Hello everybody! Okay so this chapter is HUGE. Well, maybe not huge to read but definitely enormous to write. I know I have been updating like 3 times a week, but I'm going to start updating only once or twice a week on diff stories I have going. Sorry :( I pre-write like 10 chapter before I start posting, just to get a feel for the story, which takes like a month so ya...

Anyway, enough boring-ness! Enjoy reading! And as always, please review!

My alarm clock went off at 6:30 am the next morning. I stared at it realizing that I actually had to go to school today. That's part of the ADHD, deadlines just aren't real until they' re staring me in the face.

I groggily got ready and before I even fully woke up, I was standing in front of Goode high school.

My first day wasn't horrible. At least there weren't any evil cheerleaders trying to kill me. My schedule was okay:

First Period: American History

Second Period: English (Paul's class.)

Third Period: Algebra 2 (I failed it last year.)

Fourth Period: Economics

Fifth Period: Study Hall

Lunch

Sixth Period: Art (It was either that or band and I couldn't play any instrument to save my life. Also, reading music with my dyslexia is harder than reading english.)

Seventh Period: Physical Education

Eighth Period: Biology

Like I said, not horrible.

I met up with a few friends but I basically stayed in the background, same as always. I've never been one of the "cool kids" but thats more than fine with me. Even though I'm not "cool", everyone still knows my name back from the small incident of destroying the band room. Although I wasn't held guilty, no one really forgot. School for me is just a mortal inconvenience, the real world for a demigod is full of evil greek things with more than one head.

After school, I walked home, pushing through all of the people. I tried to do homework but I kept thinking about sitting in the oak tree with Annabeth the day before. Because of my lack of concentration, I didn't finish until 9:45. I grabbed a drachma off of my desk and called Annabeth. I was going to run out of drachmas if I kept this up.

Annabeth was sitting at her drafting table, probably working on Ares' statue. She looked up at me.

"Hey Percy!" Annabeth smiled. Her hair was hanging loose around her shoulders in a rats nest like she hadn't bother to brush it. She had smudges of ink and pencil all over her hands and face. There were little pencil and eraser shavings clinging to her hair and clothes.

She was absolutely gorgeous.

"Hi," I said grinning ", I see you're working on Mount Olympus."

"Yup." she responded, popping the "p". "You should come and see it Percy! Its come so far from the war. I mean, their is still a long way to go, but its really starting to come together!" She had a gleam in her eyes like she always did when she talked about architecture.

"Maybe I will. But I'd need a guide." I looked at her expectably and she laughed.

"How about tomorrow? You could stop by before school."

"Sounds good." I said. I couldn't wait to see everything Annabeth had designed. "Have you eaten today?" I made it my personal responsibility to make sure that she ate and slept while working on a project. She would completely forget to do anything if she was super engrossed in something.

"Ummm…. No?" She knit her eyebrows together trying to remember.

I rolled my eyes. "Annabeth, food is essential to life."

"I had no idea." She said sarcastically.

I stared her down.

"Fine. I'll go order chinese or something." she said.

"Thank you. I'd really prefer that my girlfriend not starve to death." I gave her a lopsided grin.

"Noted." she said. "I'll see you tomorrow morning?"

"Definitely."

"Alright. See you then. Goodnight seaweed brain."

"Goodnight wise girl."

Annabeth cut the connection.

The next morning, I got ready and headed downstairs. My mom and Paul were in the kitchen making scrambled eggs.

"Morning, mom. Morning, Paul." I said as I got a plate out of a cabinet.

"Hey, Perce." Paul said while opening the fridge.

"Good morning, sweety. How did you sleep?" She asked and scooped a huge plate of eggs on my plate.

I poured myself a glass of orange juice. "Good."

I ate breakfast quickly and gathered up my school stuff.

"You seem to be in a hurry." Paul noted, raising an eyebrow at me.

"I'm meeting up with Annabeth before school starts. She's showing me everything she designed for Mount Olympus."

"Oh." Paul said, he looked like he was trying to figure something out. Paul was still new to the whole greek-gods-are-alive-and-I'm-a-halfblood thing. "Your girlfriend an architect?"

"Yup."

"..Of the gods…"

"Yes."

"Wow." Paul had a far away look in his eyes. "You sure know how to pick 'em, Percy." I ignored him.

"Sounds fun, dear. Are you going to walk to school afterward?" My mother inquired.

"Uh-huh." I was holding a book in my mouth while trying to shove all my stuff in my back-pack.

"Alright. Tell Annabeth I say hello."

"Will do, mom. I'm out of here." I said reaching for the door. "See you latert!" I yelled as I closed the door behind me.

I walked to the empire state building and arrived there at quarter to eight. I walked through the doors and scanned the room. I found Annabeth waiting for me near the reception desk. I walked over to her. She was reading some architecture book in ancient greek.

"Boo!" I reached out like I was going to grab her.

Annabeth looked up at me, not even flinching. "Nice try, Percy. Next time, try and be a little bit stealthier."

I huffed and stuck my tongue out at her.

"So mature." Annabeth smiled. "Are you ready to see the new and improved Mount Olympus?"

"Totally." I gave her my famous lopsided grin. I took Annabeth's hand and took a step toward the reception desk to get a pass to go up to the 600th floor.

"Percy, what are you doing?" Annabeth asked me, not taking a step.

"Umm…" I didn't really know how to answer that.

Annabeth sighed and held up a little plastic card. "You don't think they'd give their architect a pass?" she asked.

"Oh." Now I got it. Annabeth started dragging us over to the elevator. Memories came flooding back from past experiences in this elevator. I pushed them out of my mind for now. We waited for the doors to slide open and everyone to exit before walking into the elevator. A few other people tried to enter to elevator to but I stood in the doorway.

"Sorry, this elevator isn't for public use." I said. I got quite a few glares and curious looks, but I didn't care.

The doors finally slid closed and Annabeth swiped her plastic entry card. A new, red button appeared labelled "600th floor" and I raced past her to push the button first. I slammed my finger onto the button before Annabeth could get to it.

"Hey!" She yelled, glaring at me.

"Ha!" I gloated. She punched my arm, which might of hurt if I hadn't swam in the river Stynx.

The elevator started going up. Annabeth and I stood in silence for a little bit, listening to the revolting elevator music.

"Annabeth?" I asked after a minute.

"Yes?" She looked over at me with her gray eyes. She was looking right at me and I kind of got distracted for a minute, just staring at her like an idiot. "Yes?" she said again, snapping me back to reality.

"Oh. Right." My face got really warm. "Um.. Is your mom on Olympus right now?" I asked hesitantly.

Annabeth laughed. "At the moment, I don't know. Why? Are you scared?" She looked at me mischievously.

Yes, I thought to myself. Annabeth gets it from her mother, Athena.

There was a ding from the elevator, which saved my from having from answer. Annabeth took my hand and squeezed it with excitement as the doors started to open.

The doors fully opened and…..

Woah.

The only thing I could think of to say was "Your mom can't kill me somewhere so amazing."

Annabeth laughed. Mount Olympus looked so different. The thin walkway that led to the decapitated mountain top was fixed from the war. It was solid, white, polished marble with intricate, spiral designs engraved into it. There was a real life railing now, why no one though of that before, I had no idea. It too, was marble. The beams where like 2 foot tall pillars. The rail that sat on top of the pillars wad engraved with the same spiral designs. There was a huge arch at the other end of the walkway that gleamed as if it where made of pure gold. Knowing the gods, it probably was. We started walking toward the mountain. My mouth was hanging open the whole time. Annabeth took notice of that and smiled.

We stopped under the arch. The air smelled like spring flowers and cinnamon, which doesn't sound like it would smell good together, but it does.

I looked over at Annabeth. I couldn't believe that she had designed this. If the walkway was this amazing, I could imagine what the mountain was going to look like when she was done.

"You know what?" I asked her.

"What?" she replied.

I stood so I was facing her. We were directly under the arch. "I think you've built something permanent." I whispered, staring directly at her.

She leaned toward at me and I did the same until our lips touched.

Annabeth pulled away and wrapped her arms around my torso, hugging me, her head against my chest.

"I love you." Annabeth whispered. The words bounced around in my brain, taking up my vision.

I closed my eyes, hugging her back and breathing in the scent of her hair. "I love you too." I said. The words sounded right and felt good to say.

This was the first time we'd actually said "the words" but I think we've always known it.

Annabeth looked up at me. She stood on her tip-toes to kiss me again.

There was no doubt in my mind that I loved her.

After the tour of Mount Olympus with Annabeth, we road the elevator back down to the lobby. We didn't run into Athena, or any god for that matter. They must've been busy doing whatever gods do.

Once we entered the lobby, I asked Annabeth for the time.

"Eight forty-one." She said. Good, I won't be late, I thought. "How far away is Goode?" She asked.

"A few blocks." I answered.

"I'll walk with you." Annebeth said looking up at me.

I grinned. "Sounds good."

We walked hand in hand down the crowded sidewalk and almost got hit by a few taxies. Once we finally arrived in front of Goode, Annabeth and I stopped in front of the steps. There were a bunch of other high school kids around us but no was was really paying me any chances. There were a few glances at Annabeth, which made me a little bit fidgety.

I leaned down to kiss Annabeth good bye, but out of no where, she pulled out her dagger and pressed it against my throat. She stared me down. She had totally caught me off guard. The only thing I could do was stare at her and at the blade.

"No kisses for you until you finish school." she said sternly and quietly slipped her knife back into it sheath, which was tied around her waist and hidden by her shirt.

I glared at her. "Fine."

She smiled. "I'll see you later." she said.

"Okay." she squeezed my hand before letting go of it and started walking away. I watched her enter the crowd of people and walk away before I entered Goode High School to start my second day of 11th grade.