~Time Skip, four years later~

Year 2009

16 year old Annabeth's POV

"Hey Perce!" Grover Underwood shouted.

"Hey Grover!" Percy greeted Grover.

"How's Annabeth?" Grover asked him, "Did you ask her to the dance yet?"

I stopped and listened around the corner. Just so you know, this isn't eavesdropping because if they're talking about me, then it is my business.

Percy turned into the color of a tomato, "No I didn't ask her yet..."

Grover laughed, "Man, you should... before another guy steals her from you."

Percy's eyes turned as hard as steel, "Like who?"

Grover started listing, "Maybe Luke Castellan, Ethan Nakumura, or-"

Percy cut him off, "They didn't ask her yet, did they?"

"I'm not sure, man. You should go check with Annabeth," Grover suggested.

"I should," Percy hurried off towards my direction.

I panicked and silently ran and escaped outside of the school. But, I accidently ran into Luke Castellan.

"Hey Annabeth," Luke said.

"Umm... hi Luke."

"Annabeth, I've been meaning to ask you something and I was wondering if you would want to go to the dance with me?" he asked.

As if on cue, Percy came out of the school and spotted me talking to Luke. Oh gods, I thought, this is not going to end well.

"Annabeth! I've been looking all over for you! Where were you?!" Percy exclaimed.

"Well, I ummm..." I hesitated.

"We need to get this assignment done! It's due next week!" Percy nagged me while he pulling me away from Luke.

Once we we're out of sight and earshot of Luke, I turned to Percy.

"Percy! Luke was gonna ask me to the dance! What in Hades is your problem?!" I shouted at him.

Percy's expression softened a little, "I just wanted to protect you."

"Well, I can protect myself perfectly fine on my own!" I shouted angrily at him.

"What if he hurt you though?" Percy shouted back.

"I'm not stupid okay?! I know what I'm doing!"

"But what if-"

I cut Percy off, "Maybe I should go to the dance with Luke!"

"Fine!" Percy yelled.

"Fine!" I yelled back.

After our fight, we didn't talk for days and I turned down Luke as nicely as I could. Luckily, he was okay with it and asked my best friend Thalia instead. I sat quietly in my room, silently wondering about Percy. Was he still mad at me? Was I even still mad at him? How long would this go on?

A paper airplane suddenly interrupted my thoughts as it soared through my window and into my room. I picked it up and opened it up.

Hi Annabeth,

I'm sorry that we fought and about Luke...

if you really want to go to the dance with him,

then go ahead.

From, Percy

I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen.

Percy,

I'm sorry too but Luke is going with Thalia,

so I'm not going with him.

But, I'm not sure if I should go to the dance now...

From, Annabeth

He wrote back:

Wise Girl,

I actually wanted to ask you this for a while so...

Will you go to the dance with me?

And I'll understand if you don't want to go.

~ Seaweed Brain

I literally had to reread the last line that he wrote five times. Did he really want to go to the dance with me? I started writing on another piece of paper...