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Percy's POV

Nico and I were following Coach Miles down to his office by the gym, I guess he wants to have a talk with us before we see the principle, and every time I glance over at Nico I can't help but notice the huge shit eating grin on his face.

"You just kissed Thalia and asked her out." I blatantly state he just smiles wider and nods his head. "You know her and Annabeth are gonna kill us for getting suspended right." He just nods again. Come on kid you gotta give me something. "Mr. D and Mr. C are gonna be pissed we fought mortals." I whisper the last word. He nods again. "If you don't respond to the next thing I say with something more than a nod, I'm gonna shove riptide down your throat."

"That was pretty crazy, wasn't it?" he asks.

I'm not sure whether he's talking about destroying 6 mortal football players, or him kissing Thals in front of everyone. I decided to answer vaguely, "Yeah that was definitely something I didn't see coming today, you seemed to handle yourself pretty well though."

"Yeah, you threw a pretty nasty right hook though." He smirks at me and we both laugh a little.

"Alright ladies, quit your giggling and get in here." Coach orders while holding open his office door. We walk in and take a seat in front of the desk. It's silent as he just stares at us, "Well, is one of you gonna tell me what the hell just happened, and why I'm not going to have my star running back this Friday? Looking at what you did to him probably for the rest of the season."

"You see coach," Nico starts, "Marcus was disrespecting our girlfriends" Wow he just called Thals his girlfriend, wonder what she'll think of that, "and I told him that he needed to apologize, or I was going to make him. Then they attacked me 6 on 1 and I defended myself."

Miles just stares at him, "You expect me to believe that you took down 6 guys twice your size all by yourself?"

"Well Percy did step in on the last one, so 5 guys all by myself." Nico answered cockily, "I mean you could ask any of the students watching, I was quite captivating I guess." It takes everything I have not to laugh at his cocky remark.

The coach isn't nearly as amused, but he sits there contemplating what Nico said none the less. "Alright, this is what we are going to do. Since it was my football players and you are on the swim team Jackson, we are going to settle this in house. I will make the principle aware and have her sign off on everything. I know that Marcus has a mouth on him and is a hot head so I'm inclined to believe your story. DeAngelo, you being the primary involved in a fight, I have no choice but to suspend you for 10 days. That is the standard school policy for first time offense and considering the damage done, consider yourself lucky. Jackson, I owe Hedge a favor, so you can tell him that debt is paid. I am going to suspend you for 4 days, that way you'll still be able to go to the swim meet next Monday."

We both nod and I throw in a "thank you sir" and then we turn and walk out of the office. "Well that went way better than I expected." I joke after we are out of earshot. "So what do you want to do with this whole week off of school?"

He just laughs, "Oh we will figure something out, probably try to spend as much time with the girls as possible without them killing us." We both start laughing more as we exit the school.

Annabeth's POV

Thalia has a dazed look in her eyes and a shit eating grin on her face the whole walk to the cafeteria, then the whole time through the line, and still has it when we sit at a table with just the two of us. I can't take the silence anymore, "Nico just kissed you and asked you out." I say, she just smiles wider and nods her head. "You know we are gonna have to kill them for getting suspended and leaving us here alone right." He just nods again. Come on Thals you have to give me something. "Mr. D and Chiron are gonna be pissed they fought mortals." she nods again. "If you don't respond to the next thing I say with something more than a nod, I'm gonna shove my dagger down your throat."

"You could try if you want, but we both know how that would end." She teases.

Fine we can lighten the mood with a few jokes before you spill Thals, I've got all the time in the world. "Yeah we do, I would have to clean my dagger because it would be gross from being in your throat."

She gives a light laugh, "Nico kissed me." She says rather bluntly.

"Yes he did, we've mentioned that." I egg her on.

"I liked it." She grins, "He asked me out on a date this week."

Before I could respond to this a guy from my designs class, Ben Smith, who happens to be the quarterback sits down next to us. He looks at Thals and addresses her, "Hey, I know this may come across as a little forward, but I was wondering if you wanted to do something after the football game Friday night."

Thalia just looks back at him completely calm, "Did you hear about what happened to Marcus and the other football players?" She asked him.

"Yeah of course I heard about it." He answers a little confused by her questioning.

"Well that was my boyfriend, and I taught him to do all that so you better just keep walking." She just called Nico her boyfriend; I'm having a total Aphrodite girl moment. He didn't move though, "Seriously keep walking."

He gave her one more shocked look, then got up and left leaving us cracking up.

"So, which one of them do you think is more scared right now Nico or Percy?" I asked her.

"Definitely Kelp Head, he knows how seriously you take school, and you can be pretty scary. I am a nice little angel."

We both start laughing again, when I can finally talk again I ask, "So how do you think they are going to make it up to us?"

"I don't know but it better be good." She says as we get up to leave for our next class.

Percy's POV

Nico and I decided that we would cook the girl's dinner tonight at 6 to make up for getting suspended. After we decided that I went to the one place that I can always clear my mind and think whenever I'm having a bad day. One 10 minute Pegasus ride on Blackjack at the price of 4 sugar cubes and an apple and I was walking onto the pristine sand of Montauk beach. It was a beautiful sunny day and I had the beach practically to myself. I looked around at the various people on the beach taking them all in. There was an older couple just relaxing in their beach chairs each reading a book, there was a college aged guy running with his dog along the waterline, a lady about my mom's age trying to round up her 3 kids and get them out of the water. Lastly too my surprise was Kristen, in her bikini sitting on a towel with her knees pulled up to her chest and her head resting on that staring out at the ocean.

She looked sad and she had left without saying anything to anybody this morning so I walked over to her and sat down. "Hey captain."

She jumps a little before recognizing it's me, "Percy what are you doing here? Are you following me?"

I give her a smile, "Yep I'm a total stocker." I say laughing. "No, I kinda got in a fight and got suspended for a week." I answer sheepishly. "I needed to clear my head and this is my favorite place in the world, so here I am."

She doesn't press me about the fight which I appreciate, she just laughs, "I guess great minds think alike," she smiles at me with a hint of sadness, "I needed some alone time to think and it wasn't even a question that this is where I needed to come."

"You want to talk about it? I mean you left pretty abruptly this morning, was it something that Liz said, because you shouldn't let her get to you."

She just shakes her head and gives me a look that says seriously, like I'm missing something that should be obvious. "Nope, no need to dwell on what happened; let's not waste this perfect sunny day." She says standing up and I stand with her. "Let's see who can swim out the farthest." She challenges to me pointing at the ocean.

I have to hold back a laugh, of all the things somebody could challenge me at, it's the one thing nobody could possibly beat me at, I could swim in the ocean forever and just rest on the ocean floor if I got tired. I obviously can't tell a mortal that so I just grin and ask "I'll make it all the way to Japan."

She laughs at me, "This is the Atlantic Ocean kelp head, Japan would be across the Pacific Ocean." You idiot Percy, and since when does she call me kelp head. "Besides, you're not going to make it that far sitting in the sand." With that she pushes me back onto my butt, and takes off running into the water. I get up laughing and follow her into the ocean.

I quickly catch her and start doing a back stroke so I can look at her as I swim past her, "You know cheating is very unbecoming of you." I tease, causing her to splash me in the face. "You do realize that you just made a giant mistake and this means war." I joke with her before diving under the water and pulling her under as well.

She comes up with her hair now soaking wet, "PERSEUS JACKSON You are so dead." She yells and we end up messing around in the water splashing each other and goofing off, completely losing track of time. I forget all about getting in trouble and just laugh and enjoy myself.

Kristen's POV

We finally make it back to the beach and sit on our towels talking about nothing and everything. We sit there staring out at the sunset when I finally find the courage to say what I've been wanting to say for a while. "You know Percy I had a lot of fun today."

He gives me his lopsided smile that melts me, "I had fun too."

"Really every time we hang out I have fun." Alright here goes my leap of faith, "Perce, have you ever been around somebody that lights up your whole day just be seeing them, liked that somebody so much but just didn't know how to tell them."

He gives a start, "Oh my gods I'm such an idiot." Yep Percy that's it you know what I'm saying, "How long has it been." Since we met "Look Kristen," Here we go moment of truth, "I'm really sorry, I have to go, I'm late for dinner with Annabeth. I'll see you later." And he gets up and runs off.

Each new cut hurts worse than the last one. "Percy, when you're around I can't help but be happy. I've been meaning to say this since freshman year, I love you." I say to the empty spot of sand next to me. He chose Annabeth over me again, why can't he see the obvious that we are so perfect together.

Percy's POV

I jump off of blackjack and run through the apartment complex and into Annabeth and Thalia's place. The two of them and Nico are sitting at the table looking at the blackest, most burnt chicken I've ever seen in my life. Nico is the first to talk, "So it turns out I can't cook for shit, and you were supposed to be the main chef."

"Where the Hades were you Percy, I've been worried sick." Annabeth says storming over to me.

"I'm sorry, I was at Montauk and lost track of time." For some reason I don't tell her about Kristen, I don't know why but I don't. "I didn't mean to worry you." I add leaning in and giving her a kiss.

"Gross, get a room" Thalia says picking up a piece of the chicken and smelling it. She makes a gagging face and puts it down, "On second thought don't, we are taking this double date on the road. And because you were late, you're buying Kelp Head." She says as she and Nico walk out the door.

"Don't think this talk is over Seaweed Brain, I know you're not telling me something." Annabeth says before following them out the front door.

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