Please forgive if I make any errors, this is my first ever fanfic!

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or HoO

Chapter 1: Struck of Connection

Percy - Sunday Afternoon

I was in the living room playing Black Ops II on the Xbox with my friends, we were chatting and laughing to each other. Let me introduce myself, I'm Percy Jackson, 17 years old and live with my mom. Her name was Sally Jackson, she's currently a chief and is married to a bum man. I seriously hate the guy, he does nothing for the family and treats me and my mom like shit. Anyway, I go to this prestigious school called Goode High University, it's going to be made into a boarding school next year and high potential students are only accepted into the school. I'm lucky that my standards in sports are high otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the school. I was talking to my friends, Jason, Nico and Leo; Grover didn't like using technology because it hurt the environment so that's why he doesn't own an Xbox.

"Guys, did you hear? My mom's friend, what was his name again...Paul...Mr Blofis upgraded our sports equipment!"

"Seriously? That's awesome! Now I can finally become a professional soccer player!" Nico said on the other line.

"Yeah! I can be a basketball player pro!" Jason screamed on another line.

"Why you telling me this? It has nothing to do with repair or technology unless you're running up and down the track fixing a robot." Leo said on the fourth line.

We laughed at Leo for what he said, he had bad-terrible jokes but this was quite funny.

"You and your jokes Leo!" Jason said still laughing.

Just then, I could hear my mom coming in the house. "Sorry guys! Moms home, I'll see ya tomorrow at school!"

The others said goodbye and I quickly turned off the Xbox then walked to my mom who just closed the front door behind her. I stopped when I saw my mom with Gabe, the person I hate in the entire world. Gabe doesn't really live with me and my mom, Gabe just comes over for dinner and leaves to work.

"Great, my worthless step dad is here." I said under my breath.

Luckily, mother or Gabe didn't hear.

"Percy, can you set out the table please?" mother said.

"Yeah boy! Do it!"

"Yes mom."

I glared at Gabe then walked to the dining room setting out the plates and tableware.

Oh gods, why does Smelly Gabe have to be here? Why did mom have to marry such a rude guy, she's already successful enough. She could marry someone else, someone who actually cares about her and not use her! Ugh, she'll never divorce the stinky breathed guy.

Gabe stepped into the room.

"What do you want Gabe?"

"I want you out of this house."

"What? You can't do that!"

"Yes I can. I'm your father, you listen to me and I want you to get outta here."

"You're not my REAL father! You can't kick me out! What will my mom say?"

"Oh Sally will listen to what I say and obey it. She's pathetic like that, now obey me and get out!"

I slammed my hands on the table. "You're not the boss of me! I ain't leaving this house even if you forced me out!"

I started shouting with Gabe raising his voice even louder. My mom ran in asking what the commotion was all about. Me and Gabe stopped shouting looking away from each other.

"It's nothing mom."

"Yeah Sally, don't worry." Gabe pulled Sally close to him and slapped her butt. "Now go and get me my beer."

Gabe grinned showing his ugly yellow teeth. Sally nodded and walked into the kitchen, Gabe turned to me and smirked. I showed him a disgusted face then walk up to my bedroom. That night, I didn't eat, didn't sleep and didn't even talk to my mother. Eventually I went sleep but that was around one in the morning.

Monday Morning

The alarm on my drawer rung causing me to wake up. I sat up, yawned and stretched, then I stood up and walked to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I then got changed into my white V neck shirt, blue jeans and black converses. There was a slight knock on my door.

"Percy, your breakfast is downstairs."

"Okay, thanks mom!" I shouted out.

I grabbed my bag and ran downstairs to the dining room to see blue waffles. I was now drooling, but snapped out wiping the drools and walked to my chair, I smiled at my mom then started munching down my food.

"Percy. What happened yesterday?"

I suddenly froze, putting down the waffle and turning to my mom.

"I have to be honest with you mom, I hate Gabe."

My mom frowned then sat down on a chair next to me. "Yes I know, I can tell from the way you look at him but I married him so we can have a normal family."

I stood up and started shouting. "Normal family? It was normal before you married that jerk! I don't want him anywhere near me or you mom!"

"Honey, please don't yell. I can't do anything right now, he won't sign the divorce papers."

"Then I can't live with this family."

I finished off my waffles then wiped my mouth with a napkin. "Text me whenever Gabe comes over."

My mother nodded then I left taking my car keys. I walked out the door and jumped in my blue Camaro. Driving to school, I past a couple of people, the one that fascinated me was a girl with blonde curls, I couldn't quite see her since she covered her face with her books. When I got to school, I could see all the girl's gazes were on me, it was quite uncomfortable but I didn't let it show. I bumped into my friends after I parked my car.

"Hey Perce!" Grover shouted and waved.

"Yo G-man!"

Me and Grover fist pumped each other.

"Oi Percy, Mr Blofis asked you to go to the principal's office." Nico said holding a text book on his shoulder with his hand.

"Huh? What did I do wrong?" I was confused and Nico shrugged.

"Just go, might be something good." Grover said.

I sighed then walked into the principal's office.

"Look, whatever you think I did, I didn't do it!" I said as I walked inside.

"Ah Percy Jackson! You're not in trouble don't worry. As you're the class president of Class S, can you please show Miss Chase around school please?" The principal said which made me sigh in relief.

"Phew! I thought I was in trouble!"

"Don't be happy just yet my boy, you still have the whole day to mess things up." The principal grinned.

"Sir, you're supposed to make me not get in trouble."

"How can I when you never listen?"

I simply ignored him, then looked at the blonde girl, staring at her, she somehow had the same lovely blonde curls like the girl I passed when I drove to school. She looked the same age as me, she was shorter than me and had long hair which was tied up in a ponytail.

"Welcome to Percy Jackson's School Tour!" I shouted with expression and stretching my arms wide. The girl just rolled her eyes then we walked out the office. I showed her around the school, the cafeteria, swimming pool, GYM, Library, Science block, Maths block, English block, Music block, Art block...

"So, I didn't catch your name. You might now my name already, I'm Percy Jackson." I said giving her a warming smile.

"Annabeth Chase." Was all she said. There was an awkward silence.

"What's the time?" Annabeth said which made me look at my watch.

"It's...Oh crap! We're gonna be late for homeroom!" I grabbed Annabeth's hand then ran to our homeroom. We made it in time as the bell rung.

"Phew! I thought I'd be late for class again!" I said trying to catch his breath.

"What am I supposed to do?" Annabeth stood there still scared.

"Oh right...Just sit anywhere for now."

"Um...I don't want to sit with people I don't know, it's scary..."

I stood straight and examined the room to see a girl with black and short hair.

"Thals! Come here!"

Thalia looked in my direction, she wasn't bothered to get up but then she saw a blonde girl standing next to me so she was curious.

"Percy, I hope she's not your girlfriend..."

"No, this is Annabeth, she just transferred in today." I looked pissed because I knew that Thalia was teasing me.

"Oh..." Thalia turned to a very shy Annabeth. "Hi, my name is Thalia Grace. Welcome to Goode High."

Annabeth looked up at her. "Hello..." Was all she said.

"Anyway Thals, can she sit next to you for homeroom?"

"Sure, go to your seat Kelp head."

I rolled his eyes at Thalia. "Shut up Pinecone face."

"Come on Annabeth, let's get to our seats." Annabeth nodded and followed Thalia to the seats in the middle on the middle row.

Then a man in a wheelchair came into the class.

"Good morning students." The man said.

"Morning Sir!"

"How ya do!"

"What's up?"

"Good morning Sir!"

"Yo!"

Are what the students said.

"Today we have a new student who came from San Francisco here." The teacher examined the room and spotted Annabeth. He pointed to her to come up.

"Come and introduce yourself to the class my dear."

Annabeth nodded and walked up to the front of the class. "Um...hi...My name is Annabeth Chase."

I noticed how all the boys were drooling over her and I snickered. What's wrong with these people, she's just another ordinary girl.

She then walked back to her seat which was next to Thalia.

"Thank you for the introduction Annabeth. My name is Mr Brunnel. Class, be nice to her."

"Yes Sir." Muttered the students.

Homeroom just finished and I was about to head out of the class when my cousins and friends called me.

"Percy! Wait up." Nico said jogging up to me with our friends behind him.

"Oh hey guys, I forgot you were in my homeroom." I putting on an innocent smile, happy to see my friends again.

"Jeez Percy, how could you forget about us? We told you yesterday didn't we?" Leo said pouting.

Then Jason put a hand on my shoulder with a smirk on his face. "Maybe he forgot because the new blonde caught his eyes."

My friends put on massive grins whilst I just stood there looking confused. I let out a sigh once I knew what they were thinking about. "Guys, that's not it. I swore to never date again after what happened with Calypso remember? Plus, she's not my type."

My friends remembered and let the conversation slide. We headed out to of homeroom to get to maths talking about games and sports. I felt a light tap on my shoulder so I turned around. I saw no other than one of my friend's crush, Hazel.

You see Frank, my close friend who I met at Camp Jupiter when I was lost, had a massive crush on Hazel who also went to Camp Jupiter. Frank had a crush on her ever since he laid eyes on her but he was too shy to reveal it or even confess. Last summer, I became quite close with Hazel leading her to tell me she liked Frank as well. She told me not to tell Frank so I decided not to tell Hazel that Frank liked her back since I thought they should tell it to each other. Anyway, Hazel tapped my on the shoulder.

"Hey Hazel. What's the matter?" Leo said as he turned around.

"Oh uh. Can I talk to Percy for a minute?" Hazel looked down.

I simply smiled. "Sure thing." I turned to my friends. "Guys, I'll meet you at maths."

The boys nodded then walked away.

"Need anything Hazel?"

"Um...You know how...You know..." Hazel stared at the floor like it was interesting.

"Oh the Pep Rally?"

Hazel shook her head. "The beach party..."

"What about the beach party?"

"C-Can you take me there?" Hazel looked up at me shy.

"Sure, I'm picking up Frank as well..."

Hazel started blushing. "Well then...See you until then." Hazel said running away.

I turned around and walked to maths, smiling at the thought of my two best friends dating.

First period was boring, well that's what I thought. I hated maths and I was annoyed with the teacher too.

"Okay class, we need to put you into groups of 6 for a teamwork challenge. I'll be picking so that there won't be anyone left out." The whole class groaned at him.

"Be quiet and behave! So can I have Luke, Ethan, Chris, Clarisse, Drew and Reyna as group one please?"

Clarisse and Chris looked at each other than at me and my friends with pain in their eyes. They hated Luke, his foster brother Ethan and Drew more than anything, Reyna was a part of Drew's crew but she was actually the nicest out of the group so I didn't mind her much, I just wished that she shouldn't have gotten involved with Drew. I felt sorry for the two to have to suffer being in that preposterous group.

"Can I have Annabeth, Thalia, Nico, Percy, Jason and Piper as group two please?" I looked astonished.

It was the first time that my teacher actually put me in a good group. I could be with my cousins and friends.

Nico and Jason grinned at me as they were happy too.

"And the last group...Okay, get to your group now." The teacher clapped his hands and everyone started moving around.

Group two approached me because I was the closet to them.

"Percy! Coincidence that we're put in this group right?" Jason exclaimed as he patted my back.

"Uh huh but poor Clarisse and Chris. They have to put up with those cheating bastards."

Jason nodded because he knew the background story between me and Luke. Thalia sat next to me on the table, Annabeth was sitting opposite me. Nico on my right and Jason and Piper on the left of Thalia.

"Okay guys, let's start the work. Don't want to get low grades on maths." Nico said.

Everyone looked at Nico in shock except for Annabeth because she didn't really know who he was.

"Death breath. I'm surprised you actually want to learn!" Thalia said gasping.

"Well, it is the first time Nico ever said it." Piper pointed out.

We laughed at Nico which made him burst.

"Okay guys! I get it! I won't try to force myself into studying!"

I then saw a small glimpse of laughter coming from Annabeth.

"So Annabeth, have you been in New York for long?" Piper said in an angelic voice. It made Jason's heart beat faster than normal.

"I um...I just came here a few days ago...This is my second time coming to New York..."

"When was your first?" Thalia said with interest.

"When I was seven, I went to Camp Half Blood for the summer."

"Really? We went to Camp Half Blood too. How come we haven't seen you?" I said gesturing that he, Thalia, Piper, Jason and Nico went to CHB.

"Oh um...I wasn't able to come back after staying there for two years..."

"...Whoa! I've met you!" Thalia shouted. "You was that blonde girl who always poked her head into books! You had a massive crush on L-...Anyway, I've met you." Thalia turned to me. "She left a few years before you joined camp."

I nodded slightly as I was confused when Thalia nearly spilled out Annabeth's crush.

The first period past with the group getting to know Annabeth, we didn't get any work done until the end. Surprisingly, Annabeth was a quick writer and really intelligent.

Second period, Third period Fourth and then it was lunch. I walked over to an empty table, I put down my tray and sat down.

Jeez it's only lunch and classes are tiring me out, Maths, English, Science, Greek...Next I have PE but this semester we're focusing on swimming! I love swimming, it's my favourite sport! I really want to be an Olympic swimmer when I get older. Right now, I'm just some guy representing our school in mini tournaments. What's worse is that I have a rivalry with a teammate of mine, I hate the guy!

"Is this seat taken cuz?" Nico said sitting down and pulling me out of my thinking.

I shook my head. Then my friends Leo, Grover, Frank, Travis and Connor and Charlie came and sat down.

"Yo Perce, where's Chris and Jason?" Grover said, now chewing on some cabbage.

I shrugged. "Chris is probably getting scold at by Clarisse, and Jason...I think his talking to Piper."

"Oh, did you guys hear about Chris and Clarisse?" Travis said with a smile.

"No? What's about them?" Leo said.

Connor whispered. "Apparently, they like each other...Me and Travis heard Clarisse tell some of her close friends and sisters that she likes him."

"And we know that Chris likes her, I mean it's obvious."

Everyone stared at the Stoll brothers then laughed.

"Stop joking around man! You shouldn't joke with stuff like that. If Clarisse and Chris were to date then she might be your half-sister in law." Nico said with a smudge of grin.

"We're telling the truth!" The Stolls said in unison.

We kept on laughing until a bunch of girls were in front of us.

"Oh Thalia, what's up?" I said still laughing.

Thalia put her tray down on the table, so did Annabeth, Silena, Hazel and Juniper.

"We're sitting here to eat, no arguing about that." Thalia started drinking her coke. "So why are you guys laughing?"

"Oh, Travis and Connor eavesdropped on Clarisse and apparently, she likes our boy Chris." Leo still holding back a laugh.

"Aw that's so cute! I wonder if they'll get together!" Silena cheerfully clapping her hands.

"Babe, you just love putting couples together don't you?" Charlie said now wrapping an arm around Silena's shoulder.

The couple then decided to block the others from their universe and get all lovey dovey. I let out a sigh as I munched down a piece of bread.

"What's the matter Percy...?" Annabeth said with a little concern.

Annabeth became less shy since she's been with Thalia for nearly the whole day. Thalia made a BIG impact on Annabeth, she became more confident in the limited about of time she had with Thalia. You really do change people so much Thalia. But now that I noticed, Annabeth looked so much prettier, I mean before-well a few periods ago, she looked like a messed beauty but I guess Thalia got her girly...ish. I didn't even notice that I was staring at Annabeth until she waved in my face.

"Oh nothing much. What's your next lesson?" I was covering myself from embarrassment by looking down.

"Um...let me check." Annabeth got out her time schedule and looked at it then put it away. "I have PE next."

"Really? What a coincidence. So do me! Jason and Piper is with us as well...Did you become friends with Piper?"

"Uh yes, in health class."

"Health class? I thought you wanted to be an architect." I said trying to think what Health is needed for someone like her.

"I didn't apply for it, my stupid step mom applied without telling me." The bell rang meaning that it was time for class. I stood up and put my tray away with Annabeth following me.

"Hey Perce! We'll see you History!" Leo shouted.

I nodded at them then picked up my backpack and walked out of the cafeteria almost forgetting Annabeth.

"Percy wait up!" Annabeth running up to me trying to catch her breath.

I turned around. "Oh sorry Annabeth, I nearly forgot you were in my next class."

Annabeth narrowed her eyes as soon as she could breathe properly. "What are you talking about? I told you about it 5 minutes ago."

I shrugged then carried on walking, thinking about what we'll do in swimming. I was too caught up in my thoughts that I bumped into someone, someone red headed. Immediately, her books dropped to the floor and I knelt down to pick them up.

"Ow! Watch where you're going!" The red head said.

"Oh sorry, Annabeth help me pick up the books." Annabeth sighed as she helped us.

Me and Annabeth gave the books to the girl apologizing. The girl then carefully looked at me and raised her eyebrow, my eyes then widened to recognize who she was.

"Percy Jackson?"

"Holy shit! Rachel Elizabeth Dare! When in Hades did you join here school?"

"Uh last week...It's amazing how we haven't seen each other until now and you still remember my full name!"

I nodded cheerfully then Annabeth coughed awkwardly.

"Oh yeah. Um...Rachel meet Annabeth, she's-"

"That's your new girlfriend? How many have you had? You moved on quite fast." Rachel said interrupting me and shaking Annabeth's hand.

"Um...Hi...I'm not his girlfriend." Annabeth said awkwardly.

"She's not my girlfriend! Why do you and Thalia think that?" I scratched my head. "Well, we got to go to swimming now so bye Rachel."

"Bye Percy. Bye Annabeth. Hope to see you guys soon!" Rachel walked off.

I sighed as I carried on walking, I mean why do people always think that every time I'm with a girl I am suddenly their boyfriend? Annabeth waved bye to Rachel then noticed that I wasn't beside her, she ran to me again.

"Jeez Percy, stop leaving me! You know that I only came today."

"Yeah I know that but you should know where the swimming pool is."

Annabeth didn't talk back knowing it was true. We bumped into the two people who didn't come to lunch.

"Look what we have here?" I crossed my arms quite furiously.

"Perce, my cousin. Hi...Oh um...you must be Annabeth, my sister has been bragging about you all day today."

Annabeth was about to say hi back but I grabbed hold of Jason's shoulders.

"Where have you and Piper been for all of lunch?"

"Oh uh...Well, we were talking." Jason hesitantly said.

I raised a brow at his words but let it pass because Jason and Piper were probably having a little 'Jasper' moment. If you're wondering what 'Jasper' is, it just a shipping name Silena came up with a few months ago, yeah it was that long ago. Kind of hard not to believe the two haven't dated yet.

"Anyway, let's get to swimming before Coach Hedge scold at us." I let go of Jason's shoulder and started walking.

The four got to our lesson a few minutes late and was scowled at by Coach Hedge. My lesson got on really well, except for when Annabeth tried to swim which pretty much failed. Luke wasn't there too, probably because he was smooching off some random girl's face. The time flew by really fast, my whole day at school finished with us walking out the gates of the Academy.

"Hey Annie, how'd you liking the school so far?" Thalia asked.

"Don't call me Annie." She let out a sigh and smiled. "I'm loving the school, there's so much to learn!"

Rachel, who ran up to them smiled with glee. "I'm loving it too! Hey can we go to yours Percy?"

Everyone looked at me with the pleading and begging coming from their eyes. Oh I forgot to mention who was with us, well there was me (obviously), Thalia, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Nico and Rachel. All our other friends had clubs or were busy to walk and talk with us. Anyway, back to the situation. All eyes were on me to make my decision.

I felt a vibration coming from my trouser pocket, I reached into it and took out my phone. It seemed like my mom texted me something.

Mom: Percy, I won't be home tonight, I also checked that Gabe was out of town so can you stay at home alone until tomorrow?

I tried to ignore the begging and complaining my friends were making.

Me: Yeah sure mom.

I let out a sigh and nodded to my friends whilst putting away the phone. "Fine guys but you have to call your parents first, don't want my mom to be shouted at. She won't be home tonight too so we're gonna have to order some take away or someone can cook."

My friends nodded in response and started texting their parents except for one person, Annabeth. She looked quite miserable, she must have family problems but I wasn't brave enough to ask her about it.

"Perce, me and Thals can come." Jason said as he put away his iPhone.

Nico shoved his blackberry in his pocket. "Me too but Bianca's pretty much upset that she wasn't invited."

"Oh, me and Leo can come!" Piper shouted happily.

Jason was curious. "How come you know Leo is coming?"

"Chill down bro, I told you not to be jealous mate, just because me and Piper's moms are close doesn't mean that me and her are dating. I mean, Piper ain't my type, isn't that right Beauty Queen?" Leo smirked.

Piper flinched at Leo's nickname for her, she didn't really like it when people commented on how pretty she was just because of her mother and father. Her mother was a famous stylist and her father was a famous movie star.

Jason nodded slowly and smiled a bit, happy it was a misunderstanding.

"Annabeth, is your dad or mom allowing you to come?" Rachel asked as she leaned on my shoulder which kind of bugged me.

"Uh yeah, let's go." Annabeth said trying to sound normal, everyone was convinced except for me, somehow the way she looked and said it just didn't feel right but how would I know what's going through her mind?

"Jase, do you have your car here?" I said.

"Uh huh, why?" Jason said.

"I drove in my Camaro today so there isn't space for all of you guys to fit in."

"Okay, we'll drive to your place."

"Thanks Jason. Leo, you're coming in my car." I waved at Leo who nodded in response.

Jason called the rest to go to his yellow May Bach whilst me and Leo walked over to the blue Camaro.

Me and Leo arrived at my house first, it wasn't really a house-more like a beach house. I've always loved the place, it reminded me of the stories my mom used to tell about the ocean. It made me feel closer to my dad, my REAL dad who apparently disappeared after I was a few weeks old. The thought of my father sometimes put a pain in my heart because I've always had this feeling that he didn't want me alive, that it was my fault he left my mom or that I ruined his love life by being brought into the world. Leo looked at me with a confused look. Crap, I bet I look sad! I changed my expression into a much happier smile and locked the car doors. Then I walked up to the steps of the house door and opened it. Just then, Jason and the others came and parked up next to my car. I walked inside and turned the lights on. Everyone walked inside and sat on the sofas in the living room but Annabeth just stood near the front door, flabbergasted.

"Um Annabeth, you okay? Sit down." I said worryingly. I dragged Annabeth by her arm to sit down next to Thalia, the girl still looked shocked.

"What's wrong-" Jason didn't finish his sentenced.

"It's beautiful! This house, the architecture! So grand and lovely!" I put on a happy grin at Annabeth's compliment.

"Thanks, you should be telling Leo's dad that, he made it look like this." Thalia spoke as she leaned back on the sofa.

"Oh yeah, dad is a really good builder, him and a close friend worked on this house together." Leo slumped down on a wheelie chair.

"Wow, your family must be rich Percy, where's your mom and dad?" Annabeth asked.

The mention of the word 'dad' hurt so much, I didn't have one, I couldn't have one, I only had a lousy step dad. I didn't realize it but I was starting to look scary, I gritted my teeth which Jason noticed and changed the subject.

"So um Annabeth, you gonna come to Percy's beach party next week? It's after our pep rally." I calmed down and whispered 'Thank you' to him.

"Football pep rally?"

"Yep! Me, Percy and Nico are on the team."

Annabeth looked over at Leo who was spinning around on the chair. "How come Leo isn't doing it?"

"It's because I don't like sports, I'm more into engineering." Annabeth nodded at the response.

"I'll come to the party."

"How about we walk around and show Annabeth the place so she doesn't get lost?" I said as I stood up. Everyone agreed and Rachel screamed with glee.

"Oh my gods! We're gonna go into the art room right? Right?"

"Yeah later!" That made Rachel pout.

I looked around the room to see my friends' faces. "Hey guys, want some beverages?"

They all nodded in response but I was confused, I didn't know what kinds they wanted.

"Um...How am I supposed to know what you guys want?"

"Oh, can I have coke please!" Nico yelled.

"Fanta for me!" Jason shouted.

"Sprite!" Thalia exclaimed.

"Pure water please." Rachel said calmly.

"Lucozade for me Perce." Leo said as he started fixing the wheelie chair he sat on.

That just left to one person, Annabeth. She stood up from here spot and walked over to me nervously.

"I-I'll help with the drinks." I let out a wide smile and showed her to the kitchen.

As we walked into the gigantic white and black kitchen, I grabbed a circular black tray. I walked over to a small fridge which contains a variety of drinks, then I pointed my index finger to a cabinet.

"Can you get cups out for me please?" I called out to her.

"S-Sure."

Annabeth walked over to the cabinet and grabbed a couple of cups then lay it down on the table in the centre of the kitchen. I then walked over to the table carrying the bottles, gave Annabeth the Coke and Sprite bottle and we started pouring in the drinks. I had to admit, being alone with Annabeth in a kitchen was great even though we haven't even talked yet. Gosh I've never been this speechless in my entire life, how come?

"So, is it always like this at home?" Annabeth asked as she lifted her head from the cups.

"No, not really. My mom would come home from work, Jason and Thalia would spend time over here, we'd play on the console and chill out."

Annabeth nodded slowly and went back to filling up the cups. It went silent again and I was getting nervous by the second.

"How about you? I haven't heard much about you, I guess you know a lot about me and I want to know more about you." I asked her, my voiced cracked a little.

"You wouldn't want to know, it's too complicated." I wanted to ask but by the sound of her voice, I thought it was best not to.

Once we finished, we placed the cups on the black tray. I quickly put the bottles away and grabbed the tray. We slowly walked into the living room balancing the tray so that it doesn't drop.

"Here's your drinks ladies and gentlemen!" I said acting like a waiter.

We all sat down and drank our drinks, I drunk the coke and Annabeth had orange juice.

"Oh have I not mentioned that if you're coming to the party then you need to bring dates?" I informed them.

Nico spitted out his drink and so did Leo, Jason just looked at me horrified, Thalia glared at me, Rachel was doing the yippee clap, Piper was sitting there embarrassed and Annabeth looked at me clueless.

"Are you kidding me Perce? You never said anything about this! I bet no one knows about the whole 'bring a date' thing!" Nico shouted aloud.

"Hazel knows, Frank knows, the Stolls, Chris, Grover, Juniper, even Clarisse knows! What fun is it if there's no dates?"

Leo laid back on the wheelie chair. "A date huh? I could go for Khione..."

Piper let out a chuckle. "Her? She's way out of your league. She even kicked you for even touching her yet alone being near to her."

"Um...Reyna? She's pretty hot."

"Nope, she doesn't go for you. She's either aiming for the two big boys over there." Thalia said pointing at me and Jason. We both sighed.

"Shut up with that joke Thals. It was a one-time thing, we forgot about it, it doesn't care anymore." I said with Jason backing me up. Thalia just rolled her eyes.

"Fine but who should I go for then?" Leo nearly shouted.

"How about the girl you said was cute and beautiful?" Jason suggested.

"H-Her? No way is she going to accept it." Leo was slightly blushing now and I wanted to know who he was talking about.

"Let's push the Leo situation out of the way okay?" Piper asked.

I raised a brow and everyone was now staring at her.

"What?" She asked abruptly.

"Who's going to be your date little miss beauty queen?" Leo asked.

"M-Me?"

"Guys stop, can't we just wait and see who the dates are when the party actually comes?" Jason replied.

That set the mood up quickly, everyone stopped asking question and sat there silently. I decided to change the mood by watching a horror movie.

"Why don't we watch the Grudge?" I suggested.

I could already feel people shivering. I then had my eyes aimed directly at Annabeth, she looked like she's never heard of the name before.

"Sure why not? It can't be that bad." She naturally and calmly said.

I was so shocked, Annabeth hasn't watched it before I mean it's rated as one of the scariest horror movies ever to be made! I brushed my thoughts away and put the disk into the DVD player then ran over to the couch Annabeth was sitting on. We were paired up on couches and sofas. Jason and Piper sat at one, me and Annabeth sat at one and Nico, Leo, Thalia and Rachel sat on the massive one. I pressed play on the remote and the movie started, it wasn't really scary when you've watched it millions of times so I wasn't scared when the Grudge popped up but guess who did?

"Ah!" Annabeth screamed out loud.

She grabbed onto my arm tightly and pulled me closer to her. She hid her face in my arm when the Grudge showed, I thought it was kind of cute to see her like that. We sat like this for a long time, with her grabbing my arm and hiding her face. Oh gods was it funny to see her scared. I looked around the room, I could that Jason was actually holding Piper tightly in his arms, they pretty much looked like couples at the movies. The other four was either on their phones, listening to music or sleeping. Really, sleeping during a scary movie isn't a good choice. I went to look back at Annabeth, she was still watching the movie, and the scared look on her face described she wanted to watch more.

Eventually she fell asleep, her head was leaned against my shoulder. I couldn't help but look at how pretty she was when she was asleep-wait a minute, why am I saying this. I couldn't have actually liked this girl? Heck I only met her today but...I feel quite close to her, like we were best friends in another time, we spent all our time together. I don't know why but my heart felt lighter than before, felt much warmer. I hope that what I'm feeling is just a stage in puberty, I don't want to believe what I'm thinking is true, I don't like the 'L' word...It crushed my heart too many times.

I reached to the side of the couch and took a blanket out, I then put it over Annabeth who was sound asleep. I heard snoring coming from my left, Jason and Piper were asleep, and so were the other four. What time was it? I reached out my phone. Oh my gods, it was 11:57 PM. No wonder why everyone was asleep. Then I turned off the TV and sooner or later I fell asleep too with Annabeth leaning on my shoulder.

Note to self:

One of the happiest moments in my life.

The next chapter: The Beach Party

It will be staged in Annabeth's POV

Nico needs a date! Please choose who he should go with and as for Leo, well there are only two options in my mind and you'll find out for yourselves.

Hope you liked this chapter even though it was quite a fast chapter.

Until next time.

~Dan~