Constellations

Constellations: Chapter 17

The POV’s probably will just Percy and Annabeth for the next few chapters.

Percy POV

July 26

“Hey, Seaweed Brain.” I turned around to look at her. Could she have looked any more beautiful?

“Where have you been? You’re late. You are never late.”

She sat down next to me, and pushed her hair out of her face. “Well maybe if my boyfriend, gave me a bit more of a warning for this spontaneous date night, I would have started getting ready earlier.”

“I think your boyfriend was trying to be sweet.” I said moving in closer to her.

“Yes, well, I think he was being thoughtful, so I forgive…” But she never finished her sentence because I cut her off with a kiss. Nothing too special, but it was still awesome.

We broke away and we sat there for a long while in silence.

Then Annabeth broke the silence by saying, “So, what have you been up to lately?”

“Not a lot. I spent all day deciding whether or not I want to go on date with you tonight, then when I finally decided, I thought I was making a mistake. Because this was a surprise date and you don’t like surprises.”

“I like them if they come from you. I will always love surprise date nights. Especially on a beach.”

“What about you?” I asked. “What have you been up to?”

“Honestly, not a lot. Today, all I did was hang out with Piper. I can’t wait for school to start back up again, though.”

I rolled my eyes and shook my head, “Of course you can’t. I, on the other hand, can wait. I never see you during the school year.”

“Hmm… well, I think that I’ve seen less of you this summer than I have all year long.”

“Well, then. Why can’t you wait to go back to prison- I mean, school.” She punched me in the shoulder and started rambling on and on about how some teacher promised to give access to a lab this year or something. Maybe she was talking about a lab she was going to build.

I wasn’t paying attention.

I was too busy staring at her.

Sitting on the beach with her in that very moment, she didn’t look like a half-blood, she looked like a regular girl on a date with her regular boyfriend. A simple blue shirt with simple blue jeans. There was no sword or dagger around her waist, no hat sticking out of her back pocket. Nothing just beautiful old Annabeth.

Her grey eyes glowed with happiness. As if she was thinking the same thing I was. That there was no need to worry.

I could help but that maybe this was what it was like. No monsters, no quest, no missions. This is what other people felt like, when they went on dates. Careless.

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It got to a point where we had to go back to our cabins. She just kissed me and said goodnight. I just smirked and walked away to my empty cabin.

I laid there for a few minutes before I dozed off. No dreams just a peaceful night. This was one of the better days.

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I woke up to the sound of screaming. There were people running everywhere. It was chaos. Connor busted open my door and looked me straight in the eyes and said, “Fire. You need to put out the fire.”