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Love the Babysitter

Annabeth knew her friends were weird, but not this weird.

The next morning, when she had arrived at school, her friends had received her with a different emotion each. Piper and Silena had loving expressions , sighing and smiling goofily at the air. Thalia was very happy that she had reconciled with Bianca (they were all happy about that) and because her date, Will had been great. Katie was sad, broken, Annabeth thought she would start to cry at any time.

Annabeth walked to her history class, which she shared with Percy.

Percy. His name almost brings a smile on her lips.

She knew she was crazy to admit this, but she had developed a crush on him. She had been denying it since the week that she had begun working as a babysitter. She knew it was silly, because the whole school had a crush on him and she had only a minimal chance that he will like her, having all those beautiful girls after him. But oh well, she will never like him, right? Right? It was just a stupid crush.

She walked into the room of history with that idea in her head, admiring again the great decoration that Mr. Brunner had given to his classroom. There were old flags from different countries, shields and swords, maps and pictures of various ancient monuments that Annabeth admired, such as the Parthenon and the Coliseum. She loved how each had been built and designed, the way in which the structures were strong and-

Her thoughts were interrupted when she stumbled. She didn't reach to fall because she held a desk. Annabeth turned to stand up, and saw that most people were laughing, but one principally. Rachel. She rolled her eyes at the people, and began to walk to her desk, when she saw that Rachel's foot was stretched forward, right where she had stumbled.

"Seriously?" Annabeth asked her. Everyone in the room fell silent and looked at her confused, but Annabeth kept her eyes fixed on the green eyes of the redhead.

"Seriously what?" Rachel snapped, her eyes narrowing.

"Making me trip for everyone to laugh at me," Annabeth said, resting her hands on Rachel's desk and leaning forward "That's low even for you,"

"Who says that I made you trip?" Rachel hissed. Now everyone had their attention on them "Maybe you fell because you're clumsy."

"You ratted yourself," Annabeth smiled mischievously, knowing she was going to win that battle "Your foot was stretched out, and I stumbled right in front of your desk." Annabeth saw Rachel pursing her lips, also knowing that the blonde was going to win "But what did I do? Why all the time, you're making me these things? Why do you insist on putting me to shame so much?"

Rachel looked into her eyes, anger and resentment was reflected in them. Annabeth did not understand anything, but she kept her gaze "You too? You also forgot?"

Annabeth furrowed her eyebrows "Forgot what?" she asked, but before Rachel say something, Chiron entered the room in his wheelchair, pushed by Percy, who looked confused at the two girls and all the others who were quiet.

"What is going on here?" Chiron asked, his deep voice broke the silence of the room. His kind brown eyes searched each of the faces of his students, but more in the gray-eyed girl.

Murmurs saying 'nothing' filled the room. Chiron looked at them a few moments before nodding and tell everyone to return to their seats before starting his class. Annabeth sat next to Percy as always, and she could feel his confused and worried gaze on her. But now she was so confused with what Rachel had told her that all her thoughts were on it. Her mind was working a mile a minute trying to make sense of the words of Rachel. What could she have forgotten? From the two years that she had gone to Goode, she had not done anything to Rachel; just confront her when she did something to her, but nothing more.

"Is everything okay?" Percy asked when Chiron was distracted writing something on the blackboard. Annabeth turned her head to meet his green eyes.

"Yes, why do you ask?" she responded in the sweetest way possible.

Percy shrugged "I don't know, I thought maybe Rachel did something to you, I saw you two talking when I came."

"Oh, it was nothing." Annabeth waved it off. She smiled sweetly at him hoping he would believe it. Percy looked at her for a moment before shrugging again.

"Okay," he said, returning to 'pay attention' to the class.

He didn't buy it, Annabeth realized. He wasn't as dumb as people said, he was more intelligent than people gave him credit for.

-.-.-.-.-

"So, that's what happened." Katie finished explaining. She and Annabeth were sitting on a bench near the entrance of Goode, each eating a sandwich. Annabeth listened attentively as Katie told her what she had seen, and that she had a major crush on Travis. Katie looked so sad, with her eyes filled with tears and husky voice made Annabeth had wanted to kill that Stoll. Nobody hurt her friends. That was one of her priorities. Her father had always said that she was very territorial about her friends, and she knew it was true. She would do anything for a true friend.

"I'm so sorry Katie, I'm gonna break his face for you, okay?" Annabeth said softly with a playful smile on her lips, placing a hand on the shoulder of her friend, who laughed without emotion for her comment. "But, you have to promise me that you will stop crying and face your problems, okay?"

'Oh, how ironic,' Katie thought 'Just what Silena said Annabeth would say.'

"Alright," Katie replied "I just wish to be strong like you or Thalia at times like these." she added, her broken gaze fixed on the ground.

Annabeth rolled her eyes "Of course not. You are a sensitive person, and everyone loves you for it. You're sweet, funny and cute. You don't want to be like me, and even if you wanted you will never be because you are Katie. The sensible Katie we all love." Annabeth smiled encouragingly, and Katie hugged her.

"Thanks Annabeth, I really needed it."

"Anytime," Annabeth smiled while they were breaking the hug. They continued talking until one guy stood in front of them. They looked up to find his face and Annabeth felt how Katie tightened a bit when both saw it was Travis. His arched brows were wrinkled in confusion, and his always fun eyes looked serious now.

"Hey Annabeth," he greeted her, and she smiled and nodded in response. He turned to Katie "Umm, Katie, you think we can talk?"

Katie looked at Annabeth, desperately wondering whether or not she should talk to him. She felt her stomach churn and her heart beat faster. Annabeth looked at her, wondering why she didn't respond. Travis also looked at her like she was crazy.

Annabeth spoke quickly "Okay, I'll go. See you later Katie!" she stood up and went away.

Katie looked cautiously at Travis, who was still looking at her confused. She swallowed nervously before speaking "So, what you want to talk about?"

Travis rubbed his forearm "Umm, I just wanted to know if you were okay, because someone told me that you had a headache yesterday and that's why you couldn't go to our… meeting,"

Katie remembered Silena's lie and nodded "Yeah, it was just a sudden thing."

"So, you're okay?"

"Yep," Katie lied. She was broken, hurt. She wasn't fine.

"So, you think we could meet today?" Travis smirked, and she felt her knees tremble.

Katie took a deep breath. She wanted to say something, but she didn't have the guts to do it, she was too scared, too shy. She imagined her friends telling her to do it, even her sister and mother giving her strength. She was so dramatic. Finally, she looked at him in the eyes and spoke "Seriously, you want to go with me? I thought you're better off with that blonde," she snapped, before turning around and walking out as fast as her feet would allow her. Travis stood there frozen in his place, his mind trying to process the words of his so-secret crush.

Which blonde was she talking about?

Before he could run after her, Katie was gone.

-.-.-.-.-

"And it was great, I mean, Will is definitely a great kisser." Thalia finished her story about her date with Will Solace. Annabeth nodded though she wasn't really listening. Being psychologist of her friends was not an easy job. And she wasn't the best listener for love themes. But if what you wanted was to talk about something serious, she was all ears.

"Sure he is," she said absently. Thalia saw that Annabeth wasn't into it, so she stood up in front of her blonde friend and put her hands on her waist. Annabeth looked at her confused "Are you listening?" Thalia asked.

"Of course I was," Annabeth defended herself "You said that Will is a great kisser, your date was great and you made-out half of it." Thalia rolled her eyes, but smiled anyway.

When Annabeth opened her mouth to speak, Leo approached them and, after checking that no one was watching, he whispered "Hey, Lou wants us in the art room." he looked nervous "Hurry up, she's gonna go crazy!" Annabeth and Thalia shared a look before running off to the art room with Leo at their heels.

When they arrived, they saw Lou standing in front of Percy and Nico and talking to them and moving her hands excessively. Annabeth thought she heard Leo sighing dreamily, but she thought it was her imagination. Thalia cleared her throat and Lou turned to them. She looked stressed and nervous.

"Guys, oh I'm glad you're here. Know what? Dionysus is in his office talking to some architects that will transform this room into a stupid warehouse!" Lou said quickly.

Annabeth frowned, clearly confused by the attitudes of her friend "So?"

Lou opened her eyes, a bit of anger reflected in them. Annabeth saw Percy cover his face with his hands and sighing in frustration and Nico moaning "So? Annabeth, that man can't get this room off the school, and it can serve for the art workshop that many students want,"

"I know, but what can you do against him? He has the power," Annabeth tried to reason with her.

"We can make a protest!" Lou exclaimed suddenly, a crazy smile on her lips. She nodded in agreement at her own idea "Yes! That could serve! You guys will support me, right?" she looked at everyone in the room expectantly.

Percy and Nico shared a look, Thalia looked down biting her fingernail, Leo began whistling looking at the ceiling and Annabeth looked everywhere but at Lou.

The violet-eyed girl looked at them all again incredulous. "You are incredible friends." she muttered sarcastically. Annabeth felt guilty. Lou was there when she needed her, so why she didn't help her friend?

Annabeth stepped forward and smiled slightly "Okay, I'll help with your... craziness,"

Lou smiled and hugged her "I knew you wouldn't fail me." when she pulled away, Annabeth saw Percy looking at her with eyes open and surprised.

He made a gesture as if he knew he was going to regret what he was about to do "Fine, I'll help." Surprisingly for all, Lou squealed and hugged him for a few seconds before realizing what she was doing and get away from him. She looked at Nico sweetly.

"You'll help me too, won't you?" Lou asked. Nico looked at Thalia who smirked at his expression (to which he rolled his eyes), then looked at Percy, who shrugged.

Nico sighed "Fine." Lou squealed and hugged him again before standing in front of Thalia.

The blue-eyed girl sighed before nodding and hugging Lou.

Lou turned to Leo. He was still undecided about what to do. She made puppy dog eyes at him, and suppressed a smile when she saw that her tactic was working. Leo sighed and nodded. Lou's eyes lit up and in a moment of happiness, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. It was a shock to Leo, but eventually he returned the kiss gladly.

All opened their mouths surprised at the time their lips had connected. Annabeth, the first one out of the shock, turned to the others (who were still watching the kiss) with a smile on her face.

"Come on, let's leave them alone."

-.-.-.-.-

When Lou broke the kiss for air, she smiled like an idiot. And Leo did the same. She noticed that there was nobody in the room, to which she frowned.

"Where's everyone?"

Leo shrugged "I don't know." he said. Lou looked into his eyes and smiled, turning to lean to kiss him again when the realization hit her in the face.

She came out of his grip "Come on, we have to find people to join the protest!"

-.-.-.-.-

The protest had gone well. Almost all the school had joined, some because they were artists, others because they hated Mr. D or others who had nothing better to do. But after some threats of expulsion or punishment, Mr. D had surrendered and announced that there would be an art workshop at school.

Students 1, fat man 0.

AN= 2.326 words and 11 pages.

Sorry for the lame final! But is that the chapter was getting too long, and I want to do something special for the next chapter. And because I love you all because you are great and thanks to you I have 910 reviews, I will leave an image crucial for the next chapter: /entry/46680768 (if the link doesn't work, it will be in my profile!)

So finally our first couple is together! Or something like that…

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