Hey, guys! How did you guys like the last chapter? Before, you guys jump to conclusions, NO, they're not getting back together, yet. But don't worry they'll be together before they visit Sally and Paul! Also, you might want to read the AN's note at the end, I have a very important announcement.
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Chapter Six: Gwen II
This morning at breakfast Percy asked me to meet him in his bunk after breakfast, and I agreed.
"What's going on between you two? I mean just last week you guys were the happiest couple in the world and now it's like you guys are the most miserable couple in the world!" Reyna said while Hazel nodded her head in agreement. Reyna, Hazel, and I were the only ones that were still in the dining pavilion except for Thalia, Rachel, Piper, and Clarisse.
"I don't know, Reyna. Ever since Percy was visited by his father and since the Greeks came, he's been different lately." I replied.
"I know I've noticed the changes. You know who's also changed?" She asked.
"Jason?" I answered.
"No, even though he has changed, his change is that he seems happier and I'm glad for him, we could all use a little happiness in our lives right now. But I'm talking about Dakota." Reyna said
"Yeah, your right. He has changed at first I couldn't see the changes but know the more that I think about the more I realize your right." I said.
"At first the changes was small, but know you could tell. I mean just a few weeks ago he was self-centered, arrogant, egotistical, and rude. Now we have the Dakota we had before the war: nice, caring, modest, selfless, and benevolent." Hazel said.
"Hazel, you know that we are not daughters of Minerva! Unless you plan on being a human dictionary at our expense; stop using big words!" Reyna said.
"I agree with Reyna," I said.
"If you guys stopped gossiping and did something educational you would know what I'm talking about and I wasn't even using big words!" Hazel said amused.
"Anyways, back to Dakota. I wonder what caused him to change." I said.
"I think it was Hazel's sister, Annabeth, I mean when he's around her he's nice and not self-centered. He's always trying to impress her whenever she's around." Reyna said.
"Gods, I really hope he doesn't like my sister." Hazel said.
"Speaking of your sister, what's she like?" I asked trying not to be suspicious.
"She's very nice, caring, loyal, helpful, and fun." Hazel described.
"But, why do you want to know?" Reyna asked. I hadn't told anyone about the fight between Percy and I; I should have told Reyna and Hazel about the fight right after it happened since they are my best friends. The more I thought about it the more guilty I felt so I decided to go ahead and tell them about the fight.
"Gwen! I can't believe you said that about her! You don't even know her! But, I can't believe that Percy said that to you." Reyna said astonished.
"I can't believe you would have said that about someone you don't know. Gwen, you really should've trusted Percy more." Hazel said.
"I know! As soon as I said what I said I felt so guilty. Do you think he'll break up with me? I've never seen him that mad!" I confessed.
"I don't know but I hope he doesn't," Reyna said. Before Hazel or I could reply we heard footsteps walking into the dinning pavilion. We all looked up in surprise to see an angry Annabeth fast-walking into the dining pavilion followed by a guilty looking Dakota.
"I'm sorry, Annabeth, but you know it's true!" Dakota cried.
Annabeth spun around, startling Dakota and almost making him run into her, and said in a fierce voice, "Stop apologizing, Dakota, because I know you don't mean it! And no, it's not true! You don't even know the first thing about him! You must be talking about yourself because you gave a pretty accurate description!"
Then Dakota did the most stupidest thing he could have done in a situation like this: he kissed her. I turned around to look at Thalia, Rachel, Piper, and Clarisse to see how they were taking it, and their eyes were as big as saucers and their mouths were hanging open like an unhinged door and I'm pretty sure I looked the same as them. I turned around to look at Reyna and Hazel to see that they looked just like the rest of us. I turned my attention back to the Annabeth and Dakota, just as Annabeth shoved Dakota off of her; while staring at him in shock. Then she slapped him so hard you could hear an echo. Annabeth spun on her heels and walked out of the room with tears of anger pouring down her face. Thalia, Rachel, Piper, and Clarisse ran past Dakota, when Thalia ran by Dakota she put her hand on his shoulder and gave him a very strong zap to where you could see the smoke coming off of him and when Clarisse ran past him she kneed him in stomach and from the looks of it, she kneed him hard.
Dakota was still groaning from his injuries when we walked up to him.
"Why in the name of Jupiter would you do that?" I all but screamed at him.
"That's the problem; he wasn't thinking! But, if he was he was probably only thinking about himself!" Reyna screamed.
"I thought she liked me! And I liked her; so I kissed her! But, I didn't expect for that to happen nor did I expect for all of you guys to be here," Dakota defended himself.
"This is your problem: you always think that girls like you! It's the other way around Dakota: you always like girls and some of them don't like you back! That's why you can't keep, no better yet, that's why you can't get a girlfriend! You think that girls like you when they really don't, and that's because you are an self-centered, egotistical, rude, and arrogant person!" Hazel yelled.
"Thanks for the pep talk guys, really! And in case you haven't noticed I, your friend, am lying on the floor of a dining pavilion withering in agony." Dakota said.
"As much as I want to leave you here, I won't. Are you guys going to help me drag him to the infirmary," Reyna said.
"I'll help you," I said.
"Me too," Hazel said. Together we manage to drag Dakota to the infirmary which was right next to the training arena.
When we entered the infirmary Will, Jason, Malcom, and Leo had taken the bedside chairs from the cots and had re-arranged them to make a circle. They were just lounging in the chairs playing some sort of hand game.
I cleared my throat to get their attention and they turned their heads to look in our direction.
"Hey guys! What's going on? And what happened to Dakota?" Will asked.
"Well, let's just say he tried to kiss my dear sister and it didn't end well." Hazel said.
"What!" Malcom said while spewing out some water he had been taking a drink out of when Hazel explained.
"Yup, you heard me bro, he kissed Annabeth," Hazel said.
"Ok, how about you guys drop Dakota on the floor and start the story from the top." Will said. We let Dakota drop to the floor earning, "I don't think he literally meant drop me on the floor!" from Dakota and several "Shut ups!" for him. We started the story from the top but we left out the most of the beginning. By the time we finished most of the guys were laughing on the floor while Malcom was saying, "I hope Annabeth's alright," but he was trying to hold back a faint smile from when we told them about Dakota's injures.
"Ha-ha-ha! Yeah, just go ahead and laugh! Will if you don't mind, will you please heal my injuries they hurt like Hades!" Dakota complained.
"You look so funny, Dakota! Too bad you can't see yourself! Wait, does anybody have a camera?" Jason asked. It was true Dakota did look funny with his clothes burned black and his hair standing up like a porcupine's, and a huge red hand mark on his left cheek, also it didn't help that he kept curling into a ball clutching his stomach. So basically, except for the fact that he had a huge red hand mark on his left cheek and the fact that porcupines usually have white at the tip of their quills; he look like a porcupine
"I do!" Leo yelled as he pulled a camera out of his tool belt, how that happened; I may never know.
When Dakota saw the camera he tried to stand up and run away but Malcom and Will pinned him down while Jason took a few snap-shots and the pictures were even funnier since Dakota was trying to fight off Will and Malcom. Jason and Leo finally stopped taking pictures when Malcom and Will heaved Dakota into one of the cots.
As Leo and Jason looked through all of the pictures they took, Leo said, "We have got to go show these pictures to Percy and the Stolls, let's go to the Stolls first, that way they can help us print these out."
" Valdez, you are a genius!" Jason said as they headed towards the boys side of the ship.
"Speaking of Percy I should go and meet him. Bye, guys," I said.
"Bye, Gwen," Reyna and Hazel said at the same time. I walked out of the infirmary and headed the way Jason and Leo went. Soon, I was in front of a door with writing on which said, "Boy's bunkers.", I pushed the door opened and walked down the bright hallway until I stopped at a door with the number three on it. I was about to knock on the door when the door opened and Butch and Katie came out followed by Percy.
"Thanks, Percy," Katie said while Butch nodded his head in thanks.
"Hey, Gwen. What are you doing here?" Percy asked when he noticed me.
"Remember Perce, you said that you wanted me to meet you in your bunk." I reminded him.
"Ohhhh….yeah, come on I wanted to take you stable, so you could see Blackjack and I need to talk to you," He said as he started leading me back down the bright hallway. We were just about to go out the door leading back to deck when the Stolls stumbled through.
"Hey, Travis, Katie's looking for you, and have you seen Chiron, Annabeth and I need to talk to him," Percy told them.
"Thanks, Perce," Travis said as he sighed a went back on deck to go find his girlfriend.
"Last time I saw Chiron he was at the Command Center up at the front." Connor told him.
"Thanks, man, see ya' later," Percy said as he and I walked past him and onto the deck.
"So, why do you and Annabeth need to go talk to Chiron?" I asked as we made our way towards the stables.
"The night before we set sail, Annabeth, Jason, Leo, Piper, and I had Iris messaged my parents and we had made arrangements to go see my parents this coming up Wednesday and Annabeth and I wanted to make sure that it was ok with Chiron."
"Oh…..who's all going?" I asked.
"Annabeth, Jason, Leo, Piper, Thalia, Nico, Rachel, and Grover are coming. You can come if you'd like I was planning on asking you, Hazel, Reyna, Bobby, and Dakota. Since we have to explain the situation with Gaea I wanted you guys to come." Percy said.
"I'll tell Hazel and Reyna for you, if you don't mind," I offered.
"Yeah, I don't mind. Thanks, Gwen," He replied.
As we passed the conference room the door opened and a very angry Annabeth came out heading straight for the Library. Thalia and Rachel were going to follow her but Percy said, "I'll go. I'm sorry, Gwen, but we are going to have to wait to talk. Meet me after lunch in the stables,"
Before I could reply he took off in the direction that Annabeth went in. I sighed and turned back around heading for the media room knowing that Hazel and Reyna would be there.
"Reyna, Hazel, you guys in here?" I asked as I pushed open the media room door.
"Yup, were in the back," Hazel called out. Sure enough when I rounded the corner Reyna and Hazel were lounging on the one of the couches watching a movie with the lights off.
"Hey, guys. What are you watching?" I asked them.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1," Reyna replied as Hazel paused the movie and turned on the lights.
"What are you doing here I thought Percy and you were supposed to be talking," Hazel asked.
"He was taking me to the stables, and as we passed the conference room Annabeth ran out of it, so Percy went after her." I told them.
"Oh," they replied.
"Yeah, but he said that he wanted me to meet him in the stables after lunch. And he wanted me to tell you guys that he's planning on going to his mom's to explain about Gaea and he wants us to come help explain," I told them.
"Ok, who else are going to be there?" Reyna asked.
"Thalia, Nico, Annabeth, Grover, Jason, Leo, Piper, Bobby, and Dakota are going. But, he still needs to get Chiron's permission to go." I informed them.
"That's cool. So do you want to finish watching the movie with us or not?" Hazel asked.
"Yup, what part are you on?" I asked as I sat down on a loveseat.
"We just started, but were on the part were Hermione erases herself from her parents memory," Reyna said as she got up and turned off the lights while Hazel pressed play.
"Why don't we have a Harry Potter Marathon?"
By the time it was lunch we were on the 'Goblet of Fire'. Dakota felt good enough to have lunch in the dining pavilion instead of in the infirmary. But lucky for him, Annabeth wasn't at lunch, and Percy wasn't at either. Lunch was very uneventful well that was until the Stoll brothers started annoying Clarisse and she pushed Connor's (or was it Travis?) head in his plate of food getting barbeque all over his face. After that incident we all started joking around and teasing Connor.
When lunch was over I walked out of the dining pavilion and headed straight for the stables.
"Gwen, I need to tell you something important!" Dakota said running up from behind me and grabbing my wrist.
"What is it?" I said while trying to yankmy wrist from his grip.
"I just want you to know that…." Dakota leaned in to whisper in my ear, "I just thought you should know that Percy told me that the night the Greeks came Percy kissed Annabeth."
And with that said he let go of my wrist and walked away leaving me alone to process what I just heard. After I got over the shock of what Dakota told me, I stomped over to the stables and stormed inside to find Percy brushing an all-black as midnight Pegasus.
"Perseus, you wanted to talk to me?" I asked with anger filling my voice as I stalked over to him.
"Why are you mad? You only call me 'Perseus' when your mad." Percy asked me.
"Ohhh, it's nothing! But, a little birdy told me that the night the Greeks came you kissed Annabeth!" I screamed at him.
"Look, I'm sorry! Who told you, anyways? Dakota told you didn't he?" He told me glancing behind my back to make sure that the stable doors were closed so nobody could hear us.
"I can't believe you had the nerve to lie to me and say that there was nothing between you two and that if I question your loyalty then you question—," I got cut off by him saying, "Gwen, I want to break-up,"
"What? Why?" I said taken back.
"Just so you know this has nothing to do with Annabeth; it's just I always feel guilty when I'm hugging, holding hands, or kissing you. And I'm not comfortable being in a relationship that I'm guilt about. I'm sorry Gwen, but we're over."
"Fine, Percy. I guess I understand," I said while struggling to keep the tears in. I turned around and walked out of the stable. I headed straight for the girl's bunkers and ran straight into my room and cried. Hazel and Reyna must have saw me walk out of the stable trying not to cry because they were hot on heels. They held me as I cried murmuring soothing words. When I finally stopped crying Reyna said, "What happened?"
"Percy," was all I said. I started to sniffle when Hazel asked, "What did he do? Start from the top."
"Well, first I was making my way to the stable when Dakota stopped me and told me that the nights the Greeks came Percy kissed Annabeth…..," I started telling them what had happened in the stable.
When I finished telling them what happened Reyna said, "Forget about him, Gwen. It's his loss. So do you want to go finish our Harry Potter marathon or not?"
And that is how I ended up on the loveseat in the media room again, getting over being dumped by sitting down and watching Harry Potter movies. Before we knew it; it was already time for dinner and we had finished all of the Harry Potter movies and we were watching 'Green Hornet'. (A/N: Has anyone saw that movie? I want to see it.)
At dinner since Annabeth was there, thank the gods, Dakota had enough sense to sit far away from Annabeth. I made sure that there were as many people as possible between me and Percy. Every time Percy would catch my eye I would glare at him and turn around. I was silent all throughout dinner and Reyna and Hazel would occasionally throw worried glances at me but I would just shrug them off. When dinner was over I spotted Annabeth heading towards the girl's bunkers while everybody else went to the camp fire site, so I decided to follow her and talk to her. As soon as I was in the hallway I made sure that I was far enough behind her to make sure she didn't hear me; when she went into her room I waited five minutes before I walked up to her door and knocked on it.
"Come on in, Gwen," she said.
"How did you know it was me," I asked as I stepped into her room.
"I could hear your footsteps and your breathing." She told me. She studied me for a moment before she patted the spot next to her in her bed.
"If you're here for an apology you're not getting one," Annabeth.
"Even though I deserve one, I don't care, I want to talk to you." I told her as I sat down beside her.
"If anyone deserves an apology it would be me." she said.
"It's doesn't always have to be about you, you know."
"Gwen, it has never been about me. Everybody in my life has disappeared, I don't get what I want, and I don't have a loving family, I never did; even if my parents try to accept me for who I am. The only one who has been there for me was, Percy. So I'm not going to apologize for kissing Percy." She said.
"Why? You kissed someone else's boyfriend." I said.
"Did you ever think that Percy already had a girlfriend from where ever he came from?" she asked tears spilling down her face.
Then I understood. I understood why she wasn't going to apologize and everything else: why the Greeks always gave her sympathetic looks when they saw Percy and me holding hands or talking to each other, and why Percy's friends didn't seem to like me that much.
"Annabeth, I'm so sorry." I said and I really was, here I was thinking that she was trying to steal my boyfriend away from me when I had really stole her boyfriend away from her.
"Do you know how hard it was for me to stand there looking at you and Percy's intertwined fingers?" she asked her voice was thick with tears.
I shook my head in response to her question.
"Do you know who long I've known Percy? I've known him since he was twelve and it took pretty much three of those four years for him to finally realize he loved me. We had only been dating for about three months when he had disappeared. Do you know how hard it was for me? And when I found out his memory was gone, I was devastated. It was like having something you built that took you years to work on destroyed. You know, I hardly ever cry. You can ask anybody on this ship even Jason, Leo, and Piper know that and they haven't known me for a long time." She said. I was silent, I felt so many emotions that I couldn't describe what I was feeling. I watched silently as Annabeth stood up and pulled something out under her bed; it was a box of pictures.
"Percy told me what you said about me when you guys had that fight. So I want to tell you about my past. I want you to get to know me for who I really am and I hope you will tell me about yourself. And just so you know I don't tell people that I just met about my past. I don't know why I'm trusting you, I guess you have the same aura that your mom has: you make me feel like I can tell you anything. So I would really appreciate if you don't tell anybody what I'm about to tell you. It took me about all of the years we've known each other for me tell Percy, my best friend. And please don't tell Percy about what I told you, I want him to remember me on his own." She told me.
"Annabeth, you don't know how sorry and guilty I feel and I'm am truly sorry. I would love to get to know you. Also, I would be honored to tell you my story and I'd be honored to hear your story, and don't worry your secrets safe with me." I told her. With that said she started telling me her life story and she showed me some pictures, and when she was done I started to tell her my life story. By the time we were done telling each other everything it was past 2 o'clock in the morning. As I fell asleep I thought about how everybody was worried that we, the Greeks and the Romans, wouldn't get along. That was the last thing I thought about before I drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
Ok, how was it? Sorry, if Annabeth seemed a little OOC. So Percy finally broke up with Gwen! And Gwen finally finds out that she stole Annabeth's boyfriend. Guys, I have something important to tell you…..I'm going to go ahead and start The Nanny I will be posting the first chapter…TODAY! But, this does not me I will abandoned this story! Nor will I ever intentionally abandon anyone of my stories. I want to see if I can multi-task by writing two stories at once. And I enjoyed writing this chapter and the first chapter of The Nanny at the same time. So, please go check out my new story and review and tell me if I should continue. Review and I'll update!
~booklover484 :D