An Okay so this is the third chapter in I think 3 days? I don't know I've just been writing a lot because soon I won't be able to. You know school and sports and all. So anyways great thanks to the reviewers. I love them and hopefully I will continue to write at a fast pace. Always remember to practice safe reviewing!

Anna

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in the PJATO series.

Annabeth POV

Shit I can't believe he just asked that! Yes yes I screamed in my head. He was fumbling with his hands which was cute ,but then he stopped and got this bad boy look on that made him look like a greek god. I was about to say yes which was surprisingly taking me a long time.

"You know as friends.." No! Not as friends! Never as friends! I screamed in my head.

"Sure that would be fun to just go as friends because you know...we just met!" I replied enthusiastically. Damn my closed throat why didn't I just say yes without the awkward pause!

"Cool." He said just as there was going to be another awkward pause they heard a shriek and crash inside the house that sent them both running to see what had happened. "Shoot.." I said looking at the two people that must have stumbled into the pool drunkenly and was trying to get out soaked to the bone of water. I ran to get some towels while Percy pulled them out. Obviously there was a bit too much alcohol and people actually over the legal drinking age.

After the party once everyone started to clear out Percy convinced Nico to stay behind and help clean up. And by clean up we mean play pool while the cleaning service cleaned everything.

"So Thalia you're going be be an apprentice at your fathers company?" Percy asked while he failed miserably at pool. Mostly because he couldn't stay focused on the shot enough to sink it into the hole.

"Yea how did you know that?" Thalia asked raising en eye brow at me giving me a seriously questioning look.

"Well I actually knew because-" I cut him off right there because Thalia was already mentally measuring the space between me and Percy. "He knew because we really hit it off at the party." I forced a smiled on my face and elbowed Percy who was behind me no doubt looking at me very very questionably. "Yea we met when she noticed you where talking to me friend friend Nico." Damn he was a bad lair or well maybe I could tell because Thalia looked convinced and continued the conversation with Percy and Nico.

"Yea anyways Luke seems like a great guy." Nico said trying to smooth the other side of his hair down. He wasn't smiling and he certainly didn't say that 'happily'. I listened for a bit while I kicked Percy ass in pool. I heard snippets of there conversation then I heard a whisper in my ear.

"Nice save Wise Girl." Percy Chuckled behind me knocking yet another pool ball off course.

"Wise girl Perce really?" I couldn't help but laugh at the stupid nickname.

"Cause you think you're so smart. Also really Perce? Real original Annabeth." He looked as I sunk a shot swiftly and easily.

"Well I am.." I said thinking about it more and also thinking of a nickname for him. It was surprisingly harder then I thought it would be. "Seaweed Brain."I said triumphantly. He grabbed my pool stick from me and sat down on a near by chair. He looked at, "Well I can say that I haven't heard THAT one before."

"Well duh I just made it up. Why'd you take the pool stick?" I whined intent on beating him.

"I think we both know you won." He grumbled. Looking up at Nico and Thalia who were laughing away again at something. I loved how he stared at something so intently as if it was the last thing he would see. Not to mention how someone with his looks could be nervous with me was crazy. "Anyways I think me and Nico should be heading out." Percy said as we listened to there conversation.

"So then I said the song was cooler then him." He smiled as Thalia laughed. Shit double shit Thalia looked like she did whenever she was with Luke and that was not good. They just had their damn engagement party!

Once they left Thalia ran into me (literally) as I walked into the living room.

"Annabeth you're not watching the stupid history channel when I need to talk to you about something!" She spoke quickly and quietly which was very out of place for her because usually she would scream at the top of her lungs. "I.." She stopped and looked around nervously like she was scared of people hearing her. "I think Nico likes me.." She looked up and was surprised when I was staring plainly at her.

"Huh you think.." I said flatly walking past her to my spot on the couch. She jogged a little to keep up with me.

"What's that supposed to mean?" She said which I was surprised at. Was she seriously that clueless? No she couldn't be half the guys she's met ended up liking her. Does she seriously never notice and if she doesn't then why would she notice for Nico..

"Well it's easy to see when your talking to him.." I said thinking about it more praying she didn't see me with Percy because I think an idiot could tell I liked him. I don't think Percy noticed ,but he seems like an airhead so.

"Just like you and Percy?" She said now looking at me with dead eye's that I know were grinning from ear to ear inside her head. She saw me freeze ,shit, shit, double shit!

" I don't know what you mean?" I grabbed the remote and turned up the volume on the TV to block her out.

"You know exactly what I mean Anna-" And that's when the volume of the booming TV finally cut her off. She stomped off angrily which I thought was hilarious. I tried to focus on the show ,but of course it was totally impossible. I was going on a date with Percy Damn Jackson! Sure just as friends ,but hopefully that will change so I must keep my fingers crossed.

Somehow Thalia managed to find the remote in my hiding stop and turn the TV off and lock it that way. I never realized how much I never do when I'm watching TV. But as part of her evil plan she cornered me and forced information out of me. The conversation pretty much went like this.

"Hey Annabeth." Cue fake smiled and me being very terrified.

"Hey Thalia what do you have behind your back?" I ducked around her trying to see what it was when I saw a flash of sliver. That could only mean one thing! "THALIA GRACE GIVE ME MY GODDAMN LAPTOP BACK!"

"Oh Annie how naive." She scolded. "You will get it back when you tell me all, and I mean all , of the details between you and this Peter kid." She waved the laptop in front of my face and laughed evilly as I tried to get it back.

"It's Percy and Thalia your going to drop it!" I screeched loudly probably sounding like I was crazy and dying .

"Tell me!" She said with a very surprisingly strong voice with all traces of humor out of it.

"Fine! We met at the beach that day and I gave him my number-" I stopped and glanced up at her while her eye's stared down at me squinting. "And well we started texting and we saw each other at the party today." I finished making another grab for my laptop.

"There's more to this!" She said opening it up and bending it threatening to snap it in half.

"FINE!" I screamed shrilly, "He asked me out and I said yes! But only as friends." I finished in a small voice to look up and find Thalia jaw open and looking at me like she'd seen me for the first time. She shook her head a bit like she was coming out of daze and continued the horrible threaten filled conversation.

"Just friends my ass!" Thalia said bending it more.

"Fine he said that ,but I didn't want tog as friends!" I screamed as Thalia let go of my laptop safely dropping it into my arms.

"That's what I thought." She quipped ,"So what do you plan to do about that?" I looked at her quizzically. What the hell did she mean? Do what about it other then pray to god he changes his mind about the whole 'friend' thing. "You know how are you going to change his mind?" She said noticing I had no idea what she was even saying.

"Oh well I really hadn't thought about it-" I started.

I was snapped from my memory by Thalia's loud voice from outside my bedroom's bathroom.

"Annabeth get out here I want to see it!" She whined. After she forced that information out of me she said that she needed to help me find something to wear. Apparently I was mentally retarded at fashion ,but whatever. She told it we would most likely go to see a movie or if he was weird mini golf ,but we were betting (and hoping) that it was the movie.

I walked out in a pair of skinny jeans, high heeled sandals and some shirt kinda reminded me of a pirate shirt. Except apparently this one was 'totally me' because it was relaxed and lazy. Did I mention Thalia is always brutally honest? Well if I forgot that then I'll tell you now she is mostly because she doesn't get embarrassed by anything unlike me.

"Holy..." She said looking me over and walking around me analyzing me like I was the newest car and she was debating on whether to buy or not. I bit my lip nervously and started to have a mental war in my head. In knew that I couldn't look that good if she didn't answer right away ,but then again she started with 'holy'.

"You look fu-"

"LANGUAGE!" I screamed before she could continue talking, ",but thank you." I added smiling looking into a full length mirror. The me smiling back looked pretty damn good and I personally was proud of it. "Wait Thalia it's summer shouldn't I wear shorts?"

"Gods no movie theaters here are freezing." She said throwing me a pair of earring I caught swiftly and held up to my ear.

"No to flashy"I said throwing them back into the jewelry box she brought into my room.

"Oh so sorry I forgot Annabeth liked BORING things." She groaned throwing me another pair of earrings that were simple pearls. I smiled and chuckled "You know me so well."

"Well hun I did grow up with you." She said closing it and walking it back to her room. I looked at myself one more time in the mirror before going into the bathroom and taking a much needed shower.

By the time I woke up the next day it was already past 12. I already texted Percy yesterday and he was picking me up around 7 O'clock so I knew I had about 7 hours to get ready ,but me being me I had a panic attack. Why you might ask? Well it's mostly because I started going over all the things that could possibably happen and most of them where not so good.

"THAL'S!" I screamed down the stairs causing her to drop her phone out of her hand and come running."What what's wrong?" She said breathing heavily once she got to the top of the stairs.

"I think I gave Ronda my jeans!" I said tearing apart my room and making it even messier then it was before. Ronda was the cleaning lady who also does and laundry. If I gave her my jeans then I wouldn't get them back until they were dry cleaned. 'Seriously! Crap you know what now you're going to wear shorts and freeze your butt off!" She said going through my closet.

By the time we found a pair I had to throw them on quickly because it was 30 minutes till Percy picked me up. I wobbled back and forth on the heels as I walked down the stairs to get my coat. I heard someone knock on the door.

"Shoot he's early" I muttered to myself running to open the door. I looked him up and down and damn this was going to be a hard 'just friends' date if he looked like that. I noticed his jaw was slightly ajar ,apparently I looked good.

"Hi Annabeth." He said with a defiant smirk on his face. "Percy," I nodded stepping out of the house and closing the door. "So what are we doing anyways?"

"Were going to the movies!" He said like a five year-old. I looked at happy that Thalia and I got it right ,but wondering what movie we would see. "Well specifically the movie called 'Going the Distance'." He smiled. I reached for the door on his car ,but he beat me to it opening it for me. I slid into my seat. I thought about it for a second till he started the car and started driving.

"Isn't that like a couples movie?" I said thinking about why we would see that movie. You know...as friends.

"What?" He looked over with a ,mischievous glint in his eye's. "Friends can watch a romantic couples movie together!"

"Oh yes they do that all the time."He must have missed the sarcasm in my voice because he just nodded and laughed easily. God this was going to be a hard night...

AN I wrote this chapter last night and I'm going to update soon because I play the story out in my mind before I write. And I need to continue it because I also like it and hopefully you do too. Also sorry it's so short.

~Anna