CHAPTER 16:

No one POV

The crowd (all the friends) raced after Percy and David. David was struggling to be freed, though it wasn't working.

Percy threw him onto the ground outside of the school building and began pacing in front of him. He began lecturing him with his scary-calm voice. But unbeknownst to him, everyone was watching them…

Percy POV

I don't think that I have ever been more angry in my entire life.

And I faced Kronos and Gaia head on.

"David. You need to realize that girls are not things. You can't win one as a prize, okay? It's terrible that you should even think that. Girls are not weak, quite the opposite in fact, and I would know. I have many dangerous girl relatives. (AN: YOU HAVE NOOOOOO IDEA DAVID.) Okay, I love Annabeth. And this isn't some teenage romance that will last just a bit longer. When the two of us go to college, we'll be as close as ever, maybe closer. When we're older, Annabeth and I will get married and have 5 kids named Charlie Beckendorf Jackson, Silena Rachel Jackson, Zoë Bianca Jackson, Michael Lee Jackson and Luke Chiron Jackson. We're going to have a fish named Ethan and a small cat named Bob. You don't get those things with Annabeth, because for some incredible reason, she loves me. STOP PESTERING HER, YOU IDIOT. You don't love her. You just want to go out with her because she's pretty. There's no doubt that she's beautiful obviously, but, even though no one in the entire world deserves her, you especially don't. You don't know a thing about her, do you? What are her two favorite colors? You don't know, huh? Green and gray. Who is the most father-like figure in her life? Ch- our activities director at camp. What is she deathly afraid of? Spiders! Out of everyone in the entire world, besides you and Krystal of course, who who does she always want to kill? Jason and Thalia's stepmother. Who was her first girl best friend? THALIA. David, I bet you don't even know her last name. I know Annabeth better than I know myself and I love every single thing about her. You have no right at all to think of a girl as some prize. They aren't valuable prizes that you can own. Okay? And if I EVER hear you talking about ANY girl, Annabeth or not, like that AGAIN, I know people that wouldn't hesitate to kill you."

And then I walked off, leaving him stunned and scared.

Annabeth POV

When Percy was saying his little speech, I began sobbing into Thalia's shoulder.

How did I get so lucky?

Every single girl was aww-ing and Piper said that her mother was squealing at the top of her lungs in her head.

Even the guys were wowed, I guess they don't really do the whole 'public love confession' thing…

Percy walks closer to our hiding spot and stops dead in his tracks when he sees us.

"You… Uh… You didn't hear that did you?" He asks, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly and not meeting my gaze.

"Every word, lover boy." Bianca teased, causing him to blush severely.

Thalia smiles widely. "Lady Artemis would be proud, Kelp Head." She said, punching his shoulder lightly.

He smiled weakly in response. He looked at me carefully. "Uh… Annabeth? I'm so sorry if that was sort of forward of me! But I meant every single word. Listen, I-I'm not smart, okay, we all know that, but if there's one thing I know it's that I love you. Forever. As long as we're together, right Wise Girl?" He pleads.

I wipe a few tears away, and lift my head off of Thalia's shoulder.

"Together, Seaweed Brain." Then I kiss him passionately.

When we pull apart, Thalia's hand is over her eyes and everyone is looking away uncomfortably.

"You know, I really did mean every word I said, Wise Girl." Percy says, wiping away the last of my tears.

"I know, Seaweed Brain. And I am the luckiest person in the world." I say wrapping my arms around him tightly.

He shakes his head. "Nope. That'd be me."

I'm about to respond, when Thalia interrupts. "AGREE TO DISAGREE!" She moans.

We smile at each other and laugh. "Okay, Thals." Percy says, rolling his eyes.

"You know Perce, you really make it hard to be a good boyfriend." Jason whines. "It's so hard to have to try to one-up you!" The other guys who have girlfriends agree.

I roll my eyes. "Listen guys. I have the best boyfriend ever. He's saved my life thousands of times, turned down immortality for me TWICE, fell into Tartarus with me and so much more. I win."

The guys groan and the girls giggle.

My friends from California look confused. "Um… Saved you life thousands of times and fell into what? Annabeth… What are you talking about?" Mary asked curiously.

We all look at each other.

"Oops…" Leo says, which makes us laugh.

We explain our 'situation' to them, which takes a little bit of time to convince them.

Nico looks at his watch. "Kelp Head! Swim tryouts start in 10 minutes! Go get ready!"