Annabeth:

Okay. I got this. I'm Annabeth Chase, I always figure something out. There's always an answer, sometimes finding it takes longer than others but there's always an answer. Although right now it doesn't feel like I'll find an answer anytime soon.

Right now it felt like my life was crashing down and the answer was blurred from my view. I mean how could I be so stupid. How could I let this happen. Here I was twenty one years old sitting on my dorm room bed staring at two pink lines that seemed to be nagging at me worse than Arachne's children ever did.

"Hey, hey it will be okay." Rachel said as she reached forward to hug me.

I didn't even realize that I had started to cry while looking at the test until the heat rolled down my cheeks.

"No, it won't." I said sounding meek and shaky. Even to myself.

My thoughts raced. The idea of being a mom and still being in school scared me to death. I had been to Tartarus and face some of my darkest fears, but this, this was almost just as bad.

My eyes were full of tears and stung each time one fell on Rachel's shoulder as she held me. I slowly pulled away to look back at the test. My eyes swelling from my tears.

"I'm sure Percy would be excited." Rachel said.

Oh Gods. The thought of telling him made me queasy. How would seaweed brain take the news of being a father. 'Hey Percy, I know we still have a year left to graduate and you're already stressed out with school, but life is about to get a lot more stressful because you're going to be a father.' Yeah, I could already see the panicked look on his face.

"Rachel, I... I don't know what to do."

"Well you could tell Percy as like a step one. You know talk to him about your options."

I guess Rachel was right.

I always hated those combinations of words.

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So I left my dorm at Harvard and made the 3 plus hour trip back down to New York City to see Percy at his CUNY apartment. Percy was majoring in Marine Biology hoping to clean up the rivers and one day make a better promise to the East River and Hudson River than just splitting a sand dollar that his father gave him. He also wanted to make his father proud and help clean up his domain as well.

The drive down without Rachel gave me the time to think about every little scenario that could happen given the circumstances. Would we drop out of school, would we agree to put the baby up for adoption, would I have to raise them on my own, or would I decide to abort our baby. I was honestly so scared and unsure what the right choice would be.

Before I knew it I was entering the New York City traffic on the 278. It was so congested with cars and pedestrians that my nerves began to calm. I had always loved the chaos New York provided and the busy life all throughout the day. With my ADHD and the busyness of the city, I always felt like there was so much to do.

When I finally arrived outside of Percy's apartment building I could feel my stomach contents inching slowly up my esophagus. This wasn't morning sickness, which really should have been called all day sickness, but my nerves were truly getting to me again. I called Percy from my cell phone to let me into the building. When he finally came down I could feel the tension in my shoulder release from the just seeing his green eyes light up.

"Hey Annie, I did know you were coming." He said. The grin on his face spreading from ear to ear.

"Thought I make it a surprise." I tried my hardest to sound confident in my words. Apparently I didn't convey it well enough.

"What's wrong?"

I couldn't speak.

"How about we go upstairs." Percy's voice was full of questions. We walked towards the entrance to the high rise building.

The elevator ride was silent and when we finally got to his apartment the sound of music blaring in the hallway jolted my senses.

"Sorry, the guys they um... wanted to throw a party for the end of the semester before the holiday break." He did his usual Percy thing by running his fingers through his hair as he spoke when he was nervous. It was pretty cute but my mind was still stuck on a different topic in my head.

Percy and his roommates didn't really live in a university apartment but most of the tenants in the building were students at CUNY.

As he opened the door the music became louder and the strobe lights filtered into the hallway. We walked into the apartment he shared with three other guys and made our way to his bedroom.

The apartment was packed from the front door to his room with people throwing back shots, making out against the walls, and others dancing awfully to the beat playing on the loud speakers.

When we finally made it to his bedroom door and opened it we were greeted by the sight of a girl sitting on Percy's bed like she was waiting on him.

Her brunette hair was clearly curled with a curling iron and poorly brushed out (Aphrodite's cabin had actually taught me the difference between a good blowout and a bad one. Although, Piper would say we should be known for more than that. The kids still gave out beauty tips for a price.) the girl was pretty I'll give her that, but she was sitting on my boyfriend's bed which was causing my blood to boil.

"Hey Percy!" She yelled bubbly over the music.

She still hadn't gotten off his bed and turned towards me with a look of disgust in her eyes. She quickly replaced her look to appear more like an innocent doe.

"Hey Amelia, I um need my bedroom. Josh's room is next door."

Josh was one of Percy's roommate and probably the only one Percy didn't truly along with.

Amelia looked slightly annoyed as she got up from Percy's bed and walked towards the door making sure to keep her eyes on me before turning back to Percy.

"My bad. You know I figured we could talk for a second, but I see you have company." Her voice dripped with cattiness as she went out the door.

"I'll go see what Josh is doing instead." She said still keeping her voice pointed toward Percy.

As she walked out, Percy shut and locked his door behind her.

"Sorry about that. Josh and Amelia are in the middle of a fight and she keeps taking 'breathers' in my room." Percy said rushing through his words.

"Why?" I couldn't keep my voice even as I questioned him. I was angry.

"Why, what?"

"Why do you let her take 'breathers' in your room."

Percy's face seemed a little confused.

"It's not like I really let her. It's more of she does it anyway and I don't bother stopping her because she's Josh's 'girlfriend'. You know" Percy tried to plead his case.

"Do you let the other 'girlfriends' hangout in your room when they fight?" I could feel the snarkiness roll off my tongue as I questioned his relationship with Amelia and his other roommates girlfriends.

You see, Ahmad and Henry's girlfriends were actually their girlfriends and not 'girlfriends'. Josh on the other hand liked to play around a lot and I guess that this was his new flavor of the month that had chosen to stick to Percy after unsticking from him.

"No, I don't. I think she just feels left out or something." He said.

"Okay. Feeling left out doesn't mean come to your room to hangout on your bed." I was seething as this point and I wasn't really sure if it was the hormones or the fact that some other girl had been spend time with him in his room.

"Annabeth, it's not a big deal. We just talk and then go about our day." Percy tried saying the statement calm but I could tell that he was getting annoyed.

I know I shouldn't ready into this but in the moment I was really irritated. Percy didn't usually call me by my first name anymore. It was usually a nickname like Annie or Wise Girl. Never Annabeth anymore. He also didn't find having someone else who is not his girlfriend hanging out on his bed as 'not a big deal'.

Percy and I looked at each other with irritation in our eyes. I don't think I've been this mad at him since he brought Rachel along as our guide in the labyrinth. I eventually got over my jealousy towards Rachel, even after she told me she kissed Percy one time, but something about Amelia felt different.

"Annie what did you come here for?" Percy's voice really did sound annoyed that time.

I wanted to tell him the reason I came, but the words didn't come out of my mouth. Instead I said.

"I came here for nothing."

I began to walk towards the door anticipating to face the party still rage on, on the other side.

"Seriously Annabeth what's wrong. You came here for nothing and then basically pick a fight with me over nothing. What's going on?"

"What's going on is that I can't trust you."

Based on the look on his face that one stung.

"What?"

"I said I can't trust you. Do you have seaweed in your ears. I can't trust you not to have someone else in your bedroom and I can't trust you to be responsible when you think things are 'no big deal'. News flash a lot of things are big deals. Some girl who isn't me being in here is a big deal. You acting all nonchalant about it is a big deal and knowing how to properly wear a condom when you 'bought the wrong size is a big deal'. " okay maybe I didn't need to go off on Percy for the first two but buying a size smaller condom because the writing on the box was messing with you dyslexia wasn't a good excuse.

"Okay, I don't get what either of those have to do with one or the other." The confused look on his face conveyed his words better than the actual words.

"Gods, you really do have seaweed for brains. Why don't you ask your new BFF Amelia to help spell it out for you."

I was beyond angry at Percy at this point. My anger only rose as I opened the door to see Henry across the hall leaning up against the wall whistling trying to act nonchalant.

"Your friend is an idiot."

Henry nodded in response while some drunk stumbling girl walked past him with her friends in tow trying to catch her and apologizing to us both as they made their way back to the living room where most of the party was.

I was half tempted to stay and ignore Percy the rest of the night but decided against it and made my way back to Harvard for the night. I drove back in silence.