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Percy's POV

"What the hell are you doing here?!" I growled standing in front of Annabeth. They we're all there, sitting on my couch. Some wore guilty expressions while the majority of them didn't.

"Percy!" My mom said entering the living room appalled.

"What has gotten into you, these are your friends-"

"Friends?" I asked letting out a bitter chuckle. I shook my head.

"I don't see any friends here! All I see is a bunch of bullies-"

"That's enough! Now sit down, this is not how you act with guests!" My mom scolded me. Her disappointment was evident in her face and it pissed me off. She didn't even know the situation and she was already mad at me!

I grabbed Annabeth's hand from behind me and sat her down on the armchair. Annabeth sat down as I sat on one of the arms. She looked at the group of people on the couch and then back at me. Her hands started to shake and I saw her fold her hands. She held onto them for dear life. She was nervous. That much I could tell.

My mom picked up on it too and sent her a questioning look. Annabeth gave her a strained smile in return. My mom turned her attention back on me.

"I invited your friends over, because I wanted to know what was going on with you Percy! You've been acting a little…" My mom struggled to find the right words and Leo jumped in.

"Bitchy?" He suggested and I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Can you do us all a favor and shut up for once Leo! No one asked for your stupid opinion!" I growled.

"See!" He exclaimed and I clenched my fist. I wanted to wipe that stupid smile off his face! A soft hand came over mine and I turned.

"Calm down." Annabeth said quietly, but with authority. My anger started to fade a little and I forced myself to take a deep breath. This girl has me wrapped around her finger.

"Mom. I want these people out of our house. I don't want to talk to them."

"Can someone please tell me what's going on!" My mom said confused. Of course she just had to open her mouth.

"What's going on is that Percy is choosing some blonde chick over his best friends!" Rachel huffed sending a distasteful look towards Annabeth. Mom stared at Rachel shocked at her outburst, while Annabeth just stared at me watching my expression. I raised an eyebrow at her and she looked away.

"She is not 'some blonde chick' she is my friend and I will not allow you to treat her like crap!"

"Look Percy…we just wanna help you. If we don't think a girl is right for you we're gonna say something, cause we're your friends!" Calypso said and I rolled my eyes at her.

"How could you possibly know she's not right for me when you've only had one conversation with her! And from what I've heard, in that conversation all you guys did was be rude and criticize her!"

"Of course she'd tell you that!" Rachel scoffed and glared at her.

"Wait!" My mother said confused. She looked at Annabeth.

"What did they say to you Annabeth?" She asked and the room became silent. We all faced Annabeth who seemed like she'd rather be anywhere else, but here. Annabeth cleared her throat before speaking in a low voice.

"They told me that I should stop being so a-attention seeking and that I should leave Percy alone…" She trailed off looking at me. I gave her an encouraging look to go on.

"They also said that Percy would never want to date an anorexic girl, like me. So I should stop trying to get with him…"

"Well it's true!" Rachel spat unashamed. My mom gasped.

"Why would he want you? Percy could have any girl he wants and he would never choose you! I mean have you looked in the mirror lately?" The room went quiet as we all stared at Rachel. She had gone too far with that last comment and we all knew it.

Annabeth mumbled something I didn't quite catch, but whatever she said made Rachel very angry. Her face started to turn red and she spoke through clenched teeth.

"Excuse me?" She asked and Annabeth spoke louder this time.

"I said that I'd rather be ugly on the outside, but pretty on the inside…" Damn. I tried to hide my shock as I stared at Annabeth. She just stood up for herself. Annabeth stood up for herself! I tried to hold back my snickers, but was failing miserably.

Rachel opened her mouth to say something, but my mom quickly stopped her.

"That's enough girls…Juniper?" Juniper looked up startled at the call of her name.

"Yes ma'am?" She asked sitting up straighter.

"Is it true Juniper? Did you guys really say those things to Annabeth?" Juniper shifted in her seat glancing nervously at her friends. She looked at Annabeth before she finally broke

"Yes we said it and I'm really sorry! I don't like being mean I really don't, but I was only mean because I thought you were mean! But you're not mean and your clearly not anorexic because then we wouldn't have found you in a restaurant with Percy! And even if you were anorexic we shouldn't have made fun of that! I'm really not a mean person I swear! I was just going off of what Rachel told us!"

"What!" Rachel exclaimed as Juniper covered her mouth.

"I didn't tell you guys to say anything!"

"But what exactly did you tell them Rachel?" I questioned jumping in.

"Nothing far from the truth!" She shot back.

"This is not what I brought you here to talk about! This is about you Percy. Not Rachel, not Annabeth just you. So tell me what is going on?" My mom interrupted and I sighed in frustration.

"Mom your overreacting! I'm perfectly fine just…stressed that's all."

"But why are you stressed? Is it school?" She asked and I glanced down at Annabeth.

"That's part of it…" I trailed off not wanting to upset her. I felt a light kick on my foot and I saw Annabeth looking at me. Her eyes held one clear message. Tell her.

"Well we could always get you a tutor-"

"Annabeth is my tutor. In fact we came here to study." Annabeth blushed slightly at being put on the spot. She gave my mom a cute little wave and my mom gave her an apologetic smile.

"Sorry I forgot you were tutoring him…But if she's tutoring you why are you still stressed?"

"Because…"

"Because what?" She pressed. I looked into my mother's eyes and then at all the people in the room. It didn't feel right to do this in front of them.

"Let's talk about this in my room mom." I suggested and started walking away. I heard my mom's hesitant footsteps behind me as I walked to my room. I was gonna do this. I was going to tell her.

I waited till she was inside to lock the door.

"Percy what is this about?" She asked and I sighed.

"I think you should sit down." I suggested and she sat down on my bed.

"Okay...mom I love you. I really do, but sometimes you stress me out! You really stress me out! And some days you make me feel like…I'm nothing but a disappointment. And I know you don't mean to, but when you start to worry I start to stress and that's not a good combination with my anger issues. I know I'm not the son you wanted but-OW!" My mom interrupted my rant with a sharp slap on my head.

"What was that for?!"

"Why didn't you tell me this?! I didn't know I was putting too much pressure on you and I certainly didn't mean to! Oh my poor baby! I'm so sorry! Had I known you felt this way I wouldn't have been so harsh with you-"

"It's okay mom! I know you don't mean to do it, so all I'm asking is that you not be so sensativ-Why are you crying?" I asked as my mom suddenly burst into tears, covering her face.

"Because I'm a terrible mother!" She sobbed and I started at her.

"Are you serious? That's all you got from this entire conversation?"

"Are you calling me dumb?!" She said crying even harder.

"I'm not calling you dumb I'm jus-"

"Now imagine if I reacted that way all the time?" My mom laughed taking her hands away from her tear free face. My face must've said it all cause she laughed even harder.

"You gotta learn to be less gullible sweetheart! I was just showing you how things could sometimes be received the wrong way…Do you get where I'm going here?" She asks and I nod my head.

"Good. Now give me a hug!" We laughed as we hugged it out, me towering over her. When we broke apart I said

"We should probably get back before somebody gets hurt in there." I could hear them arguing from here and I was starting to get worried about Annabeth.

"I still don't know what the heck is going on! Why don't they like Annabeth? She's so sweet!"

"They don't like her because Rachel's been telling them lies about her. I don't know why she's acting like this mom! She's just been so…nasty lately!" I vented and my mom gave me a look.

"You really don't know why Rachel's acting like that? You need to think Percy, the answer's right in front of you!" I thought about it. I really did, but I couldn't think of a reasonable reason as to why Rachel was acting so weird!

"Can't you just tell me?" I whined and my mom shook her head.

"Figure it out." She said before leaving the room. I walked out of my room, making my way into the living room.

Immediately I noticed Annabeth's slightly red faced and she seemed to be at the edge of her seat now. Not noticing my entrance into the room she continued her rant.

"-you don't even know me!"

"We don't need to know you, to know that you're taking advantage of our friend!" Leo yelled back at her and I glared at him.

"And how is she taking advantage of me?" I asked making my presence known.

"By letting you carry her up the stairs, twice! She needs to stop being so lazy and actually-"

"Did you not see him laughing?!" Annabeth exclaimed.

"It was a joke." I agreed and Rachel rolled her eyes.

"She's a joke."

"Bitch you're a joke!" A new voice snapped. Everyone looked at the open door to see Thalia standing there.

"Excuse me?" Rachel asked outraged.

"I've heard every word you said about Annabeth and you're the one with the problem!" Thalia walked into the room and stood by Annabeth. Her arms were crossed and she had a deadly glare set on Rachel.

"Really Thalia? Your gonna take her side, when you've known me for years! How do you even know her?"

"She's my roommate and she's been nothing but nice to me! She doesn't deserve your bull shi-"

"Young lady!" Mom scolded her before she could finish. Thalia shut her mouth, but continued to glare at Rachel.

"Thalia's right." Juniper said shocking everybody.

"Maybe we all just misjudged her-"

"Shut up Juniper!" Rachel yelled and Grover instantly jumped in.

"Don't tell her to shut up! You shut up!" Grover yelled back defending his girlfriend.

"You're really taking her side?" Calypso asked throwing a disgusted look to Grover and Annabeth.

"Hell yeah I am! You guys said she was mean and obnoxious, but she's obviously not! She hasn't said one nasty thing about you guys when you've said plenty!"

"Don't yell at my girlfriend!" Leo shouted and Grover rolled his eyes.

"Oh I'm so sorry Leo! So sorry that I insulted your precious girlfriend of two days! At least mine knows the difference between right and wrong!" Grover bit back sarcastically. Leo opened his mouth to retort, when Thalia intervened.

"Ladies! Ladies! You're both pretty, so shut up! The point is that you were wrong. You all misjudged Annabeth and you should be begging on your knees for forgiveness…Now if you'll excuse me, I need a sandwich."

I shook my head at her as she then went and invaded my kitchen. I looked at Annabeth who was staring at the floor refusing to look up. I went over to her and grabbed her hand. She still didn't look up.

"Those of you that still have a problem with Annabeth, for some unknown reason, don't let the door hit you on the way out. Mom, we'll be in my room studying."

I didn't hear anything as I lead Annabeth into my room and shut the door. We both sat on my bed and at first we didn't say anything. We sat there in complete silence letting the events that just took place sink in. I cleared my throat.

"Had I known they were going to be here I wouldn't have brought you." I said and she sighed.

"I guess it was going to happen eventually…How were things with your mom?" She asked.

"Good. We worked things out." I replied and we fell into another silence.

"I guess we should get started then-"

"You know that was pretty cool out there. The way you stood up for yourself. I was impressed." I admitted.

"I shouldn't have said anything." Annabeth said shaking her head.

"No, you needed to! Rachel wouldn't have stopped if you didn't."

"I'm pretty sure she won't ever stop…But thanks for-" RING! RING!

We both looked at Annabeth's pocket and she took out her phone. Standing up she answered the phone, her back facing me.

"Hello? Yes this is Annabeth Chase…yes…I-I did…T-Tomorrow…I'll be there. Thank you B-Bianca." She hung up the and turned back around a shocked expression on her face.

"I got the job." She said bewildered.

"That's great! I knew you could do it! But wait…Doesn't the mea-" As if on cue her phone rang again. Looking at the caller ID Annabeth's face paled.

Without thinking I quickly grabbed her phone and answered it.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Who is this and where's Annabeth?" A male asked on the other line. I frowned at Annabeth who was frantically trying to get the phone back.

"I'm Annabeth's friend. She just went to the bathroom." I lied.

"I can take a message if you want?" There was a short pause on the other line.

"Okay…Do you have something you can write on?" He asked and taking out a pen and paper while trying to avoid Annabeth's attacks I said

"Yeah."

"Tell her to call me at…" He gave me the phone number and I wrote it down.

"May I ask who's calling?" Annabeth frowned at this stopped trying to get her phone for a second. She mouthed Who are you talking to?

I shrugged my shoulders.

"Tell her that it was Malcom who called…her brother."

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