Love Hurts (Percy Jackson AU)

Chapter 13 (and slightly more life stuff) (and a chapter playlist)

Jason P.O.V.

I know I have to bring it up at some point. I mean, studying yeah, amazing girlfriend, of course, but girlfriend who... makes lines appear on my arm every day. Still every day.

And it may be soon to say that I love her but... She's my soulmate, I gotta love her sooner or later. And to think that she... She... Ya know. Does that everyday... Does Annabeth know? She can't know. And it was so soon to be doing things like this... I had to know if she was okay. I had to. No, not now. It can wait... I guess.

"Jason... Hello?" Piper says, tapping me on the shoulder.

"Huh? Oh, sorry, aha. I guess I zoned out." I shake my head, "I am back in the real world now, repeat what you said while I was zombie Jason?"

"Well, I just said that maybe we could hang out this weekend? Like... Go out on a date that doesn't involve walking home with your sister and my best friend.." Piper says, looking down, shoving a piece of hair behind her ear. She's so cute with her little habits and... Gah, not the point, right.

"I was actually planning on something like that, Pipes, because I do enjoy your company and then we can come back here afterwards to finish the project. Boom, that's what you call a killer plan." I smile, probably like a dumbass but who cares. She's my soulmate, why should she care? She knows she can't do any better. Well, I think she could, but apparently the universe has other thoughts. Damn it universe! Making it sound like I think I'm better than my girlfriend, which I'm well away that I'm not... Fucking damn it!

Piper laughs, "You're cute, Jason. But that sounds awesome. Like actually, awesome. Like radical. Tubular. Need I go on?"

"No, but it'd be hilarious to see how much longer you could go on for." I smile at her and she hits me on the shoulder. I fall back pretending to be greatly wounded, "I am hurt! Abuse!" 

"Oh, whatever, you ate a fucking stapler. There's no way that light tap on the shoulder 'hurt' you." Piper rolls her eyes at me. She does that a lot. It's still cute.

"When will people stop bringing up the stapler incident? I was a child!" I defend myself, crossing my arms in front of me and pouting.

"I hate to break it to you, but probably never. That story is hilariously embarassing, and as long as I, your soulmate, am around, that story will always be relevant, Sparky." Piper smiles wickedly at me. 

I stick my tongue out at her, "Meanie!"

Yeah, this is a good relationship. The whole cutting arguement can wait...

Percy P.O.V.

I take a huge gulp of air as I look at Annabeth taking notes. I wanna mention my plan of getting together again this weekend to work on this today, but like I don't wanna seem too eagar to hang out with her. I've been told that seeming desperate is a bad thing. Which I can understand. I just have little to no experience in this department, Rachel and I were together for the longest time and she asked me out. So I've never had this overwhelming crush type thing before. It's exhausting. I'm not all that sure that I like it.

But I'm all that sure that I like Annabeth. Whenever I'm around my throat closes up, my palms get all clammy, and I can't seem to think of any coherent sentences. She already thinks I'm an idiot and my nerves aren't really helping. But she agreed to do the project! That's step one of my eleborate plan to get her to ask me out so that I don't have to do it because I don't wanna. She's scary. 

"Percy, I'm thinking if I take the first two slides you can do the middle two and then we'll close together?" Annabeth says, looking up at me for the first time in a while, her hair falling in her grey eyes. She's so damn beautiful. Like not cute. Stone cold, intimidatingly gorgeous. Like mother, like daughter... 

I fidget around with my hands, then nod, "Yeah, um, sounds good to me. You'll help me write my notecards so that I don't sounds stupid compared to you?"

"You're not stupid, Seaweed Brain. You just give off that vibe when someone hasn't spent anytime with you. You're actually really intelligent and sweet and..." She shakes her head, "But if you want, yeah I can help you with your notes for the presentation." She smiles, brushing off the fact that she just complimented me. She'd never done that before. 

"Great. How about on Sunday? Cause Saturday I have swim team and Friday is probably something for choir or the musical for you." I say, looking at the calendar on my phone. Swim meet on Saturday that lasts all day... That'll be fun. And exhusting. And it'll make me smell like chlorine. 

"Yeah, of course. I do have auditions on Friday, I'm surprised you knew that..." Annabeth says, finally noticing the piece of hair in her face and moving it, briefly sticking her pen behind her ear before it fell. "Whoops."

"I pay more attention to you than you think- not in like a stalker way, just in like I'm not as ditsy and dumb as people think, you get what I mean?" I say, starting to ramble and talk with my hands, realizing that the first way I phrased it sounded creepy.

"I get it, don't worry... I guess you do pay a lot more attention than I thought, Percy." Holy shit. Annabeth Chase just called me Percy. Not Seaweed Brain. Woah.

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Hey y'all! It's my, your author, Gabi. I've been lowkey listening to hype playlist to write this chapter and it worked so here's a summer update. Get ready for more of these! Forgive any spelling errors, I'm on my laptop and my spellcheck isn't working and my spelling is awful. My life is going pretty good rn, I'm playing the Dragon in Shrek, and Dawn (waitress), Vanessa (ITH), Zoe (DEH) in a theatre revue, and that's exciting. My bf and I are no longer together but we're still very close friends and I'm still happy. If nothing else let me be proof that it gets better. Like, your life will get better, you will be happy at some point. I promise. I love you all and thank you so much for over 100k! Any ideas of what I should do to celebrate? Let me know!

MY HYPE PLAYLIST FROM THIS CHAPTER (lol it's actually just a spotify daily mix that i love) (also i usually listen to bway but this is my non bway playlist):

saint - verte

dug my heart - borns

chakra daemon - foreign air

power & control - marina & the diamonds

made for you - onerepublic

roll up - fitz & the tantrums

secret for the mad - dodie

fidelity - regina spektor

same drugs - misterwives

domino - zz ward, fitz