Yeah... Here's chapter 3. I won't be updating for a couple of days, so I'll try to make this chapter kinda long for you guys, though it might be hard... I'll see what I can do. =P

We all looked at him. He paled a little(if that was even possible). "What? Why are you looking at me?"

Thalia snickered. "You suggested it, why don't you go first, Ghost Boy?"

"Umm...Uh-I..." he stammered. "Why does it have to be me?" Annabeth raised an eyebrow at him. "You seemed pretty eager to get started. Now go, or no one goes." Just then, our home phone rang. I groaned, and ran to get it. When I got back everyone was waiting. Annabeth looked at me expectantly. "Paul said he needs me to meet him at Central Park. He wouldn'y say why, but he wants Annabeth to come with." I spoke to everybody, so it wasn't so akward.

"Alright, Seaweed Brain, let's go." I led her out the door. Just before I locked it, I said, "Nico can wait until we get back. Just...turn on music and, talk or something. Just don't break anything." And I closed the door.

When we got to Central Park ten minutes later, Paul was there with my mom, and they were walking along in the evening light. I guess Apollo was in a rush or something. Actually, by the time we got to them, the moon was more than halfway up. Just as we approached, Paul got down on one knee and pulled at a ring. "Sally, will you marry me?" I smiled, and so did Annabeth. I had told her what Paul had said at my birthday. My mom started tearing up, saying, "Yes, yes, yes! Of course I will!" She kissed him, and we looked away. It just wasn't exactly comfortable watching your mom make out. My mother turned to me. "You knew about this, didn't you?" I shrugged. "Maybe a little. He told me on my birthday." She pulled me into a bone-crushing hug. Just then reminded me of when I came back from Ogygia, and Annabeth had given me a hug that got this close to cracking my ribs. I gave a contented sigh on the inside of the memory.

When the adults walked away, I was pulled back into reality. Annabeth was watching them go, her hair blowing in the breeze just ever so slightly. I suddenly wondered why Paul had asked me to bring her. "C'mon," I said. "Let's take a walk." She gave me a look. "Shouldn't we be getting back to the party? Nico has a performance waiting."

"He'll be fine, he could just summon the dead or something. Besides, I... I want to talk to you." My heart started going twenty miles an hour about what I was about to do. I knew she would never love me, but if I died this summer, I thought maybe she should know. We started walking through a little garden.

"So," she said. "What did you want to talk to me about?"

I stopped in front a fountain and sat down. "Annabeth..." I started. My anxiety made the water swirl a little bit. "I... I know we've been through a lot together, and..." As I felt my heart rate pick up, the water sloshed more violently. She looked depressed. "I know what you're going to say."

What? There's no way she would feel the same. I hoped she didn't mean... No... "You think things have been too tense, and with your prophecy-" I stopped her.

"No. That's not it." I took a deep breath. "I might be going crazy, but I think... I think... I'm... In love-" It was her turn to interrupt me.

"With Rachel?" she asked harshly. "Is that it?"

"No! Annabeth, please, stop jumping to conclusions!" She got mad, then. "Oh, jumping to conclusions, am I? Maybe I should just go home, then, and you can be happy with Rachel!" I grabbed her wrist as she stood up to leave. "No. Please. Hear me out. I'm begging you." She still looked furious, but she sat back down. "Just get on with it, Seaweed Brain."

My mind was suddenly filled with all my favorite memories of her; the first time I saw her, on the Big House porch after I fought the Minotaur; When I danced with her on Olympus; when she kissed me on Mount St. Helens. "I think I'm in love...with...you." She looked shocked, relieved, and ecstatic all at the same time. I continued, "I thought...maybe you should know if I...if I die this summer. I understand if you...you know." I was sure she did know. But her look didn't change. Then she whispered, right in my ear, "I love you too, Seaweed Brain. I've realized I can't live in the past." Then she kissed me, long and hard, so hard in fact that we fell backwards into the fountain. Then I realized: I was kissing back. I was kissing the love of my life, the girl of my dreams, my world, my everything. I was kissing my Annabeth.

"Think we should go back now?" I asked. She smirked. "Fine, but I think I need to change the words in my song a bit." I stared at her, bewildered. "What?" I'd never heard that song in my life, and I didn't know the lyrics.

"Nevermind, you'll see." And we walked back to my apartment, hand in hand, my heart soaring so high Aphrodite could probably catch it.

Well, how was it? Too mushy? 3 reviews, please! =P