AGirlLostInTime: thank you so much for that review; it was just what I look for when I look at reviews or write them myself

KoalaLover-ABC-123: that's a great suggestions however I have something different in mind.

MichealLukeSkyWalker: thanks for the compliment! And I will do my best to make the chapters longer. Would around 2,000 words be enough?

Alicewonder (guest) - I haven't been able to come up with much for Ryan's character, hopefully I can come up with something soon, because a lot of people have been asking for more of him. And don't worry about percabeth. I like to let my characters grow and evolve and then out them together. That is after all what happened in the actual books. It took them 5 books to finally get together! But I don't plan on making you guys wait for that long, they should be together soon.

So instead of boring you guys with how much I love reviews and stuff like that, I am going to make the author's note shorter for this chapter and let you guys read.

Percy's point of view

At Thalia's house

I've always known that Annabeth was pretty, but when she came out from her hiding spot in the hallway, I couldn't help but stare. Her friends, specifically Thalia, had been pestering me about how much they would hurt me if I hurt her, and frankly I was kind of intimidated. Yet when Annabeth came out of that hallway, my jaw dropped. Sure, I felt like an idiot, but guys are guys and we can't help ourselves when it comes to beautiful, smart women like Annabeth. It's a wonder she was able to stay with Luke so long.

Suddenly, Thalia's attention wasn't on me anymore, which I'm not sure if that is necessarily a good thing or not. I heard her tell Annabeth that if she thought that she could get away with hurting me just because she's her best friend, then she had better think again. It was kind of funny to Thalia be so protective of me, but then again, she would sacrifice her life to save those whom she loves.

Once we were out of the house, and had decided that we would go to Central Park, an awkward silence fell between Annabeth and I. Of course, I'm not sure if Annabeth noticed it to, or what, but I found it awkward. We were silent which was something that I wasn't used to. 10 years ago, this silence would have been comfortable, but now it was like we were strangers and that friendship that we once had is gone. Except thinking about it, that's basically what we are, strangers.

Soon I began to doubt myself and taking Annabeth out for a walk. Maybe this wouldn't work and Annabeth and I would never regain what we once had, maybe she wouldn't want to be my friend once Luke tried to claim her back. Knowing him, he would try, and he'd try soon too. Oh gods, I was a fool to try. I am nothing compared to Luke when it come to Annabeth. If she was his girlfriend for a while then she must have seen something in him that I don't have.

Just when I was really considering running and leaving Annabeth, she spoke up and said, "Percy, slow down, you're going to get me run over, or worse run over someone else." I hadn't realized it but during my panic I had sped up and pedestrians were yelling at me to watch out. Ugh, New Yorkers. Way to be rude. Couldn't they see that I was panicking? But then again, I guess that it's a good thing that I had sped up, because then I probably would have left Annabeth in the middle of the sidewalk and then Thalia would have had a reason to kill me.

I was once more jostled out of my thoughts by Annabeth's voice. "Percy, why have we stopped?" Oh whoops, I had stopped while I was in the process of thinking about things. I looked around for an excuse to tell Annabeth about why we had stopped and my eyes landed on this ugly looking coat in the window of a shop. To others, the coat might be cool looking, but to me, it really wasn't worth looking at. It would probably cost a lot of money too.

"Oh yeah, I just stopped to look at this fabulous looking coat in one of the windows that's on sale." I said causally, with a hint of sarcasm.

"What color was it?" I couldn't see her face, but I could tell that Annabeth was smiling.

"Blue of course. I wouldn't have stopped if it wasn't blue." I said jokingly.

"Well don't just stand there. Go and buy it!" She said slowly turning around to look at me.

"Nah," I said. "I would look too fashionable in it and other people would be jealous of my good looks."

"We wouldn't want that now would we?" she said, as I started to push her wheelchair down the sidewalk

"But of course not." I said jokingly.

We were still a good 15 minute walk from where we were, but Annabeth and I talked easily from then on as if we weren't just now getting to know each other from being ten years apart.

"SWINGS!" I shouted while running when we got to the park part of the park, also known as the playground of Central Park.

"Percy!" Annabeth called after me, but I couldn't stop, I didn't want to stop. The urge to go on the swings was too strong... I couldn't help myself, I ran and tackled a swing yelling "BONZAI!" In the process. I probably scared some pigeons and maybe some adults, but what can I say? I may be a 23 year old man on the outside, but on the inside (and Thalia tells me this often) I act like a six year old.

When I got on the swing, I spotted Annabeth rolling over to me with a smirk on her face.

She rolled her eyes and said "Percy I swear to the gods you are a 6 year old."

"Not you too! Thalia tells me that all the time. I guess I will just have to show you just how unchildish I can be." I said teasingly. "But for today, I can act as childish as I want."

I didn't give her a chance to respond, because just then, I marched over to where she was sitting, picked her up, stomped over to an empty swing and attempted to set her on a swing.

"Percy!" Annabeth said almost squealing with delight after I had picked her up. "Put me down this instant!" She yelled at me. But I could tell through the sound of her voice that she didn't really want to be sat down.

"Okay." I said, even though I didn't want to sit her down either. She fit in my arms perfectly.

And with that, I plopped her down on the swing, it wasn't easy because the swing kept moving, but with Annabeth's help, I managed.

About half an hour later, we were still at the park, acting as childish as we could. We were after all at a park surrounded by children.

BABOOM! We heard suddenly heard the thunder roll and the lightening strike far off in the distance.

"Percy we had better get going." Annabeth said.

"Aw but Annabeth, I don't want to go!" I said like a child, stomping my foot.

"Now now Percy, we an come back later, for now we have to get out of the coming storm," Annabeth said in a motherly, yet playful tone.

"Do you promise?" I asked.

"Yes Percy I promise." Annabeth said sighing.

"Fine" I finally relented, taking the handlebars of her wheelchair and pushing us off.

We were just exiting the park and entering the busy city when it started pouring rain, and then suddenly once more, I was soaking wet, I guess it's a good thing that we had brought and umbrella.

"Percy, where's the umbrella?" Annabeth said with alarm.

"Oh crap, I think I left it at the park! I'll be right back." I said taking off in a run.

I could hear Annabeth yelling about how I would get hypothermia if I did that and it would be better if we just found a place to stay dry until the storm let out. But me being the person I am, ignored her and ran back to the park anyways for the umbrella.

When I got to the park I searched and searched, but I couldn't find the stupid umbrella.

10 minutes later, I was completely soaked to the bone and exhausted, so I headed back to the spot where I had left Annabeth. Oh gods, I just left Annabeth there, without anything to keep her dry with. I wouldn't blame her if she had left and headed home.

I was in for a surprise though when I returned to the street where I had last seen Annabeth. She was still sitting there in her chair p, but she had an umbrella to protect her from the still pouring rain. Phew, she didn't leave me. Better yet, she was dry.

Wait a minute, where'd she get the umbrella? I was just out looking for it and she had it the whole time?! I went out there for no reason? Was that why she had been yelling after me when I left?

I walked over and asked "Where'd you get the umbrella?"

With a smirk on her face Annabeth said "If you hadn't run off, you would have realized that it would be better to go into a restaurant or something until the storm passed. But after you left, 30 seconds later, I found the umbrella beneath my seat. I have been waiting for you for over 10 minutes. Now are you ready to go home?"

"Hmmm, I think I've got one more trick up my sleeve before we get going." I said, grabbing the handlebars of her chair and steering her through a nearby door leading to a bowling alley.

When we were 11, Annabeth had a birthday party at a bowling alley. She invited me and a few other kids from camp to the party and we had the best time. I haven't been bowling since, but have wanted to go back for the longest of time, preferably with Annabeth. Here was my chance and I wasn't going to miss that opputunity.

"Percy I can't bowl." Annabeth stated once she realized what I had in mind.

"I'll help you. Besides, I don't know about you, but I'm not quite ready to go home just yet." I said pulling up to the counter where we would be getting our shoes. Or at least I would be. The person at the counter gave us a strange look but didn't say anything once I glared at him, daring him to say something.

Once I had my shoes, I rolled Annabeth over to an empty lane and gave her a purple and blue bowling ball.

"Why are you looking at me like I have 3 heads?" I asked when she gave me a strange look about handing her the ball.

"Because Percy, the only way I'd be able to get the ball to have enough momentum to be able to hit at least one pin is if I were in a standing position, that's not something that I can do right now. "Annabeth said looking frustrated.

"Did you not hear me when I said that I would help you? I said grinning at her, when she looked at me skeptically I added "Don't worry, I have a plan."

She sighed, but didn't protest when I adjusted her chair.

I didn't even know if my plan would work, I just was going with the flow so that Annabeth wouldn't feel like I wasn't trying, or like she couldn't do anything because she was in a wheelchair for the time being. The Annabeth that I know would try to do everything in her power to be able to do the most difficult of tasks to do while in a wheel chair before she would ask for help. With bowling, she would be forced to ask for help unless she forfeited, but she wouldn't do that, because she wasn't given a chance to ask for help.

So I rolled her over to the carpeted place where players sit while waiting their turn at the game and said to Annabeth; "Get ready to roll the ball when I give you the signal." With that, I pushed her chair as fast as I could without running other people over or being disruptive.

"Now!" I said loudly when I though that we were good enough for her to successfully roll the ball and hit the pins. For some reason though, Annabeth waited a couple of seconds before she tossed the ball. It was rolling, rolling and "STRIKE!" I could hear Annabeth practically shout.

"Haha! You did it!" I said laughing with joy. I was practically jumping up and down with excitement.

"What would you expect? This is me we are talking about." Annabeth said grinning. Her face was flushed from the excitement, but I could tell that she was proud.

We played a few more rounds until the game ended with Annabeth winning and me trailing a few points behind. Even though I hadn't been bowling for quite some time, I wasn't that bad once I got used to it.

"Phew!" I said wiping my eyebrow. I was sweating from pushing Annabeth, plus my own bowling.

"What? Are you tired?" Annabeth teased. "We can go for another round of you want."

"We could, but I'd beat your butt when you don't get any help from me." I said teasing back.

"Are you sure that you want to play that way?" She said with a grin on her face.

"Nah, right now I want some food." I said heading over to the cafeteria area of the bowling alley.

"Fine, but after that, we go for another round and I'll prove to you that I can still beat you without any help." Annabeth said behind me.

We found a place to sit after we received our food and the first thing I noticed was that our spot had a good vantage point to the tv. Right now the news was on so I didn't really pay attention, but it held Annabeth captive. Great, I was competing with a tv for the attention of Annabeth, and right now, it was winning. So because the tv had Annabeth's attention, and I couldn't seem to draw her away from it, we pretty much ate in silence.

That is until I heard Annabeth gasp. I looked up at the tv to see a picture of a familiar looking boy, he had blond hair and hazel eyes. The picture was of Ryan...

Yay! That was fun! I know some people reviewed asking for longer chapters, so I hope this granted your wish. It was over 2,500 words (not counting this portion) and about 5 pages in Word.

I also want to thank you for being so patient with my updating. It's been raining for almost 2 weeks now, and my internet is so bad that when we get a lot of rain, the google homepage won't even load and usually that's something I can count on. So that's why I haven't been able to update. Plus it took me a long time to write this because my sister and I just found some newborn kittens and I've been spending an hour with them each day because I'm under strict orders from my friend to make them social since she's supposedly adopting one. So yeah, that's my excuse for the lack of updating. That and the interim period just ended, so everybody's under stress.

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