AN Okay so I had some thoughts stuck in my mind today so I wrote this chapter and thank you to all the people who review. (There was ten in all do I'm happy) I hope you like the chapter and I also hope that I will be able to update like this even when school it running normally again without all of these snow day's. And mid-terms =/. Anyway's I hope you like the chapter.
Anna
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of the PJATO series. (I wish I did..)
Like always Annabeth's POV
The car ride was interesting I guess. We got into a fight about how he drives and then ended up bursting out in laughter in the end of it. We talked about morning thing's and why exactly he wanted to see this movie.
And it was going to kill me because somehow under his idiotness he apparently has a brain and in that brain he's sappy. Literally like romantic ,but then again we were talking about a romance movie.
But here we are sitting in a darkest corner furthest from the doors, watching the two main characters meet while we whisper back and forth. It started out very fun actually we made fun of the commercials and talked about what we would do if we worked at the movie theater because this place was gross. His answer was kill himself and mine was quit and go to school ,but he deemed that answer 'unfair' because he didn't know you could choose that. But when we finally arrived I was expecting some big, overly lighted theater to be surprised with one that wasn't to big ,but still big enough to have at least 9 movies playing at one time.
"Annabeth pass the popcorn!" He whispered at an attempt to lean over me and snatch it from my hands.
"Fine ,fine." I swatted him away getting a big hand full of popcorn and throwing it at his causing it to go everywhere. He looked up at me in disbelief and with the swiftness of a ninja he grabbed a handful and threw it right back. "Oh you so did not just do that!" I quietly screamed through my teeth. He leaned in quickly chuckling in my ear, "Oh ,but Wise Girl I did." I gasped quickly before saying one word.
"War."
This involved a lot of throwing popcorn and then he did it he dumped the bit that was left of his soda (He drank it all before the movie!) onto my head. That alone set me off ,not the popcorn down my shirt and possibably in my bra ,but coke on my head. Mostly because coke when poured on someone is sticky and just gross. And not only did I have it on me I had it in my hair. The same hair I spent obsessing over because of him just to have him pour a soda on it! Just as I grabbed for my slushy Percy put his hand over my mouth and fell to the floor with me in a thump.
"What the hell!" I whispered.
"Manager apparently we were making noise and I don't plan to get kicked out! Not again." He whispered. He got up crouching and grabbed for my hand. Apparently we snuck out and into the small clean supplies closet outside of the theater. But I didn't notice because I was focused on his hand that was holding mine. And it wasn't just a friendly thing, our fingers were interlaced and it was perfect. Like they where molded to be like and nothing else. I guess I looked preoccupied because I was snapped back to reality where we were very close together shoved inside of a small closet. There was other space ,but it was occupied by mops and brooms. I thought was leaning against the door with my back towards it facing him.
"Annabeth?" He said leaning close to me. I could feel his warm breath against my face and the defined muscles that no doubt were hidden under his shirt. And for some reason I wished so badly that they weren't ,but then I focused on him looking him in the eyes. We were barley 4 inches apart so close yet it felt way to far. I could feel myself moving closer closing the space and just as we were about to touch..
"Damn closet is locked again!" A annoyed worker said just from outside the door. "Who keeps on locking it! Now I have to go get my keys and Jerry's going to laugh at me.." The worker said sounding farther and farther away." We were silent looking at each other. We weren't so close not because the moment was completely gone. Out the window and we had snapped away from each other at the slightest voice of the person. That damn guy just sucked in my mind right now.
"Shit.." Percy said quietly. He looked up again at me ,but I interrupted him this time. "We have to get out of hear and I have a plan." I said turning around facing the door.
"Well it's not that hard to have one you know. We just get out when the coast is clear and sneak back into another movie." He said backing away from me a bit so we weren't smashed together. "Wait what?" I snapped hearing something about 'sneaking into another movie'. In truth I wasn't listening to him ,but to the door to see if I could hear any footsteps.
"I want to watch another one! Theres' nothing wrong with that I paid to see one ,but something got in my way." He chuckled behind me. "Or well was thrown my way." He said picking a stray piece of popcorn from his hair.
By the time we got out of the closet thankfully not getting caught he had somehow convinced me to sneak into another movie. I don't know how so don't ask me ,but it was just as a surprise that I finally said yes.
Normally I'm very stubborn ,but something about Percy just changed that. But he also threw me over his shoulder so it was hard to get down. The second movie was a comedy which was good because Percy was distracted for a whole hour giving me lots of time to think.
For some reason I was doubting that we were still 'friends' right now ,but not going out god's no. But somewhere awkwardly in the middle wondering which way to go. I certainly liked him which was surprising because normally I wouldn't go for the whole 'rich boy' type ,but he seemed really different. He was funny ,but I had a feeling that there was a sad part about him ,but how he acted it was clear that it wasn't recent and he most likely didn't want to talk about it. I could guess ,but I wouldn't want to be wrong and seem like a fool. So obviously I should just leave it.
"Wise Girl?" I looked lazily to Percy surprised that I was tired ,but then I realized that the movie was over a mostly everyone was out. I stood up slowly seeing as my legs were asleep. "Come on for most of the movie I'm pretty sure you were asleep."
"I was not I was ..thinking." I finished though I think he had a point because I can't seem to remember what happened.
"Yea whatever you think." He smiled holding the door to outside open. I laughed walking forward till I stopped with the overhang just ending above me and realized one thing. It was pouring rain and I could barley see about 3 feet in front of me let alone seeing where we had parked. "So do you re-" I was going to continue with my question ,but he was already shaking his head no. "Well I think we parked somewhere over there.." He pointed to the far corner. "No because I remember walking in from over there..." I said pointing the opposite way. I looked back to see him talking off his coat, "What are you doing your going to freeze. It's pouring." But then he handed it to me. "Better me then you to get wet and cold." A flicker of a smiled crossed my face before I set out in the direction that I thought was right. In about 30 seconds flat I was bone soaked and barley across the road.
"Be careful you don't want to slip!" Yelled a voice from behind me. "We have to go through the trench unless you want to walk all the way around!" The voice shouted over the rain that was smacking the pavement. I turned around on my heels watching him take off his shoes. Which he had a point I was practically falling on my butt every five seconds. I slid my sandals off my feet grabbed them off the ground and looked at the deep trench between the separate parts of the parking lot. The water was clearly up to my thighs at least which made me really not what to cross it. Percy walked in past me and grabbed my waist pulling me in. There was a scream then a splash and a very soaking wet surprised Percy came up covered in dirt and water.
"What was that for?"
"Uh well I didn't know if I wanted to go across it yet.. we could just go around?" I said meekly ,but then again I was already standing in the water.
"Oh no I'm soaking wet and you will be too if I say anything about it!" Percy said grabbing my waist ,but I guess he wasn't all seaweed because he just picked me up and crossed the rest of it. "Ugh thanks I guess.." I said as he put me down on the asphalt. "Oh you owe me Wise Girl." He said looking across the section of the parking lot. I was right because the car was there ,but that didn't surprise me. "Really because thank god I knew which way we walked in?"
"Yep because even if we went my way It would change much do you not notice how hard it's raining!" He shouted over the noise yet again. I leaned against my car door feeling the rain hit my over and over on the head focusing on Percy's one of a kind eye's. Damn I wish we didn't come here as friends.
"Screw it!" He yelled like he was crazy to the sky. I wondered what the heck he was talking about then his lips came crashing down on mine. Well truthfully I leaned in too ,but that's besides the point. It was amazing just like how our hands fit it was perfect. Made or each other. Somehow my hands wound up in his hair while his hands looped themselves around my hip pulling me closer. For the first time in a long time my mind was completely blank and filled with only one thing. When we broke apart I was met with his eye's once again they had a curtain light in them that I was pretty sure it wasn't there before. He moved me aside quickly and opened the door for me.
"Don't you care that were ruining your car?" I said once he got in. I'm not a expert at cars ,but Thalia is obsessed with them and whenever I sat on her leather seats after swimming she practically killed me.
"Worth it." He smiled looking at me. He started up the car and turned on the windshield wipers as fast as they could go which was barley fast enough. I leaned my head down on his shoulder which was warm despite being soaked to the bone. He turned up the heat and whispered something in my ear before I drifted off to sleep.
I woke up to the sound of Percy's car driving over gravel. I was still leaning on his shoulder and I really didn't feel like getting up. Every now and then he would glance down at me and smile which made me giggle like a teenage girl inside..which I was. He stopped the car and I could see the doors of the house. I saw him glance over at me one more time expecting him to wake me up ,but he simply got out of the car and wrapped his arm's around me carrying into to the door bridal style which was quite comfortable. I heard Thalia open the door and laugh.
"Well someone was sleepy.." She said I guess Percy made a funny comment back ,but I couldn't hear because I was falling asleep. Again. I felt him walking up the stairs which I scared of for a second ,but then I realized that Percy must be a really really strong person. When he got to my room he mumbled something about how what I was wearing wasn't for sleeping ,but he just laid me down in my bed and pulled the covers up. I thought about what he said before. I was glad we weren't 'just friends' too.
I was going to end it here ,but I then I decided to give a glance into Thalia's life. But I didn't know what POV to do so it's just third person's POV
Percy walked down the stairs running his hand through his hair thinking of what happened. He had a crazed smile stretched over his face and he found Thalia at the bottom looking up at him with a hard stare.
"You kissed her." She said flatly giving him a hard look. His first thought was 'holy shit she's a mind reader'."Let's discuss it because I know Annabeth won't unless I steal something from her."
"Okay can I make some coffee. I'm a bit tired myself you know." He smirked following her to the kitchen. "She doesn't seem like the sharing type ,but then again I didn't share every detail about myself with her."
"Jackson I know that much..like your mother?" She said glancing behind her at him sitting on the island stool. She would've guessed that Percy would be great with Annabeth and now she knew that she was right. But when she mentioned that he flinched.
"I was much more..err sharing when we were together in 9th grade." Percy said catching the mug she slid across the table. In fact even though Annabeth thought they didn't know each other they did and very well too. They in fact went to the same high school till were split up in 10th grade when Percy's family moved away. They had a past and were friends mostly because there fathers were very close in the corporate world.
"Oh I know that ,but she's going to find out and then you'll have to tell the story all over again." She said leaning onto the counter remember how Percy didn't come to school for week's when his mother walked out on his father. He was closest with his mother so it hit him harder then you could imagine. "But what happened on this date anyway's? Weren't you guy's just going to be friends.. I see that didn't work out. And why do you look like you took a swim in a pool?"
Percy blushed before he started talking, "Well we almost got kicked out of a movie theater then we hid almost kissed, then when we were walking back to the car it was pouring in town and well then we did.." He said taking a drink of the scalding hot coffee and almost choking.
"Oh I forgot to tell you it's hot... want some milk?" Thalia laughed going into the fridge and gabbing the first milk she could see.
"Thalia.. this is cream.." He laughed before opening it and pouring some into his drink. She mumbled something about being a bad cook and no caring so Percy just pressed on. "But I have to ask you one serious question." He said looking straight into her piercing blue eye's. Most people found it difficult ,but Percy was immune. "Why are you marring Luke?". Thalia froze. That was the one question she didn't want to answer.
AN I decided that I need some motivation and whats better then cutting myself off mid-thought to end the chapter? Nothing. Anyways If you review I will give you a sneak peak into the chapter meaning the first paragraph.
Anna