Hope(A Pipabeth Story)

Chapter 1

PIPER

I collapse onto my couch, exhausted.

This day was a mess.

3 interviews, then a party? I need to stop cramming myself.

I get up and change into something more comfy, and head to the one place that I can think in peace.

My studio.

I already had something in mind. I sat down, tuned my guitar, and played the melody that had been playing in my head since morning.

I smiled as I strummed, this was why I did this. I played it again, this time recording it. I play it over and over and come up with words.

A.N. I'm gonna try to actually make the song and put it at the end so yeah

I'm in the middle of the second verse when my secretary burst in. Her name is Dove, she's 19, and the best employee I have. She and I bonded a lot, and now we're inseparable at times.

"Piper, you know how you said you were remodeling?"

I nodded. I'd been thinking of remodeling ever since I moved in here.

"Well, I think I found the person for you. Her name's Annabeth Chase. She's your age, and highly skilled for her age, and sh-"

I cut her off, beaming. "Annabeth Chase?"

I said, hopeful we were talking about the same person. She nods and pulls out her computer. She opens it, and pulls up an Instagram page.

Annabeth's page.

I immediately tell her, "She's the one for me. I can feel it." She nods, and leaves. I race for my phone o and call the one person I hadn't called ever since Percy's disappearance.

1 ring. 2 rings. 3 rings. A deep, tired voice says, "Hello?" I look at the time. 11:37. "Fuck! Sorry, I can call tomorrow, I did-" I get cut off by laughing. "No, no, it's fine. I wasn't asleep yet."

I furrow my eyebrows. "That's not like you." Another voice comes out of nowhere in particular. "It's exactly like him!"

I shake my head and laugh. "True. Well, why are you awake at 11:45?" I can hear their smirk. "I could ask you the same question." I sigh. "You know what, forget I asked. Video call?"

Suddenly, a white and teal ceiling pops onto my screen. "I think your camera is turned the other way." A second later, a boy with curly brown hair and brown eyes, and a girl with ginger hair and a lighter shade of brown than his for eyes pop into view.

Leo and Calypso.

I decide to be annoying. "Leo, when was the last time you brushed your hair?" Calypso let out a big, over-dramatic sigh. "That's what I've been say-" He put two fingers over her lips. "Please, Piper, you probably haven't brushed your hair since Mount Diablo."

I put a hand over my heart. "Yes I have!" Leo smirks. "Fine. You've brushed it once." I pout. "What about all the interviews I go to?" He deadpans, " how do we know that you've brushed your hair? You're always covering it with some hat or whatever, an-"

Calypso cuts him off. "Ay, stop being so mean." It's his turn to pout. "She started it!" I cock my head. "I did not!" He glared a 1st grade-special glare at me. "Did too!" I fire his glare right back at him. "Did not!" "Did too!" "Did not!" "Di-"

Calypso claps her hands, first grade teacher style. We both look at her, then Leo curses in Spanish at the same time I curse in French. "She has clapped the forbidden clap, we must banish her!" I say, smiling.

Leo grins, and puts the phone standing on something on a table. "No, she must be punished." I grin, snickering. "Yes, I give you permission to punish her!" She raises an eyebrow, amused. "And what exactly are you going to do?" She asks, clearly taunting us. Leo yells, "This!"

Haha you thought 🤭

He pulls her onto the couch and starts mercilessly tickling her. She screams and starts laughing. "Leo....stop!.....I'm gonna...kick you....or.....or something!" She finally can't talk, she's laughing so hard. She finally comes to her senses and starts to squirm.

He struggles, then remembers something, and stops restraining her. She squirms, and Leo moves with her. They wriggle until Leo's foot moves a little too far, and a loud crack echos through their room.

They freeze, and Leo's eyes start tearing up. In a flash, Calypso's next to him. "Leo, what happened? Are you ok?" Now, let me tell you something. Leo gets bitter when he's hurt this bad. Like, he can say some pretty mean things.

"What does it look like, genius?" He says through clenched teeth. She stops for a moment, then she keeps urging him to put his foot out, telling him it's ok, we're going to get through this.

5 minutes later, Leo passes out.

Haha already drama *evily rubs hands together*