My life sucks. Like actually. Well it just started to suck. You see I proposed to Annabeth last month on August 18 our 9th year anniversary of dating and that definitely didn't suck cause she said yes. I was so excited and now for the past month we have been planning our wedding for June which is 10 months away because its September. Soumds great right, well guess what your wrong because today Annabeth told me some horrible news that would send her around the world for a month and a half.

I had been sitting in my office New York Yankees cap on with my training under armor shirt with athletic shorts. I knew I had always wanted to be an athlete and swimming was my first choice but dad had told me that was cheating. So it was between football and baseball and in college I just turned out to be better at baseball and then the Yankees signed me. Funny how things work out isn't it?

But anyway I was in my office looking at the stats from last game and checking emails in my dark brown mahogany office when she walked in. Annabeth had on a grey pencil skirt with grey pumps a white blouse and a grey Burkin. Her hair was half up half down and her make up was minimal with only lip stick eyeshadow and mascara but it looked so perfect on her. She sighed kicked off her heels dropped her handbag to the ground and walked over sitting sideways across my lap and burying her head into my chest. You see this wasn't unusual for Annabeth I mean she had a high demanding job. She was co partner of Clark&Chase Architecture company. She was obviously Chase and Clark was her partner James clark a nice man in his late forties. At 25 she was the youngest architect in the world to be co head of a multi million dollar company.

But today something seemed off. I didn't know what it was but something about this wasn't usual normally she would sit here for a minute sit up and then we would talk about our day, her at work and me training, but she kept her face buried in my chest refusing to move. When I heard a sniffle that when I knew something was terribly wrong.

"Wise girl" I said lifting her chin so our eyes could meet. "Whats wrong?" I asked my voice full of concern.

Her mascara had come off under her red eyes and tears stained her cheeks.

"Your gonna hate me." She said looking into my eyes.

"I could never, tell me who or what hurt you." I said ready to punch the one who made my beautiful wise girl cry like this.

"Thats it I'm about to hurt you she said" hurt in her voice.

"what do you mean, I asked confused.

"you remember how I told you that James was going to China for a month and a half to meet with international partners and to work on some buildings?" she started.

"Yeah." I said wanting her to continue.

"well...they...need me...to...come to." She said between hiccuped crys.

And that ladies and gentleman is why my life sucks right now.

I woke up the next morning to find Annabeth snuggled close to me our legs tangled together. I looked at the clock which read 7:30 am. I shook her slightly.

"Annabeth...Baby" I said shaking her shoulder.

Her eyes fluttered open to reveal those beautiful stormy eyes.

"Morning" she said and pecked me on the lips.

"You know I love you so much and want to spend the day with you but don't you have an 8 o'clock meeting?" I asked

Her eyes got wide and she flew out of bed running to her closet and Throwing clothes around trying to find a decent outfit. I chuckled and got up out of bed and walked into the closet. She was bent over trying to put her black pumps on. She had a Black pencil skirt with a white shirt with a white and black pattern on it. I came behind her and leaned over to hug her. Her hair was falling out of her messy bun she had thrown her hair into. I started to kiss her neck.

"Percy Stop!" She said squirming to get away while laughing.

I let her go and she ran to the bathroom to put makeup on. I came in a grabbed the lip stick from her hand and held it above his head.

"Give it back it's not funny Percy!" Annabeth said trying to grab the lipstick. He wrapped his arms around her again "your beautiful without makeup" he whispered in her ear.

After about five minutes Annabeth had left the house and he had left to go meet Carter and Thalia at Sarabeths for breakfast.

I had about a fifteen minute car ride from Annabeth and mines brownstone to Sarabeths the restaurant where we were meeting for lunch to think about what I would tell them about Annabeth going to China.

I parked and got out of the car to see Carter and Thalia sitting at a table on the porch.

Carter was in a red sundress with black wedges. Her hair curly and with the black Ray Ban aviators that her and Annabeth had bought. Thalia had blue colored jeans on with a black Green Day T-shirt with Blue Ray Bans on too.

"Hey Perce." Carter said standing up to hug me

"Hey Carter" I said Hugging back" Hi Thalia" I said while hugging her. "Hey kelp-head."

We all sat down and started to chat. Carter told us about Max who was working constantly at his job as an ER doctor. And how she was just waiting for him to pop the question. Thalia was dating Nico and they were doing fine.

"What about you and Annabeth?" Thalia said then taking a bite of her Pancakes.

"Well we kinda have some news.." I started

"OMG SHE'S PREGNANT!" Thalia yelled while Carter chocked on her garden omelet.

"Athena is going to kill you." Carter said when she got her barrings.

"y'all she's not pregnant but she is going to China for a month and a half." I said taking a bite of my french toast.

"WHAT!" They both yelled successfully spitting their breakfast on me.

"Yea she leaves for China for work next week." I said taking a sip of my milk.

"what about the wedding?" Carter asked.

"we'll keep planning it and it will happen in June."

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It was Monday morning about 5 am but New York was still lite up when I came into the living room with the last of Annabeth's bags. She emerged from our room in black leggings a tank top with a long black and tan patterned sweater over the top with tan boots.

"You got the last of my stuff?" she asked looking around taking a count of the bags.

"yup all here." I answered lifting up her bags and taking them down to the car.

All of our fiends were at the airport to send Annabeth off. The girls were all crying when they received hugs from her.

I was the last to hug her before she had to walk through security and I didn't want to let go.

"Percy she said into my ear it's time for me to go." I let her go and gave her a kiss, it was sweet and loving.

She grabbed her tan Burkin off the ground and walked towards the security line.

I watched her hand her Passport to the security officer and walk into the security area. She turned around one last time to meet my eyes. Green and Grey. She blew me a kiss an that's when her beautiful self got mixed in with all the other busy airport goers.

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Annabeth had been in China for about a week and I was missing her every second of every hour of every day. I was in off season so I had nothing to really distract me from the laughter less mornings or the empty closet or the cold, lonely bed at night.

I was going to meet Thalia and Carter at Sarabeth's this morning like we always do on Monday mornings but I couldn't find any clean shirts. I search all over our brownstone for one but I only found a few which were all dirty. I was already 15 minutes late so I grabbed a semi-clean shirt and went to breakfast.

Of course when I arrived I got crap from Thalia and Carter.

"Where the hell have you been?" Thalia said hugging me followed by Carter.

"I can't find any clean shirts," I told them, "I have no clue where they went.

"Well doesn't that suck." Thalia said as we waited for a waiter.

We all got the usual Me the french toast, Thalia the pancakes and Carter the garden omelet. It made me sad to see Carter's omelet cause I know that that is Annabeth's favorite.

When we finished breakfast we parted ways but everyone was meeting for dinner tonight...but of course everyone but Annabeth.

I got back to the brown stone and opened my computer to see that Annabeth was online.

I clicked video call and waited. After about 4 rings she picked up and she never looked more gorgeous in sweats with her hair in a ponytail.

"Well hey there beautiful." I told her grinning.

She smiled back and we talked for about an hour that's when a small asian women in maids clothes walked in.

"Ma'am would you like these washed?" She asked holding up a fistful of t-shirts to large for Annabeth.

"One sec." she told me standing up.

"Only these 3." She said taking a few from the lady's hand.

That's when I noticed that Jackson was written on the back of her T-shirt and when she turned around it had Goode swimming written on the front. And I recognized the T-shirt in her hand as my 2012 Yankee T-shirt. She sat down in front of the camera.

"Hey Annabeth?" I asked

"Yea?" she said smiling at me

"Are those my T-Shirts?"

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AN: Here's another chapter update for the night hope y'all enjoyed it and love my characters well some belong to my BFF irishgreekgirl so go check out her story life as a royal demigod. Promise you'll love it:)