AN: Alright guys so thanks for the support and we are reaching the point cc26 left off at and I'm still searching for a beta and will be until further notice so with out further ado
(Annabeth's POV)
Me, Piper, Thalia, and Hazel were riding the bus to Piper's house. We didn't tell Rachel, cause me and her were having a….disagreement at the moment.I was gazing at the scenery outside, my mind kept returning to Percy. Just thinking about Percy's smiled made me feel warm all caught me smiling, and smirked. "Think about Percy?" she asked.
I blushed slightly. "Uh….no. I was thinking about….the homework I could be doing at home." I said weakly. Piper looked at me in disbelief. I avoided her gaze. Finally the bus stopped, and we got out at a big pink mansion. No joke, the outside of the house was painted bright pink. Piper looked at the house embarrassed, "This is my mom's house." she said. Piper lived with her movie star dad Tristan McLean, and her mom Aphrodite, along with her snobby sister Drew. We hurried into the mansion. We entered to see maids cleaning the house.
"Hurry let's go up to my room, before Drew finds us." Piper warned.
"Too late." Drew said coming out. Piper groaned aloud.
"No need to be jealous Piper. We both know I'm way prettier than you." Drew sneered. Great sister, note my sarcasm.
"Personally I prefer girls with less ego issues, and better make-up." Thalia retorted. Drew rolled her eyes. She saw me, and jealously burned in her eyes.
"So I hear you may have an interest in the new boy." Drew said, I blushed a little. "Well you should know that he won't be with you." Drew said. My face burned, but not with embarrassment, I was angry.
"Why is that!" I demanded, Drew smirked amused by my reaction.
"Think about it dearie, your supposed to be smart." Drew sneered. "He's going to eventually find out about all the guys he turned down, and maybe even some rumors. He's going to think your not going to hook up on him, so he's not going to even try. Besides why would he go for someone like…you." Thalia had to hold me back from ripping her hair out. Why am I so mad anyway? Isn't just another one of those guys? Piper led me, Thalia, and Hazel to her room.
"Don't listen to her Annabeth, she's just jealous." Piper stated, I nodded still mad.
"We can wait here until my mom gets off of work." she said.
"Doesn't she work at the school?" I asked. She nodded.
"But she also has a part time job at a hair saloon." Piper explained. I nodded, makes sense. Perfect place to gossip, talk about fashion, and spread rumors. We spent most of the time talking about the Quests that were coming up. I was so excited.
"Why are we talking about the quests, when we can talk about guys?" someone asked, I looked over and saw Aphrodite standing in the door.
"Hi mom." said Piper.
"I heard you were going to talk to me about guys." Aphrodite stated, sitting by us. How would she know that? Oh well, never question Aphrodite. Unfortunately Thalia didn't know that.
"How would you know that?" she asked.
"Oh well Travis and Conner the sons of Hermes heard you talking about it, they told Katie Gardner, who told her mother, Chris heard Demeter talking about it, and told his girl-friend Clarrise La Rue Ares daughter, she started tells her dad almost everything, so once Ares heard he was talking to Apollo about it, after that Silena my other beautiful daughter told it to Artemis, then Artemis told me when she came into the Saloon today to get her hair trimmed." Aphrodite explained. That means pretty much everyone knows about my crush on Percy, that's the only reason I came here to talk to Aphrodite. Tomorrow at school was going to be torturous. I groaned and lay on Piper's bed exasperated. Piper noticed my distress.
"Hey maybe now that people know you like Percy, they'll leave you alone knowing you taken." Piper said comfortingly.
"No Piper. Now those boy, especially Jim, are going to try harder than ever to try and get me before Percy. Also Rachel likes Percy, she's going to try and take him." I explained.
"ooh love triangle!" Aphrodite squealed
"Not helping mom." Piper said.
"Well me being a love expert, If you want the guy to notice you try and give him hints about how you feel. Or if you want to do it the hard way, then just ask him out yourself." Aphrodite said. Maybe it would work, the 1st one. I have a pride issue, asking Percy out myself would damage my pride, especially sense I have been branded, a girl rejects guys, then that would wound my pride. No I was going to have to hint it to Percy.
"Okay, I'll try to hint it to him." I announced.
"We'll help." said Thalia. I smiled at her gratefully. This is going to be one tough year.