A/N: Last update for this week! Probably gonna update on the weekend :)

Happy MLK day everyone! Honestly it's kinda depressing that we even needed a civil rights movement in the first place but I'm glad it happened because it gave black people the rights they deserve :) If you're a person of color you should love your skin tone and know that embracing it will only empower you. 3

To celebrate I'll include a bit of our beloved Hazel !

Also I don't own anything. Pretty sure that's clear enough...

Any classical music enjoyers out there? Or people who like listening to symphonic works?

If you haven't, listen to the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto. I'm in love! Allegro is such a beautiful movement, but it's so short and tantalizing...sigh. Yeah, I know I'm pathetic for fangirling over a piece written 66 years ago.

This Author's Note has gone on far too long! Rest well, my people, and enjoy (or don't if it sucks) the third chapter!

(the next day)

I was walking to my fourth period AP Calculus class, notebooks and pencils clutched to my chest, lost in my own little world as I mentally did the calculations for Hera's (ugh) shrine (double ugh).

I didn't notice that I had crashed into someone until we were both sprawled on the floor, our notebooks strewn all over the floor.

"Oh my gods, I'm so sorry," I heard someone say. Wait,gods?

I looked up, my blonde curls falling away from my face, as gray eyes met sea green.

"Annabeth?"

"Percy?"

He stood up and offered me a hand, which I swatted away unmercifully.

I rose on my own and collected my notebooks.

"That was rude," Percy said, feigning hurt as he gave me a cute pout.

"Meh," I replied. "Now, if you'd so graciously step aside to let me get to my class."

Percy gave me a mock disdainful look as he stepped to the other side of the hallway, doing an exaggerated bow as he held his arm out.

"Why, go ahead, princess-your chariot awaits!" he teased. That earned him a slap from me.

"Don't call me princess," I snapped.

"Why? Is it because you're a queen?"

I gave him the middle finger as I walked off, hiding my blushing face behind my hair as I hastily opened the door to my class.

(Percy pov)

"Bro, was that you trying to flirt? Because that was absolutely pathetic," Jake ever-so-helpfully interjected, walking up to me from his previous class. "And whatever happened to Mr. I'm-in-my-no-dating-phase?"

I stumbled over my words. "Well-you see, uhhhh..."

Ryan also ever-so-helpfully walked over, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively and grinning like a maniac. "Someone's got a CRUSHHHH," he whisper-screamed in my face.

I groaned, holding my face in my hands as I slumped against the wall. The fact that I was blushing didn't help much either. "You guys are jerks."

Just to rub salt in the wound, Toby also came up to us. "Was that what I think I heard? Percy Jackson has a crush on Annabeth Chase-and she hates him?"

"What kind of sadistic people are you?" I complained.

They all laughed at my expense.

(free period)

"So now they're galloping through the hallways, screaming at the top of their lungs that I have a crush on you!" I whined.

"It's not exactly false, though, is it?" Annabeth said, a smirk on her lips that I wanted to kiss away until her lips melted into mine.

We were spending our free period in a secluded corner of the building, in a small nook where people weren't likely to venture. Most people, according to Annabeth, would be outside in the yards or in the library, maybe in the cafeteria, but most definitely not in a blocked area that came off the side of the hallway from Humanitarian Studies to AP Stats.

"That's not the point," I muttered. "And they all think you hate me!"

Annabeth leaned closer to me and I felt my breathing stutter. She hummed lowly. "Now that's quite the opposite..."

I cupped her chin in my hand. "Is it now, princess? Why don't you prove it to me?"

Annabeth leaned forward to place a lazy kiss on my lips. "You're such a hypocrite...you should know that I'm a queen."

"Oh? And, Your Highness, what does that make me?" I asked, playing along as I brought her closer to me until our noses were barely an inch away.

Annabeth didn't answer. Instead, she closed the distance between us until our lips met, tilting her head as she deepened the kiss.

She pressed her hand against my chest and pinned me to the wall...and while I loved it when she was in control, that just wouldn't do for today.

"None of that, Wise Girl," I murmured, my voice low and breathy. I flipped us over until she was the one against the wall. I pinned her wrists above her head and leaned down to kiss her again. "I'm driving today."

Annabeth grinned and claimed my lips again, nibbling at my lower lip and slipping her tongue into my mouth. "Mmm..."

(Julinn pov)

Ugh! Everywhere was So. Freaking. Loud! I just wanted to have a place to read my book in peace-and you'd think I would've gone to the library for that, which was my original plan, but it's kinda hard to read when all you can hear is the clickety clackety of the crusty old school computers (the math club was having a meeting again).

Then I remembered that there was a blocked out standing area in between Humanitarian Studies and AP Statistics. It was quiet there and people seldom spent their free periods there-perfect! I'd just plop down, back leaning against the wall, open my book and inhale the new book smell, and let my eyes dance across the elegant curves of the words. Ah, yes.

I turned a corner and started making my way there. As I got closer, I started hearing strange noises-but I didn't give it a second thought. The musty old water pipes of the school were always creaking.

I approached the hallway, turned the corner, and..

INSTANTLY. REGRETTED. IT.

Percy Jackson, captain of the swim team, had Annabeth Chase, my friend, pressed up between the wall and-bleaugh-his lips!

I wanted to empty the contents of my stomach right then and there, but instead I stepped forward and slapped him away, pulling Annabeth to the side with me.

"What are you doing to her?" I screeched. "Oh, you BETTER NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING TO HER, you uncultured little swine!"

Percy blinked back at me, once, twice-I was starting to get the impression that he was a bit slow-and three times, until shock left his gaze and his eyes darted frantically around the scene.

"Oh, schist. Hades, why?!" Percy cursed. "Um. So. Hello, Annabeth's friend."

I slapped him again. "You perverted creep!" I turned to Annabeth. "Are you okay? Did he hurt you?"

Instead of relief brimming in her eyes, I found panic, and slight...amusement?

"It's a long story," Annabeth started, "but I think a good place to start it with is that Percy here is my boyfriend, and we've been dating for two years."

(after explaining_

"So what you're telling me is that you guys pretended to not know each other at all, because of some stupid bet your friend instigated?" I spluttered.

"Yup," Percy said, his arm wrapped around Annabeth's waist as we stood in the standing area. "Our relationship's kinda messed up that way."

I narrowed my eyes. "He's not hurting you or anything, right?" I asked Annabeth.

"Nope," she replied. "Although I'd appreciate it if you could keep our relationship a secret-we so cannot lose this bet to Leo."

"Hey, Wise Girl," Percy said. "Pay up those thirty drachmas. You totally kissed me first."

"Well, I seem to recall the fact that your friends have told the whole school about your 'crush' on me."

"That doesn't count!"

"It so does."

Grumbling, Percy fished thirty FREAKING GOLD COINS out of his backpack and stuffed them into Annabeth's hands.

"I'll take that," Annabeth said. Then, she snapped her fingers in front of my face.

Percy had just given thirty dollars to Annabeth for a bet he lost. No big deal.

"You really won't tell anyone, right?" Annabeth asked.

"Will I get paid?" I asked, giving Percy the side eye. He groaned and handed me a twenty dollar bill(mortal money this time).

I put the money into my pocket and smiled. "Thanks for your business, kind sir."

(after school)

Annabeth and I walked out of the building after school. We parted ways; she walked home first but I knew that after his swim meet, Percy would be going the same direction.

I grinned to myself. I am going to have a field day with this...after all, they never said I couldn'tshowanyone-and I would play my cards just right, so that they revealed themselves right in front of everyone.

(at sally's house after Percy's swim meet)

(Percy pov)

I set my backpack down and slumped down on the couch next to Annabeth. She had turned on an architecture documentary. I kissed her on the forehead and said, "Hey, Wise Girl."

She snuggled into my arms. "Hey, Seaweed Brain. Now shut up, I want to finish this documentary."

Suddenly, I heard a loud crash coming from the kitchen and I immediately jumped up and ran there. Was my mom okay?

I entered the kitchen and found not my mom, but a pale, dark haired boy with a Cuisinart pot on his head, holding hands with a dark-skinned girl that had curly brown hair.

"Stupid shadow travel," Nico muttered as he took the pot off his head and unceremoniously set it onto the counter.

"Why are you guys here?" I asked.

Nico and Hazel walked to the living room. When Annabeth saw them, she paused the documentary. "What's up?"

"Chiron sent us," Nico said. "Reyna, too. We've received word that there's two unclaimed demigods in the area. They're not thirteen yet, but satyrs have locked in on them-they're twins. What's strange is that one seems to be Greek...and the other is Roman."

A/N: So? Did you like it? Love it? Hate it, or hate me for the cliffhanger?

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