Leo quietly hummed a tune as he headed down to the Poseidon cabin. Now was his chance to ask Alexandra out! That underwater kiss was nice (I know it's a cliché by now *cough couch Percy and Annabeth cough cough*), but Alexandra still didn't take the hint. So now, Leo was hoping he would win her over with this list of cheesy pick-up lines he found on the Internet. Yes, cheesy pick-up lines. Leo was thatdesperate.

As he got to the familiar cabin, he grabbed the handle and twisted, opening the door a crack to peek in. There was Alex, sitting with a book, reading intently, for her eyebrows furrowed many times. He pushed the door open all the way, quietly tiptoed in and closed it behind him. She just flipped the page in her book and didn't even notice Leo.

The cabin was completely empty, which was good. Leo didn't need the assault of Alex's twin brother, Percy, while he was trying to hit on her. It would be embarrassing and just weird.

"Hey, Alex!" Leo said, walking up to her and sitting next to her onto the bed. "What's up?"

She didn't say anything, just nodded her head and continued reading.

"I-it's a good thing I brought my library card." Leo started, his face turning a bit red. "'Cause I'm checking you out!" He gave a weak smile, but Alex still kept her eyes trained on the book.

"Hey Alex? Do you need another bone in your body?" Leo was feeling really stupid using the most overused and dumbest pick-up lines anyone has ever used. He was feeling pretty uncomfortable and his face was turning redder by the second, if it was possible.

"If I were to rearrange the alphabet, I would put 'U' and 'I' together." No reaction. Leo mentally sighed. He would have expected Annabeth to at least give him a definition of where the word 'alphabet' came from.

He tried another. "There are twenty one letters in the alphabet, right?" This was an inclusive one. The partner had to reply or it didn't work.

"No, there are twenty six." Leo smiled a bit. The first words she had said to him since he got here. She was still into her book, but at least she said something.

"Oh yeah!" He mumbled stupidly. "I forgot 'U, R, A, Q, T.'" Leo's hands went to grip the edge of the bed, smiling a bit harder, but still blushing a bit. So it went on like that for a while. Leo would say something stupid, trying to get Alex to react.

"Even if there wasn't any gravity on Earth, I would still fall for you!"

"If I received a nickel for every time I saw someone as beautiful as you, I would have five cents."

'Can I have your picture so I can show Santa what I want for Christmas?"

After maybe, a hundred different pick-up lines, Alex pressed her finger to Leo's lips, silencing him. She turned away from her book to look at Leo with a 'are you serious?' look.

"You know Leo, if you want to go out, just ask." She said, un amused, and turned to finish her book, her back to him. Leo blinked a bit awkwardly, and stood up, wobbling a bit, since he sat there for a while, and started to head out, but Alex grabbed his wrist, stopping him.

"Hey Leo?"

"What?"

"Are you a parking ticket? 'Cause you've got FINE written all over you!" She blushed as she said that, still staring at her book. Leo gave a small smile, and she let go of his wrist.

"See you at eight?" He asked, turning to face her.

She looked up. "Yeah. Meet me here."

"Gotcha." Leo gave Alex a little wave and headed out of the cabin. As he closed the door, Jason was standing there, giving him the evil eye.

"What?" He asked, feeling awkward under his heavy gaze.

"That was probably the dumbest shit I've ever seen. I can't believe it worked, even with Alex." Jason huffed and crossed his arms, looking away from Leo.

"Try it. It might work for you too." Leo elbowed Jason a bit in the arm as Jason blushed, slapping Leo's arm away.

"Fuck off." Jason muttered, as Leo shrugged innocently and headed off the other direction to his cabin, whistling a happy tune.

Thank you Rock n' Fuckin' Roll for letting me use this story. The actual story is this link

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