Heyo peopo! The moment has arrived! We are about to find out what's about to happen! Is Piper going to win the bet? Is Annabeth going to have coffee with Luke? Is Percy going to go home and cry? Okay, that's a definite no, but let's find out about the others! Once again, the song used in this chapter is 'One Call Away' by Charlie Puth, but I swear, this is the last time. Also, who's seen Full/Fuller House?
Annabeth's POV
I watched as Percy started to walk away, and I looked back at Luke who was standing in front of me, waiting for an answer. God, why is Luke here? Why, after all this time, does he suddenly want to talk? Ugh, he just had to come back to New York. And why did he come to the coffee shop to talk to me? Do I say yes? Do I talk to him? Does he want to get back together or something? It took me so long to get over him. And I don't want to fall back into his stupid trap. I don't want to want to get back together, I don't want to want him. But still, it's Luke. Luke, who I was in love with for so long. Luke, who I used to want to spend every minute of every day with. And for some reason I still care, and there is still this stupid little part of me that wants to talk to him, and that wants to get back together with him. And there's this big part of me which is telling that little part to shut up, and to stop wanting Luke. And I'm thinking all of this while Percy's just walking further and further away, and he's getting closer and closer to the door, and he's reaching for the door. And he's Percy, Percy who is so, so sweet to me, and he's so caring, and thoughtful, and he went all the way to Grand Central Station just to get me my favourite sweets, because I told him I had a headache and I like him so, so, much. And the big part of me that's telling the little part to shut up is the part that likes Percy, and it's the part that so desperately wants to be with Percy. And now Percy's walking out the door, and all I want to do right now is yell his name, and run to him, and jump into his arms and kiss him DJ Tanner style. But I can't do that, because this is real life, and it's not a TV show, and now he's walking down the street. And I look back at Luke, who's standing there expectantly, still waiting for answer. And I look over at Piper, who looks so sympathetic, and she can tell all the stupid emotional turmoil that I'm going through right now, and she wants to help, but she can't help, because I have to do this myself, and I have to make this decision myself, but I can't. And all I want to do right now is to just freeze time so that I can take as long as possible to make this dumb choice and so I can talk to Piper about it, but I can't talk to Piper about it, and Percy's almost gone, and now I'm looking at Luke again, and it's just too much, and I feel like I'm about to have a panic attack, or maybe I'm already having one. And I can't see Percy anymore, and-
"So do you want to have coffee with me?" Luke asked, so I looked back at him, and I looked back outside, and Percy was no where to be seen.
"One moment." I jogged past him and out the door, looking up and down the street, but Percy really was gone. So, I walked back inside and faced Luke. "Sure, let's talk. You go and sit down, and I'll grab some coffee."
"Okay." Luke smiled, then walked over to a table.
I went over to the counter and faced Piper. "Is he looking over here?"
"No, he's facing the other way."
"Thank God." I sat down on the stool next to Grover, and collapsed onto the counter. "Ugggh." I groaned, banging my head on the table. "Why did I agree to this?"
"Cause you're a dummy." Grover said, patting me on the back.
"Grover!" Piper scolded, whacking him with a tea towel.
"No, he's right." I agreed, sitting up. "I'm a dummy."
"What drinks do you want Annabeth?"
"Black coffee for me, americano for him." She nodded and turned around. "Oh, and Piper?"
"Yeah?"
"Do we still have that flask hidden in the back?"
"One Irish coffee coming up." She winked, before disappearing into the back to grab the flask of whisky.
A few minutes later, I had the drinks and was walking over to the table Luke was sitting at, having to force my feet to move every step. "I got you an americano, is that still your favourite?" I asked, handing him the cup.
"Yeah it is, thanks." He smiled, and I took a long sip of my drink, shit that's strong. Thank you Piper - I'm gonna need the alcohol to get through this. "So how've you been?"
"Pretty good." I replied, looking over at Piper. She was watching our whole conversation, waiting for a signal from me if I desperately needed to get out of here. "How about you?"
"I've been good. My jobs great, and I like living in Los Angeles, so life's good."
"Good for you." I said, drinking more of my coffee. "What are you doing in New York?"
"I'm here for work. It's been great so far, I've gotten to hang out with some of my friends that I haven't seen in a while."
"That must have been fun."
"Yeah it was." He sipped his coffee "Have you been seeing anyone?" He asked, not so subtlety.
"Nope." Though I'm sure he already knew that, if he really cared he would've checked my Instagram or something. "You?"
"Not for the last couple of months."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah."
This conversation is so pointless, and awkward. I mean, what are we even doing here right now?
"So how's Thalia?"
I gave in, "Why are you here Luke?" I sighed, bored of this already.
"Well, the truth is, I've been thinking about you a lot lately." He explained, and my fingers tightened around my cup. "I was wondering if you maybe...if you would even consider giving me a second chance? Or not even that, just going on one date with me."
I looked him in the eye, and suddenly I felt all of this anger bubbling up inside of me. Because how dare he? How dare he ask me to get back together with him? He hurt me. He cheated on me. He is the one who chose to ruin whatever we had. When he fucked that Kelli girl, he fucked up our relationship and he does not have the right to ask me to forgive him. And it may be the alcohol talking, but I cannot stand to be here for another second.
"No."
"No?"
"Yes Luke, no. You broke our relationship and I will not forgive you for that, and I will most certainly never get back together with you. Maybe once upon a time, if you had come here and asked me that, I would have said yes, but I am over that, I am over you, and you know what? I like someone else. So you are not allowed to come here, and ask me to give you another chance, because you do not deserve one, you do not deserve me." I stood up, "So goodbye Luke, maybe one day you will find someone, but that someone isn't me, and I hope to God that I never have to see you again." I gulped down the last of my coffee and marched out of the coffee shop, hearing Piper and Grover's cheers and claps behind me.
I started walking away from the cafe, and I kept walking, unaware of where I was going.
Percy's POV
"Annabeth?" It was about half an hour after I had left the coffee shop, and I opened the door to see the blonde standing there.
"Hi." She greeted me, as she walked past me and into my apartment. "I can't believe him!" She started yelling, waving her arms around erratically and pacing back and forth across the room. "I can't believe that he had the nerve to come to the place that I work, and ask me to get back together with him! It's ridiculous! He's ridiculous!" I leaned back against the door, and watched her, amused. "Even though I'm so pissed at him, I'm glad he came there, because I got to tell him off. It felt so good! I've never yelled at him before, I've never even gotten angry at him, not to his face anyway. I cried in front of him, but I never got to scream at him, I never got to tell him how much I hated him! And that was the reason I never truly let go of him until now, because I never got to confront him! But finally, I got to shout at him, and it made me so happy! And the look on his face when I told him I like someone else, I wish I had a camera!"
Feeling weirdly confident, I interrupted her, "Will you go on a date with me?" Oh my God I just asked her that! I don't even know why I did it, I was just watching her, and she was yelling about Luke, and then she said she liked someone, and suddenly my mouth was moving before my brain had a chance to stop it. Because what if she liked me? What if she just yelled at her ex about liking me?
"Yes." She breathed, "Yes Seaweed Brain, I will go on a date with you."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Oh thank God." I sighed in relief, I was getting nervous for a second. "How about Wednesday? Instead of calculus?"
"Wednesday it is." She smiled, and it sent a shot of warmth through my body.
"NO!" Jason screamed and burst out of his room. "NO! NO! NO!" He kicked the sofa, which then resulted in him hopping on one foot and holding his injured toes in his hands. "Couldn't you two have waited at least one more day?!"
"What? You've been telling me to ask her out for weeks, why do you suddenly want me to wait one more day?"
"Weeks?" Annabeth asked, eyebrows raised.
"Because I wanted to win! And better yet, I wanted Piper to lose!" Jason yelled, before I had the chance to get anymore embarrassed.
"Win what?"
"The stupid bet! The other week when we made you two go to the store, it was really so we could bet on you!"
"You bet on us?!" Annabeth exclaimed, irritation flaring in her eyes.
"In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have told you that, but I still wanted to beat Piper!"
"I-" I was cut off by Annabeth's ringtone.
"Speak of the devil." She said, turning the phone screen to face me, which was showing Piper face timing her. She clicked on the answer button, "Hi Piper."
"Hey Annabeth. Got anything to tell me?"
"No, why would I have anything to tell you?" She asked innocently, glancing at me.
"Come on, it's been 15 minutes! That's plenty on time to get to Percy's and tell him how much you've been crushing on him for the last-"
"Alright Piper!" Annabeth cut her friend off, cheeks tinted pink. "You can stop talking now!"
"Why do you want me to- Hang on a sec, where are you?"
"I'm at home, where else would I be?" She lied, bringing the phone closer to her face so that Piper couldn't see what was behind her.
"Oh my God, you're at Percy's!" She realised, "Grover look she's at Percy's!"
"Has she asked him out yet?" I heard Grover's voice ask.
"She won't tell me!"
"Annabeth has you asked him out yet?"
"Crap Grover, you do realise that if she hasn't, we totally just exposed her?"
Who cares? This has gone on long enough."
"Good point. Now come on Annabeth, tell us, I wanna know if we've won the 120 dollars."
"The bet was 120 dollars?!" I exclaimed, turning to Jason.
"There was twelve of us, and we all but in 12 bucks." He shrugged, collapsing onto the sofa in defeat.
"Was that Percy? And Jason?" Piper asked, recognising our voices. "Annabeth turn the phone around." Sighing, Annabeth did as she was told, turning the phone to face me.
"Hi Piper." I waved nervously, heat rising to my cheeks.
"Percy."
"Yes?"
"How do you know about the bet?"
"Well, Jason came in here screaming about how we 'couldn't have just waited one more day', and then started yelling about a bet and how you won."
"I won?"
"According to Jason you did."
"Grover, Frank, we won the bet!"
There was a couple of cheers, before Grover took the phone from Piper and his face appeared on the screen. "You asked her out?"
"Yep."
"Finally! It took you long enough, you coward."
"Thanks for that Grover."
"No problem mate."
"Haha Jason, I told you I was always right about these things!" Piper yelled, taking the phone back.
"Yes you did." He groaned, covering his face with a pillow.
"Piper I'm going to hang up now." Annabeth said, turning the phone back around.
"Wait no don't I have so many-" She was silenced by the satisfying beep of the end call button.
"Jason do me a favour and get out." I told him, pulling him up from the couch and pushing him in the direction of his room.
"Okay, okay, I'm going." He said, opening the door to his room and going in.
I turned back to Annabeth, "Hi."
"Hey." She was still standing in the middle of the room, holding her phone. She took a step towards the door, "I uh, should probably go."
"Don't." I said, walking towards her. "I mean, I have something to show you."
"What is it?"
"I figured out the chords for your song." I told her, grabbing my guitar from the coffee table where I had left it when I heard the doorbell ring.
"You did?"
"Yeah, and I figured, since we pretty much finished the song, you might want to sing it?"
"Oh! Sure." She smiled, sitting down on the sofa. I sat down next to her and positioned the guitar on my knee.
"You just sing and I'll start playing."
"Okay." She opened her mouth, about to sing, but stopped. "Will you sing it with me? It just feels a bit weird singing it myself."
"Oh, yeah of course." I nodded, "On the count of three?"
"Let's do it."
"One, two..."
I'm only one call away
I'll be there to save the day
Superman got nothing on me
I'm only one call away
Call me, baby, if you need a friend
I just wanna give you love
Come on, come on, come on
Reaching out to you, so take a chance
No matter where you go
You know you're not alone
I'm only one call away
I'll be there to save the day
Superman got nothing on me
I'm only one call away
Come along with me and don't be scared
I just wanna set you free
Come on, come on, come one
You and me can make it anywhere
For now, we can stay here for a while, ay
'Cause you know, I just wanna see you smile
No matter where you go
You know you're not alone
I'm only one call away
I'll be there to save the day
Superman got nothing on me
I'm only one call away
And when you're weak I'll be strong
I'm gonna keep holding on
Now don't you worry, it won't be long, Darling
And when you feel like hope is gone
Just run into my arms
I'm only one call away
I'll be there to save the day
Superman got nothing on me
I'm only one, I'm only one call away
I'll be there to save the day
Superman got nothing on me
I'm only one call away
We started leaning closer together, mere centimetres between us, and my heart beating out of my chest.
I'm only one call away
I looked into her beautiful, stormy grey eyes, and down at her perfect, pink lips, and I closed the gap between us. I let my guitar slip off of my lap and onto the floor, instead choosing to move my hands to her waist, reviling in the joy of this perfect moment. She tasted like all the good things in the world, and she smelled like lemons. After a moment, she pulled away, resting her hands on my chest.
"I should really go."
"You don't have to."
"But I should. Plus, I'm sure any second now my phone will start ringing and Hazel will be calling me - Piper's had adequate time to talk to her."
"I suppose she has." I removed my hands from her waist and moved back a bit. "You better be prepared for Wednesday though, it's going to be the best date of your life." I told her, as we both stood up and started to head towards the door.
"Setting my expectations high are you?"
"I wouldn't want you to doubt me."
"That is one thing I will never do."
"Good to-" I was once again interrupted by Annabeth's ringtone.
"Right on cue." She answered the phone, "Hi Hazel. Yeah, yeah, give me a minute." She removed the phone from her ear and turned to me as I opened the door for her. "The song was really good."
"It was all you."
"It really wasn't, so thank you for helping me."
"No problem."
"I'll see you Wednesday?"
"Wednesday." I confirmed, as she walked out of the door.
So I'm not overly happy with how this turned out. I don't feel like I wrote this chapter particularly well, but this was the third rewrite of it. There were a few ways this chapter could have gone. The first way was ridiculous, over the top romcom, where Annabeth was screaming at Luke and she yelled that she liked Percy, and Percy came back to the cafe and heard it all, and they kissed and whatnot, and that was the way I wrote this chapter originally, but I decided that that didn't fit this story. It would've worked if this was the climax of the story and this was the end, but it's not, so I decided that that version didn't work. The second way was that she ran out after him and caught him before he left, but I didn't like that one either. Ultimately, I decided that Annabeth needed to talk to Luke, and she needed to have this final confrontation with him so that she would finally have the confidence to date Percy, and to not be scared of getting hurt again. So I'm quite happy with that part of the story, but I'm not too confident about the second half when Percy actually asked her out and what happened after. Anyway, I hope you guys liked it, any constructive criticism that you have would be greatly appreciated, and I did put in a little duet/kiss scene that some of you guys asked for, so I hope you liked that too. A few of you have asked when this story will end, and how much longer it will be, but I'm not quite sure yet. I do know what's going to happen, but I don't know how much time it will take up, it might be around ten chapters, it might be less, I don't know, I just hope you guys enjoy it. Thanks for reading, please review!
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