Maybe Annabeth and Percy are a little OOC but I make it work.

WARNING: Mild making out. Doesn't go farther. Still rated: T

Kelly pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose as she shouldered backpack, making her way over to her best friend, Percy. "Hey," She greeted with a small smile.

"Oh, hey, Kelly." Percy shut his locker and leaned against it, looking down at her with a smile that made her heart do somersaults. "What's up?"

"We have a test tomorrow." She pointed out. "So I was wondering if you wanted to come over and study together." She hugged her Physics textbook closer to her chest, hoping her cheeks weren't turning crimson. She bit her lip and looked at him through her glasses with big blue eyes.

He looked up at the ceiling, thinking, before he finally looked down at her and nodded. "Yeah," He said. "Sure, why not?"

"Okay, great!" Kelly exclaimed. "Ready?"

"Yup." He said and started walking out of the school, Kelly right beside him. "Do you have a car or do you need a ride?"

"Um, no, I don't have a car." She felt her face heating up. "A ride would be nice so I don't need to walk. It would be weird if you got to my house before I did." She chuckled awkwardly and mentally told herself to shut up and get her act together.

"Okay, follow me." Percy lead her into the school parking lot and motioned to his step-dad, Paul's, old Prius. "Hop in." He opened her door and then moved to get in himself.

"Oh God," Kelly whispered to herself. "He opened my door." She shook herself out of it and sat down, shutting the door. She set her backpack down by her feet and buckled herself in.

"What's your address?" He asked her, turning the keys in the ignition.

"2345 Minetta Street." Kelly replied, nervously reaching her hand up to twirl a piece of her straight blonde hair but realized it was in a messy bun. "How was your day?" She mentally face-palmed.

"It was alright. You?" He turned the steering wheel to the right.

Kelly shrugged and played with the bottom of her grey sweatshirt. "It was..good I guess."

Percy must have noticed her mood drop because he reached over and covered her small hand with his large one and Kelly's heart stopped. "Are they still bothering you?" He was talking about the two bitches of the school, Macy and Rebecca. They would make fun of Kelly for wearing glasses or reading and telling her she'd never find someone. But you know what? With the way Percy was acting around her right now, maybe, just maybe she has a chance.

"Yeah." She sighed and looked out the window.

"Don't let them get to you." He shook his head and retracted his hand from hers. "I had plenty of bullies when I was younger. Don't let their words get inside your skin."

"Thanks." She grabbed her backpack as he pulled up into her driveway, turning off the car. Kelly opened the car door and stepped out into the spring hair and took a deep breath in. "Come on." They stepped onto the porch and she took out a key, unlocking the door before heading inside. "I forgot to tell you no one's home."

"That's okay." He laughed a bit and set his backpack down and flopping down on the couch.

"Get up, Lazy Bones." Kelly teased, whacking his face with a throw pillow that was on the couch. "We have studying to do." He groaned and she laughed, grasping his outstretched arms and pulling him up.

"What if we skip the studying part and just hang out." Percy suggested. She bit her lip, very tempted at the idea, but shook her head and grabbed his backpack. She shoved it into his arms and they walked up the stairs to her room. "Why did I agree to this?"

"Because you want to pass." Kelly mumbled, opening her textbook to page 97 and opening up her notes. She glanced up at him to see him standing at the end of her bed looking around. "It's not like you've never been here before." She rolled her eyes. "Sit down and open the damn textbook."

"Okay, Miss Bossy." He sat down in front of Kelly on her bed and opened his textbook to the same page. He reached inside his backpack, pulling out his blue notebook and flipped through the pages of notes. "See, I'm studying."

"Uh-huh," Kelly wrote down a bullet point on a clean sheet of loose leaf paper. "It helps to make bullet points to remember important details."

Percy took out a pencil and started making bullet points and Kelly secretly watched him. No, not in a weird way. She raked her eyes over his muscular arms that were bear because of his black T-shirt. She looked down and saw him tapping his pencil against his black joggers as he read through his notes. He looked up and her face heated up. "What?"

"Huh?" Kelly played dumb.

"You were staring at me." Percy pointed out, his eyebrows scrunched together.

"Oh, I was just wondering why you were wearing all black," Kelly said.

"Oh." His cheeks turned red. "I didn't do my laundry and my mom is out of town." Even though he was good at lying, she knew he was lying but she wasn't going to push him farther.

They got back to studying and a half an hour later Kelly's phone vibrating in her sweatshirt pocket. She took it out and saw that it was a text from Rebecca. How she got her number, she didn't know. She opened it:

Why even try?

That's all she said. Those three words crawled underneath her skin and tied around her bones permanently. Kelly sniffled and stood. "I'm-uh-going to go get us a snack."

Percy's eyes narrowed. "Are you okay?" She shook her head and wiped at her watery eyes. "Kelly?"

"No, I'm not okay!" She cried, tears running down her face. "I've been bottling everything up inside."

Percy stood and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her to him. She wrapped her arms around his middle in return and placed her head on his chest. He rubbed her back up and down and swayed from side to side. "Hey, it's going to be okay." She shook her head and he placed his hand on the back of her head and kept it there. "Yes, it is. It's okay." She smiled against his chest and once again her face probably turned a dark shade of pink. He placed his hands on her shoulders and gently pushed her away. "Now, what about those-"

He was interrupted.

By a hissing noise.

Kelly looked over his shoulder and to the window where the sound was coming from and her eyes widened and she screamed, "What is that!?"

Percy whipped around and took out a ballpoint pen, uncapping it and it turned into a...sword?! "Kelly, stay behind me." She nodded as he ran down her stairs and outside to where this monster thing was. She stayed back by the door and watched Percy fight it. "Aren't you a bit tired of losing to me?" He yelled.

The dracanae rolled its yellow eyes. "Demigods."

"Well?" Percy shouted. "What are you waiting for, lizard?"

The monster's eyes narrowed and it pulled out a sword. "I am not a lizard! I am a dracanae!"

Percy rolled his eyes and took a fighting stance. "Yeah, I know that." He advanced on the monster and Kelly closed her eyes, not being able to watch if he got hurt. "Too easy." She opened her eyes and saw Percy kick some gold dust off the sidewalk.

"Uh..what?" Kelly asked, staring wide eyes and Percy.

"No time." Percy shook his head and started running, motioning for her to follow him.

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"Okay, we're here." Percy turned the car off and stuffed his keys into his pocket and stepped out of the Prius.

"We're at a hill." Kelly looked at him.

"Yeah." He started walking up the hill and Kelly followed. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood." Percy gestured to the camp below the top of the hill with a smile on his face.

"Wow." Kelly's eyes widened and her mouth was kept open.

Percy laughed at her expression and grabbed her hand, sending bolts of lightning up her arm. "Come on. I'll explain and give you a tour."

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"-so the gods are real?" Kelly asked. "And one of them is my dad?"

"Yes." Chiron, the centaur she just met, nodded. "You should be claimed soon. At the campfire tonight at the latest."

"Okay." Kelly looked around at her surroundings of Camp Half-Blood. "Can I have a tour now?"

Chrion chuckled and patted her shoulder. "Yes, Child." He glanced over at Percy who seemed to be asking a question with his eyes and the centaur nodded causing Percy to smile. "Go on now."

"Okay, Kelly, I will be your tour guide today." Percy said while he lead her around Camp. "So to our right is the volleyball court and we were just at the Big House." Kelly looked at the volleyball court and saw a bunch of teenagers playing, well, volleyball. "Over there behind the volleyball court is Arts and Crafts."

Kelly grimaced. "I suck at art."

"Me too but we're required to take it as one of our classes." Percy informed her, walking past the Arts and Crafts Pavilion.

"We have to take classes?"

"They're fun though." Percy said. "Don't worry."

"Okay." Kelly nodded and pointed at a large stadium. "What's that?"

"Oh, that's the amphitheater." He told her. "It's where the campfire is."

"Where's the fun things around here?" Kelly jokingly asked, elbowing him in the side. He laughed quietly and lead her to a thing that looked like a rock wall but had boulders falling down from it and lava flowing down. "What the hell?"

"It's a lava wall." Percy crossed his arms and watched as a teenage boy got hit in the head by a rock and fell down onto the ground.

"Isn't that a bit dangerous?" Kelly pointed out, gesturing to the whole entire lava wall. "I mean, no harness or padding on the ground. Boulders? Not to mention Lava?!"

Percy rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh, here at Camp Half-Blood everything is dangerous." He dropped his arm back to his side. "Anyway, let's move on." He turned to the left and began walking to the cabins. "These are-"

"Cabins." Kelly rolled her eyes. "I know what cabins are."

"Okay." He shrugged and moved on. "Showers and bathrooms." He pointed at a building beside the cabins. "Over here is the dining pavilion where we eat breakfast." He gestured to a pavilion to the left of the cabins. "And over here is really the last fun thing at Camp besides the lake."

"And what would that be?" Kelly asked and followed him over to an empty patch of grass where people were dressed in armor except for two girls who were sparring. One girl had choppy brown hair in braids and a feather connected to one of them. She was wearing an orange shirt and dark blue jean shorts with tennis shoes. The other girl and blonde curly hair that reached a few inches below her shoulders. She wore light, blue, and ripped skinny jeans with an oversize white T-shirt tucked in. "Whoa." She breathed as they fought with their daggers.

"I know right." Percy sighed. "They're really good."

"Yeah." Kelly watched as the blonde haired girl glanced over at her and Percy through the corner of her eye. She looked back at her opponent and continued sparring but then her eyes suddenly widened and she turned towards them. The brown haired girl looked over and her battle face turned into a soft one as she saw who the blonde was looking at. The blonde stood with her mouth half open and Kelly noticed that her grey eyes pooled with tears but none spilled. "Why'd she stop?" Kelly whispered but Percy didn't answer her.

The blonde dropped her dagger and started running full speed towards them. Kelly was about to tell Percy to move out of the way when something happened that made Kelly's words get caught in her throat.

The blonde ran to Percy and jumped up, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his hips. Percy laughed and hugged her around the waist, burying his face in her curls, and the blonde buried her face in the crook of his neck. Percy reached up and buried one hand in her hair, running his fingers through it.

Kelly took a deep breath and told herself, maybe they're just close friends. Yeah, that's it. She smiled at the sweet reunion and waited for the girl to get off Percy who surely liked her.

"Percy," Annabeth breathed, sliding off Percy so she was standing once again but kept her arms around his neck. "Y-you said you wouldn't be coming to camp till mid July."

"Plans change." He shrugged.

She reached up and placed her hand against his cheek. "I missed you."

"I missed you, too." He leaned into her hand. "Five months is way too long."

She nodded in agreement, tears pooling in her eyes again. "I really miss you." She bit her lip. "It's been rough. With the nightmares and all."

Percy wiped away a tear and smiled down at her. "Well, I'm here now."

"How have you been sleeping?" She frowned and brushed her thumbs across the dark circles under his eyes and glanced down at his dark clothing. "Not great, I'm guessing?" He shook his head. "Aw, Seaweed Brain." She pulled her arms away and looked over at Kelly. She stuck out her arm which was pretty scarred if Kelly might add. "Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena."

Kelly shook her hand. "Kelly Ross. I haven't been claimed yet."

Annabeth gave her a reassuring smile. "I'm sure you will be soon."

"Yeah." Kelly smiled. "Um, Percy? The tour?"

Annabeth glanced up at Percy with a frown. "Oh, he was giving you a tour?" Kelly nodded. "Piper?"

"Yup." She wrapped an arm around Kelly and started leading her away. "What have you seen so far?"

Percy looked down at Annabeth and wrapped one of his arms around her waist as they walked to his cabin. "I was studying with Kelly at her house when a dracanae decided to attack us."

Annabeth wrapped her arm around his waist and raised an eyebrow. "Studying?" He nodded. "At her house?"

He laughed nervously. "Annabeth, it wasn't like-"

She pressed her lips to his to shut him up once they got to his cabin. "I was just teasing, Percy."

He pouted, opening his door, and shutting it behind them. "I never know if you're serious or not." He sat down on the chair in front of his desk and fidgeted with riptide in pen form.

Annabeth frowned and sat down on his bed, in front of him. "Do you want to talk about it?" She asked him and he moved to sit next to her.

"About?" Percy asked.

She took his hand in hers and brushed her thumb across his knuckles repeatedly. "Your nightmares and how you've been sleeping."

"Oh." Percy ran a hand through his hair. "The dreams are the same every night." She gestured for him to continue and he swallowed hard. "It's always you dying in some way and I can do nothing about it." He looked at her with glossy green eyes and her heart squeezed painfully. "It seems so real and I don't want to lose you, Annabeth. I love you!" His voice broke at the end and Annabeth almost started crying herself.

"Percy." She laughed quietly but felt like crying and pulled him to her, holding him tight as he cried. "Seaweed Brain." She ran her hands through his black hair soothingly. He sat up after a few minutes and wiped his eyes. "You're not going to lose me."

"I wake up every night thinking that you actually died because I can't see or hear you and when I try to call or Iris Message you, you never answer and I get so worried and I just-" He rushed before he was interrupted.

"Percy." She smiled and placed both her hands on the sides of his face. "I love you and I'm here now." She grabbed his hand and placed it against her chest, where her heart was beating. "Do you feel that? I'm alive and here with you right now." She kissed his forehead. "Is that all you had to tell me?"

He shook his head and leaned it on her shoulder. "I'm afraid to sleep."

"When was the last time you got a full night of sleep?" Annabeth asked, leaning her head on top of his.

"Before Tartarus," He muttered.

Annabeth sighed. "Okay, I'll tell you what, I have permission to sleep in here with you." She told Percy who looked at her with wide eyes. "I'll sleep with you from now on at camp because to be honest, I haven't been sleeping well either."

Percy frowned. "Then why are you worrying about me?" He sat up and turned towards her. "Annabeth! You're worrying about me when you haven't even got sleep and you're telling me to get sleep? I should be telling you to get sleep!"

Her eyes narrowed. "I was just trying to help."

"Don't worry about me then, Annabeth." He said, raising his voice the slightest. "Worry about yourself."

"But, Percy-"

"You need sleep too!"

"I care about you more than I care about myself!" Annabeth shouted, standing up in front of him.

"Well I care more about you than I care about myself!" Percy shouted back and Annabeth's shoulders relaxed.

"Why are we fighting?" She asked, sitting back down next to him.

He shrugged and pulled her to him, hugging her tightly. "I don't know." He buried his face in her neck and pressed a kiss to the spot right below her jaw.

Annabeth laughed before tugging him down so they lay side by side and connecting their lips in a passionate kiss. She ran her fingers through his black hair as he wrapped his arms around her waist, sparked igniting between the two of them as they praise each other with each kiss. 

It was perfect until someone decided to barge in on them.

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"Where's Percy?" Kelly asked after Piper finished the tour.

"Probably his cabin." Piper told her. "Poseidon."

"Okay, thanks." Kelly ran towards the cabin leaving a smirking Piper who knew that she likes Percy but wouldn't tell her he had a girlfriend.

Kelly raised her fist and knocked on the door but no one answered. She knocked and all she heard was something hitting a wall or a backboard on a bed. "Uh, Percy? Are you okay?" She called in after hearing that sound but all she got was quiet laughter before it was silent again. "Okay, I'm coming in."

And man, did she wish she didn't. She twisted the door knob and what she saw literally tore her heart to pieces. Annabeth was laying beside Percy kissing him like there was no tomorrow. Maybe she was forcing him to do it? Yeah. That's what was going on. Kelly cleared her throat and both Percy and Annabeth broke away to look in her direction. 

He sat up and looked over at her. "Kelly? There's a thing called knocking."

"I tried," She told him. "You didn't answer."

"Knock again," Percy suggested.

"I did," Kelly said.

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Then don't come in at all. There's a thing called privacy, you know."

Kelly's eyes turned to Annabeth's and fire ignited in her blue irises. Not literally but that's what it felt like. "And you! You don't just force someone to kiss you!"

Annabeth's eyebrows shot up. "Excuse me?"

Kelly gestured to Percy. "It's not like he was willing to kiss you!"

"How would you know?" Annabeth asked, standing up.

"Because!" Kelly exclaimed. "You probably are threatening him or something?"

Annabeth started laughing. "Oh, yeah, totally." She rolled her grey eyes. "I'm totally threatening him to be my boyfriend."

"See!" Kelly gestured to Annabeth. "Percy, you don't have to be with that bitch anymore!"

Immediately, Annabeth stopped laughing and Percy's face darkened. "What did you just say?" Percy asked.

"I said you don't have to be with that bitch anymore. I know she's threatening you and she just confirmed it," Kelly said.

"There's a thing called sarcasm." Annabeth glared.

"Don't be a smartass." Kelly glared back.

Percy stood and stepped in front of Annabeth. "No one gets to talk to her like that. She's not forcing me to do anything, Kelly." Annabeth tried to push him out of the way but he wouldn't budge. "She is my girlfriend and she's not threatening me into it." He laughed humorlessly. "And now that I've seen the real side of you, maybe Rebecca and Macy aren't really that bad."

Kelly's bottom lip started to tremble and her eyes filled with tears. "Then why did you play me?"

"What?" Percy asked.

"What?!" Annabeth exclaimed, turning to glare at Percy with crossed arms. "Explain, please."

Percy put his hands up. "I have no idea what she's talking about!"

Kelly wiped at her eyes. "Today you opened the car door for me. Then when we were supposed to be studying you started hugging me super tight and had your fingers in my hair. Then when we got here you were holding my hand during the tour." She sniffled. "You made me think that I liked you."

"Oh please." Annabeth scoffed. "It's not like any of that happened. Right?" She looked up at Percy.

He rubbed the back of his neck and laughed nervously. "Well..."

Annabeth's eyes widened and filled with hurt. "Oh, wow, okay." She pursed her lips, nodded, and moved past Kelly to grab her tennis shoes and without a word she walked out the door, closing it behind her.

Percy blinked his eyes. "What did you just do?"

"Me? It was all you!" Kelly retorted.

"I never played you!" Percy exclaimed.

"Then what do you call what I just said?" Kelly asked.

"Okay, one, I opened your car door to be polite. Two, I hugged you because you were crying and hurt. Three, I was holding your hand so you could stop being a statue so I could give you the tour."

"Still," She shot back. "I like you okay? A lot actually."

"I have a girlfriend, sorry," Percy informed her.

"Do you?" She cocked an eyebrow. "Or did you mess it up?"

Percy's eyes widened and he stumbled over to get his shoes on. "If I did mess it up, it's your fault and I don't want you near me or her again." He tied his shoelaces.

"But what about friends before girls or whatever it is?" Kelly asked, her blue eyes wide.

"Friends wouldn't do this." He gestured around them once his shoes were on. "And I would choose her over any of my friends because she's not only my girlfriend, she's also my best friend." He opened the door and stormed out, Kelly right behind him. "Don't follow me." Kelly silently turned around and went to find something to do.

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Percy had looked everywhere and couldn't find her. She wasn't in her cabin. She wasn't in the Big House. She wasn't in the Arena. She wasn't the Dining Pavilion. He even asked people where she was and they didn't know. "The Lake," He whispered to himself and ran down to the lake.

He looked around, trying to find Annabeth in the darkness. He saw silhouettes of trees. He saw the stars. He saw the moon that was shining down on the water. But no Annabeth.

He was about to turn around and leave when he heard a sniffle and he turned back around towards the dock. Percy saw Annabeth sitting on the dock, her feet dipped in, and she was now wearing a grey sweatshirt over her T-shirt. Percy made his way over to the dock and silently walked to the end of it and sat down next to her. "Annabeth?" She bit her lip and turned her head, suddenly very interested in the trees on the other side of the lake. "Annabeth, come on, let me explain."

"Explain what?" She muttered. "How you flirt with other girls?" Her voice cracked and Percy squeezed his eyes shut at the sound but opened them again.

Percy reached over and turned her chin towards him and even in the dark her could see that her eyes were a little bit read. "I don't flirt with other girls." He proceeded to tell her why he did all the stuff he did and why it could have made Kelly think he liked her. "So, yeah."

Annabeth threw her arms around his neck, hugging him. "I'm sorry."

"Me too," Percy replied, wrapping his arms around her and holding her against him. "I love you so much and I would never do that to you."

"I love you, too." She smiled and closed her eyes against his chest. "So much.

After she fell asleep Percy carried her back to his cabin and laid her down in his bed and slid in beside her, wrapping his arms around her. He kissed her forehead and after brushing the hair away from her face, he soon fell asleep too.

The End

Sorry for crappy ending. I was in a rush.