Hi sorry this is late again but with Christmas and all I have barely had a chance to post anything, anyways hope you enjoy this chapter enjoy!

Annabeth's pov:

My eyes fluttered open to the sound of birds outside my window. I was in the middle of a yawn when I realised the black haired figure holding me down. I was at first startled at what was going on, but I soon realised that it was my boyfriend. Wow that's weird to say, Percy Jackson is officially my boyfriend.

My mouth curved up into a smile a smile I'm not use to wearing that often. My mind was fully jogged and I couldn't stop this smile.

I may have been making too much noise yawning because I accidently woke him up.

As soon as he opened his eyes I immediately noticed something. Percy's eyes were sea green, well they were before but much more defined now he didn't look sad he looked like normal person (don't tell him I said that) did I make him happy?

I didn't linger on that thought for long because about ten seconds later I was dragged down so my head hit the pillow with a soft thump. I shifted my body so I was face to face with Percy and stared at his eyes again, until he brought me out of my trance by saying,

"Why are you looking into my eyes like that?" I just laughed quietly to myself and then replied,

"Your eyes look different Percy they normally look so down and droopy but now they look colourful and defined." He smiled and opened his mouth to say something,

"It's because of you Annabeth" He whispered putting a hand to my cheek.

I just smiled at him and then finally agreed we should get up because it must have been nine thirty or something, thank the gods it's a Sunday.

"Maybe we should get up." I pressed my lips together and Percy mimicked me doing it, so I playfully hit him not too gently in the shoulder.

He laughed and then jumped up out of the bed and picked me up bridal style and thought in my head, I could get use to this.

We both laughed as he raced down the stairs as fast as he could trying not to drop me and well smash my step mum's vase.

He eventually sat me down on a kitchen stool, and smiled at me.

"So how about I make you breakfast, pancakes alright?" I laughed at Percy's enthusiasm of wanting to make me breakfast and then nodded my head and smiled.

Once he found all of the ingredients he turned his body so I couldn't see what he was doing, I only knew he had grabbed some strawberries from the fruit bowl on the table.

He seemed to look extremely focused with them strawberries; I had to find out what he was doing, so in my brain I formed a plan.

"Hey, Perce your pancakes are burning." His head shot around so fast his hair had all flipped to the other side of his head, he went over to the frying pan, and I quietly made my way around him to see what he was doing with the strawberries.

Unfortunately I didn't see very much, because two very muscular arms wrapped around my neck spinning me round so I was face to face with the black haired boy.

He raised his eyebrows at me, and then half smiled at me and leaned into kiss me, and I got to say it was pretty intense.

It was 15 minutes later when Percy's masterpiece was finally done.

He brought the plate over and he made me close my eyes.

When I opened my eyes my heart melted, there was a stack of pancakes with strawberries that spelled out the words...

I love you Wise Girl.

I Annabeth Chase started to cry, Percy noticed this and spun me around on the chair and he pulled me into a hug, we stayed like that for several minutes and a quick I love you too Seaweed Brain came out of my mouth, I just pulled him closer.

After breakfast Percy informed me that he was taking me somewhere, so we went to pick up his old battered car because he had let it yesterday.

We hopped in and I had to put on a blindfold, so I wouldn't ruin the surprise.

"Hey when are we going to get there?" I asked him, I couldn't see but I could tell he was smirking.

"Wise Girl we're here, but don't take off your blindfold yet." Percy stopped the car and pulled the keys out of the ignition. He came round to me and opened the door for me.

He grabbed my hand and gently pulled me out of the car he did it slowly so I wouldn't fall.

Then he put his arms around my shoulders and guided me to somewhere.

"Okay Wise Girl you can take your blindfold off now." I did as he told me and wow.

We were on a cliff, with a beautiful waterfall below it. I don't think I could have done any better myself.

Percy's pov:

Some may say I'm vengeful but that's only because my life was a mess and I had everything to be vengeful for my whole life was just... oh wait I didn't have a life, I had a black hole of mess where everything was hidden under the undying darkness. The light was lost and everything was dark there's not a moment that passes by about that light and what it did to me. It left me like everything else it vanished; maybe that's why I have trust issues because my mother always told me to believe in the light to never let the darkness control me, maybe that's why I never see her, because she didn't think her son was worthy of blocking the darkness out. She was right.

Maybe the light has brought me good; after all it brought me Annabeth. My light. My light is Annabeth. The light abandoned me once but gods this light isn't going to slip through my fingers. Especially when I love it. (Annabeth that is)

Annabeth's pov:

As I peered over the cliff at the waterfall I couldn't help but realise what would have happened if I never had met Percy, would I still be the same girl I was then, a nervous, scared, little girl who had no one to care for her? Who knows?

But there is one thing I know, Percy has made me open my eyes to the world out there before I met him I knew the world wasn't all gum drops and roses but I didn't realise it was that bad. No amount of preparation could prepare you for what's out there in the world.

Percy guided me under a tree where he had laid out blankets as. As I was admiring the view, not of Percy by the way, but of the waterfall.

"So what do you think?" Percy said happily.

"I love it, thank you for bringing me here." I said sitting down next to Percy, well when I say next to I mean really close like my whole right side touching his whole left.

"So does your family do this often, leaving you for weeks on your own?" Percy asked as he put a protective arm around me.

"Yeah this is the 6th time this year and it's still only September the Gods know how many more times they're going to leave me. Normally I would just go stay at Malcolm's but I guess this time I don't need to." I said smiling more and more towards the end.

Percy was also smiling when I looked over at him.

"I'll make you a deal Wise Girl, whenever your family leaves you I'll be there and remember you're 18 you're officially an adult."

I smiled knowingly, the thought of moving out has occurred to me a few times but then I knew I would have a much harder life going to live alone at such a young age. Maybe if I had a roommate.

"Have you ever considered moving out Percy?"

"Well, sometimes but then I couldn't afford it anyway plus I don't know whether I could leave my mum even though I'm pretty sure most nights she never comes home so technically I already have my own place." He said in a calm tone.

"Maybe one day we can move in together you know when we have jobs and stuff." I heard Percy laugh softly and then reply.

"You read my mind Wise Girl, and maybe we can move away from New York that is after all where everything bad has happened to us." I smiled and then thought for a second.

"I say we move to California it's always warm there."

And it was half way across the country from New York, ideal.

"Yeah fresh start." We both laughed at that and then I went onto think again.

"When we graduate I'm going to NYU with Thalia."

"There's no rush to leave maybe we can find a place here in New York whilst you go to college." He said then I was confused.

"Wait so you're not going to college?"

"I can't afford it, unless I get a full scholarship." I shook my head at him.

"Seaweed Brain you have a natural way with words you're pretty smart when you want to be." He nudged me in the arm and we both laughed.

"Then it's settled when the opening date starts to send off applications I'm going to try, but one school in particular." I furrowed my eyebrows and then said,

"Which school?"

"NYU, there's this beautiful girl going there and I hear her boyfriend is one of the best people in the whole world, imagine that."

We laughed and talked until the sun went down, then went home to sleep with this time Percy being my pillow.

So that was chapter 8 that was more of a filler chapter, anyway what do you think of the whole college thing and them going to the same one?

Hope you all enjoyed it,

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