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Annabeth's POV
The day was going by pretty quick just the standard first day stuff in every class. Welcome to Goode, hope we are going to have a great year; here is the syllabus and what is expected of you. Boring, so Thalia, Percy, and I mostly just stayed in the back and talked about throwing a little house warming party. I know what you are thinking a daughter of Athena sitting in the back of classrooms, ignoring teachers, what an outrage. Don't worry Percy hasn't rubbed off on me too much, I'll take notes and focus when the real class starts.
As soon as third period started I knew I was going to like Mr. Solo. He didn't bother with all of the normal formalities. He just had us all draw a blueprint of our current rooms, and then in a different color add our own improvements to it to make it our dream room. I had just moved into my room so I knew exactly how everything was situated.
With 20 minutes left to go in class I finished my drawing, in perfect scale I might add, and showed it to Mr. Solo. He praised my work and I was flattered. He asked if he could keep it and use it as a piece in this year's arts fair. I agreed ecstatic and then he let me leave early so I headed to the pool to watch the end of Percy's swim practice.
I walked into the pool area and sat on the bleachers to watch the rest of class. Coach Hedge didn't seem to care that I was there. He muttered something about a fan club, but he just let me sit there without asking any questions.
Percy glanced up and smiled at me, he was wearing his navy swim trunks with no shirt showing off his six pack. I couldn't help but notice how good he looked without his shirt on as I smiled and waved to him. He was about to walk over and talk to me when coach called his name and he held up 1 finger to me in a, I'll be there in a minute gesture. I smiled and gave him a thumbs-up.
He got up on one platform while the rest of the class cheered and chattered enthusiastically. Then Kristen got up on the other platform and I admit I was a little jealous of how she filled out her orange two-piece. She looked really good, which made me surprised and a little worried at why she didn't have a boyfriend.
Percy's POV
In swim class we were doing some heads up one-on-one races since it was the first day. Coach Hedge was giving some boring speech about how we were finally going to win State, maybe even Nationals.
I was ignoring him, thinking to myself how if I hadn't been fighting Kronos we would have won last year. Coach had been furious when I told him I was going to miss the State Finals because I had some serious family issues to deal with. This year I was going to make sure that we won.
I was interrupted in my thoughts by Coach saying, "Well it's about time we got a bit of a fan club, we were third at state last year." I looked up and smiled seeing that it was Annabeth and she waved back. I was going to walk over to her and say hi when Coach Hedge stopped me.
"Jackson get over here," he screamed. Then in a normal voice said, "Is that your girlfriend?" I just nodded to him. "Well then since it's the first time our fans have come to see us this year, let's give her a good show with a captains' race. Boy's team captain Percy vs. girl's team captain Kristen. Down and back, just one lap."
Everyone cheered as we got up on the platforms to start. I could hear people talking but didn't really know who was saying what. "My money is on Percy." "No way Kristen will kill him." "Percy is gonna win us Nationals this year." "Dang Percy's girlfriend is kinda hot."
The last one really set my temper off, and when the whistle blew I dove in and swam with all I had. Without meaning to, I had caused the water to shoot me ahead and I ended up beating her by a whole pool length. When I got out everyone was staring at me wide eyed and mouths open.
Coach Hedge was the one to break the silence, "Jackson you just broke a school record and probably even a world record. I will do anything for you if you can swim like that in competitions. I guess those summer workouts I gave you to do really paid off."
In truth I hadn't even looked at the workout schedule he gave us. Battling monsters and training to survive as a demigod kept me in great shape. Not to mention being the son of Poseidon and having power over water, I didn't really think I needed to train. Not wanting to hurt his feelings I just mumbled in agreement and went to apologize to Kristen.
"Look I'm sorry about that." I told her.
"What? Why would you apologize? That was the most amazing thing I've ever seen."
"Yeah, but still I didn't mean to make you look bad." I said as I offered my hand to help her out of the pool.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I didn't mean to make you look bad either," she said while laughing.
"Wait what?" but it was already too late. She had grabbed my hand and pulled me into the water while cracking up.
I came up and spit water out of my mouth and splashed her once laughing at what she had done.
I heard Austin say, "Jeez Percy take all the girls why don't you."
Oh crap, did that look like flirting? I thought to myself. I got out of the pool and looked at Annabeth. She had her arms crossed over her chest and she didn't look happy. Shit, I'm in trouble. I gave her a sheepish smile and made my way over to her.
Annabeth's POV
I was fuming. I can't believe she would openly flirt with my boyfriend when she knew I was watching. That kelp head was walking over to me now with a grin on his face that said he knew he was in trouble. I had to remember not to look in his eyes so that I could stay angry with him.
He finally got up to me and said, "Hey did you see me win that race." What a kelp head.
"Yeah it almost didn't even look like you used your powers." I answered my voice dripping with sarcasm, I was still angry.
"Like I would need my powers to beat a girl at anything," he joked back trying to get me distracted I could tell. I just kept looking down to make sure I could focus on being mad, if I looked in his sea green eyes he could make me forget everything.
"You clearly should've used your powers a little more to pull your girlfriend out of the water." I spat back at him.
"Are you jealous Wisegirl?"
"No, why would you eve…" but he cut off my sentence.
"Because you should know that you never have to be jealous of another girl. You are the only girl for me." He then lifted my chin and kissed me softly on the lips.
When it broke I looked back down and just happened to be looking at his abs as I was trying to regain my focus on being mad, but he was making it hard. "Hey Wisegirl quit staring, my eyes are up here."
That was all I could take. I shook my head at him and laughed as I looked up at his face again. "You're such a seaweed brain."
He gave me his lopsided grin and said, "Yeah but I'm your seaweed brain." Then his voice got more serious, "I don't want something stupid like that to come between us. Kristen is just my friend. Really that was nothing." He looked me right in the eyes and our faces were about an inch apart, "Annabeth, I love you." Then he pulled me into a kiss and it was a real kiss this time. It was the first time he had told me he loved me. We ignored the wolf whistles from over at the pool.
When we pulled back for air I whispered in his ear, "I love you too Seaweed brain." Then I kissed him again.
The bell rang and that broke us apart. The rest of the day passed in a bit of a blissful blur. I couldn't help the smile that crept onto my face every time I thought about it. Percy loved me, what else mattered?
There you go a little Percabeth fluff at the end. I'll get you all another chapter soon. Hope you enjoyed. The next chapter will be a bit of a filler but don't worry the 2-3 after that are my favorites I've written so far.