Because I'm his girlfriend."

Annabeth sputtered.

"W-w-what?"

Calypso smiled at the confused look that was most likely on her face. "I'm his girlfriend. He's my boyfriend. We're dating. Going steady." She shrugged, "Whichever you prefer."

"B-But you're so nice and sweet and he's..." Annabeth trailed off not wanted to say something that might offend her.

"An asshole," She finished for her, "You don't have to sensor yourself I'm well aware."

"Then why are you with him? Are you happy?"

Calypso chucked, "I'm very happy. And very in love."

Annabeth didn't say anything after th"at, afraid that Calypso being short with her was her way of asking her to drop it. She knew she would have if it were her getting asked these questions.

But then she started talking again.

"We've been dating since he moved here at the beginning of junior year. And no. He's not as much of an dick to me as he is with other people."

Annabeth frowned, "But you did admit that he's still not very nice to other people, why are you with someone like that? Um, if you don't mind me asking."

Calypso's smiled dimmed slightly, "Because I know it's all an act...well most of it. He's got a kind heart and means well. You just... have to go down a few layers." (AN- *Wink wink* see what I did there?)

"I'm sure he does," Annabeth mumbled under her breath while she studied the paper in front of her.

She felt a poke in her side and looked up to find Calypso smirking at her. "I heard what you did yesterday," She put up her hand before Annabeth could tell her sorry, "No, I think it was awesome. It's been a while since anyone has put him in his place."

Annabeth raised an eyebrow, "Who was the last person?"

"Me. Well his mom and I.

She keeps a constant hold on him," she said chuckling

"He's a mamma's boy?" Annabeth said full on laughing and earning a look from the teacher.

"Very much so, but don't tell him I told you that."

Annabeth snorted, "I'm positive I won't be saying much of anything to him anytime in the future."

Calypso started talking again as if Annabeth hadn't said anything.

"He ALSO told me about what he was planning today in 2nd period. And I told him he should go for it."

Annabeth felt her jaw drop, "You did what?"

He had embarrassed her and made her want to physically hurt someone for the first time in her life. And this sweet, wisp of a girl had basically encouraged him to do it.

"Yup," Calypso responded unaffected by her stare. "I told him that he should let me have some fun in witnessing the very much deserved karma coming back at him full force when you hand him that kick ass apology that I know you're going to write."

"Karma?" Annabeth said stunned.

"His just desserts."

Annabeth's expression quickly morphed into a smile, she was finding herself liking Calypso more than before.
So she told her just that.

"Good because I like you too. And my idiot of a boyfriend is just intimidated by your awesomeness. He'll lighten up eventually. I promise."

Annabeth opened her mouth to respond, when the stool next to her squeaked. They turned to see a small girl smiling shyly at them.

"Hi I'm Cami."

(Dream over)

"Annie."

"Annie."

"Annabeth!"

"Annabeth, Mom says if you want dinner then you have to get up."

Annabeth groaned and rolled over, shaking off the hand on her shoulder and feeling papers crumple under her. She looked around until she met the blue eyes of her brother.

"How the hell did I get on the floor?"

Bobby shrugged used to her 'foul language' as her mother would call it.

That's why he was Annabeth's favorite.

"You must have fallen asleep or something while you were working."

She nodded and groaned as she got to her hands and knees and leaned back on her heels.

"What's for dinner? Is it worth coming downstairs for?"

Bobby nodded, "Oh yeah. We haven't had it in a while. It's a rare sight, but mom didn't feel like cooking."

Annabeth felt a smile tug at her lips as she looked at Bobby's matching grin.

"Pizza!" They screamed together and ran downstairs.

After 2 slices of meat lovers goodness, Annabeth went back upstairs to finish up the homework she had been doing before she fell asleep. She finished math, English and reached in her bag to find her psychology homework when her hand brushed the sticky note she had taped to her journal.

She lifted it up to read it and felt her face droop instantly.

'WRITE APOLOGY'.

She sighed and crumpled up the note, hoping that that would make it disappear all together.

After an hour and a half, she was done with all of her work and decided to start on the letter. And just as a 'fuck you' to Percy, she got out her special paper and pens.

She stared at the paper in front of her for about 5 minutes before her hand even touched the pen.

She had so many things she wanted to say to him, but she was afraid he would just tell someone again and get her in even more trouble.

But she also felt like she had an obligation to Piper and Calypso to make this the most kick butt apology to ever be written.

She made her decision pretty quickly.
And felt a smirk tug at her lips as she started to write.

"Let me see it." Thalia said as soon as she walked through Annabeth's bathroom door the next morning before school.

She looked up from brushing her teeth, scowling at Thalia's bad timing. She spit, rinsed her mouth and stood up. "Thalia, I'm in a towel brushing my teeth. You couldn't have just stayed in my room?" She asked, brushing past her tiny friend to escape inside her closet.

"Yeah, but what's the fun in that?" She was quiet for a minute. "So...?"

Annabeth reached up to grab her blue sweater from the hanger it was on. "So... What?"

She heard Thalia huff and sit on her squeaky bed. "So... Did you write the apology?"

"Yeah I did. I'm not stupid enough to just blow it off."

"Okay, then can I see it? Where is it?" She said excited.

"First section in my bag. It has a sticky note on the front." She said as she came from out of her closet, now dressed.

Thalia was quiet as Annabeth walked over to her mirror and started towel drying her hair. She had just started putting on her makeup when she heard Thalia abruptly yell. "Holy shit!"

Annabeth cursed as her mascara made a line to her ear.

"What is it? Is it that bad?"
She said cleaning her face and turning around to see Thalia gaping at the colorful paper in her hands.

"You. Are. A. Genius."

Annabeth let out a breath and laughed, "Why?"

"Because this might be the best letter in the history of letters and apologies ever written. Who knew you could have such a nicely worded letter with 'fuck you' in nearly every sentence? Seriously Annie, if I didn't know any better I would think I wrote this."

Annabeth didn't have the heart to correct her about her name. She sounded so happy, you wouldn't think she was talking about something so vulgar.

Annabeth blushed, "You don't think it's too foul do you?"

Thalia sighed and set the paper down on the bed. She crossed her arms and leveled a stare at the blonde in front of her. "No Annabeth. You've got to stop second guessing yourself. You have every right to walk in that class room today and shove this up his ass. You are going to give this to him and you are going to keep your chin held high as you do. Cause chick, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Honestly, you should be proud of this."

Annabeth nodded and walked over to Thalia, grateful for her pep talk. She picked up the paper, put it up and shouldered her bag. "Let's go."

Thalia shouted, "Now that is what I'm talking about!

Auto-bots... roll out."

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "We aren't transformers Thals."

"Whatever."

When they made it to school, Annabeth was surprised to see both Jason and Piper, standing by her locker, both smiling her way.

"Hey baby bro," Thalia started, "Hey McClean."

Jason nodded and Piper smiled.

"What are you guys doing here?" Annabeth said, hugging them both.

"We came to give you a pep talk. Not that you need it. We just wanted to tell you that we're glad that you're ending this peacefully."

Thalia snickered, "Well..."

Annabeth talked before Thalia could let anything slip. "I changed my mind. I'm telling him how I really feel about this."

"Yes! I knew you would!" She laughed as Piper gave her a big hug.

She stepped back and felt her smile falter when she saw Jason's expression.

"I don't like this."

Annabeth shrugged, "Yeah well I wasn't planning on telling you until I had already given it to him." She said defensively.

"What? Why?"

She raised an eyebrow, "Because you would react like this."

"Yeah I have every right to react like this. I would have tried to stop you before you got yourself in even more trouble. Don't do this Anna." He whispered harshly.

She saw Piper and Thalia silently leave from the corner of her eye.

"I need to stick up for myself. What? Would you rather I just sat back and let him treat me like shit? Because you and I both know that's not going to happen."

He ran a hand through his hair haphazardly. "I love you Annabeth. I want to protect you. And you doing this isn't helping the situation."

"I met his girlfriend."

"What?"

"I met his girlfriend. Calypso Atlas. She's very sweet and knows that he wouldn't do anything to anyone."
Now that wasn't exactly 100% true, but she really didn't care at that moment.

"Just because she says something doesn't make it true. She's dating him so she obviously doesn't show his true colors. That or she's secretly just like him. I don't like the guy and anyone who does is stupid."

Annabeth put her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes.
"I'm starting to think this is just a dick measuring contest."

Jason looked flabbergasted, "Dick measuring..." He clenched his fists. "This is not a contest! He's not good Annabeth. Why can't you just trust me on this?"
He said raising his voice, causing the people around them to turn and look.

She stepped closer to him. "I can't trust you on this because you don't know him. That's why. And before you say it, I'm not defending him. I just don't like it when people assume things about other people, especially when they don't know them or the whole truth."

Jason suddenly stood up taller and cleared his throat, looking around him and glaring at the people that were staring. He shrugged, "Whatever. Do what you want 's your ass on the line anyway."

And he turned away from her to walk to his classroom. Leaving Annabeth at her locker gaping at him.

Annabeth sat down loudly in the seat next to Piper and threw her hands over her face.

"It's not your fault. You're blaming yourself already, I can tell." Piper said gently.

"No. You didn't hear us. I feel so bad."

"Actually we did. Thalia suggested that we just hide behind the lockers and listen in just in case she needed to intervene."

She looked up from her hands to see Piper looking at her with a sheepish expression.

"So I'm not a bad person?"

"No you aren't. Jason is just being an ass." She said rolling her eyes.

She shook her head, "No he's not. He just cares."

"I'm sure he does." She heard Piper murmur. But she didn't have it in her to argue with her about Jason's intentions. She knew her boyfriend.

Piper spoke, a little louder this time. "Let's change the subject all that doesn't matter. I was given specific instructions from Thalia and intend to follow them."

Annabeth rolled her eyes and smiled. "What were her instructions?" She asked warily.

Piper smiled brightly and took her hand. "Give you the longest pep talk you've ever heard."

So she did just that. She talked Annabeth's ear off about how awesome she was and that if Leo was there, he'd be telling her the same thing. She talked about how she had a dream yesterday that she got to look at the footage of Annabeth beating Percy up and that she was still laughing after she had woken up. She told her how strong she was and that she couldn't let anything he might say get to her. She told her absolutely everything she possibly could, right up until the bell rang.

Piper gave her a hug when they made it to her classroom and whispered in her ear. "Good luck, but I don't think you're going to need it."

She nodded and walked in with her head high and chin lifted. He shouldn't be there until after the bell rang so she was good...for now.

She sat down and looked at her phone checking to see if Jason had texted her, when a cool voice breathed in her ear,
"Who's Jason?"

She froze in her spot and tried to calm down her racing heart.
"My boyfriend."

Percy leaned back to sit in his own chair. "Jason?" He asked, thinking. "Jason Grace? Of course you'd be dating that asshole."

Annabeth felt herself heat up, "Excuse me, I'm not sure what you mean."

He chuckled and ran a hand through his messy hair, "You'll know soon enough...but, from the looks of it you already do."

"What the hell are you talking about?" This kid was confusing.

He shrugged, "Nothing. You just looked like whatever was on your phone had just killed your cat."

Hypocrite.

"You're not one to talk you walk around with a constant RBF all the time."

He raised an eyebrow, "RBF? Help me out, I don't speak girl."

"Resting Bitch Face." She said. Obviously.

He smirked, "So you have been watching me. I don't know if I should be flattered or freaked out."

Annabeth scoffed.

Cocky bastard.

"There's not much to look at."

Lie.

"I would much rather be looking at my boyfriend."

Lie. She was pissed at him at the moment.

"Where's my apology." He asked, completely ignoring what she was saying.

She just stared at him and he shrugged one shoulder, "I'm not one for small talk. Do you have it or not?" He said with a mischievous grin.

She turned around without answering him and reached in her backpack for the paper. She swung back around to him, making sure to slap him with her hair. "Here you go." She said with a smug smile.

He smiled back just brightly. Annabeth would have taken the time to admire how attractive it was if her stomach hadn't immediately fallen to the pit of Tartarus, (AN- LOL I'm sorry guys I had to), he was up to something.

He laughed loudly and threw his head back. "Oh come on. Don't look at me like that. I know you probably talked shit about me in this," he waved the paper around, "I never planned on reading it, just showing it to the teacher and seeing how that goes from there. Detention. Suspension. Possibly even expulsion, but that depends on what kind of threats you wrote to me in this letter." He said shrugging.

She felt like crying. She would get into so much trouble for this. She knew that shouldn't have written it, but she wanted to prove that she was strong and that she couldn't be taken out. Well, she had failed at that seeing as she was about to be exposed to the teacher.

She saw him about to get up and pulled on his jacket to make him sit back down. "What have I done to you. Why do you dislike me so much?"

He let out a harsh chuckle and glared, "Chase, I don't like a lot of people. You shouldn't be surprised that you're on that list. And you can't talk about not being welcoming. It's not like you've been all that excited to make your acquaintances with me."

She snorted in a very un-girly way, but she didn't care at the moment. "You haven't really given me the chance to, now have you?"

"Well that's because I don't want to. You want to know me. You want to be friends with me. But I don't want to be your friend, I don't want to get to know you. Let's just face it," He said with a grin. "You're peeved off because everyone you meet likes you. You make friends easily, you feel like you're a likable person, but I don't have those feelings toward you, quite the opposite really. And you can't deal with that."

And without another word he got up and walked over to the teacher to hand in the letter.

Annabeth was sure her jaw couldn't have dropped any lower if she wanted it to. She almost wanted to laugh out loud at how absurd Percy had sounded. Sure, she already knew he was cocky as hell, but she didn't think it was this bad. He sounded like he believed himself too, like this happens all the time and it was just a big inconvenience for him to even be talking to her. Well bump that. She didn't give a rats ass what he thought. She had only known him for 3 days and he was already jumping to conclusions. She knew he was wrong and she knew how she felt.
Excuse her for wanting to be the bigger person in all of this.

"Miss. Chase, if you would come here please."

Her heart dropped and she knew she was done for. She figured she might as well say a few prayers now before she was swept away by her mother's furry when she found out about this. Athena would be so pissed about this and it won't be any better when she has to home school Annabeth and quit her job... Okay. Maybe she was getting a little bit too ahead of herself, but you have to weigh all your options.

She trudged up to the desk and looked up to see laughter in the older man's eyes.

He cleared his throat, "I haven't read it yet, I wanted you to be present while I did." She nodded and prepared herself for automatic expulsion as his eyes skimmed over the paper.

When he was done he sighed, "Okay," here we go, she thought, "That was an exceptional job Miss. Chase. Mr. Jackson, I hope you find that reassuring to your safety here at Goode High."

Percy and Annabeth stared at the teacher.

Percy spoke first, "Seriously?" He asked, disbelief coloring his tone. "Are you sure you read it all, Mr..." He trailed off and the teacher answered for him by turning the name tag on his neck around. "Mr. Brunner."

Mr. Brunner clasped his hands together, "Yes son, I read it all. Did you?" He asked mockingly.

Percy shook his head.

"Well then if you had, you would know that Miss. Chase wrote a very good apology ensuring that you would be safe during school and anytime other than that. I really do suggest you read it over. It's written quite nicely too, if I were and English teacher instead of psychology, she would certainly receive an A."

Percy just nodded, confused and went back to his seat while Annabeth and Mr. Brunner looked at each other for sometime.
"You aren't going to say anything?" She finally asked.

He shrugged and leaned back, "I don't think I need to. The apology was in there and served its purpose. The rest... Well I'm a teacher, I can't say much on that, but I most certainly don't disagree, I've hosted a few detentions courtesy of Mr. Jackson." He said with a chuckle.

"B-but what if he takes it to the principal?"

He shrugged again, "I'm sure he'll see it my way too." He said with a glint in his dark eyes.

Annabeth nodded a little dazed, and went back to her seat to see Percy on his phone.

She sat down and waited for him to say something snarky to her or comment about the paper that had seemed to disappear.

When that didn't happen she took it upon herself to find out. She cleared her throat, "Did you read it?"

"No."

And that was the end of that.

So for the rest of the period, Annabeth took notes from the board and got ready for the project that was coming up while Percy just stared at the board.

When the bell rang Annabeth got up before Percy and found herself walking out with a smile on her face.

Annabeth 1. Percy 0.

"You seriously have the coolest teacher ever," Piper said with a mouth full of chocolate chip cookie.
They were at lunch all four of them. Thalia, Leo, Piper, and Annabeth. No Jason to be found, but Annabeth would give him the time that he needed to stop being a baby.

"Yeah he is." She said answering Piper. "I honestly thought he was a total hardass. I was prepared for expulsion when he called me to his desk."

"He just thought you were hot," Thalia said after taking a bite from her burger.

"Ew no. Thalia that's gross. He's old."

She shrugged, "That doesn't stop them."

"He really is cool. I think he puts up that front to scare us before he shows his fun side."

Annabeth raised an eyebrow and took a slice of Piper's orange. "You've had Brunner?"

Leo nodded while he pulled out some of his homework, "Yeah, last year I had a free period and needed something to fill it."

"You were a junior with a free period? How many do you have now?"

He shrugged, "Four."

Annabeth gaped.

"Are you like a genius or something?"

Before he could answer Piper did for him, "Yup. He's very humble about that though. He skipped 2 grades."

Annabeth's eyes bugged, "So what. Are you 16?"

He nodded, "Turned 16 a few weeks ago."

"Wow," she leaned back and looked at him. He really didn't look that young. She told him that.

"Yeah I know. Early puberty or something." He said shrugging again.

"Okay," Thalia started loudly, "I've got to get Annie here to biology. If any of you would like a ride on the Thalia train make it snappy or we will leave your asses here." She declared as she got up to throw away their lunches.

Leo raised his hand, "I'd like a ride on the Thalia train," Leo said wiggling his eyebrows.

Thalia smirked, "Sorry kid. You're a bit too young. I'm not sure you could handle all this," she said waving her fingers around her body.

"And you have a very handsome boyfriend. You forgot that part." Said someone behind them.

They turned around towards the voice and soon found the owner of it.

Annabeth got up to hug him, "Hey Nico, where have you been? You know what I already know the answer. Hiding from Thalia."

Nico laughed and hugged her back, "No I was just looking for her actually, but to my surprise I find her flirting with random boys," he said shooting Leo a fierce glare. If you didn't know him you would have thought he was terrifying.

Thalia laughed and walked up to grab his hand. "He's joking Leo."

"No I'm not."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "Whatever. Okay gang. It looks like we're taking a ride on the Nico train."

Annabeth shook her head and laughed, "I have a boyfriend who would not like me to being riding other guy's trains."

Thalia grimaced and looked at Nico, "If you were acting as awful as Jason is right now, I would be finding another train to ride."

Nico looked at Annabeth and then back to Thalia, "What's wrong with him."

"Nothing."

"Everything."
Annabeth and Thalia said at the same time.

Annabeth sighed, "We're just having a disagreement at the moment."

"Disagreement my ass," Thalia muttered, but left it alone.

When they made it to biology Annabeth hugged them all goodbye and walked into the classroom, Thalia trailing behind her.

She made a beeline for Calypso and smiled when she saw her talking with Cami.

"Hey girls," she said as she sat down.

Cami smiled and waved and Calypso gave her hand a squeeze.

"We were just going over the lab for today. We figured you'd get it before we did better get a head start." Cami said in a shyly and tucked her hair behind her ears.

While they worked they asked each other questions to fill in the time and for the three of them to get to know one another.

"Do you guys play sports?" Annabeth asked.

"Nope. It would ruin my nails."

Cami laughed, "No I don't. I trip over flat surfaces. And my hand eye coordination is lacking. So none for me."

Annabeth shrugged, "Me neither. I just never got into it you know?"

They nodded.

"Do you guys have boyfriends?" Calypso asked.

Cami shook her head.

Annabeth sighed, "Yeah I do, but we aren't talking at the moment."

Calypso's eyebrows furrowed, "How long has this been going on?"

Annabeth laughed at how ridiculous it was going to sound, "Right before first period." They laughed with her.

"I'm sure you guys will work it out. What's his name?"

Annabeth smiled, "Jason Grace."

She watched as Calypso's smile dropped.

Annabeth sighed, "Oh come on what's wrong with him? First Jackson now you."

"What did Percy say?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Just that he was an asshole."

Calypso nodded, "Well I second that."

Cami jumped in like the sweet girl that she was.

"I don't know him, but I've seen him in the halls and he looks nice, Annabeth."

"He is. We just had a falling out today that's all." She said shrugging.

"How long have you guys been dating?" Calypso asked.

"A little bit over a year."

She just nodded.

The silence was awkward for a moment, but Cami quickly broke it by asking them more questions until they had all made it to the bell without being awkward. And for that Annabeth was grateful.

After that the rest of the day was a breeze. World history went by fast, but boring. Seeing as she had no one to talk to.

And PE was... Well it was PE.

When the bell finally rang she waited outside of her classroom hanging onto the tiny sliver of hope that maybe Jason would be there to walk her home, but she soon realized that that wasn't happening and made her way outside alone.

It was just a stupid misunderstanding, they would talk about this, she thought.

Even if she had to track him down herself.

AND THAT MY FRIENDS WAS CHAPTER 7 OF LAYERS!
As for the topic of Annabeth's kick ass apology note. I don't have one. I tried writing one, but I just didn't seem like something she would write and I couldn't come up with any more ideas. So... that one will have to be thought of by you guys. Use your awesome imaginations to come up with your own and how you thought it should have gone.

QUESTION: Do you guys think i should change the rating to M for the language? Because it's probably only going to get worse from here and... some lemons are bound to happen at some point right? *wink wink* ;)

~ TUTU