Someone To You

Summary: what you do for love…

*One Shot*

PERCY

Music nights on Thursdays, and Saturdays, those were the busy days at the Café, and I was sitting at the desk doing math equations on why my till was low. Well not trying to figure out, I knew they were stealing, and it was only a time worthy of getting it on camera. Well, if I could get a fucking camera installed. Evidence was the key and so far, I had nothing.

"Percy," looking up and behind me I see my girlfriend standing at the door, her blonde curls hidden under the cap and her eyes starring at me with a sort of flatness to it.

"What is it Annabeth?" I mutter, grabbing a few bills to recount and to make it look like I'm busy.

"We need to talk," she says and closes the door, wrings her hands nervously and I wait. I already know what's coming.

I gaze into the eyes of the woman I love and close my eyes. This was it.

"I want to break up with you," she murmurs.

Despite me knowing what was coming my heart clenches in pain and I swallow the lump of pain back into my body, ignoring the twin tears falling as I blink.

"I have been cheating on you with… with… with Jason," she says.

"Annabeth," I murmur and stand up from my sitting position and closed my eyes and hold the pain as close as I can. "I already knew,"

"Then why did you stay?" she demands.

"Because I love you, and all I want is for you is to be happy, and if I can't be that person anymore," I whisper. "Then I would rather leave you… loving you." I whispered. "Close the store tonight," I say and walk out, not caring that it wasn't her shift to close, but needing to get away…. Needing distance despite me knowing we had been living together on borrowed time since I had saw her fucking my best friend, my cousin.

"I'm sorry," she whispered.

"No, no you aren't," I said and close the door.

I was silly thinking that she would regret it, come clean to me, but she clearly liked someone else and I felt even more pain, because I wanted to talk to my best friend… but I couldn't anymore.

And with that finality my tears keep falling no matter how many times I rub them away or try to stop. My hands are shaking and my heart aches SOOO much and I hate how I can still love her.

I'm running out of the café my mom owns and down to the ocean, not caring I'm bumping into people and not caring that they see me crying, it just hurts.

I'm so blinded by the tears falling that I don't realize I had bumped into someone and was falling only to be caught by their arms.

Looking up through tears I see a man with sandy brown hair and blue eyes, his face is kind, his face worried as he sees me as the mess I am.

"Do you want to talk?" he asks.

"T-talk about what?"

"Anything, why you're sad, it helps to talk to someone who knows nothing of what's going on." The stranger says softly, his blue eyes gazing at me with an understanding look.

Huffing a slight chuckle, I pull out of his grasp and wipe my face. "I think I'm gonna go home and cry, and if that offer is still up, I'll take it another day."

The man smiles softly taking out a paper and pen he writes a number and a name.

"Sure thing," he says, and I race away to my safe haven. And sitting in my safe place, a place I had never brought Annabeth too I cry it all out. And when I reach into my pocket to take a Kleenexe out, only for my hand to hold a piece of paper.

Looking at what it says: Hermes ***-*****-****

HERMES

Ocean Side Café had become my favourite coffee shop when I had moved back to New York two years ago. There I saw the most amazing, happiest and wonderful person alive. And I was totally going to flirt with him, he was my type after all. But a girl with blonde hair had wrapped him in her arms and kissed him making him moan slightly. I tried not to stare but it was hard not too. He looked so in love, his arms around her and the way his eyes softened.

I had felt my stomach twist into knots of anger and jealousy. I stopped going after two days. I was upset that the crush I had liked someone else.

After my brooding was over, I walked back in, he was never the one to take my order, but the one to make it. And nothing had ever tasted so good than that perfectly brewed cup of coffee.

After this morning's fresh cup of coffee made by Percy I went off to work, glancing at my phone a couple of times as my phone buzzed a few times. Opening it to messages I saw two texts. One from Artemis and the other from Apollo. Both saying that they were coming over.

I sighed.

"Boss?" looking up I see George standing next to his twin Martha and saw them looking worried. "Are you okay?"

I nod only to shake my head a second later.

"Wanna talk?" my best friend and subordinate asks.

"Percy's girlfriend is cheating on him," I manage.

It had been before this morning's cup of coffee that I had found out.

And fist not to sound sstalkerish I had only saw them by chance and followed. Followed because why was Annabeth pulling another boy into an ally?

Them kissing is what shocked me and when I ordered my regular drink of coffee, I had closed my eyes at Percy's happy smile as he talked to another worker. He didn't deserve that. He doesn't deserve what that Bitch is doing to him!

So, for three months I watched a fake relationship play out before my eyes. Whenever I was at the coffee shop, in between breaks, before and after work, and up till closing time I watched it. And my heart ached, but I said nothing.

Annabeth playing with Jason behind Percy's back, and I wanted to say something, but I couldn't, Percy didn't know me, he never even looked in my direction, all his attention was on that blonde cheater.

It was a Wednesday when I saw him running into the streets, he was bumping into people climbing to his feet after a mumbled apology. So, with a deliberate step I stepped in front of Percy.

Catching him before he fell, he looked up and I never loved anyone more than I loved Percy. Despite his snotty face, red eyes, and tears and heartbroken facial expression on, I loved him. Falling for him like for the past 9 months I had been. A one-sided relationship and he didn't even know my fucking name.

I asked him if he wanted to talk about it, I wanted to help in any way I could. In the end I gave him my number and I waited for the text from an unknown number to come. I waited three days and even then, I still went to the café, no sign of Percy at any of the times I went.

I felt sad that I didn't get a text.

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1 Year Later

…..

I was expanding Olympus Mail into Amazon with the help of my friend, and we were on a trip to Canada to build a new base there and I was excited about it.

I still waited for Percy text despite me knowing he had left the States all together, and I never got the text. I was saddened but understood he didn't want a stranger to know about his personal life.

"So, Mr. Jacksons will be there?" Amie Zoe asked into the phone her voice was slightly irritated. "We are pulling up now," she said, and I frowned. Amie never got angry whoever was talking must be an asshole. Just great. I thought but put on my best customer service smile and got out of the car after she parked it.

"Perseus Fucking Jackson, are you an idiot?" I hear.

Looking up I see two men heading our way, and I freeze.

It was him!

It was Percy right in front of me, after waiting all these months, ahem year, for a text and not receiving any I finally see him.

"I- "Percy says looking at me confusedly and a frown on his face. "I-I remember you," he says and the man behind pauses a slightly relieved face on his face and Percy's of bewilderment.

"Son, that's good you remembered someone!" the man with the same looks as Percy's met my gaze.

"Hermes Blake, so good to finally meet you face to face, sorry about the yelling. My name's Poseidon my son has amnesia after the accident, and he's been with me since but let's get started on the plans of development. Then he can get to remember you."

I wasn't sure what hurt more, the fact that Percy had amnesia or the fact that he remembered the shortest and first conversation we had ever had.

And fuck, if my heart fluttered at the thought of finally getting to know Percy I tried to hide the grin on my face as I receive his name and number on a card.

"Call me so we can talk," Percy whispered and ran a hand up my arm, I shivered at the feeling of his skin on mine.

"It's a date," I whispered back.

THE END…. Of the Chapter

~JiO

~Goodygoodi