The minute Percy found out that Annabeth had a boyfriend, he felt a pit in his stomach. When he had first seen her, she was all he could think about. She was so beautiful that she seemed to glow. After studying her for the next few days and seeing how kind and caring she was, he liked her even more. If that was possible.

He met Rachel his 3rd week at Goode. She was pretty and seemed cool, so he gave her a chance. Most of the time while they were dating, even though it felt like cheating, he thought about Annabeth.

When he found out about how much of a bitch and a player Rachel was, he dumped her almost immediately. It did hurt a bit when he saw how fast she moved on though, and he vowed to do some digging on whoever he would date in the future. Almost immediately Annabeth came to mind, but he pushed the thought aside.

After a while, he began dating Calypso, a sweet girl from Ogygia, a small town just outside of New york.

Next time he saw Annabeth, she was reading a book with her back to a large pine tree. Her friend Thalia sat next to her, playing with an extremely sharp pencil. He took a peek at the cover and sure enough, it was about architecture. He smiled to himself. He was glad she hadn't changed since they met.

A few weeks after he broke up with Calypso, he decided to go for a walk to the park. He hoped Gabe was too drunk to notice his absence, but still promised himself to not be gone long.

When he arrived he recognized a familiar face. Annabeth Chase, he looked around to see if he could see any younger sibling of hers, she hasn't mentioned any siblings around him, but then again the only time she actually talked around him was at lunch, when she spent more time ignoring him than actually talking to him.

She looked around and a look of sadness crossed over her face, Percy almost walked up to her, but decided against it remembering the look on her face whenever he sits down at lunch.

Suddenly two young boys ran up to her and started arguing, he couldn't quite make out what they were saying. Annabeth laughed, and stood up and walked away, the two boys followed.

Percy sighed, realizing that he had been gone too long, and hurried to get home. As he walked through the door he prayed to the gods that Gabe hadn't noticed he was gone, he slowly entered his alcohol infested house and looked toward the couch to see that Gabe was indeed asleep and snoring very loudly, he had a bottle of beer in his hand that was being spilled onto the carpet, a lit cigarette in his mouth and many empty beer bottles and cans at his feet. Percy quickly and quietly made himself a sandwich and ran into his room. He knew that he would most likely not see his mom 'till tomorrow because lately she had been working very late into the night at the candy store to pay the rent.

He decided that he would not be able to fall asleep after many failed attempts, and decided to try to do his homework, he knew that it was hopeless. He never understood anything he learned in school. Shortly after he started he soon fell into an uneasy sleep waking up many times during the night.

Percy woke up to the sound of a beer bottle crashing against the wall, he grimaced, and checked the time 5:36. He ground inwardly, he didn't have to wake up for another hour and a half. He knew he couldn't go back to sleep.

He jumped as he heard the door slam open,"Where The Fuck Were You Last Night?!" Gabe demanded. Percy didn't respond not knowing what to say, Gabe stormed up to him and used one of his arms to pin him against the wall, "I asked you a question!" he yelled in his face, "I-I took a walk" he stuttered. That was when Percy noticed the bottle in Gabe's hand. "No!" Percy screamed as Gabe brought the bottle down on his head, it smashed, shards of glass flying everywhere. Gabe brought it down on him again, swiping it across his arm and cutting him badly. Trying not to scream,he forced himself to look Gabe in the eye "I'm sorry, I should not have left without your permission" he forced out, "Damn right" Gabe grumbled, and stormed out of his room.

Percy slowly stumbled his way into the bathroom, trying not to make any sound in fear of alerting Gabe. Once he shut the door he sat on the floor and found the first aid kit he kept in there for mornings like this. Slowly he tried to dry the blood without turning on the faucet, any sound could alert Gabe and he would be dead in minutes.

Slowly, he fixed himself up and headed to school. Hoping.. Praying that no one would notice that something was wrong with him.

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