Chapter 6

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Song- Midnight Memories by One direction.

Annabeth POV

Time has passed.

Another month.

Total two months without Percy. Total two bad months.

The relationship between me and Luke has come to a kind of understanding. I realized that he was like a brother to me and he had also realized this.

Right now I'm at a beach. The beach Percy showed me. He really is a beach addict.

I come here to feel closer to Percy.

It's funny how one second we were best friends, the next we were strangers, just drifted apart.

I looked out to the sea, the waves crashing on the shore. People playing with the water, making sandcastles, having the time of my life. I saw a previous me being taught to surf by Percy. A happy, carefree Annabeth. A laughing Percy. Having the time of their life.

But now I just sat here, under the shade of a tree, mourning. My novel lay on my side, I was too exhausted to read, too distracted.

Minutes passed with me just gazing out to the sea, a wistful look in my eyes.

Percy once told me to come here when everything seemed lost, so that even if he was not there, the ocean would remind me of him and soothe me, motivate me to not give up. He was right. But that was when we talked to each other.

Right now, I felt as if the water was mocking me, laughing at me. Telling me that I'm here because the person has left me.

I don't know why I am so depressed.

It's not as if he is the first person who left me. My mom, my friends, whom I had known since when I was in diapers, everyone, my father, who was with me only in physical form. Somehow, everyone I had cared about has left me. But the feeling of not being with Percy hurts the most. Maybe it was the knowledge that he had not actually left me, the fact that it was me who kind of left him bothered me the most. I knew that he had a hard life. And maybe the fact that this time, I had abandoned him, hurt me like a hundred knife dug right into my heart while falling into the ice cold ocean.

I wondered if somehow, time will change all of this.

"I am moving."

I was jerked awake from my thoughts.

"When?"

"Today."

"Oh." I said in a small voice. I looked straight ahead.

"I just wanted to tell you," said the voice of the one person who I thought about day and night.

"And you just happened to know where I am." I stated.

Percy sat down beside me and put a hand on my shoulder.

I lay my head on his lap and closed my eyes. I inhaled, memorized, and remembered his familiar smell, way, presence, everything. Maybe it was the last time I would be seeing him.

"Yes, I watched out for you, you know. I know your whole schedule. I know what you did yesterday."

"Oh."

"Annabeth, look at me."

"How long did you know?"

"For a while now."

Silence.

"Annabeth, please don't cry."

I didn't even realize when I had started crying.

But now as I tried to stop, I couldn't. For months I had everything locked up inside me. And now it all came splashing out. I turned on my stomach. I cried as if I was not getting enough oxygen. I inhaled and exhaled. I coughed. I just couldn't control myself. I felt his jeans getting soaked beneath me.

"My mom came to meet me," I managed to cough out between my sobs.

Percy rubbed my back, moving his palm in a circular motion.

"And she isn't anything like I imagined. She is Athena, the owner of the biggest architectural company in the country. And just means business. She just came to me because she wants a good heir. She just can't come waltzing in my life and start controlling me."

Silence was only broken by crying.

"Don't worry, everything will turn out fine,'kay? Just live your dream to be an architect. Forget that she's your mom. I know it's not easy but…..

"Sleep, wise girl, and when you wake up, everything will be fine."

That was what I thought the last day I would talk to him. He moved away. We didn't contact each, not by phone or anything. Yes we had all the numbers and id's but it would be plain awkward.

Two months I had lived without Percy. Four months later I got the biggest shock of my world. Not necessarily a bad one. I was happy for him. Truly happy. Maybe he was telling me to move on. And so I began dating again. A hardcore player. My reputation as a queen bee was still intact. No my friends were not still exactly mine. But I had friends. Normal friends who kept me company. My grades were still on top. Luke was now a confirmed older brother.

Life was unfair. But that's how it is. And you learn to cope up with it.

And I would get an even bigger shock next year.

A/N: O la la!

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