Painful Memories

Smile

Percy's Pov.

730 days, 104 weeks, 24 months, basically 2 years that I've lived with no light in my eyes, a hole on my heart, and no magic in my smile, 2 hole years without my wise girl. A few months ago Piper make me realize that I couldn't live like a walking dead, without much sleep and remembering Annabeth all the days of my life trying to somehow with Nico or Hazel talk with her or just see her in Elysium, she always said that Annabeth would be happy if I'm happy and the only way that I can be happy is having a someone fill the hole Annabeth and Leo left when they died. Today was my first date I've had in two years, and I didn't want to ruin it.

After I took a long bath, I put on my new peach, collar, and button polo shirt and some (also new) jeans that Pipes and Hazel said they looked good on me, on. I brushed my hair in a normal style and put some lotion on two. I heard the door or my room in the Argo II opened quickly,

"Percy hurry up dude, we want to witness your maybe fail of date you are going to have today," Jason laughed, his voice had changed a bit and he has like a tiny beard under his chin that Piper says it makes him look handsome and Hazel and Frank just stare at it sometimes.

"Really funny, Jason, but are you talking from personal experience, I mean are your date a fail?" I responded, "Do you want some ice for that burn?" I made a little tornado of water and splashed it in his face, "I think water helps too."

"Ha, ha, ha," he clapped in every syllable, "just come on."

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I ran to the first table I saw in outside part if my favorite Italian restaurant were we were supposed to meet and waited. 1-minute passed, nothing happen. 2-minutes passed and nothing happen. 3 minutes passed and a wait desperately tapped my finger on the table, I new I was being impatient but really I just couldn't wait to see her. I put my head down keeping my finger tapping even though it was getting tiring I just kept going. Five minutes later I heard some hard step becoming harder and harder when it got closer, I knew she was coming just that the sound of the steps got me hypnotized and imagine what if this date would be a fail or what if I remember her of what she has been through, what if I hurt her, what if... then the steps stopped and a sweet voice that sounded slightly fake said, "Hi, uhm...? Percy?"

I looked up, she looked beautiful, her long coffee brown hair fell in a fishtail braid along her shoulder, she had a gold flower crown, and her deep black eyes glowed like they normally did. She was wearing a purple short dress and darker purple high heels. I stood up and pull the chair back offering with my eyes for her to sit like a gentleman. She sat down and I did too in my chair, "Hi Reyna, you look beautiful today," I leaned to her and kissed her on the cheek smelling the wonderful smell of her perfume.

"Thanks," she said shyly.

We talked and laugh having a great time. I looked at her eyes and grinned without stop, we ate pizza, and it was perfect with no awkward moment but one. When she was about to leave I stood up and leaned again towards her to kiss her on the cheek but she moved and I don't know if it was an accident or she did it intentionally but my lips got in contact with her lips and after a while of just standing there that was actually like half a second I let go and my tongue curled with her tongue inside our mouths. I put my hand on her back and got closer to her she put her hands around my neck. I was actually liking this but before I could even realized that there was someone in front of us I felt burning hard punch on my face and fell right to the floor. I was looking at dead man, or at least at someone I remembered dead, it was the old friend, Leo Valdez had just punched me. I turned to Reyna that was Petrified looking at him like she had cried so much for him and if this was an illusion it was playing a cruel and heartless game with her. I stood up face to face with Leo and heard with heavy breathing, I waited and gave him the biggest hug I had ever give o a person.

"Valdez!!!! You are back single Pringle ready to mingle." I shouted in relief, "But how?"

"Long story..." he waited, "Is actually not that long though I will tell you later now look at this," he pointed to a large heavily thick scar on his neck of when they had chopped his head of, "Pretty cool, huh," then he look at Reyna with wide big eyes.

Reyna stared at both of us as with as pure snow, she looked at me and I just looked at her back and finally pointed to Leo understanding she was asking with her eyes if it was okay to kiss him or do something, she came running to him and hugged him and kissed him, and he did too. After a while Reyna pulled away. Silence covered the air and suddenly Reyna just gave Leo a huge and loud slap on his making Leo's cheek a tomato.

"What was that for?!" Leo asked confused and angrily.

"I... don't know." She whispered

They just kept kissing for some time while I just awkwardly stood there when Leo stopped and reached for his pocket and gave me a letter. "It's from Annie." He gave it to me and gave me his support look with Reyna curling the tips of his hair and smiling at him. They kept kissing with passionate moves, if you know what I mean. I looked at the letter and smelled. Yep. Ended it was from Annabeth it smelled like her, like a mix of "sweet pea," her perfume with a touch of vanilla. I felt its texture and slowly opened it and started reading,

Seaweed brain,

I miss you, I miss your smile, and it's true you know, that does that die stay with you, I've been with you all this time and in two years you've barely smiled. Sometimes I feel it's my fault but Percy I promise will be together and that someday I'll kiss those salty lips again someday. The only thing left to say is that is boring in Elysium with out you,

Be Strong.

Annabeth

"I miss you too!" I shouted feeling her beside me. I sat down in the grass near the fountain and read the card again and again and again, like if I would only stop if my eyeballs fell and got lost. I remembered her laugh, her laugh, her smile, and her wise tips like, when you are feeling down is when you need to smile the most, seaweed brain. I closed my eyes felling the hot sun on face and the hard concrete of the fountain in my back, the drops falling on my head. I remembered and I smiled, I love you, and I don't know when or how but it was the first time in two year that I've fallen asleep and didn't have that painful memory, I dreamed of our first kissed and some others after that one, I slept in peace, and somehow wi slept with my wise girl beside me.