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Chapter 6: Percy

The whole world seemed to stop. I could hear my heartbeat and everytime I breathed in and out I felt my breath moving in and out of my lips. My ears were ringing and everything suddenly seemed fuzzy. Was it always this hard to breath?

"W-what?" I said quietly after a long pause. This had to be a joke. Rachel would never do this to me. Especially not over the phone.

Rachel was sobbing, it sounded like it was hard for her to breathe. "I'm so sorry Percy!" "Why?" I ran a hand through my hair. I wanted to pull it out. "Why are you doing this?" "It's not my fault! Please don't be angry!" How was I not supposed to be angry. My world

had just been turned upside down. We were going to be junior prom king and queen. We were going to go to the same college, find an apartment, get married. We were going to have the best life together.

I glanced at Annabeth, who was trying to look like she wasn't listening. "Well, it isn't my fault! What did I even do?"

"It's not your fault at all! It's my parents! My mom is leaving my dad and making me come with her. We're moving to California!" She could barely get out the words.

"Come on, Rachel. Stay with your dad! I can't have you leave!" I almost started crying. I wanted to kill her dad. Rachel had spent many days in my car after school complaining about him. I just figured it was some teenage rebellious stage she was going through. She never told me about her parents fighting.

"Percy, I don't want to leave. It-it is a chance for my mom and I to start over. I can't stay with him. I'm leaving tomorrow," She whispered the last part. "You've been the best boyfriend a girl could ask for. Whenever I was with you I was so happy. I need you to know, that if I could, I would want us to stay together."

"Then let's stay together!" I almost yelled. "It's only two years. Then I'll move to California for college."

"Percy, it can't work like that. I need a clean slate. I can't have any connections to back home. It's too painful. I can't even see you to say goodbye. I can't do it. It-it'll hurt too bad." Rachel was talking so quietly I could barely hear her.

"That's so selfish. What about me, Rachel?" I felt forgotten, unloved, and hurt. The only person who I never had to worry about was Rachel. My dad was gone all the time and shallow, my mom has a toxic marriage and money troubles, and it was so hard to be myself around my friends. Rachel was my escape. If she was gone, I don't know what I'd do.

"I get the chance to be selfish for once. I'm so sorry Percy. You don't deserve this. I really, really love you."

Something came over me. Not peace, exactly, more of an acceptance. Rachel was leaving. I had to move on. If this was the last I would talk to her, I didn't want to end it in a fight. "Okay, Rachel. I love you too. I understand."

"W-what?" She sounded shocked. I could tell she was bracing herself for a fight. "Percy, are you sure? It's totally fine if you yell at me. I'm in the wrong."

"No, you're not," I sighed. "It's your dad's fault. The time I spent as your boyfriend was amazing Rachel. Let's not end it on a sour note."

"Percy. I don't deserve you." She started sobbing harder. Girls are so confusing. I just gave her good news. Why is she crying harder?

"No, you deserve better. Rachel, let's keep in touch, okay? I know you want a fresh start, but if you ever come back or if I head over to California I want to meet up."

"Of course! Percy, I wish you the best. I'll call you al the time. You were the best thing in my life."

"Thanks. I hope California is as amazing as they say it is. I love you." I started tearing up. This was too hard.

"Thank you Percy. For everything. Thank you for not being angry. I love you so much." And she hung up.

I dropped my phone. And started to cry. God, this was so embarrassing. Annabeth just had to be here at my weakest moment. She quickly got up and pulled me into a hug. She rubbed circles onto my back and I sobbed into her shoulder. We stayed like that for so long, I lost track of time. Eventually the tears stopped. I wasn't ready for them too, but it was just too embarrassing to be crying into Annabeths shoulder. I was supposed to be the strong one. Thank God my dad had left. I couldn't bare him seeing me cry.

Annabeth grabbed my face and looked me directly in the eyes. "Percy, it's okay to cry. You did something I could never do. You are an amazing person and you don't deserve this happening to you."

I didn't really know how to reply. I just whispered, "Thanks."

Annabeth bit her lip. She looked like she wanted to ask something. "W-was it her dad?" I nodded. She grabbed my hand. "Then it wasn't your fault. And you forgave her anyway. Percy, that takes serious good character. I don't think I've ever met anyone who would do that."

I took a long shaky sigh. "Annabeth, thank you so much. I'm-I'm glad you're here."

"Hey, us Co-DDs have to stay together." I laughed a little. "Look, you're already laughing. We're on the road to recovery. Do you want to watch a movie?"

"Actually, yeah. That sounds great." I said and got up and made my way to the movie room. My dad had made a little room for movie watching with posters of his favorite movies; Jaws, Finding Nemo, Finest Hour, and a couple other ocean movies. There was a big couch with lots a blankets.

Annabeth looked at all the movies. "I'm guessing not a romance movie."

"Yeah," I laughed. "Probably not."

She chose Oceans 11. I had never seen it which she was appalled over. "It's amazing.

It's great, cause you're rooting for the villains."

With both of us cuddle up in blankets (separate blankets, don't worry), a comfortable room temperature, and how tired I was from crying, I got super sleepy. I tried to stay awake because Annabeth was really into it. She kept giving me little tidbits about the making of the movie and fun facts about the actors, which I tried to reply or just hum to. But soon, my eyes were so heaving I had to pinch myself from falling asleep. Eventually I gave in and fell into a deep sleep. I felt warm and comfortable and I almost forgot about Rachel. _

Annabteh

When Percy didn't reply to my fun fact about Brad Pitt, I looked over and saw that he was asleep. He looked cute in his sleep. His hair was even more messed up than normal, he had flushed cheeks, and he was drooling a little bit. I quickly looked away though, before it got creepy with me watching him sleep.

He needed the sleep. I probably slept for a whole day after Luke and I broke up. But Percy's breakup was way different than mine. Mine had ended with screaming and crying and a deep hatred for each other, but Percy's had ended with forgiveness and the promise of friendship. If I had to break up with anyone, it would be Percy. Actually if I had to date anyone, it would be Percy.

I sat there and watched the rest of the movie. I debated what to do; wake Percy up or figure something else to do. There was no way I was waking Percy up so I put in the next movie. Since, he was asleep, I could watch something boring that would make Percy want to scream. I put on the Darkest Hour. I love historical movies almost as much as I love the Oceans movies.

Halfway through the movie I almost jumped out of my seat when Percy said in a disgusted voice, "What even is this movie?"

"Oh my gosh!" I laughed. "I thought you were asleep."

"Well, I had to wake up to the most boring movie in the world. I was awake for about 10 minutes before I wanted to die." Percy sat up and rubbed his eyes. It was cute watching him wake up. He moved way slower and had drool on his chin.

"Oh, it's a movie about Churchill. I like it." I stuck my tongue out at him.

"Mature, aren't we?" Percy pushed off his blankets and stood up. "I'm bored. Let's go get some food. I never ended up eating. I crave sugar"

I got up. "Are you sure? After Luke and I broke up I stayed home for days until Thalia forced me to go to parties with her. They made me more miserable."

"Well good thing we aren't going partying," Percy said as he grabbed a jacket. I could tell he was trying to act normal. Not like he had just gone through a break up. I grabbed my backpack and threw back on my black hoodie. Percy held the door open for me. "We are going to frozen yogurt."

"Oh, delicious. I like froyo even more than ice cream," I said as we walked to the elevator.

"I disagree entirely with you, ice cream is much better," Percy pressed the button for the elevator a hundred times before it opened. "However, there is a good froyo place right my here, and I don't feel like walking 6 miles for ice cream."

When we got there, almost no one was in the store. Percy automatically went for the samples. He tried every single flavor until going for a mix of chocolate, mocha, blueberry, and peach.

"That looks disgusting!" I said filling mine up with vanilla.

"You can't talk," Percy said, a look of disgust on his facing staring at my vanilla yogurt. "Vanilla is a flavor for wimps."

"You put a bunch of toppings on it!" I said defensively. "It is scientifically proven to be the way to go."

"Science is wrong. My heart is right and my heart wants to have fun and try all the flavors." Percy said as he dumped on gummy bears and boba. I made a face.

Percy insisted on paying, which was very gentlemanly thing to do. We got a seat outside and ate and talked. I could tell Percy was hurting. He forced laughter and smiles, but every once in a while I could hear his voice shake a little. Finally he looked up at me and said, "Annabeth, would you mind staying the night? I'd sleep on the loft and you can sleep in my room. My dad won't care, I had Rachel over all the time. And it's fine if you don't want to, I get it. I just don't want to be alone and you've been so nice. And I don't know if your dad will let you but-"

"Percy," I interrupted his ramblings. "It's fine. I'm staying with my mom and she won't even notice. It'll be fun."

That night we made pizza together from scratch. It was pretty disgusting but we ate it anyway because there was nothing else to eat. Then we played Monopoly which I crushed him in, then Sorry which he crushed me in.

At one point his dad came in. "Are you spending the night?"

I nodded and Percy said, "It's fine right?"

"Oh yeah I don't care," He then tried some of our pizza and spit it back out. "What is this! Poison?"

Around 10:00, I headed off to bed while Percy put away all the dishes. As I was fixing the bed up Percy knocked on my door. "Come in," I said.

"Hey," Percy poked his head in. "Um, you don't have to sleep in that. Here-" he opened his drawers and pulled out a pair of sweats and a t-shirt. "These don't fit me anymore."

"Oh, thanks!" I said. We both stood there for a while before I said, "So...what's up?"

"Um, I just really wanted to thank you for today. I almost forgot about Rachel and I don't feel like crap anymore. I'm glad I wasn't alone."

"Percy, you did the same for me after Thalia. It would be pretty shitty of me if I didn't help you out."

'Yeah well- I'll let you change and go to bed." He blushed. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." I smiled and waved goodbye.