The Almost

Percy

"I love you with all my heart! If you stay here with me, there would be no regrets because every day we'd do something fun, we'd be happy I swear! I would do anything for you! So please just stay with me!"

"You really are annoying."

Knock, knock.

"Annabeth! Door!" I shouted to her from the living room.

"Why can't you get it?" She asked as she exited from her room.

"Because I'm watching TV," I stated as if it was the most obvious thing which at the moment was and she simply rolled her eyes at me as she opened the door.

"Annabeth," a familiar squeaky voice greeted my roommate.

"Silena, not to be rude but why are you here?" Annabeth asked our guest.

"To give to a makeover of course," she said with a duh tone.

"No thanks," Annabeth was about to slam the door on her but she moved her foot so that it was in the way.

"Now Annie don't you want to look nice for the dance tonight, I even got you a dress and don't worry it was Piper who picked it," she explained as she stepped inside, at this time I turned the TV off to watch Annabeth in this predicament.

"Why don't you go help some people from your dorm," Annabeth tried shoving the girl out.

Olympia is spilt into three sections. The inner most are the buildings and facilities, the middle are a bunch of locations to get food and drinks owned by the council and finally the outer sections are the dorms which were split into the four corners separated by age. Each dorm has twelve floors with 20 rooms each floor. The rooms are pretty much a really nice apartment, two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, laundry room, 2 full washrooms along with somewhat of a dining room. The dorm on the main floor has a huge but mini compared to the main library which also has study rooms and a printer. There's also a school store and a coffee store and a lounge. Campus is also located pretty close to Times Square about a 10 minute drive away. The school was originally designed for the council members to teach their kids but now they've changed it so that if two members of the council like you and you're rich enough to pay the tuition then you also get to learn here. There's also a scholarship but you would have to be really good at something where half of the council members must like you.

"Annabeth," Silena started to use the voice. It may sound sweet but that's the last thing it is.

"Fine, but," that got Silena to stop squealing to look at Annabeth. "Nothing too much and I will wear one inch max for heels." Silena huffed in disappointment but agreed in the end.

"You," Silena looked at me. "Don't you think I forgot about you." I gulped and went back to watching the TV.

"Ahem," I heard someone clear their throat and I turned to see Silena standing outside of Annabeth's room with a huge smile on her face.

"Yes Silena?" I asked her.

"Introducing Annabeth Chase she is wearing a stylish crew neck knee length white dress with beautiful lace around the collar and bottom of the dress. With matching red belt and one inch heels," Silena started to announce what Annabeth was wearing. "She is also sporting a fishtail braid and a cherry blossom headband. Now Annabeth get your butt out here." The last sentence was a command not a choice and I could hear her sigh from the couch. As she stepped out I stared and blink, then blinked again and kept repeating the process and out of the corner of my eye I saw Silena smirk.

"-ay? Seaweed brain, I said it was your turn, okay?" Annabeth was now in front of me snapping her fingers.

"Yeah, yeah, I heard you the first time," I lied and made my way to Silena.

"Here you go," Silena threw the clothes at me and went outside to where Annabeth was. I quickly changed into the outfit. It was black jeans, and tie with a navy dress shirt. I left the top few buttons undone, rolled the sleeves so that they were just below my elbows and tied the tie loosely before I went outside.

"Perfect, now you can go," Silena ushered us out while she quietly followed laughing about something.

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"Hey guys, where's Silena?" Beckendorf made his way over to Annabeth and I.

"I don't know when we made it to my car she told us that she'll meet us at the dance," I explained. We said our goodbyes and headed inside the banquet hall. Oh yeah did I mention that the school also has a banquet hall? It was called Frostbitten for Love and the theme was a blizzard with confetti flying everywhere and cotton as snow. Everywhere you looked it was either blue, white or silver sometimes even all three and of course there was the infamous mistletoe in a corner.

"Want to dance?" I asked Annabeth.

"Sure," she smiled and took my hand. Sometime after our 6th dance everyone else seemed to just disappear. It wasn't one of those movie moments where everyone just disappears because you get lost in your partners eyes but instead everyone moved away from where Annabeth and I was forming a quadrant and looked at us expectantly.

"What?" I asked Silena who was in the middle of it all.

"Look up genius," someone called out from the crowd. I gave that part of the crowd a glare then looked up only to freeze.

In the space above me was the one and only mistletoe.

While I was frozen in place I heard the crowd but mostly Silena chanting, "Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss." Even Jason, Piper, Leo, Nico and the others were in it.

"You know, I don't think I've ever seen you guys kiss," Silena spoke out while others who know us muttered in agreement. I gave her a glare before turning to Annabeth and giving her a nod.

"If you guys want a show then here," I grabbed Annabeth and dipped her and leaned in. Whilst everyone else cheered or in Silena's case squealing. After a few more dances the dance was over and Annabeth and I made our way back to our dorm to give each other our presents since it would be Christmas day in 22 minutes.

"So you think we fooled them?" I asked Annabeth as she locked the dorm door.

"I'm pretty sure," she gave me a cocky smile since her plan went accordingly.

"You know that there's going to be a mistletoe," Annabeth told me as I drove to the banquet hall, it was a few minutes' drive, normally I would walk but I would prefer not to with all the snow while I'm in a thin suit.

"Oh, so as long as we stay away from it then it's all good right?" I reassured her.

"Not exactly, knowing Silena there's going to be something up," she said.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked.

"Look here's the plan," she started to explain. "The mistletoe is going to be in a corner according to Piper. If we do end up under it, there's a simple way to get out of it. Everyone is probably going to be beside us but they won't be able to see behind us. All you have to do is dip me so that your back will be facing the majority and since it's going to be dark the others won't be able to see the exact thing but you will have to lean in close."

I nodded and hoped that it would work, I also blushed a bit knowing that I'll have to be really close to Annabeth's lips. "Well we're here, show time."

"Hey Seaweed brain," I looked over. "Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas, and wait," I headed into my room to get Annabeth her present then headed back into the living room on the couch the exchange the presents. "Here," I gave her a box and I recorded her face as she opened it. Slowly her curious face turned into a huge smile and she tackled me into a hug causing me to drop my phone (luckily there was no crack).

"You got me a Daleaus laptop," she fawned over it. Normal girls would do that with clothes or jewellery then there's my Annabeth. Wait did I just say my Annabeth? Weird. Then there's Annabeth who would only act that way with books and in this case a Daleaus laptop. "How? Where?"

"There's also some architectural thingys from the dude himself," I explained causing another squeal.

"Thank you," she gave me a peck on the cheek. "I'll go get your present." Luckily she left because she didn't see me glow redder than Rudolph's nose. "Here," she handed me a small box.

I first shook it before tearing the wrapping paper off. When I did I looked at Annabeth with sparkling wide eyes and a jaw that would be on the ground if it was humanly possible from where I was. "You didn't."

"But I did," she smiled. My present was a photo of Team U.S.A. for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and it was signed by the men's 4x200 freestyle relay team. Good luck Percy, hope to see you taking my place at the next games- Michael. Aim for the stars Percy, not really aim for Rio de Janeiro- Ryan. See you soon Perce- Ricky. From what I've heard we should be seeing you soon Percy- Conor.

"How?" Was the only word that I got out.

"Well when your mother designed the aquatics centre you get to meet some interesting people," this time I tackled her into a hug.

"Thanks," I muttered into her hair before leaving to pack for later tonight when I go home.

"Oh and Percy?" I turned around only to have my lips touch Annabeth's. "Merry Christmas, to make up for the mistletoe, I'm not much of a liar," she gave me a wink and headed back to her room. Merry Christmas indeed.

[A/N] Okay guys, last chapter didn't get the 10 correct reviews but I feel bad for leaving you guys so voilà. Now we better beat 'Bodyguard' in reviews when I'm back, I mean come on I gave you guys their kiss. Please –Percy's baby seal face-

I'm just going to make it so that the students graduate after 4 years like high school.

On My Profile: Annabeth's dress and headband.

Answer: Heroes of Olympus, Book 2, The Son of Neptune.

Congrats to: Cookies and Cream1234567 (who was first again xD), Grod44, Blackcurse11, Guest (who should be making an account), Daughter of Piper and Jason, WiseOne'sDaughter ( blue cookies for also giving the chapter and page number), everett2.

Trivia: When did Percy and Annabeth first kiss and why. Answer: Series, book number, title, reason.

Disclaimer: I don't Naruto that belongs to the awesome Masashi Kishimoto. Happy SasuSaku month guys. :) The aquatics center was designed by Zaha Hadid.

Shoutout to: bookqueen12.First of all like I said in the previous chapter, MAKE A DARN ACCOUNT! Second, I think it's spelt acquaintances. Third, I never understood Chaos stories in the first place, so if anyone wants to explain that would be appreciated. Fourth, that was a long donkey get it guys) review, I mean when I checked my email it didn't even fit at the bottom it said it was too long and to go to the website to finish reading the review. Fifth, okay wow I don't think a simple 'thank you' will be able to settle it. It's actually really funny how you say it's 'beautifully written' because every time I write something in English class I usually lose marks on the way it's written and for your last sentence sorry but I'm like Grover, I don't have some deep philosophical comment so instead THANK YOU! Now the pressure is on even more. :S

Finally HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY TO LUKE HEMMINGS from 5 Seconds of Summer, guys you need to check them out, they're amazing and I can't wait until their debut album, their EP's were awesome. Check them out at Hemmo1996 on YouTube.

Next chapter:Post spring break with a special event by Artemis' favourite twin brother.