I Was Wrong

Denial-Chapter 1

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Annabeth's POV

I made my way down to the beach and saw Percy sitting on the sand. Around him were roses and candles. He was right up against the water's edge but had nothing to worry about as he can control the water. When I walked up beside him he noticed me and smiled. Good gods he was not going to make this easy was he?

He held out his arm and reached to take my hand. He took it and in the process I saw his forearm showing... and his SPQR tattoo. God I hate that thing so much! It just reminds me of the time he was taken from me and how he isn't the same anymore. The worst part was that in that moment if I looked up I could see the sun and the stars. In my head I silently said "hello" to them from Bob. My time in Tartarus was well, hell. Standing and noticing those things was making it hard for me to breath.

I lowered myself to floor next to him and avoided his gaze. I knew that if I looked at him he would smile and flash those green eyes at me and I would be a goner... No, to do what I wanted, had to do I can't look at him. Call me a coward.

"Hey," he put his arm around me as he said it.

"Hi..." I attempted to shrug him of but he was too strong and effortlessly kept me in his grip.

We sat there silently for a few minutes until Percy leaned over and whispered into my ear, "I love you, Wise Girl!"

I didn't reply...

Gods how was I going to do this?

"Um Percy? There is something I need to tell you-"

He cut me off by pulling my neck to him and pressing his lips to mine. Immediately my lips went soft and my knees weakened without my consent. He held me like he never wanted to let go and to tell the truth, I didn't want him to. But I didn't have a choice. Even though my stomach was full of butterflies and my heart felt like it was soaring, I had to pull away.

Untangling myself from his grasp, I jumped to my feet. Percy looked up at me with curios eyes. He sat there wearing his camp-half-blood tee-shirt and yet again reminding me of the things I wouldn't have anymore.

"Percy, I-we cannot be together anymore." There I said it.

The confusion on his face made me want to cry in his arms but I couldn't.

"What? Why?" Percy eyes were filled with concern.

"We just can't," A sigh escaped my lips as I realised how much this will hurt him.

Percy rose his feet and grasped my hands, "Annabeth, you aren't making sense."

"Seaweed brain, it is quite simple. I don't want to be with you anymore!" That could not possibly be more of a lie. "I'm leaving. Going to Harvard and studying Architecture. I am moving on Percy. You just have to deal with it!"

My words were harsh, the look on his face told me so.

"So I can come with you. I can go to Harvard and be with you!" I could tell he was grasping at straws and that it just won't happen. He knew it two.

"No Percy, you can't come and I don't want to do the long-distance thing. It is better for both of us if I just end it now, then no-one will be hurt-"

"No-one will be hurt? What about me? What am I supposed to do?"

"I gotta leave but I'll miss you"

"This isn't about Harvard is it? IS IT?" His voice rose and he was pleading me to answer, to stay. "What have I done? Why are you doing this? Annabeth, if you have ever loved me, then tell me why you are doing this! I thought you would have respected me enough to answer one simple question!"

His words were like daggers, cutting into me, trying to reach my heart. It was working.

"Oh Percy, I do trust you and respect you, it is just that I will be moving away and it won't work! I am sorry."

"You are lying to me! Why are you lying? Annabeth why?"

"I'm not lying!" I was biting the inside of my cheek like I always did when I lied, which wasn't often.

He noticed, "You are biting your cheek. You are lying! I know you Annabeth. Just tell me the reason." He sounded so full of hope, yet so hopeless at the same time.

"Okay. The truth is that I cannot bear to look at you, because every time I do I am reminded of Tartarus. When I see your tattoo all I can think about is how I lost you. How we can never be the same again! When I look at you or hear your name all I think is how much sadness and darkness is in our memories together. No Percy we can't be together because I don't like who I am when I am with you!" I pulled my hands out of his and held one up to my face, shocked that I had spoken.

Percy also looked shocked. He had never imagined that I would say that. Stepping away from me his eyes began to tear up. There was no going back from what I just said.

"I... I'm sorry Percy." My voice breaks as I two begin to cry. Cold, wet tears made their way down my face.

"Is that the truth?"

Out of everything he could have asked me he only wanted to know if that was what I felt in my heart...It was things like that, that made me love him.

Slowly I nodded. Percy's eyes lost the light in them when he saw the simple nod, and it finally hit me. I had broken him. I had pushed him until he lost hope. That was my doing not anyone else's.

I had to live with the consequences!

I turned around and ran from him, up to the grass and the top of the hill, next to Thalia's tree.

Looking back at him I saw him standing, staring at me holding a rose he must have picked up.

I looked at the pier and remembered our quest with Tyson to find the Golden Fleece. That was a quest for different people. People I don't even know anymore. Now they are just a memory, a love story swept away with time.

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