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Disclaimer: I do not own the Percy Jackson series Rick Riordon does.

Annabeth's POV

An awkward pause passed between all three of us, as I stared at my father with an unconvincing smile on my face. His arms were crossed and he looked at Percy with a look of disdain.

"I'm going to ask you again, Annabeth. Why is there a boy in my living room?"

I tried to push down the wave of embarrassment at him using 'that tone' on me. The tone you never want your parents to use when you have company around. My mind was coming up blank and there was no way I was going to answer his question any time soon.

"Hi Mr. Chase, it's nice to meet you. I'm Percy." Percy introduced himself, standing up. He had on that megawatt smile of his as he reached a hand out to my father.

My father shook his hand, but his face remained the same. He even went as far to take an obvious scan of Percy's attire, from head to toe, before looking at him cold and calculated. When did he become like mom?

"What are you doing with my daughter?" He asked, without an ounce of friendliness. I felt like dying right then and there. Still Percy continued to smile politely, despite my dad's animosity.

"I go to school with Annabeth and there was a little misunderstanding we had to work out-"

"Are you her boyfriend?"

"Dad!" I cried, shocked at his straightforwardness. I was beyond embarrassed at this point, but Percy chuckled not missing a beat.

"No sir. Annabeth and I are not dating."

My dad looked back at me with uncertainty. I had never seen that look in his eyes, I realized. His usually warm and humorous gaze, was strict and demanding, though I don't know why. Before all this mess with Thalia, Luke used to come over all the time and dad never had a problem with it. What's with the drastic change of attitude?

"Annabeth is this the boy your mother was talking about last night?" He asked. Thinking back to my mom and dad's argument last night and their coldness toward each other this morning, I stammered

"Uh…What boy?" I asked though we both know, I know exactly what he's talking about. He folded his arms as he looked at me unamused. Percy gave me a questioning look and I sighed.

"Okay, he is the boy mom was talking about but we're not dating! We were just talking!"

"About dating?" Dad questioned.

"No!" I shouted frazzled and the small smirk on Percy's face made me turn visibly red. I struggled to find the right words for a few seconds and when I did, my mouth ran a hundred miles per hour.

"We're not dating and we're not talking about dating dad! Why does everyone jump to the conclusion that we're dating? I mean, all because he's the only guy I've really talked to in our school, doesn't mean I'm attracted to him! I can have male friends! It's not like there's some rule that only I, Annabeth Chase, are not allowed to talk to the opposite gender, cause that's ridiculous! Am I, right? I know I'm right, cause we're not dating-"

"Annabeth please! You're making my head spin!" Percy laughed mimicking me from what I said earlier.

"Yes Anna please! I got your point, just stop talking!" My dad agreed and my face flushed as they broke out into laughter. Why was I the one, who was always laughed at?

I stared at my fingers as I waited for them to stop. That laid back, easy look was brought back into my dad's eyes as he stared at Percy with a new-found respect. Slightly insulted, but mostly embarrassed I murmured

"You can stop laughing at me now!"

They ignored my request, my dad turning to face Percy.

"We'd probably go insane if she didn't stop! You've saved both of our lives today!" He complimented and Percy gave a nonchalant 'humble' shrug.

"No problem Mr. Chase! I've been waiting to tell her that, since we first met!"

I glared at Percy for his comment and he winked at me as my dad laughed. My stomach flipped and I looked always from him. I cleared my throat getting the attention of my dad.

"So, dad we still need to talk about some things…" I trialed off and he raised an amused eyebrow.

"Is that my hint to leave?" He asked and I nodded my head giving him a sugary smile. He shook his head as he turned to leave the living room.

"I'll leave, but if you two do anything there'll be some serious consequences!" He warned, more to Percy than to me.

"Bye dad!" I said trying to hurry up his exit and he rolled his eyes.

"I'm being kicked out of my own living room. You know I bought this house?"

"Love you!" I smiled internally screaming at him to go upstairs.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" He muttered and I waited until he was all the way up the stairs to sit back down on the couch.

"I'm keeping my door open!" He yelled from upstairs and I groaned throwing my hands over my face. When will it stop?

Percy laughed, amused by my dad's antics and I stared at him incredulously. How was he so cool about this? Yeah, he wasn't the one being humiliated by his father, but he should feel at least some embarrassment from the situation. It was selfish of him to let me be all embarrassed by myself, at least act embarrassed!

"Oh don't worry Annabeth!" Percy laughed, as if reading my thoughts. He leaned in and whispered to me

"It was just as painful talking to your dad as it was for you to listen to me talking to your dad!"

I blinked shocked. I was a spluttering mess as I looked back and forth between Percy and the staircase my dad took to descend upstairs.

"Y-You just-wait a minut-what?!"

Percy smiled at my expression before teasing me.

"The great Annabeth Chase finally gets stumped! This is one for the history books!"

I ignored him trying to wrap my head around his actions and words.

"You were just laughing at my misery and acting all friendly with my father, like five seconds ago! What do you mean it was painful for you?! If anyone was in pain, it was me for having to deal with that entire conversation!"

"I hate talking with adults!" He said his face twisting into a look of discomfort. He clearly wanted to move on from the topic, but I wasn't letting him.

"How can you hate talking to adults? You're so good at it! You charmed the socks off my mom yesterday night and now my dad thinks you're amazing as well!"

"That doesn't make things any less awkward!" He argued back and I raised a brow at him. He sighed at me and mimicking him, I sighed back. Folding my arms I pretended to pout and a smile tugged at the ends of his lips.

"You're mean…and very annoying." He said looking at me with that look in his eyes. My heart leaped as I rolled my eyes.

"If anyone's annoying it's you-"

I was cut off by my dad shouting from upstairs

"Annabeth? Thalia's on the phone, she wants to talk to you!"

"-and Thalia." I finished giving a pointed look at Percy, who shrugged his shoulders.

"Tell her I don't want to talk to her-"

"I'm not getting into this one!" Dad called before I heard the sound of his heavy footsteps walking away from the top of the stairwell. I frowned before getting up, ignoring Percy's chuckles behind me. Things are awkward, my butt!

I walked up the stairs, dread filling my body with each step. The feeling of betrayal and past hurt was still present, whether I wanted to admit it or not. What Thalia did was messed up and inconsiderate. She knows I don't like Luke and for her to blindside me like that is not okay.

So when I went to the phone, I did something very simple. I hung up. It was very easy and I felt no remorse when I called out to my dad

"If she calls again, don't answer."

I heard him grunt in response. I put my shoulders back as I walked back down the stairs. I entered the living room, to see Percy biting back a grin. He was completely oblivious to what had just happened ad I hoped it would stay that way. His hypnotizing eyes had that mischievous spark in them, that made me feel like a child again.

"What did you do now?" I asked taking a seat next to him. Percy laughed his usual, deep joyful, laugh before shaking his head.

"I know your secret!" He playfully teased me and I looked at him bewildered.

"My secret?" I questioned and he nodded his head excited. He stood up from the couch and walked behind me, pacing back and forth. My grey eyes followed him as his playful sparkling ones trained on me. He circled around me a few times, the big white bag in his hands.

"Is there a reason you're going all stalker like on me-"

My breath hitched as he suddenly stopped, putting his face right in front of mine. His green eyes were now staring right into mine and it made me self-conscious. I looked down, trying to fight off the blush I felt coming. I stared at my palms.

"Close your eyes." He said and I could feel his cool breath fan softly across my face. Suppressing a shiver, I did as he asked, slowly closing my eyes.

"Why do I have to-"

He cut me off, shushing me and I frowned.

"Don't shush me-Ah!" I screamed as what felt like hundreds of huge pebbles being thumped all over my body. Panicked, I opened my eyes leaping off the couch. Bewildered, I came face to face with a laughing Percy.

"What the hell was-" I paused mid-yell when I saw the contents splattered all over my couch. I gasped, my eyes widening. Chocolate.

At least a hundred tiny pieces of Hershey chocolate was all over my couch and when I moved around, felt some down my shirt as well. I looked at Percy to see him holding the big white bag, which was now completely empty and realized this wasn't a dream.

"Surprise!" He exclaimed, still laughing and I squealed. I nearly knocked him down by the gigantic hug I gave him and I think that choking sound was him spitting out some of my hair that got into his mouth. Still I bounced around, celebrating like a little girl.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" I repeated over, and over again, before pulling away from him, smiling at his handsome face.

"How did you know?" I asked excited. I've had a secret obsession with chocolate since I was a kid. I loved any kind, but my favorite was milk chocolate. My dad always sneaks a few pieces to me before bed, but my mom throughs a fit whenever she finds the hidden wrappers in my room. Only a few people knew of my love for chocolate and I want to know how Percy became one of those people.

However, he didn't answer me. I looked at him waiting for a response, but Percy just stood there staring at me. A small smile was etched on his face and I cocked my head. His green eyes swept across my entire face, darting back and forth. He had a special look in his eyes again and my body seemed to erupt with fire.

I blinked at him and he blinked back snapping out of his daydream. He cast his gaze downward.

"Sorry what'd you say?" He asked, but I didn't mind. I repeated the question still ecstatic.

"How did you know I loved chocolate?"

Percy's face broke out into a large smile and he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

"Thalia told me a while back, when she was blabbing about you. You have excellent taste by the way! My mom makes chocolate chip cookies for me all the time…" He admitted and I looked back to the large pile of candy.

"Well," I said turning and walking towards the couch. "I can't eat all of this alone. I wouldn't mind if I got a little help."

I gave Percy a look, before picking up and tossing him a small Hershey's chocolate. Catching it with ease, he looked at me as if searching for signs of approval. I nodded my head at him, before grabbing several handfuls myself. I sat down and dumped the pile between my legs, clapping when I saw the amount of goodies that I would soon devour.

Percy chuckled before taking a seat next to me on the floor. I hurriedly picked out a piece, opening up the silver wrapper excited. I barely had time to even look at the small square bar, before shoving it in my mouth.

I moaned as the milk chocolate melted in my mouth, feeling my chocolate withdrawal melt away as well. I turned to Percy to see him holding his partially opened wrapper inches away from his mouth. He stared at me red faced, but I was too consumed in my chocolate to care.

"Oh!" I moaned again, savoring in the taste. "I could kiss you right now Percy!"

His face became a darker red and loud, rushed, footsteps came tumbling down the stairs. Alarmed and frazzled my dad appeared in front of us, his eyes darting back and forth between Percy and I. Staring at him startled I asked

"What's wrong?!"

He didn't answer me at first and Percy was no help as he wasn't talking eager. He stared, red faced, at the ground occasionally glancing at my dad and I.

"What are you guys talking about?" My dad asked me, though there was a slight edge to his tone as he looked at Percy.

"Nothing much! Percy just brought me this truck load of candy!" I exclaimed, gesturing behind me to the mess on the couch.

My dad looked back and did a double take. His brown eyes widened tremendously as he took in all the sweets.

"W-Why?"

"I should probably get going." Percy said, getting up. I looked up at him and frowned.

"But-"

"I have a lot of homework to do and I need to talk to Thalia."

I stood to my feet, some candy falling off of me.

"You're not going to mention what I told you, right?" I asked and he rolled his eyes.

"I'm not a complete idiot, you know? I'm not going tell her, but you need to. Like I said, she's not a mind reader."

"What are you talking about?" Dad asked confused as I walked Percy to the door.

"I know she's not a mind reader, but she won't understand! She'll think what you were thinking a few hours ago, that I only want attention!"

"You don't know that, for all we know she'll understand."

I gave him a look.

"It's Thalia we're talking about." I deadpanned and he ran a hand through his fluffy, black hair.

"Didn't you talk to her on the phone?" He asked and I turned my attention towards the floor.

"About that…" I laughed nervously and he sighed.

"You are a very difficult person." He said and on instinct I fought back.

"No I'm not!"

He gave me a pointed look and I rolled my eyes.

"I'll talk to her about everything when I'm ready, but you cannot say anything! I mean it Percy-"

"Yeah, yeah! I know. I won't tell her."

"Good…Thanks for dropping bye." I said awkwardly, but oddly meant every word. I don't usually get guests, but I surprisingly liked having Percy over. He was sort of easy to talk to, in a weird complicated way.

"I'd say thanks for inviting me, but…we all know I wasn't welcome." He joked referring to my original reaction of him coming into my house.

I chuckled and he smiled. It was lopsided, making me smile even more. Dad cleared his throat catching my attention again. I glanced over my shoulder forgetting he was still here. I looked back at Percy.

"I'll see you later." I said gesturing with my eyes to my dad. Percy got the hint and took a few steps back, until he was on the first of the three stairs.

"Yeah, I'll see you later…It was nice to meet you Mr. Chase!"

My dad put a tense hand on my shoulders, a polite smile plastered on his face.

"Nice to meet you too Percy!"

He waited until Percy turned his back to slam the door shut. With a stern look in his brown eyes, he grabbed me by the shouders.

"You know you're not allowed to date until you're married, right?"

I stared at him for a few seconds, not sure if he was being serious or not, before throwing my head back laughing.

"Sure, dad, sure!"

Awww! A little father daughter moment! Don't you just love them! I can't wait until next chapter, it's going to be intense! There will be a whole lot of drama! Don't forget to follow, fave, and review! PERCABETH IS INCREDIBLE!

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