The rest of the day was not nearly as exciting as earlier. No more fights, or strange new demigods. Just a visit to the infirmary and meatloaf for dinner.

The next day, however, was more eventful. That morning Percy had to leave for his quest to save Calypso. He stood at the bottom of Half-Blood Hill with Annabeth and Chiron there to say goodbye.

"Do you have everything?" Chiron asked, and Percy nodded to confirm it. "I wish you luck, son. Take care." He nodded, patted the boy on the shoulder, and trotted away up the hill leaving the bickering couple alone.

There was a silence between the two for a quite some time. All they heard was the whistling of the wind passing by them, the cars driving by, and the laughing of campers. Finally Annabeth held out her hand in front of her and opened up her clenched fist. There, sitting in her palm, was a twisty tie.

Gasp!

Now that twisty tie may just be a handy little device that you use for your bags of fruit and what not at the grocery store, but to Percy it was a whole lot more.

To Percy it was their relationship. Exactly 5 months and 6 days ago Percy gave that twisty tie to Annabeth for her birthday. They were out shopping at Safeway for Sally, when Percy saw all the birthday balloons, and suddenly noticed the hints Annabeth was giving him. He didn't have any money - or time - to get a present for her, so he quickly grabbed a green tie from the produce section, shaped it into a circle, and gave it to her. Thankfully, she laughed about the 'ring' and the story Percy told her about the Asian lady who said that twisty ties represent relationships. With a kiss, a hug, and a threat about next year's present, Annabeth told him that she'd keep it forever.

Apparently forever is a lot shorter than they both expected.

"Annabeth..."

She sniffled as a tear ran down her cheek. Annabeth shoved her hand out a bit more, motioning for him to take it, which he sadly did. He held it between his fingers carefully.

"You can't be serious."

Another tear fell. She nodded.

"But - I...why?"

She tried to wipe away the tears, but they just kept coming. "You know exactly why I'm doing this, Percy."

"No, I don't!" He stepped forward, and grabbed her hands. "Don't tell me this is all because of him." He nodded his head towards the dark, tall figure leaning up against Thalia's tree. "Don't tell me you're dumping me for him."

"It's not just Pez, Percy-" but she stopped right there. Saying his name was too much, even if he was standing right in front of her.

"It's because of the quest."

She nodded sadly.

"But, Annabeth, you don't understand, I have to go on this quest!"

"No you don't!" The tears were falling hard now. Percy tried to wipe them away with his thumb, but she pulled away. "Anyone in this camp could go on that quest! You don't have to do it all!"

"But she's my friend!"

"She seems awfully close for a friend!"

"What about you and Candy over there?"

"We've never held hands, or kissed, or anything! And he hasn't told me he loved me!"

"We never technically kissed. She kissed me on the fore - wait! How do you even know about that?"

"Really. Telling Grover all your secrets isn't the best idea you've ever had."

"That bastard."

"Forget about that right now! That's not what we're talking about!"

He sighed, and came back to his senses. "I don't want to do this Annabeth."

"I don't either."

"Then let's not!"

She shook her head. "We have to."

"No we don't. Come on, Annabeth. We belong together. Everyone knows that. They even made T-shirts when we got together!"

This brought a small smile to her face, but it slowly faded away. "I'm sorry, Percy." Wiping a tear, she went to go back up the hill, when he grabbed her hand to stop her.

"Annabeth," he breathed. "Please. I – I love you."

She had been waiting to hear those words come out of his mouth since she first met him, but now was not the time he was supposed to bring them up. He was supposed to say them at the beach, or after some romantic dinner and he was taking her home, or when Forrest says it to Jenny, not right now, when she's trying to break up with him. Annabeth sighed and looked down at her feet. It truly hurt her to do this, but she had to.

"I'm sorry, Percy."

With that, she ran up Half-Blood Hill, tears streaming down her face, and right into the arms of none other than that tall, dark, and handsome boy that was leaning up against the tree.

"Annabeth!" Percy screamed after her, but she couldn't hear him. She was too busy in the arms of a new person to cry to, and scream at, and to love.

He was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't even notice that he too was crying. Just one lone tear fell out of his left eye, but it was still a tear. He was not busy enough to notice the slight smirk and wink in his direction from the boy hugging his gir – ex girlfriend. He flared his nostrils, clenched his jaw, and quickly turned around to leave.

"I'm bored!" groaned Pez as he lay on one of the many beds in the Athena cabin. After about an hour of tears and awkwardness, the two had ended up in Annabeth's cabin. Not like that, you sickies! Annabeth wanted to get her mind of You-know-who (and no, not Voldemort) so she headed to her cabin to finally get started on research of Pez's mom. Pez, being hated by everyone in camp for apparently breaking up the beloved Percabeth, decided to follow her.

"I know. You've told me 10 times in the last half hour," sighed Annabeth as she scribbled something down on a notepad.

There was silence for quite a while. Pez didn't really like silence. "Wanna sing a song?"

"No." She didn't even look up from her laptop.

"G-U-A-C-A-M-O-L-E!" he sang loudly, "Guacamole!"

"What the hell are you singing?"

"The Guacamole Song, of course. You've never heard it?"

She shook her head with an amused look on her face.

"Psh! Where have you been?"

Annabeth sighed and rolled her eyes, going back to her research.

"Tastes great even though it looks like mutant jelly. Guacamole! G-U-A-C-A-M-O-L-E! Guacamole! The green dip doubles as a facial cream. Guacamole! Grab yo avocado. Salt and lime juice also. Throw in some tomato, onion, garlic and cilantro! Ay!- "

"Will you shut up?" she cut him off.

"But I'm bored."

She sighed for the umpteenth time that day and went back to work.

He sat quietly for a whole 5 minutes that time. Annabeth was impressed.

But then he had to ruin it.

"What kind of name is Annabeth?"

"What?"

"I mean, it's like two names put together into one. It's like your dad couldn't choose between Anna or Beth. How lame."

She was astonished. "What kind of name is Pez?"

"A hella sick one!" Rolling her eyes in annoyance, Pez took it as a sign to keep going. "You have like 4 names!"

"At least I'm not named after a candy!"

"I'm not! I'm named after a fairy guy thing!

"Peter Pan is not a fairy! He's just this hot guy who can fly and sing!"

"Did you just call Peter Pan hot?"

"Yes, do you have a problem with that?"

"Nope, just a bit weird that's all. Never knew you had a thing for guys in tights."

"You are so annoying," she mumbled under her breath causing him to smile a bit.

"And I wasn't even talking about Peter Pan. I was talking about Peter Petrelli."

"How the hell is Peter Petrelli a fairy? Yeah, he has cool abilities and what not, but he's most definitely not a fairy."

"If you have cool abilities, then you're a fairy."

"Percy has weirdo water abilities. Does that make him a fairy?"

"In my book, fairy also means gaybob, so yes, Percy is most definitely a fairy."

This, of course, made Annabeth smile. She shook her head and started to go back to her work when Pez stopped her.

"Wait, you can't go back to work, now. We were just starting to have fun."

"Do you want to find out who your mom is?"

"Yeah, but not right now."

She glared at him, and he gave her the puppy dog look. "Pwease."

After a minute or two, Annabeth sighed in frustration. "You know I hate you, right?" she asked him, finally breaking eye contact and shutting down her computer.

"Yep!"

"What are we doing now?"

"Do you wanna play the Question Game?"

"What's the Question Game?"

"You don't know what it is?"

"No."

"Ha! I won!"

"What? How did you win? We didn't even start!"

"Yeah we did."

"When?"

"When I asked if you wanted to play the Question Game."

"So you just ask questions?"

"Duh! That's why it's called the Question Game! And you say you're a daughter of Athena."

"Fine. Bring it."

"Ladies first."

Stare down!

"Do you wanna play the Question Game?"

"Do you wanna play the Question Game?"

"Do you know how to play?"

"Do you know how to play?"

"Are you just repeating my questions?"

"Are you repeating my questions?"

"Will you stop copying me?"

"Will you stop copying me?"

They glared at each other for quite some time while Annabeth tried to think of another question. She couldn't.

Instead, she stuck her tongue out at him and made that weird farty noise.

"Ha! I am the ultimate master at all things questiony!" gloated Pez.

"Questiony isn't a word."

"Neither is funner."

"I never said funner." How is it that Pez can make her smile at the most unsmily of times?

"So?"

"You are so weird, Pez."

"Why thank you, milady."

I know all of you probably hate me, but I really don't care all that much.

Anyways, this is a lot faster than last update, so you all really shouldn't hate me that much!

And the Guacamole Song is an actual song on YouTube, and it's completely and utterly amazing!

So is Peter Petrelli. Te he. I love him!

I don't own anything mentioned above, except for Pez. Heh. He should most definitely be scared right now.

Did you know that John Stamos is in that little greenish box below, and if you press it, he comes out and gives you a lap dance? Yeah, you know you wanna press it!

:) Jordan