Chapter Thirteen.

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Five days until Sally's life support will be turned off.

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It was quiet in the library. The only sound you could hear was the pages flicking and it smelt like dusty old books. Annabeth loved it. Her fingers scanned the spines of the books, she let out a small sigh of content.

Percy, however, found it extremely difficult to stay quiet and he was dyslexic so a library to him was like a living hell. He flopped down on one of the chairs with his head in his hands.

His back stung but he had changed the bandages, bought some pain killers whilst Gabe was out and that was the best he could do. He watched Annabeth mull over all the books, she was one puzzling enigma.

Annabeth pulled out a brown leather bound book and placed it carefully on the table, taking a seat next to Percy. It took him a few seconds to make out the title. Greek Mythology.

They hadn't been able to work on the essay together because their plans, for some reason, always managed to get cancelled. Something always came up. But not this time. Annabeth opened the first page, Percy groaned. "Why do I have to learn?" He whispered and banged his head on the table.

"Because otherwise you'll be even more stupid than you were two seconds ago," She replied with a grin. Percy poked his tongue out at her, Annabeth rolled her eyes and began reading.

About three minutes in, Percy flopped the book closed and looked at Annabeth with those bright green eyes that could manipulate anyone to do anything. "Percy!" She hissed. "I was reading that!"

He shook his head, "You have done way too much work for this. When was the last time you had fun?"

Annabeth thought for a moment. It was true that if you did too much studying for something, you wouldn't get good results. Did Athena ever take a break? Probably not.

"Is that what this is all about? You keep comparing yourself to Athena? Annabeth, she's a Goddess. A sixteen year old girl can't possibly live up to that." Percy whispered softly.

She sighed, why did she always have to be the best? In a family of five, it's hard to be noticed so Annabeth made ridiculous accomplishments to make her family proud of her.

"You know what?" She smiled and stood up with the book in her hand.

Carefully, Annabeth placed the book back on the shelf. "Why don't we have some fun? You're only sixteen once."

"That's more like it!" Percy said loudly, earning some rude glares from the people around them. "Why waste your life trying to be perfect? Come on!" He grabbed her hand and ran out the library.

It was the beginning of December, Percy was wearing the thinnest jacket anyone could own and running hurt like hell because of his injuries but, at that moment, he didn't care.

Somehow, they ended up at the lake. Nobody was there, Percy sat on the grass by the edge of the water, trying to catch his breath and pulled Annabeth down with him.

"That was fun," She panted.

Percy chuckled, "Yeah, it was."

"You know most people have finished their essay-"

"Fucksake!" He exclaimed and slammed a hand over Annabeth's mouth. "Do you ever shut up?"

Annabeth smiled, "I could say the same thing to you." Her mouth was covered by Percy's hand so her words came out sounding muffled, her breath hot on Percy's palm.

Percy pulled his hand away and wiped it on the grass with a frown on his face, "You spat on my hand." Annabeth laughed.

Suddenly, Annabeth was pulling Percy up off his feet. "What are you doing?" He asked warily. She shrugged and kept on walking, it wasn't until they were at the edge of the water that he realized what Annabeth was up to. "No, no. No please don't!"

Annabeth laughed and placed a hand on his shoulder. "You're the one who said they wanted to have fun." She pushed Percy and he stumbled closer. He braced himself as she gave one firm shove and Percy fell into the water.

It was absolutely freezing! It was actually deeper than Percy expected, but he had always loved the water. He stayed under for about three minutes and forty five seconds, which was as long as he could hold his breath.

Percy thought that was pretty impressive, considering he didn't take a big breath before he was pushed in.

He swam to the surface of the water and broke through. Annabeth was there, laughing hysterically. Percy swam over to the edge of the drive and grabbed her ankle. "Percy, no!" She screamed before he yanked her into the water by her foot.

Under the water, Annabeth's hair was all over her face like Ariel in The Little Mermaid. She felt Percy holding her hand and let herself relax. After about two minutes, her lungs started to burn and she had to go up to take a breath.

They both staggered out of the water with dripping wet clothes. "Wasn't my best idea," Annabeth admitted. Pushing each other into a freezing lake in December when they were a fifteen, maybe twenty minute walk from home.

Percy laughed and ran a hand through his damp hair. "No," He smiled. "But I think I'm a pretty good influence on you."

Annabeth whacked him on the arm. He smiled and they both started the walk back to her house (because it was the closest of the two) with a puddle of lake water trailing behind them.