Smitten with You

Is it possible to fall deeply in love and kiss someone you've only met for a short week?"

Well, if you are still here, then you probably know the answer already.

Why? Because I fell in love with a boy on my first week of school, and I kissed him underneath a beautiful starry night right on the beach of my family's manor.

If you think that's crazy, I agree with you.

Yes! The Annabeth Chase who kept her distance with everyone had finally gone insane, insanely head over heels for a boy that she didn't even fully know. How crazy is that?

Of course, I tried my best to stay calm on the outside. But to be honest, I was still a girl, and what girl wouldn't be putting up a brave face to hide the fact that they were actually freaking out. Having your feelings requite by your crush, it scared me to think what this meant for me and him, and what's going to happen between us now.

But I guess it wouldn't be me falling in love without that goosebumps feeling on my skin, right?

And remembered what I asked you at the beginning? The truth about love? How irrational it could leave you feeling? How overwhelming it would be before it clouded all your senses?

Yep! You are correct! I am referring to the huge seaweed brain who I unwillingly got stuck with and ironically lost my reasoning at the same time.

How unlike me I've become…

Since that night, my irrational feelings for him grew like a pressure pot left abandoned on a stove, ready to explode. What's worse, my memories wouldn't let me rest. Every second we were together, my head automatically drifted back to the night of our first kiss: the way he tasted like honey on my lips, the way his fingers tilted my chin up to meet his, the way he locked me in with his charming eyes…

It was hopeless.

No matter how normal we try to act in school or wherever else, neither one of us could control nor try to hide the obvious fact that we liked each other anymore.

It's been three months since the beginning of our junior year. Born from our first kiss, our infatuation for one another bloomed like a garden of red roses in spring.

I couldn't… or rather, didn't want to spend a single moment without him, and I got the feeling that he felt the same way. Yet, these three months had been comically chaotic. Many things happened, and not just between us, that it's impossible to tell it all.

Hence, the rest of our stories…. I guess I'll just have to show you now.

In any case, I guess now you understand why everything was so complex at the start of my junior year in school. It was all thanks to a certain boy with messy seaweed-like hair who literally crash into my life, yet he somehow made the dullness in our lives a little bit brighter.

His name is Perseus Jackson, and I am slowly falling more and more in love with him.