It's because you said "forever"

Chapter One

HI GUYS!

This is my new story, and as you can see in the summary, it's Annabeth's mortal best friend point of view throughout the PJO and HOO series. The catch in this is that her mortal best friend is a guy, and I guess you can imagine the rest. Just because I made this new story doesn't mean I will stop updating my other stories, if you are new to reading my stories, my other two stories are PJO Oneshots, and You Belong with Me.

Enjoy the first chapter guys!

Disclamer: I don't own PJO… sadly:(

Mark POV:

I opened my eyes, and found a blonde girl my age, 7, staring at me with a worried look on her face. She was beautiful, I know it was weird to develop such a deep love for someone you just met, but I did.

"Are you okay?" she asked. Her voice was wise, and when I looked into her gray eyes, they held a look that I couldn't describe. "I asked if you were okay."

"Oh, yeah I am thanks."

"Sorry, I hit you with the dodgeball and you blacked out."

"It's fine," I waved my hand. "What's your name."

"Annabeth," she looked at me warily, but at the same time was inspecting me. I felt weird, becuase we were so small, and she already held a look that someone so much older than her should hold. "What's your name?"

"Mark, nice to meet you Annabeth."

"Same here, I have to go now, don't want to miss reading time."

"Wait. You already know how to read? We're barely in first grade."

"Yeah, you don't? I learned two years ago."

"Well I read picture books, and small chapter books."

She shrugged her shoulders, and turned to leave the nurse's office. I felt my heart sink, and I ran after her. I looked around the hallway, trying to find her. She was nowhere, and I kept walking through the hallway, it wasn't long before the bullies came up to me, like always. They shoved me to the lockers, and the main one, Chris stood in front of me. I whimpered like any first grader would do, and looked at the fifth grader in front of me.

"Oh, little marky marky is scared."

I started crying as the whole gang approached me. When I heard a small voice behind them. I looked around, and I saw Annabeth rolling her sleeves up coming to the rescue. I looked at her, and let out a small sigh.

"Leave him alone."

"AWW, you came to rescue your lover, didn't you smart ass?" Chris said with sarcasm, I looked at Annabeth's expression, neutral, how did she manage it?

"He's not my lover, he's my friend, and at least I'm not a dumb ass like you."

Chris started walking towards Annabeth towering over her.

"What did you call me?"

"Dumb. Ass."

He started grabbing Annabeth by the shoulder, when Annabeth kicked his parts, hard. He fell to the floor, and started screaming "Get her, get her!"

His minions approached Annabeth slowly and, she did the same thing, outsmarted them, and hurt them. I was frozen in place, when she started waving at me to go with her. She had just been attacked by bullies and she still thought about getting on time to class? I ran up to her, and we started walking toward our classroom.

"Thank you."

"I didn't do it for you, if I wouldn't have helped, I would've thought about how much of a coward I was to not stand up to them."

"Still, you saved me from them."

"No problem."

"Friends?"

"Sure."

We walked to our classroom, and we talked about our lives, and whatnot.

3 months later…

"Hey, wait up!"

"Catch me if you can!"

I ran as fast as I could, and when I did catch up to Annabeth, I tackled her. She stayed on the ground, curled up in a ball, closing her eyes. I went back to her, and I shook her.

"Annabeth, hey, are you okay?"

She jumped up, "Got ya!"

We ran to the tree, where we always sat, and we started eating our sandwiches.

"Hey Annabeth?" I looked at her, and she turned around. "Friends?"

"Yeah!"

"Best friends?"

She looked at me, with a sad look on her face. She stayed like that for a while, until she jumped up and hugged me. "Forever."

Then we continued eating lunch, and walked back to the classroom, racing each other.

After a long day, we met up at the front door, and Annabeth bent down to get something from her backpack.

"Here," she said. "It's a present."

I opened it and it was a small bracelet, it wasn't much but it meant a lot.

"Thanks, see you tomorrow."

"Yeah." She hesitated before answering. She walked away, and turned around and waved back. She climbed inside a car, where she shut the door, and pressed her face on the window. It almost felt like she was acting as if she was going on a trip. I looked at her goofy faces on the window, until the car was far away. But as I saw it fade away, it seemed as if a tear was rolling down her cheek.

A/N: So this was like a small prologue, I don't know yet if I'm going to do some Annabeth POV's, but comment and let me know if you want some Annabeth POV's around there. Hope you guys enjoyed, and remember to R&R!
-percalangelo13