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Disclaimer: Rick Riordan has a "k" in his name. I do not. I'll leave that as a hint.

Percy squinted his eyes, not knowing how to react to the monstrosity in front of him.

"Doesn't it look cool?" Leo said, beckoning towards the gigantic monster of a truck. It was lined with a brownish-orange type color, accompanied with a clashing purple.

Percy raised an eyebrow. "No. Leo, please tell me we aren't actually going to use this. I don't want you to ruin your reputation forever."

"I think it's hot." Leo rolled his eyes jokingly. "Which is why I want you to drive it."

Now it was Percy's turn to roll his eyes. "No way. I'm not being seen with that."

"Come on Perce, Girls like stuff that's weird. They're going to notice this more nice looking truck." When Percy made no attempt at responding, Leo continued on. "Come on, you gotta get out more. I can't believe a guy like you has had as little action as you do."

"First of all, don't stereotype women," He put emphasis on the 'women part' "and second of all, I get… action." Percy said, cringing at his short of words

Leo punched Percy in the shoulder. "Maybe," He said, "But I don't think you've ever had a serious girlfriend, which I have," Right, Percy reminded himself quickly, Calypso. "So, that means that I'm more romantically inclined then you."

Percy looked down at Leo, who stood a strountly five six to his six feet. "I've had a serious girlfriend before," He told him. But Leo wouldn't know about it. He'd moved here after Annabeth left for college, starting at the same school he went to though learning how to become a mechanic.

Leo's face transformed from cocky to amused in a second, which to be honest, wasn't much of a transformation. "Seriously," he said, smirking. "Who? I've never seen you with anyone."

"I was in a serious relationship in High School, up until college. We were in love."

Leo smiled again, despite Percy's pained expression. "What was her name?" He asked, obviously not believing a word Percy was saying.

"Annabeth Chase." This was the part where he should sigh dreamily, and then talk about how they were in a happy long distance relationship. But of course he couldn't, because, as he reminded himself everyday, I completely and utterly screwed it up.

It seemed now, Leo noticed the pained expression on his face, and seemed sympathetic. "Okay," He said. "I believe you. Why hasn't this come up before?"

Because maybe, Percy had been trying to move on. Maybe that was why he'd had flings, but nothing serious. It was because everytime he was reminded of her, everytime her name passed his mind, for seconds, sometimes even minutes, he was reduced to silence.

Case in point: when Grover, his best friend, who had gone to college close to here had mentioned her, by accident, just a couple months into school, he was basically mute the rest of the day.

Grover never made the mistake again.

And Percy had done his best to block her out, and forced himself to delete her contact and stay off her social media, where she would occasionally post about her time in California.

But that didn't make any difference, because Percy Instagram stalked her for ages until Grover had to take his phone and block her account for him.

The point of all of this being, is that no matter how many flings he'd had in the last six years, no matter how many times he had tried to block her out of his mind, and no matter how many texts he had started to write, but never sent (because he had memorized her number, deleting her contact would do nothing), he still wasn't over her.

But he hoped Annabeth was over him, because although he had broken both of their hearts, he was fine with her's healing, and his not.

"I'm sorry dude," Leo was saying, interrupting his thoughts. "I didn't know. I wouldn't have made so many dumb jokes about your love life if I'd known."

Percy shrugged it off. "It's fine man." He said, turning away from Leo, and shrugging. "I'm going back to the restaurant, I need to teach some swim lessons later at the gym, so I should go grab my bag and get going. Good luck getting this hunk of junk past Mr. D though. You know how he is about style."

"Shit," said Leo, obviously remembering that they had a boss currently on all the new trends. "He'll never allow this."

Percy walked away. "Your problem, no mine, he said." to Leo's groans. "But hey, you can use your mechanic skills to fix it up. Don't you have your second job after this? You can bring it in."

Leo sighed from behind him. "Yeah. I probably should."

Percy walked away, back into the restaurant, which was now occupied by a Will and Nico, a couple, who were regulars, coming every week, and an old man Percy didn't know the name of. He took his apron off, which was a "fashion statement," as Mr. D called it, and grabbed his bag.

Pulling out his car keys, he opened up the driver's seat of his car, and sat down, jamming the key into the ignition and pulling out.

He taught swim lessons everyday after work at the restaurant, and then returned to help out customers, as it was a bed and breakfast. Mostly the breakfast part though- and they served lunch and dinner too. So it was more of a restaurant with an upstairs they rented out to visitors.

"Bed and Breakfast" sounded fancier though, so that's what they called themselves. Of course, with specification. They couldn't go around marketing as something they weren't.

Percy laughed to himself as he thought about this, continuing on his way to the local gym to get himself ready for lessons. Once he arrived, he quickly changed into his suit, and walked out to the main gym area. He then sat down on the bench for teachers (where coincidentally, he was the only one that sat, since he was the only teacher), and waited for students to show up.

The lessons soon began, and Percy taught the steady stream of regulars new strokes and games. Kids would always want to learn how to swim as long as there was a water slide near, which was probably why he had so many kids in the class.

After he said goodbye to the last student, he was called to the main office, which was really just a study where the gym owner sorted out payments and bills. The man said nothing important, just that an addition to the gym would be added, and that he should keep that in mind for lesson scheduling, to which Percy nodded, and told him he'd sort it out.

He excused himself from the room, and soon after, jumped into the pool to begin his daily work out, which he did every day before he returned to the bed and breakfast. Swimming always made him feel better, and it was good to have some positivity in his life.

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