Mark of Athena
Sorry for not updating for a while. I've just been a little busy. I'll try to update more often though. I also didn't know how to update so I had to have my friend show me how.
Chapter 2
Percy
I was so happy. Annabeth's finally here! I was so happy I couldn't keep the crazy look off of my face. I was jumping in anticipation.
"Percy, calm down," Hazel said. "You're going nuts and you're embarrassing us,"
"Oh, be quiet," I said back jokingly.
I walked down the aisle the Romans made for Reyna and I with my arms around Hazel and Frank. I was able to stop jumping but I couldn't keep the wacky grin off my face.
I looked up at the ship. A guy with blond hair and blue eyes was walking down the ramp. He looked about fifteen. I guessed he was Jason because the whole crowd gasped as he walked down the ramp.
Then I looked up to the top of the ramp. There she was. Annabeth. She had her blond hair pulled back into a messy ponytail. Her stormy gray eyes were rimmed with red and her cheeks were puffy, so it looked like she had been crying.
I couldn't just run up to her, as much as I wanted to, because I needed to set an example for the rest of the camp.
"Hurry! Attack them before they attack us!" Octavian shouted.
"Be quiet, Octavian!" I shouted back, my eyes never leaving Annabeth.
She stared at me for about five seconds after I yelled at Octavian, then her eyes teared up and she ran back into the ship.
"No, Annabeth, wait!" I yelled and ran after her, not caring what anybody else thought. "Annabeth!"
I ran up the ramp and turned the corner when I bumped into two kids and plowed them, and myself, into the ground.
"I am so sorry!" I said, getting off the two kids and giving them each a hand to pull themselves up. "I didn't see you coming!"
"It's okay," the kids said in was a boy and a girl. They both looked about fifteen.
"Hey! You must be Percy Jackson!" the boy said excitedly. "You're awesome! You're, like, a legend back at Camp Half-Blood!" Suddenly, his hands caught fire.
"Uh, thanks," I said awkwardly. The girl noticed I was staring at his hands and spoke up.
"Leo, calm down and extinguish your hands. You're freaking him out."
"Oh, sorry." Leo replied, embarrassed.
"Have you seen Annabeth?" I asked.
"Yeah," the girl said. "She ran that way, I'm guessing to her bunk. Go that way, down the first staircase on the left, take a left, her room is the third one on the right."
"Thanks! It was nice meeting you." I yelled over my shoulder as I ran, following the girl's directions.
I did as the girl said and I came up to a room with the door opened just a crack. I heard crying on the other side. Annabeth. I thought. I knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Annabeth croaked.
I pushed the door open more. She looked up at me and wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Hi Percy, I'm Annabeth, daughter of-" Annabeth started.
"Athena, I know. What's wrong? You saw me out there and then just ran back in here crying." I interrupted. I walked over and sat on her bed.
"Look, if you have a girlfriend here, it's okay. I just want you to be happy."
"What? Oh- you mean- oh. Annabeth, the girl I had my arm around was Hazel and she's not my girlfriend, you are."
Annabeth looked up at me hopefully.
"Annabeth, you're the only girl I want to be with."
"Really?"
"Really,"
I pulled her into a hug.
"Annabeth, I love you,"
She burst into tears, but I could tell they were happy tears by the way she was smiling.
"I love you, too."
Then, we had our first kiss in eight months. And it was awesome. I forgot about everything around us and just lived in this moment. I was the happiest I'd ever been.
"I thought you forgot about me," Annabeth sobbed after I pulled away.
"You were the only thing I remembered. Even when Hera had my memories. I missed you, Wise Girl."
"I missed you, too, Seaweed Brain."
"You guys! We are supposed to be outside! You can resume this later!"
My cheeks were hitting an all time record for being red. I looked over at Annabeth and saw her blushing, too.
I looked at the person in the doorway. It was the girl I knocked over earlier. I finally got a good look at her. She had tan skin, brown hair, and kaleidoscopic eyes. I could tell she was a daughter of Aphrodite.
"Sorry," Annabeth and I said at the same time.
"Come on, guys. Let's go. We've got lots of people to meet!" the girl said and she led us out the door, Annabeth and I hand in hand.
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