After elimination Annabeth went straight to bed. It was only seven thirty when she went to sleep. She woke up around three o'clock in the morning, she gave up on trying to get back to sleep, and went downstairs. She poured herself a bowl of cereal and ate an early breakfast. When she finished she looked around for something to do. Percy wasn't awake yet, its too early to go anywhere, and all of her friends were two thousand miles away.

"Annabeth." A girl's voice whispered. She turned around and there was Rachel, Thalia, and Silena in the Iris Message.

"What are you guys doing? There are cameras everywhere. Are you trying to make all of America think that I'm a crazy blonde girl who talks to herself?"

"Well you weren't calling us. What were we supposed to do?" Silena asked.

"Try picking up a phone next time." Annabeth said she thought she heard footsteps behind her and she disconnected the Iris Message.

A few hours later Percy was waking up. He looked at his alarm clock and it said six forty-one. His stomach growled and he dragged himself out of bed and went downstairs to get some breakfast. He was surprised to see that Annabeth was already up.

"Where did you disappear to last night?" Percy asked.

"I was tired. I forgot to ask you, how was your date with obstacle-course-girl last night?"

"My date with Maria was fine. Why? Are you jealous?"

"In your dreams Seaweed Brain." She replied.

"Seaweed Brain?" He asked.

"Yeah, that is my nickname for you. I figured with all the time you seem to spend at the beach, there is no possible way that your head isn't filled with kelp by now." Annabeth explained and Percy laughed.

"You do realize that now I have to think of a good nickname for you."

"Good luck with that Seaweed Brain." Percy began to think of possible nicknames for her.

Gray eyes- lame

Know it all- too insulting

Smart One- no

I'll have to come up with some better nicknames. He thought.

Maria was the first one up after Percy and Annabeth. She made herself a cup of coffee and sat down at the kitchen table. Maria was trying figure out a way to make sure that Annabeth was only going to be with Percy in her dreams.

"Morning Percy." she said as Annabeth left the room. It's barely been more than a month since the show started and Annabeth was already sick of the cameras. She went upstairs and looked through her suitcase for her Yankees cap. She found it and put it on. She became invisible and left the room. She was careful not to run into anything or anyone. Annabeth decided to sneak out of the house and go sightseeing. She went out the back door, nothing would look weirder than a locked door opening by itself. She saw Percy and Maria standing near the edge of the pool. They were laughing about something, Annabeth was about to ignore them and leave. She stopped in her tracks when Maria pulled Percy closer and kissed him. She waited for him to pull away or something, but he never did. Without thinking about it, Annabeth walked over to them and pushed them into the pool. She suddenly wasn't in the mood to go out any more.

A few minutes earlier...

Maria talked Percy into going outside to the pool. They stood near the edge and talked. Percy was in the middle of telling a funny story about his friend Grover and the trouble he got into when he asked out one of the camp counselors' girlfriend when Maria kissed him. He was frozen in shock, his mind shut down and instinct took was starting to get really into the kiss. The whole world seemed to vanish and it was just Percy kissing Maria. That is until he felt a strong push on his side and he fell into the pool taking Maria with him. When they surfaced Percy looked around the edges of the pool trying to find the culprit, only to find that no one was there.

Annabeth was stil standing at the edge of the pool, fuming. Why did I do that? I don't even like Percy Jackson like that! Annabeth thought as she waited for them to surface. The skank (a.k.a. Maria) surfaced first with Percy coming up a few seconds after. He looked straight at her; probably trying to see who pushed him in, but thanks to her invisibility cap Annabeth wasn't seen. Steam would probably be coming out of her ears if it were possible and Annabeth tried to keep her cool as she walked back into the house. Annabeth took off her invisibility cap, not caring if it looked like she appeared out of nowhere. Now was one of the few times that Annabeth wished there was a monster around to fight. Annabeth walked into her room and hoped that she would be left alone.

Percy was just getting out of the pool. Maria had started to complain about her makeup running or something like that, so he walked away not wanting to get in the middle of it. He walked into the living room of the house and saw most of the girls watching some chick flick on pay per view. He assumed that Annabeth would be in the kitchen reading her architecture book like she usually was. He looked in the kitchen, his face fell when he saw that she wasn't there.

Maria walked into her room, surprised to see Annabeth laying on the bed. Annabeth had heard footsteps and she turned to see a girl walking into the room. Great the skank came to rub it in. She thought as Maria came closer.

"Have a nice swim?" Annabeth tried to sound as innocent as possible, but didn't really succeed in doing so.

"You did this didn't you...Abbey-Belle." Oh great, she's as bad as Dionysus. Annabeth thought that for once in her life people would get her name right!

"I have no idea what your talking about." She claimed.

Back in New York Silena, Rachel, and Thalia were having a girls' night. They had one once a month with Annabeth and it wasn't the same without her. They actually missed when she would cut them off at the bars, saving them from killer hangovers and when she would make sure they didn't end up in some strangers bed. They had managed to stumble back to Thalia's apartment as soon as the bars closed.

"I can not believe that Percy had the nerve to make out with Maria!" Silena slurred.

"I'd bet money that Annabeth pushed them into the pool." A slightly less drunk Rachel replied.

"Annabeth and Percy are so in love. And my mom's the goddess of love, so my assumption is automatically right!" Silena announced and they all started laughing for no apparent reason.

"Thalia! Rachel! Silena!" Annabeth's voice came from their left.

"Annabeth when did you get back? Your supposed to be in California!" Thalia asked, confused.

"Oh gods, you guys went out and got totally hammered didn't you?" Her friends answered by laughing uncontrollably. I'll take that as a yes, Annabeth thought.

"I want all of you to eat some food and then go to bed." Annabeth demanded. Even though Annabeth was thousands of miles away, they were slightly afraid of what she would do if they didn't follow her orders. Annabeth disconnected the Iris Message and went downstairs. She desperately needed the comfort of her true loves: Ben and Jerry. She dug through the freezer until she found it; Rocky Road, the best flavor on the planet. She grabbed a spoon and sat down at the table. She was about to dig in when she heard a voice behind her, "Would you mind sharing that?" Percy Jackson was asking her to share her true loves with him?

Not a chance! Mean Annabeth said.

Come on you know you love him, you can share your ice cream with him. Nice Annabeth argued.

He was kissing the skank! He doesn't deserve ice cream! Mean Annabeth had a point.

You know that he didn't even know you were watching, you can't blame him. Nice Annabeth disagreed. Crap, Nice Annabeth is right. Mean Annabeth screamed and beat the shit out of Nice Annabeth.

"Grab a spoon." Annabeth said coldly. Percy got a spoon and was about to dig in when Annabeth slapped his hand away. He doesn't deserve ice cream, Mean Annabeth kept chanting in her head.

"This is very important. I only share it with very important people. Be honored." She said seriously.

"Is that just a nice way of telling me I rank below ice cream?" Percy questioned. Annabeth nodded.

"Don't feel bad, only one thing ranks above ice cream. My mom." Percy would've laughed if she wasn't so serious.

"In that case, I am honored." He said as he took a spoonful of the rocky road. Percy had a feeling that Annabeth hated him again. Oh joy...

They ate the ice cream in silence.

Give him the cold shoulder at least! Mean Annabeth whined. Nice Annabeth was still recovering, so Annabeth did what anyone would do, she treated Percy like a virus.

"So where'd you disappear to today?" Percy asked. Annabeth shrugged. He tried asking a few more questions to start a conversation and failed miserably. He slammed his hand down on the table, making the empty ice cream tub tip over. "What did I do now Annabeth?"

"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID!" She screamed at him.

"NO I DON'T! I CANT READ YOUR MIND!" Annabeth could feel tears threatening to fall. "Just tell me what I did!"

"You made me love you too much." She said in a barely audible voice as she ran away.