Forgot to Say [Percy Jackson and the Olympians Fanfic]

Can You Fall?

She was in love. Just as in love as she had ever been. Yes, she could tell that he was different and that he was definitely older than Percy had been before he'd died –but that meant nothing in the long run. This was still the same Percy she had fallen for; the same soul that had captured hers.

And she was going to do everything she could to make him fall for her again.

That rainy night, she'd stayed inside the building with him and found herself talking to him almost like old times. She didn't care that Apollo was nearly an hour late by the time he came around to pick her up. She didn't care how cold and wet she'd been, not when Percy had offered his coat and she'd felt his warmth seeping into her from it.

She didn't even care too much that the others had probably gone behind her back and known about the fact that Percy had been reincarnated sooner than he should have been able to.

All she cared about was that he was alive and in front of her, and now a week later found herself habitually texting him and trying not to act like the schoolgirl she knew she appeared as. It was hard not to, when there was this fluttery feeling in her chest and her lips kept threatening to break into happy smiles all the time. This was like a second chance.

She could do this right this time. She wouldn't mess up. She was already in love with him, but she just needed to get him to fall in love with her once more.

She was going to make things right this time around, and she swore she wouldn't mess up again.

~*~*~

Rosemarie was a little depressed at things, and more so upset that it seemed that her new friend Elena was ignoring her. She didn't think she'd done anything wrong, but still...Something had to have happened to make her friend go from sticking close, to just basically being nonexistent all of a sudden.

"You're looking morose," Percy noted lightly and she turned miserable eyes on him, watching him cook pancakes.

It was a week since she'd met him and since then, she and her father had visited Percy and him to them several times. He'd even made them a fancy dinner one time, when he was reciprocating the dinner offer her father had extended from the first time that reunited them. Rosemarie had never had fancy braised lambs or beef wellingtons...

It was Saturday morning now and she had dropped by on a whim, wanting to hang around Percy more. Through the week, she really had been getting closer to him and felt as if he really could have been her older brother. Even if he wasn't (the differences he had to her brother were unmistakable, but she was still doubtful this wasn't her reincarnated brother), he still acted and felt like an older brother to her, so she was happy either way. She would accept him either way too, even knowing that this Percy was definitely different in ways from the Percy she'd wanted to be in her life. Maybe because he'd been raised differently or lived a different life from the Percy that had been her brother, but that was okay.

She still liked this Percy and his differences, and didn't mind them at all. He didn't have to be completely the same as the Percy everyone knew and told her about; she understood that and accepted that –accepted him.

It was a little like getting to know a new Percy all on her own, a Percy that was just hers to know and have to herself for just a while.

"Well?" he prodded, finishing up the pancakes and beginning to dole them out to two plates.

"I made a friend on the first day of school," Rosemarie sighed to herself. "But now, all of a sudden, she's never really there or pays much attention to me. She seems distracted whenever I do see her, and she is always looking at her phone."