Chp 8
Percy's POV

Despite how I felt so broken inside as I left her to have coffee with Jake, I guess she's not mine to get protective over. If she wanted to date him, that's fine. If she wanted to maybe start going out with me, that would be amazing. But it didn't matter, as long as she was happy.

~ Line Break ~

I was trying to remember what books I needed. Suddenly someone put their hands over my eyes. "Guess who?" They said. I smiled at that voice. I took the hands in mine and turned around. I looked down at a smiling Annabeth. "Hey." She said, drawing out the word with a big smile on her face.

I chuckled. "What made you so happy?" She shook her head. "Nothing, just in a good mood." She said, making me narrow my eyes. "What happened when I left you two for coffee?" I asked, she chuckled and slapped my arm, reminding me I still had her hands in mine.

"It wasn't that, although it was good coffee." She said. I gave a smile, happy she was still single - not to sound rude. "So you're just happy." I stated. She nodded with a smile. I chuckled and got the last few books I needed. I walked with her to homeroom and we sat next to each other at the back.

She just scribbled stuff in her book as I watched her. "Can I ask you something?" I asked her, the words slipping out my mouth. She stopped what she was doing. And turned to me, smiling. "What's up?" She asked.

"Okay, well the weather gets really hot in a months time and my friends and I usually go and spend a weekend at my beach house thing in Montauk, and I wanted to know if you wanted for tag along." I asked. She looked like she was contemplating it before smiling. "I'd love to."

I smiled and the bell rang, announcing the beginning of a boring day. The first classes flew by and then I was packing up in the locker room after PT. I glanced over at my friends as we were the last ones there. "Hey guys, I hope you don't mind but I invited Annabeth to our Montauk weekend."

Leo let out a big gasp as Jason raised an eyebrow and Frank narrowed his eyes. He then broke into a smirk. "You like miss blondie from California." He said, closing his locker. "What? No." I said, closing mine and trying to put on a convincing face.

Apparently it didn't work. "You're so wrapped around her little finger." Jason's aid, shaking his head with a smile. "If Lauren found out she would freak." Leo said, chuckling and closing his locker. "Bad enough I heard from Piper that her and Annabeth didn't start off on the right foot." Jason said.

I frowned. "What do you mean?" I asked. He shrugged. "Annabeth got freaked out because Lauren said something to her in the girls bathroom or whatever about her wanting to be your girlfriend and that she must back off or whatever. Piper told her about Lauren trying to date you and stuff." He said. I frowned.

"We did kind of have a run in in the hall the other day. I wondered why Lauren was looking at her weird." I said. Frank shoved me friendly and said, "Doesn't beat your gigantic crush on her." I protested as we went out the locker room and to lunch. "Anyway, she's coming and we're all gonna have fun." I said.

~ Line Break (One Month Later)~

I smiled as I picked up Frank and Hazel and we all drove to the last persons place, Annabeth's. They all had chucked their bags in the boot and sat in the back. I always borrowed my moms combi when we went to Montauk to fit us all. The others hadn't sat in the front as they persisted on getting us together.

I pulled up to her apartment building and Leo let out a whistle. "Got parents with money." He said. I guess she did stay somewhere fancy. I saw the doorman go inside and then come out a minute later with Annabeth.

She had a duffel bag in her right hand and her phone in the other. She was dressed in shorts, vans and a tank top and had her hair down and wayfarers on. She gave us a smile and put her bag in the boot. She joined me in the front and greeted everyone. "To Montauk we go!" Leo shouted.

I drove, aware of every movement she made next to me. Leo and Piper were arguing about her being vegetarian while the others just chatted. Annabeth was tapping her fingers on her leg and looking out the window. "You looking forward to the long weekend?" I asked. She looked up and smiled at me, making my heart race. "Pumped." She said, giving me a rockers hand signal and we both laughed.

We chatted about whatever and soon arrived at Montauk. We parked and got out, everyone grabbing their bags. I unlocked the place and everyone came in. The girls all shared the room on the right of the corridor and the guys shared one on the left.

I finished unpacking and went to relax on the porch. I leaned against the rail, taking in the scene I've seen many times. But every time I fall more in love with the view. I looked to my let as Annabeth joined me. She had her arms like mine, her forearms holding her up as she leaned onto the rail.

My skin felt like an electric current where her skin touched mine. I had to resist tucking the stray strand of hair behind her ear. She looked up at me and gave me her smile. It took my breath away, making me forget all I knew and my mind just revolve around her.

She chuckled, looking down and asked, "What?" I shook my head. "Nothing." I said, and we looked our at the sea. "You come here a lot?" She asked. I sighed. "I wish I could come here more often. It's just a get away from all the hustle and bustle of the city, a place for me to think." I said. She sighed. "I always needed a place like this." She said under her breath, but I still heard. I decided to rather leave her, remembering that if she wanted to open up, she would.

"Well I'm sure you'll enjoy it, I always do." I said, reassuringly. She looked up with a smile. Piper called Annabeth from inside and she gave me a little sigh before disappearing inside. I decided to go check in the guys as they were taking a while.

Good thing I did, as there they were, having a huge pillow fight. Leo was successfully rooting the two guys till he hit them both, then they turned on him. So there I came, trying to be the pacemaker and save Leo from being pounded with soft pillows. What torture. I ended getting involved and lying in the ground, laughing as Leo hit me and I hit him back and so forth.

We all stopped as we heard a laugh from the door. We looked up from our positions, to see the girls all laughing at us. We straightened up, looking like nothing happened. "Ever so mature." Annabeth said, a cheeky glint in her eyes. We boys all exchanged a look and went after the girls. So there was guys against girls and pillows flying.

I hit Annabeth with a pillow and she fell to the floor, laughing. A pillow flew into the back if my head and I fell on top of her. I quickly stopped myself from falling on top of her by putting my arms out to the side. She smiled, both if us panting. I was thinking about kissing her when she flipped us over and hit me in the face with a pillow. "I win." She said, stuck her tongue out and jumped up. She ran off but I quickly caught up with her in the hall.

I grabbed her around the waist and spun her, us both laughing. I set her down again, arms around my neck and my arms around her waist. Every inch of her skin felt plastered to mine. I smiled at her and she blushed, us untangling ourselves from each other and stepping back. We joined the others in the last remains of the pillow fight.

Leo was the last person to throw a pillow. I saw it heading towards the table where a picture frame of my mom and I was, so I quickly caught it before it smashed into the table. I let out a relieved breath and dropped the pillow onto the couch. We all cleaned up the mess and sat on the couches.

"So, what are we doing for dinner?"