Percy

She walked into the apartment looking around, and I wasn't sure if she was quite aware of how on edge I was. For starters it was a girl that was walking in; not the exact person I expected to be sleeping in my apartment for the next week. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with it, it just would have been nice to have had a warning. If I had known, for instance, I could have actually cleaned rather than stuffing everything under the bed and the sofa. Hopefully she won't notice. Right?

"So…Percy. This is your apartment?" I looked at her not really sure what to say. Is it my apartment? I'd hope so. Otherwise we have bigger issues than her being a girl. Although. That's not really an issue.

"Uh yeah." I looked over at her, and for the first time actually paid attention to how she looked. Her blond hair was a little windswept as if the taxi window had been open the entire way here, and her eyes were a deep grey that almost seemed to not even be real. Other than that I swear I didn't notice anything else about her, except those things. I promise. "You can just put your stuff on the table there if you want, and we can set your laptop up on the WIFI password. After that I don't really care what we do, although it would be nice to actually know your name. For some reason you always left that out of the conversation, and I might know why now."

She looked at me, and flashed her teeth in what I could only assume was a rare smile. She seemed like one of those people that didn't smile that much, but when she did she actually meant it, and it was one of the best things she could give a person. "I guess you could say I did it on purpose." The grin didn't leave her face, and even when she turned around to open her backpack I assumed it was still there.

"Okay then. Would you like to tell me what it is then?"

She turned around again, this time with her laptop in her hand, and the smile still had not left her face. "Annabeth" she said, "Annabeth Chase." The way she said it, all drawn out and making it flow off of the tongue made me wish I had a name that flowed so easily together.

"Well then, Annabeth Chase, let's get your WIFI password set up, and then maybe we can order some pizza or something."

At around 6 we finally had her laptop set up after over an hour of trying to figure out the password; it would have taken even longer if not for her saying something after a while.

"Here. Just let me see it" she said. I handed her back her laptop and threw my hands into the air. "It should only take a sec."

After about 30 seconds she had the computer hooked up to the WIFI and I was thoroughly confused. "Wait. What did you just do?"

"I used my most basic knowledge of computers to get around the password for your WIFI and just hack into it that way." I stared at her like I had just seen a monster from some old Greek Mythology story, and she just laughed.

"You're mocking me!" I exclaimed, "That's not even close to being okay." And yet, I was still laughing. Just as much, if not more than she was. "Okay. Well if you could have done that the entire time then we just wasted about an hour of our ever so precious time, so let's just order a pizza and kick back and play a bit." No matter how many times I said it, it would always seem so much weirder than saying it to a guy. I looked at her for a second before I spoke. "I don't think I'll ever be able to get over the fact that you are a girl. Like. Don't get me wrong it's really cool and all, but it is just weird. I mean, all that time that we were playing, I always thought that you were a dude, and now knowing that aren't is just weird."

"Yeah. Sorry. People aren't usually accepting of 'girl gamers' so it was just easier to not really identify at all. I am sorry though, really. If it is too weird for you I can go. I can understand that it might be weird having a girl jus–"

"NO! I mean… No it's fine. A little weird yeah, but no big deal or anything." I walked over to the other side of the room to grab my phone and looked up the number for the pizza place down the street. "You want to go to the pizza place? Or just have them deliver? It doesn't really matter to me either way works."

"We can just have it delivered if that's fine. I don't really feel like moving around that much after my flight. I was sitting in between this lady that would not give up her armrest and this fat guy that kept falling asleep… Anyways. Get whatever you want on the Pizza, I'm not really picky."

"I was just going to get cheese if that's fine. I've never really been a fan of pizza with a bunch of stuff on it."

"Yeah that sounds good. How great is this pizza place?"

"Probably the best I've ever had." We both laughed, and I ordered the pizza. After about 20 minutes it finally got here, and we pretty much devoured it. And it wasn't even like I ate most of it; she had a lot. Don't get me wrong, that's not a bad thing. I just thought that it was really funny.

After eating the pizza (which come on. it didn't really take that long regardless of whether or not it was a large) we actually decided to start playing games, and to be honest, it was a lot of fun. More fun than I thought that it would be, actually. It was weird, really, after all the time that I had known her online, being here in person was actually something else entirely. Being able to put a face to what would have been words behind a keyboard, but what was now a face and a laugh whenever I died for something stupid.

It was around 2 AM that we actually realized how long we had been playing. "So," she said with a yawn barely escaping, "I'd be totally okay with going to sleep and picking this back up tomorrow."

"And I would totally not be opposed, because I was definitely not awake at 7 this morning cleaning the apartment." It was right about then that I realized we hadn't even discussed the sleeping arrangements. Well, we had, but it was before I knew that she was a he. "So, um. You can sleep in my bed if you want, and I can just crash on the couch."

"What? No! We said before that I would sleep on the couch. I couldn't make you give up your bed for me."

"No, it's fine, really. I've probably slept on this couch as many times as my bed anyways." It wasn't a lie, not really. I had slept on it a lot before, but not that much.

"If you really don't mind, then I guess I couldn't say no. But not for the whole week. Just tonight."

"Hah. We'll see." We moved her bags into my room (which we still hadn't done because we had been so busy playing) and I took out the few things I would want, and I also grabbed a blanket out of my closet. "Goodnight, Miss Chase." She smiled at me, and the door closed between us.