Mortals meet Percabeth

Lacy

There are a lot of different povs in this chapter!!

Lacy's pov

I have been hopelessly in love with my friend for almost a year and a half. His name is Perseus 'Percy' Jackson. He's tall, tan, and has raven hair that always looked windswept. If you think he's gorgeous now, wait until I tell you about his eyes. They're deep green, swirling with different tones. It's like you poured a thousand different colors of paint into one giant bucket and slowly mixed, and it's the most gorgeous thing you could ever see. He's nice to everyone he meets, too. Even some of the little nerdy kids who get picked on. He sticks up for them all.

Okay, enough about his looks. Let's talk about our relationship, or the lack of it. We're both in this group of people so it's highly unlikely that he would be closest to me. Although, I don't think he's truly bonded with any of us from school. I mean, sure, he goes places with us and does stuff with us, but he doesn't tell us things. It's like we're just substitutes for spots that have already been filled. Does that make any sense? Anyways, I was standing outside his locker this morning, with our other friends. It's been three months since school started, and I swear he's been getting later and later everyday. He comes in looking a little dejected, and I wanna be the one to make him better. Maybe then he'll ask me out. Pretty much everyone knows I like him, except him. So Mack a girl, I know, weird, right, a guy named Jack, a guy named Pete and I were waiting together, talking about random stuff. Percy came stumbling in, looking worse than ever. He walked over to us, half-asleep. "God, Percy, you look awful!" I said.

"What? Oh, this is nothing. I just woke up late and my mom shoved me out the door," he responded. "What's wrong Perce? You've been really down lately. Did something happen?" Mack asked. She was usually the one to ask him personal questions because when I tried I blushed red as a tomato. "I have nightmar-I mean, uh, insomnia all the time. It's because I miss my girlfriend," he muttered that last part, as if to keep us from hearing it. And I knew why. Immediately Pete started ragging on him for having an imaginary girlfriend. Now before you start yelling at me for trying to win over a guy who has a girlfriend, let me explain. We don't think she exists. Percy uses that as an excuse for girls who try and date him, so I think she's a 'fictional character'. At least, that's what I tell myself.

Percy was now attempting to defend himself from all the snide comments about his girlfriend, "Guys! She really exists, I swear. Here, I even have a picture. He dug around in his bag for a second snatched out a shiny photograph. It was of him with a girl on his back. They were both laughing and beckoning for whoever was taking the picture to go join them. They appeared to be standing in a strawberry field and they had matching orange shirts on. Now for the girl: She was gorgeous. She had long blonde curly hair that was blowing messily in the wind. She was tan and skinny, but that wasn't what made her so pretty. It was the fact that she didn't try to be pretty. She had on no makeup and no nail polish, and she was barefoot, probably the reason for being on Percy's back. She looked confident, and like she was the happiest person in the world. Meanwhile, Percy had been staring at the picture with a melancholy smile. I swore I heard him mutter something under his breath, like, 'those were the days' or something. Now, the bell rang, signaling a ten minute period where we were supposed to be in homeroom, but we never went so we stayed in the hall. Percy shoved his bag in his already messy locker, and turned back around. I still had not let go of the picture, because I had moved on to studying his eyes in the photo. They looked so bright and lively, a complete change from the boy in front of me. John, Mack and Pete were looking over my shoulder to see the picture as well. All of us were silent, like we couldn't believe it. Then Jack stated the obvious.

"Uh, dude, it's totally photoshopped."

Percy just sighed, and reach for the photo when suddenly he stiffened.