Did you guys miss me? Yeah. Really? I'm so touched. I'm just loving these non responsive conversations, loving 'em.
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Annabeth's P.O.V.
Annabeth sat patiently as she took sight of Percy scanning the entire McDonalds, presumably looking for her, only to wait a good five minutes until he had actually noticed and located her. Percy grinned widely, and beckoned the two boys, who were currently at his side, to follow his pursuit. They both gave each other tentative glances until obeying to Percy's requests. Leo stared at Percy questioningly, arching his eyebrows in surprise. In reply, Percy shot him a dismissive look, his glowing sea green eyes fixed on Annabeth. Percy worked his way through the maze of tables until he neared Annabeth, slipping into an identical booth, hers particularly.
Annabeth could feel the heat rising to her face, and she was definite there was light blush on her face. "How's the date going?" Percy asked them, however, the question was directed unto Annabeth. As Annabeth was about to answer, Leo quickly sat up and took the advantage of answering for her.
"It's going great," Leo said, a false smile on his face. "You know, usually friends who set someone up on a date don't interfere." Annabeth watched, entertained, as Leo tried to send Percy a silent invitation out with his eyes.
Either Percy didn't catch on or he decided to disregard the hint. "Well, I'm sure you know about Annabeth's situation and I've come to check on her. To see if she's comfortable, or having a great time. Apparently it's considered a felony!" Percy reared his hands up in a surrending gesture. Annabeth released a low chuckle, then looked down in embarassment after the boys grasped their attention on her. They all sent her a small smile, except for Leo.
She took the time given to briefly observe the other two boys that had came along with Percy. The first one that caught her attention was wearing a beat-up rasta cap, with a black pumba sewn onto the side of it. His hair was a burnt orange color that massively curled around the edges of his pale face. What made Annabeth look away from him slightly was the amount of acne scattered around his face. Annabeth wondered how someone could develop so much acne, then again everyone has a different skin type and the effects are different. She also noticed an extreme abundant of body hair covering his skin. To sum up the observation, Annabeth declared he resembled a goat not because he was also leaning on crutches. But because of his posture, and appearance.
The boy next to him was the complete opposite. He wore the normal surf boy attire, and resembled a couple of boys she would casually see roaming the streets in California. He had short, cropped blond hair that didn't even reach above his eyebrows. Instead of having sky blue eyes, he had intense electrifying blue eyes that surely brought out his appearence. The only other thing she noticed about him was a scar above his lip, which made Annabeth's curiosity rise as to what happened.
Percy must've noticed her staring at them, so he introduce them to her. "Annabeth, meet Grover." He pointed to the boy wearing the rasta cap. "And this is Jason," Percy finished, gesturing to the other boy.
"Hey, guys," Leo greeted, and they both nodded at him. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Well, they wanted to meet Annabeth," Percy said. "They're huge fans." Percy whispered the last part to Annabeth, but Jason over heard.
"I'm not a fan," Jason mumbled. "I just admire your surfing, I guess."
"T-Thank you," Annabeth muttered, staring down at the table awkwardly.
Percy cleared his throat. "Anyway, Grover is a fan! I'd be lying if I said he didn't have a poster or two of you. Also, Jason is participating in the surf event it would make sense for him to see his competiton."
Annabeth was on the edge of embarassment by now. Poster? That's right, she had taken a photo shoot with Billabong sporting off their new swimsuit summer line. Annabeth wasn't comfortable with the fact that a boy, possibly many others, had a poster of her hanging in their rooms. She found it rather creepy than sweet.
Leo's phone buzzed, and he tried to get it in a rush, ending up only fumbling with it. While doing so, a weird ringtone played.
Ringtone
Why did I buy this stupid ringtone? ( Ringtone )
I just can't imagine what I was thinking, at all. (What was I thinking?)
My friends all stare at me whenever I get a call..
Annabeth strangely admitted that it wasn't really all that bad. The voices that sang in the ringtone were melodic, and created catchy harmonies. Though, after a while Annabeth was sure she would get annoyed if it were to continue to play repeatedly. Leo fumbled with his phone, punched a few buttons until he held it up to elf-like ears. Leo's face dropped from neutral to worry, maybe even a drop of panic.
"All right, all right," Leo said, as if he were calming someone down. "I'll be over as soon as possible. Calm your nuts, temerario." After recieving a few insanely innocent looks from Percy, Leo corrected himself more like explained. "Nuts as in coupling nuts, barrel nuts, flange nuts." As Leo listed off a couple of examples, which only resulted in Percy's face getting red from laughter. Even Jason snorted a bit, while Grover and Annabeth settled with a small smile.
"Hardware equipment, you culo!" Leo said, his face also red, it was clear that he was trying to hold his laughter but for the sake of the other person on the line he tried to take the situation with all seriousness. Annabeth wasn't very keen on the choice of words Leo decided to use against Percy, but she decided to let it slip.
It took about two minutes for Leo to finish up his conversation until Leo turned towards Annabeth with a look of unsure disappointment on his face. "Look, Annabeth, it was nice meeting you and all. My family needs some assistance down out our hardware shop. Even though this date was technically only about seventeen minutes." Leo glanced down at his watch to confirm the right time, "And we still haven't gotten our damn FOOD!" He shouted the last bit to Nancy, who quickly perked up and shouted at a couple of employees to hurry up.
"I just wanted to let you know that whenever you want to hang out call me." Leo threw the famous "call me" symbol in just for a given example, "Or if you get attacked by a shark while in the water, and any of your limbs happen to get bitten off. My family is working on robotic limbs, and they're somewhat accurately working. Let's hope it isn't the second thing, I would like you better with two legs." Leo winked at Annabeth, causing her to fidget.
Annabeth nodded mutely, reluctantly taking the piece of paper with his number scribbled on it. "Yeah, I would prefer if I had two legs, too, and the possibility of losing some weren't adressed in a farewell." Leo only grinned, as he dashed out of McDonalds leaving Annabeth alone with Percy, Jason, and Grover.
Jason and Grover slid into the booth Leo had been sitting in and Annabeth, including them, stared at Percy expectantingly. Percy was about to announce something but Nancy interrupted that from occuring with bringing a tray a food, and two additonal ice cream cones over. "I'm so sorry for the incovenience, I hope the ice cream cones will make up for everything!" Nancy scampered off, blushing at the grateful look Percy sent her. While Jason and Percy handled the ice cream cones, and Grover had no shame in eating Leo's abandoned Big Mac combo.
For some reason, Annabeth felt a twinge of jealousy spiral through her. Annabeth didn't recognize what it meant, until she recaped a certain scenario she saw on a television show. Jealousy is usually stricken when negative thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something someone values or for other reasons. Annabeth wasn't sure why she was feeling it now. Could she have possibly developed some sort of crush on Percy?
Annabeth silently dismissed the very of thought of it, she had only know Percy for a day. Of course, she liked Percy as a friend. Was it even possible to have such a strong feeling for someone only after a day? Annabeth was swept out of her thoughts when Percy kicked her shin, and was somehow sitting infront of her rather than beside her. She looked around for Jason and Grover, only to see that they were nowhere in sight.
"Jason's sister has a fear of heights, got dared to go on a ferris wheel and won't come down," Percy explained. "As for Grover he left to meet up with his girlfriend."
"How long ago did they leave?" Annabeth asked.
"About five minutes ago," Percy answered, slowly forming a smirk. "You didn't seem to mind checking me out during that time, either."
Annabeth blushed, was she really staring at him? "I wasn't checking you out, I was in deep thought and you happened to appear in the place I was concentrated on."
"Right, right." Percy laughed, which caused Annabeth to smile a tad. She hadn't took time to observe his laugh, but it was hearty. Deep sounding. Like the waves of the ocean crashing against still, secluded rocks. "Care to say what's on your mind?"
Annabeth couldn't prevent herself from blushing again at her current thoughts, so she shook her head in reply. "No, I'm totally fine with keeping it to myself."
Percy nodded, his lopsided smile growing by the second until his eyes grew wide with excitement. "Hey, you want to go somewhere?!"
Annabeth was a little weary about his excitement, so she remained cautious. "Any specifics as to where?"
Percy grinned increased at the question for some reason. "Well, it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you, now would it?"
Percy got up from his seat, outstreching his hand for Annabeth to grab a hold of, a charming smile plastered on his face. "But I don't like surprises," Annabeth mumbled as she gathered her stuff, timidly accepting Percy's hand.
"Neither do I," Percy admitted, "but I'm going to enjoy your reaction and that's all I want for now."
Percy tightly squeezed her hand and dragged her off to an unknown location. While on the way there, a weird thought come across Annabeth.
What if this is all a joke and he truly is just playing me?
The question immediately was vanished when Percy looked down at her, giving her a smile that completely washed her doubt away.
I had to get rid of Leo, I apologize. I'm not really humorous.. And I'm not sure why I added Jason and Grover...I just add things in unexpectedly. GET READY FOR SOME FLUFF! And Leo's ringtone is by Weird Al Yankovic. :D
ANYWAY! I hope you enjoyed, and sorry for any mistakes throughout the chapter. Sort of rushed it.
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