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However almost every time I have ever told a man I like rugby I am then asked a thousand questions to prove that I enjoy it.

I like it so much that I got the england rugby rose tattooed on my ankle, now when a guy asks if I like rugby I pull the bottom of my jeans up, show them my tattoo and say yes I do love rugby, do you?

chapter three 

What every mother wants for her son, a nice girl

 Annabeth had officially agreed to be my fake girlfriend and we had a contract that suited us both, I personally looked forward to not being asked a million questions about why I’m single and rather Annabeth being asked a million questions as to why she’s dating me, cant wait to hear her fake reason.

I left the coffee shop and headed home, I knew I was late for dinner, but it was take out night, so when I got home my loving family had thankfully saved me some pizza. We did our usual rounds of chatting. I asked my mum how the new book was coming along and she asked me how school was going, Estelle told us about a new boy in her kindergarten class that was left out so she asked him to play with her dinosaurs, I’m telling you she a great kid, nothing like me, at her age id already been in my first fight at school. Some things never change.

Whilst helping my mum clean up after dinner, she mentioned her book release party

“its next Saturday and the whole family’s going Percy which includes you and you need to look nice maybe a jacket and tie, and you will tuck your shirt in” she laughed

“ I promise mum ill look nice” I told her “anyway about the party I was hoping…”

“you’re not getting out it Percy”

“yeah I know mum I wanted to ask if I could bring someone” mum didn’t even bat an eyelid at my request

“yeah of course Grover can come you know he’s always welcome” she told me. You see Grover is my oldest and closest friend we’ve known each other since we were dorky losers at the age of 11. Both of us were new to the school and had no friends, we quickly had each other’s back and have ever since.

“no mum not Grover” I laughed “ I want to bring my girlfriend” that got mums attention

“girlfriend” she questioned

“yeah mum you don’t need to sound so shocked” she laughed

“I’m not shocked just surprised and pleased for you Percy that’s great it’s about time”

“muuuuummmm” I complained she only laughed at me

“what’s going on in here” Paul asked as he kissed my mum on the cheek. Yes, its gross but its much better than what the last guy she was married to did.

“Percy’s got a girlfriend” my mum proudly told him

“oh really” Paul asked “ who?”

“umm Annabeth chase” I told him

“wow really” he sounded really shocked like it wasn’t real, which obviously it wasn’t but he did know that

“whose Annabeth chase” mum asked

“she’s one of my students, a good one too, high grades she’s very popular at school as well, how did you become her boyfriend exactly” Paul laughed as my mum whacked him, though she was also laughing

I was offended that they thought she was out of my league; she is hence the fact that were not really dating but still.

“she happens to find me funny and charming” I told them

“I don’t believe that for second” Paul laughed “but good on you anyway”

“yes Percy of course Annabeth can come” mum said finally moving on from the fact that she was to good for me “any chance we could meet her first”

“umm yeah maybe” I answered

“why don’t you invite her for dinner this week” Paul suggested

I told them I would and disappeared upstairs with the excuse that I had homework which needed doing (which was true) so I could avoid talking about the fact that I have a new girlfriend (which was not true)

 I didn’t talk to Annabeth over the weekend and I wasn’t planning on talking to her until lunch, however those plans were thrown into the wind when I shut my locker and was greeted by Selina

“good morning” she said sweetly though it felt like she was about to end me

“uhh morning” ok good I sounded confident (not true)

“so what’s this I hear about you an Annabeth” right Annabeth must have told her

“what” I was coming off really dumb in this conversation

“she told me perce” I was really confused now, did Annabeth tell her we were dating or that we were fake dating

“look dumbass” rude but fair “ if you’re gonna be my best friends boyfriend you have to pass my test, Annabeth has a self destructive streak and I need to make sure you’re not the detonator”

I had no idea what she meant when she said self destructive streak, but what I did get from that conversation was that Annabeth had told her best friend that I was her boyfriend, step one of my plan complete.

“uhh ok shoot” I was not ready to be questioned but I had a feeling Selina wasn’t leaving without a interview.

“ok I use to have an intensive questionnaire but I worked out that there’s only one question that really matters and that’s why do you want to date Annabeth”

the question hit me like a train, I wasn’t expecting something so deep, the answer clearly meant a lot to Selina, and I guessed what other people had said before was, she’s hot or she popular or maybe even that she’s smart. And I may be oblivious or not the smartest guy but I’m not an idiot. I knew that they weren’t good enough reasons to want to be with someone.

To be honest with you I’m not really the type of guy to date because its fun or because I can. Even at this age I believe in dating someone to fall in love or spend your lives together however sappy that sounds, and i haven’t met anyone that I want to fall in love with yet, maybe because I’m only 18 or maybe because I’m a dumbass.

And I know that Selina has similar beliefs, I don’t know her well but I’ve know her for a long time and I knew the answer to this question was important because it’s the kind of question I ask myself when I started dating anyone, so I gave her the only answer I could

“because Annabeth isn’t like anyone else I’ve met, she doesn’t look at me like I’m a loser, or a dumbass even though I am. I wanna be with Annabeth because I’ve known her for along time and she never stops amazing me, or growing as a person, she’s hands down the nicest, smartest most thoughtful person I know, (all true) why wouldn’t I want to date her”

Selina looked satisfied by that “nice answer perce” she smiled a real genuine simile “but I’ve got my eye on you” and with that she flipped her fair and walked away

“yeah seaweed brain that was a good answer” if I was more observant I would have picked up on the fact that Selina kept glancing past me or that when she flipped her hair she threw a wink to whoever was behind me, if I paid more attention I would have noticed it was Annabeth stood there

“what can I say I’m an excellent boyfriend” I joked, Annabeth and I both knew I meant what I said but neither of us needed to say it

“apparently so” she laughed

“anyway, I was gonna ask you later but since you’re here, are you free after school at all this week”

“umm yeah I’m free Wednesday, why”

“did you wanna come over for dinner, you know meet the family and stuff”

Annabeth laughed “yeah I can do that”

“ok great ill drive you home on Wednesday then” after that we both headed to our classes.

 The next few days ran smoothly Annabeth and I talked in the morning and in between classes, we got our food together at lunch but we didn’t sit together which was ok, finally Wednesday rolled around, and the final bell rang.

In the time it took me to get to my locker Annabeth had somehow been to her locker, gotten rid of all her books, put a jumper on, said goodbye to her friends and made it to my locker, man that girl was quick.

“man, you’re slow” Annabeth laughed as I finally reached her

“yeah whatever” I laughed as I shoved my books into my locker “so ready for dinner”

“yes I will be on my best behaviour” Annabeth told me in a joking tone

“you know you’re having dinner with me right, you can be on your worst behaviour but still better than me” that made Annabeth laugh and she pushed me (in a friendly way) as we left the building.

Luckily we beat my parents home as we went straight to my house. My plan was to dump our bags in my room then go hang out in the living room, Annabeth however had other plans when she got in my room.

You don’t realise how much of yourself you revel in your room until you have someone stood in there judging it and essentially you. Annabeth turned to my open wardrobe mainly filed with hoodies and flannels, she eyed the photos of my family and friends on my desk, including photos of me holding my baby sister, and spending time fishing with my half-brother, Tyson. She looked at the posters on my wall, the marvel comics going back through the years, the office poster of Michael Scott’s movie threat level midnight, she did a double take at the worn out guitar in the corner, and the laptop which was still playing the good place on Netflix. It felt like she was judging my soul then she simply said

“cool room” I didn’t realise I was holding my breath until I breathed out. “I didn’t know you played guitar”

“umm yeah it was Pauls, when he started dating my mum he wanted to find something we could do together so he taught me, on my first birthday after they got married he gave me his guitar, he told me he always wanted to teach his kids, it was a big moment for us” I told her closing my wardrobe

She smiled at me “wow you really are a big softie aren’t you” I laughed. Annabeth spent the next half hour questioning basically everything in my room, we even got onto the topic of Tyson, Annabeth only stopped when she heard Estelle’s voice screaming for snacks

“ahh the family’s home” I joked as we walked downstairs.

“hello mother, Paul. This is Annabeth” I pointed at her; my mother hugged her instantly

“hi Annabeth, its so nice to meet you” Annabeth took a moment to recover

“umm its nice to meet you too Mrs Jackson”

“oh sweetie just call me sally”

“oh umm ok nice to meet you sally” id seen Annabeth be confident in every situation ever, but for the first time she seemed nervous, she would soon realise that my mum is the easiest person on earth to talk to

“and um hi Mr blofis”

“hi Annabeth, you can call me Paul here if you want”

“hi Paul” Annabeth smiled, mum and Paul went to put the shopping away in the kitchen

“your parents seem nice” Annabeth let out a nervous laugh

“yeah sorry about them being weird and everything, they’re just over excited I’ve never bought a girl over before” Annabeth looked surprised

“really why”

“I’ve never really had you know a proper girlfriend, I’ve been on dates and stuff but you know” I rubbed the back of my neck ( a nervous habit)

“that surprises me”

“umm yeah we’ll talk about it later” I laughed nudging her into the living room

“hi Estelle, this is Annabeth, you know the one I was talking about” Estelle was playing with her dinosaurs on the floor, she turned to look at Annabeth

“this is henry my dinosaur” she told her

“hi henry nice to meet you” Annabeth said sitting down to play with Estelle

“are all of these dinosaurs yours” Annabeth asked, Estelle nodded

“but you can have Tina so you can play as well” Estelle said holding up a stegosaurus which Annabeth happily took and played along with her

“you’re good with kids” I told her

“yeah I have little brothers, they’re twins so they needed twice the entertainment” she laughed

“I didn’t know you had brothers”

“I dint know you had a brother” she countered with

“fair point” I laughed.

Annabeth and I played with Estelle for about an hour before dinner was ready. I could tell you everything that happened over dinner but all you really need to know is that I absolutely made the right decision when I asked Annabeth to be my fake girlfriend. She was incredible, smart, funny my parents just loved her so much. It was a lovely evening.

I drove Annabeth home after dinner. I parked outside her house.

“thank you, Annabeth, for tonight. I mean really it went so well” I told her

“you know what your family are so nice and friendly I really did have a good time.” She said, I thanked her again as I walked her to the door, we hugged good night and I drove home

I walked into the living room where the rest of my family was and asked

“so, what do you think of Annabeth”

chapter two 

I draft a contract

Surprisingly I’ve had weirder walks home than this one in which I was thinking about the possibility of being Percy Jackson’s fake girlfriend. In all honesty I was a little flattered and I had read Sally Jackson’s book so it would be really exciting to meet her and other authors. I couldn’t seriously be considering this could I?

My walk home didn’t take long, I struggled through dinner with my family before heading up to my room. I had work to do for some of my classes but my brain wouldn’t let me focus on anything for too long, so I gave up and decided to do it some other time.

Unfortunately, the thing keeping my brain distracted was Percy’s question. I really had to think about it. Three months is a long time to date someone let alone fake date someone. Also I would have to talk to a bunch of people all the time and lets face it people are the worst so I don’t want to do that.

Percy did sound like he needed my help though, and Helen my step mother had been continually telling people I was single, saying things like “oh no ones interested in her”, “no no STILL no boyfriend” Its not like I wanted a boyfriend, just to be clear I am very happy but I hated when she said things like that cause It portrayed me as desperate and lonely, which I was not. So fake dating Percy could work in my favour.

Though everyone at school would think we were really dating and don’t get me wrong Percy is lovely and I guess I see why so many girls have a crush on him I mean he’s not horrible to look at. This was a really weird thing to be asked and such a difficult thing to decide as well. I spent about three hours trying to apply logic to the situation but in the end I decided to sleep on it.

Silena picked me up for school the next day. I decided not to tell her about what Percy wanted when she asked why he came up to me the day before, I shrugged it off telling her he wanted help with a paper he was writing.

“we need to pick Rachel up cause she has to bring her project in” Silena was telling me

“mmm” was my intelligent response as I was still uncertain about Percy, I barley even noticed Rachel climbing into the back of the car.

“thanks for picking me up guys, I just have too much to carry” she laughed

“oh honey its no problem really” Silena told her

“are you alright Annabeth you’re not normally this quite” Rachel asked

“oh yeah just got something on my mind” I smiled back

“oh really what” I liked Rachel don’t get me wrong but she is nosey, she has to be involved in other peoples business, which normally was great because I got all the gossip without being involved in any of it, but now that the tables had turned I wasn’t a fan

“its nothing really” I told her as Silena pulled into a parking spot.

The girls joined me on my walk to class which of course was English which meant facing both Percy and apparently his step dad.

“morning” Percy’s low voice came from behind me, I set my stuff down on my desk and tuned to face him

“morning seaweed brain” he laughed and took a seat behind me

“thought any more about what I asked”

“yes I have” I told him which wasn’t a lie “and I know what I’m going to do” I said which was a lie

“great how about coffee after school again… its on me” he said I only smiled and nodded as a response; the bell rang as class started as did the longest day on my life so far.

Normally science drags for me but that was the quickest lesson I’ve ever had, I was the last to leave after the final bell and I saw Percy stood by my locker talking to Selena and Rachel

“speak of the devil” Rachel said as I reached them

“hey guys” I responded whilst shoving half my books in my locker

“so Percy’s taking you out for coffee huh” Silena asked throwing me a smirk

“yep, he still needs help with that paper” I told her, throwing my own annoyed glance at Percy which he clearly picked up on as he said

“yep paper writing, and I have a lot to do, so we best go now hadn’t we”

“yes yes we should” I told him grabbing him by the arm and pulling him away from my locker

“ill see you later guys” I yelled back to them

Percy and I walked for about five minutes before Percy spoke up

“so you said you had decided” in that exact moment I had no clue what I had decided so I went purely on instinct

“yes, I will be your fake girlfriend, but I have conditions” I answered, whilst opening the door to the coffee shop

“yeah no that makes sense” he responded, we then agreed that he would get the drinks and I again would get the table, Percy sat down two minutes later his leg began instantly bouncing.

“you said you had conditions” he looked me dead in the eye for a second and I couldn’t speak.

“yes, if I’m about to fake date you for three months then I need to get something out of it too. If were going to fake date then I think we should go on dates” the look on his face was priceless so I continued “ I mean, if there’s a movie want to see you’ll take me to see it, so I don’t have to pay or go alone” at that he laughed “you know things like that, plus if people see us out then they’ll think its more real”

“that’s true” he said, he paused for a minute then he said “ that sounds fair, I take you to a movie or buy you dinner every now and again and you pretend to be my girlfriend so I appear less lonely” he smiled and I laughed, I think we just came up with the weirdest deal.

“so wise girl I guess that officially makes you my fake girlfriend”

“ I guess it does, when’s the first event, I wanna get some practice in beforehand” this time he laughed

“next weekend, my mum’s publisher is hosting a release party for the book, some of my mums author friends will be there”

“sounds like fun” I said

Percy and I swapped numbers and stuff and he gave me the details for his mums event. I wasn’t sure what I was thinking when I agreed to this ridiculous scheme but when Percy asked me to do something idiotic with him some part of me screamed yes, so I said yes

We left the coffee shop at the same time, he held the door open for me, we were going separate ways I waved goodbye to him

“bye perce”

classic percabeth fic

Chapter one 

I ask the weirdest favour

Have you ever had something that you have to do, and you really don't want to do it cause it's gonna be awkward and take a lot of effort but you know if you don't do it life will be worse, well that's what I had to deal with today.

I walked into school bearing this burden and completely expecting to be punched. I sat through my first 2 classes leg bouncing the entire time and it didn’t get better when the bell went.

I left class and went straight for my locker, I told myself if I didn't see her I wouldn't have to ask so I was purposely avoiding her. Yet I made the mistake of turning around.

As I sheepishly walked towards her I regretted my entire life.

"hey annabeth can I talk to you" god I hated myself

"uhh sure" she said in confusion which was justified as we'd only had about three conversations throughout the two years we had gone to the same school                                                      

"listen I'm about to ask you the weirdest thing I've ever asked anyone but I need you to hear me out" I quickly explained She threw me an odd look and after saying good bye to her friend who I believe was Selina, I also had a few classes with her, agreed to listen to me. 

"OK so my mum is kind of an author, I mean she's definitely an author and her book just came out so you know there's loads of press stuff and parties and things she has to go too and then there’s loads of family things going on and you know"

"Percy get to the point" she interrupted

"I need a fake girlfriend" I said with frustration

"WHAT" she practically yelled while I hushed her

"that was way over simplified, you said get to the point" I argued

"you can't just say that to someone" Annabeth responded

"I know that! thanks wise girl that's why I was trying to explain it"

"wise girl really" she complained but I ignored her and continued to explain

"look like I said I have a lot of events coming up in the next three months and at the last few things of my mums that I've been too, people have asked do you have a girlfriend, then I have to say no and explain why and it's a whole big thing"

"well just say yes and lie seaweed brain" she explained with a terrible insult that didn't affect me at all

"OK well that was rude, but you don't think I've thought of that, my mum would know that I don't really have a girlfriend but if I had a fake one she couldn't dispute it"

"that actually makes sense" she reasoned

"wait wait wait does that mean you're asking me to be your fake girlfriend" she laughed

"yes OK I am, I know we've never really talked its just I know how smart you are and you're respectable and people would be impressed if you were my girlfriend" I pleaded and then I think I saw a genuine smile

"that was actually quite nice, but I'm gonna need more information than that come on" she joked

"yeah OK" I agreed "what if we get a coffee after school or something"

"after school works for me" she said rearranging her bag clearly ready to leave "I’ll meet you outside" she had started walking backwards and turned when she finished I watched her for a second before heading to my own class.

You would think that after having asked the weirdest favour I would be mentally prepared for the after school chat we were going to have about it. Unfortunately I had spent most of the day thinking about what kind of pizza I was gonna have for dinner, ham and pineapple, however that didn't really feel important when I saw annabeth leaning against the brick wall of the school. "hey seaweed brain" she smirked once she had spotted me, I stopped only a few steps away and responded smoothly with

“hiya” just to clarify I have never said the word hiya before and I didn’t enjoy it Annabeth laughed at my clear dismay and asked where we were going.

“theres a coffee shop not too far from here” I told her as we began walking, thankfully the walk was short as neither of us said a word, which is understandable after I abruptly asked her to be my fake girlfriend.

Annabeth picked a table in the back whilst I ordered a black coffee and an English tea, Annabeth told me she preferred tea to coffee, she’s clearly forgotten we live in the U.S where 90%of everyone’s blood is coffee.

“so you need a fake girlfriend” she asked as I sat down and slid her tea over too her.

“yes, look I know it sounds odd but its quite rational when you have all the facts” I told her

“then give me the facts” she said. I wasn’t sure how well received this information would be, and I promise im not crazy, im just an idiot who doesn’t know how words work.

“ok so like I said my mum has events for about three months and that includes a bunch of family events and stuff, so I need you to be my fake girlfriend for three months, you’d have to come to the events and come to mine about once a week for dinner or something to keep up the illusion..” Annabeth interrupts my rapid rambling

“that’s a lot of information perce, but can I ask why me, were not exactly close friends”

She was right about that but I hadn’t picked her randomly so I told her why I did “I chose you because, you get along with people really well, you’re nice to everyone. I also knew you would enjoy these events and getting to meet authors and stuff, plus you’re smart and paul knows you so he knows you’re a good student and a good person” she smiled at that but I quickly turned to more confusion

“who’s paul?”

“oh right Mr Blofis our English teacher, hes my step dad” I told her

“really I never knew that” the stated

“yeah, which would mean we would also have to pretend to be a couple at school so Paul didn’t find out” I explained

“so let me get this straight” she said before listing things off “I would be your fake girlfriend; I would go to the events with you and family things, pretend to be your girlfriend at school, come to your house at least once a week and this would all be for three months”

“umm yeah pretty much” I told her. She didn’t say anything for a minute and instead finished her tea, this was it she was gonna laugh in my face then tell everyone at school that I asked her to be my fake girlfriend and I would have to move schools again.

“ill think about it” she said, my confusion must have been clear on my face as she followed that statement with “I need a day to think about it and come up with some of my own terms”

“ok yeah of course yeah you need to think about it, yeah no defiantly” I basically shouted at her, though thankfully she did laugh

“ill see you tomorrow perce and give you an answer” she said getting up to leave, I told her I looked forward to it as she walked away.

Chapter three

Chapter two