I was walking to the beach just thinking about—you guessed it—Annabeth, when I saw her blond curls blowing slightly in the wind. I was just going to go and sit by her, but I got a better idea. I felt the familiar tug in my gut and a huge wave, not big enough to hurt her,obviously, crashed down on her. She was instantly soaked.

"Percy!" She screamed without even turning around to see if it was me. But then again, I am the only son of Poseidon at camp.

Then she turned towards me looking pretty pissed. I, on the other hand, couldn't help but laugh my butt off at her overreaction to my little joke. That's my Annabeth.

"I'm going to kill you, Seaweed Brain!"

"Ha-I'm-ha-ha-so-ha-sorry-Anna-ba-ha-ha-beth, I couldn't-ha-ha-resist!" I managed to choke out through my laughter.

She glared at me, and I couldn't help but shudder under her gaze. In a very threatening, scary voice, she said, "And I can't resist this."

She got up, ran at me, and before I had time to react to my small yet very intimidating best friend, she tackled me to the ground—sand, whatever—.

I landed with an ooooff!

I mean, don't get me wrong, Annabeth is super light, but when she runs full force at you and shoves you to the ground, it makes quite a painful landing. But I didn't really feel it because I'm invincible now.

Ha-ha.

She looked like she was about to hit me, but I grabbed her hands, and flipped us over so that I was on top now.

I bet I had an evil glint in my eye, because she looked a little scared.

She knew I would never actually hurt her in anyway, but you never know what I am capable of…

And then I started tickling her.

"Ahhh! Oh my gods! Stop! Ha-ha-stop! P-please-ha-ha-Percy! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"She laughed.

I was laughing, too. She was my best friend, but I wanted more. She was beautiful and brave.

But she doesn't like me that way.

"I, Percy Jackson, have taken down thee, Annabeth Chase, most talented and powerful female demigod!"

"STOP!" She shrieked. "Please-ha-ha-I gi-ha!-ve up-ha-ha-ha!"

I smiled but kept a hold of her hands. I pulled them over her head to hold them there, with my knees on either side of her.

"Fine, but you so owe me for being so nice and letting you go."

"You haven't even let me go, Seaweed Brain." she pointed out.

"That is because I need you to pay me back somehow…"

"What do you want?" She asked cautiously. I could tell she was getting annoyed, but it was fun to watch.

"Just a few, simple words."

"Like what?"

"I'm just going to need you to say: 'Percy Jackson is my bestest friend in the entire world and he is the all-around awesomest person ever. I am so lucky.'"

Was it a little too obvious that I wanted her to say that she cared about me as much as I cared about her?

"First of all, like half of the words in that first sentence aren't even words."

"So what? I made them up specifically for you."

She rolled her eyes. "Oh, yay. Percy Jackson made up words for me." She said with heavy sarcasm.

"Do I need to get the tickle monster…?" I asked like I was talking to a five-year-old.

"Ugh! No…let's see: Percy Jackson is my bestest," She cringed and I smiled."Friend in the entire world and he is the all-around awesomest" Another shudder and another smile from me. "Person ever. I am so lucky." She finished with no emotion.

"I don't think that will do…." I prompted, indicating that her 'no emotion' thing wasn't going to cut it.

"UGH!" She said a little louder than a normal voice. I knew that I might be pushing it. I didn't really want her to be mad at me when I was trying to build up the courage to ask her out. She repeated the phrase with extra exaggerated emotion and I laughed.

"Okay, I guess that will do…"

But I didn't move away from her. I stared into her gray eyes, and slowly leaned in closer to her, careful not to put any weight on her, because I was a lot heavier after I became invincible.

We both started closing our eyes when we heard someone squeal.

"Ouch!" a voice followed.

"Oh, shoot, sorry."

I jumped off of her and offered her a hand, which she took while staring at the ground to avoid awkward eye contact.

"Way to go, Kathryn. Now you ruined their moment." An angry Grover said.

"I'm sorry…it was just so darn cute and romantic!"

All the while this conversation went on, we stood there awkwardly. Kathryn, an Aphrodite girl, mine and Annabeth's new and only friend from the Aphrodite cabin since Silena, came running over to us and smiled apologetically.

"Why don't you two get back to where you were, and we'll just…leave." She suggested.

Annabeth laughed nervously and ran a hand through her Princess curls.

"Uh, we were just talking, so there's nothing to really 'get back to.'" She put air quotes over the last three words.

"No, you guys were just about to kiss." Kathryn protested bluntly.

I laughed an embarrassed laugh.

"I-uh- actually got to go clean my cabin for inspections." I stuttered. I didn't even try to deny that we were about to have the kiss that I had been dreaming about for years.

"Oh, shoot! I'm inspecting today!" Kathryn stated. "Well come on, your cabin is on the way there. We'll walk together."

"It's actually on the other side of the commons area…" I trailed off.

"Well I guess we'll be taking a detour, then, won't we? See you guys!" Kathryn shouted over shoulder as she skipped and pulled me with her.

"Bye Annabeth, I'll see you at the campfire?" I asked over my shoulder.

" Sure thing, Seaweed Brain." I hoped she was as excited about it as I was.

"Oh, sure, don't say bye to me, Percy. Just talk to your girlfriend and leave me out. That doesn't hurt at all." Grover joked.

I didn't know who was redder: me or Annabeth.

"Ha-ha, Grover. I'm still mad at you."

"Wahhh! Cry me a river! You wouldn't have even known I was there if somebody would have stayed quiet!"

Kathryn just laughed and pulled me away from my two best friends.

" Awww! That would have been a great way to tell her how you feel. And hey, I really am sorry about ruining your moment." She sounded sincere.

"It's alright." I told Kathryn and Grover how I felt about Annabeth, so I didn't (and wouldn't!) have to deny anything. She would know it was all a lie if I did try to deny it. Besides, her mom is Aphrodite.

"But you should tell her tonight. Because she will return your feelings."

"How do you know?"

"First of all, she was going to kiss you back. Second of all, do you know who my mom is?" She winked.

"Okay, okay." I held my hands up in surrender.

"Well, this is your cabin. See you tonight, Seaweed Brain."

She winked again. She knows no one but Annabeth can call me that.

"Ha-ha. Very funny!" I shouted to her retreating form.

I could still her her laughter when I walked into my cabin, but what I saw shocked me more than the fact that Annabeth might have kissed me back.

A/N SOOOOO sorry it took me so long to write this chapter! I'm not as good at writing Percy's POV because I'm not a guy, and I don't want to make him too OOC...

Anyway, thanks to those who reviewed...sorry about all the mistakes (grammar, spelling, etc.) I'm really trying to make it better, but my computer is all jacked up so it changes a lot of things ,too, so yeah...

Review! And please tell me what I can do to improve. Also, I am writing a new story (a Tratie fic) because I just found out that I love that pairing almost as much as Percabeth. I'm trying to get ahead on my writing, so I'm writing at least half the story before I publish the first few chapters, which will come out probably sometime in January, so check that out when I put it up!