With no further ado, I present you…..

Annabeth P.O.V

I was running late and I knew it. I made it a point to be on time for everything, but class finished a little later than I expected it to, and now I was rushing to get home for dinner. I didn't want to make a bad impression on the new chef. But, since I was already running late I figured I had nothing to left to lose so I did something that I, Annabeth Chase never did. I started speeding. I wasn't going that much above the limit, but traffic was starting to build up and I didn't want to get caught in it. I came off the highway and went into the turning lane, I saw that the turning light was starting to blink and turn orange, and as the final car ahead of me turned left the turning light flashed off, but I turned anyways. Once I heard the sirens I knew I was done for. You see, this is why I, Annabeth Chase always abide by the rules, and the one time I break them, this happens. I must've been spending too much time with my cousins, Connor and Travis Stoll.

I pulled over to the side of the road and put on my most charming smile, I wasn't one to flirt my my way out of things, and I had no problem paying the fine, but I just wanted to go home. The sirens finally came to a stop and I heard a knock on my window.

"What can I do for you today officer," I said fluttering my eyelashes a bit.

"Did you notice that the turning light stopped flashing before you turned," he said raising an eyebrow. He looked young, maybe Malcolm, or Connors age. He had dark brown hair, that looked almost black, and dark brown eyes, pretty dull if you ask me (No offence to anyone with dark brown/ Black hair, or dark brown eyes.) He had a fair complexion, to match. Nothing that special, he wasn't bad looking, just not my type.

"Yes, officer, I did." I said my smile wavering. I wasn't going to lie to a officer.

"Are you in a hurry to go somewhere?" He asked.

"Yes, actually." I said smiling again. "I'm late for a family dinner."

"Oh, okay. Who will be attending this dinner?" He asked.

"Don't you think that questions kind of personal?" I asked trying not to glare.

"Right. Sorry." He said not sounding very apologetic. "What's your name."

And here's the part where I'm free to go. "Annabeth Chase."

The officer gulped and turned a bit pale. "Um, well, I wouldn't want to keep you from that family dinner," he said sweating a bit.

"No, you wouldn't." I said. "Bye, bye." With that I zoomed off down the road.

I reached CHB in no time, what it stands for? No idea. I parked in the underground parking, and hurried out of my car. I ran to the elevator but it was taking to long to come, so I took the stairs instead. As I was rushing to get to the elevator I bumped into a girl and made her drop her books on the floor. The girl had long, dark, wavy brown hair, and contrasting green eyes.

"I'm so sorry, I'm such a clutz!" The girl exclaimed scurrying to pick up all her papers.

She seemed familiar. "No, it's not your fault, I'm the one in a rush, I bumped into you!"

The girl looked up at me with wide eyes. "Annabeth?!" She exclaimed.

That's where I knew her from, it was my old room mate from Stanford, Katie Gardner. How did I not recognize her on the spot. "Katie?!" Katie sprang up and gave me a hug. "Oh my God Annabeth I've missed you so much, school wasn't the same without you."

You see, I lived with my dad in California my whole life, but after I got my degree in law, my mom (Athena) wanted me to finish the rest of my studies at NYU. She wanted to do the same thing with Malcolm, but NYU isn't that much of a science school. The only reason why I agreed to do this was because my mom owns one of the best law firms here in New York, and I want to be part of it.

"School wasn't the same without you either. What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I decided to move back to New York." She said smiling brightly.

Katie moved from New York, because of her father and her mean stepmother. So I'm confused as to why she came back? "Why would you want to be back in New York with your dad?"

"My mom decided to move back here, and make her main building here in New York, so I'm finishing my final year at NYU, just like you Annie!"

"That's great Katie!" I exclaimed. I finally have my main partner in crime back. "Do you live here?"

"Yes, I do. I live on the 23rd floor," she said.

"By yourself?" I asked.

"Yeah," she said.

"What ever happened to Kyle," I said smirking and wiggling my eyebrows (as previously stated, I spend too much time with my cousins.) Kyle was this guy that was madly in love with Katie, he would always pull jokes on her to try and get her attention in the most irritating ways, Katie would always reject him of course. She said that he reminded her of someone that she wanted to forget.

Katie rolled her eyes, and smiled in spite of herself. "Don't bring him up."

I glanced down at my watch. Crap, I'm even later than I was before!

"I have to go! I am so late! Bye, Katie," I said as I ran off.

I could hear her laughing at me, but I couldn't bring myself to care. I ran to the elevator and pressed the 'PH' button. Once the doors opened I ran into the penthouse and ran to the dining room and halted to a stop. Chiron, Grover, Beckendorf, Leo, Connor, Travis, Malcolm, even Chris for Christ's sake was there! My brother, Malcolm, seemed to notice my presence and beamed at me. All heads turned in my direction, I could feel a light pink hue growing on my cheeks.

"Sorry I'm late," I murmured claiming my seat at Malcolm's right.

"Take long enough, Annie." Connor teased.

"Shut up," muttered sighing.

Everyone at the table laughed.

"Annie, what happened to you? You're always on time, I mean even Chris got here before you!" Travis exclaimed.

Chris flashed me a smile, and waved at me from the other end of the table.

"Yeah! You missed the appetizers!" Leo exclaimed.

"Then I guess there was more for you." I said raising an eyebrow.

Everyone laughed again.

"Class just ended a little later then I expected, then I got caught in traffic, and then I ran into an old friend of mine," I said smiling a bit at the friend part.

"Ohh," said Beckendorf wiggling. "Who's your little friend."

"She's a girl, Beckendorf," I said rolling my eyes.

"And here I was hoping that I could finally have the talk with someone," said Leo shaking his head.

"Sorry, looks like you're out of luck again." I said rolling my eyes yet again.

My cousins were always pestering me about finding someone, meanwhile they were always in and out of relationships. Well, except for Leo, he always struck out. And Beckendorf hasn't dated anyone for a while either, I guess it was just the son's of Hermes that were always with a different girl every other day. Well I mean, Travis is just a flirt, and Connor's a player, and Chris… he's a man whore. (In my opinion anyways.)

Just as Malcolm looked like he was about to say something a man walked into the room, he had messy black hair, a tan complexion, and eyes the most beautiful shade of blueish green I've ever seen in my life. It's a good thing that I had a good poker face because if I didn't, I think I would've been gaping and drooling.

"Annabeth, this is our new chef, Percy Jackson." Said Grover smiling. "Percy Jackson, this is Annabeth Chase."

Percy's beautiful eyes shifted in my direction and he smiled. Now I wished that I put something more pretty on then a plain black t-shirt and a regular pair of dark blue skinny jeans. Oh well, I guess you learn from your mistakes.

"Hi." I said wishing that I could hide in my hair from his intense gaze, but of course I had to put my hair up into a ponytail.

"Hello, Annabeth. How are you?" He asked rather politely.

My cousins were never this polite to me, only Malcolm was, but that was on occasion. His hospitality made me blush. Only a little! I doubt he noticed, but I knew everyone else did and they all started smirking.

"I'm good, how about you?" I asked.

"Great," he said smiling. His smile was so contagious that it made me smile, though I didn't want to. When I smile my eyes scrunch up a bit and I wanted to see as much of him as I could. "I think that the meats done, I'll be back," he said as he ducked out of the room.

Malcolm was grinning like an idiot and I smacked his shoulder. There was a glass of water in front of me and I picked it up and started to drink from it. I could feel everyone's eyes on me and I tried to ignore it, but they were all snickering and trying to contain their laughter.

"What?!" I demanded.

"It looks like you've met your match," Chiron said chuckling softly. I've known Chiron since I was a child, he's always been there for me, no matter what. And now to think that he's sided with the demons.

"No I haven't!" I said heat rushing to my face. "Chiron you're supposed to be on my side!" I accused pouting.

"Looks like we will be giving someone the talk after all," said Malcolm smirking.

"Ughhh," I said throwing my head on the table while my family laughed their heads off.

This is embarrassing. Me, Annabeth Chase stumped by a male of above average attractiveness. It'll be all over the news tomorrow.

And just at that moment Percy decided to walk into the room. He came into the room with a cart full of food. On it was steak, lamb chops, chicken wings, chicken nuggets, fries, rice, mashed potatoes, caesar salad, Caesar salad! I love him even more.

Now we were waiting for Percy to get dessert. I've learned a lot about Percy. He went to NYU as well, he got a degree in the culinary arts, and business. He lived with his mom and stepdad somewhere in downtown manhattan, and he loved swimming.. and the colour blue apparently. He said that we'd see 'how much in a little' whatever that means. He was funny, charming, polite, and not to mention gorgeous (understatement of the year) and he would be here 24/7. Am I lucky or what? Our last chef wasn't polite in the slightest and he definitely wasn't this hot.

Percy just left to get dessert and as usual, the members of the table have made an effort to tease me about the feelings I might developing for him.

When he came back into the room all laughter stopped and we all just stared at him. He surveyed everyone in the room, when his eyes landed on me I had to fight to keep the rising blush off my face.

"Were you guys talking about me?" He said raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." Said Grover, Malcolm, Connor, Travis, and Chris at the same time.

I face palmed right then and there so Percy wouldn't see the blush rising on my face. Everyone at the table started laughing and Percy rolled his eyes and smiled.

"I present to you desert!" He exclaimed placing a cake on the table with blue icing?

"What is that?" Asked Leo with a smirk.

Grover just shook his head chuckling a bit.

"It's strawberry cheesecake with cream cheese icing," he said positively beaming.

"So why's it blue?" I asked.

"Food colouring," he answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

I rolled my eyes. Percy cut slices of the cake and handed them to everyone. After a while Percy asked "What were you guys really talking about when I wasn't in the room?" He asked.

And I felt the blush coming back and my poker face was beginning to fail.

"We were talking about Annabeth's feelings for you," said Chris not so subtly.

Colour flooded to my face and a cocky smile flashed across Percy's. "You have feeling for me? Strong feelings?" He asked teasingly.

Polite? Charming? More like Arrogant and Cocky.

"Yes, I just haven't decided whether their good or bad yet." I said.

A/N: So what did you think? Where there's Travis theirs Katie, where there's Katie there's Travis. Where there's Travis and Katie, there's Tratie. Sorry for all the movie references, just be grateful that I'm not using puns. Then time for puns will be here fast enough. Get it, cause I was just talking about Travis, and he's a son of Hermes… and Hermes is fast… and I know a joke isn't funny if you explain it but bare with me. Remember to review!