A/N: Hey guys… I was actually not going to going to write any further in this story but then I thought that it really did sound a bit incomplete as someone in the reviews pointed it out. Thank you for that! I appreciate you telling me! Someone also mentioned the mistake I've made about Annabeth's location. I'm so very sorry for that! I totally forgot that in the flow of writing and ended up making that mistake. I hope you'd forgive me.
Also. I've decided to write one more chapter and then do an epilogue too so that it the story would get a proper ending and also a proper goodbye from me. There might be some mistakes as I don't have a beta so kindly ignore them.

Disclaimer: PJO and HOO are owned by Rick Riordan

Chapter 5:

The next morning

Once I was ready, I exited my house and started walking towards Annabeth's dorms to pick her up. I had told her yesterday that I would pick her up and drop her off at all times to and from school. She had objected at first but then again, she couldn't say no when I told her that it was just making up for the time. Because that it really was.

Yesterday was… a dream, in the very least. At least that's what I was really thinking. After our big revelations were out of the way, we again started talking about each and everything. We talked about any topic we could find and even fought a couple of times as if we were 12. Of course, our arguments were pretty stupid but it was still fun to verbally spar with her.

I was still reeling in the fact that Annabeth was now my girlfriend. Wise Girl was now my girl as I was her Seaweed Brain. I chuckled to myself. She was really a work of art. If I were a painter, I would have had canvases filled with just her face and they would still never be enough to portray her beauty. If I were a poet, I would have filled entire diaries with poems about her but yet, no words would have matched the wisdom that filled her eyes and the maturity that resided in her thought. And of course, there weren't words in English language that could measure up to my love for her.

I didn't tell her all these thoughts, of course. I didn't want her to freak out. I had promised her yesterday that I would do everything at her pace. And I meant every word. A part of my brain was still thinking that it wasn't rational at all to fall in love with someone you've met just for one day and then again just for one day after 5 years. But a part of my heart was convincing the brain part that I loved her in my dreams, I had loved her for what she would become even before she became that. That was the statement I relied on because all that was important to me was that she was with me. The rest all were details I could live with. I knew what I couldn't live without and that was her.

Even in my subconscious, she was there. I couldn't deny it, could I? It was like I was a moth to her flame. After she went to the dorms yesterday, I literally stood in the doorway and pinched myself, fearing that everything was a dream again; that every kiss, every word was still a dreadful trick my mind was playing on me. But I was happily wrong.

Stop Percy, you're just reliving yesterday's thoughts. My mind told me. It was true. I shook my head, trying to free it from poetic, depressing and lovesick thoughts. All I should think about was Wise Girl.

I climbed the stairs to her dorm room and knocked on her door. After a few moments, a girl opened the door. I recognized her from high school but I didn't know her name.

"Hey, I'm—"

"Percy Jackson." She completed. She looked a bit dazed. I decided it was best to maintain a blank face instead of smile if I were to get any answers out of her.

"I take it you know me then." I said.

"Practically everyone in school does." She shrugged. "How can I help ya?"

"Ugh, is Annabeth here?"

"Annabeth as in my roommate, Chase?"

"The same."

"She's gone for a shower. I didn't know you knew her." She said.

I just shrugged. "Can I wait for her inside?" I asked.

She suddenly realized that she had kept me hanging outside the door and blushed. I tried to ignore that. "Oh yeah sure. I'm sorry I didn't realize."

"Its fine." I waved her off and got inside as she opened the door.

The room was totally clean. I figured that Wise Girl must have cleaned it twice, checking for any spiders. There were 2 beds on two sides of the walls. "Which one is Wi—I mean, Annabeth's bed?"

She pointed to the bed on the other side of where she was standing as I went to it and sat down. She was staring at me. I didn't know why. It was making me slightly uncomfortable but I didn't do anything about it. I didn't have any choice but to deal with her until Wise Girl came. After a couple of minutes of that girl still staring at me every once in 10 seconds, my ADHD got the best of me.

"I'm sorry, but is there something on my face?" I asked for the lack of a better question.

"I…ugh…no. Why?"

"No reason. I thought you were looking at me strangely. So, I asked."

"Oh, I guess, I'm sorry." She said, flustered.

I shrugged again. "What's your name?" I asked her.

"Oh yeah, I didn't think that you wouldn't know me. Sorry. I'm Katie."

"Nice to meet you, Katie. And does Annabeth always take this long to shower?"

"She went in late today. She is hardly late, as she herself told me and I've seen her be up at the crack of dawn." She frowned. "But she woke up late today, saying that she slept really well."

I smiled at that, because so did I. After all these years of dreaming of her, my dreams yesterday weren't filled with longing or yearning for her but with being content with her. "Okay."

Just then, Annabeth barged into the room. "Gods, I'm going to be so late."

"You already are." I smirked and she noticed my presence.

"Hey, didn't see you there Perce." She blushed.

She was looking as beautiful as always in a black hoodie which stopped just above her stomach and blue jeans. She was just so gorgeous. "Didn't expect you to be late." My smirk became more pronounced.

"Shut up. I was late because of you yesterday."

"I told you that you could stay the night." I pointed out. "Mom wouldn't have minded."

She just rolled her eyes. "Whatever, Seaweed Brain."

I chuckled and then we both seemed to notice that Katie was staring at us with evident confusion. Poor her, all I had done since I came in here was confuse her. Of course, she viewed me as the jock, the playboy of Goode High. I really needed to break that perception.

"I see that you've already met Katie." Wise Girl said.

"Yeah. She let me in." I nodded and Katie blushed.

"Oh. That's nice." Annabeth said. "Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?" She asked her.

"I guess, I'm just confused."

"Clearly. What about?"

"Well for one, didn't expect Percy Jackson to knock on our door, couldn't get why he came for you since you're new around her and all and third, what's with Seaweed Brain?"

Wise Girl laughed. "To answer all your questions, Percy came to pick me up. Me and him know each other since we were 12 and Seaweed Brain is just a nickname I came up with for him."

"Wow that's great." Katie smiled a genuine smile and I realized that Wise Girl had a roommate she could trust. Once she knew that Annabeth and me were close, she smiled like that made her day.

"It is great that now you're my girlfriend." I told her as I slung a hand over her shoulder.

"Aww…" Katie said. "Well aren't you both the perfect example of best friends to lovers."

"I guess we are." Wise Girl laughed and we set out to school.

-!—

In School

Me and Wise Girl walked through the doors of the school hand in hand. I could see my friends against the lockers. They were yet to notice us. Actually, the entire school was yet to notice us as we were still a bit far, thankfully. But then as we walked closer, everybody began to take note of us. But I knew what they were seeing and it wasn't definitely what I saw. I saw a doofus with a really beautiful girl. They saw the assumed bad boy and popular person of their school with a girlfriend.

"People are whispering." Annabeth said quietly.

"I know, just ignore them. Well, you want to go say hi to my friends or your friends first?"

"Can't we do both at the same time? Like don't they know each other."

"They do, yeah. Fine then, wave over Thalia, Piper and Nico towards the lockers."

"Will do." She said and waved her hand, grabbing their attention.

Thalia looked at Annabeth with shock, then she looked at me and after that she looked at our entwined hands. It was funny but I didn't chuckle at all. I waved a hand at her too. She came to us, walking a little faster than usual with Piper and Nico by her side. Piper was shocked but she was brimming with too many questions and Nico was smirking at me.

"Hey guys!" Me and Annabeth greeted them.

"Hi." Thalia said skeptically. "So, like… you two are an item now."

I didn't like the sound of 'item' but if that's what she prefers to call us, who am I to correct. "Yes, we very much are." I smiled at Wise Girl and she smiled back at me.

"Good lords, you're smitten." Piper said.

"I am." I replied without missing a beat.

"You're his girlfriend after knowing him for what? 2 day?" Thalia asked.

"That's where you're kind of wrong. I've known him since I was 12." Wise Girl said. Thalia and Piper's jaws dropped. Nico still had his smirk on. He had figured out who Annabeth was the moment he saw our hands together.

"Is she the 'Wise Girl' you've been talking about? The same one we thought was a mythical creature?" Piper asked.

"The one and only." I laughed.

"Wow." Thalia finally broke into a smile. The smile I had known her with. "I'm glad for you, Perseus."

I made a face at the mention of my full name and she laughed. Thalia and me had been good friends but then later we just sort of drifted apart. But there was never any bad blood. We still hung out once in two months or so. She was a good friend. Piper was not so familiar to me but I had a feeling that our group was going to be a lot bigger now.

"Why don't you guys come hang out with us?" I offered and my eyes flitted to Jason, Hazel, Frank and Grover who were still looking at me and Annabeth. I shook my head at them. Piper's gaze followed mine and set on Jason for a second. I smirked.

"Sure." She said and they all followed us to the lockers.

"Well, well, well. What has the sun brought today?" Grover mused.

"Shut up." I told him and he laughed.

"So, you finally got together with your girl." Frank said.

"I did." I smiled over at Annabeth. "Oh sorry, let me introduce you. This is Jason, this is Hazel and her boyfriend Frank and this is Grover. And you all, this is Annabeth."

"The famous 'Wise Girl'." Jason smirked.

"Why does everyone know me as that?"

"Because whenever we asked him in the last 3 years or so, if he wanted to date anyone, he would say that he had his wise girl. And tell every girl who came to him that he was unavailable." Jason supplied.

"Now, shut up, will you?" My face burned up.

"Why?" Piper said. "I think that's adorable."

"It is." Annabeth agreed.

"Took you long enough, man." Nico said.

"Hey, I didn't know her name! Don't come after me. Go after Will now."

Nico laughed and Annabeth gave me a confused look. "Will is Nico's boyfriend." I explained.

"Oh, I see. I'd love to meet him sometime and I'm sad that Nico didn't tell me earlier." She gave him a glare.

"I didn't know you were the girl Percy was simping over."

"That's different. I didn't know Seaweed Brain talked so much about me." Now she directed her glare at me.

"I couldn't help but do that. You were in every one of my thoughts and they kept asking me about having a girlfriend so it just slipped my mouth." I said and everyone laughed.

"He's adorable, isn't he?" Thalia said sarcastically.

"Why is this turning into a full blown 'Tease Percy' day!"

"Because you look too cute when you blush." Annabeth whispered in my ear and just like that, I couldn't complain about anything more.

A/N: Okay… so that was it. I know this chapter is disappointing but I just couldn't come up with anything more AT ALL. I decided instead of waiting on and on and on for inspiration to hit me, I might as well just get this out of the way. At least it is not a lot abrupt like the last chapter. I will get back to you guys in a few days with an epilogue that will hopefully be a little better than what I've written so far. I'm pretty excited because I'm brimming with ideas of that one.
Oh, and I wanted to tell you guys something very important—I love you guys!