Sorry, sorry, sorryyyyy! I'm the worst person ever. I know I said I would be writing non-stop because I'm finally done with high school and it's summer but I've been doing a lot to prepare for college and of course I have my summer job I always do every summer. Another big part of why its been so long is because I've had the biggest writer's block ever. My brain just wasn't functioning and this chapter took forever to write. Thanks for all your amazing reviews there were over 40 reviews! That's insane guys! Some of you didn't like how I wrote the last chapter and for that I'm sorry. I try my very best to make my writing worthwhile and I'm sorry for those of you who I disappointed and who thought it was a dumb chapter. Alright I'll stop talking and finally let you read!

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Percy approached the goal, shuffling the hockey puck back and forth with his stick. He slowed own when he got within a few feet of the netting. His defender kept up with him, following the same movements he was doing. After another minute, Percy took the shot. The black puck went sliding too far to the left of the goal, missing it completely.

Percy sighed exhaustedly. The Trident's team was practicing a one-on-one drill. That had been his fifth missed shot on goal. His teammates were shell shocked that he'd missed that many shots. Some of them hadn't even been close to the goal. His heart just wasn't in it. He was playing like he had no idea what he was doing and he knew it was affecting the rest of the team. Coach Hedge wasn't looking too happy with him either.

"Alright break for water! Jackson at this point, you'd be better off watching practice from the bench!" Coach Hedge blew his whistle and then all the boys skated over to their bags with their water bottles. Percy said nothing and instead stared at the ground deep in thought.

"Hey man. You alright?" Leo asked, skating up beside him and clapping a hand on his shoulder. Percy shook him off, trying to give him the message that he didn't want to talk.

It backfired because a second later Jason came over to his other side. He took a sip from his water bottle and then spoke. His eyes were filled with pity and Percy absolutely hated it.

"Perce come on, you have to at least talk to us." Jason tried, casting a concerned glance his way. Percy stopped, anger now filling his veins as he looked at the two of them.

"What do you guys want me to say? Oh I'm just dandy thanks for asking!" The raven-haired boy shouted sarcastically.

"We're worried about you dude. You haven't been yourself lately. Don't you want to talk about what happened?" Leo asked.

"There's nothing to talk about. I made the stupidest mistake ever and she hates me and never wants to see me again. There's nothing more to it." Percy drank some water from his plastic bottle before hurriedly skating away from them and towards the bench.

Jason sighed. "He's really hurting. I've never seen him so unhappy and unfocused playing hockey."

"I don't think anyone has. Annabeth must really mean a lot to him." Leo added. Jason nodded in agreement.

"If I didn't know any better I'd say the dude might even be in love with her. He just hasn't figured that out for himself yet."

"We've got to figure out a way to get them together." Leo suggested. Jason nodded but then chuckled silently.

"You're starting to sound like Piper man." Leo shoved his shoulder.

"Like you don't have plans of your own. I asked Piper, she told me it was your idea for the two of you to ditch Calypso and I at Silena's party."

"Well it worked didn't it? You scored a date with her this Friday."

"That doesn't mean it wasn't super awkward when you both left all of the sudden!" Leo's cheeks colored and Jason laughed at his embarrassment before they both skated back towards their coach who was calling them all back.

Annabeth groaned in annoyance, bushing off the snow from the ice on her clothes before standing up. She started her approach again, gathering up speed before attempting a triple Lutz this time. When the time was right she jumped, spinning in the air for a couple seconds before placing her skate on the ice. The blade of the skate fumbled, making her lose her balance and fall forward against the hard ice once again. The cold surface brushed her cheek and she sighed, frustrated with herself.

Piper and Calypso stood off to the side in the bleachers of the small rink watching their friend practice for the state figure skating competition. Practice was over but Rachel and Annabeth were spending extra time on the ice in preparation for the state competition. Right at that moment Annabeth was in the middle of her individual practice with Christina. Piper stared sadly at the blonde, watching her fall for the fourth time in the last five minutes. She knew the girl had too much on her mind. Christina looked disappointed in Annabeth as she watched her skate. She gave her pointers each time but nothing was working.

"I hate seeing her like this. We've seen her land those jumps a hundred times Pipes." Calypso said tiredly.

"I know. She's just got too much on her mind. The only thing we can do is be here for her when she needs us." Piper replied.

"I guess. But she doesn't even want to talk about it. It's like I'm talking to a wall whenever I'm with her. She doesn't look happy to be skating like she usually is, she can't land her jumps and she just looks…exhausted."

Piper placed a comforting arm around Calypso. "She's stressed and confused right now. I mean who wouldn't be? Two guys admitted to practically the whole school that they like her and then proceeded to fight over her. She doesn't know what to do. I know I wouldn't."

"I just hope she can skate for the state competition. Skating is her life and I know how broken she'll be if she can't skate her best on the day of the competition." Calypso sighed, leaning in to her brown-haired friend as they watched Annabeth shout in anger when she fell again.

"Me too Callie. I also have this feeling something else happened at that party we didn't see."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know. She looked pretty upset before Percy and Luke started fighting. It could be nothing but she won't talk about anything from that night."

"You're right. Something else did happen."

Piper and Calypso jumped when they heard a voice to their right. They looked over to see a familiar girl dressed in all black with short choppy hair and electric blue eyes. She walked over to take a seat next to Calypso. Thalia had watched a couple of Annabeth's practices before. She knew she should be there for her best friend while she was so out of it so she'd decided to pay a visit to the rink.

"What?"

Thalia took a deep breath. She faced Annabeth attempting to land another jump instead of looking directly into the eyes of the two girls staring intensely at her for an answer. It was silent for a few seconds and just when Piper was starting to think Thalia hadn't heard her, the girl with a punk rock style took a deep breath and spoke.

"Well…I wasn't there so I can only go off what Annabeth told me when we caught a cab home after the party but when she went off looking for Percy…"

Thalia trailed off, leaving Calypso and Piper as curious as ever. The choppy-haired girl had a painful expression on her face. It looked as if she was having trouble trying to process whatever information she was about to share.

"Annabeth found Percy but when she did it wasn't exactly the best way to find him."

"What do you mean?" Calypso instigated further.

"She found him making out with Rachel in one of the many bathrooms in Silena's house." Thalia finished exasperatedly. She finally turned to look at the two of them.

Calypso and Piper's reactions were very similar to what Thalia's was when Annabeth had told her about the incident. Their pupils widened and their mouths opened in shock. There was once again a minute of complete silence with the only noise being Annabeth's skates on the ice in the background.

"Gods. Oh gods that must've killed her." Piper finally said to break the silence. Calypso nodded in approval and Thalia sighed.

"I-I just don't get it. There's no way the Percy I know would do something like that. There has to be more to the story. Annabeth was changing him into the person he used to be when we were kids. The guy who stayed incredibly loyal to everyone he got close with. The guy who made the dumbest jokes that you couldn't help but laugh at and most importantly someone you could depend on and trust for anything. It just doesn't sound like Percy." Thalia explained. She held her head in her hands, starting to get a headache from the whole thing.

Piper placed a hand on her shoulder comfortingly. She herself couldn't believe Percy would do such a thing either. Ask her a few months ago and she might have told you that making out with Rachel at a party was something Percy Jackson would definitely be caught doing but everything had changed. Everyone had noticed how different he was now. More specifically, everyone had noticed how he acted around Annabeth. There was never a moment he wasn't smiling when he was with her. He genuinely liked her and because of her he was this fun-loving, caring guy. There was more to the story, she was sure of it.

"There's no way Percy would do that to her. There's got to be a catch. I mean this is Rachel Dare we're talking about guys. Anything involving her is bad news. She must've manipulated him in some way." Piper voiced her thoughts.

"Maybe. But that doesn't change the fact that he was kissing another girl and Annabeth saw them. She must've been heartbroken. It's so obvious she's falling for him. Its gone way past the crush stage at this point." Calypso added, staring out towards their blonde skater friend with a troubled look plastered across her features.

Annabeth pushed and shoved her way through the crowds consisting of her classmates. Only two more days and the school week would be over and it would finally be the weekend. Luckily she'd managed to avoid talking to Luke and Percy for the past three days. Even in math, which she shared with Luke and history she shared with Percy she'd avoided them by sitting as far away from their desks as possible. She felt their stares on her but didn't dare to look up. Both of them had tried to approach her and talk to her a few times but whenever they started walking towards her she made up some excuse to leave. It sounded kind of pathetic but she just didn't feel like talking to either of them.

The party at Silena's was something she wished more than anything that she could forget.

She couldn't get the images of Percy kissing Rachel out of her head. They made her stomach churn. Then watching Luke and Percy practically trying to kill each other after admitting they liked her. She hadn't had time to fully comprehend the idea of Percy actually liking her before the two males were insulting each other again. The party felt like one giant mess she was never going to figure out how to clean up. Thank the Gods that Thalia had been there for her after everything went down. Without her best friend taking her home she doesn't know what would've happened.

It was Thursday and now the lunch period. She was meeting Piper, Calypso, Will and Nico at their usual table in the cafeteria. Occasionally Jason, Leo and Percy would sit with them but for the past few days they hadn't been and she was sure it was because Piper had told Jason Annabeth needed time to think and deal with everything.

She opened her locker and replaced her books from her morning classes to those of her afternoon classes. She felt eyes on her as soon as she shut her locker door. She knew she shouldn't have looked but she couldn't help it. Her eyes searched for the culprit and soon caught the gaze of a familiar head of blonde hair.

He was pretty far away from where she was standing but that didn't mean she couldn't see the hurt look on his face when she broke the stare and turned around to walk in the other direction towards the cafeteria. She didn't feel like confronting Luke at that moment and she didn't know when she would feel like it. He'd been sweet to comfort her at the party but the Luke that had insulted and physically fought Percy was someone she didn't know. It was a different side to him that she didn't want to see more of. She sighed, shaking her head to clear her thoughts and tightening her grip on the books in her arms.

She'd barely walked twenty feet when she felt a hand grip her upper arm. She was too surprised to even scream before she was being pulled into a room.

There were brooms, mops and brushes leaning against the wall. The room had the faintest smell of lemon-scented floor cleaner. It took her about a second to realize she'd been dragged into a janitor's closet.

It took her another second to realize that the person who'd pulled her into the room was Percy Jackson.

Immediately her eyes widened and she felt her stomach twist into a knot. She may or may not have blushed against her hardest attempts not to. She didn't want to talk to him but what made her blush was the thought of where they were.

It may seem like something that one would only hear about in movies or TV shows but Goode High School was full of clichés. A common hook up spot in a specific janitor's closet was one of those clichés and she was currently standing in that janitor's closet with Percy.

She'd seen several people from the popular crowd walk into the janitor's closet down the hall from the cafeteria. Not to mention, walking past it at the wrong time definitely scarred someone for life. More than anyone, she'd seen Percy take girls into the room and then walk out with messed up hair and disheveled clothes.

Obviously Annabeth had never been in the janitor's closet and wanted more than anything in that moment to leave but she couldn't because Percy was standing in front of her with his back to the door.

She pursed her lips and tried hard not to notice how attractive said male looked wearing jeans, high tops and a navy tight-fitted t-shirt that showed off his muscles quite nicely. She was infuriated with him. He'd hurt her badly and all she wanted to do was leave.

"Move Jackson" She said coldly, glaring angrily towards him. Those had been the first words she'd spoken to him since the party.

"Annabeth you haven't given me the chance to explain what happened. You don't know the whole story. I've been trying to talk to you all week." He said tiredly.

His eyes weren't as bright as they usually were and there were bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. In other words, he looked pretty similar to how she was feeling. She held her ground.

"I don't want to listen to anything you have to say Jackson. After all, actions speak louder than words so I hope you and Rachel are very happy together." She said harshly. She noticed his expression sadden even more as she moved to get past him and to the door.

"Annabeth…Princess, please" He begged, gently grasping her arm again.

She didn't know if it was because of the use of her nickname or because of the emotion behind his voice but whatever it was made her pause. She looked into his sea-green eyes and felt herself crumble. He made her vulnerable and that scared her more than anything. She breathed deeply, feeling herself give in.

"You've got thirty seconds. Explain."

"I didn't know it was Rachel who was in the bathroom. I believed Ashley when she told me to follow her. The lights were all off in the room and I couldn't find the light switch. When I walked in there I didn't even know there was another person in there with me until another minute went by. The girl-Rachel- she called me Hockey Boy and she whispered it so I didn't know it was her. The next thing I knew she was kissing me and I responded because I-…"

He looked at her with a painful expression on his face and she furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.

"What?" She asked lowly.

"I thought she was you Annabeth. I know, I'm the world's biggest idiot for believing that but I guess I just couldn't take in any longer. I wanted so badly to believe it was you and I actually did. When I saw you a few seconds later I'd never felt so horrible in my life. And then catching you with Luke after you ran off…I just cracked."

It was quiet for a beat as Annabeth tried to process all the new information he'd just told her. Even though he thought it was her he was kissing, he'd still kissed Rachel and it killed her. They weren't even dating but the affect he had on her was strong. Since they weren't together in the first place, Percy had a right to kiss any girl he wanted to but she felt as if she'd been led on and her heart had been stomped on. What if he wasn't telling the truth? And then there was the fact that he'd still gotten into a fight with Luke. She just didn't know if she could put all of her trust in him. She was scared. Scared of being broken beyond repair.

"Thanks for telling me but…it doesn't change the fact that you were kissing another girl. I know we were never together but I just don't know if I can forgive you. I-I don't know if I can trust you."

Percy's hopeful expression turned to one of heartbreak as he looked into her eyes.

"Annabeth, please. You're the one I want to be with." His voice broke and a lump formed in Annabeth's throat.

"I'm sorry." She whispered through her cracking voice before finally getting around him and exiting the janitor's closet. A silent tear fell down her face as she continued her route to the cafeteria.

Done with chapter 27! A pretty sad chapter I'm sorry guys but don't worry I think the next few chapters are going to make up for it *wink, wink* I will try my very best to write the next update and get it up as soon as I can. Thanks for being patient guys I really appreciate it. Let me know your thoughts on this chapter please! Your reviews help me so much. Love you all!

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