Tutoring Chapter 19
Percy stood outside Annabeth's house wearing a blue button up shirt with dark blue jeans, he was so nervous that he kept bouncing from one foot to the other, and his hands were sweating so much that he almost dropped the flowers for Mrs. Chase twice already. Taking a deep breath Percy finally pressed the doorbell. Seconds later he heard yelling and then the door flew up revealing two identical little boys grinning at him.
"Uhh hi, I'm Percy" Percy said smiling at the younger boys.
"Oh we know who you are, your Annabeth's boyyyfriend" the one on the right said.
"Yeah we saw your picture on her phone, and we know all about you" the one on the left said.
Percy rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly not really sure what to say. But luckily he saved by Annabeth "What are you two doing?" she asked looking sternly at her younger brothers.
"Nothing" they said at the same time and ran off down the hall.
Annabeth shook her head smiling before stepping onto the front porch in front of Percy "Sorry about them, they're a little crazy. You look nice".
Percy smiled "Thanks, you look really nice as well. I uhh brought flowers for your step mom".
Annabeth smiled taking his hand in hers "Don't worry it'll be fine, my dad isn't that intimidating. But I think I know what will make you feel better".
"Oh and what's that?" Percy asked.
Annabeth didn't say anything as she stepped closer to him and standing on her tip toes to kiss him. When she pulled away Percy was smiling at her "That helped a lot but I think my nerves will come back when I meet your dad".
Annabeth just smiled taking his hand in hers and leading him into the house "My stepmom doesn't like shoes in the house so you'll have to take them off here" Annabeth said once they closed the door behind them, Percy took his shoes off the nerves coming back now that he was inside the house. "My dad is finishing up a business call in his office so he'll be a couple minutes, but my step mom is in the kitchen cooking dinner do you like lasagna?"
"I'm a teenage boy of course I like lasagna wise girl" Percy said smiling.
Annabeth laughed "Your right it was a dumb question, come on let's go meet Susan".
Percy didn't say anything as he followed Annabeth to the kitchen looking around the house he saw pictures of Annabeth and her brothers and her parents. He smiled at one that had Annabeth and Thalia in it while they were at the beach.
When they entered the kitchen Percy's eyes widened, the kitchen was bigger than his kitchen and dining room put together.
"Hey Susan" Annabeth said leaning against the island.
The older women turned around wiping her hands on a towel as she smiled at them "You must be Percy it's nice to meet" she said putting her hand out for him to shake.
Percy smiled shaking her hand and offering her the flowers "It's nice to meet you as well Mrs. Chase, these are for you".
"Please call me Susan, thank you Percy these are lovely. My husband will be in his office for a while, most likely until dinner. You two can go upstairs until dinner is ready if you want" Susan said.
"Ya we'll go upstairs" Annabeth said grabbing Percy's hand and dragging him towards the stairs.
"What's with the rush wise girl?" Percy asked as they went up the stairs.
"The sooner we get to my room the longer we can get away from my dad" Annabeth said opening one of the many doors.
"Don't tell me you're nervous?" Percy asked smiling.
"I'm not nervous, the person you should be nervous about meeting is my mother, now she's intimidating, and she already doesn't like you for some reason" Annabeth said closing her bedroom door behind them.
"What why doesn't your mom like me?" Percy asked confused he was pretty sure he'd never meet Annabeth's mother before.
"At my track meet she saw you and told me to stay away from you, like she knew you or something" Annabeth said sitting down on her bed.
Percy frowned when a picture on her desk caught his eye picking it up he saw Annabeth standing next to a woman "Is this your mom?" he asked.
Annabeth nodded her head "Ya that's her".
Percy shook his head "I'm pretty sure I've never meet her".
"That's what's weird. Let's not talk about my mom right now. I already talked to my dad and Susan and they said I could go to Crete with you but they want to meet your dad first, they said it can be my graduation present. But I still have to talk to my mom" Annabeth said as Percy sat down next to her.
"What do you think she'll say?" Percy asked leaning against her headboard.
Annabeth sighed "I have no idea".
Percy intertwined their fingers "Let's not worry about it we still have two months before we graduate. So what's with all the owl stuff?"
"Well my mother was named after the Greek Goddess Athena, and her symbol is an owl. Which is my mother's favorite animal, and in turn my favorite animal. It's one of the few things we have in common" Annabeth explained resting her head on Percy's shoulder.
"That's cool, I guess that explains your owl earrings you wear sometimes" Percy said as he played with her hair.
Annabeth nodded her head "Yeah, did you ever talk to your mom about going to the district track meet?"
"Yeah I did, she says I can go, but I have to careful and call her when I get there and when I'm on my way home. Jason wants to go as well so he'll be riding with me" Percy said.
"I'm sure Piper is excited, Thalia and Luke are driving up as well, what's Nico doing?" Annabeth asked.
"He and Bianca are doing some kind of sibling bonding thing I don't exactly know" Percy said "Do you know what hotel the team is staying in?"
"Yeah it's the Phoenix Inn, we have almost an entire floor to ourselves so no one is separated or anything, Piper and I are roommates" Annabeth said.
"Do you think your coach will let you and Piper ride back with us?" Percy asked.
Annabeth shrugged "I don't know he'll probably want notes from our parents or something, but that won't be hard you just have to woo my father at dinner".
Percy laughed "I don't know if I'm the right guy to woo a father at dinner, I don't have the greatest track record at making great first impressions".
"You'll do fine Perce" Annabeth said lightly kissing his lips.
They pulled away from each other right when Bobby and Matthew burst through the bedroom door. "Annabeth mom said dinner's ready" the yelled grinning ear to ear.
Annabeth glared at her brothers "What did I tell you two about bursting into my room like that, if you don't knock it off I'm going to steal all your Lego's" she said seriously.
Their eyes widened "You don't know where there at?" they said trying desperately to trick Annabeth.
Annabeth smirked "Are you really willing to take that risk?"
"Were sorry" they both said turning around and running out the bedroom door.
"That will keep them scared for about two weeks" Annabeth said standing up from the bed.
Percy smiled "That was quite impressive, do you really know where their Lego's are?"
"Of course I do I also know where they're going to hide them, their my brothers and their extremely easy to read they can't hide anything from me" Annabeth said taking Percy's hand in hers as he stood up "We should get downstairs before my dad comes up here".
"Can I have one more good luck kiss before we go down there?" Percy asked grinning.
Annabeth laughed wrapping her arms around his neck "I guess I can do that for you seaweed brain" she said before pressing her lips to his. Percy tightly wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her flush against him. Annabeth set her hands on his chest lightly pushing him away.
"I really don't want my brothers walking in on this, they'll diffidently tell my dad, and he'll freak" Annabeth said breathlessly.
Percy nodded his head "You're right, we should get downstairs".
After straightening their clothes and hair Annabeth led Percy downstairs to the kitchen where Susan was harshly whispering to Annabeth's dad.
"Uh hey guys, the twins said dinner was ready" Annabeth said looking at her parents with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes it is, can you guys help me set the table" Susan asked.
"Yeah okay" Annabeth said moving towards her step mom to grab the silverware.
Percy took a deep breath stepping towards her dad and putting her hand out for him to shake "I'm Percy Jackson; it's nice to meet you Mr. Chase".
Fredrick eyed him for a second before tightly shaking Percy's hand "It's nice to meet you as well Percy".
"Come on Percy you can grab the plates" Annabeth said.
"Umm okay" Percy said quickly moving to the counter and grabbing the plates following Annabeth to the dining room.
Mr. and Mrs. Chase followed them with the lasagna, French bread, and salad. After everything was ready everyone sat down with Mr. and Mrs. Chase at the ends of the table, Bobby and Matthew on one side and Percy and Annabeth on the other.
"This lasagna is amazing Mrs. Chase" Percy said smiling.
"Thank you Percy I'm glad you like it" Susan said.
"So Percy tell us more about yourself?" Mr, Chase said looking Percy in the eye.
"Well I'm graduating with Annabeth in a couple of months; umm I really enjoy football, basketball, and swimming. Especially swimming, I'm attending UCLA in the fall, I joined their swim team" Percy said feeling uncomfortable talking about himself.
"He's being modest, he was heavily recruited by UCLA, he's going there on a full swimming scholarship" Annabeth said.
"Wow that's really impressive, why did you choose UCLA?" Mr. Chase asked.
"My father went to school there, he and I went to a tour over Christmas break and I feel in love with the school, the atmosphere, everything about it. It sucks that it's on the other side of the country but I know that my mom will be okay, she has Paul and I can see her on breaks and things. That was probably the hardest decision choosing to stay close to my mom or not" Percy said honestly.
"You must be pretty close to your mom?" Susan asked.
"I am for a long time we only had each other, my mom is the most important person in my life" Percy said.
Annabeth and Percy had never really talked about Percy's childhood before so the fact that he was mentioning it in front of her parents must have been hard and Annabeth could tell he was getting uncomfortable. Smiling at him she set her hand on his leg gently squeezing it.
"That's a good thing, I like that in a young man" Mr. Chase said.
Percy smiled looking down at his plate. For the rest of the dinner they talked about what Annabeth and Percy would be studying in college and telling different stories about Annabeth. Afterwards Percy and Annabeth washed the dishes.
"I should probably get going, it is a school night" Percy said as he dried his hands.
"Okay, I'll walk you out" Annabeth said.
"Percy's has to go I'm going to walk him out" Annabeth said as they entered the living room.
"It's was nice to meet you Percy, your welcome here anytime" Susan said smiling at him.
Percy shook Mr. Chase's hand again "Thank you for having me, dinner was amazing".
Percy slide his shoes back on as he and Annabeth stepped outside, they didn't say anything until they got to his car. Leaning against it he smiled at her setting his hands on her hips and pulling her against him.
"I think you did pretty well seaweed brain, especially opening about how important your mom is to you" Annabeth said smiling.
"I didn't mean to talk about her it just came out" Percy said honestly.
"Well it was a good touch, I should probably get back inside" Annabeth said.
"I'll see you at school then" Percy said before leaning forward and pressing his lips against hers.
Annabeth smiled pulling away "See you at school seaweed brain" she said as she stepped back and Percy moved getting into his car.