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Percy's POV
8 years later:
Today was a big day. I was going back to school in my hometown. For the past couple day I had been staying at a nearby hotel. It was good to be back in my old house.
"Percy, finish unpacking, it's almost time for school." My mom, Sally Jackson, smiled at me.
"Alright mom." I replied while unpacking my clothes into my drawer.
I looked over to see my mom trying to screw in a light bulb.
"Mom, stop, let me help you with that." I stepped on the counter and reached the ceiling.
As I went back to my room I noticed markings on my door frame. There was a line that read 4'4, Percy, 5 years old. And another line that read 4'6, Percy, 6years old. I ran my finger up the door frame. Now I was 6'2 and about 180 lbs. I had grown a lot in the past 8 years.
"Percy come downstairs! Time to leave!" I threw on some khaki shorts and a v-neck and jumped down the stairs.
I kissed my mom goodbye and grabbed my backpack.
One thought entered my head as entered my bus: Annabeth. On a normal school day 8 years ago Annabeth would have already boarded the bus and we would have sat together. But today she was no where in sight.
"Percy?" I turned to see one of my best friends Grover sitting in a seat.
"Grover? Jesus! You've changed so much!" I admired my friend. He had gotten so much taller and more mature, physically and mentally. I noticed he had a small go-tee beard on his chin.
"Right back at you! And for the recorded it has been 8 years. Have you been working out? You've gotten a lot thicker."
"That's kinda gay." I laughed half joking.
He shook his head laughing. "I actually have a girlfriend now."
"Really? Good for you man!" I smiled. I remember Grover not being the best with girls.
"Yeah. I'll introduce you two later today." He looked at the window. We were Lmost at school. I gulped. I had to ask.
"How's Annabeth?" I reddened and turned to look out the window, feeling guilty. I couldn't help but notice the nice scenery of Florida. Especially on a nice sunny cloudless day like this.
Grover laughed. "She fine. I mean for like the first 3 months she was devastated. You could have at least said goodby. And I don't just mean to her."
It suddenly hit me that maybe none of my friends might forgive me leaving without a trace. I dismissed that thought when Grover laughed.
The bus pulled up to the school.
"We'll we missed you Perce. It's good to have you back." He then pulled me into a bro hug.
"Same. New York was god awful. I went to Yancy." Grover made a face. He had visited before.
I got off the bus and entered the school. I walked down to the office.
"Hello how can I help you today?" Asked a nice receptionist lady at the front desk.
"Oh hi. I'm Percy Jackson. I'm new. I'm here for my locker number."
After seaching through a couple files she pulled out a pice of paper and handed it to me.
"You are locker 134. Here's your key. If you have any questions be sure to ask me. Have a nice day." She smiled.
"Thank you. You to." I grabbed my pack and walked out into the hallway only to collide with a girl.
"Gods I'm so sorry!" I said. I effortlessly pulled her up.
"No worries! Sorry it was my fault I wasn't looking! Rachel." She stuck out her hand.
I took it. "Percy."
"That's a nice name." She smiled.
Rachel was preatty with red frizzy hair and electric green eyes. She also wore paint splattered jeans.
She noticed me staring. "I'm a painter."
"Oh." Was all I managed before the bell rang.
"We'll I probably should get going. Nice meeting you Percy." She smiled.
"Back at you." I grabbed my pack and went to my locker. I checked my schedule.
Math
History
Science
Lunch
Language Arts
Free Period
Spanish
Geography
Art
'Not bad' I thought. I raced off to Math.
"Mr. Jackson, I will not tolerate my students being late."
I turned around to see Mrs. Dodds with a smirk on her face. Unbelievable.
I turned and looked around for Annabeth but she was no where to be seen.
...
I found Grover at in the lunch line holding hands with a petite girl with preatty features, brown eyes and long brown hair.
"Hey man what's up? And you must be Juniper. Im PercyGrover has told me so much about you." I shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you Percy." She gave a soft smile.
I turned to Grover. "By the way, any idea where Annabeth might be today?"
Grover shook his head.
"Actually I do." Said a pale boy with long black hair holding hands with a girl with longer black hair and electrifying blue eyes. The girl was wearing an ACDC black shirt. She looked like she was going for a punk look.
"Shut up death breath. Annabeth is touring a ccllege or something for he smart class thing. Who knows?" She rolled her eyes.
"I'm Thalia, and this is Nico." She pointed to her boyfriend.
"Thalia I can introduce mysel-" Thalia cut him off be stomping his foot.
"I'm Percy." I waved.
Grover and me snickered. While Nico rubbed his foot.
"So how do you know Annabeth?" Nico asked.
I turned to him. "An old friend."
Nico laughed. "Annabeth made it seem like a lot more than friend. She mentioned you a couple times."
I blushed. I felt bad for abandoning her. I remember trying to tell her I was leaving and then not going as planned. Our friendship was all that mattered and I probably screwed up what mattered most at the time.
I'll admit, I thought about her a lot, but always felt guilty and tried to brush it off.
I was going to make things right."
...
When I got home I Was greeted by my mom.
"Hey sweetie how was school?" She gave me a kiss.
"Good." Most of my old friends are here and I met new ones."
"That's great. And umm Annabeth got home about an hour ago." My mom winked at me. "Your in for quite a surprise."
What did she mean by that? "I'm going to head over later."
I waited an hour or two till i built up the courage and took the walk over to Annabeths house that I had taken so many other times before. The familiar plants the lined up beside the sidewalk and the wooden porch painted green with 2 rocking chairs with white fusions on them.
I finally built up the courage and rang the doorbell.
Annabeth answered.
Gods almighty, she was...beautiful. I was used to my friend Annabeth as a little girl. Now she has matured into a young women. She had the same long curly blonde hair that seemed to shine in the afternoon sun. He stunning gray eyes stared at me in shock. She had once been taller than me as kids, now I seemed to tower over her. She was slender and tan. Just like the California girl I knew when I was young. It took a while to take her in. She was gorgeous. She was my best friend Nd I let her down. How could a guy like me deserve her friendship. My train of thoughts was cut of when she pulled me into a gripping hug that tightened around my neck.
"A goodbye woe have been nice 8years ago." She shouted tears if joy were streaming down her face. "Gods I missed you so much!" She lossened the hug to look at my face. "You've gotten so much taller, and mature, and muscular."
She said the last part blushing. "That's definetly not homo." I said recalling Grover's comment on the bus. "I can explain-"
"No need! We have so much to catch up on!" She grabbed her jacket! She wore a simple t shirt and skinny jeans. She grabbed my wrist and dragged me to her car.
She had blue volks wagon "bug".
"Gods seaweed brain I'm so glad your back! I always thought it was something I did but Sally explained everything! I've missed you like crazy!" She flashed a perfect smile. The moonlight seemed to reflect her beautiful features. I noticed her body seemed to glow.
"I've missed you to. Now we're so much older its been so long!" My heart skipped a beat when she spoke.
"I know a cafe we can go to. We can catch up on things." She drove about 5 minutes into town and pulled up to a cafe. We took a seat and ordered coffee. (Something me and my girlfriend do.) she stared at me. "You've changed so much. But in a good way."
I blushed. "Same with you. Your practically a women now."
As our coffee came I explained to her about New York. I left out the major parts about my drinking issue I had developed in New York. I had gotten slightly depressed for a while.
"Wow. So any girlfriends seaweed brain?" She cocked her head and flashed a smile.
I looked up from my coffee. "One. Her name was Calypso." I took a picture out of my ET and showed her.
"She's beautiful." She stated. Her princess curls were gorgeous.
"What about you?" I asked slightly jealous of the idea of a guy taking away my best friend.
"We'll kind of. Luke Castellan. You may have seen him today." She smiled.
I vaguely remember Grover pointing him out and calling him a douche bag.
"We'll we better head back. I've got homework she stated."
She looked at me. Then she punched me in the arm hard. "That's for leaving me." Then she kissed my cheek with her soft lips. "That's for coming back."
I was stunned but then Immedietly overjoyed for the fact that I had my best friend back.
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