Disclaimer: I have said this before and I'm gonna say it again. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING.

Timeline: After TLO before TLH and the underwater kiss has happened but Percy and Annabeth are not officially dating yet.

Thank you so much everybody who reviewed. This is the next chapter. And its extra long because I took so long to update. Enjoy +)

CHAPTER 2

EEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPP! OMG! I am soooooo excited. NO as confused as you are I can assure you I have not been abducted by aliens or been replaced by a 'giggly' blonde nor have I exchanged brains with a daughter of Aphrodite. I am still Annabeth Chase. Body, mind and soul. Percy FINALLY asked me out. And gods he sure as Hades took long enough. Three bloody months after our absolutely amazing underwater kiss, he asked me to the prom.

I have to admit I was wondering what was taking him so long. I had heard about Goode's prom at least two weeks back. And because he didn't ask me I had assumed he was taking someone else. I was hurt and very jealous when someone told me that he might have asked Rachel. I mean I didn't hate her but I wasn't a big fan either. Ok, who am I kidding? I hate that red-headed freak with jeans that have marker drawings on them. I mean how old is the girl? Three? I mean surely even a three year old had more sense.

But anyways I think I am drifting. I have to focus. Oh my gosh but I can't. All I can think about is Percy and the prom. And gosh it's on the 29th. That's just a week from now. I have to think of everything. I mean the dress and the shoes and the purse. Should I even carry a purse or a bag? Or maybe a clutch? Whatever I carry it would have to match with the rest of the stuff. And I'm gonna have to pick a colour fast 'cause I have to tell Percy for the corsage. Oh my, there's just so much to do and I just have…

"Annabeth Chase, have you LOST YOUR SENSES? You are behaving like a daughter of Aphrodite. You're worried about your shoes and dress and bag or purse, or whatever, matching? I cannot even begin to tell you how repulsed I am by your behaviour. Do you not know that this is just a needless, archaic tradition followed by most high schools, who should not be wasting their time organizing events like this but EDUCATING young minds? I mean Annabeth this is a PROM for god sakes. You are better than this. You are my daughter and we are above these things. My own daughter who has been picked to redesign Olympus is behaving in this manner. It's like you have been replaced by a-a-a-an abomination. You are a daughter of Athena and I would understand if you got this excited about the new architectural exhibit in town. You must stop this behaviour RIGHT NOW," my mother yelled into my mind.

I winced at the long and unfortunately reasonable mental attack. I had been behaving a bit differently after Percy had asked me to the prom. So I shook all Percy and prom related thoughts out of my mind and got back to finishing my new blueprint.

I finished quite soon as I had nothing to distract my mind. I then stepped out of my cabin thinking about a taking a quiet stroll to clear my thoughts. But this fantasy of mine was disrupted because as soon as I walked out of my cabin I was ambushed by a bunch of giggling Aphrodite girls. "Hey Annabeth, we heard Percy asked you to the prom and we wanted to see if you needed some help. I mean we're just offering," one of them said all In one breath.

I however had no intentions of accepting their help and the fact they thought that I was incapable of picking out clothes and shoes and a bag/purse for myself was an injury to my pride. I had no doubt that they thought I had pathetic fashion sense too. Well I was going to show them.

I was going to be the most stunning girl at that prom and I would make sure that all of my stuff matched. Hmph. Chew on that you freaks.

But I didn't tell them that. I just said," No thanks."

Arghh! This dress and shoes and purse matching business was much tougher than I had imagined it to be. Right now I was seriously contemplating going back to camp and begging one of the very eager Aphrodite girls to help me.

I had been to about fifty stores already and had not yet found ONE suitable dress. And don't even get me started on the shoes. I had tried on about a million of them and now my feet were beginning to hurt. I was ready to give up but a tiny voice in my mind pushed me to keep going. "After all how many proms are you going to go to in your life?" it said. So I kept walking.

I stepped into a small shop that had a collection of vintage dresses. I saw the most gorgeous dress there. As soon as I saw it I just knew it was THE DRESS. The one I had to wear to the prom. I grabbed it and tried it on. It fit perfectly! Ii was a beautiful dress. It was flirty little vintage party/prom dress with a 50s flair. It had a fitted strapless sweetheart bodice in silver satin overlaid with beaded and sequined black lace. The lace has scalloped border along the slightly dropped waistline. Three layers of stiff black tulle overlay a flared, swingy silver satin skirt.

Having found the perfect dress my self esteem was renewed as I ventured out to find matching shoes. I was on a lucky streak because I found my shoes soon enough too. They were stylish and strappy peep toe sandals, calf high heels and were also silver in colour.

Most of my prom stuff was sorted out so I called Percy and told him I was wearing a silver dress. Then I went home and called Christina a friend of mine from the Aphrodite cabin.

"Hello?" she said as she picked up. "Hey it's me," I said. "Do you know how to blow dry someone's hair to make it completely straight?"

A/N: Well? *Peeks out from behind the table* Do you like it? If you have any requests let me know. And reviews are very much appreciated. =)