The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)

by Rick Riordan

“And so…hypothetically, if these two people liked each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?”

She makes moves fr

“Good luck.” Rachel kissed me before I could even react. “Now, get going, half-blood. Go kill some monsters for me.”

THIS IS CRAZY

“I don’t need time. If I die, I die. I can’t worry about that, right?”

I mean, sure, she’d always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.

Before I could lose my courage, I said, “Don’t I get a kiss for luck? It’s kind of a tradition, right?” I figured she would punch me. Instead, she drew her knife and stared at the army marching toward us. “Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we’ll see.”

OKAY PERCY

“You’re cute when you’re worried,” she muttered. “Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.”

But this was Annabeth. If I couldn’t trust her, I couldn’t trust anyone.

She put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.

“Go ahead,” Nico said. “Blast me. That’s just what the other gods would expect from you. Prove them right.”

Baby boy is eating him up

“Did you…” Luke coughed and his lips glistened red. “Did you love me?”

Luke....die

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

“We need a shroud,” I announced, my voice cracking. “A shroud for the son of Hermes.”

:(

Nico sat cross-legged on the ground at his dad’s feet.

Hes baby

Tyson looked nervous, but he went to stand in the middle of the Council, and Zeus grunted. “Doesn’t miss many meals, does he?” Zeus muttered.

The gods were glaring at me, but Annabeth had her hands over her mouth. Her eyes were shining. And that kind of made up for it.

Then she laughed for real, and she put her hands around my neck. “I am never, ever going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.” When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.