** Annabeth's POV **

Wow. That was all I could think. Percy…..he…..and……wow. He was running out of the ocean with only a pair of boxers on! My eyes looked all over his tan body and he's just so hot and…….GET A GRIP GIRL!!! Man, I've been thinking like this a lot lately. My heart was beating faster, and faster as he continued to run in my direction ( I had been so distracted from looking at Percy, I was totally unaware that I had sat down right by his towel in some sort of trance).

Wait a minute…..was he just…..yeah he was just washing himself off in the water. But, I have to own up, no one else has had the brains to think off doing that. Not even the Athena children.

He laid down on the towel and closed his eyes. His jet black hair was in a sideways-slick back style, it looked pretty cute. Then I realized that I really needed to get back to my cabin before my siblings started to freak.

I slowly got up, careful not to make any noise so Percy wouldn't notice me.

But then I heard something that made me want to bury my head in the sand.

"Annabeth?"

That's when I ran for it. I ran all the way to my cabin to get ready for sword practice. When I got there, my brothers and sisters were staring at me.

"What!" I demanded.

"Jeez, Annabeth," said one of my brothers, Chandler, "You look like you've just seen a ghost.

"Yeah, is everything okay?" asked my sister, Abigail.

I took a few seconds to catch my breathe, "Uh, yeah. Everything's fine. I just, thought I saw a monster or something, that's all." Maybe I should have planned what I was going to say to them. My siblings just shrugged and got back to their studies. Then I got my gear on for sword practice, and headed out, hoping Percy didn't try to follow me.

** Percy's POV **

Holy Poseidon!!! Is that…..is that, ANNABETH? I thought my checks were going to have a heat stroke. The footprints remained at a persistent pace.

"Annabeth?" I asked shakily.

That's when the footprints dashed for it like there was no tomorrow. The sand was kicking up in the air. Now I knew it had to be Annabeth. Nobody else could have the power to be invisible at this camp. I watched the sand being thrown everywhere till she was out of sight. Then I realized I was still in my boxers, only my boxers. Great! Just great! If that's not embarrassing, I really can't tell you what else would be.

But, I am sure that was Annabeth. And pretty soon, it's going to be her turn to get embarrassed, because I'll tease her and ask her where she was this afternoon. Ha! I'll put that plan to action later. Right now I have to go finish all those dang pipes. I quickly put my clothes back on, very cautiously ( just in case any other sightseers were around), and headed in the direction of the Big House.

That's when Beckendorf came running up to me, "Hey Percy! Time to get back to the shed."

"Yeah, I was just on my way up there." While we were walking, I thought maybe I could start up some casual conversation, "So, uh, have you talked to Silena any lately?"

"Uh…..well, we did yesterday. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, just seeing if things are progressing between you two." I snickered a little.

"Well…what about you and Annabeth, huh?" he grinned at me.

"What about us?" I was trying my hardest not to blush.

"Oh come on! I can tell by the way you two act towards each other that something is definitely going on!" he chuckled.

"Whatever," I finished up that conversation. The truth: I really had no idea.

We got to the Big House a few minutes later, or what seemed like hours later, and finished up the central water system in the "shed".

"Okay. I guess we're done here, we just had to finish all the messes by the other cabins. And, I'd say our goal is to finish up by dinner, which is in a few hours." Beckendorf gathered up his tools.

"Lead the way, sir Charles," I said. Beckendorf grinned at me, but didn't think much of it. I began to get really bored knowing we had to walk all the way back to the cabins and do more hard labor. So I started to chant something:

Hi - Ho!

Hi - Ho!

It's off to work we go!

That's when Beckendorf jumped in:

With a bucket and spade, and hand grenade,

It's off to work we go!

We started laughing. Then we started to work on our first cabin: 12, the Dionysus cabin. It took us about 20 minutes there, and we kept that pace. We fixed every single cabin and got down to the last two: Hephaestus, and Hermes.

"Gods, now I know how the 7 dwarfs felt!" Under the afternoon sun, I was getting pretty frustrated.

"Yeah, but there were 7 of them! There's only 2 of us."

I finished the last pipe and willed the water to come through, then I stood up, wiped my forehead, and stretched. "We're done!"

"Finally," Beckendorf panted, "and just in time for dinner. See you there?"

"Yep, later!" I ran back to my cabin, put on some clean clothes, washed my face, and went to go eat a well earned meal. During dinner, I tried to get a glimpse of Annabeth, but she was hiding her face. A few times she looked up at me, but very quickly looked down blushing each time. She got up to throw her stuff away, so I did to.

"Hey Annabeth," I said with confidence.

"Oh! Uh…h-hi Percy," she sounded very nervous. Perfect.

"So, did I entertain you today at the beach?" I had to hold back a laugh.

She looked at me and grinned, bright red, "Um….I….well," she stammered, "I went looking for you, because I hadn't seen you all day."

"Invisibly?" I couldn't take it anymore, I started laughing.

Annabeth smiled, "Don't tease me, Seaweed Brain!"

Just then, Grover came running to us, "Guys! You won't believe this! Travis and Connor strike again!" Awe man, I thought, now what prank did they pull?

Now what did those brothers do? Tell me what you think!!