Mortals meet Percabeth

David Henderson

Me and my friends were under the shade of a big tree, it was a hot afternoon but school let out early so of course I suggested that we should hang out in the park. I'm David Jones, captain of the chess team and #2 in class. I was #1 but ever since Annabeth Chase came into the picture, well you can guess what happened next. Since she first stepped foot in Hardman Academy she was already considered one of the most wanted girls in my grade. Beauty, Smarts, you name it and Annabeth has it. Of course I made the move to be friends with her, I already had a girlfriend but that didn't stop me from making new friends. At first she was hesitant to be friends with me cause according to her I reminded her of a guy she used to know, someone named Luke. I asked her if that was her boyfriend but all she did was shook her head and excused herself, running off to who knows where.

I knew her for 3 years now and I treat her like the sister I never had. George and Dan were acting like monkeys, jumping from branch to branch while Lizzie, my girlfriend, was asleep on my lap. Annabeth was reading a book in a different language, I think it was Greek but she never mentioned that she knows how to read Greek. I checked my watch and saw it was 1 already and none of us had our lunches yet.

"Hey, you guys want to eat somewhere? My treat" I said waking Lizzie up. George and Dan dropped down from the tree and nodded, Annabeth sighed as she closed her book and stood up but something fell from the book. Curious I picked it up and my big brother instincts turned on when I saw what it was. It was a picture of a guy, he had raven black hair that was messy and some of the tips where smoking lightly, he had sea green eyes and he wore an orange t-shirt that was slightly burned. A girl with punk like hair was laughing in the background while the guy had his head turned slightly scowling at her.

"Hey Annabeth, who's this?" I asked her, she took one glance at it and quickly grabbed it and stuffed it in her pocket.

"Nobody" she said not looking at me but I could tell she was lying.

"Annabeth" I said a bit firmly, she sighed knowing I treated her like a sister.

"Fine" she said fishing out the now crumpled picture "This is Percy Jackson, he's my boyfriend" she said quickly smiling at the word <em>boyfriend</em>. After we had lunch the first thing I did was turn on my computer and search the name <em>Percy Jackson</em> and boy did I get a lot of info! Apparently the so called boyfriend of Annabeth had a record:

-He was a wanted criminal at the young age of 12.

-He's been kicked out of several schools for exploding things.

-etc.

This may be a little but it's enough for me to get worried. I quickly printed it, I need to show Annabeth this and show her who her boyfriend really is.

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"Annabeth your boyfriend is not who you think he is" was the first thing I told her when we met in school. She raised a brow when I handed her the paper, she glanced at it and tossed it back to me.

"David, I know all of this. In fact I was with him when he was wanted for something he didn't do" she said calmly. I was shocked, this was the kind of thing a guy would hide just to get the girl. Ever since then we never talked about Percy Jackson.... Until today. Today was the last day of school and it was Annabeth's last day as well, she told me she was moving to a school called Goode or something.

"Hey Annabeth, need a ride home?" I asked her, she shook her head.

"No thanks, Percy is picking me up later" she told me calmly but I known her long enough to know she was actually excited in the inside. I shouldered my backpack.

"Where did you and Percy even meet?" I asked her with genuine curiosity. She smiled as she seem to reminisce.

"We met at Camp when we were 12. We hated each other at first but now, well now we're inseparable" she told me smiling but I still was worried.

"But what if he was just some jerk?" I asked her, her expression changed as she glared at me. I gulped.

"Percy is not a jerk, stupid maybe but he's one of the most selfless person I've ever met. He would do anything to help someone in danger and he would risk his life to save his friends, trust me, he did it countless of times already. He would willingly go to hell with me...." She ranted but tears filled her eyes at the end, I felt guilty as I comforted her. We didn't speak for the rest of the day but when the end of class came I waited outside with Annabeth.

"Typical Seaweed Brain" she muttered after 10 minutes of waiting a green car stopped in front of us. Annabeth grinned excitedly as she stood up. As the driver came out I stood up as well, it was Percy. He had a grayish green hoodie on with an orange undershirt that said "Camp Half-Blood" on it.

"Wise Girl!" he called out as Annabeth ran towards him.

"Seaweed Brain" she replied as she hugged him and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. I awkwardly approached them, when Percy noticed me he protectively wrapped an arm around Annabeth's waist.

"Luke?!" he asked me. Annabeth whispered something in his ear as he noticeably relaxed. He smiled sheepishly at me.

"Sorry man, you look a lot like a friend of ours" he said sticking out his hand "I'm Percy by the way". His sleeve was pulled back slightly revealing a tattoo that said SPQR and a trident with a line underneath. This made me even more worried.

"Perce come on! We need to get back to camp, Jason and the others are there" Annabeth said excitingly, Percy looked surprise.

"How come I didn't know that?" he asked.

"Hazel told me" she said calmly, Percy brought his hand to his heart and pretended to look hurt.

"I'm hurt, I feel so unimportant" he said pouting.

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Percy, you and I both know how important you are" She said warmly kissing him on the cheek. He smiled as he laced their fingers together. All my doubts about Percy went away just like that, because even I wasn't oblivious on how much they love and care for each other.