Percabeth One-Shots

Is This It? Part 2

Annabeth

I couldn't look at my hand. I just couldn't. I had slapped him with that hand.

My phone rang again and again, but I couldn't find the strength to answer. As much as I wanted to hear his voice, he had hurt me more than anyone else.

How could he say that? How could Percy turn his back on me, like everyone else in my life?

I suddenly had a craving for ice cream. I got up from her bed, wrapped in a big, fluffy blanket and headed towards the fridge.

I opened the freezer and was disappointed to find that I had no ice cream.

"Great," I muttered. I put on some sweatpants, one of my sweatshirts, and grabbed my keys and shoes and exited the house.

As soon as I got to the supermarket, I headed towards the book aisle. I plucked on of Tyler Oakley's books Binge off the shelf and began to read. Maybe this will take him off my mind.

I was a fast reader, so by the time I got to the ice cream aisle (I may have bumped into a few things) I was already in then end of The One That Got Away.

Now I think of breaking up as moving. Imagine you have your own house, full of your own boxes. A person you meet has his own house, full of his own boxes. When you have a relationship with that person, you shack up in a third house into which you can put any number of your boxes. You shouldn't move them all in at once, or else you will seem to eager. And don't dawdle too much either, or you will seem skittish about commitment. You kind of aim to match each other's pace, so that the power balance feels fair and equal. Happy marriage-at least ideally-would be the situation in which both parties enthusiastically choose to keep all of their boxes in their shared house. Conversely, when someone starts to doubt the relationship, he might move a box or two back into his own house, just in case.

I didn't know if this is how Percy felt. Was his moving his boxes back? Was he starting to doubt us? I continued to read, looking up at times to look for the specific ice cream brand.

We may have been in an open relationship, but I think he knew I couldn't handle the truth of the situation. Lord knows I never pursued anyone else. I was just turning a blind eye and waiting patiently for the best. Adam broke up with me in May, but he'd quietly been moving his boxes out for months.

I shut the book at this point. I couldn't read anymore. I kept looking for my favorite ice cream, Strawberry, when a voice made me freeze and my heart pound.

"Annabeth?" I stood paralyzed. I couldn't turn around.

"Annabeth, please. Turn around, Wise Girl," Percy pleaded. I couldn't.

I opened the freezer, grabbed my special strawberry carton and walked out as fast as I could. I paid, making the cashier hurry.

I had almost made it to my car door, when a hand pulled me.

Percy stared down at me his eyes flashing with so many emotions. Guilt among them.

"Annabeth, please. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He cried. My mouth would not open.

"Annabeth? Please just say something."

"What? What do you want me to say? That I forgive you? Well I don't," I shouted.

Percy's face fell. "I didn't mean any of it, Wise Girl. Please don't leave me. I can't...I can't live without you."

"Well, you're gonna have to try." I shoved him and opened the door, ignoring my tears. I started my car, and drove out.

Because you don't destroy people you love.
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Grey's Anatomy Quote
Binge by Tyler Oakley- The One That Got Away
Pages 152 & 153

And guess who has 10 or so chapters to publish? *does a snap-finger gun* This gal.