Percabeth one-shots

Ich liebe dich

A/N: I don't actually speak German!! (I'm romanian, horrible ikr) So please please please message me if I made any mistakes, thanks! Also:  

WARNINGS: There are (many) mentions of alcohol, also slight vulgar language (and thoughts ~ish~), but nothing explicit. I know most of y'all are probably 12 y/o so pROCEED WITH CAUTION! :)

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three times annabeth said 'i love you' and one time percy did. or, annabeth really loves german and her best friend.

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There was a slight breeze in the air, the morning that it all started. The leaves were finally starting to turn yellow, red and brown, but the sky still remained a wonderfully rich shade of blue, as if summer were still clinging to its last remaining days before the arrival of cloudy skies and rainy days. Most students were mourning the end of their summer break, saddened by the untimely arrival of school and studying, but some, like Annabeth Chase, were actually excited.

"And this new German class this year?! I'm so ready for it, like sign me the hell up. I did sign up actually. Ugh, did I mention how awesome this will be?" she sighed.

"In the past hour? You've mentioned how 'awesome', 'amazing', 'absolutely delightful', 'extremely exciting' and 'totally new' this German class will be," Percy teased.

"You're the worst," she shoved him away playfully. "One day I will force you to come along with me. It'll be awesome. My friends and I will be able to check you out in German, and you won't even realize."

"Ha, ha," he deadpanned.

"Trust me though, learning a new language is super cool. It's refreshing, like taking a deep breath of fresh air. Forget oxford commas and double negatives; join me in my world of difficult pronunciations and even more difficult syntax. You take it all from the beginning, and, I don't know... it's nice to have a fresh start on something," she shrugged.

Percy smiled at his best friend of nearly seven years, admiring the way the sunlight made her tan skin glow and her eyes sparkle. He had always found people more beautiful when they were talking about something they were truly passionate about, even more so when it was Annabeth, because Annabeth was simply constantly beautiful.

Their first year of college had really taken its toll on Annabeth though, dark circles under eyes and a coffee cup in her hand being a permanent feature in her outfit last year.

He totally understood what she was trying to tell him, what with a 'fresh start' and all. She had been a complete wreck their freshman year, and if straight-A student Annabeth Chase couldn't cope with the coursework in college, then that, more than anything, told him all he needed to know about the American education system. She had been at the top of all their classes, had kept up her 4.0 GPA all the way through high school, and had managed to excel in at least three extracurricular activities every year. And yet college had hit them both like a bullet train, Annabeth most of all.

This year he knew she wanted to start over and correct all the mistakes she had made last year, and this was her first one: not enough 'Annabeth' classes.

Sure, architecture was fun if you were someone like Annabeth, he reasoned, but no one could go that long without a simple break. So this had been his master plan: German classes.

From a young age, Annabeth had expressed her interest in languages. She had quickly learned French and Spanish, both which were compulsory school subjects, and had rapidly moved on to learning more that wasn't on the school curriculum off the Internet.