Pink Like Our Love (Red Sky At Night "sequel")

#20 Cheating Annabeth

Percy's POV

"Percy, what is it baby, I didn't expect you to come home for another four hours." My mother sat down beside me on the bed, she stroked my hair and brought my head to her chest when she saw me crying.

   "Had something happened between you and Annabeth?"

   "She c-cheated on me." I said crying even harder, my whole body shook and I just wanted to die. She wasn't the love of my life but she was my first ever girlfriend and we had been together since we were ten. I couldn't understand why she cheated.

   "Baby, I'm so sorry."

   "She... we..."

   "You went all the way?" mom asked with worry in her voice.

  "It was my first time and afterwards Annabeth started crying and told me that she cheated on me with Luke."

   "Your old friend?"

   "Y-yeah. I loved her, mom, and it hurts." I felt like a three year old who couldn't stop crying.

   "Love hurts baby."

   "Did you feel like this when dad left?"

   "Yes, and it hurt even more when he returned with Tyson." She kissed the top of my head before continuing stroking and playing with my hair. I was really sad that I had inherited dad's dark raven black hair instead of my mother's dark brown hair.

   "Does it stop?"

   "With time."

   "But you don't hate Tyson."

   "He wasn't the one who wronged me, Percy. If there is one thing that you should learn about this is that you shouldn't blame those who didn't do the mistake." She smiled a sad smile, "Percy, I love you and I could never ever hate you, or Tyson, but promise me to follow your heart. I think you know what I mean."

   With that she left me on my bed with dry cheeks.

   I did know what she meant though. Annie and me had gone back and forth for a couple of months and the only rock I had in my life was Nico.

   Nico, who always made me laugh, and was kind of dorky when you got to know him. People stayed away from him just because he dressed in all black and was a little dark. He didn't have the right humor and he could talk back like no other, but it made me... love him. I hadn't realized it before, well I knew that he was cute and sexy and that I liked him. A couple of times I even wanted to kiss him. A guilty pleasure of mine was to hug him or hold hands with him when we were alone. Now I realized that I did it because I wanted to be with him, I loved him. In that moment I decided that I would take charge, starting tomorrow.

With that thought I started crying again and soon fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.

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Now it's just two chapters left, I will try to publish one next week but it's so much homework and test around that time and we are having a prom too so it will be hectic, but hopefully another chapter will come next week!

Thank you so much for reading!