He awoke to hear happy humming radiating throughout the apartment.

Hm…what happened last night again? He smiled. Oh yeah…

He made out with this most beautiful chick in world….

His smile immediately dropped. WHO IS ALSO MY EMPLOYER OHMYGOSH.

He swiftly slipped on his basketball shorts and swung his door open to see her there on the couch, sipping on coffee. He sat next to her, looked at her, and immediately stood back and turned the other direction.

SHE WAS IN UNDERWEAR.

NOPE.

"Um," he began, using all his willpower to not turn around.

"I, uh, wanted to formally apologize for last night," he said. "I was mostly asleep, and, er, you are very attractive, and, um…I'm sorry. I realize it was wrong as your employee."

"Oh," she said. "It's totally fine just so you know. I quite enjoyed it. Although, I probably should go get some more clothes on."

He didn't respond since he knew what his response would be. And it wouldn't exactly be appropriate.

He heard her door open. Some shuffling noises, and heard her walk up to him.

He turned around, and she was wearing a very loose shirt. She looked like an angel.

An angel that is your EMPLOYER.

That helped him clear his thoughts.

"So…yeah. Sorry."

She smiled and said, "Oh, Percy, it's okay. It was very amazing," she said with her face reddening.

"And I never said I didn't like it. Anyway, my niece's birthday party is today, so get ready! I'll have some waffles out soon."

"Okay. Thank you ma'am."

"Percy, I'm Annabeth. We've been over this before."

"Okay, okay. Annabeth."

"Was that so hard?" she said with a smirk.

He stuck her tongue out at her and walked into his room. He decided on a white button down, a red bowtie, and khakis. Grabbing a pair of clean boxers, he headed into the bathroom. He started the shower, let the water heat up for a few minutes, took his shower (with the soap unfortunately going everywhere), and dried his hair with the towel. Sort of.

He put on the button down; leaving it unbuttoned still, slipped on his khakis, (sort of) combed his hair, and walked out the door with the bowtie in hand. At least he looked semi-business casual.

Sure enough, there was a plate with three Belgian waffles, five slices of bacon, and a big cup of chocolate milk this time since it was a warm start to the day.

He sat down and saw another plate with one waffle, two slices of bacon, and a mug underneath the coffee machine with the Keurig little cup next to it.

Then Annabeth came out of her room and she looked stunning.

She wore a tight black V-neck with white short shorts and grey converse. Percy realized he was staring and even started drooling a bit (thank GOD she didn't notice that) and returned to eating his waffles. She sat down in front of her plate, and muttered "So I guess I dressed quite nicely today Mr. Waterfall?"

Crap.

He looked over at her, and saw she was smiling and blushing and he realized she was just being playful.

"Yeah. You could say that."

He pulled up to the house. It was a typical one-floor suburban house, brick, a few windows, and a polished wood door behind a glass storm door. He could already hear the giggles and see a few bubbles arise from the backyard.

He grinned. It had been a while since he had been to a birthday party. Especially one full of fun little kids.

Wow, that sounded really pedophilic.

He turned off the engine and got out of the car with Annabeth, and shut the door behind him.

Annabeth waited for him, and they walked to the door together and she knocked.

Immediately, a man who was a few years younger than her answered the door, grinned, and hugged Annabeth. She was grinning too.

"Hey Annie," he said teasingly. "Long time no see, how ya been?"

Then he noticed Percy, grinned even weirder, and said "Very good it seems dear sister," as he wiggled his eyebrows.

They both blushed, Percy giving him a death glare, Annabeth giving him a shy smile.

"Matty, he's not my boyfriend…." She shot Percy a look that just screamed the part she never said, ish.

"Yeah," he said, nodding. "I'm just her security guard."

"Right. That's what they allll say. Next thing you know you wake up one morning and wonder what exactly happened the night before."

Percy just shook his head in defeat, staring at the ground.

"Well, like I can talk, since here you are for my daughter's birthday party! Ooh, speaking of!" He turned around and yelled "Lily! Your Aunt Annabeth is here!"

Percy then heard a shriek that sounded vaguely like "Aunty!" and saw a little blonde girl running over, tripping once, and then running again while cackling.

He couldn't help but smile.

Annabeth picked her up and hugged her tightly, half shrieking "Happy birthday sweetie!"

"Auntie put me dowwwwwwnnnnn!"

Annabeth giggled and set her on the ground and she ran to Percy, wrapping tightly around his legs asked "Are you my new uncle?" into his shins.

"Um, no. I just protect your auntie."

"From who?"

"From very bad people," he said, putting his hands on the little girls back as a hug.

She nodded and said, "You protect her good then!"

He couldn't fight the smile on his face and said, "I don't plan on doing anything less than that."

She nodded and ran back into the house. They followed Matthew into the house and he explained how the little ones were in the backyard and most of the adults hung out in the house until the cake was cut and the presents were opened.

Annabeth stayed in to talk with her family (whom Percy was all introduced to, and for some reason they all immediately thought they were dating), but he headed out to the back. He had a lot of giddiness to let out.

An hour and a half later, Annabeth was laughing at him as the presents were opened. He can't say he blamed her.

He was drenched in sweat, popped bubbles, water, cake frosting (but somehow no cake bits), grass clippings, and he was missing a shoe, his right sleeve, and a few locks of his hair.

Oh well.

After the party ended at 9:30, Annabeth slept on his shoulder. But it was just friendly. Kind of.

He carried her up to the apartment, after a little chuckle from Thomas since she was dozing off while walking.

He put her in her bed and she wrapped his arms around his neck, wide awake.

Wowwww.

She grinned and asked him something he found very hard to say no to.

"No Annabeth, You're my employer. I can't sleep with you."

"Please? It'll literally be just sleeping and cuddling and kissing."

He didn't answer for a long time. "No Annabeth. I work for you."

She nodded, disappointed. Then she smiled and next thing he knew they were kissing. He flipped over and she was on top of him, and he was getting lost in her.

He slipped her shirt off and took of his own shirt as she layed on top of him and he began to suck on her neck, making her softly moan his name.

His pants were very tight then as he moved down to her cleavage and began kissing, making her moan even louder.

Then Annabeth got a call from her mom and he immediately crawled out from underneath her, grabbing his shirt as he realized what he had just done.

Annabeth put her shirt on and he sat on the edge of her bed as she talked to her mom, but he couldn't hear it. He was too busy still trying to process what had just happened.

She hung up after a few minutes and grinned at Percy, blushing.

"So…um…that happened."

"Yeah," he said, running his hand through his hair. "It kinda did."

She wrapped her arms around his neck again, but he didn't try to back away. He thinks he heard her say she loves him.

He smiled, saying goodnight and hugging her.

He knew what he felt for her though.

He knew he loved her too.

He knew he wasn't brave enough to say it.

A/N: So, yeah, this took me two days to write. But only since my weekend was really busy, with Mother's Day, a baseball game, church, and seeing Spiderman 2. I wrote whenever I had time and finally finished this chapter, so I really hope you guys like it. Thank ya very much my few loyal readers :D