I want to say somethinngg! Percaabeth lover, I know I used your idea. You can virtually hug me if you go to my profile! lol. I hope I did your idea well... I have an idea... I think you're all going to be happy in the end. Even Thalia. Even Nico. Even Annabeth. And even Percy. BUUTTT there's going to be a lot more to the story then you think. BE warned... there is a LOOTTT of italics down. They just need to exaggerate the use of a word a lot, I guess.

I'd day Justin, but he's not gonna be back...

"Look." Thalia growled, plopping a newspaper in front of me. I took a sip of my water bottle, adjusted the strap on my tank top, and looked down.

Love Triangle.

Three pictures, one of me, one of Nico, and one of Thalia. Below the picture were the words; Annabeth Chase; the Bachelorette, has been caught in the middle of a love triangle. Thalia, (right) has been heard talking to Annabeth about how she's in love with Nico Di Angelo, (middle), despite him being one of the seven finalists on the show. A source that will remain anonymous states that he heard it over a phone conversation.

I didn't bother to read the whole article. "What about it?"

"My life is over. Officially."

"You don't know that Nico knows."

"He will. It's on the cover of every freaking magazine in this mansion!"

"What?"

"They restock them every day. It's everywhere. The kitchen, the bathrooms, the outdoor reading. Everywhere."

"Maybe he won't see it."

"He will, Annabeth. My life is over. I never should've told you. None of this would've happened if I hadn't."

"No, you just should've never called him."

"Maybe but-"

Knock knock knock.

"Who's that?" Thalia hissed.

"I don't know. Let's find out." I said, getting up. I checked the peephole. "It's Nico."

Her eyes widened to the size of saucers. "What do I do?"

"I don't know! Hide!" I said.

"Where!"

"I don't know! Wait," I said. I yanked open a drawer and dug around for a minute. Nico knocked again. I tossed Thalia an old and battered Yankees Cap that I hadn't used in years but carried around everywhere for emergencies. Like this.

"What is it?" Thalia asked, catching it.

"It'll turn you invisible."

She put it on her head and instantly disappeared. "Cool!"

"Hide in that corner so I know where not to let him walk."

"Don't worry. I'll just stay out of his way."

"And be-" Nico pounded the door again.

"Annabeth! I need to talk to you!"

"Quiet." I hissed. I whipped open the door. "Nico. Hey. What's up?"

"The sky. Did you see this?" He demanded, holding up a magazine with the picture of the three of us on it.

"Yeah. Who hasn't?" I said.

"Thalia likes me?"

"Of course she likes you. She's friends with you. You gotta like someone to be their friend."

"Not like that, Annabeth. Like."

I bit my lip. I felt something brush my ear. "Tell him. It's okay." Thalia whispered. "I think."

"Yeah." I said finally.

"Since when?" Nico asked, his black eyes boring into me.

"I don't know."

"Oh gods. Oh gods." He said, beginning to pace in a line.

"What's wrong?" I asked, following him. I could sense Thalia was standing right next to me.

"It's just... I don't know!" He said, sounding extremely exasperated. "Thalia?"

"What's wrong with Thalia?" I asked, defending my friend.

"Nothing. I just can't believe it."

"In a good way or bad way?"

"I don't know. She's sixteen. I'm twenty-two. Isn't there some sort of law that means you can't date someone if their under the age of eighteen and your over it?"

"Technically, she's thirty two."

"I'm still about eighty four."

"Your both over the age of eighteen, so... you're good!"

"I never said I liked her!"

Thalia yelped softly from behind me. Nico tensed. "What was that?"

"What was what?" I asked, trying to cover it up.

"That yelp. Is there anyone else here?"

"No." I lied. Nico closed his eyes.

"You're lying. I can sense a life force in here besides us. Annabeth," Nico said, placing his cold (really, really cold) hands on my bare shoulders. "you've got to tell me. Is anyone else in here? What I'm about to tell you, no one can know. At all."

"Thalia said that when she told me about you." I muttered.

"When did she tell you?"

"Really, really early this morning."

"Annabeth. Is there anyone in here?"

I heard someone's footsteps on the tile floor in the bathroom. Nico's head whipped toward it, and he headed in. "Hello?" He called, his hands out in front of him. "Anybody here?" Suddenly he gasped, felt around a bit, then finally took the hat of Thalia's head. His eyes showed many things: Shock, disbelief, anger, apprehension, a bit of admiration, loathing (which lasted the shortest), torment, suffering, dismayed, but most of all; he looked as if something he'd lost came back. The same look in his eyes when I had first met him at the beginning of the show.

"Thalia?" He choked out, and his voice sounded like his eyes looked.

"Nico."

"Do you?" He didn't need to say what. Thalia nodded slightly, her blue eyes half filled with tears.

"Yeah."

"But..."

"But what Nico?" Thalia burst out. Nico looked surprised. "But what? You don't like me, you like Annabeth. It's obvious."

"It's not obvious, Thalia! It's not obvious because I don't know!"

"What?"

"I don't know. I just don't know. I do like you, but I like Annabeth too. It's too hard. Don't make me make this choice." Nico pleaded. "Please."

"Nico," we both said. Thalia looked at me, and I continued. "you have to."

"I can't, you guys. I can't. It's the impossible choice."

"Nico!" Thalia growled, getting up from where she had slid to the floor. "It's not. Alright? The impossible choice would be deciding whether or not to join the Hunt. The impossible choice would be deciding whether or not to use your Swiss Army Knife to hack off your leg while you're trapped under that goddam staute so you can see your best friend in his final moments." She took a shaky breath and when she closed her eyes, tears spilled out. Without opening her eyes, she spoke again. "The impossible choice would be deciding to let yourself fall in love with someone you know you shouldn't. That you can't. But then your realize you can't help yourself and you try desperately to keep it from anyone who would ruin your life. This isn't the impossible choice, Nico. At all." Her voice rose with each word until she was basically screaming at the end.

Nico was silent. He fell to the ground and let his head roll to the left. His eyes were closed, and I could practically see the gears whirring in his head, trying to figure this mess out.

"I can't, Thalia."

"What about me?" I spoke up. "Would you choose for me?"

"I can't tell you, because I don't know. I can't stand it. It's driving me insane!"

"Of course you know! Maybe not now, but deep, deep inside you know." Thalia said quietly. "And I know it's Annabeth."

"Maybe it is Annabeth, Thalia! I don't know. I can't decide between someone who might not even love me in the first place and someone who I just realized I've been crushing on for ages. Do you know what that's like, Thalia? Knowing something's different with you but not being able to realize what it is? You know how shocked I was when I figured it out? When I realized I love both of you?"

Thalia didn't answer for a while. "I do, Nico. I didn't even know I loved you. It came as double for me. I was shocked beyond words."

"Yeah right."

She glared at him, a look that could probably kill him if he had looked her in the eye. "Because being a freaking Hunter isn't enough! It doesn't matter anyway. You're gonna chose Annabeth. I just wish you hadn't made it so obvious." She stormed out of the room.

"Have you ever noticed that maybe I've done the same thing to you too Thalia? I've been crushing on you both since I've gotten to know you. Forever." Nico said, sounding as if he forgot I was there. Again, that flash of silver appeared next to him, solidifying only for a second before fading away. Nico shook his head, as if whatever the silver thing had told him was wrong. Without a word, he stormed out of the room. I winced when I heard the door slam, shaking everything on the walls. There was deadly silence.

Without a word, I started to cry.

Without a word, I got up and washed my face when I was done.

Without a word, I picked up my phone.

Without a word, I texted Nico asking who he picked.

He didn't reply.

Why did I feel so sick?

-o-

Surprisingly, there wasn't any surprising or unusual events at the activity. We had dinner together. I barely ate anything. The entire thing went by in a daze. Nico sat as in an odd spot. Semi-close to me, yet closest to the door. Percy sat next to me, and on the other side was Cody. Anyway, after the dinner, after Gigi and the girls had gotten me dressed up, (Gigi's rent didn't go up, thank the gods.), Chris wheeled me to the Rose Room and told me two men would have to go home.

"Why? It's the final six. Shouldn't I only send one home?"

"I drew a C.A.R.D."

"Card?"

"No, a C.A.R.D. Creative Activity Reducing Dogs."

"Dogs?"

"Dogs symbolizing the men of course."

"Oh. So you drew one?"

"Yes, it's a tradition. If someone on the show leaves, then for the next episode you draw a C.A.R.D."

"Um... Okay?"

"Yes, now go. There are only four roses. Go out and pick your men."

I took a deep breath. "Okay."

He gave me a little push, and then disappeared behind a curtain where I knew he would reappear in that corner. I took another deep breath and pushed open the wooden doors. I didn't even glance at the men until I picked up the first rose. Then, I turned toward them, spinning on my heel.

"Two of you must leave tonight. It's part of the activity today."

Collective murmurs, none sounded good. I could see the look of hope on their faces, Percy attempted to look like he had the advantage, Nico looked blank. I picked up the first rose. I took a deep breath, then froze when someone whispered ever so softly in my ear. "You can have him." I tried to not move my lips as I hissed, "Thalia?"

"You can have Nico, Annabeth. It's okay." She didn't sound okay.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

The men were looking confused, and Chris was beckoning for me to continue, so I did.

"Nico," I asked. His eyebrows popped up. "will you accept this rose?"

He walked up to me. "What about-"

I heard her whisper into his ear, but I don't think it'd be nice to tell you what she said. Some things have to remain private, you know? Anyway, Nico nodded, said the same thing back to Thalia, and took my rose. He went to the safe zone.

"Percy," I said, more certain now. "will you accept this rose?"

"What happened to-"

"Later." I whispered in his ear. He joined Nico at the safe zone. Ten minutes later, only Cody, Brandon, Austin remained.

-o-

"Why did you give him up?" Was the first thing I said when I barged into my room. Thalia was sitting on the floor, staring at the wall.

"I don't know. It's the right thing to do."

"You lie. You still want him."

"Of course I do. You don't get over your second love any faster then your first."

I think I know who's she's talking about, but I know better then to ask. "I know."

"How?"

"Thalia, you don't know who I've fallen in love with over the years. Each one has let me down in some way or another. Only two haven't."

She knew better then to ask too, though I could sense she wanted too.

"I don't get it, Annabeth. Why does love have to be so complicated?"

"It's just like it's mother. Aphrodite."

"Figures. You think she has something to do with it?"

I shook my head. "She can't control us. She can't control our feeling. She can only alter them for as long as she's in our presence, and even then it's only if she wants to."

"How do you know that?"

"I studied the gods basically my entire childhood. I know things."

"I know you do. So do I."

I was silent.

"Annabeth?"

"Yeah?"

"I hate you."

"Thanks."

"But... I love you too. As a friend. Not like that."

"I know."

She rolled on her back. "Do people think it's weird for a sixteen year old to be hanging around with you?"

"Yep. But I don't care. You're the best friend a girl could have. Mostly."

"Thanks."

A beep told me I received a text message. I opened it up. It was from Percy.

What's up between you and Nico? He's acting all weird.

I looked up at Thalia, who was staring at the wall again. Her eyebrows were scrunched up and her blue eyes were barely visible slits. Her arms were crossed, and she had changed out of her silver Hunter's dress and into some tattered black jeans and her old, DEATH TO BARBIE T-shirt. I looked back down at the screen and replied.

I wish I knew, Percy. I wish I knew.

Soooo... ummm... Not the best. But I could just see Nico pacing around the room in the morning while Annabeth was watching him and an invisible Thalia following him. Annyyywaaaay... Forgive me? Not the best... I know... But I promise in the end you'll forgive me. You guys are gonna love the end, I promise. Now, I have one question;

Do you mind if I just do the drama of the people on the Bachelorette, or do you like it when I make them all do the activity? Also, do you care if I write in different POV's?

Alrightey then. I have SOOOO many reviews! THANK YOU SOOOO SOO SO SO SO SO MUCH!

-Blue.