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Chapter Eight

One Month Later

"LET'S GO PERCY!" Annabeth screamed. She was standing up on the wet metal bleachers beside Nico, Luke and Thalia at Percy's swimming competition. He had the made the school team and was the school captain. Annabeth has never seen anyonein her life move thatfast. "SWIM! SWIM! SWIM!" It was the first meet of the year and right now Percy was swimming for the very first time. He was in the lead by about a yard but the other team's captain was advancing on him. "SWIM! PERCY! SWIM!"

"My god, Annabeth," Luke groaned. "Could you yell any louder? Your making me go deaf!"

Annabeth ignored Luke. She raised her hands in the air and clapped as Percy touched the end of the pool. He got out, dripping weight. "GO PERCY!" She screamed as Luke, Thalia and Nico stood up and began cheering for Percy. He looked up at his supportive friends and cracked a grin. "He so good at swimming!"

"More than we can say about Nico over there," Thalia said.

Nico was half-heartedly clapping and had his iPod blasting Blood on the Dance Floor music. "Look," Nico said, yawning. "Just because I fell into the pool last week at Percy's swim practice does not mean that I can't swim."

Luke snickered, "You screamed 'help me Percy, help me.'"

"There was water in my eyes." Luke and Thalia laughed.

"Guys!" Annabeth shouted, "Let's go!" She leaped off of the bleachers and ran straight to Percy, who was being congratulating by his team mates. "Good job, Seaweed Brain!" She said, hugging Percy, who was thankfully a lot drier than he was when he got out of the pool.

When they pulled apart, Percy grinned, "Thanks Wise Girl."

"Wise Girl? Seaweed Brain?" One of Percy's teammates, Will Solace, said.

Annabeth laughed. "It's a nickname."

Flashback

"Annabeth. I can't focus on English when there's a perfectly good and people-free pool right down the hallway," Percy complained. Annabeth and Percy were in the high school library doing a project for English that was due in three days. Annabeth would have finished earlier if it wasn't for Percy's constant procrastination.

Annabeth chuckled. "Percy, we have three days to finish this project. We don't have time to go swimming."

Percy shrugged, leaning back in the wooden chair. "Come on Annie, there's always time for swimming."

"Not now!" Annabeth replied, hitting Percy with her notebook. "Come on, let's just write the outline. Then we can go swimming. If you didn't stall all the time, we would have finished this project much earlier and then you would get the time to swim."

Percy rolled his eyes. "All you care about is school. Don't you ever relax?!"

"I will when we finished this project. Now come on, let's focus!"

Percy groaned and rolled his eyes. "Fine, whatever." Sometimes Percy really hated working with Annabeth…but most of the time it was good. After all, she was the smartest person in the eleventh grade.

"Thank you," Annabeth exclaimed. She set down her English book in front of her and then put her hair up in a pony tail. "Hand me the book from over there." Annabeth demanded, pointing to a huge English book at the very end of the table.

"What's the magic word?"

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Please?"

Percy chuckled. "Good." He leaned over, his chair still tipped over at an awkward angle and grabbed the spine of Annabeth's book but the chair tipped over too far and Percy crumbled onto the ground, dragging the book with him.

Annabeth nearly died of laughter. She clutched her sides and almost cried from laughing so hard. "N-n-n-nice going P-P-Percy. Derp!"

Percy situated himself onto the chair properly. "Derp? Really, Annie?" Percy countered. "You need to think of something more original."

Annabeth raised her eyebrows. "Like what?"

Percy shrugged, "I don't know. Something that fits me. Something that only me and you can say to each other."

"You and I, you mean."

"Whatever, Wise Girl."

Annabeth raised her eyebrows in confusion. "What did you just call me?"

Percy grinned. "My nickname for you! I'm gonna call you Wise Girl from now on."

Annabeth groaned, "Wise Girl? That's such a lame nickname."

"And you can think of one better?"

"Totally!" Annabeth paused and racked her brain for anything about Percy. When she figured it out, Annabeth grinned. "Seaweed Brain. Because you love the water and you're not the smartest so Seaweed Brain."

Percy's smug smirk faded. He glowered. "Okay so maybe your nickname is better."

Annabeth chuckled. "What can I say? Wise Girl never loses."

End of Flashback

Will stared at Percy and Annabeth with a blank expression. "Come on guys. Do you really think I needed to hear that? Or at least cared enough to hear that?" Then, Will quickly ran off to his other friends.

"Thanks Will!" Percy shouted as Will ran away.

"Love ya, Perce!" Will responded before disappearing.

"Anyway," Annabeth said, "You did great. Good job out there. You won your first swim meet! I always knew that you would."

"What can I say? I'm a swimming master," Percy bragged.

"Whatever!" Annabeth shrugged.

"Percy!" Someone squealed. Thalia, Luke and Nico finally reached Percy. Thalia was the first to greet him. "Congratulations." Thalia hugged Percy.

"Good job, cuz."

"Nice going Percy," Luke said, patting Percy on the back. He was grinning.

"Thanks guy," Percy said. "And thanks for coming. Too bad the others couldn't make it. Hopefully, they'll come next time."

"And if they don't," Luke said, putting his arm around Percy, smirking, "I'm sure that Annabeth will be just as loud as the rest of them combined." Annabeth punched Luke in the arm and he winced. "OW! Okay, you were fricking obnoxiously loud! Seriously, I think you shattered my ear drum."

"Oh my gosh, your such a baby!" Annabeth shouted, punching Luke in the arm again.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Thalia interjected. She pulled Luke away from Percy and stepped between Annabeth and Luke. "As entertaining as seeing my boyfriend being hurt by a girl, he's still my boyfriend, which means hands off."

"Speaking of boyfriend," Luke said, leaning down to kiss Thalia on the neck, slowly moving his way up to her lips.

"Ew, ew, ew!" Percy shouted, covering his eyes. "Please no PDA!" He faked a gagging sound.

Thalia pulled away much to Luke's chagrin and then kicked Percy in the leg. "Shut up, Jackson. You're just jealous that you're not in a good and solid relationship. Anyway, go ahead Luke. Tell them."

Luke glared at Percy as he continued. "Thalia and I are celebrating our four month anniversary. We were wondering if you guys wanted to come over to Thalia's house to celebrate. It'll just be our friends, Jason, and his friends. It'll be really simple. Some pizza. Sodas. My dad won't be there so we don't have to worry about bothering him." Luke's father, Hermes, worked for this huge business in Manhattan, New York. Hermes was in charge of running messages from business to business. Usually, it kept Hermes pretty busy. Too busy to take care of Luke. As for Luke's mother, May Castellan, she passed away when Luke was seven, which was about the same time that Hermes threw himself at work.

Thalia took Luke's hand. "It'll be fun," Thalia promised. "You guys in?"

"Well…," Percy hesitated. Annabeth hit Percy as hard as she could right in his arm. Percy grunted. He now understands Luke's pain. "Of course we'll be there Thalia."

"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Annabeth said.

"It sounds kind of boring…," Nico muttered.

"There'll be drinks," Luke added with a smirk.

Nico grinned, "I'll be there."

"WOW," Thalia said, enunciating it a little bit more than necessary. "Just offer beer and every teenage boy will be there!"

"Come on Thals," Nico said, smugly. "We're boys. Beer is our love."

Thalia turned to glare at Luke with intense eyes. "Is that true?"

Luke chuckled. "Come on, Thalia. I think you smart enough to know that you're my true love." Thalia did something that surprised everyone. Did she just giggle? Annabeth thought in her head. "I love you, Thalia," Luke said, wrapping his arms around Thalia's waist and pulling her close to him.

"And I love you, Luke." Then, Thalia and Luke passionately starting kissing.

"Awwwwwwww," Annabeth said, smiling.

"EWWWWWWWWWWW," Percy and Nico chimed in.

Thalia and Luke turned away to glare at Percy and Nico. "SHUT UP," they both said simultaneously

Scene Change:

Day after the swim meet (going to lunch)

"So, you and Luke, you guys are getting pretty serious," Annabeth said, grinning. Thalia shrugged, as if it wasn't a big deal but with was a sparkle in her eyes. "I'm happy for you guys. You're going to stay together for years and years and years. You'll get married, have kids and live a happy life together."

"Whoa, there," Thalia chuckled. "You need to slow down Annie. Luke and I aren't getting married unless our maid of honor has a date."

Annabeth shrugged, "I can always just go with Malcolm."

"Ew," Thalia said.

Annabeth glared at Thalia, "NOT LIKE THAT!"

"Annabeth," Thalia groaned. "It's supposed to be like that. Luke and I already agreed that we're not going to have our wedding unless you are in a happy and loving relationship."

"Why does it matter?"

"Because you're our maid of honor. You're not supposed to be miserable on my very, very, very special day."

"First of all, you guys already planned out your wedding? That's just weird. And second of all, say you and Luke do want to get married. How do you think you're going to set me up with someone, make sure that I'm happy and then get married?" Annabeth challenged.

Thalia snickered, "Easy! Luke and I are going to hook you up with someone."

"Oh really? Like who?" Thalia grinned and thrust her finger in the general direction of Chris Rodriguez, Travis Stoll and his twin, Connor. My eyes widened. "Um, the random freshman nerd behind Chris, Travis and Connor?"

Thalia snickered. "No silly." She fixed her aim and Annabeth looked carefully. "Him."

Annabeth's eyes widened. "NO WAY! You're not serious."

"Oh, but I am," Thalia said, smirking.

"You wanna…," Annabeth couldn't breathe. How could Thalia even fathom the idea of something like this?! "You want me to go out with him?!"

"Yeah," Thalia said. "We're setting your guys up on a blind date."

"But…," Annabeth glared at Thalia, "It's him. We could never, EVER make it. Seriously!"

"Oh come on. You guys would be cute together. Just think: you and him. Together. Forever."

Annabeth laughed, hysterically. "Thalia, use your fricking brain. There is no possible way that we could ever make it has a couple. No way. Unless of course it's in this alternate world called 'Thalia and Luke's dreams?!'"

"Come on. You guys would be a good couple."

"Thalia? Did you hit on the head on the way to school? We would not be a good couple!"

Thalia shrugged. "Oh well, Annabeth. It doesn't matter anyway. Luke and I are already setting up a date for you guys in about two weeks." Annabeth gave Thalia her signature I will beat the living daylights out of you and then throw in the dumpster to rot look. Thalia gulped and quickly sprinted away from Annabeth.

Thalia had pointing to Travis Stoll.

Ohhhh, didn't see that one coming did you? Anyway, I hoped you liked this chapter and I hoped you guys enjoyed the very small Thuke moment. Is it just me or do you picture Will Solace to look like Prince William…I think it's just me.

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