I woke up the sound of Hazel jumping onto my bed to wake me up. The sun was shining through the open curtains and I could hear the bath running, indicating that Justine or Alicia had started to run me a bath

"Wake up Annie! Wake up! You're going to see Perce today!" Hazel squealed

I groaned "I'm up, don't call me Annie"

She just rolled her eyes and pulled the doona off of me leaving me in a thin nightgown. Way to cold to my liking.

I grumbled about it being too early as Alicia pulled me towards the bathroom while Hazel went to the wardrobe. Justine helped me get out of my Pj's (lol) and hop into the bath because I was still half asleep. While Justine and Alicia scrub my hair and skin I could hear Hazel muttering to herself picking an outfit to make Percy 'get down and propose'

Soon after Alicia and Justine had finished scrubbing me spotless I was sitting in front of the mirror while they did my hair and makeup. We made small talk about their families and some guards that Alicia had her eyes on.

Hazel came out of the closet, in one hand, she held a beautiful floor length navy blue lace dress and in the other, she held navy blue shoes with a bow on the toes to match. Justine had done my makeup natural, making it look like I had none on and Alicia had done a section of my hair as a plate and had pinned it around my head. I had my normal earrings, bead and owl necklace on as well. When I looked in the mirror, I saw myself, nothing less but something more. Taller and more confident.

"Thanks, girls. I look amazing"

"That's what Percy will say!" Hazel squealed. This girl has some serious squealing problems.

"Lady Annabeth, Miss Sarah sent out a request that all Selection girls go to the Women's room before the dining room," Justine informed me

I gave her a glare for calling me Lady and said thanks.

I left the room with a hug and a wave, as I was walking out I heard Justine scold Hazel about not being maid like but Hazel whined: "But I ship it so hard!" Whatever that means

When I got to the Women's Room, half of the girls were there. One-third of those looked very confident and were talking loudly about how the Prince will just love them. Another third wore very revealing clothes. Big splits up the legs, very high might I add, tall heels and their breast were very overwhelming. The other third looked very nervous, glancing around the room while playing with their fingers and breathing quite irregularly.

I couldn't spot Thalia or Piper, the only girls I had met, so I found a seat on a couch by myself. Within 2 minutes of sitting there, I was surrounded by all 17 girls that were here.

I greeted them quietly "Um, Good Morning"

"Annabeth! Is it true you know the Prince?"

"What is he like?"

"Is he has smart as they say?"

I was bombarded with questions about Percy. They must have found out that I grew up with him.

"Um, slow down! One question at a time please"

A pretty girl with long black hair and hazel eyes, who I recognised as Imogen McMiller from Sota asked the first question

"Is it true then? You know him?"

I nodded my head "Um yeah, known him my whole life"

Some girls squealed at that, others just gasped and pointed

"What's he like?" Another asked that I didn't recognise

"What's he like? Stupid, idiotic, foolish and oblivious" I paused "But he's stupidly handsome, a loyal idiot, foolish man who is very oblivious but very intelligent in his own little way"

A very tall Asian girl, with one of those revealing dresses in red, walked up and pushed some of the girls away to stand in front of me "Oh please, you make him sound like a fish" She said

"Well, he can be"

She rolled her eyes "Why would you even answer their questions? Don't you want to win? You could've had an advantage"

"Well, I'm just that type of person. I'm Annabeth Chase by the way. And who are you?"

She looked at me in confusion, while some of the other girls gasped. What did I say?

"Who am I? Do you not know who I am?"

"You'd think the confused look and blank stare would have answered that for you"

Now that I look at her closely, she does seem familiar.

"Wow, I have never had someone not recognise me. I'm Drew Tanaka, 2 from Clermont. A model, a very famous model might I add"

Oh, now I recognise her

"Oh right! Well not very famous are you? I think I saw your poster out in the city!" She smiled "With a drawn on moustache and monobrow" She started to growl while I gave her a sweet smile but Sarah just walked into the room, interrupting us.

"Alright ladies, everyone grabbed a seat so I can talk to you about today" Drew grumbled something under her breath but listened to Sarah anyway and went to sit down. The other girls followed suit. While we had been talking the other 17 girls had come in and joined our crowd, meaning everyone was ready and present. Piper came over to me and sat down next to me while I saw Thalia in the back corner.

"Okay, thank you. Today you will meet the Prince!" Everyone started to clap "Okay, quiet down. Yes you will meet him today during breakfast. Breakfast will start normally with the royal family entering after us. Then when the Prince is ready he will start calling you up one by one, then you can go back to your food. Remember manners everyone, no fooling around. This is the future king we are talking about" I snorted at that bit. I had never imagined Percy being king, let alone the Prince he is. Sarah heard my snort and looked over at me "Do you think this is funny Lady Annabeth? Something to share?"

Not wanting to answer that question I replied "Nothing"

"Nothing? Are you sure? Share please"

Seeing no way out of this I figured I may as well answer truthfully "Well, It's funny to think he will be our king." I got some glares and questioning glances from some of the other girls

"And why do you think that?"

"Well, knowing him he will probably stuff up within the first hour"

"Right, thank you for that faithful opinion on our future King. Let's move on. So, yes this is the future king and maybe your future husband" She said as she turned back to the rest of the group "Manners and poise ladies, manners and poise" We all nodded as she gestured for us to stand up and follow her to the dining hall.

As we were walking Piper and I started to talk

"Got any tips for when I meet him?" She asked. I could tell she was a little bit nervous. Me? This was just like any other day

"Be yourself. He hates fake selfish people" She nodded and went back to her own thoughts while I keep to mine.

We soon entered the dining hall and took our same seats from yesterday. We chatted quietly until Sarah cleared her throat. The main doors opened to the Royal Family entering. Sally looked as beautiful as ever in a big purple gown with Paul's armed wrapped around her. Next Tyson entered with a book in his hand, you could see he wanted to get back to reading as quickly as possible, I know that feeling. Percy walked in with Zoe on his hip. She was wearing a violet dress to match Tyson tie but Percy wore a navy tie. I did a double take. He had a navy tie on and I had a navy dress? What is the chance? I bet someone, I suspected Hazel, had something to do with it. We all stood as they entered, then Paul told us to sit.

When we were all seated people rushed in with our breakfast, the food reminding me of Hogwarts feasts.

Piper and I started to eat and talk, like the others. Every now and then I looked up from my food and saw Percy staring at me from his table. Did I have something on my face? Was he even looking at me?

"You were right," Piper told me

"About what?"

"His food. He drowned the blue pancakes in maple syrup"

"Told you" I laughed. Soon Percy was done with his food so he started to call the girls from the top of the table to talk to him over on the other side of the room were couches were set up. Guess I'm last then.

Hastily Percy made his way down the table until it was Piper's turn

"Good luck!" I said, "You'll need it!"

She glared at me as she walked over to Percy. He stood up from the couch and kissed her hand. I saw the blush on Piper's face. That flirting rascal.

After a good 5 minutes, Piper came back, with that blush, and Percy called Riley Wilson, the girl opposite me, to go over to him. I smiled at her as she got up but returned it with a glare. Huh, what did I do?

Riley came back up and sat down. Victoria Porter started to talk to her about Percy when Percy called me over

"Annabeth!" He practically yelled it out, not very nicely might I add. He was a gentleman when he called the others out, but not for me. The talking stopped at the table while I just rolled my eyes and yelled back

"I'm coming! I'm coming!"

I walked over to him and on my way gave Zoe a high five which she giggled at. I saw Paul roll his eyes at Percy and Sally chuckle. When I got over to Percy he stood up and smiled. When I looked closely at him I could tell he was extremely tired. He had bags under his sea green eyes and his jet black hair was messier than usual.

"Lady Wise Girl"

"Prince Seaweed Brain" I laughed

He picked up my hand to kiss it but I smacked it away.

"I don't want your kisses"

He pouted but lead me over to the couch

"So, how are the other girls?" I asked him whilst he chuckled

"Getting straight to the point as always. Some of them are nice, others are not. And someone of them I want to get rid of as soon as I can"

"Ooo," I said leaning closer to him "Wanna tell?"

"You'll find out soon enough. What about you? What do you think of the girls?"

"Same, some of them are nice, others okay. Then I want you to get rid of some as soon as you can"

"Ooo," he said mimicking me leaning closer "Wanna tell?"

I pushed him away while we laughed. It felt good to laugh with him. I hadn't done it in awhile.

"What have you been doing? I haven't seen you in a while" I stated

He gave me a guilty look "Sorry, it's been busy. Getting ready for this. The interviews and organising. It doesn't help with Paul and Mum pushing more work to me"

I shrugged "It's alright. You were always going to get busier as we grew up. Thanks by the way"

"For what?"

"Hazel, I'm glad I get to see her every day"

"No problem" We sat quietly. It wasn't awkward but comforting. Just being in his presence could do that to me. Even though I was having a butterfly attack right now in my stomach for being near him, he calmed it down. His quiet breathing filled my ears, his sea breeze scent wafting off of him and his stare paralysing.

"What's wrong?" His stare was starting to scare me

"I-uh, um. You look gorgeous" He blushed

"Uh- thanks" I couldn't help but blush as well "Who picked your tie?"

He looked down at his tie sighing "It was on my desk this morning. No note just a small fake diamond. You can only guess who that was"

"Hazel"

"Yeah, but hey! Were twinsies!" He squeaked whilst bumping my shoulder

We laughed and stood up.

"Until next time Lady Annabeth"

"Until then your highness"

I know this is long overdue! I'm so sorry! I've been writing this for a couple of days, not having enough time to write it in one go. Please if you see any spelling mistakes or have ideas/suggestions comments! If you have any tips on improving my writing, please help! I'm doing this to improve!

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