Percy's P.O.V.

Today is the day, I thought to myself as I walked toward the Athena cabin. I'm carrying some roses and a heart-shaped box of chocolates to give to Annabeth. Today is the day that I'm going to tell Annabeth I love her. I was shaking with nerves, thinking of all the things that could go wrong. But as I arrived at the door I pushed those bad thoughts out of my head and hesitated for a moment before knocking on the door.

I stood at the door for a few minutes before knocking again. I was starting to get a little impatient and reached up to knock again when the door suddenly flew open, and I accidentally knocked on Malcolm's head.

"Ow," he shouted, and grabbed his head.

"Sorry, I didn't meant to hit you," I quickly apologized.

"It's ok, just remember that I'm not the door next time. And you don't have to knock so hard," he said while rubbing his head.

"Sometimes I just forget how strong I am."

"Well, anyways, what brings you over here," he glanced down at the roses and chocolates, "Annabeth?"

"How'd you know," I say with a grin.

"Lucky guess," he smiled back. "I haven't seen her in a while, but I saw her walking into the forest a couple hours ago."

"Oh, why would she be going in the forest," I raised and eyebrow inquiringly.

"I don't know, but what I thought was weird is that she went into the forbidden section of the forest."

Weird, I thought, I'll just ask Annabeth when I find her.

"Thanks for your help, Malcolm. See you later."

"Anytime, Perce." he said and closed the door and rubbed his head one more time.

As I was walking over to the forbidden part of the forest, I started thinking of all the bad thing that could go wrong again. What if right after I tell her a flying cow falls on her, I thought to myself. Hera still has a grudge against her so it was actually probable, and stranger things have happened. I was so caught up in my thoughts I tripped over a tree root, but not just any tree root. Juniper's tree root. I knew that Juniper purposely tripped me, because when I stood up and tried to keep going forward another root tripped me.

I was starting to get annoyed, so I knocked against the tree bark like it was a door. Not a moment later Juniper appeared next to me.

"May I help you, Percy," she asked innocently.

"You can help me by telling me why you keep tripping me," I said, annoyed by her innocent tone.

"I don't know what you're talking about," she kept playing innocent. I just looked at her knowingly, like an I-know-you're-lying-to-me kind of look. She sighed loudly and it looked kind of like some of the happiness left her and she kind of looked...sad. Which was weird, because Juniper is always happy and smiling(unless she is worrying about Grover or nature stuff).

"Is Grover okay," I ask. I haven't seen or heard from Grover in a while, but he usually Iris-messages Juniper every other day. She looks at me confused for a moment.

"Yeah, why wouldn't-"

"Are people cutting down even more trees in rain forests and killing the peaceful animals that live there?"

"No. Well yes, but that isn't what-"

"Did people stop recycling?"

"No, people are still-"

"What is it then?" I demanded.

"Will you shut up and let me finish talking?!" She yelled.

"Okay, okay, calm down."

"I just don't want you to see what's over there. It'll break you, I know it will."

"Nothing can break me, I'm invulnerable, remember?"

"I didn't mean phisically," she said ominously.

"I don't know what you're talking about," I say, thoroughly confused.

"You'll have to see for yourself, but don't say I didn't warn you."

"Okay, I won't say you didn't warn me."

She didn't say anything back, she just looked at me sadly and pointed to my right. I turned to see what she was pointing at, but all I could see was lots of vines and tree branchs and leaves. I turned back to Juniper to ask what she was trying to show me, but when I turned to face her, she wasn't there. I turned back in the direction she pointed and tried to squeeze through the greenery, because I would feel bad if I cut it down because there were nymphs all around(plus, I'd probably get lots of nymphs angry at me, and an angry nymph is not a pretty sight).

As I was manuevering through the trees and vines, I heard a little bit of rustling up ahead. I thought it might be Annabeth and I looked down at the chocolates and flowers in my hands. They looked pretty beat up, the flowers were torn and bent in random directions, the bow of chocolates was smashed in and I bet some of the chocolate was smooshed. Then I looked at my clothes and they were all dirty and had a couple small rips and holes in them from the thorns I was walking through. It's the thought that counts, right, I thought. So I pushed through the last of the plants while picking thorns out of my hands and arms. When I looked up, I saw my beautiful Wise Girl in the middle of the clearing.

But, she wasn't alone.

This is my fist story, and I hope it's good! Review please!