Ok, so now it was going to be Percy, his two best friends, and a protective nature loving girlfriend. Percy still felt pretty unstoppable.
They had made it. Annabeth Chases party. First off, Percy had never seen Annabeths house so he didn't expect it to be so...normal. That was the best way to describe it. An average house. Sure it had two floors unlike Percy's small apartment, but it was still by all means a normal house. In fact, the only way that Percy knew it was the driveway to pull into is becuase it was littered with tumbling teenagers and enough beer cans to build a small island. Percy parked on the sidewalk a little bit away from the house, considering the fact that at least twenty cars were parked up and down the street. The four got out of the car, Grover racing to go around the side and hold Junipers door for her. Juniper smiled shyly at him and kissed his cheek to which Nico put his hands on his thighs and bent over making a hurling noise. Percy led the way up the driveway wondering weather or not he should knock on the door. Turns out he didn't have to becuase right as he got to the door a bulky blonde fell through and onto the ground outside. Ahh yes, Luke Castellan, someone who would no doubt be a bully to Percy if he knew that he existed. Luckily enough for Percy he was at the point of unpopularity that bullies didn't even have the decency to pick on him. He stepped over Luke's (hopefully) unconscious body and into the house. The inside was better then the outside, but not by much. There were people passed out the couch, on the floor, really there were people passed out basically everywhere you looked. if they weren't passed out it was likely they were making out, in fact more then half the kids were partnered up and kissing with heat. As Percy weaved his way through the tight entryway filled with people he wondered why he thought this would be a good idea. He eventually reached a table covered in red solo cups flipped or half filled with what was no doubt liquor. He turned to look behind him to see where his friends were but they were nowhere in sight. He figured what was the point of being at a party if u weren't gonna let loose a little. He turned back to the table and picked a cup at random with a clear see through liquid. He took a swig and recognized it immidiatly, vodka. Sure he had only tried it once but he used to smell it on Gabe's breath every time that...could you call him a man? Tried to speak to him. After all Smirnoff was Gabe's favourite. He shook his head snapping out of the memories before taking another sip of the foul tasting liquid, letting the warm burn crawl down his throat, hoping that it wouldn't be crawling back up in the near future. Just as Percy set the cup down he felt a finger tap his shoulder. He swivelled around feeling relived thinking it was Grover or Nico, but no such luck. There, in all her dazzling glory, stood Annabeth Chase wearing a mischievous smile.
"I've gotta admit, I didn't think you were coming perce" she said with absolutely zero surprise in her voice, "I sure am glad you did though" she said in a softer voice, saddling up next to Percy.
"Probably not my best decision was it Chase" he said taking a small step back.
"I can think of worse ones to make" she said once again stepping up beside him.
"Very funny Annabeth, but you know I'm not interested" he said wairily. He hadn't had much to drink but Percy knew all to well that he was a lightweight and didn't want to be caught up in Annabeths presence if things were going to go south.
"Oh come on Percy, don't you ever break a couple rules?" She said laughing a little. He looked at her bewildered,
"Have you ever met me? I'm a magnet to broken rules, you know that Chase" he said cracking a small smile.
"Alright then, come with me." She said in a daring voice. He was curious, but at the same time he knew exactly what she wanted and he didn't plan on getting played this easily.
"And where exactly would I be following you Annie?" He said in a teasing voice.
"The roof. And, by the way, no one gets to call me Annie" she said in a only half joking way.
"Alright, take the lightweight up to the roof after he's been drinking, my life's in your hands Chase" he said. Immidietly after this she grabbed his hand and started dragging him through the mess of people. Once they were about halfway up the stairs to the second floor they had to stop to move some guy sitting on the step. He turned his glazed eyes to Percy, looking between him and Annabeth before shaking his head and muttering something along the lines of "poor sucker" before returning to his seat on the steps. Once they were upstairs the crowd of people thinned to just Annabeth and Percy, although Percy did notice that three of the bedroom doors were closed... Annabeth pulled Percy into the first door on the left, which it quickly became apparent was Annabeths room. There was a bookshelf filled with novels and architecture books. The walls were gray and the room was impeccably neat. If it hadn't been Annabeth Percy might've felt embarrassed at the messy state he knew his room was in, but he knew that she hated anything imperfect so it made sense her room was this spotless. Percy made his way over to her bookshelf and picked up one of the arichitecture books The Death and Life of Great American Cities. "Big architecture fan huh?" Percy asked placing the book back on the shelf.
"I'm nothing if not an architecture lover!" Annabeth exclaimed getting an excited sparkle in her eyes.
"This doesn't look like the roof to me" Percy stated trying to divert her from starting a 2 hour rant about what kind of arches are most important or something like that.
"Right this way sir" she said mock bowing and walking over to the one window in the room. It was small but not too small that a couple teenagers couldn't climb through it... Percy got a sneaking suspicion that he knew what was coming. Annabeth opened the window fully and expertly stood on the windowsill reaching up to something and pulling herself up onto the roof. Percy Leaned out the window and looked up, finding that the thing Annabeth had grabbed was a metal bar that had been built into the roof, probably by Annabeth or her father, that you could easily use to pull yourself up to a portion of the roof that was flat. When Percy pulled himself up and dusted off his pants he looked to see Annabeth already sitting in one of the two foldable chairs there. Percy took a seat in the other one and looked over at Annabeth, only to find her gazing off into the night. He followed her gaze and looked up at the sky, almost immidiatly losing his breath. The stars were out and sparkling, lighting up the night sky in the most beautiful way. Percy felt that the only way the view could be better would be surrounded by complete silence, rather then the faint thumping of music coming from downstairs. He glanced back at Annabeth to see her staring at him. When she saw him look over she blushed a little but didn't avert her gaze.
"Bring all the guys up here Annabeth?" He asked cracking a grin. She smiled back before replying in a smaller voice then Percy was used to hearing from her, "acctually you're the first Percy". Percy was taken aback at this. He searched her face for signs that she was lying but found none. Maybe there was a little more to this girl then he thought...?