Welcome, welcome to chapter two of Beneath the Shadow of the Water! Now now children, stop running around the living room and gather around mama.

-LadySwirlz

Annabeth's (14 yrs old) POV

I just sat at the passenger's seat silently, looking at the architecture and the bright lights of the buildings. Mother would always tell me tips about every single building and how they could improve it. Don't think of that. She's a demon. I just know someone possessed her. I just know! Those thoughts sent a cold shiver down my back. "Annabeth. I know what you're thinking about. Don't let it get to you..." My granny warned, looking concerned in the mirror. I blew my hair out of my face and mumbled, "That's what everyone's saying." Granny sighed, "Look, Annie, I'm just taking you to MacDonald's. OK?" (you thought this was the part when Granny rescued Annabeth? ahahahahhaha. no...) From what Granny said, I amazingly shut up. No one ever ignores Granny. EVER.

"We're hereee!" Granny sing sang. I just smiled a little. Granny was only like 48 years, which looks pretty young for a Grandma. She stepped off the car and I jumped. It was freezing cold out here. I was wearing some tight jeans, light blue jacket that was small for me and some sparkly converse shoes. We walked on the pathway toward the Macca's place. The doors opened automatically as we burst in, and some people stopped and stared at us. "Here's some cash, Annie. Buy something for me," whispered Granny into my ear and winked at me and gestured to a boy standing at the ordering place. He looked around sixteen, had icy blue eyes that twinkled mischievously and sandy blonde hair that looked wind swept. Typical Californian boy. I just rolled my eyes at Granny. Does she really think I should get a boyfriend this handsome? Ahahaha! I doubt it in a million years. I looked back up to him to see him staring at me. I blushed bright crimson, and I could just make out that Granny was chuckling.

"Errr... can I get a regular cheese burger, two fries pack and twelve pack chicken nuggets, please?" I ask. "Sure. It'll be there in five minutes. That would be $8.57 please." I handed the cash on the counter as he reached for it, but I accidentally had left an extra coin and grabbed it. Our hands touched and I could hear my heart pounding loudly, my face feeling hot from blushing. "Sorry..." I dragged and walked to the waiting area. "So... how was it?" my Granny smirked. "Seriously, Granny! How childish can you be!? And you're like -what- fricken' forty-eight years old?" I snapped at her, feeling quite embarrassed because we were in a public place. "Gods," I facepalmed and rubbed my temples, "you're really getting on my nerves." I rubbed my hands together from the coldness in the air. Why would they be putting air conditioning in the middle of fricken' winter? I felt something zap me in my hands. I saw a little blue energy circuit running through my hands. I blinked. Was it just me or was it just my fricken' imagination?

DING-DING!

"Order's up!" someone yelled right through my mind. I shook my head and grabbed my bag of MacDonald's food. "Hey there. I didn't catch your name," the handsome boy replied nonchalantly. I raised my eyebrow questioningly but answered, "Annabeth, Annabeth Chase." He winked playfully at me, "A pretty name for a pretty girl." I suddenly felt shy, "Uh, thanks, I guess?" He just chuckled. "My name's Luke Castellan. You should call me sometime. We should really hang out with each other." Did he just ask me out? This is definitely not happening. "Hey, you like your hyperventilating. You okay?"

I nodded and forcefully made a smile, "Yeah, it's just that not a lot of boys ask me out. You know. I'm kinda a loserish girl." He frowned, "Why? You seem like an amazing girl to hang out with." He just slipped out a sticker and wrote his number. "If you want anything just call me." And off he went. Back to working. Getting some slut's order. You'd probably be thinking that I'd be jealous. Nawww I'm not jealous. I was actually disturbed with the girl's failing seductivity. And anyways, Luke looked bored and disgusted by this girl so it didn't matter anyway.

I headed towards our table to see Granny smirking the biggest smirk I've ever seen in my life, that it scared me. "So how did it go?" she nudged my side with her arm. "Granny?"

"What?"

"Shut up."

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My job is so boring right now. What's with the girls always flirting with me when I'm like three years younger D:: From Luke. I smiled. He had this sense of aura around him that made me laugh. My laugh was echoing through our garden with all types of plants and flowers that can be named. I was sitting on a marble bench right in front of a humongous water fountain with a statue of maiden pouring out a bucket of water.

How do you always ma- "Hi, Annabeth!" A cheery voice startled me and I fell into a bush behind me. I glared at the green eyed boy who was smiling so widely that I wanted to smack it right off his cu-stupid face. "How do you always appear out of nowhere and instantly find me?"

"I can't tell you that, Annabeth. Maybe next time," he just sighed. "Next time, next time, blah, blah, blah. You always say that, Mister," I say in a whatever tone. I was walking around the water fountain now. Completely focusing on my thinking. Thinking about how the hell Percy got here out of no where. Then, out of the blue, Percy jumped on me and tackled me onto the grass floor. "Oh you're soo gonna get it," I smirked and pushed him to the side and I landed on top of him. "Ha!" But the expression on face didn't look playful. He just stared into my eyes on and on. He was drawing closer to my face every second, I didn't realise that I was also drawing in closer, too. "Percy-" I mumbled.

His lips were on mine now. Moving in synch with each other like our lives depended on it. It felt like a thousand fireflies just lit the whole garden magically. We both moaned loudly and we moved apart. He grinned happily and I grinned back at him. "Annabeth, ever since I saw you at the hospital, I knew there was something about you. Something special. I just wanted to say that I l-"

"Aaahhh! Help something's pulling me down!" We were near the water of my gigantic pond and I didn't realise that we were so close. "Percy! Help me!" He kneeled down and grabbed my arm and pulled as hard as he could. "It's not working!" I could hear the noise of our waterfall splashing everywhere. "Percy, let go of me!"

"Never! I'm not letting go of you! I don't want to lose you!" I sighed. It was too late already my neck was already below the water. "If I'm going to die... I'm going to die with you," I said to him. The force that was pulling me down hard. And that was it.

The force held onto my ankle really hard, but not as much as Percy holding onto my arm. "In three, two one..."

And we plunged into a great abyss of darkness in the water.

Yay! Percabeth! Sorry for the Lukabeth. That sucked balls. Annabeth only thinks of Luke as a brother so it doesn't matter. And that kiss was the best kiss known to the whole man kind! Hehehehhehehe

stay happy- LadySwirlz