Here's chapter 2. Enjoy! XD
Annabeth's POV
"Percy, I-" she tried to explain, but it was futile.
"You know what, forget it." Percy said coldly, and it felt like he was sending daggers through her heart. By his voice alone, she could tell that he was never going to forgive her. Now, not only was his Jared gone, but also Percy, her best friend.
"You deserved it, you know." Someone said behind her.
She recognized the voice, but she didn't care, She unsheathed her dagger in one swift movement and struck blindly, ready to give whoever said that a thrashing. Her dagger clashed with another knife, this one made of pure silver. Wait, silver?
She tried to look through teary eyes at whoever was brave, or stupid, enough to insult her, and saw none other than Thalia. As usual, she had a silvery glow surrounding her, a wild look in her sky-blue eyes, but otherwise a very playful smirk on her face, as if she was thinking how entertaining her whole situation was.
Her eyes widened. She attacked Thalia, her other best friend! But still…she insulted her. She reluctantly sheathed her knife, and glared at Thalia with her story grey eyes.
"Damn you, Thalia! How dare you say that to me! You have no idea-"
Thalia cut her off. Still, she had that smirk on her face. "No idea what? You don't think I know what you were doing with him?" She gestured to the son of Morpheus's body. "Pretty much the whole camp knows about it, Annabeth! Thank the gods Percy was just so oblivious, or else he would've broken up with you months ago!"
Annabeth was in shock. The entire camp knew it? "Wait, if all of you knew it, why didn't one of you just tell him?"
Thalia shrugged. "We thought it was a bit amusing to let him figure it out on his own. I mean, Annabeth, you double-timing him was so obvious, even Phoebe noticed it, and she doesn't even have a single romantic bone in her body!"
Annabeth shook her head in disbelief. "You know what, GO TO TARTARUS!" she screamed in Thalia's face.
"Been there last week. Killed some new monster." She stated matter-of-factly before turning around and walking away from a very surprised, and angry, daughter of Athena.
Percy's POV
True enough, the ghostly form of Bianca di Angelo was standing, well, floating, in front of him.
Percy tried to regain his composure. "Erm, Bianca, hi- I mean, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, you know, just the usual. Checking up on Nico." She floated a little closer to him.
As she got closer, she noticed the little things she didn't notice before. Wet marks on Percy's face, a wet patch on his bed.
She went closer the wet patch. Percy, were you crying? 'Cause it was either that or you were-"
Percy's face turned beet red. "No, I wasn't! Bianca!" he whined.
"Who were you thinking about? Does she look sexy in underwear?" she snickered.
Percy's eyes bulged, and his mouth dropped open. What the hell was this girl asking him? "I told you no, Bianca! I was crying, alright!" his face was pure red.
Bianca's expression was one of pure concern. "You were crying, why?" she drifted a little closer and sat down beside him . She tried to put her hand on his shoulder reassuringly, but as her white, pale hand got closer to Percy's skin, it dissolved into mist.
"Sorry." Percy tried to apologize.
"No, it was my fault, I forgot about that." She gave him a small smile. "Anyway, why were you crying?"
Percy shifted nervously. "Well, you see, I-"
"You what?" Bianca said.
"I-well, Annabeth, I mean, I saw Annabeth-"
"You saw Annabeth what?"
"Will you let me finish!" Percy said.
"Sorry." Bianca muttered. She hung her head low, pursed her lips, and just looked at the ground.
Percy flinched when he saw her like that. He got up, went directly in front of her, and knelt. His sea-green eyes met chocolate-brown ones. "No, I'm sorry, Bianca. I didn't mean to shout at you like that. To tell you the truth, I was kinda angry ever since I found out Annabeth had been cheating on me. I didn't mean to bring it out on you."
Bianca didn't hear anything except "I'm sorry" and "Annabeth had been cheating on me."
She stood up furiously. "Why that two-timing, backstabbing, daughter of Athena! How dare she do that to you! Well, let's see how she feels about two dozen skeleton Spartans waiting for her in her bedroom."
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. "Percy, it's me, Annabeth. Open up, please let me explain."
"Speak of the devil…" Bianca said coldly. "I'll see you later, Percy." She started to fade.
"Bianca, wait-" but she was already gone.
He made his way to his door. Before he opened it, he did his best to try and look mad.
Oh well, I knew this was coming anyway, he thought and opened the door.
Annabeth's POV
"What the hades do you want?" He asked through gritted teeth.
"Percy, I just want to explain." I said as calmly as I could.
He opened his door wider. "Get in." It wasn't like he was offering, but more like ordering her.
She stepped inside cautiously. For all she knew Poseidon might be waiting inside, waiting to blast her into a water puddle for breaking his son's heart.
She sat on his bed. He just stood in front of her, looking at her like some complicated puzzle.
"Percy, it's not what you think." She started.
"Humor me." He smirked.
"Okay, so Jared and I had been going out for a couple of months-"
He raised his eyebrow. "Months?"
He was guilt-tripping her, and it was working. "Yes Percy. Three months." She said in a quieter voice.
He just nodded his head. "Three months."
"Yes Percy. We were going out for three months, but I was still unsure-"
"You were UNSURE?" he asked in a raised voice.
"W-well, I a-always thought that you were the one for me-" she stuttered. She never stutters. What effect was he having on her?
"Why didn't you think about that when you were dating him, huh? Why?" he inquired.
"Percy, I love you-" She started.
"-because he's dead." Percy finished for her. "So, what am I, Annabeth, a replacement? Is that all I am to you?" He stepped closer to her. "What have I ever done to you to make you hate me?" he said through teary eyes.
"I don't hate you."
"Then why did you cheat on me? You don't even know how much it hurts here." He pointed at her heart.
"Percy, Jared's dead. Can't we just forget about this and move on?"
He laughed lightly. "Yeah, Jared's dead. You can thank the Minotaur for that one. Actually, I might even send him a thank you card in Tartarus."
"This is not funny- wait, how did you know the Minotaur killed him?" she asked.
"I saw it with my own eyes. Cut cleanly in half." He said matter-of-factly.
"And you didn't do anything about it?"
He shrugged. "I just got up. The camp being attacked inside theborderswas a lot for me to take in.
Annabeth couldn't believe her ears. Percy saw Jared about to die, and he didn't do anything to help?
"You let him die." she accused.
"No, I didn't. The moment I saw him, the Minotaur cut him open."
Annabeth pushed him, hard. "I HATE YOU! YOU LET JARED DIE! I HATE YOU, HATE YOU, HATE YOU!" she stormed out the door.
"The feeling's mutual." Percy scoffed.
That's Chapter 2! What do you think?
Anyway, Tell me what you want Bianca to do to Annabeth in the next chapter!
Till then!
