Chapter Ten

The next day I woke up with the biggest smile on my face. We had arrived home by 11 as mum said, with Percy insisting I give him one last kiss before heading indoors. It was like I was floating on cloud nine, and fortunately, dad had gone to bed by the time I'd gotten in so he wasn't around to pop my little happy bubble.

Mum ushered me up to my room – which was on the opposite side of the house to theirs so Dad wouldn't be able to hear us – and grilled me for information until about 1 in the morning when I was finally able to shove her out of my room.

I could still feel Percy on my lips, the feeling washing over me as I relived the night. The sand underneath my feet, the cool air brushing over my skin, Percy wrapping his hoodie around me, warming me up. The sound of his voice, his kiss it all came flooding back to me in a wave of emotion, the biggest smile I had ever had crossed over my face, but I couldn't stop it. If I knew tutoring him would lead to this, I would have offered him help ages ago.

Thankfully no interruptions had happened last night, which meant the guys had probably passed out on the floor of Luke's place. Or, if they were lucky, a random bed. Meaning I would have three very hungover friends at school today, maybe four seeing as Grover had tagged along. Hopefully Thalia plans had worked, and Luke had wanted to rip the clothes off her. If it hadn't happened, she would not be happy and would probably withhold sex for a week. Which would last a day as the hungover wore off and she would drive round to Luke's tonight. Then I would get to know details I really didn't want to know and that just wasn't a good situation for anyone to be in.

Having a few extra minutes, I padded over to the window, waiting for my favourite person to come into view as usual. There he was, like every morning, I could just about see him from where I was standing. I could see his face clearly and I was glad to see he had a smile that rivalled my own. He even made bed head look gorgeous, or maybe it was just me who felt that way. I was rocking some pretty serious bed head myself, but as usual I didn't care. I would sort that out soon enough, for now just content to watch him stretch out before jumping In.

"So what are we going to tell everybody?" I asked Percy as he met me at my locker the next morning, his arms automatically circling round my waist as his head rested on my shoulder. We were all ready getting looks, but I had yet to tell my friends. I had yet to see my friends. I really wasn't looking forward to seeing them either, they would be hungover which really wasn't my idea of fun. "How about, we don't tell them"

"you want to keep us secret?" I asked worried. Insecurities flared up, and if I couldn't tell my best friends about this then I didn't know what I was going to do.

"No, Wise girl, I meant, we hug, we kiss, we act like normal boyfriend and girlfriend in front of them. We let them guess what's going on" relief flooded through me as Percy kept talking then something popped into my mind. Girlfriend. We hadn't classified the relationship last night – I was too caught up in him to really worry about it – but now he had mentioned it "Girlfriend?" I asked, turning in him arms to look at him.

"Yeah, Girlfriend" he whispered, giving me a little kiss before the bell rang and we had to make our way to first period Math. But before we left, I caught Drew's eye from across the hall, her eyes narrowed as she looked at me and Percy. And if I was right, jealousy covered her face.

I hadn't seen Thalia, Jason or Piper all day. Which wasn't really surprising because moving Thalia out of bed when she wasn't hungover was hell, so hungover Thalia was almost unbearable to deal with. But I at least got a text. Percy caught up to me outside of school once final bell rang as we made our way to the cars. "what's wrong wise girl?"

"No ones text me today" I sighed, staring at my phone wishing it would at least ring. "Well not everyone can be as popular as me" he teased but I ignored him, starting to worry about my friends. I mean, how much trouble could thy really get into at Luke's' party.

I didn't want to Know.

I called Jason's phone for like the 20th time today but I once again got nothing, getting sent straight to voicemail. They were in trouble, I knew it. I didn't know how I knew it, but I could feel somewhere in my gut.

"Hey where was Grover today?"

"he wasn't in school. He went to that collage party last night, so I guess he's passed out at home somewhere. Well he'd better be or else him mum would kill him"

My teeth caught my bottom lip and I started to chew in worry. There was a reason I didn't go to Luke's parties.

Giving Percy a kiss goodbye, I slid in my car, but before I could start my phone finally rang "Hello"

"Annabeth?" Pipers voice came through my phone, slightly worried but a whole lot relieved that I had picked up my phone "Piper, What happened, where are you guys?"

"Yeah, that's the thing. Can you come pick us up? We're kind of at the Police station"

"You're what?!"

Thankfully the police station wasn't far from school so I was there in five minutes. Finding a space to park, I quickly made my way inside to find all three of my friends in a holding cell. Thalia was still hungover, Jason was fed up and Piper looked panicked. Grover also lay on the floor, his arm over his eyes like the light hurt him. "Annabeth" Piper sighed in relief as she saw me. "Excuse me miss" on of the officers came up to me, stopping me from approaching the bars. "Oh hi officer I'm here to collect those...four" I guess I was taking Grover home as well. And I really wanted to meet his mum.

"I'm sorry miss, but I can't release these four unless its into the custody of an adult"

"But officer-"

"Frank?" Percy's voice made me turn. There he was, standing behind us, probably here to collect Grover. "Oh hey Percy, how you doing mate" the officer greeeted him, shaking his hand with a smile. I guess they knew each other, which could help the situation.

"Good, I'm here to collect him" he smiled, placing his arm around my waist. "Sorry no can do" Frank grimaced, placing his hands I his pockets "As I was telling this young lady here, I can't release them unless its into the custody of an adult"

"Well, What are we going to do?" Percy turned to me, like I would have all the answers. I had once, but it wouldn't be the best for me. I would have to do it, but that would mean the one thing I wanted to prevent. Looks like my mother would meet my boyfriend.