Percy
Annabeth and I have been dating for a month now. It has been the best month of my life. Not only because of her, but I have started hanging out with Jason more. He has been the first real friend I've ever had. He recently started dating this girl, Piper McLean.

She is a Cherokee girl, and her dad is an actor. She is pretty, I guess. She has olive skin, caramel hair, and eyes that always change color. But she is nothing compared to my Wise Girl.

We all take a weekend trip with my mom and stepdad Paul to the beach at Montauk, a place my mom used to take me to all the time when I was younger. It was where she and my father met, and I always feel closer to him when we are here, even though I don't really remember him.

Paul and my mom drove us down here and they are setting up the cabin while the four of us are at the beach.

Naturally, I am in the water swimming while the others are on the shore. When I come up for air, Jason, Annabeth and Piper are all laughing at me, and I have no idea why.

Annabeth comes into the water a little ways, only to about her knees, still laughing. Tears start forming in her eyes from laughing so hard.

"What in the world is so funny?"

She reaches up to my head and pulls a large bunch of seaweed from my hair. Then pulls me in for a kiss, laughing the whole time.

Her kisses still have this effect on me, making my brain seize up. So it is no surprise that when she breaks the kiss, I can only say, "uh, um, um... tha-thanks."

"I think some of that seaweed got stuck in your brain. Wait, that's it. That's my nickname for you, Seaweed Brain!"

"I guess that's fitting," I laugh, then I lunge at her. She tries to escape, but to no avail. I wrap my arms around her and I jump backwards, completely submerging us.

When we surface she yells at the top of her lungs, "PERSEUS JACKSON YOU ARE SO DEAD!"

Luckily at that moment I hear mom yell at us for dinner. I take off and I reach the shore first, sprinting toward the cabin, and hopefully the safety of my mother.

Jason and Piper quickly move out of the way, laughing harder than before. I almost run into Jason, luckily I didn't fall and succumb to Annabeth's fury. I had almost beat her to the cabin when I tripped over a piece of drift wood, face planting in the sand right in front of the cabin.

The next thing I know, I have a soaking wet, angry girl with wild hair on top of me hitting me faster than I can block any of the attacks. "You are going to pay for that, Seaweed Brain!"

Then, by some miracle I am able to grab both of her wrists and pull her down so I could wrap her in a hug and kiss her. Her anger quickly melts away and she starts kissing me back.

"You are lucky that you are so cute, otherwise you'd be black and blue right now."

"I have no doubt about that, I actually think I will be anyway," I say with a grin.

That's when we hear a throat clear behind us, I turn to see my mom looking at us, trying not to smile. "What on Earth is going on here?

"Umm, Annabeth just out of nowhere tackled me and started hitting me?" I try.

"Oh as if! Mrs. Jackson, Percy dunked me into the ocean then took off, and I caught him and made him pay for it."

"It was completely unprovoked mom!" I try to defend myself as we both stand up and Annabeth walks over towards my mom.

"Percy, I find it hard to believe that this smart, beautiful, wonderful girl would have attacked you unless you gave her a good reason to be attacked." She wraps Annabeth in a hug while she says this to me, trying to keep her smile from showing, and not doing a very good job of it.

I give a look of shock, "You really do love her more than you love me!"

Both of their smiles are huge, "Oh Percy, you know that I love you. You are my only son after all."

"You aren't denying what I said. So answer me, who do you love more, mother dearest?"

"Oh would you look at the time, dinner is ready guys!" My mother says, dodging the question expertly, grinning at me.

"Come on Seaweed Brain, let’s eat your birthday dinner." Annabeth pulls me inside, the look of shock still on my face. Jason and Piper follow us in, still laughing at the whole scene.

For my 18th birthday, my mom makes roast beef, potatoes and garlic bread. All that was good, but I am really looking forward to the dessert.

"Is that cake... blue?" Jason asks, looking confused. Piper's face is almost as confused as her boyfriends.

"Ever since Percy was really little, I've made him a blue cake. He asked for one at his sixth birthday, and he wouldn't take no as an answer."

"Gee, my Seaweed Brain being stubborn? I couldn't ever believe that," Annabeth says in a sarcastic tone.

I stick my tongue out at her and she smiles back at me.

"I agree with Annabeth on this one Percy. You are such a stubborn guy. You make some of my old grandpa's bulls look completely agreeable," Piper says, starting to chuckle.

"Geez, I thought it was my birthday, not roast Percy day." I put my hands up in surrender, "Go easy on me guys!"

I turn to Annabeth as she says "Seaweed Brain, I will never make things easy for you." Then she grabs my shirt and pulls me in for a kiss.

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