Hey everyone. This is the next chapter that you have all been waiting for. Things are really going to pick up and we certainly going to get deep into the heart of the story. Hope you like this chapter that has what most of you have been expecting and the title says it all. P.s all chapters are inspired by a song as you know and there is one line from an awesome song. So Much For My Happy Ending by Avril Lavinge. Hope you like the chapter.

It Had Begun Again With A Simple Hello

Annabeth really hadn't slept well, in fact she hadn't sleep at all which was bad considering it was Sunday and usually Percy slept in. It was roughly around six when Annabeth tiptoed out of her room, not wanting to disturb Percy from his peaceful slumber. She took the liberty of looking round her old apartment, well more specifically the design room Percy had put together for her when they first moved in as her birthday present since she had just gotten the job of dreams.

She stood outside the door, staring at the closed door, wondering if whether or not she should venture in. It felt like it was closed for a reason, as if it was a forbidden sanctuary that would curse anyone who entered this room. She was tempted to not go in but she mustered up the courage and placed her hand on the door knob and turned it. The door creaked open as Annabeth stepped into the room and examined her surroundings.

The room hadn't changed at all. Apart from the blanket of dust that had settled on her desk, it looked exactly as how she had left it. She looked at the desk and noticed the design she had first designed. It was a house but not just any hose, a house for her and Percy for when they wanted to start a family.

Percy had always said that unlike his own father, he was going to be their for his kids. Percy and his real father had a very rocky relationship considering all that Poseidon Olympia did was send checks to Sally. He had never once visited Percy, well not until Percy was in his twenties.

The house was basically Percy and Annabeth's dream house. It was this design that got her the job of her dreams. They had to submit an original design that was personal to the applicant that not only shows their skills but their attention to minute details.

She smiled at the picture of her and Percy that hung next to the framed design. It was a picture of them on the big large plot of land they had bought together. They looked so happy. Annabeth was laughing as Percy was tickling her. He had always had great timing.

Before she ran away, the two were actually planning on making the design a reality. They were supposed to start construction of their dream house the new year after Percy found out about Luke.

When she said she knew she wrecked everything, she meant everything.

She opened up the curtains and let the morning sunlight illuminate the room and opened the windows and aired the room. It didn't take her long to clean away the dust and make the room looked like that at least it had been used in the last five years.

She grabbed her company supplied Ipad that she used when it came to starter sketches and laid it on the table next to her blue print paper and set herself back up. She had work tomorrow and she needed to send a final submission to the California office since the customer had requested she finish it even if she was transferring.

With in half an hour of adding the final touches and adding little extra details here and there to make sure it was a hundred percent perfect; she rolled up the blue print and set it on the table, ready to take to the office tomorrow for them to mail it. She suddenly felt the urge to make something to eat and then it registered in her mind the promise she made to Percy yesterday.

She had promised to make him his mother's blue chocolate chip cookies. Sally was an exceptional baker and Percy loved blue and she put those two things made the key to Heaven in Percy's mind. Percy said that those cookies always reminded him of home because home is where the heart is and of course the only way to that man's heart was through his stomach and the easiest way is with cookies.

She tiptoed round the house quieter than a mouse in silent movie and moved as quietly as possible as she made the cookies. Thankfully Percy had all the ingredients for the cookies so it was easy to find everything. She moved with a delicate grace through the kitchen as she prepared the batter and gently folded the milk chocolate chips in and just for fun she added the dark chocolate chips and the white chocolate chips she found so it was a delicious chocolaty heaven.

She couldn't help but smile as she placed perfect scoops of the mixture on the baking sheet, making a batch of two trays with roughly twenty cookies on each. This is Percy so she had to make enough for an army as she put them in the oven and smiled. She knew Percy would be up the minute these were ready considering he had the nose of a bloodhound when it came to food, especially his mom's cookies so she decided to start breakfast.

She had tidied up everything before she took out her frying pans and got to making some omelettes for them, prepping all of her ingredient to go in the omelette and the eggs. The timer dinged indicating that her trays of cookies were ready so she pulled them out and set them on the space of her station and left them to cool and just as she predicted, Percy walked in.

She had to fore herself not to stare at him considering he was wearing his favorite pair of finding Nemo boxers (no matter how old he was, he still loved that movie) and nothing else. He never really knew what a shirt was when they were together. He yawned as he reached up and scratched the back of his neck before his eyes fell on the cookies. "I thought I smelled cookies." He said as he went and poured himself a cup of coffee from the fresh pot Annabeth brewed, the rich inviting scent seeming to wake him up more.

Annabeth could already see how there was this awkward bubble surrounding them but she just acted as if they were normal, "I made a promise didn't I?" She stated simply as she poured some milk into Percy's coffee for him which made him crack a small smile as he sipped the hot liquid that was oddly refreshing. She noticed his eyes ogling over the cookies, he so desperately wanted one and the little pouty lip that was forming was so cute Annabeth just relented, "You can have one, Seaweed Brain. They are for you."

Percy grinned for the first time as he picked up one of the now warm cookies and put the entire thing in his mouth which made Annabeth role her eyes. Percy moaned at the taste which gave a little bit of relief considering she didn't know if the dark chocolate was too much. "Good Gods woman i remember why i wanted to marry you. These are just as good as mom's!" Annabeth smiled, glad to see that Carefree and fun Percy had come out. He had a thought processing look on his face as he chewed the cookie, sounds escaping his lips before he finally came to his conclusion, "You added white chocolate and dark chocolate didn't you?" He said knowingly.

"Right on the money Seaweed Brain." Annabeth stated as she picked up one of the blue cookies and took a small dainty bite of the cookie and smiled. Even though she made them, these cookies really tasted like mother's love since Sally Jackson made these with love. "So tell me, what do you want on your omelette?" Annabeth asked as she let him have a look at all of her ingredients.

"The usual with extra cheese," Percy said with a smirk, as if he were testing Annabeth's memory. She smiled and mixed together in a bowl, bacon, fried onions, chorizo, mushrooms and green peppers with Gouda cheese and some extra cheddar. "You remember?" Percy asked; a little shocked as he watched her work.

"Yeah, I remember that you never really liked tomato. You prefer it as a sauce on pizza or pasta but you won't eat it any other way and I know you like two cheeses in your omelette." Annabeth said as she poured the eggs onto the pan, "Besides Seaweed Brain. I've know you for how many years, and most of those years I have lived in the same house as you. Even after not seeing you for almost five years, I never forgot anything."

Annabeth knew she shouldn't had said that but her mouth ran away with her, she didn't want to cause Percy any emotional distress. She cared about him too much to do that to him.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have said that." Annabeth said regretfully when she saw the distant look on Percy's face. She poured the mix on the omelette and folded it over and put it on the plate for him with two pieces of white toast that were buttered already and turned everything off.

"Are you not going to eat anything?" Percy asked in a concerned voice when he finally noticed that Annabeth wasn't making anything for herself.

"I'm... not hungry anymore." She said softly as she started washing everything up, noticing that Percy hadn't moved from where he was standing. She understood that he needed time to heal but that didn't mean that some of the things he was doing wasn't hurting her.

"Annabeth, I-"

"It's fine, Percy." Annabeth interrupted as she turned to face him, noticing how guilty he looked. "I'll just get out of your way so you don't have to see me every five seconds. I know you need time so Iwill just keep my distance." She said sadly, she felt like he didn't want her here no matter the fact that he said he did.

"Don't do that Annabeth." Percy said with a sigh as he leaned his elbows on the kitchen counter, getting frustrated with the situation, "I am sorry if my need for space and time inconveniences you-"

"Inconveniences me?" Annabeth asked in a shocked voice as she let out a dry chuckle, "No, it doesn't inconvenience me, Percy. The fact that you said you wanted me to move back home before you even discussed your need for 'space' from me with me." Annabeth growled back, noticing the anger growing on Percy's face as the fighting escalated, "I knew you were stupid sometimes I didn't think you were stupid enough to put us both in a situation that hurts us both."

"There you go again throwing around the stupid card again." Percy talked back, his voice getting angrier by the second as he stood up, "You treat me like I am idiot. I was in shock from seeing you. I had all of these feelings hitting me like a goddamn freight train traveling faster than the speed of fucking light when I saw you again. Of course I wasn't thinking with my head. I was thinking with my stupid heart because that is how much I loved you and wanted you." he shouted back, his eyes not meetings hers after that last phrase.

Annabeth stood there frozen in time as her eyes glassed over as she croaked out, "Loved?" in the form of a question. He had said loved, as in the past tense. It finally dawned on her, "You don't love me anymore do you?" she struggled to say that sentence as she looked him dead in his green eyes that were now flooded with guilt and uncertainly and the biggest one of all, confusion. "Please Percy." She begged, "Just tell me if you do or not."

"I... don't know." Annabeth whimpered, her heart felt like it had been stabbed with a sharp knife, almost killing her instantly as it was ripped out of her body in the most viscous cruel way possible. She finally realized why he looked so uncertain last night when she looked him in the eyes. She saw the love but there was the uncertainty and guilt in them and now she knew why.

"Is there someone else?" Annabeth asked fearfully as she struggled to control her eyes that were filling with tears after she asked that question but she needed to know if she ever even had a chance.

Percy didn't answer for a long time; they just stood there, frozen in time like a photograph and after a long time of waiting and fearing, Percy answered, "No. There isn't someone else." In truth that admission hurt more than if there was actually someone else. It would have been easier to handle if he had been in love with someone else but it hurt more knowing that he didn't feel the same way he had about her and it was her own fault.

Annabeth bit her lip, it was hard enough to draw blood as she struggled to contain her swirling emotions and to contain the sobs of despair and heartache that wanted to escape her lips. So much for my happy ending, Annabeth thought sadly as she reached up and wiped the tear that fell from her eyes, "I-I see."

"Annabeth..." Percy started as he sighed heavily, "You were everything that i wanted and you still are but we lost what we had the minute you started seeing that man." Percy said sadly as he picked up the last picture they took together. It was taken of the two of them at Annabeth's last birthday in New York, they were so happy, so perfect and then it was lost.

When Percy said that, it was like another painful stab to her heart as she whimpered. She had never felt so small in her life. She had an amazing man who loved her; they were ready to build a home for their own family and she destroyed it all. She didn't even know why she thought that they could go back to the way they were.

"I made a stupid mistake and I know it wrecked everything and I know this won't mean anything but I am sorry, Percy." Annabeth said as she breathed in deeply and looked up at the room. "I was stupid for thinking that there was still a chance you would love me after what I did to you."

"No, Annabeth, I didn't mean it like that." Percy said quickly, knowing where Annabeth was going with this.

"Its alright, Percy. I received the message loud and clear." Annabeth said with a tearful smile as she turned round and walked towards her room with Percy following her, "I will stay out of your way and I won't make you try and love me again. I will always love you unconditionally, Percy Jackson." She pulled out her suitcase and started packing everything she had brought with her.

"So you are just going to run away again?" Percy said in an angry tone as Annabeth froze in the middle of packing and breathed in.

"I doing what's better for the both of us." Annabeth said softly. "I meant it when i said i want to mend us but me being here is hurting the both of us." Annabeth said as she turned to face Percy as he looked away, knowing she was right.

"Where will you go then? You've been back for less than a day."

"I don't know but it's better if i leave." Annabeth sobbed as she picked up another shirt to pack but she was stopped by Percy's hand resting on top of hers. She didn't dare look up into his eyes in fear that she would see that there is no love his eyes for her anymore.

He was silence for a long time as they stood there frozen in place before he finally spoke, "I let you go once, Annabeth..." His hand moved and gently cupped her chin and turned her head so she was looking him directly in the eyes. She stared right into his deep rich green eyes, the green eyes she had been in love with for years as they stared right back into her own grey ones. His expression was unreadable as he continued to speak, "I am not letting you run away from me again." He said in a firm set voice.

"Then what do you propose we do?" Annabeth asked softly, unable to take her eyes off of his, struggling to catch her breath because the proximity was making her heart race.

"Start from the beginning again." Percy said as he dropped his hand and backed away and smiled his lop sided smile that always made Annabeth feel weightless each time. "Tomorrow, I'll take you to work and tomorrow night, we are going to do what we always did as kids."

"Movie night?" Annabeth asked curiously as Percy nodded.

"I will see if Nico, Grover and Thalia are free tomorrow so that they can join us." Annabeth smiled. Starting off as friends was better than acquaintances and being surrounded by friends would make it so much less harder to cope with being near him and not being able to hold him or kiss hadn't seen or spoken to them since she had left. It made her even more scared now because she didn't know if they hated her or not for what she did to Percy. But she had to take that chance if she was going to fix this with Percy or not.

"Sounds good too me." It was a step in the right direction and Annabeth smiled at Percy. "Well, I'd better unpack...again." With the way she said it, it had the both of them laughing themselves silly.

There was hope yet for Percy and Annabeth and their relationship but Annabeth didn't know what she was in for when she went to work tomorrow.

Well i hope you all enjoyed that chapter, it was a pivotal point to bringing the friendship to the next step but what is in store for Annabeth in the next chapter. I love you all but i got to run. See you all with the next chapter. Bye for now everyone and thanks for all your uplifting words. Congrats to LEPrecon elf holly short for guessing correctly on the song for the last chapter and don't worry, I will be using the song you suggested, just in a later chapter. Thank you for all the 32 reviews you have given me, I truly appreciate it everyone. See you all again soon with the next chapter and yeah, i am finally updating off my computer at home. Thanks everyone for the wonderful messages, I am doing a lot better now. See you all again soon, bye everyone.

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