Hi guys! Before I start this chapter, I want to say that there is going to be some serious development between Percy and Annabeth in this chapter and the next (mainly the next) so yay! Also, the song used in this chapter is 'Kiss You' by One Direction, I know a lot of people think they're really shitty but they do have some good songs, this being one of them. Anyway, let's start chapter 20!
Annabeth's POV
I stood outside Hazel's room, and knocked on the door.
"Come in!" She called, so I opened the door.
"Hi." I said, leaning against the doorway.
"Hey." She greeted me, looking up. "Oooh you look nice, are you going to Percy's?"
"Can't I just look nice for me?" I asked, annoyed. I was, in fact, going to Percy's. It was Wednesday, and that meant that I was going to his to help him with calculus. I did want to look nice, so after spending more time that I would like to admit deciding on an outfit to wear, I had finally settled on my new sea green sweater and jeans, and I thought it looked good, so I was happy Hazel had said that, but I was annoyed about something else, so I wasn't in the mood to thank her.
"You can...but you weren't wearing that earlier and I doubt you changed into it just to lounge around watching TV. Plus you have a tutoring session with him today don't you?"
"Fine I'm going to Percy's, but that's not why I'm here."
"Then why are you here?"
"Because I wanted to talk to you about something."
"And that something is?"
"What did you say to Percy last Saturday?" While I was getting changed, I remembered something Percy said on Sunday morning, something along the lines of 'that explains what Hazel said' and I realised that I had forgotten to ask Hazel about it until now.
"I said a lot of things to Percy on Saturday Annabeth, you'll have to be more specific." She said, looking down at her phone and playing the innocent card.
"Don't play dumb with me Hazel, you and I both know you said something to him, and I think it was something to do with Luke."
"Fine." She gave in, not putting up much of a fight. "I may have said something to Percy, but it wasn't to do with Luke, it was because of Luke, but I didn't say anything about Luke specifically."
"Just tell me what you said Hazel." I sighed, it couldn't be too bad right?
"I told him not to hurt you." She mumbled, averting my gaze.
"WHAT?!" She basically just gave away the fact that I like him! "What messed up force encouraged you to do that?"
"Love, you idiot." She said, confusing me.
"What?"
"Love Annabeth, I love you like you're my sister and I don't want to see you get hurt again, not that I think Percy'll do that, but I needed to make sure." She explained, finally looking me in the eye. "I wouldn't be surprised if Piper has told him that too."
I didn't know what to say, I suppose I understand her reasons, and if the roles were reversed I probably would have done the same thing, but I was still annoyed that she practically told Percy that I like him. "Well...that was...nice of you, I guess, but please don't do it again."
"I promise." She agreed, holding her hand up in salute. "Now don't you have somewhere to be?"
"Oh right! Yeah, I need to go." I had almost forgotten about my lesson with Percy, so I grabbed my bag, sent him a quick 'Be there in 10' text, and left the apartment.
Percy's POV
I was getting really anxious about Annabeth coming over. I don't know why, I shouldn't be, I mean, she's come over before, and I see her regularly, and we've even started texting sometimes, but for some reason, I was getting especially anxious today. I know what'll stop me from being so nervous; I'll write another (yes, another, this must be the fifth) song about Annabeth. I went to my room, and grabbed my guitar, a pen, and my songbook, the same one I've been using since I was 10. Somehow, it hasn't run out of pages yet, but it's getting there. I walked out into the living room, and sat back down on the sofa. I started writing, and when I was about halfway through the song, Jason came and plopped down next to me.
"Whatcha doing?"
"Writing." I had given up trying to hide any feeling I have about Annabeth from Jason and Nico, it just uses up unnecessary energy, and they always find out anyway.
"Annabeth?"
"Annabeth." I confirmed, not looking up from my book. My phone buzzed from it's place on the coffee table, but I ignored it. "Can you check that?"
"Sure." Jason leaned forward and grabbed my phone. "Annabeth says she'll be here in twenty minutes."
"Cool." Great, that means I still have twenty minutes to write before she gets here.
I finished the song, or at least the first version of it, laid my songbook on the table, and picked up my guitar. Jason had left his spot next to me on the sofa and gone to the kitchen. I quickly tuned my guitar, strummed out a few chords, and started to play.
Oh, I just wanna take you anywhere that you would like
We could go out any day, any night
Baby, I'll take you there, take you there
Baby, I'll take you there, yeah
Oh, tell me, tell me, tell me how to turn your love on
You can get, get anything that you want
Baby, just shout it out, shout it out
Baby, just shout it out, yeah
And if you
You want me to
Let's make a move, yeah
So tell me, girl, if every time we touch
You get this kind of rush
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
If you don't wanna take it slow
And you just wanna take me home
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And let me kiss you
Oh, baby, baby, don't you know you got what I need
Lookin' so good from your head to your feet
Come on, come over here, over here
Come on, come over here, yeah
Oh, I just wanna show you off to all of my friends
Making them drool down their chinny-chin-chins
Baby, be mine tonight, mine tonight
Baby, be mine tonight, yeah
And if you
You want me to
Let's make a move, yeah
So tell me, girl, if every time we touch
You get this kind of rush
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
If you don't wanna take it slow (come on)
And you just wanna take me home
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And let me kiss you
Come on, na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na, yeah
So tell me, girl, if every time we touch
You get this kind of rush
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
If you don't wanna take it slow
And you just wanna take me home
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Every time we touch
You get this kind of rush
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
If you don't wanna take it slowX
And you just wanna take me home
Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And let me kiss you
I heard clapping coming from behind me but I didn't bother turning around, it was either Jason or Nico, I'm used to them appearing behind me when I'm singing. "That was really good Percy." Hold on a sec, that voice does not belong to one of my cousins.
I whipped my head around and my eyes met a pair of stormy grey ones. "Annabeth! What are you doing here? When did you get here? When you texted you said you were going to be here in twenty minutes!" I exclaimed, nervous. She just walked in while I was singing a song about her. FUCK!
"Well, I'm here for our tutoring lesson, I got here about two minutes ago, and no, I said ten minutes." She said, sitting down on the back of the sofa.
"No you-" I looked at my phone screen, her text said she would be here in ten minutes. But then why did I...Jason. I looked over to where Jason was sitting at the table, smirking at me. "Excuse me a sec." I said to Annabeth. I stood up, walked over to where Jason was, hit him on the head, and then sat back down, glaring at my dear, dear, cousin.
"Ow!" He yelled, but didn't say anything else, I assumed he just knew that I would hit him again if he did.
"What was...you know what, never mind." Annabeth said, swinging her legs over the sofa cushions, and landing next to me. I realised that my songbook was still lying open on the coffee table, and I slammed it shut before Annabeth could see it.
"What's that?" She said, after watching my, not so subtle, attempt at stopping her from seeing the book.
"Just a notebook." She could clearly tell I was lying, but I didn't even get to tell the truth before Jason decided to help me out.
"It's his songbook - he write all of his deepest, darkest emotions in there." He said, and I was very, very tempted to lob it at his head.
"I'll be right back." I said, picking up my book and my guitar, and quickly putting them in my room.
"So who was that song about?" Annabeth asked, the second I sat down.
"Oh it doesn't matter." I hastily answered, "I uh...wrote it back in high school."
"So who was it about back then?" She said, not letting it drop.
"Ummm..." I said the first thing that came into my head, "Rachel." That was dumb. That was so sooo dumb. I just told the girl I liked, that I was singing a song about another girl, a girl I used to have flipping gigantic crush on, when in actual fact, I wrote the song for her. I am the stupidest person on this God forsaken planet.
Annabeth's face fell. Wait...was she hoping that I would say her? Does she like me too? Behind her, I saw Jason face palm, and roll his eyes at me.
"Annabeth we'll be right back." He said, grabbing my elbow and pulling me into the closest room, which coincidentally, was Nico's.
The instant the door was closed, he turned around and punched me in the gut. "You IDIOT!" He yelled, and I couldn't blame him for it.
"I know." I groaned, hating myself more and more with each passing second.
"Okay what the fuck are you two doing in my room, and why is Percy an idiot?" Nico said, taking his headphones off and standing up.
"You explain." I told Jason, still in pain from the punch.
"He just wrote a song about Annabeth, then while he was playing it she came in. When she asked who it was about, he said that it wrote it in high school and that it was about Rachel when Annabeth knows that he used to have a crush on Rachel."
Nico walked over to me, and punched me in the exact same spot Jason had. "You are a complete MORON!" Nico yelled at me, and I 100% agreed, but I still wish he hadn't punched me as well.
"Thanks Nico, I really needed you to confirm that." I replied sarcastically, sinking down to the floor.
"Oh don't you sass me Perseus." Nico said, like I was an insolent teenager and he was an eighty year old man.
"Duly noted." I said, arms wrapped around my gut.
"Now get back out there, and flirt with the girl Percy! Convince her that you like her! Or better yet, tell her the truth about that song, and ask her out!"
"Yeah, I am not asking her out after saying that about Rachel."
"Ugh!" Jason groaned, and he opened the door. The only problem was, I was sitting, slumped against the door, so when he opened it I came tumbling out. And to make it all the more embarrassing, Nico's bedroom led out into the living room, so Annabeth saw me.
"Hi." I waved, and she smirked as Jason stepped over me to resume his spot at the table, probably so he could watch me and make sure I don't do anything stupid.
"You alright there?"
"Not really." I said, grunting in pain as I stood up, my gut was still sore. "How much of that did you hear?"
"Not much other than Jason yelling 'idiot' and Nico yelling 'moron'."
"Oh so the highlights then." I joked, flopping down on to the couch.
"Are you hurt?" She asked, seeing me wince every time I moved.
"Yeah, they both punched me riiight here." I said, gesturing to the entire area of my abdomen.
"Sit up, let me see." She said, and I did as I was told. Once I was sitting up straight, she pulled my shirt up and examined my skin, making me blush. "Does it hurt when I press down?" She asked, her soft, cool, hands gently pressing where my cousins had punched me.
"Ow! Yes!" I said, and she quickly removed her hand.
"Let me get you some ice." She got up and walked to the kitchen, and my eyes followed her, before being drawn to Jason trying to stifle a laugh.
"Shut up." I grumbled, just as I heard Annabeth close the freezer door, and walk out.
"Here." She said, sitting back down and placing an ice pack on my skin.
"Thanks." I replied, pulling my shirt down.
"No problem." She smiled, and my heart melted. She was so beautiful, I wish I could call her my girlfriend. You know what, I'm going to do it. I'm going to ask her out. But not today, next time I see her. I can't ask her out while I'm in pain, and with my cousin sitting five meters away.
"So, shall we start on some calculus?" She asked, pulling a textbook out of her bag.
"Calculus?"
"Yeah, you know, the reason I'm here."
"Oh! Right, of course. Let me just go and grab my books." I said, starting to stand up. Annabeth put her hand on my shoulder and gently pushed me back down.
"No, you stay here, I'll go and get them." She told me, heading to my room. Thank God I cleaned it today, sometimes being super nervous has it's perks.
She came back, calculus books in hand. "Let's get started."
Annabeth's POV
I closed my door and jumped onto my bed. I had just gotten home from being at Percy's and wanted to think about a few things, before Hazel and Piper start to interrogate me about what happened. That song he was singing when I got there was amazing, and for a second, I hoped it could be about me, but then he said it was about Rachel. Yipee. But if he was just singing a song he wrote way back when, why did Jason and Nico punch him and yell at him because of it? Is it possible that it was about me? And that they were telling him he was stupid because he said it was about Rachel? Or did they call him stupid because he was revealing his crush? Oh my God, what if he likes Rachel again? He did say that he really liked her back in high school, so what if he started crushing on her again? What if they start dating, and I have to see them together all the time, and- Calm down Annabeth, you're spiralling. I told myself, taking a deep breath. Think positive thoughts, like when you were rubbing his abs. Even though they were red and sore, they felt just as good as they looked, and I had not realised that it seemed to be a dream of mine to touch his abs until now. I started to think about the song again; what if it is about me? What if he does like me? What if we start dating and I get to hang out with him all the time?
Okay, this has gone on long enough, I need to tell him how I feel. You know what, I'll do it next time I see him. Friday. When we have our baking lesson.
Oh my God! Two chapters in two days! I'm on a roll. I don't know why, but today I just decided that I wanted to write, so I got any schoolwork that was due in today done this morning, and then I just wrote all afternoon. I wonder what's going to happen next time, are they going to tell each other how they feel? Or are they going to chicken out again? Who knows... well, I do, but you guys aren't finding out until next time. Though, to be honest, a couple of my replies to your reviews kind of give it away, but hey ho! And thank you for all of your reviews, I woke up this morning to like 25 emails saying people had reviewed and favourited my story, so that was a good way to start the day. I hope you liked this chappie, and please follow, favourite, and review!
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