Monday was different. I couldn't decide if it was a good thing or bad thing, but I knew something was off with Annabeth.

I had gotten up taken a shower, you know the boring morning stuff. I grabbed my car keys and kiss my mom goodbye and left for school. I was lucky enough to get my drivers license, but it didn't compare when my mom actually gave me her car. She has said she was looking for a new one anyway so why not just give me the old one. I was screaming with joy I was so happy.

I mean with a car I can finally be a teenager. Take girls on dates, go on road trips; I don't know just teenage stuff.

I got to school at 7:01 on the dot. I like getting there early so I can relax and listen to music until 7:15. With Thanksgiving break quickly approaching, teachers were putting a lot more stress and homework on students, especially on me. Because of my disabilities it is harder to get work done, but this year, sophomore year, I've been trying really hard not to let my grade go below a C. It's been working too! I have a B in almost every class. Still, the 20 minutes before school is the only real free time I have during the week.

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I was jamming out to the latest Cage of The Elephant song, Take it or Leave it, in my car. If Annabeth were here she would probably call me a dork. I felt a little tug in my stomach and my palms suddenly became slightly clammy.

I have this longing to make her laugh, watch a movie with her, hold her hand, and…kiss her. Oh how much to do I want to kiss her again. My lips itch as think about her pale soft lips and the feeling of them against mine.

I groaned and hit my head against the leather steering wheal. I need to stop this mushy gushy feeling.

Life would be so much easier if I was just a robot. Then I could be like beep boop bop boop, time to destroy humanity and not deal with unresolved feelings for your best friend. Yeah, the robot life must be a luxury.

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The halls were almost deserted as I walked into my world history II class, ready to learn. We had assigned seats, which I didn't really mind. She, Mrs. Burns, always put you next someone you knew, or around people you knew. Though I was right next to air conditioner. It would change from really hot to really cold periodically. It really sucked, but I loved the class anyway.

I found history really interesting because in history, you're studying other people's lives; their customs, their religion, their downfall. It makes me wonder what children will be reading in their textbooks in 500 years about our downfall.

The final bell rang as I began to sit down at my desk next to my friend Rachael. We opened our textbooks to page 275; The Beginning of the Shang Dynasty. Maybe today wasn't going to be so bad.

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When lunch finally rolled around I was ecstatic. I hadn't seen Grover or Jason all weekend because they were at some model UN tournament. I walked to our usual lunch table where Thalia and Clarisse were already sitting, talking quite loudly about some commercial.

"Hey Thalia. Hey Clarisse." I said as I dropped my black backpack and grabbed a red chair to sit in. Clarisse nodded her head as if saying "Hey what up? #thug life."

"Hey Perce, how was your weekend?" Thalia said picking up one of her grapes from her plastic bag and popping it into her mouth. Her electric blue eyes had a mischievous look to them and smirking as if she knew everything one of you're secrets.

My stomach dropped. Oh my god she knew. How did she know?! Is she some kind of magician or something. I felt my cheeks burn red as her grin grew.

I leaned forward over the lunch table and whispered, "What do you know?"

"Everything." Thalia said popping another grape into her mouth. She leaned back with a sly smirk plastered to her face.

I felt my cheeks redden even more; I probably looked like a teenager mixed with a tomato.

"How?" I asked anxiously.

She abruptly tore away from her chair and slapped the top of my head.

"Are you an idiot, I'm her best friend! She tells me everything, and when I mean everything, I mean everything."

"Hey, yo what's happening?" Grover said behind me.

"Being an idiot, like usual." Clarisse responded. I ignored it, I was too busy staring at Annabeth as she made her way to the table with Piper.

Jason nudged Grover whispering something I couldn't make out.

"Hey Perce you're drooling." Jason joked the whole table laughed. I unconsciously wiped my mouth finding no slobber on my hand; that jerk.

"Hey, sorry were late. Me and Annabeth got stuck in math." Piper said and she and Annabeth sat down together, Annabeth to the right of me.

I want to say something to her but my throat felt like someone had stuffed a thousand cotton balls down it.

"It's Annabeth and I." Clarisse correct.

"Shut up." Piper said rudely glaring. Piper was both really sweet and caring or she was rude and mean; there was never an in between.

We all turned back to our food eating and talking about school and Thanksgivings plans when suddenly Thalia blurted out, "So did you guys hear, Annabeth and Percy kissed."

I choked on my sandwich, my cheeks on fire. What the hell is wrong with Thalia. Annabeth's jaw dropped, her cheeks matched mine, but she looked as cute as a button.

"Thalia! When I tell you private information it stays private!" Annabeth said desperately shaking her head making her blonde hair bounce. Her grey eyes were set on a sharp glare on Thalia

"Sorry, but they deserve to know." Thalia replied not sounding too sorry.

"Oh my god Annabeth! Why didn't you tell me?" Piper asked, "We could have had like a real girl talk."

"Perce, you go man! Now you got yourself a girl, congrats." Jason said patting my shoulder. Oh god he is so wrong.

"Um-uh we-we arent-." I tried to say, but an angry Annabeth interrupted me.

"We are not dating okay?! No if you guys could please leave this alone."

Everyone fell into silence. Nobody liked an angry Annabeth.

"I knew percabeth was real." Piper whispered, but still loud enough for all of us to hear. The whole table boomed with laughter expect Annabeth and I. I looked down at my lap; this so wasn't funny.

The bell finally rang releasing me from my misery. We all said our goodbyes as we parted ways excluding Annabeth and I. We usually walk to science together because our classrooms were in the same hall.

My stomach fluttered with butterflies as we made our way down the halls. None of us talked. The only noise was the chatter of students around us. Every time her arm brushed against mine, I felt a small tug in the center of my abdomen. I looked down and saw her hand soft and small almost touching mine. My hands started to tingle as I thought about how it would feel in mine. I clenched my fists to force myself not to reach out and cradle her doll like hand.

I sighed and let my shoulders fall. I just wanted to hold her hand.

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HII!

So I decided to try and write more for each chapter. This chapter was 1300 wordsish. I'm going to try and write 2 thousand an above, but I'll have to see. This took me about 2 hours to do which is good, I was expecting it to take longer.

Thanks so much reading this! Please review or give me any suggestions by pm!

AI