Title: Box of Crayons

Summary: Because of a box of crayons, Percy and Annabeth are best friends for life. They share their food, their secrets, and even each other's first kiss. All of a sudden, Percy's move causes their fairy tale friendship to splinter and rain clouds to appear. But when the green-eyed boy comes back, will everything remain back to the way it was?

Pairings: Percabeth, obviously. Little, well some hints of Tratie, Thalico, and Jasper.

Warning: Swearing, dark themes at some parts; rarely. May be Out of Character but when the story is AU (AH), it's bound to happen, though I try to keep them in character. For the sake of the book, the Stolls are twins in this, alright?

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or songs mentioned. Thought it's pretty obvious.

Point of View (POV) Percy's

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Author's Note: Whoop! 109 reviews, that's amazing, really. I was astonished at the feedback, and trust me, it inspires me each day. Thank you, thank you x. So, this chapter, they are eight years old. The story will age all the way until they reach 13 years old, then it will suddenly leap to 16, alright?

I'd like to thank my beta, BlueBerrySourStraps, she has AMAZING stories and you need to read them, ASAP.

By the way, I update on MONDAYS. If I miss an update on Monday, it's more likely I'll update on the next Monday rather than on a Tuesday and such. Alright? My updates are usually ranged in a one-two weeks span, although leaning towards a one week span; mostly weekly updates.

There was actually a lot of winners for the guess the song. I want pudding so that's the reason I'm not listing the winners. The song was I'd Lie by Taylor Swift.

Guess the song in the quotations, alright. Get it correct and you'll get a preview.

"I'd do anything, there's nothing I won't do…

I'd do anything, 'cause I know I won't forget you."

Chapter Four: Birthdays, competitions and Capture the Flag

*Ding, Dong*

The door swiveled open as it revealed an overly excited grey-eyed girl.

"Percy!" She greeted me, grinning from ear to ear. I went inside her house and turned back to wave good bye to my father.

I reached out the present behind me and I passed it to Annabeth. "Happy Birthday, Annabeth."

I smiled at her bright face, practically staring at the present from curiosity.

"Well thanks, Perce. The big 8 years old. Almost a big deal as the big 1, 0." I chuckled, nodding my head.

"Sucks that you're older than me." I muttered and looked down as Annabeth moved my hair.

Annabeth chuckled and smirked. She walked into the living room and I trailed behind her. I saw Athena in the kitchen working on some desserts for her daughter's party.

"Hey, Ms Chase." I greeted warmly. Athena broke her gaze form her cutting board to look at me.

"Wel,l hello there, Percy. Looks like you've grown up!" She came over me and messed my hair.

"You're even wearing a tie! Wonder how long that took you?" She teased me.

"Only 6 minutes, Athena!" I exclaim, proudly with a smirk of triumph.

Athena laughed. "Well that's an accomplishment, son. Now go, have fun!"

I nodded, smiling and running along to my friends.

"Hey Perce!" I heard Grover calling out to me, running to me making his strawberry brown hair flop side to side.

I shot him a high five and grinned. "Hey, man."

Grover then turned all serious and looked around to see if anyone was ease dropping. I just stood there, dumbfounded.

"What did you get smarty pants?" He whispered, still looking if anyone was watching.

I rolled my eyes. "You first."

Grover pursed his lips and sighed. "Got her these clothes, now your turn!"

"Gotta wait to find out." I whispered snarkly, as I teased him with a wink.

Out of the shadows, a boy known for his shaggy black hair came out, with his usual smirk. "I see you're discussing about presents." Nico announced.

"Yeep." I replied, popping the 'p' "I got this in the bag."

Grover looked at me with wide eyes, and then a laugh escaped out of his mouth. "You sure about that Perce? I think I'm gonna win this."

"You think you can beat Thalia who always bring the best presents?" I nodded, leaving Nico to snort.

"Nu-uh. I'll be winning, dudes. I already won 3 times." Nico grinned triumphal, rubbing it in our faces.

"But you're not first." I mumbled, eyes slightly closed.

"Well, neither are you!" Nico retorted, crossing his arms.

"Who exactly is second, in giving the best gifts to people?" Grover asked, curiously.

Nico and I looked at each other and grinned at Grover. "I am." We said in unison causing some arguments to set.

"HEY!" I exclaimed, looking at him.

"NO YOU'RE NOT!" Nico countered back, beating my glare.

"I AM!" We again said in unison, causing both of us to grumble.

"Okay, okay. We'll just have to wait when it's present time, okay?" Grover soothes both of us as he used the calming hands.

I walked to sit down on the couch and just sat there with the rest of the others.

"Soooo..." I heard the oldest clone start as he was drumming on the table with his fingers.

"Gosh, I can't believe we're actually related." I heard Annabeth mutter, bringing her head in her hands.

"Aww...Annie. You looooove us!" I heard clone 2, Connor, coo while battering his eyes.

I saw Annabeth perk up and lift her head, shooting Travis and Connor side glares while mumble something about cousins.

"Oh! What movie are we gonna watch?" Thalia asked, looking at all of us for answers.

I replied with a shrug and just pointed towards Annabeth.

"Well what do you want to watch?" Annabeth thought, looking at each one of us.

"Cars?" Grover suggested, excitement gleaming in his melted chocolate eyes.

"How 'bout we make a whole list of suggestions?" A girl from my class name Katie asked, putting her caramel hair back in its ponytail.

"Yeah, let's do that." Annabeth agreed, nodding. She pulled out a pen and paper, scribbling some words.

"Oooh! I got it, NEMO!" I grinned. And when I said that, everyone's eyes were bulging out.

"Noo!" Everyone screamed, leaving me to shrink in my seat.

"Gee. thanks." I muttered under my breath, pouting a slight.

"Aw, c'mon Perce. We watched that a billion times!" Annabeth hinted, giving me a small smile.

"But it's a classic tha-" I started but Annabeth and Thalia cut me off.

"..that shows a fish TAIL of family and the natural beauty of ocean creatures." They mimic me, mixing in some sarcasm.

"EXACLY!" I exclaimed, jumping from the couch putting on a show.

"Sit down Perce." Nico rolled his eyes as he informed me.

"Beauty and the Beast? It's a classic?" Annabeth looked at us, smiling.

I shrugged. "Can't see the harm in that."

I felt both Thalia and Nico slap each of my arms. "Are you crazy?!" Thalia yelled, looking at me with wide eyes.

"I AM NOT gonna watch a Disney's Princess MOVIE! No matter what you say!" Nico declared, preparing for an argument.

"YEAH! NEVER!" Thalia announced as she agreed with Nico.

"Gaah. I can't believe I agreed to this." Thalia whined, pushing her legs inside the couch.

"Shush, Thals. This movies is good." I mumbled, completely brainwashed from the movie while munching on some popcorn.

Thalia nudged me and rolled her eyes, but I still kept my eyes on the screen looking at it in awe.

"That Gaston guy is a jerk." I stated, as I threw the popcorn at the screen aiming at Gaston's huge head.

"Bulls eye!" I cheered, standing on the couch and throwing my arms in the air as the butter from the popcorn marked the spot where I supposedly aimed at Gaston's face.

"Isn't Belle wonderful? I would love those books she ever read." Annabeth sighed, and wondered as Katie nodded.

"Ssshhh" I hissed, chucking popcorn and flinging it towards Annabeth.

I stared at the TV, concentrating on the beautiful plot.

"Noo, Belle! Don't leave the Beast!" I heard Connor cry as he pulled his head forward, his eyes focused on the screen and his face showing agony.

"Listen to Travis!" I called out, throwing more popcorn at the screen.

"Connor." Connor corrected me, stiffly.

"I mean Connor. Belle, listen to him!" I screamed, jumping and covering my eyes form the screen.

"Percy, calm down." Annabeth chuckled, shoving the pillow at me.

"Noo!" I chucked the pillow back at her. "You're distracting me!"

"Oh and Perce, The Beast and the rest of his servants in the castle turn back to humans. Just saying." Annabeth coughed, blurting out the secrets as she smirked at my expression.

"ANNIE! SPOOOILER ALERT!" I blurted out, looking at her wild eyes, shoving a pillow at her once again.

Annabeth laughed. "What? You were bound to know about it sooner."

I started grumbling and watched the movie in peace.

"Oh, gosh Percy, bless your soul." I heard Thalia mutter from the corner.

I watched the movie as the ending finally came. Annabeth's spoiler already passed causing some complaints coming from yours truly. I watched as the ending where the Beast transforms to his human form. Belle is later put into the legendary yellow dress and they share a dance.

The two sang like love birds and it was just...

"Percy?" Nico slapped my arm "Are you seriously crying?"

I coughed nervously and repositioned myself. "Uh...nooo..."

"Admit it, you so were." Annabeth sneered, analyzing for any of my tear marks.

I rolled my eyes. "You're suppose to believe me, I wasn't!" I whined, acting a perform that's overly. exaggerated

The two couple were dancing and swaying along to their own music as their mouth open and let out a heavenly sound. I suddenly caught the tune with ease and I cupped my mouth. At first, I started. Humming along to the song but that's was just the beginning.

"Tale as old as time..." I sang to myself smiling at the screen. "..daaa...uhh...barely even friends... "

"Beauty and the beast..." I chirped and held the long tune. I turned to look at my friends, each and every one of them and the results were the same. Annabeth was staring at me with wide eyes. The clones were looking at me like I have a squirrel down my pants. Thalia, well she was amused that's for sure. Nico just kept his straight face but I can tell he liked my performance. Grover was just...speechless (probably from my amazing singing).

"What the heck was that?" Thalia blurted out, laughing.

"My wonderful singing." I had my nose up and ignored the sarcasm leaking from her words.

"OH, my, Perce." I heard Annabeth mutter as she just looked at me strangely.

I had a blank expression on my face. "What?"

"Never mind." Annabeth sighed, chuckling a slight.

"Soooo...what now?" Grover looked at us, with wondering eyes.

Connor appeared with a pizza clutching in his hands as he was taking monstrous bites. "What did I miss?" Connor chewed loudly, clearly not listening to Annabeth's manner rant.

"Dude, where did you get the pizza?" Thalia asked, staring at the pizza like it was the only food on Earth.

"Kit-" Connor took another bite, and swallowed deeply. "..chen"

The moment he said those words were immediately implanted in each and everyone's head.

We all ran to the kitchen like bulls in a mad rampage and quickly searched for our prey but in this case, our food.

I quickly stole a slice from the box and munched on it. "Wow. Thank you soo much Athena." I announced, smiling at her. She gave me a chuckle as her reply.

I saw Thalia filling a plate, wait scratch that, a bowl and was practically creating a mini mountain of desserts and junk food. I walked over her and stole some chips piled at the top. Before she can make a complain, I flashed a smile. I walked over to the dining room and set my plate on the table beside Annabeth.

"Ohh, my. This is heaven, Annie." Thalia announced, setting on a seat across from me.

I nodded my head, agreeing with her completely. "Yeaa...I believe this is homemade pizza?"

Annabeth slapped my arm. "You idiot. You help my mom and I bake this pizza!"

Thalia laughed while I prepared for an excuse. "Well...sometimes I forget things."

Travis came into the dining room, handling two sets of paper plates and balancing it in each of his hands. "Oooh! Anniebeth said a baaaad wooord!" Travis sang, shaking his head as if to show disappointment.

Annabeth rolled her eyes which always becomes a specialty for her.

"Please, Travis. The word idiot comes from idiotic which is basically a short form of the longer word. Idiotic to me sounds more mature and rather sophisticated compare to idiot which is hard to understand due to the fact they both mean the same and have rather similar pronunciations and spelling." Annabeth declared, looking like a teacher rather than a new 8 year old.

"Uhhh..."Was all Travis can reply leaving Nico to snort behind him and settling on a seat.

"Sooo...I got a joke folks!"

Travis suggested, setting his cupcake down.

"Okay, shoot." Nico nodded, waiting to hear.

"Okay...get ready," Travis prepared himself "Why did Piglet, Eeyore, and Christopher Robin stick their heads down the toilet?"

Travis all looked at us but we just gave him blank stares. Though he wouldn't give up. "Okay, what?" I asked, waiting for the joke.

"Easy, they were looking for Pooh!" Travis chuckled, Thalia, Nico, Annabeth and I join with him.

Grover looked at him with wondering eyes. "What? I don't, I don't understand."

"Oh, gosh Grover." Travis smiled. "Well you know poo and the toilet and Pooh Bear, well-"

"Yeah. Travis. That's enough." Annabeth addressed.

"Soo, guys. When we're finish eating. My mom said we can have a water gun fight?" Annabeth stated as she took another bite of a chicken wing.

All of a sudden, Thalia dropped her pizza and looked at us with a victorious expression looming in her eyes. "It's on. I'm soo gonna dominate this whole battle."

I filled up my given water gun and loaded it with as much water capacity it can handle. I finished, not only the gun wet, but I was also. I ran back to my friends to see them getting their so called weapons ready for the field. I watched Thalia ring a bunch of water balloons on her belt, Nico adjusting himself with his two guns, the clones clutching on matching water guns, Katie, with just had an ordinary water gun in her hands, Grover who was grasping on a bucket of water and water balloons and Annabeth, who had a tiny squirter in her hands.

"Whoh, Annie, you're gonna go in battle with THAT." Thalia exclaimed, pointing at Anabeth's weapon and looking bewildered.

"Never underestimate the squirter." Annabeth pursed her lips as she blew on her squirter's tip.

Thalia rolled her eyes and made a sarcastic sound of a yes.

"Capture the flag?" Nico suggested, dragging his two water guns.

I grinned. "Yeaaah!"

"Okay, teams?" Annabeth organized, as she looks at all of us.

"Well there's , 8 of us, how's that gonna work then?" Grover did the math, using his fingers.

"Four and four." Annabeth stated with a DUH tone.

"No, what's the team?" Grover rephrased himself.

"Well Nico has to be in one team and the clones in different teams..." Annabeth pointed out.

"So let those two team captains choose their own members..."

"OOOOH! We choose first!" Travis announced. "KATIE!"

Katie rolled her eyes as she dragged herself to go stand beside them.

"Percy." Nico called me.

"Annabeth." Connor told Annie to come with him.

"Thals!" I yelled, as I prepared my water gun.

"Well Hmm...GROVER!" Travis teased.

We split up the field, or should I say neighborhood. We put our bright blue flag and planted it in a bush of blueberries.

"Who's guarding?" I whispered, trying to keep my cover low.

"How 'bout we try something new? No defense, just full out offense?" Thalia suggested, grinning maniacally.

"Shouldn't we at least have one?" Grover chimed in. "'Cause I'll be gladly to."

Nico shrugged. "I guess if you want to."

"So we just charge and split three ways? Just search and run?" I clarified, looking at my two scheming friends.

"Yep." They said in unison, popping the 'p' hard.

I saw the other team waiting for us at the line separating both our territories. We just glared at each other, trying to scare the opposing team.

"3, 2," Thalia yelled, setting herself in a perfect running stance. "ONE!"

And the three of us just set off running, squirting anyone who came in our way. I found Travis trailing behind me. I darted, weaving in between the trees and shooting him when I found I quickened my pace. Every time I laced myself though the threes, I would spray water at him most likely the face. I jumped as stones were gradually blocking my way. I made the mistake of looking back, and slowly lost my pace. Though Travis didn't in fact he gained some. He was speeding up faster and my legs started burning. As I was bearing the pain my legs were holding, a bright fuzz of red smacked me in the eye as realization dawned on me.

That's the flag.

I let my eyes wander around the place, looking for my teammates and I saw. Thalia way too busy fighting off Katie and Annabeth. Nico was running in great speed, swiftly moving from side to side, not one scratch on him. Nico moved himself from many sides, toying with Connor watching his falls in amusement.

"Nico!" I whistled, waving my arms to get his attention. I whipped my head and tuned to look at Travis, automatically I pushed the nozzle and immediately water squirted out and drooled on his face. I used that as a distraction.

"The flag!" I called out, pointing towards the red beast.

And with that said Nico darted himself with lightning speed, creating a blur of him in my eyes. I got distracted a tad too long and I didn't sense Travis tagging me.

"Got you." He smirked and just left.

So here I am, just sitting here and watching, not getting unfrozen from my team mates. Oh joy.

I saw Thalia weaving her two 'cops' in numerous obstacles and leaving them to sweat. But all of a sudden, Nico barged in and quicken his speed, not even Connor can catch him. He ripped the wind and just broke through. He saw the bright red fury mark his dark flames and just took the flag. I send whoops of cheers as did Thalia as we watched Nico run to our territory, nobody daring to catch him. He moved his legs, and it looks surreal.

Just as he crashed into our territory, he screamed victory and well...I did too.

But the sad thing is, is that our opposing team was no longer there. After Nico took the flag and darted, I didn't see the enemy.

After Nico's victory cry, Thals and I ran up to him, spraying him water and just jumping on each other to celebrate our win.

"You did it, Nico!" I nudge him, grinning ear to ear.

He chuckled, but looked confused. We heard some screams coming from the back of the neighborhood and we all cocked our head in the direction of it, trying to find out what that was.

I soon realized those weren't screams but were battle cries. I looked at both Thalia and Nico with weird expressions. We sent each other agreements by just looking at each other and we scampered to the back. We saw Annabeth holding our flag and her squiter in her hands as she had a smile of victory spread on her face.

"What just happened?" I asked, amused and hysteria was evident.

"Easy. We won." Annabeth stated, smirking.

"Bu-but how? I got the flag!" Nico argued, stomping his foot.

"Well, genius here made a plan." Connor started and later earning a slap by...guess who?

"The flag you got a decoy." Katie clarified.

"We knew you guys would just run and not make a thorough plan. But we took the liberty of making a simple one since we were pressured by time. We put a decoy flag and hid the real one hard. The moment Nico here took the flag, we ran and took yours. So HA. HA. IN YOUR FACE!" Annabeth rubbed her words on our faces.

"Yeah. And her squirter hurts."Grover spoke, rubbing his arms.

From the distance, Thalia grumbled.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUU!" All of us sang in a completely off tune.

"Now presents!" Thalia chirped, jumping cheerily.

Athena rolled her eyes as she came. "Sure, Thals. Just call me if you need anything." Athena informed us and went off to the kitchen once again. Make me wonder what she's doing in there.

Thalia turned to look at Nico, Grover and I. "Get ready to lose boys." She flashed us a wink.

"Can I go first?" Katie piped in, smiling. Annabeth nodded, looking at Katie's perfectly wrapped of a present.

Annabeth neatly ripped-if that's even possible- the presents and looked at it. It was a book, hardcover of the original Beauty and the Beast; a book Annabeth wanted so badly.

Annie's eyes popped out. "Oh my, thank you so much Katie!" She embraced Katie in a surprising hug, looking at the book as if it was an angel.

"Katie's in the lead. Obviously." I whispered to Nico, nervous to win this.

The clones both sat on Annabeth's lap and passed her, her present. She looked ready to throw up. She pushed the clones to the floor and looked at them, her hair falling.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUZ!" They sang throwing her winks. She laughed quietly and opened her gift. She pulled out a music box decorated with collages of small pictures. Annabeth gave her cousins side hugs as she admired her present.

Thalia came to us... "A tie." She breathes as I nodded in agreement.

Grover came to Annabeth and passed her a bag. Annabeth opened it and it revealed a silver simple 3/4 shirt with a gift card attached to it.

"Katie's in the lead." I murmured to both of them. Thalia turned to us and smirked. "My turn, folks."

Thalia hauled in a gigantic present and Annabeth looked in awe. "Happy B'day Anne." She smiled toothy at her.

Annabeth opened her present and it revealed a giant box. She ripped open the box and opened it to reveal amounts of news paper all crumpled inside. She shot Thalia a sarcastic look and Thalia gave her a weak smile. Annabeth dug her hand and pulled out a smaller box. With that she opened it and she looked at it as if it's her weakness. "No way." Annabeth murmured.

She showed it to us and it was an EBook.

"Yep. Daddy had some connections and we got it for a really good price." Thalia chirped, smirking at the people who were gawking at her.

I nervously walked to Annabeth handing her my small gift bag. "Uhh...Happy Birthday Annabeth."

Annabeth smiled at me and eagerly opened her present. She pulled out a necklace, one bead attached to it.

"You see, just make the bead every year to summarize it. That's your eight birthday bead." I grinned at her as she cradled it.

She then pulled out another charm bracelet out of it. In that charm, one charm was dangling; a box of crayons.

Annabeth chuckled and she gave me a hug. She muttered in my ear a thank you.

I looked at Thalia and I heard her curse. "Dang it, idiot is in the lead" I just rolled my eyes.

Nico walked up to Thalia and I. "Guess who's taking the trophy home?" He cockily snarled. He went up to Annabeth and gave her, her present.

Annabeth ripped the present open and revealed a clean wit laptop, with a glowing triangle in the center. From the light, Annabeth gawked at it, stuttering.

"Like Thalia, daddy got some connections. But he got this at a price close to free. So Happy Birthday Annie." He stated, gaining confidence from our expressions.

"I-I-I ca-can't believe you got m-me this!" Annabeth stumbled on her words, looking expressionless.

Nico gave her a smile as Annie gave her, her thanks.

"BOOYAH! IN YOUR FACE THALS! I WOOON!" Nico yelled at the top his lungs dancing in the middle of the floor, smirking at Thalia who using all her might to shoot Nico a glare.

The gifts may be unrealistic but they have pretty powerful daddies, so that's my explanation.

Review? Read Prove It ( a story of mine and Thalico), alright?

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