"hєч numвєr nєíghвσr!"
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percy jackson texts his number neighbor. what could possibly go wrong?
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high school au
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hiatus / discontinued / also very cringe
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➵ “howdy annabeth”
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percy's first few days back at school had been annoyingly average. he had caught up with some of his friends, copied leo's answers in maths, an thalia was just as annoying and unhelpful as ever when he asked about wise girl.
thinking about it now it probably would have been best to respect her privacy a bit more but with what he heard last night he wanted to know who wise girl was just so he could give her a hug and tell her that everything was going to be ok.
and then annabeth walked over and he just ran away.
annabeth
why was he so awkward around her? his crush on annabeth wasn't anything like the crush he had on rachel or calypso. percy couldn't even talk to annabeth without freaking out and making a complete idiot of himself.
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percy took the subway home from school, like he did every day. his playlist deciding to echo his frustration with songs of unrequited longing.
he opened his apartment door and was almost knocked to the ground by mrs o leary.
“woah. hello to you to girl!” he laughed, mrs o leary could never fail to put a smile on his face.
“hey percy!" sally jackson called from the kitchen. “how was your day?”
he shrugged “not much happened really, it was pretty quiet”
sally nodded looking distracted “thats great honey, listen, can you take mrs o leary out? I haven't been able to take her today because estelle's sick and now she's driving me mental”
“sure thing”
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percy wandered the dirty new york streets with his dog at his side. impulsively, he checked his phone every once in a while for new notifications despite knowing that the phone would have alerted him if he had one.
after another one of these routine checks percy slid his phone back into his pocket and looked up. what he saw made him stop dead in his tracks.
sitting on a bench a few feet in front of him was annabeth chase, she seemed to be staring at a text conversation on her phone although she wasn't typing.
he took a deep breath. he was going to walk up to her and be completely normal.
normal
normal
normal
“howdy annabeth” shit
as much as Percy wished he could get hit by a train in this moment the universe was hardly ever merciful and it was too late to turn back now. annabeth looked up and seemed surprised to see him.
“oh percy, howdy?” she looked down at mrs o leary and her eyes betrayed a look of disappointment, as if something she had suspected had just been proven true. “Is that your dog?”
“yeah. this is mrs o leary”
annabeth took a shaky breath then stood up. “sorry percy I gotta go. i'll see you in school” she ran off leaving percy more confused then ever.
