A/N OMG guys… I haven't updated since FEBRUARY! I am sooooo sorry! There are four reasons why I haven't updated.

1) I totally lost track of the amount of time that had gone by since my last update.

2) I have been sooooo unbelievably busy w/ this being eight grade year and us only having 10 more days of school left, we have to get all of our final graduation and confirmation credits in, and exams and tons of reports and other tests and homework.

3) And because I've been so busy, every little free moment I got, I just slept. Literally. I'm clocking in about 5 hours of sleep a night right now because of all my school stress…

4) The Beta Reader wouldn't hurry the ** up. (Sincerely, the Beta Reader. This is mostly my fault!)

Sooooo yeah, again, I am so so sooooo sorry, guys. Please don't stop reading my story because of my stupid stress. I graduate the 15th of May and then I have the rest of May to HOPEFULLY finish this story before summer school, because summer school is all of June, each class is 3 hours long, and it's 5 days a week.

So enough of my pathetic and apologetic babbling and on with the new chapter.

!: REMEMBER :!, this is Annabeth's POV so it picks up from chapter 4 in her POV, it's not at the end of chapter 5 yet… (it's sad that it's been so long that I feel the need to remind you…)

Chiron cleared his throat.

We both looked over at him, and my face heated about twenty degrees. From the corner of my eye I could see Percy looking at me with a strange, dazed look in his eyes.

"Uh- so, what are we supposed to do, Chiron? I mean, to get Percy back to…well, Percy."

"I'm afraid I really don't know, child. Did Hecate say anything before she did this to you, Percy?"

I turned towards Percy the same time that Chiron did to see if he could somehow communicate any answers to us.

He looked like he was concentrating really hard.

I sat there waiting anxiously. My ADHD was kicking in and making me tap my foot profusely.

Percy looked like he was debating something in his head.

After a few more minutes he must have decided something because he nodded.

Already getting my hopes up that the cure would be far too easy, I excitedly asked, "What did she say, Perce?"

Percy barked a long message and then stopped seeming to realize we couldn't understand a word he just said. I'd be really surprised if he even knew what he just said.

I tilted my head to the side, trying to think of a wise way we could solve this problem.

"Okay, you can't say what she said, but maybe you can…write it down?" I asked.

Percy shrugged as if saying 'I'll give it a shot, but I'm not promising anything.'.

I looked at Chiron and he understood that we needed paper and a pen to even try to communicate with this method.

It took a while but eventually Percy moved and I could barely make out the words 'U HAVE ANSWR'.

I rolled my eyes. Seaweed Brain's spelling really concerns me sometimes. But then the meaning of his message sunk in and I could feel my eyes go wide as I look at Percy. He stared right into my eyes as if daring me to disagree.

He nudged my knee and I'm sure he was trying to tell me that he wasn't talking about Chiron.

"What? How do you know? What did she say exactly?" I managed to whisper to him.

He began to write something else down and it didn't take quite as long as the first message. While Percy was writing,Chiron and I shared a look and he gave an encouraging smile, but I was a little confused as to why.

'PERSON MOST DEAR 2 ME' was what I was finally able to read over Percy's shoulder.

His writing was getting more legible so it didn't take quite as long to distinguish what it said. Now instead of plain scribble, it looked like a five or six year old wrote it.

I just stared at the paper. There was no way that the person most dear to him could be me. I wasn't anything special. Percy nudged my knee yet again, snapping me out of my trance.

"Percy, that could be anyone: Your mom, Grover, your-" I started but he cut me off by barking quite loud and more forceful.

I jumped at the loudness of the bark and it looked like Percy was trying to smile sheepishly. Then he turned serious again and looked right into my eyes, nudged my knee, looked up at my again, and then kissed—licked, actually—the hand on my lap.

I looked down at my hand, then back up at him for the longest time.

I finally whispered, "It can't be me."

It really couldn't be me. I mean, why would someone as nice and caring as Percy need me? I was a hot-headed, know-it-all, arachnophobic, daughter of Athena.

How did I get so lucky in meeting a guy like him? And not only to know him, but he ended up being my best friend, my reason in the last Titan War to keep fighting, my hero. He grabbed the pen in his mouth again and started writing. It felt like he was taking hours for each letter. He was definitely writing this message more carefully.

I watched him curiously as he wrote. He positioned his body so that I couldn't see anything he was writing. He had full control of what I would read and when I would see it.

Finally he dropped the pen on the table and backed away so that his message was completely exposed. I read it once, but I couldn't really comprehend what I was reading. No way was I reading it right. Percy could never feel the same way about me as I feel about him.

But that's really what it said. I couldn't control the gasp that escaped my lips as I stared at the paper in shock, because the words I was reading were 'I LOVE YOU'.

A/N I am so disgusted at how short this is and how long it took to update. And I am so so sooooo sorry guys! But I have no more time to write anymore right now and I wanted to give you guys something.

Again I am so sorry for not updating sooner and then giving you a CRAPPY SHORT chapter… PLEASE review anyway though and then after school is out, I will try to update at LEAST once a week!

ALSO IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, PLEASE R&R TO MY ONESHOT 'OUR SONG' CONSIDER IT A LATE EASTER PRESENT! HAVE A HEART! PLZZZZZZZZZZZ

AND AGAIN, DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW TO THIS CHAPTER! I'LL TRY TO GET ANOTHER CHAPTER OUT BEFORE GRADUATION, BUT I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SO HECTIC BUT IF YOU GUYS REVIEW, I WILL DEF. TRY MY HARDEST TO GET ONE DONE! (If, obviously, the Beta decides to cooperate. Yours truly, the Beta Reader. Once more, I'm sorry. I've a great deal of blame in this…)

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