Hello, the reviews came slow but boy did they come! 350! Thank you! Luv u guys! Next chap! Chapter 10! Double digits! Thankyou for the pranks, btw! Sorry for the 16 day wait. My Grams is coming this week and I had to clean the house plus I had to do stuff for school. Sorry!

I watched Sea of Monsters the day it came out and… IT WAS SO COOL. Ok, I watched the first movie before reading the books so I always liked the movie and I just separate them from the books. They ARE good movies without the books. SoM basically had a bunch of scenes from all 5 books in a completely messed up order and it's worth watching. If you want to discuss more send me a PM and I'll get back to u.

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Chapter 10: Completely Fair

For some reason, I felt utterly nervous as I walked into school. I didn't know if it was because Thalia and Nico were now in on my secret, if it was because Aphrodite had promised to stay in touch, or if it was because I would be seeing Annabeth today.

The threat that Aphrodite made and her comment on Annabeth's eyes kept me up nearly all night.

I hate Mondays! Why can't school start on Tuesday or something? That'd be nice.

'Drop dead! Beautiful! Drop dead! Beautiful! Drop dead!' Britney Spears?

'The Teen Choice Awards were awesome, Dude! Did you see them?' "The what?" My point exactly.

Do you think they'll meet me at the closet for a threesome? Erase! Erase! TMI! Too much information!

Where the hell is that nerd!? I need my homework now, not next month! Why? Too stupid do it yourself? Jerk.

Stupid mom. Made me wear this, this, this… catastrophe! Yay, I used my vocab words. Trying not to LOL cause that sweater looks hilarious.

Ow! Stop. Stop. Pain. Please. Stop. 'Stop! Please!'

I almost hunched over in pain. I felt it too. Immediately, I looked around for Rachel or Thalia or Nico. Instead, I spotted Annabeth.

And because the fates hate me she spotted me.

Her eyes widened in worry as she closed her locker and hurried over.

Oh my god! He looks pale. He isn't going to faint again is he? No, but if the other guy passes out I'm going to be in his world of pain.

"Percy! Are you ok?"

I looked at the worried Annabeth as my scowl of pain turned into an annoyed expression.

"Sorry, standard question." She said as soon as she understood.

"It's fine." Think Percy, how can you get her out of here? "Just, um, could you get Thalia or Nico over here?"

"You sure? If you want I can take you to the nu–"

Ow! Crack! There goes my rib.'Aah!'

"No," the sound of my firm, in pain voice scared me, "Get Thalia."

Annabeth looked taken aback by the authority and pain in my voice. Nobody around us even noticed my position.

"Oh, ok. Sorry." Annabeth was gone before I could say sorry for raising my voice. Somewhere in the back of my head I heard Aphrodite laughing. I didn't know if it was my imagination or if it was true.

Ignoring that for now, I looked to where Annabeth had disappeared in the crowd.

"Dude! Are you ok?" Thank the gods for Nico.

"Nico! In the school yard, take Beckendorf." I panted out. The invisible pain in my chest increasing.

Nico understood immediately, we'd had this problem a couple times before. My friend scrambled towards Beckendorf locker so fast a paper fell out of his book bag.

I looked at it; it was orange and had big cursive letters advertising something. With my dyslexia it looked like: lAl ollHwo vEe acDne! oiJn su entx rdFayi rfo a oposkactlaru ightn! After looking at it a bit, I finally understood. All Hallow's Eve Dance! Join us next Friday for a spooktacular night! I would've laughed at the horrible pun if it weren't for the next invisible kick to my stomach.

I gritted my teeth and sat down, cursing and praying for Beckendorf to get there fast.

"Percy! Percy! What's wrong? Is it … you know?" Thalia ran towards me, taking Annabeth's previous position. One hand on my knee while she knelt. One of her hands reached up to put my chin up.

"Yeah," my voice was strained, "Nico's already on it. Just got to wait."

Annabeth popped out of nowhere as soon as I said that.

What does he mean? Can someone please tell me what is going on?

Unfortunately, Annabeth thought that out loud.

Thalia turned to face her after seeing my clueless look.

"Look Annabeth, Percy has some problems that are kinda of personal. He has sudden stomach pains and you could say he's bipolar. Now, keep that to yourself, ok?" Thalia told Annabeth so confidently I knew that Annabeth believed her.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't know. Is there anything I can do?" She asked helplessly.

Thalia was about to say no when I interrupted her. "Actually, an icepack and some Advil would be great right now."

"Ok, thanks. I'll see what I can do. Hope you're okay." Annabeth looked me in the eye and I felt her sympathy. I just nodded before an invisible punch to my nose made me cringe.

As soon as Annabeth left Thalia cornered me.

"You have to block it out Percy. Come on, I know you can. You've done it before."

"Sorry, I was jus' caught off… guard." I told her.

"Don't apologize, Kelp Head, concentrate." She insisted like a caring over sister.

And I did. After what seemed like three more kicks to my stomach and a punch to my nose it stopped. I blocked whichever unlucky person it was and tried to think of Beck.

Oh, crap! di Angelo owes me big time. Thanks Beckendorf.

Line break – Ugh, I thought I'd get away from the drama, gods.

Do you think Katie likes me? I think she does. No. she probably doesn't. She's too pretty. It's obvious the two of you like each other, Travis.

If Leo cracks another inappropriate joke about Jason and I, so help me...Omg, what did Leo say?

I am 3 seconds away from sticking my foot up Connor's ass if he makes another joke about Chris and I. Chill your buns Clarisse, Connor and Leo are hilarious.

Why can't people just be quiet! I. Am. Trying. To. Write. Here. It's a high school cafeteria, Vicky, what do you expect?

My mom kicked me out. Oh god. What am I going to do? Where am I going to live? Oh god, kill me now. I don't think I could arrange that…

I'm so broke. What am I going to do? Win the lottery?

I just don't get it! He would've told me if he has bipolar, right? I trust him. I'll go to the library afterschool and look it up. That way, I can help him with it. But what was with Thalia? It was like…it wasn't even her. She was like an older sister and totally not Thalia. What have I gotten myself into?

I was miserable. Annabeth was avoiding me and sitting to herself quietly, pretending to read a book while her head worked a million miles per hour. Thalia tried giving me a pep talk afterwards but it didn't really work. Now we were at lunch and I was sitting between Chris and Rachel.

"Hey, has anyone seen Beckendorf?" Selena asked, coming up behind me and Rachel.

Where is my little inventor? Little inventor, seriously?

"I heard he got in a fight," Piper piped in. Somewhat true.

"I heard he stopped a fight," Leo corrected.

Oh no.

"I heard Nico got taken to the hospital," Frank added.

"Am I really that invisible? I'm right here, Frank." Nico grumbled as many people sent surprised glances his way.

"No, that was some dude named Bob McFlees. Poor 9th grader, too," Hazel righted for her poor half-brother.

"Wrong, guys. He was sent home for stopping the fight, Selena." Thalia told Selena apologetically.

"Oh. Do you think he got hurt?" Selena asked worriedly.

"I think he only got a bloody nose." Reyna offered.

"You don't think his nose is broken, do you?" Selena worried.

I can't kiss him if his nose is broken. That would be quite the scandal.

"No, we would have heard." Annabeth spoke up.

"I did hear." Everyone turned to Travis, "But it was probably false. Hehe."

"Yeah. Sometimes I worry about how fast rumors travel in this school, don't you Red?" I helped Travis out of his awkward moment.

"Yeah. Definitely a problem." And that was the end of my part of the conversation. Annabeth chatted quietly to Thalia.

'Hey, Thalia? Are Rachel and Percy, like, an item? Or do they have a history or something?' I could see Annabeth cheek's become red from here.

'Curious, aren't we? But yeah, they were supposedly together most of Junior high. Percy told me afterwards that they'd only been best friends and that it was just rumors. But then she invited him to come on vacation with her and her parents. When they came back I noticed they were holding hands. Selena interrogated them at lunch but they denied. The next week Percy avoided Rachel like the plague. They made up that same month but I don't think they were never really together.' Thank you Thalia for spilling my romantic history to Annabeth like fish guts. I'm hurt.

Trying to avoid the glances Annabeth was now sending me, I excused myself and left the cafeteria.

"I'll see you later, guys."

As I made my way to the school yard, I realized I had a shadow. I stopped at the school doors.

"I know you're there Annabeth. C'mon, I've got something to show you." I stated loudly while she sputtered for something to say.

Oh, crap. Great. Now, he probably thinks I'm some sort of stalker girl. Not exactly, but you have potential.

"How…Ok… I'm sorry." Annabeth replied quietly as she followed me outside.

"It's fine. You're not the first to wonder what I do in my free time. Nico and Thalia practically stalked me until they knew all my secrets." I replied jokingly, not realizing my mistake.

"Do I know all your secrets?" Annabeth blurted out and I turned back towards her in a blink of an eye.

What type of question is that? Really, Annabeth! Is his gorgeousness making you stupid or something, idiot. Stupid ADHD. I looked at Annabeth questioningly. I apparently didn't know all of her secrets either.

Nonetheless, my eyes became guarded at the question and I sent her a cold glance. "What type of question is that?"

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. I just blurted it out. Sorry." Annabeth quickly amended.

"It's fine…I'm just very closed off about myself, aren't I?" I turned away from Annabeth.

Yes, yes you are.

"It's natural."

"Well, how bout this. I'll tell you something about myself and you let me do you a favor?" I didn't know where I was going with this. I just had this urge to do something for Annabeth.

"How is that fair?" Annabeth asked as I led her into a small plaza across from the school.

"It's not, but too bad. Ask me something and I promise I'll answer it truthfully as long as I can." I said, the back of my mind telling me this was a bad idea.

"You know what I think, Percy?" My nervousness of that sentence made me ignore the question mark. "I think, you are a good person and I don't want to know any of your business, even if it gets me a favor." Annabeth finished jokily while I mentally sighed in relief.

"No, I insist. One question for one favor. Completely fair." I argued and she smiled.

Yeah. Fair…

"Fine! What do you suggest I ask?" Annabeth gave in, curiously. I don't think she could have put up much of a fight against her own curiosity.

"I suggest you ask about my parents." I told her.

"Ok. I can work with that but you're giving me the full story, no cheats." She looked at me expectantly

"Promise." I crossed my heart and gave her an innocent expression.

"Ok, I notice you don't live with them. Did they pass away?" Annabeth asked.

"Yes."

"How?"

"My mom died in a fire when I was 7 along with my step dad. My other step dad was caught for sexual abuse and he died in prison. My dad died before I was born." True, but it was seventeen not seven.

"And you're not in foster care, why?" I knew this was coming up.

"Rich Greek friend." I left it at that as her calculating stare turned my way.

"Oo-kay. Any siblings?"

"No."

"What were your parent's names?"

"Sally Jackson, Paul Blofis, Gabe Ugliano, and Don Posei."(genius)

"How did your dad die?"

My dad had actually been a baby that survived on the Titanic. He met my mom one summer in 1945. I was born the next year. He died in when his own ship hit an iceberg in the Atlantic.

"Died at sea."

"Oh. Do you look like him?"

I looked at her cheekily, "I'm cuter and younger if that's what you're asking."

"Shut up." Strawberry Annabeth replied.

"Next?"

"What did your parents do?"

"My mom wanted to be a writer; they didn't let her though because she was a woman. Paul was a teacher. Gabe was an asshole, and Don was a fisherman." And a whore.

"What do you mean they didn't let her? It's the twentieth century for crying out loud." Annabeth protested angrily.

Oops. "Um–"

I was interrupted by the bell ringing.

Oh shit. Double shit.

"Oh crap." Annabeth got up hastily from her seat on the plaza bench.

"Double crap. But I still owe you a favor. That was way more than one question!" I smiled at the doubled thoughts.

"And if you didn't answer in single word answers it would've been less. Come on, we'll be late."

And we ran back to the school together, Annabeth behind me.

That has got to be the cutest ass in the history of behinds.

I was very thankful that I was in front of her at the moment. I couldn't help but say, "No looking at my ass, Annabeth!"

I don't know which of our cheeks were redder.

Awww! Cute Percabeth. I'm sorry for the wait. I got writer's block and DA is very distracting. I don't really like this chapter. Next week I am starting school so the reviews are what are keeping these chapters coming. I'll admit…I'm hoping for 300 next update, but no pressure. I'll update with 275. ;) Tomorrow my grandmother is visiting for a month from Argentina so I will probably be really busy. Hopefully this isn't the only chapter I write in August. Tell me what you think and I will try to update as fast as possible.

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Love- Vickydd!