ANNABETH
Percy was gone. He was gone and he was never coming back. I couldn't do anything but miss Percy. I missed his messy hair; I missed his ridiculous smile; I missed his sea-green eyes. That stupid seaweed brain! It was just like him, to make people worry when he was worrying about everyone else. He was gone, but still, There was a part of me that thought, maybe he wasn't gone, maybe he would come back, No. there was no way he would come back to me, the mountain caught on fire for Hera's sake. I ran out of the 'conference room' back to my cabin and slammed the door behind me. The tears fell from my eyes, trailing down my cheek to the corner of my mouth; the taste of saltwater reminded me of Percy, and the kiss. I collapsed on my bed and cried openly; we would burn his shroud tomorrow, and then he would really be gone.
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It was strange, the way we were now. When he got back I had expected things to change, but not like this. When I saw him, I was overwhelmed with glee. When I saw him, I knew he was the most important person in my world. Then he told me about Calypso, and it scared me that he had considered never coming back. That maybe he didn't feel the same way about me. And then he told me about Rachel and I didn't know what to think. Now, after the Battle, we were all recovering. From physical and emotional injuries, as for me and Percy, we were in this incredibly awkward, more-than-friends, less-than-a-couple, state. Whenever we were alone together, we could hardly communicate without things getting… uncomfortable, then one of us would make an excuse to leave. I knew a lot, even more now thanks to Dedaulus, but I couldn't figure out why we were this way, why couldn't things go back to normal. But now, he only had a year left until the prophecy, and even though I didn't know what it was, things were going to change, something really horrible was going to happen, and Percy was going to dropped into it, dead center.
PERCY
When I saw Annabeth so upset, my heart felt like it would fall in on itself. I wanted so badly to rush to her and promise that I would never let her go, that I would never leave again. But then I remembered what had happened; she had kissed me, and then I disappeared for two weeks, we weren't in the best place as friends right now. I apologized and she said it was okay, but there was this tension that we kind of still had between us. I wish I was able to break that tension into a million little pieces and make everything the way it used to be, but that's not possible. I think things are getting better though, I used to not be able to talk around her, but I think I'm getting used to the situation I'm in.
And that's book four. I know these stories are kind of awkward, but I promise they'll be better after this, when they actually have a relationship to write about. ZOMG, okay this'll sound stupid, but I just got why Percy says a kiss is tradition, I've read the books over fifty times and this is the first time I'm catching that. Any who, five days! Also reviewing is a beautiful thing to do so please, do it.