It was a month since me and percy jackson had our little sword fight. I don't know why but he had barely spoken to me if I didn't talk to him first. The longer. he didn't talk to me the more I thought about him. I thought about charmspeaking him to talk to me but I didn't. I wanted him to want to talk to me. The thoughts about him were generally about how much I didn't like him but there were very, very little thoughts about the hug when shared and the way he smiled at me in sword practice. I tried to push those thoughts away. He made it clear that he did not want to talk to me.

I was in arts and crafts with most of the Apollo kids (and Nico ofc) and Aphrodite kids but there was one other person that had just joined our class, Percy. Of course it had to be him of all people. Once he saw me he didn't exactly look happy either.

"Oh mr. jackson you can sit next to…" please don't say to me I prayed. "Scarlet Sinclair," the instructors said.

"NO" Me and Percy said at the same time.

"Excuse me?" me and percy exchanged death glares.

"What I meant sir is-" I tried to explain.

"Save it, now you guys can work on the next project together."

"Mr please-"

"Or clean the stables for a month"

"No that's okay" percy said while setting next to me

During class I kept finding myself looking at him for short periods of time. Why did I keep doing that? I asked myself. I thought about him looking at me like he did, was that me or just a coincidence. By the need of class I tried to take as many notes as I could but it was hard listening to percy deck dum over the teachers instructions. I figured I would see if I could do the project by myself so he would have to talk to me.

" I can do the project by myself" I said while we were packing up.

"Huh? And risk getting a grade because you didn't credit me. I'm good. Percy replied "will just finish real quick"

"Umm sure '' I said surprised he didn't accept my offer.

The next day I went to his cabin and knocked on the door.

"Oh it's you, what do you want?" percy asked while opening the door.

"Of course it's me who would want to visit you, anyway when we need to work on our project before class tomorrow." I repeated his tone back to him

"Yea sure, uh we should go to the tables in the woods, you know where they are?" he said flatly

"Okay, but why can't we just work in your cabin, it's just you in there?" I asked genuinely confused.

"Because campers from different cabins aren't allowed in a cabins alone and because it's dirty." he said walking to the woods.

"Why am I not surprised?" I muttered to myself.

"What?"

"Nothing" I said quickly.

Once we got there I went over my notes with him and explained what we were doing. After a lot of arguing we decided to do something ocean related. I wasn't gonna tell him but I kind of liked the ocean idea. Thirty minutes had passed without either of us talking and I wasn't gonna say it but Percy was actually doing a really good job. I was the first to say something.

"Why don't you like me?" I finally asked. It was a weird question but I just needed to know what I did for him not to like me.

"Huh?" percy said his eyes are still on the project.

"Why do you hate me?" I asked again. He didn't respond for a while, I figured that he was making a mental list of reasons why he didn't like me.

"I don't hate you, it's just that you're really annoying, loud, oh and you're and I hate your grandpa." he finally said, avoiding my eyes like the plague.

"My grandpa- Do you mean Ares? Also gods don't have DNA so it doesn't even count" I got really defensive

"Yea, but I fought Ares and he's still kind of related to you." he actually looked at me this time.

I wasn't sure what he meant by fought. Was it like a verbal fight or like a physical one? There was no way he would be stupid enough to fight a god… right? For some reason I feel like he was, I almost laughed at that thought because it was a very Percy thing to do.

"You actually fought him?" I asked while cleaning up my stuff and shoving it in my bag since it was getting dark.

Percy let out a sigh "Yes, I fought Ares and I won." He started to gather his stuff too. I wasn't sure what was more shocking: the fact that Percy Jackson fought and beat the god of war or that he actually did some of the project.

"You actually won? How do you win against a literal god and not a girl who had no prior training?" i asked referring to me beating him in sword practice a month ago

"Shut up, Sinclair i was going easy on you" He said harshly

"Are you sure about that Jackson or are you just afraid you lost against a girl?" I said with a smirk on my face. He didn't respond for a while.

"You know you talk a lot of shit for someone who will always be in my shadow" He said once we got closer to the cabin. I just looked at him waiting for him to continue. "You got claimed in front of everyone, you're the only demigod your parent has, I got claimed in front of everyone, i'm the only demigod my parent has, You killed the minotaur before you got her-"

"Shut up jackson" I said trying to repress my smile

"Really? How about you make me" Percy said with a smirk and stopped walking to face me.

I wanted to smack the look off his face so badly but I had a better idea. I pulled him by the collar of his shirt and kissed him. My idea worked just as well as I thought it would, he was not speaking anymore after that. I pulled away and looked at his face, it was pure shock.

"I-I" percy stuttered.

" Catch you later percy '' I said while running to the dining pavilion. All I thought about at dinner was Percy.

"Of course it's me who would want to visit you, anyway when we need to work on our project before class tomorrow." I repeated his tone back to him