PJO/HOO Fanfiction- Behind Closed Doors

Chapter 55

(Just want to address this:

I haven't watched Far From Home, I haven't seen any spoilers. Pls don't tell me a spoiler, thx)

Annabeth's pov:

"Hey Percy." I said, opening the door.

He smiled, blushing a little. "Sorry I was a bit late, Jason wanted to talk with me."

I shrugged. "Just as long as you don't bail on me, that's fine."

Percy furrowed his eyebrows. "Bail on you? Who would want to bail on you?"

I laughed. "A lot of people apparently," he was about to say something, but I cut him off. "But it doesn't matter anyway. Let's just go watch the film."

. . .

"What do you mean the cinema is closed?" I asked the guy at the front.

"Sorry ma'am, some man is using it for a 'get together'." To be honest, even he sounded annoyed.

"The whole bloody cinema?" I asked, crossing my arms and glaring.

The man nervously carried on. "Payed us a lot of money, sorry. We have another venue a couple of miles away from here."

Percy sighed. "Thanks for the information."

I glared at the floor. "What kind of a person books out the whole cinema?"

Percy's smile wavered. "Yeah well, we could do something else."

I thought for a second, then declined. "Nah, let's-"

Percy's eyes widened. "Did I do something wrong?" He said, "is that why you don't want to do anything else? Oh Gods, I messed-"

I punched him lightly on the arm. "No Seaweed Brain, I'm saying we can just sit down and talk."

He visibly relaxed. "Oh right, I knew that."

I raised an eyebrow. "Sure you did."

He laughed. "Hey! Not everyone is as clever as you, Wise Girl."

I smiled. "Now, which route shall we take?"

"I don't know, the one we're on?" He said bluntly.

"You never know," I muttered teasingly.

"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that," he said. "Now come on, I think I saw a coffee shop a few metres (yards? Idk) back. Let's go there."

I thought for a while. "Yeah sure, why not?"

"So . . ."

"So what?" Percy asked.

"So why were you and the others so late? It was just me, Piper and Leo that day, we were waiting for ages."

"Oh," he nervously laughed. "Teacher kept us in, apparently we were talking too loud."

I shrugged. "Doesn't mean he has to give you detention."

"It does once Thalia swore at him."

I paused, smiling. "Did she actually?"