F͜͡a͜͡l͜͡l͜͡i͜͡n͜͡g͜͡ f͜͡o͜͡r͜͡ t͜͡h͜͡e͜͡ s͜͡k͜͡8͜͡e͜͡r͜͡ | Percabeth AU

B͜͡e͜͡a͜͡u͜͡t͜͡i͜͡f͜͡u͜͡l͜͡?͜͡

"I love you, My Little Ballerina."

"I love you too, Daddy."

(End of flashback)

"All done," Helen said putting the final bobby in.

"Thank you." I smiled at her.

"I'll leave to it then, though you might want to get to the door before your father does." She laughed and turned to go.

"Wait Helen?"

"Yes, Dear?"

"Um, does this dress make me look a little strange?"

She looked confused. "What do you mean by strange?"

"Uh, like fat?" I bit my bottom lip.

"Oh Annabeth, you look beautiful. He won't know what hit him."

Beautiful?

You wish.

"Thanks, Helen." I lied and smiled at her.

"Ok bye," Helen said as she left.

I decided I needed a good luck charm.

Or more specifically good luck earrings.

Will brought these for me as part of a birthday present when we were fifteen. Here's where things got weird, these earrings were like four-leaf clovers or something because whenever I wore them I felt like a new person.

Will called it bullshit.

He said there was no such thing as the mystical powers of earrings, it was just me being confident. I refused to believe that he was right and he said for someone so smart I acted like such an idiot sometimes.

I was right, Will was wrong.

These earrings had some weird as magical power.

I put them in and looked at myself in the mirror one last time.

I didn't look... terrible?

Just then the doorbell rang and I rushed downstairs, Helen was right if I didn't get there before Dad he'd either interrogate the hell out of Percy or bore him to death with national geographic facts. It was my father's go-to conversation starter.

Too late.

"Did you know that an elephant's tusks are actually its teeth?"

"Uh..." Percy looked at my father with a confused look. "Cool fact, Sir."

"Dad! You'll scare him away with your weird obsession for animal facts." I fake huffed and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Ok ok, I'm just seeing that the boy that's dating my daughter is good enough." He joked.

I flushed red.

"He seems like quite a respectable young man though." My father nodded at Percy.

Percy rubbed his neck and blushed. "Uh thank you, Sir, she's quite a nice girl."

"Well, you kids have fun, but not too much fun."

I could've killed him.

"Leave. David Attenborough is over their Father."

"Ok, I'm leaving have fun." He called out as he walked back to the living room probably to watch even more nature documentaries. I swear he only does so that he can say weird shit to my friends and get away with it. Will says he knows way too much about a whale's digestive system thanks to my Dad.

"I'm so sorry, he's a little... strange," I said walking out and shutting the door behind me.

"Nah, you're Dad seems nice besides who knew that Elephant's tusks were its teeth." Percy laughed. "Besides it's better than being interrogated by my girlfriend's father."

Did he say, girlfriend?

Then he must've realised what he said. "I mean, uh, not that you are my gir-girlfri-"

I laughed. "It's ok."

"Oh, good." Percy blushed like a rose. "By the way you look..." He paused as if trying to find the word. "Stunning, you look stunning."

All the blood in my body rushed to my face. "Uh, thanks," I said looking down at my feet.

What nice heels these are?

He grabbed my hand in his own. It felt really nice, it made me feel safe. Like nothing could hurt me as long as he was there, not Drew, not my mother and not even the voices.

"Shall we go?" He said smiling at me.

I loved his smile.

It was so perfect but so imperfect at the same time. It was that stupid lopsided grin that gave me butterflies every single freaking time.

I wanted to kiss it off his face.

Guess I must have been feeling brave because I did. Told you these earrings are magical.

I grabbed him by the collar and kissed him full on the lips.

He didn't respond for a second and I got scared. But then he kissed me back. I threaded my hands in his dark locks and around his neck and he grabbed my waist and hip.

I had decided something recently.

I loved kissing Percy Jackson. It was maybe one of the single best sensations in the world. Percy wasn't my first kiss but his kisses were so... special for some reason.

There was that feeling again. I could quite put my finger on what it was but it was something.

When we pulled away he said. "Mm, your lips taste like strawberries, Wise Girl."

I giggled. "Shut up, Seaweed Brain and tell me where we're going."

"Gladly."

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There we go. I'm sorry this took me like a month. I had so much homework and so many assignments to do. I feel so bad for not updating. So really hope you guys enjoy this one.

But luckily school holidays are coming up so I'll probably have more time to update.

Thank you all so much for reading and I hope to see you next time.

-Navzoon ❤️