Valentine's Day

It was no secret that 7 year old Percy Jackson had a huge crush on Annabeth Chase. Everyone in the entire first grade knew it, Percy got made fun of about it to no end. Annabeth had the teasing almost twice as bad, and she hated him for it. He wouldn't outright flirt, but he would always get caught staring at her and he would give her anything she needed may it be crayons, sunscreen, or even the shirt off his back (but that was another story).

Then Valentines Day rolled around and he knew he had to finally confront her about it, he had played chicken far too long. He spent a whole night making a card for her and he had used everything known to boy on it; he used glitter, assorted colored sharpies, crayons, and dozens of different kinds of construction paper. The finished product was fantastic looking, at least to him it was.

He sat alone in the corner, his only friend, Grover, was sick. He was known as a nerd because noone was willing to get to know him and he was far to shy to talk to anyone by himself. With that being said, he had forced himself to stand up and walk toward the 'popular' group of kids. In it was none other than his not-so-secret crush, Annabeth Chase.

Annabeth saw him walk over and silently hoped he wasn't coming to talk to her. Her hopes were immediately dismissed when he said, "Hey, Annabeth."

She felt bad for the kid, he was actually really nice, she had discovered that first hand. But now that she was finally accepted into the popular kids group, she couldn't be caught dead hanging around Percy Jackson, aka the dorkiest kid in school. He wasn't bad looking, and was probably the only boy at her entire school who didn't have cooties.

She turned toward him slowly, already knowing that this encounter was gonna hurt either one or both of them. "Hi, Percy." she said quietly.

He cleared his throat and looked at his shoes, he was red all the way up to his ears. "Umm, happy Valentine's Day."

He reached into his back pocket and took out a gray card, he embarrasedly handed it to her. She took it numbly as her new 'friends' started giggling. "Thanks."

"Your welcome," he mummbled. "I was just, uh, wondering if, uh, you wanted to, umm, you know-"

"Spit it out, dipwad." Samantha said.

She was probably the most snobbiest kid in class, Annabeth secretly hated her but would never show it. Everyone in her group of friends laughed, she laughed along with them, although she didn't mean it.

"Yeah, Seaweed Brain, spit it out." she said, matching Samantha's coldness perfectly.

He looked at her with hurt filled eyes, he scratched the back of his head. "Do you want to maybe come over tomorrow?" he finally stuttered.

"Of course she doesn't!" Samantha said before Annabeth could respond. "Right, Annie?"

She hated it when people abbreviated her name, Percy was the only one who would say the whole thing, she liked that. "Right." she said. "You'd have to kill me first and chop up the pieces. Otherwise there would be no way."

"Oh, okay." Percy said in a small voice.

Annabeth felt absolutely horrible about it as she laughed along with her friends. Percy turned to walk away but she grabbed his hand, it was all sweaty and hot. "Meet me in the back after school." she whispered in his ear.

Hope flashed in his eyes and he noded eagerly, he walked off to the teacher and asked if he could go to the bathroom.

"What was that about?" Stephanie, one of her other friends, asked.

"Nothing."

The rest of the school day passed quickly for Annabeth, but slowly for Percy. He had to survive the torment of being made fun of for the whole day. But he couldn't get Annabeth's words out of his head, "Meet me in the back after school". They echoed over and over in his head, but it was a good echo.

Finally, the bell rang, signaling the end of school. Percy grabbed all his stuff quickly and all but ran out the door. He had to wait in eager anticipation for five whole minutes before Annabeth showed up.

When she did, he felt the butteflys stir in his stomach and he had to sit down to calm his nerves. She confidently sat down next to him and looked up at the sky. Her young face was quite beautiful as the sunshine rained down upon it. She turned to look at him then smiled, her smile caused a chain reaction and he found himself smiling too.

"I love the valentine you made me," she said. "It was very sweet."

He blushed. "Thanks. I spent two hours on it."

Annabeth was stunned, she couldn't believe that he spent that long on a piece of paper. "I know you like me," she blurted out.

"NO! I don't like you," he said in a rush.

"So you wouldn't care if I did this."

She leaned closer to him and kissed him on the cheek. His eyes were wide and he could only stare at her in amazment.

"Umm, no?"

"What if I did this," she whispered.

Then she kissed his lips for just a second. "Okay, I like you." he admitted.

She was slient for a second. "I like you too."

"Annabeth?" he asked. She turned to him. "Do you want to come over tomorrow."

She smiled. "I'd love to."

"Cool. And, uh, thanks for the kiss."

"Happy Valentine's Day, Percy."

"Happy Valentine's Day."

I know the characters are very OOC but I wanted to make it cute. Review. I might make this more then a one shot. Maybe. I was also thinking about making a Valentine's Day outtake with the shirt scene. Tell me if you want me to do either of them. REVIEW!!