and grabbed my wrist.

"Time to go!" I obeyed. I defenitly did not wantto be caught by Percy.

We ran as fast as we could to the dinning pavilion until we collapsed in laughter. We laughed until we couldn't breathe and we were nearly in tears. I had never really ran from somebody on a joke but it was pretty sure.

"I didn't know someone could love a dog that much!" I managed to get, but the giggles interupted most of it.

Once we got it all out, we laid there on the cool marble. Our heads were side by side. We were breathing heavily, stomaches going up and down. Our huffing and puffing was the only sound. I had never been so close to a guy. No scratch that, I've been so close to a good looking guy when I wanted to in my life.

As we laid there looking at each other I studied his perfect face. He had light freckles on his tanned out skin. His nose was sloped and rounded, like mine. He had slim lips that were just barley redder than pink.

"Thanks, I haven't laughed in a while" I said.

"I know" He stared deep in my eyes and moved his head closer to mine. Our lips were about a centimeter apart. And my heart was pounding so hard I wouldn't be surprised if he could hear it. We would've kissed. I would've had the best second kiss ever. But someone cleared their throat just behind us. Busted. I thought.

I turned my head up towards the sky. Percy and Annabeth were standing over us. I have know idea why Annabeth was there, she must have been sitting in the stands of something. She raised an eyebrow at us. Percy was more...well Percy was pissed off.

The moment, that wonderful moment, was now lost like tears in the rain. I sat up, so I could see them better, because seeing them upside down was dizzy making. Zach stood up and help me get to my feet again. His smile was dissolved into nothing now, just a firm straight line headed to the other guy about two feet away from him. He must have been thinking of when Percy kissed me. But it's not like Percy was smiling either, it was more like a glare. I thought they would start fighting the way they were looking at each other. Me and Annabeth just looked at one an other awkwardly.

"Um Percy this is-" I started but he cut me off.

"Zach, I'm Zach." He put an arm around me, I guess it was for protection even though he well knew I didn't need it. Percy smirked at us. Awkward. I sent an eye message to Annabeth begging for help. She got the memo.

"Percy, it's getting sort of late, and I bet some people are wondering where we are. You should walk me back to my cabin." Good cover, even though it was only seven thirty, Percy went anyways. Once they were gone I breathed a deep sigh of relive. But I still managed to smile.

"That was too close." I said to him nudging him a little bit.

"He'll get over it. Was nothing really. He probably will hold it more against me more than you. The girls always get off easy." He added shaking his head.

We started walking to who knows where, we just walked. A lot crossed my mind, I really wanted to ask him a bunch of stuff, but only one question stuck out to me the most.

"So what about you?" I said looking up to him. He was a tallish guy and the sun was just behind his head so I had to squint to look. "You know everything about me, but I know nothing about you. Whats your story?"

"Do I need one? You know enough right now. I'll tell you more someday. But I guess everyone had their share of battle scars. As for me I'd like to thank my lucky stars that I'm alive, and well." he smiled at me like I knew what he was talking about. And I did.

"Kenny Chesney. Good song to steal from." The song was called "I'm Alive" by well, Kenny Chesney, a legend.

"Country music, got it from you. Now it's all I listen to."

"Good, best kind of music there is" I said this percistantly because most people hate country. See if people just listened to it, they'd like it. But everybody just assumes it's all bango playing and crap. I mean yes they're are songs like that but new country is all upbeat and stuff.

We arrived at the cabins. Good thing Annabeth and Percy were gone. Zach looked down at me.

"So Isabel," He began

"So Zach." I mimicked. He laughed at me. "What?"

"You say your O's like oh. Very Minnesotan." I smirked, there was nothing with the way I said my O's. "I'm really glad you smiled a lot today though. I know it was a rough start. I'm sorry." He paused. "But I was wondering-"

"Yeah?"

"Well I was just wondering," he scratched the back of his head, I stood there gleaming, knowing what he was going to ask. "If you had a dress that I could take you to the dance in? I mean but only if the dress wanted to go." I smiled as big as ever. I loved how he was so cockily.

"Hmmm, I think the dress would like to have a night out with you." I said sarcasticaly.

"You sure? Dresses tend to have some problems here and there." I gigled

"I'm sure."

"Great, so it's a date!"

"Its a date." I breathed a deep dreamy sigh. Its a date