Percy felt as though he was floating on air. Annabeth was his girlfriend. He was probably the luckiest man alive. Of course, he still had a problem. He and Annabeth were going on their first date. He had already gotten special permission from Chiron to leave camp for a day, now all he had to do was plan… everything, and of course, knowing Percy the date was in two days.

Where to go, what to do, He wanted to make sure she would never forget it.

So he kind of had to plan, like, now.

Where to go, where to go? He had sent a letter to his mom days ago but he still hadn't gotten a reply back. He was just about to start the treacherous journey to the Aphrodite cabin when he heard a knock on his door he opened it to see Annabeth with her fist raised about to knock again. When she saw his face, she blushed a little, though it was barely noticeable. Of course being Annabeth, a little bit of nervousness was not going to stop her from, well, being Annabeth and walking right in to his cabin. He chuckled, "Yes wise girl?" He asked as he sat on his bed and patted the spot next to him. She blushed a little harder but never the less sat down next to him.

"Your mom sent you a letter." She waved the envelope in front of his face. Percy's eyes lit up like it was Christmas

"Thanks Wise Girl." He gave her a swift kiss on the cheek. She was blushing furiously now, "Hey I'm just the messenger." She stumbled over the words before continuing to stumble out the door.

He opened the letter excitedly. Among other things it said:

Take her out to see some of the stuff she loves, take her somewhere with good food, and most importantly bring come home, and bring her, it's been a long time since I've seen both of you away from complete and utter chaos!

He couldn't help but laugh at his mother's dramatic words. Enclosed in the letter was a 100 dollar bill.

He thought about it for a second then smiled to himself; he knew exactly where they were going.

Ω

He was walking away from the cabins to head to the dock and relax for a little while longer when he heard someone whisper, "Percy." He looked around before noticing some designer shoe coming out from the side of the Aphrodite cabin. He sighed before deciding that if he tried to get out of this the Aphrodite cabin would just kidnap him… again.

He backed up to see who exactly was calling him. It looked like,

"Drew," he groaned.

"Hello Darling, it's really been too long. Anyway, a little birdie told me you and Annabeth are going on a date. Do you want to tell me what exactly you have planned." He could practically hear the charm speak in her voice.

"Sorry, I really can't tell you." He tried to walk away as quickly as possible. But Drew's claw-like nails were digging in to his arm.

"Come on. At least tell me what you're going to wear." She was pulling out all the stops on her charm speech now. Of course Percy had no idea how to answer, He probably looked like a gigantic idiot right now, he thought.

Of course seeing that face, and knowing Percy, Drew didn't say another word before dragging him to her cabin.

After a lot of loud shouts that could be heard throughout the camp, and a good half-an-hour, he emerged from the cabin with a horrified look on his face, and a garment bag hung on his arm. As he walked out of the house, there was a call from behind him, "Hey Percy, what are you getting Annabeth." Now he felt like an idiot, he completely forgot about the gift. Thank goodness he still had a day. He rushed the clothes back to the nearest Aphrodite girls, before running off onto the beach and into the ocean.

Ω

He woke up on the day of the date. On the bunk opposite his was the garment bag that he had left with those girls, which meant… Stupid Aphrodite Girls. The gift he had gotten for Annabeth was on his dresser. Now all he had to do was go on the date.

PERCY

The first place we were going to go was the Empire State Building. When Annabeth saw it she groaned and said, "Really, I thought this was a date." She wasn't angry, just a little frustrated. I grabbed her hand and she blushed a little.

"We are. And today we are actually going to visit the Empire State Building." There was a long line to get up to the building, of course there were some advantages to being a demigod. I snapped my fingers and the mortals didn't even see us. Of course the guard still could. When he saw us he seemed to become really nervous, "Will you be needing to reach that floor Mr. Jackson." I laughed; apparently he had gotten the memo about the whole 'Savior of Olympus' thing.

"No, not today." I replied simply. I looked over at Annabeth whose face was distorted into a confused look. I knew how much she hated not knowing.

When we got into the elevator, she asked, "Percy, I still don't get it, what are we doing here." It's really mean of me, but I love seeing her confused face, I think it's adorable. So I replied, "We are going to the mortal top floor."

When the elevator opened back up to the viewing deck, Annabeth squealed in delight. She rushed out and came to a quick stop at the edge of the building, just short of giving me a heart attack. I breathed a sigh of relief as she excitedly pointed out memorable buildings on the New York City skyline. I was glad that she was happy. We stayed up there for a while, and I was surprised that I didn't get bored.

After the Empire State Building we went to a little hole-in-the-wall café that my mom used to take me too when I was little. To my satisfaction she seemed happy about the selection, "I'm proud Seaweed Brain, this place is perfect." We enjoyed a nice meal there. It was easy to talk to her, I had thought it would be really awkward but it wasn't. We talked about our families, about different monsters, architecture, combat. It wasn't hard to imagine a life with this beautiful girl by my side. After we finished eating, we ran into that check argument. In the end I won and paid for both of our meals, since it was after all, our first date

Finally we went to go see my mom. She hugged us and Paul seemed excited to meet Annabeth. Mom had even baked cookies for the occasion. We all sat on the couch while my Mom told Annabeth some embarrassing baby stories, I had tried to stop her, but at this point it was out of my hands.

I stopped for a moment and saw Paul, Mom, and Annabeth all together laughing. This was my family. It was hard to even register that everything could be so amazing. I had no major death threats over me right now, My Mom was finally happy, with a great husband and a good career, and I had Annabeth, the most perfect girl I could imagine, as my girlfriend.

After we chatted with my mom we headed back to camp. Apparently the campers had all decided that today was our day because no one bothered us to show around new campers, teach classes, or do chores as they usually would. Of course that was perfect because I still had one more thing left to do.

We were just strolling around the more private areas of camp, Annabeth was trying to figure out how often we would be able to see each other now that we were living in the same city. When I reached the perfect spot I held up a hand to stop her from talking.

"Annabeth, I know we haven't really been dating that long but I've loved you ever since we were kids. I know it might seem stupid considering this is our first date, but I wanted to show you that I am always thinking about you." I pulled out the little velvet sack in my pocket. I opened it and pulled out the little heart-shaped piece of coral I had found at the bottom of the ocean.

I took her hand and pressed the little pendant into her palm before kissing her on the lips.

And that would be the story of our third kiss.

It may not be the 4th after this finds its way online, but it was when I posted it.

Anyway, was the end scene to proposal-y because I didn't want it to be that cheesy. I also know my writing wasn't very artistic, but this one has an actual story so. I know I'm posting this late but I do have an excuse, I'm not going to type it though because the way I type is making my fingers ache. R&R