An.) So this is the second chapter for this story. In this chapter Percy will be the narrator.

Percy's POV

Why is life so hard? Sometimes I wish I was just a tree. Yes a tree but not just any stupid old tree I would want to be a willow. Why you ask? Well in Central Park there is a willow tree well I like to call it my willow tree. I doubt anybody knows about it expect for maybe someone. Like seriously all the people just think it's a lump of branches and leaves. It was more than that it was my club house well it used to be my club house. It's my "manly hideout" now because it sounded more… manly. I found it when I was six.

Flashback…..

What was that cootie filled girl doing under those green branches? Was that her mommy, they don't look alike. Aren't girls supposed to look like mommy and boys like me look like daddy? That probably wasn't her mom how can a brown hair person make a blonde princess curled person? It just doesn't make any sense. Hey look she's gone! What's under that tree anyways? I am going in! I charged in being careful to not to touch the branches she touched (just in case I get cooties). Wow the leaves were just so pretty just so green like. WOW!

I keep replaying that moment. The moment when my little body (aka my manly lump of a "body") went charging inside. Ever since that discovery I had went there every single day. In elementary school when I was bullied. Then in middle school when a girl I had a crush on said "I hate you" in my face. Then in high school when my girlfriend dumped me for some other guy I think the jerk's name was Luke. Which I heard had a girlfriend who he also dumped. I hated life more than anything and I still do even now when I am 27. I have troubles more than the rest of the world's problems put together. Today I went to the tree because of problems very bad problems. I wish I had someone to understand me. Just someone with troubles like me. I had a place why can't life just give me a person… I put my head on the bark and just closed my eyes. Just then a rustling sound of the branches separating destroyed my peace. How dare they trespass into my land but then a person with blonde hair and gray eyes crawled in. She closed her eyes and just started to talk to the tree so softly that I couldn't hear what she was saying. How come she didn't even say hello? I am not invisible! But when her eyes opened I waved my hand in her face but she didn't seem to notice at all. I cleared my throat. She jumped a little maybe for half an inch.

"Hi I'm Percy what's your name?"

"Annabeth and sorry I didn't notice you. I'm just used to being alone here."

"And is it because you're blinded?"

Opps I don't think that is what I should have said…

"Yeah I am you got a problem with that?"

"Not really. I don't really care."

"How did you find at about this place anyways?"

"Stop acting like you own this place because you don't and I found this place when I was six so beat that!"

"I found this place when I was four!"

Oh great look what you gotten yourself into. I should have just stayed quiet and pretend she wasn't here. Why am I so me! Gosh why can't I be smooth or cool? Yes cool I was reading to a bunch of kids and they threw candy wrappers at me. That was just another one of those days in Percy land. Then I realized she just crawled away. How can she tell where she's going? Isn't she blind then she's been here since she was 4 so I guess she memorized every cement block in the park. Why did she look familiar to me? And why did I have a tingling feeling when I'm near her. I couldn't like her could I? I just met her and I guess we were friends? What am I thinking she is the prettiest girl of the block? Well that is just me see I fell for a girl in within 10 minutes. That is so stalker-ish. Why am I so weird? What is wrong with me? That is a question I wish I could answer. I wished I could answer it but I can't. Well there's one answer and that is that I have ADHD and dyslexia but when you say that back to the question it sounds so lame so boring….. I wish there was sand under this willow tree. Ocean and my willow tree just my idea of a paradise.

An.) So this how Percy and Annabeth meet. Stay tune for more chapters.