CHAPTER 19

Annabeth Time

PERCY

It has been a week after the date, and it was Saturday yet again.

Things kind of changed, for better or for worse.

Things with Callie and the SGC are better than ever, and it was on Wednesday when they all left together to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron, and he and Callie have hung out more and more. Lunchtimes would alternate with Callie sitting with Percy's friends, or Percy sitting with her friends, a.k.a. members of the SGC, and it was felt like Callie was in his life longer than most.

He also helped Luke prep up the whole week for tonight, since he was invited at the Grace household, and they all knew Thalia's parents didn't like Luke, so he was a nervous wreck the whole week and kind of avoided going to Café Olympus for dinner.

Things with Annabeth are also better than ever, but there was something odd. Like something changed between them. What was the word? Clingy. Annabeth has been a bit awfully clingy to Percy the entire week. She would occasionally hug him out of nowhere and sometimes rest her head on Percy or she would cuddle up to him and she even gave him a kiss on the cheek last Thursday. That's fine with Percy, since even though he isn't crushing on her anymore, he still loves her around and he's used to all the physical contact.

But he couldn't help but notice physical contact upped a bit.

Weird.

He had an obligation later with Annabeth and Piper to go to the Castellan household and help prepare him for dinner with the Grace's. But that was later in the afternoon.

It was 7 am and he didn't even get enough sleep since he went home late last night because of the Daredevil TV series marathon with the SGC, so he thinks he should turn in for now and maybe wake up again later at lunch.

He was still half-naked and the only thing he was wearing were his boxers which were the color of blue with silver tridents around it, so he went back to sleep.

It wasn't until 9 am later when there was a loud knock on his room's door.

Without even caring that he was still in his boxers, he stood up, hair all messy and pointing in weird directions and opened the bedroom door.

Annabeth.

She was dressed in her oversized sweater and jeans and hair all down, and Percy's eyes still had eye bags and were half open.

He didn't realize Annabeth was completely frozen with her mouth open, and was red all over her face and was staring at his boxers, directly into his—

"Seaweed Brain! GET DRESSED!" she shouted as her face was getting redder.

"Wha—? I just woke up, and…." He looked at his attire. He didn't realize he was half-naked. "Oh!"

Then he slammed the door and quickly wore his dark blue pajamas and white t-shirt.

This wasn't the first time this happened, but this was definitely the first time Annabeth reacted like that.

He ran to the door as soon as he wore his clothes and opened it.

"What's up, Wise Girl?" He put on a huge grin but his eyes were still only half-open.

"Breakfast, Seaweed Brain, duh." Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"So you woke me up?" Percy asked as he fixed and rummaged his hair.

"Well, yeah. Your mom is already healthy as an ox and she already went to work but, since I had the key in here, I was hoping for a visit." Annabeth smirked at him.

"Aren't we supposed to go to Luke's at THREE P.M.? Not this morning?" Percy inferred.

"Well, technically, yes. But I was hoping for some time with my best friend? Is that alright?" Annabeth teased with a sly grin.

Percy sighed. "Obviously it's alright." Percy smiled.

Annabeth took a huge breath then smiled back at him. "Great! Now go ahead and pee while I sit at the table. I cooked you breakfast."

This was one of the best advantages to being Annabeth's best friend for a long time. Annabeth knew how to cook, so Percy could eat anything she cooked, and it had always been like that. Look at that, she cooked him breakfast.

There were already blue pancakes in the table, which Sally taught Annabeth how to make, so he sat down.

Damn, those pancakes looked so delicious.

"These look heck awesome, Wise Girl. Oh yes." Then he took a fork and spoon and ate the marvelous blue pancakes sitting right in front of him.

ANNABETH

Here they were, at Café Olympus again waiting for their lunch to arrive.

A lot of memories held this place together. Both good and bad.

But she didn't wanna relive any of them.

Some of those memories included Annabeth crying because of her mom and dad's divorce, she admitting she kind of had a thing for Luke (much to Percy's annoyance), Percy getting excited buying his own gold fish and having it die the week later, and Annabeth's second-worst memory, which was Percy admitting to everybody he didn't like Annabeth anymore but that he had feelings for Callie.

And that was just last week.

Then the waitress/owner, Mrs. Grace came.

"Hi, kids. I know what you want. I already had it ordered." Mrs. Grace said.

"Thanks, Aunt Beryl." Percy said.

"So, Percy. You don't like Ms. Chase here, anymore?" Mrs. Grace asked him.

She already knew he didn't. She didn't need to be reminded. Annabeth hated sometimes when she gets into situations like this. It's equal to saying 'oh, your parents are divorced, are they? Such a shame'.

"Well, I do like her." Percy smiled at Annabeth with his signature smile that made girls swoon over him. "But not that way. Not anymore, anyway."

Her heart felt a pang in the chest again.

She hated being reminded of things she didn't like.

"My kids say you have a new girlfriend now, Percy?" Mrs. Grace smirked at him, then Percy proceeded to put his hands to cover his face. "Contrary to facts, I know her, actually. She goes here sometimes to study. Introduce me to her sometime, Percy."

Percy sighed. "Okay, Aunt Beryl, I will."

"Does everyone know me and Callie have a thing going on?!" Percy asked her.

It's been a course of gossip other the week. The entire school knew about it. And some of them (only some) knew how Annabeth broke his heart in Valentine's Day, and now he fell for a cute geeky girl like Calypso Atlas.

"I don't know, Perce. Let's just wait for our order." Annabeth said.

Whenever the topic was about Percy/Callie she didn't like talking about it.

She looked at her own best friend.

Why?

Why did he have to look like that?

Like a pure god who came from Mount Olympus itself, with his lean, muscular body and windswept black hair and those beautiful green eyes, was she partially blind all these years? Not even at least developing feelings for him until someone else took him away.

Granted there were a few brushes.

She would be overprotective of Percy sometimes, especially when a girl flirted with him, or when someone asks her for Percy's number, and especially during the time she met Rachel, where they both hated each other until Percy sorted them out.

And that time there was this girl named Reyna, who was obsessed with Jason and then with Percy, and Annabeth couldn't even wonder why she spent so many nights thinking of ways of murdering Reyna.

Did she…. love Percy all those times? Without realizing it?

Before she could continue her thoughts, Percy snapped his fingers in front of her face.

"Hey!" Percy snapped his fingers. "You okay? You seem a little weird this week."

"Weird? I've been acting like myself, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth strictly stated, with her usual blank mean stare.

"Weird, yeah. Like, your usual interaction changes, I mean, you're still the same mean ol' you, but you know. Sometimes you stare at the wall, or me, or at the ceiling for long periods of time." Percy explained.

He noticed.

Annabeth had been taking Thalia's advice, to get closer to him and give him subtle or obvious hints that she likes him. She expected Percy to notice, but what he noticed was 'weird'.

"Just a lot on my mind recently, Percy." Annabeth partly lied.

"There's always lots of things on your mind, Annabeth." Percy said as he smirked at her.

She made a fake offended gesture. "Well, I am a Wise Girl. Not a Seaweed Brain." She smirked back at him.

Percy fake-frowned. "Rude." Then he smiled again.

Annabeth looked at his wonderous lips.

She wonders what it would be like to kiss them.

What's sad is she's never had a first kiss before, but even though neither has Percy, he's soon gonna get one. But she isn't letting that happen.

Very, very, short chapter for now, but I'm a little busy.

MIGHT not update until Saturday, but whatever.

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