Cliché (Percabeth AU)

Chapter 4

Shout out to crazy_myths_reader for answering previous chapter's question! Say 'Yay'!

It's 3 am... Why am I up so late? I need sleep.... *ugh*

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They arrived at the cafeteria, which wasn't that far away. Percy could practically see Annabeth cursing herself for taking the wrong turn. He frowned at her as she walked inside, barely looking back at him.

"What? No thank you's? Or 'goodbye, I will see you later, Perce'?" Percy teased. Annabeth glanced back, judging him.

She opened her mouth to say something but they were interrupted by Leo. Percy closed his fists tightly, trying not to annihilate the boy. He was so close to talking to her but...

"Annabeth, where have you been?" Leo exclaimed, catching her attention.

"Oh, me? No. I just lost my way here," Annabeth waved him off, not looking too thankful for the interruption either. 

Leo started ranting about his mechanism class, pulling Annabeth over to their table. But before she left, Annabeth threw a glance at Percy, muttering a quick 'thank you' under her breath. 

For some reason, Percy found her familiar.

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Annabeth poked at her potato chip, trying to listen to Leo talk about... you guessed it. Machines and their parts. She often joined in, adding her own bit. 

After her meeting with Percy Jackson, she had lost her appetite but spending time with all her old friends cheered her up and brought back beautiful and precious memories. Thalia sat at the table talking to Reyna, one of her classmates. Across the table, Piper and Hazel chatted away while Frank tried to ignore Leo. Jason wasn't here. 

And they had no idea why. 

On the other side of the cafeteria, she couldn't help but notice Percy Jackson sitting with another group of kids. A kid with crutches pounced on Percy and whacked him lightly before settling down.

"That's Grover," Piper piped in, following Annabeth's gaze. "He is Percy's best friend... And that-" she pointed at a boy with messy brown hair. Annabeth then, noticed his eyes that looked like one, hidden behind hair. "-is Tyson, Percy's brother. Cousin. But brother." Annabeth raised her eyebrow. Tyson was huge!

By now, everyone had joined in on the conversation while Leo whined that nobody listened to him. 

"Oh, and the goth emo boy sitting on the other side of Percy is Nico," Thalia added. "He is a cinnamon roll."

Annabeth knew who and what she was talking about. Nico seemed to have an aura that made people want to come close and cuddle him. But it all turned into confusion when Thalia said her last part. 

"Nico's Percy's cousin," she said smugly, "and mine too."

Annabeth's other eyebrow went up too and they seemed to disappear in her hair. If Nico and Thalia were related, that made Percy her cousin too, and it also made Tyson her cousin and... Di Immortals!

"How do I not know of this!?" She demanded and Thalia shrugged, "You never asked."

Annabeth began to retort but never got the chance as a boy shot into the cafeteria, sweat covering his face and an excited look on his face.