Hey sorry for the hiatus, life got in the way.

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WARNING: This story contains drug and Alcohol abuse as well as other topics which some people might find offensive.

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He has handed her a little box wrapped in the finance section of the newspaper. She looks over it with a smile. "You shouldn't have gotten me anything." She grumbles. He smiles sheepishly in response.

"It's our anniversary."

"And your birthday. That's more important." she taps his arm and despite her reservations she finds herself increasingly curious about the boxes contents.

"Whatever wise girl, just open the damn box."

She doesn't need to be told twice and rips open the newspaper wrapping and opens the box. She smiles at the contents and looks back up at Percy. "You're such a dork."

Percy smiles to himself and kisses her on the lips.

"Yeah but I'm your dork."

He is still smiling as he places the watch around her wrist.

"Finals, right?" Reyna sighs pulling her chair out beside Annabeth's. Currently they are in first period, math with Mrs Dodds.

"Ugh don't get me started." Will whines from behind Reyna, the girl smiles and passes Will a piece of gum before lobbing a piece at Annabeth, she takes it great fully and smiles back a thank you.

"Study group after school?" Piper asks taking a seat directly in front of Annabeth. "I'm so screwed with this final and Jason is absolutely no help with my study."

"I'm in." Reyna and Will both confirm.

"Sweet." Piper turns from the two and looks back at Annabeth with a smile. "What about you?"

However Annabeth isn't in the room with them, her mind has once again wandered and she feels herself staring at the bin in her bathroom at home, the stick somehow still in there the tiny blue tick lighting up like an LED, calling her out on her stupidity. But no, because Thalia took care of the stick and it's no longer there, it's in some other bin between her house and Thalia's.

"Grey eyes you in there?" Will asks, the sound of a chair is heard scraping against linoleum floors. A hand waves in her face shocked Annabeth leans back in her chair almost tipping over.

"Woah!" She cries shaking her head she looks down into her lap and frowns before looking back up at her group with a faux smile. The three of them stare back at her in concern. "Yeah sure, sorry was up late all night last night studying." She replies faking a yawn.

"You are making the rest of us look bad." Reyna smiles back turning around in her seat.

Mrs Dodds has entered the room and is placing her stack of books onto the table, behind her a few last minute stragglers run in and take their seats before she shuts the doors.

"Finals." Mrs Dodds says moving back to stand in front of her desk. "A time where pressure is at an all-time high and grades are at an all-time low." She gives herself a slight chuckle

"Greeaaat confidence boost." Piper sighs.

Annabeth just can't wait for this class to be over for the year. Maybe next year she will have a nicer maths teacher, but at the moment she doesn't consider herself to be so lucky.

By third period Annabeth is just about ready to call the quits and asks to be excused from her design class, her teacher gives her a worried smile and tells her to take her time. Gratefully Annabeth takes the opportunity as a slight victory in the shit storm that is currently her life and slowly begins to make her way towards the stadium bleachers.

Her nose is greeted by the wafts of smoke and the sound of Green Day.

"Hey!" Luke's head rests in Thalia's lap as the two lounge about under the bleachers.

"Put it out Luke." Thalia says suddenly taking one last drag from her cigarette before butting it on her statistics text book. Luke frowns and looks between Thalia and Annabeth in confusion.

"It's alright you don't have too." Annabeth tries taking a step towards the two ducking underneath the stands.

Luke frowns again and looks towards Thalia who raises her brow at her boyfriend. "What's going on?" He questions butting the cigarette before flicking it away.

"Annabeth's pregnant." Thalia mumbles flicking through her text book.

Annabeth chokes on air and looks as her friend in shock; Luke simply laughs and flicks Thalia's leg before laying his head back down in her lap.

"Funny. As if Annabeth would be." He looks towards the blonde and smiles kindly patting the ground beside him. "Goody two shoes Annabeth always looks twice before crossing the street." Thalia grins and casts a glance towards the blonde girl.

"Wow, you know me so well." Annabeth sighs rolling her eyes and taking a seat, she thinks about her design class briefly but shrugs her shoulders.

"Know you well enough to know this is the first time you have ditched a class since elementary school." Luke answers pulling out his phone. He looks up at her with a sly smile. "What did our influence rub off onto you?"

"You're kidding right?" Thalia says dropping her book onto the grass beside her. "Annabeth here is a natural badass, touching freshly painted walls and talking in the library." Luke and Thalia snort to themselves and suddenly Annabeth feels like maybe this was all a dream and she will wake up to Mathew and Bobby jumping on her bed demanding she take them to see a movie.

"Wanna chill at Half-Blood tonight?" Luke asks sitting up, he looks at the two girls and brushes his hands slipping his phone into his jacket pocket. "Heard Mr D has a band lined up for tonight."

"I'm in." Thalia answers as he bends down to kiss her cheek, the two smile at each other for a few moments and Annabeth feels like maybe she is intruding on a moment, it was after all moments like that that she enjoyed about being in a relationship. She blinks quickly.

"Sorry, I promised Reyna I would study with her." She shrugs her shoulders. "Maybe next time."

Luke shrugs his shoulders and looks back at Thalia. "Date or group?"

Thalia frowns slightly. "Group." She says after a moment. "Might as well have one last get together before graduation."

"You say that like we are graduating tomorrow." Luke scoffs picking up his backpack.

Thalia shrugs. "May as well be." She sighs rolling her head and looking at Annabeth with a smile. "Gods when did we get so old."

Annabeth rolls her eyes and holds her tongue. A hand subconsciously rubs her abdomen right around where she assumes her womb would be.

"See ya." Luke calls taking a step out from under the bleachers, the two girls' wave back at him but Luke is too far gone to see them.

"You shouldn't have said that." Annabeth say biting her lip.

"Say what?" Thalia questions shifting her body into a more comfortable position. "That you're pregnant?"

Annabeth gives her friend a weary look, one that can usually make even the bravest man wither at the sight of. But Thalia, the girl who could probably give Medusa a run for her money, stands- or rather sits firm at the sight of it.

"Relax Chase, Luke doesn't even suspect it. You saw him; he thought it was a joke." She smiles to herself and shakes her head; Annabeth can tell she is thinking of Luke.

"That's not the point." Annabeth grunts looking down at her wrist.

"Then what is the point?" Thalia asks her voice is steely like she is trying to hold back venom.

Annabeth blinks and rubs her wrist.

"Why are you wearing that thing anyway?" The Goth scoffs shaking her head. Annabeth looks down at the cheap Disney watch with a frown. "You haven't worn that thing in years."

Annabeth blinks sharply and looks out towards the school building her face feels as if it is boiling. She could be in design class right now finishing off her final project, instead she is out here with her best friend trying to act calm and normal, like she has always skipped out on a class. And she isn't expecting a surprise bundle of 'joy' within the next 7-8months.

"I don't know." Annabeth shrugs. "Maybe I just wanted to feel like a kid again."

She can tell from the way Thalia looks at her she knows that the older girl isn't buying it.

"I should probably head back." Annabeth mutters to herself, she takes a deep breath and stands with a stretch. "Wouldn't want to screw up my life." Annabeth smiles to herself and take a quick look at Thalia who frowns in response.

"You do know that this kid will probably be one of the best things to happen to you right?"

Annabeth doesn't answer; instead she heads back towards the school.

Thalia frowns and pulls out another cigarette.

Annabeth is furious. Absolutely furious, how dare Mrs Green not give her a detention. Not that she really wanted a detention anyway, it's just the teacher did not even care that Annabeth was late to class, or that she came back smelling faintly of smoke.

All she got was a smile before she headed back to her desk and sat there for approximately 30 seconds before the sixth period bell rang.

Stalking towards her next class Annabeth decides to take vengeance on her teacher by not showing up to tomorrow's class. She smiles to herself ignoring the slight 'Bing' coming from her phone, a Facebook notification she assumes.

"Chase!" A voice calls from behind her, Annabeth stops and about turns coming face to face with one Jason Grace. "Wait up." He says jogging towards her.

He reaches her and smiles brightly at her, Annabeth almost goes blind from the glare emitting from his pearly whites.

"Heard you were stealing my study buddy." Jason says bumping Annabeth's shoulder.

Annabeth smiles to herself. "Yeah sorry about that, but you can have her after," Annabeth frowns lightly and taps her lip. "Although after I'm through with her she may know more than even you Grace."

Jason feigns a hurt look and clutches his chest. "Ouch that one hurt."

Annabeth smiles to herself vindictively. "Good. Hey have you finished your part of the paper?" They are getting closer and closer to their class and Annabeth doesn't feel the need to ditch yet another class, something she is a little thankful for.

Jason nods his head. "Yeah, finished it during my study period, why?"

Annabeth shrugs. "I just wanted to go over it, you know make it perfect."

Jason snorts. "You need to relax a little, you know unwind. Be a teenager. Spend all your money on useless things, stay up all night, go on dates, hang out with friends, play spin the bottle, pillow fights and uh I don't know kiss loads of boys."

She gives him a weary look. "Maybe you should take your own advice?"

Jason pulls a face and shrugs. "Your right I should kiss loads of boys, Piper would probably love that."

Annabeth rolls her eyes and takes her seat; Jason sits beside her and pulls out a plastic sleeve from his folder handing it to his friend. Annabeth takes it with a smile and looks over his paper ready to go over it and fix some of his mistakes as well as rewrite her half.

"Seriously though, come to the park tomorrow."

Annabeth looks up at him. "Won't I ruin your date?"

Jason chuckles to himself and shakes his head. "It's not a date; a few of us are just going to the park for a picnic."

"Frank getting desperate and running out of ways to spend time with Hazel?" Annabeth suggests placing the plastic sheet inside her binder.

"Yeah, something like that. Percy just wants them to kiss and be done with it already." Annabeth stiffens slightly at the name, her hand moving towards the watch on her wrist she rubs it slightly. "Hopefully they will get together soon though. I feel like Leo might make a move otherwise."

That catches Annabeth's attention. "Leo likes Hazel?"

Jason shakes his head. "Nah I just think he's getting desperate, I think Piper is going to call the quits and try to set him up soon."

Annabeth smirks and pulls out a pen. "What she didn't learn from last year's set up with Leo."

Jason shakes his head with a fond smile. "I don't think Lacy has recovered yet. She did last longer than I thought she would though."

"I'm still shocked she said yes."

"So was Leo."

Annabeth snorts to herself and thinks of Leo, they had been physics partners last year, a class that Annabeth had taken purely for how it looked on her high school transcript. It had turned out to be disastrous, she had spent many sleepless nights going over her work books trying to figure just what the hell was up with Schrödinger's cat and why it was so vital to physics. Leo strangely seemed to understand physics perfectly and was completing senior level questions by the end of their first semester.

"So you're coming right?" Jason asks quickly Mr Barkley has just stumbled into the room a stack of books balanced perfectly on his arm as he leans over his desk.

She bites her lip and looks back at Jason with a frown; a hand touches the watch on her wrist. "Yeah, why not."

"I can't keep doing this." Annabeth sighs; they are sitting down drinking their coffees at one of Percy's favourite coffee stores.

Percy frowns and runs a hand through his hand. "We are doing fine." He grumbles, she can tell he is getting frustrated, she knows him better than anyone else, just like he knows her more than anyone else. "I don't know what you're talking about."

But he does, he is failing two of his classes because he is spending all his free time with her and she feels too guilty. "A break that's all we need."

He looks like he is going to cry now, but he doesn't instead he clenches his jaw and leans back in his chair.

"After graduation, I promise you. NYU, you and me together."

He doesn't reply, instead he simply stares at the cheap $10 Little Mermaid watch sitting perfectly on her wrist.

I really hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I am working on all my other stories and I have a few things that will be coming up soon.