best friends (lovers on the side) {percabeth high school au} {text fic}

chapter forty // baked just right

percy:
i screwed up.
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it was dumb.
Read 11:11am
i am dumb.

Annabeth liked a message

so you're going to ignore me unless i'm insulting myself?
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i know you said no contact but
i just can't let you think that that meant anything
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annabeth:
please stop texting me. it doesn't matter what it meant, i am not at a place to care.

percy:
you don't wanna talk?

annabeth:
about w h a t , perseus?
i'm genuinely happy for you and rachel.

percy:
you think rachel dare could hold a candle to annabeth chase?
heck no.
i just wanted like
a distraction i guess.

annabeth:
a distraction in front of the whole school at 8am lol

percy:
okay i didnt know that that was going to go like that

annabeth:
i'm going block your number if you keep texting me.

percy:
a risk youre worth taking, wise girl!!!
please. meet me somewhere later. we can talk.

annabeth:
being in the same place is what gets us into trouble

percy:
youre worth every risk, annabeth.

annabeth:
sometimes showing people what they mean to you is not taking risks at all and just keeping them safe.
just doing what you know keeps them safe.

percy:
let's recap.

annabeth:
no.

percy:
well u don't get a choice.

annabeth:
but i do

percy:
well i think u made it already then

annabeth:
??

percy:
u had every opportunity to go through with blocking my number and u havent. so we're gonna recap now.

annabeth:
...

percy:
true or false: we broke up because of the monsters

annabeth:
okay, true.
but you can't ignore what they did.
you were helpless, percy.

percy:
it could've happened whether we were together or not.

annabeth:
you didn't see the way you stared into your cereal bowl every morning like you were just a human carcass, percy. like they took everything from you. because they had. you knew o n e name and even then you could only remember it sometimes. and if i hadn't been next to you, they wouldn't have found you so quickly.

percy:
hera did what she wanted to do.
it was not your fault.

annabeth:
but it could've been prevented.
Delivered 12:01pm

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