Absolute Mortality

Chapter 11

So Percy and Annabeth have been dating for three weeks now. And for some reason it's driving me mad with jealousy. They were just so perfect together. I mean, I'd always been jealous of Frank Zhang's and Hazel Levesque's relationship, but I'm not constantly around those two. But I am constantly around Annabeth and Percy, so there's no avoiding their adorableness.

Annabeth, Percy, Leo, Nico, and I were sitting at our usual table during lunch on a Wednesday. Jason had chosen to ist directly next to me which made my heart feel like it was trying to escape my chest.

Grover wasn't here because he liked to eat lunch alone with his girlfriend, Juniper. Yet another adorable couple.

"Have any of you seen 9 yet?" asked Percy. He was, of course, sitting right next to Annabeth. They'd chosen not to hold hands so as not to have to eat their food one handed, which I'm grateful about.

"I've seen the trailer," said Leo. "It looks pretty interesting."

"I haven't heard of it," said Annabeth.

"Me neither," said Jason and I at the same time. My heart went, ba-dump.

"I've seen it," said Nico.

"Is it any good?" said Percy.

"I liked it. It's got a really dark theme to it."

"What's it about?" asked Annabeth.

"It's about this guy who puts his own life into these puppets after the apocalypse," said Nico.

"He put his life into the puppets?" asked Leo.

"It's an animated movie, Leo," said Percy.

"But how could he put his life into the puppets?"

"Of course Leo's already trying to figure out to put his life into puppets," said Jason.

"Should have seen him after we watched Coraline," I said. "Was ranting for weeks about the 'buttons for eyes' thing."

Jason and I laughed, but no one else did which made me feel kind of awkward.

"So do you want to see it this weekend?" said Percy who was looking at Annabeth.

"Yeah, it sounds interesting," she said.

"I can probably find it online," said Leo. He obviously would rather go to the theatre, but didn't want to infringe on Percy and Annabeth's (who he'd now nicknamed 'Percabeth,' much to the displeasure of Percy and Annabeth) date.

After lunch was over, I'd isolated myself with Jason. I'd finally decided enough time had passed since he and Reyna broke up.

"Did you see there's supposed to be a meteor shower tonight?" I said.

"Really?" said Jason."

"Yeah. I thought maybe you'd want to go see it."

"Yeah, sure. That sounds cool. When is it?"

"Around midnight."

"I'll see you then."

Jason had shown up at mine and Clarisse La Rue's dorm about ten minutes before midnight. Clarisse wasn't here. She was probably in some closet with her boyfriend, Chris Rodriguez.

We walked together up to the dorm roof. The door was normally locked, but I'd gotten a lockpick off of Leo who taught me how to work it.

Jason and I stood at the rail and looked at the sky. No meteors passed for several minutes. I didn't want Jason to think I'd dragged him up here on false pretenses (even though my pretenses were totally false). Finally, the first meteor streaked across the sky. Soon, more followed and there was one about every minute. My grandfather probably had some Cherokee myth to explain the meteor shower, but right now I was creating my own story.

Jason took my hand— my heart skipped a beat— and pointed to two stars that crossed each other to form a cross.

"Wow," he said. "I can't believe noone else wanted to see this."

"Actually I didn't invite anyone else."

He smiled. "Oh yeah?"

"Mmm-hmm. Six is a crowd, you know?"

"Yeah. Do you know how much trouble we'd be in if we were caught up here?"

"I'd make something up. I'm pretty persuasive. So do you want to dance, or what?"

He laughed. His electric blue eyes were incredible. His smile was even more amazing in the light of the stars. "With no music," he said. "At night. On a rooftop. Sounds dangerous."

"I'm a dangerous girl," I said.

"That, I believe."

I reached into my pocket and pulled out my phone and played music. "No music, you said?"

"I stand corrected."

I set it on the ground and took both his hands and we began to slow dance. Pretty soon, he leaned in— oh my god he made the first move— and kissed me. We stood there for an eternity.

Finally, he pulled away. We stared into each other's eyes, our noses several inches apart.

"Do you know why Reyna and I broke up?" he asked.

Wait, was he seriously going to talk about his ex-girlfriend right after we'd just kissed? I shook my head, deciding to humor him.

"It was mutual," he said. "We'd never have worked out. We didn't have much in common. The relationship was just awkward. And there was another reason."

A smile poked at the corners of my mouth. "And what was that?"

"I think you know," he said. I felt lighter than air as he leaned down to connect our lips once more. The song had finished and we were in silence now.

When we'd pulled away from each other again, I said, "So do you want to see that movie Percy mentioned?"

"Sure. But at a different time than them."

"Look," I said. "If this is a thing, I think we should hide it for a little while."

"Why's that?"

"Because Leo and Annabeth have been trying to pin us together forever and I don't want them to gloat."

"That sounds fair," he said.

He leaned down and kissed me again. I have a feeling we'll be doing that a lot from now on.

A/N: So, yeah. Another short chapter. I want this story to touch up on all the canon couples, so I had to get in a Jasper chapter. Also, I needed a good time skip so that I can get to writing some adorable Percabeth fluff.

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