Percy POV:
"Perseus Jackson! Get your butt out of bed!" I hear as Ashley screams at me to get out of bed. "Why can't you just get in with me!" I say as I pull her on top of me and under the covers. "Hahaha, Percy you promised we would go to the company today to get the plans for the new house started." "I guess you're right, Ashely Fields you are lucky that Percy Jackson is a man of his word," I say back to her as I stroke her curly chestnut brown hair. " I shall be ready in five. Now go get your things together."
Ten minutes later we are in the car driving to the company we chose to design and build our now house. "Percy?" Ashley asks me " Hmm?" I reply as we pull into the building's parking lot. " Do you ever think about kids?" "Uh, yes I teach for a living" I say "No I mean about like having our own kids" she says. "Um," I gulp " I guess, but I seriously think we need to get married first. We're here." I say trying to change the subject. I mean I love Ashley but I have really never thought about having children with her
Annabeth POV:
"Yes, Eric I will be home for dinner at 5:30. I love you, tell Lydia I Love her too, Bye" I put down the phone and continue typing up a spreadsheet. *ding ding* the little bell on the door in the front entrance rings. "Hello welcome to Olympus Architectural Company" I say as I close the spreadsheet and get ready to turn from my computer. "How may I help-" I can't finish because he is standing right in front of me. Him, the him who punched my boyfriend on prom night. The him who fell into Tartarus and back with me, the same him who I loved so long ago. " I-I-" I can barely say before my eyes fill with tears. I have no choice but to get up and run to the bathroom.
Its-its him, I think to myself as I collapse on the bathroom floor. " Annabeth? Annabeth, please I will leave but just please tell me your okay." His voice so sweet and concerned. I decide to get up and I fix my hair and do a quick mascara touch up and then walk out to my desk where Ashely and Percy sit. " How may I help you?" I say as if the last five minutes never happened. "Uh, hi. We are here to get the process of building are new home started." she says with a confused look on her face. New house? Percy isn't married. I look to her hand and see a beautiful diamond ring. They must be engaged. " Yes, okay well today is the fun part, paperwork." I say as I give them a stack of many papers to fill out.
Percy POV:
The moment I saw her I regretted putting on my pants this morning. Is this a joke?
I thought as I saw her get up with tears in her eyes and run to the bathroom. I couldn't stop myself from running to the bathroom door and seeing if she was okay but I definitely didn't think she would be sitting in front of me five minutes later telling me to fill out paperwork.
"You guys can go home tonight, fill this stuff out, and bring it back to me tomorrow and then we can get this thing going." she says to me and Ashley " Thank-you so much" she says to Annabeth as we get up and leave. " Hey Ash, why don't you go start the car? I will just make sure everything is clear on the information we gave Annabeth." I say "Annabeth" like a child says its first word, surprised and confused as to how it just did that. "Uh, okay" she says confused I toss her the keys and she leaves. Before I can say anything to Annabeth she starts talking sharply " Listen, Percy, this stays strictly on a business level nothing more. Got it?" she snaps at me "Yeah," I say as I get ready to go out the door, "and Annabeth? I just want to say sorry for everything." I walk out the door before I can hear her reply.