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Chapter 5: The Prince

The ocean was calm and peaceful and there was soft breeze blowing through my hair. I was in my secret hideout that I made when I was nine. Inside the library, there is a secret door that opens up to a long and winding staircase. The staircase leads to a room with windows wall to wall all around and flowers blooming inside and outside. From the room, I have a perfect view of the ocean and sometimes I open the window to feel and smell the soft breeze coming from the ocean. I come up here when I need to clear my head or I'm having a bad day. Like now for instance. I could not get the grey-eyed girl out of my head. I stayed up there for another hour and left downstairs. When I entered the library from the secret door, I saw my five advisors, Luke Castellan, Travis Stoll, Jason Grace, Jared David Blake, and John Sparks.

Luke Castellan was my first advisor and he is also one of my closest friends, besides the guys. He has messy blonde hair and bright blue eyes. His rugged face, tall and muscular physique, and charms are what make him a ladies man. He always has girls drooling over him and flirting with him. What makes him mysterious is that he has a jagged scar running just along the bottom of his left eye and ending just above his lip.

Travis Stoll is tall and skinny and mischievous looking with his curly brown hair that covers his blue eyes and his crooked smile. He is the prankster out of my advisors who loves to play pranks on people, but can be loyal and caring when he wants too. He is completely himself around his girlfriend Katie Gardner.

Jason Grace is tall and muscular and is also a ladies man, but not as cocky as Luke. He's more secluded and attracts girls in a quiet way. He has electric blue eyes and has cropped military style blonde hair. Jason is very loyal to all of his friends and is a natural born leader. He is especially loyal to his girlfriend Piper Mclean.

Jared Blake is a great friend who loves, and I mean loves, sports. He has the skater look with a beanie with jeans and a skater t-shirt. He has messy, curly dark brown hair and baby blue eyes. He loves to skateboard, eat pizza, watch TV, and is very fit and tall, about 5'9. Although, based on his favorite things to eat and hobbies, I'm surprised that he isn't a little pudgy yet.

John Sparks, he likes us to call him Johnny, is a very easygoing guy and his look shows it. He wears band t-shirts, jeans, vans, and a baseball turned backwards. He is very musical and is in a band at his school playing the guitar. He has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He is about 5'10 and a caring and funny friend. He and Jared just became my fourth and fifth advisors about a year ago and they are already good friends of mine. The group of five were talking in a small group by the window that overlooks the ocean. Travis was the first to notice me and told the others. They smiled at me and motioned me over.

"What up Perce. What are you doing in the library? You usually avoid this place like the plague," says Jared with a crooked smile.

"I could say the same for you. I'm here looking for a, um, book. Isn't it obvious?" I say with a slight smile.

"You, looking for a book. Sure Percy," Travis says with a laugh.

"Whatever man. Anyways, what are you guys doing here?" I say quickly trying to change the subject.

"We just needed a quiet place to talk about how you get to hundreds of beautiful girls in one night and choose one as your wife," says Jason with a grin.

"Oh. That. I really don't want to talk about that right now," I say with a frown.

"Why not man? This is an opportunity of a lifetime," says Johnny.

"It's just, I feel bad for taking these girls away from their lives and for the girls that didn't get picked at all. Also, this is kind of awkward for me. Anyways, let's not talk about it right now," I say with a sigh.

"Percy, Percy, Percy. Always thinking of others before him. Alright, we'll stop, for now," says Luke.

"Thanks guys," I say with a grateful smile.

"By the way, Katie and Piper just text Jason and I saying that they are here in the palace as choices to become your wife," says Travis.

"Oh uh, sorry about that. Do you know who they're staying with in their quarters?" I ask innocently.

"Yeah. Six other girls named Thalitha Vase, Serena Boovegard, Kuniper Loods, Becky Farts, Lass Henson, and Annabelle Mase," says Travis.

"Uh, those are interesting names…" I say awkwardly.

"Those aren't the names you spaz. They are Thalia Grace, my sister, Silena Beauregard, Juniper Woods, Vicky Sparks, Cass Jenson, and Annabeth Chase," says Jason, rolling his eyes, while Travis blushes.

"That makes more sense. Thalia, Silena, and Juniper are Nico, Beckendorf, and Grover's girlfriends. Although I don't know who Vicky, Cass, and Annabeth," I say. When I said Annabeth, a chill went down my spine. Weird.

"Vicky sounds like a very nice girl to me," says Jared with a smile.

"Dude, that's my sister! Anyways, Cass sounds nice to me," says Johnny with a smile also.

"Both if you guys don't even know the girls. Well, I have to go. So I'll see you guys later," I say with a laugh. We all walk towards the doors of the library and when we are out in the hall, the turn to the left and I turn to the right. I keep walking down the hall for some time until I reach the corner to turn left. But as soon I turn I run straight into someone.

"Oof," the mystery person. A flash of blonde is thrown in my face and I immediately smell lemons.

"Oh my gods! I'm so so-," I stop my sentence short as I take a step back and see who the mystery person is. It's the scowling, yet beautiful, girl I saw in the crowd this afternoon. The funny thing is that she is scowling at me right now.

"I-I am uh, um," I say flabbergasted.

"I'm so sorry whoever yo-," the beauty says as she recognizes who I am too.

"Oh, Prince Percy. I'm sorry for running into you. I should have been watching where I was going," she says, coldness edged into her voice and her scowl intensified.

"No, it's entire my fault. I'm sorry. And please, call me Percy," I say with a smile. A look of shock comes across of her face but it disappears as quickly as it came.

"Oh um, okay Pr- I mean Percy," she says, with an odd look on her face.

"And your name is?" I ask her, desperate to know who this beautiful girl is.

"Um, Annabeth. Annabeth Chase," she says and the coldness in her voice is slightly gone. Isn't that the girl that's with the guys girlfriends?

"Do you happen to be sharing your room with girls named Thalia Grace, Juniper Woods, Silena Beauregard, Piper Mclean, Katie Gardner, Cass Jenson, and Vicky Sparks?" I ask.

"Yes. How did you know that?" she asks suspiciously.

"Well, two of my five advisors are two of your friend's boyfriends and two of them have a sister there too. All three of my best friends are boyfriends of three of your friends too. Other two of my advisors seemed to like the named Cass Jenson and Vicky Sparks. Travis Stoll has Katie Gardner, Jason Grace has Piper Mclean, also the brother of Thalia, Charles Beckendorf has Silena Beauregard, Grover Underwood has Juniper Woods, Nico Di Angelo has Thalia Grace, and my other two advisors, Johnny Sparks, brother of Vicky, and Jared Blake seemed to like Cass and Vicky," I say with a good memory. Annabeth also looks fairly shocked.

"Wow. I know all of the boys except Johnny Sparks and Jared Blake," she says calmly.

"Really? How?" I ask confusedly.

"Well, I go to high school with them," she says.

"Wait, you go to Goode High School?" I ask in shock.

"Um yes," she says.

"How ironic," I mumble.

"What was that?" she asks.

"Nothing. By the way, where are you headed?" I ask Annabeth.

"The library," she says with another look of suspicion on her face.

"Oh okay. I was just in the library. I can show you there if I want," I say with another smile. This time Annabeth rolls her eyes. What's her problem?

"Uh sure," she says awkwardly as we start heading down the hall.

"Are you one of the girls to um, you know," I say as I stuff my hands in my pockets.

"Uh yeah," she says coldly again.

"I'm sorry," the words are immediately out of my mouth before I know why I said them.

"What are you sorry for? You took hundreds of girl from their homes for six months and one of them will be gone from their homes forever. What are you sorry for?" she says angrily.

"Look, this wasn't my idea. My parents just told me this morning and I was angry too," I say, slightly irritated with Annabeth.

"You could have stopped them! Do you know what it's like to be torn away from everything you love? None of these girls seem to care except me!" she says yelling as we stop in our tracks.

"Do you think that I wanted to do this? I didn't want to take girls away from their homes either! My best friends' girlfriends are here! That makes me feel guilty. When I came up in front that crowd, I didn't care about that anymore because I saw how excited all of the girls were!" I yelled back.

"Sure! Like I said, do you know what it's like to be torn away from everything you love? Your family, friends, home…" she says, tears brimming her beautiful grey eyes, but still angry. I had the urge to hug her and tell her that everything was going to be all right, but I held back.

"No…" I say quietly and guiltily.

"I thought not!" she says and storms off into the library. I see her wiping her eyes and I try and follow her.

"Annabeth wait! I didn't mean to upset you! I'm telling, I hate this as much you do," I say as I grab her arm and turn her around. When she turns around she is still crying, but she has a look of complete and utter shock on her face.

"I can't believe… you came after… hate it…" she mutters to herself. I put my hands on both of her shoulders and face her completely. I just realized how small she is compared to my 6 foot figure and her 5'8 height.

"I know I just met you, but I really am sorry. Please understand Annabeth," I say quietly.

"I guess so Percy. It's just… never mind," she says while wiping away her tears. I take my hands away from her shoulders and push open the library door for her.

"What? You're just so attracted to my rugged good looks?" I say while striking a weird pose as we walk in.

"HA! Sure but-," she snorts but stops talking when she takes a good look at our library.

"Oh my gods…" she mutters, her face in awe. I smile at how cute she looks when she's surprised. What are you thinking? You just met this girl…

"Well this is our library. It is pretty amazing," I smile at her and she smiles faintly back. I show Annabeth around the different sections of the library and she seemed to enjoy it immensely. The one section she was really into was architecture. She took some books and sat down in a dark blue plush chair in front of the window overlooking the sea. Every once in a while she would look up and we would talk about the most random things. Blue food, super heroes, horses, burgers, Chuck Norris, don't ask, and a bunch of other things. Eventually she quit reading and we talked for two more hours.

"I can't believe you stuck a penny up your nose and it disappeared," she said while laughing.

"It's true! To this day I don't know where it went," I say laughing alongside here.

"That's so ridiculous and weird," she smiles her gorgeous smile.

"What about you? Have you ever done anything stupid when you were younger?" I asked mischievously.

"Well, when I was seven, Thalia dared me stand upside down in my head. Of course I did. When I did, I realized that she didn't tell for how long, so I ended up staying on my head for so long that I passed out," she says blushing. (A/N: I know! Not the best stupid thing!)

"Oh wow. That is kind of stupid," I say.

"Whatever Percy!" she says while blushing even harder. She looks at her watch and her eyes widen in shock as she realizes what time is.

"Oh my gods, I have to get back to the quarters! I'm late for dinner!" she says as she leaps up from the chair and walks swiftly to the door.

"Hey wait up! I'll walk you back to your room," I say as we walk out the door and we practically run down the hall. We turn left where we ran into each other and we keep swiftly walking until we reach a long hallway filled with many friends.

"Well this is my quarters. Thanks for walking me back Percy. And thanks for apologizing," she says with a smile.

"My pleasure and you're welcome. I hope we'll see each other soon. Here's my phone number," I say as I hand her a slip of paper with my number on it.

"Okay. I'll text you later tonight or tomorrow. Good night," she says as she opens the door and I immediately hear girls chattering away inside.

"Good night," I say, fighting the urge to kiss her as she walks in the door and shuts it. I walk away feeling dazed and love struck. I reach my bedroom, eat dinner, get ready for bed, and fall asleep dreaming of Annabeth and her laugh that sounds like bells.

A/N: Awww! Percy likes Annabeth. I hope you guys like this chapter and don't forget, I need a beta reader! I might update this weekend or earlier, just be prepared! REVIEW!