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Annabeth groaned internally when she led the rest of the figure skating team into the ice arena and immediately noticed Rachel push past her to flirt with Percy who had just entered a few seconds prior to them with the rest of his team. Instead of meeting as a group together on the ice, Christina and Coach Hedge had requested that they all take a seat on the bleachers because they had announcements to make. Knowing the coaches, the announcements they had to make were probably bad news.

She took a seat next to Calypso in the stands. Piper sat with Jason near them and Percy sat a couple rows below them looking annoyed by the fact that Rachel was practically sitting in his lap. Annabeth tried to hold in her laughter when Rachel flipped her hair and it got in Percy's mouth. He was trying his best to get out of her grasp but she had to give it to Rachel, the redhead was persistent that was for sure.

All around her Annabeth noticed how much had changed between the two teams over the past few weeks. The last time they had been forced to sit in the bleachers they separated themselves on either side but now they were sitting as one group. She noticed some of her teammates conversing with some of the hockey players. Jason and Piper were holding hands and she was telling him something excitedly while he listened to her with a smile on his face. It was as if they were in a parallel universe. Before she could get any more lost in her thoughts, Christina and Coach Hedge entered the rink and stood in front of them. Their faces were stern but that didn't mean anything, they almost always had a strict expression on their faces.

"Alright everyone we've got a few things to say so shut up and listen!" Hedge started. Wasn't he just a ray of sunshine? Annabeth thought as she turned her attention to the two adults. She heard the whispers and murmurs of conversation cease as everyone stopped talking to one another.

"Now, we've made a decision based on what we've observed over the past few weeks." Christina continued. Now Annabeth was curious. A decision? About what?

"Seeing as how both his team and mine have been getting along so well we've decided to open the small rink back up and not just use it for individual practice. We'll be holding skating practice the same way we used to before, on a rotating schedule for what days the hockey teams gets the big rink and which days my team gets it. However, the extra individual practices some of you have scheduled with us will remain at the same time." Gasps and excited voices filled the air. She knew the last part was addressed to her and Percy who practiced separately on Saturdays.

"That's not all we have to say you maggots!" Hedge quieted the teens again. Christina sent him a look of thanks before starting to talk again.

"Now, as my figure skaters know the regional competition will not be for a while but it won't be held here at the rink. It will be taking place at an ice rink about six hours driving from here."

"And as my hockey players know, the semi-finals are not going to be held here like they were last year either."

"After inquiring more about the dates and times of both events we've gathered the information that they're both happening on the same weekend and…in the same place, Olympus Ice Arena in Vermont. For this reason, within the next two months depending on how the Trident's team does this season, we'll all be going up together on a bus."

Both groups took in the information. Annabeth noticed that everyone seemed to be excited by the news. She herself was pretty excited. She'd never been to Vermont before because regionals had never been that far from where she lived. The only thing that wasn't so good about the news was that she was going to be on a bus with Rachel for six hours. Not to mention, Percy was probably going to make jokes and really bad puns the entire time. Right then she caught his eye from the stands. He smiled challengingly up at her, raising one eyebrow as if to say 'ready to be stuck on a bus with me for six hours Princess?' she smiled back, shaking her head in silent laughter. He turned back around as Rachel directed his attention back to her.

"Alright everyone quiet down! Now if the Tridents team doesn't make it to the semi-finals I'll still be taking my skaters to the competition and any of the Trident's players are welcome to attend and watch."

"Oh don't worry about that, we've got Percy. We'll get to the semi-finals." Leo spoke up, lightly shoving Percy in the shoulder who was in the row right below him. Percy chuckled, doing some weird handshake with the curly haired boy a second later.

"Don't be so sure boy! Now, we've got the big rink today so get going! We've got a game tomorrow night for Gods sake!" Hedge shouted to his players.

Annabeth knew that meant they had the smaller rink next door so she and the rest of the figure skaters stood up and walked in the opposite direction of the Tridents team. Before she left Percy waved to her. She grinned and waved back.

Someone brushed passed her and almost knocked her over when she turned back around. She steadied herself and then looked over to see who'd pushed her. She'd recognize that red hair anywhere, Rachel. She walked a couple paces faster to catch up with the girl.

"Hey. What the hell was that?" She interrogated, grabbing Rachel's shoulder and turning her around so she'd stop walking. The she-devil herself put on an innocent face.

"What do you mean?"

"Oh don't play games with me Dare. You obviously didn't just shove me and try to knock me over on accident. What's your problem?" Annabeth rebutted. They stood in the space between the two rinks. Everyone else had cleared the hall and it was only the two of them.

"You are." She said menacingly.

"Excuse me?" Annabeth spoke, starting to get angry.

"I've seen the way you've been looking at Percy these last few days. Let me tell you something Annabeth. He's never going to be with some low life like you so just give it up. He's mine."

Annabeth nearly burst out laughing when the redhead had finished. "Gods you kill me Dare. First of all, Percy and I are just friends. As for the rest of what you said, do you really think he wants to be with someone so desperate, someone who's an absolute attention whore?"

Rachel clenched her fists. Before any more could be said the door to the small rink was pushed open forcefully. Christina stood in the doorway, her expression one of anger and annoyance towards the two girls. Her arms were crossed on her chest and she narrowed her eyes at them.

"You two want to explain to me why you're out here instead of in there warming up with the others? Because I'd really like to know. Oh wait actually I've got a better idea. How about you both sit out from practice today. Get in and take a seat on the bench now." Christina demanded strictly.

With Rachel trailing behind her, Annabeth trudged into the small rink. She took a seat outside the glass windows that surrounded the ice and saw the other girls warming up. She wanted to scream. Rachel had been successful in not only making her angry but also taking away her skating time. When she looked over to the redhead it looked like she could care less about not being able to practice. She suddenly couldn't wait for regionals. She was going to beat her if it was the last thing she did.

"I have a dog that can do this drill faster than you lot! Pick up the pace!" Hedge shouted to his team.

Percy breathed heavily as he got back in line behind Leo. Coach Hedge had set up several lines of cones and split them up into groups of five. The drill was called quick feet and involved each of them skating back and fourth through a line of cones as fast as they could while keeping the hockey puck under control. It was definitely tiring, especially when they had been doing it for the last twenty minutes without any idea of when Hedge would decide on a new drill.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity of doing the same drill over and over again, Coach Hedge had blown his whistle for them to stop. He gave them about ten seconds to clear the cones from the ice and get ready for the next exercise. Lucky for the team, Hedge must have been in somewhat of a good mood because the next thing they were told to do was practice crossovers with their sticks around the perimeter of the rink until he told them to stop. As they skated, Leo and Jason sped up to get to Percy.

"What's up?" Percy asked lazily. He knew by the looks on their faces that they wanted to say something. He slowed down a bit so they were skating near each other.

"Meh, nothing much. But clearly something's up with you." Jason started.

"Correction, someone." Leo interrupted.

Percy's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "What are you two going on about?"

"Come on Perce. We know there's something up with you and Annabeth."

Percy almost lost his balance when he heard Jason's assumption. Regaining his balance, he spoke a moment later. He looked over to his two good friends with a lost look.

"What? No we're just friends! You do know that a guy and a girl can just be friends right dude?" He said, addressing Jason to his left.

"So there's nothing going on there? Cause you could've fooled me." Leo added as the three of them completed their fourth lap around the rink.

"No, there's nothing going on. We're complete opposites man. We'd have to be in a parallel universe for a girl like her to be with someone like me." Percy explains, shaking his head at the ridiculous idea of them together.

"Alright. You know I heard she's tutoring Castellan in math." Jason revealed. Percy nearly got whiplash from how fast he turned his head towards the blue-eyed boy.

"You're kidding."

"Nope, Piper told me."

"Gods I hate that son of a bitch." Percy muttered lowly to himself. Leo and Jason caught his moment of anger and looked at each other curiously.

"What the hell ever happened between you guys? I swear that's like the biggest secret around town." Leo stated, trying to get the answer out of the boy who was currently giving a death stare to the ground.

"Doesn't matter. I just can't believe Annabeth agreed to tutor him."

"Well as far as I know, they're friends just like you and her are."

Percy didn't say anymore after that. Instead he tried to focus on getting the movements correct with his hockey stick as they kept skating. He saw Leo give Jason a look from the corner of his eye but he ignored it as the three of them continued skating, now in silence.

"Ow! Jeez Princess. You know I'm starting to think I'm more of a personal punching bag rather than a friend to you." Percy complained as he rubbed his arm.

"It's how I get out my anger." Was all she could think to say.

"Well what did I do? That really hurt." Percy whined as they continued walking side by side to their cars that were parked outside the rink in the parking lot.

"Baby." Annabeth muttered after she rolled her eyes.

"Oh I see. Well if you wanted us to have pet names so bad you could've said so babe." Percy teased, casually throwing an arm around her shoulders.

Annabeth immediately felt her face heat up. She grabbed his arm and took it off her shoulders, pushing him to the side after she did so. He chuckled soundly and stumbled backwards a bit. She turned to look the other way so he wouldn't see how red her face was.

"You're insufferable." She spoke when they'd resumed their walk.

"Yeah, insufferably hot."

Annabeth stopped in place and turned to face him. She crossed her arms on her chest and looked at him disbelievingly as if to say 'really? That's you're comeback?' When he saw that she'd stopped he also paused. He caught her expression and sighed.

"Alright that sounded a lot better in my head. But seriously Chase what's up? You look a little blue."

She nearly rolled her eyes again at his choice of words but managed to refrain from doing so.

"Well if you must know, I got benched at practice today because of you." She supplied. They resumed walking slowly through the skate rental area of the rink.

"How did I have anything to do with that?" He questioned. He ran ahead of her to open the glass door for them to exit the building. Once they were outside they headed in the direction of their parked cars.

"I'll give you a hint. It has red hair."

"Rachel? What happened between you two? And again, how am I involved in this?"

"Rachel decided it would be a good idea to pick a fight with me when we split up for practice. She's apparently very protective of you and said I should stay away from you. And uh, you know…a few other things."

"Anyway, a few minutes later Christina came out and saw us arguing and just like that no practice for me today." She finished angrily.

Percy didn't say anything right away. He let the information sink in as they walked slowly closer to the rink's parking lot. Annabeth took in the cold New York night. There were several stars shining in the sky that night and it was insanely quiet. All the other skaters and hockey players had left immediately after practice was over. She liked to take her time getting home because once she was in for the night all she did was homework and studying. She was surprised Percy was still even here. She was sure she was the only one left. Maybe he'd stayed back for her? No, that was crazy thinking. He probably just ran a bit late getting changed.

"So let me get this straight, you two were fighting over me?" Percy finally said after a couple minutes. His face broke out into a crooked grin and Annabeth shook her head but before she could say anything he spoke again.

"Well I wasn't expecting this. Don't worry Chase there's plenty of me to go around." He stuck his arms out for emphasis.

"Why am I not surprised that's what you got out of my explanation?"

He chuckled. "Come on Princess when are you going to admit that I'm the total package?"

Despite the fact that just a second ago she was annoyed when thinking about how she was forced to watch practice from the sidelines today, she found herself fighting the urge to smile. Percy noticed when a small grin formed on her lips and he definitely didn't let it go unnoticed.

"And she smiles!"

"Shut up."

"Speaking of people we find annoying…I heard you're now tutoring Luke." Percy mumbled suddenly. She noticed his demeanor change to a more serious one once he mentioned his name.

"Oh, uh yeah. He needed help in math." The blonde replied rather awkwardly.

She hadn't been expecting him to bring that up. She didn't even know how he found out about it in the first place but she shouldn't be surprised. They were in high school, information got around quick. She couldn't gather what he was thinking when she confirmed his assumption but whatever it was, it probably wasn't positive considering it involved Luke.

"Listen Chase I know he's your….your-" Annabeth cut him off before he could go any further. He seemed to be having trouble with that last word.

"My friend?" She teased playfully.

"Yeah, that. Look, just be careful ok? He's not as great as you think he is." He didn't elaborate any further and Annabeth once again found herself wondering what in the world happened between the two of them.

"I can take care of myself Jackson." Annabeth said, a tad bit annoyed at the fact that he had felt the need to warn her. He sighed.

"I know you can. I've got the bruises to prove it." He responded, trying to lighten the mood as they arrived in front of Annabeth's car in the now empty parking lot.

They turned to face one another and Annabeth laughed lightly. Only he could make her go from annoyed one minute to laughing in the next.

"I'm serious! I think I'm going to have to report you for physical abuse!" He joked further, adjusting his hockey duffle on his shoulder.

She laughed again. She went to push his chest back for the second time that night but this time he was expecting it. He clutched her hand in his own when it met his chest so that he wouldn't stumble back. Annabeth froze when his hand grabbed her own. She didn't remove her palm from his chest as he held it there. Tiny zaps of electricity shot up her arm from the contact. She then made the mistake of looking into his eyes.

A beautiful shade of green with small specks of blue in them. His smile faded after a second as did hers while they continued to look at each other. They stood in the dimly lit parking lot of the ice rink in front of her car. It was probably her imagination but she could swear she felt his heart beating rapidly under her palm as she kept it there. She didn't know what to think in that moment.

They seemed to snap out of it at the same time. She pulled her hand away from its position near his heart and blushed furiously. He cleared his throat and scratched the back of his neck nervously.

"Well, uh I should get going. I'll see you later Princess." He muttered before giving her a final wave and retreating to his car which was almost right across from hers.

She waved back, not trusting herself to speak because she didn't know what to say. There was only one thought on her mind that followed her all the way home and it was sure to stay with her for a while.

Had her and Percy just shared a moment?

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