The next week was completely horrible. I sat in my bunk all the time, and I ate junk food and cried, like some pathetic teenager, which I guess I was being. Any time that I did decide to go outside, there he was. Percy would be doing regular training, as if nothing ever happened, but I knew him better then that. He was probably trying to keep himself busy...like I should've been doing. My heart stopped every time I caught a glance at him. For 7 days I didn't show my face anywhere around Camp. I didn't go to breakfast, lunch, dinner, anything anyone else was doing, I wasn't. Why? Because there was a chance I would see Seaweed Brain, and I was scared I couldn't handle that.

The entire time, I was just mad at myself, no one else, not even Percy, because I knew this was all my fault. Athena would not be proud if she saw me now, I was crying, over a son of Poseidon. Eventually, after a couple more days of moping, I decided to head off. I couldn't stay here, not with Percy here. If I did stay here, I wouldn't even be doing anything useful.

So I started packing my bags. I would be off soon, off, off to...where was I going? I didn't even know, I had no plan, like I always did. It was like I was anti-Annabeth. Then I realized that what I was doing was something Seaweed Brain would totally d o, just take off because he had a problem, head to who-knows-where, all alone. Just the thought that I was like him made me cry, well and the thought of him made me cry too.

I collapsed on the top of my bunk, and sat there crying, all by myself. I was curled up, tears pouring down my cheeks, salty and pure...just like the sea. I thought of him again. Why would he even want to be with me? I was stupid to think he ever would. I was no daughter of Aphrodite. Not the prom-queen type. I was plain, a tomboy, daughter of Athena, I didn't have any powers like he did. He was a child if the big-three, he was amazing, he could do anything, me...all I had was a brain, and I knew that would get me nowhere with guys.

My thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door,

"Wise-Girl? How are you doing?" He asked calmly, gently, perfectly, with his voice full of concern.

I was scared to answer, I mean, how was I doing? Not a good question.

"Look at me, Percy, I'm not doing too great." I said, motioning towards the empty coke cans, bags of Doritos, and my week-old outfit, "I'm a wreck!"

"No, your not, you're just-"

"Broken." I interrupted.

"Yeah."

"So why are you here?" I said as he climbed up to the top bed, and swung his legs over the edge, so we were both sitting of the ledge.

"I was worried about you, I mean, um...Chiron sent me in." he said, trying to cover up his mistake.

"Nice save!" I said sarcastically, and it felt good to relieve all the tension, then I continued, "So I guess we both have come to our senses."

"Yeah."

"I need to tell you something" we both said in unison.

"You first!" we echoed off each other again.

"Wait, why are there suitcases here? Annabeth, what's going on?" he asked me, but I could tell he wasn't that upset, just...worried...about me, his...friend.

"Oh, I was just-"

"Being like me, totally not thinking, being impulsive, is that what you were going to say?"

"Yeah, I was running away, because I got scared, so I wanted to just run away from it all." I said, not realizing how much I was telling him.

"Deep!" we both laughed at that, mostly because I was deep all the time.

"So what are you doing here?" I asked, which I had been wondering since he walked in.

He looked at me for a second, I mean, really looked at me. I stared into his eyes, his great, green were focused on my stormy grey ones.

"For you. Don't you know that?"

"Why would you be here for...me?"

"Oh my gods, that's another thing about you, why do you always think you're so bad?"

"Because I'm not special, I'm just Annabeth, boring, powerless, stubborn, Annabeth." I replied.

"Are you kidding? You're amazing. You're everything I need. You can figure out any jigsaw puzzle, you've saved my life, way too many times, you can really kick some butt, and you're an awesome, smart, beautiful, funny, awesome to be around, girl." With every thing he said about me, my smile grew and grew.

"Do you really mean that?" I asked, even though I knew the answer.

"And you call yourself a daughter of Athena!" he said, which made me laugh, and I forgot everything that had happened, anything we ever said before this,any problems we'd had before this, and just stared into his freakishly amazing eyes.

"So..." I said, just to fill the awkward silence I had created.

"So..."

"Alright, I don't want to play this game."

"Well then what are we going to do?"

"Percy, I know how I feel about you, but...we can't we really can't, it's for your own good."

"Then goodbye." He said it in a way that meant, I'm not mad, I'm not sad, I'm just so disappointed in you, I just don't care any more.