A.N.: This is my very first story. I'm sorry if it's not very good so don't be upset if it isn't good. I do not own anything all rights to Rick Riordan.

*Annabeth's P.O.V.*

Today was the worst day of my life. I know what your thinking everybody has bad day's, but today was the worst I have ever had. I was already bad considering I have to live with a family who considers me an outcast. My own father doesn't even do anything to help if anything he makes it worse with him protecting his bitchy new wife Helen. (A.N.: I'm sorry if that's not her real name I couldn't think of it.)

See my real mother died when I was 12. I have to say she was probably one of the best mom's ever. Yeah, I didn't get to see her a lot but she made up for it on the weekend's. My mother is the very famous architect, Athena Chase, so she always had clients to attend to. My mother and I are a lot alike we both love architecture and we both love to read. We also look very similar, I have her grey eyes and her face but she has dark brown hair while I have my father's honey blonde hair. Now me and my father, Frederick Chase, look sort of alike, I mean you would know I was his child by the hair and the athletic figure, but then I look a whole lot more like my mom because of my face.

When my mom died, my father broke down and it was never the same...

*FLASHBACK*

It was just like every other Sunday my mother, father and I were heading home after we went to see a movie, it was around 8:00 P.M.,so it was sort of late because they had to get home cook dinner for me and then go to bed so they can get an early start for Monday. It was near the holiday season so we like some family's around that time we listened to the radio station trying to find Christmas music. (A.N.: Okay if you are not Christian or Catholic don't kill me, I'm half Christian half Jewish so don't freak over the Christmas stuff. Sorry! :( ) We all started to sing along to the songs while trying hard not to laugh at my dad attempting to dance while driving. We were having fun, when the best song came on, it was Mariah Carey's version of 'All I want for Christmas is you'. My dad instantly started to sing it to my mom...

I don't want a lot for Christmas

There is just one thing I need

I don't care about the presents

Underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas

Is you...

When my father finish with that part of the song my mom yelled "Frederick!" and pointed in front of us. My dad looked ahead and saw a drunk driver steer into our lane coming head on for us. My father tried to move towards the left but when he did that he only made it worse and my mother got most of the impact and me, well I flew forward a bit hitting my head on the middle armrest and saw black dots in my vision and a lot of red. My head started to throb and then I blacked out.

I awoke in a hospital bed, looking around trying to remember what had happened and why I was here. I held my head it was throbbing rapidly, I tried to remember what had happened and suddenly images passed through my mind. I started to freak out hyperventilating because I was so worried about what happened to my parents. I heard a creak of the door I look up and saw a nurse in scrubs walk towards me. I started to freak out and ask questions, "What happened? Where is my mother and father? Are they okay?". She looked at me and said, "You got into a car accident and your father is okay he only had small cuts and bruises but his right leg was broken on impact so he will have a cast for awhile." I look at her for a second analyzing what she said and then spoke with a cracked voice, "What about my mother?". She looked at me with a sad face and said, "Your mother is in surgery, her head had been cracked open when the other car impacted your own and she had a broken her right leg as well as your father did. When we brought her in she had lost a lot of blood, but we are unsure what will happen in surgery, so you and your father will be signed off to leave soon, but of course you can wait if you want for a few hours until after your mother's surgery." I hadn't realized I had started to cry until I tasted the salty tears in my mouth. I looked up at the nurse as she was about to leave and said "Ms.?". The nurse looked over at me with a concerned face and said "Yes?". I stared at her and said, "My mother isn't going to make it is she?", I started to cry. The nurse came over to me and said, "We do not know, but what I do know is that your mother is a fighter and she could have died in the car, but she fought to stay alive and with our doctors here we will try our best to help your mother fight." I looked up to the nurse while I wiped my tears, I sort of felt weak and I never liked to feel this way, but I reached out to the nurse and hugged her, I told her "Thank you". She looked at me and said, "Your welcome". I said "Goodbye" to her when she walked out of my room.

An hour later me and my father had been signed out of the hospital. We both decided to go to the cafeteria to get something to eat. When we walked in it was a big place with a bunch of tables with a big place in the back where all of the food was. It was mostly deserted because it was around 10:00 P.M., so most patients have already eaten or have been brought food. My father gave me some money to get something while he saved us a table. When I got over to the sandwich place to grab one I realized that I wasn't really hungry I just wanted to get away from where my mother was in surgery so I would think about it. I grabbed a ham and cheese sandwich, I walked over to the drink bar and got a bottle of water, and then I walked to the check out line and bought my food. I walked over to the table my dad was at. He was sitting glumly looking off into space, I watched him closely for a second. I saw how bad he looked, his eyes were bloodshot and his nose was red and he had a bunch of scratches on his face. He finally noticed that I was there and got up with his crutches and walked to go and get food. I sat down across from where my father had sat, I waited for him to get back and then I quietly took a few bites of my sandwich and a few gulps of my water as did my father. When we finished we silently got up together and had an awkward silence back to the waiting room.

We waited for about an hour or so. We mostly stared off into space and cried a little. Then when you would think it couldn't get any worse, it did. All of a sudden doctors and nurses flung in and out of my mothers room yelling at each other to get other doctors and nurses. When that finally stopped I got worried that something bad had happened. A doctor came out of the room and walked over to my father and I she said, "Mr. Frederick Chase and Miss. Annabeth Chase?". I answered for my father and I, "Yes that is us." She looked at us for a second and said, "Athena Chase is awake, but we are afraid that she will only have a half an hour left, I am so sorry, we tried our best, and she fought well but the impact was too much." I looked at her dumbstruck, I then asked in a cracked voice with tears streaming down my face, "Can we see her?". The doctor looked at us with a sad and apologetic look, "Of course but one at a time." I looked at my dad, he looked at me and said, "You can go first." I nodded. I walked with the nurse into my mothers room. She turned her face and looked at me with a small smile on her face. "Hello, Annabeth". I couldn't take it I ran over to her and hugged her and cried. She took my face and made me look at her, I said, "You can't leave me. I need you mom." She looked back up at me with apologetic eyes and said, "I know my dear, but it's just how this is going to happen. I need you to promise me something." I saw how fragile she look and said, "yes, anything you want mom." She stared into my eyes and said, "Don't blame your father for any of this. It is not his fault that this happened. I also need you to promise to at least try to listen to your father and try not to get into any trouble." I nodded and said, "I'll try and I don't blame him I know he tried to save us." She nodded, "I figured that you wouldn't blame him but he will probably blame himself so please help him and tell him it's not his fault. I nodded. "And one more thing,". she reached over to the table beside her, "Close your eyes and hold out your hand." I did as she told me. In my had was something cold and long, I couldn't tell exactly what it was. "Open your eyes." I did so and gasped. In my hand was my mother's favorite necklace that was given to her by her father who had it made especially for her, his favorite child, and on the necklace was both of our favorite animal, an owl made out of gems and gold. "No, mom, I can't take this from you." I tried handing it back but she said, "No, I want you to have it and keep it to remind you of me." I looked up at her and started to cry. I hugged her and then a nurse walked in and said, "Miss. Chase, it is your fathers turn." I nodded solemnly to her and looked back at my mother who smiled and said "I love you." "I love you too, Mom." I gave her one last hug and a kiss on the cheek and walked sadly out of the room after one last glance of my mother smiling at me, I smiled back and waved. The nurse then walked me out into the waiting room where my dad got up with his crutches and tried to hug me I hugged back and he walked into my mother's room.

After about 15 minutes my father walked back out solemnly and said, "We are aloud to go in together for her last few moments. I stood up and walked over to him. He held a hand out I took it and we walked into the room. I saw my mom again and I said, "I love you, Mom." "I love you too, Athena" my father said. She said, "I love both of you so much and I hope you both will have a happy life and I will eventually see you both again. I love you." Then her eyes closed and there was a long beep. I started to cry again and my dad brought me into a hug.

From that moment on my life hasn't been the same...

*END OF FLASHBACK*

So you see my life hasn't been great, then it got even worse 6 months later he tried online dating and met Helen and he had two twin boys Matthew and Bobby. Who are 4 turning 5 in about 6 months. I mean he could have waited a year until he got together with the devil, but no he found her they 'fell in love' and had two devil children.

When he started to date Helen he stopped most of our father/daughter time and Helen kept telling him that he didn't spend enough time with her. It got until the point where I had to cook, clean, and work to get money to buy stuff for school when I had just turned 13. Then when Matthew and Bobby came along within the next month or so I had to help out with them too, so I pretty much had no social life.

When I turned 14 I started high school and I made a couple of friends and when I say a couple of friends I mean two.(A.N.: I don't understand why some people think a couple is more than two. I mean 'a couple', like boyfriend, girlfriend is two people not more, so I just don't understand some people and this was a pretty useless A.N. but whatever. :P) There was a girl Thalia and a boy Luke. The girl Thalia had a sort of Punk look with spikey black hair and a leather jacket with leather pants but what ruined the image was her electric blue eyes, but to everyone else it made her scarier. Luke was another story he had short blonde hair and baby blue eyes and a scar that was across his eye down his cheek. Thalia and Luke had been best friends before high school and when I was being yelled at by a popular girl Thalia stepped in and we instantly became friends.

When I was 15, Thalia had gotten in legal trouble and her dad was pretty famous so she was sent to a boarding school and I couldn't keep in touch, but I still had Luke. Luke and me got closer and he ended up asking me out. I said, "Yes", because at the time I felt like I was in love with him, but I caught him cheating on me. That is when I broke...

I stopped going to school for a few days my father didn't notice he was too caught up in work and Helen didn't care enough to notice. Luke tried to apologies, but I wouldn't let him and I knew why he had done it. I wasn't ready for anything big yet like sex. He was always asking me and I guess he got tired of it and tried to move one with a popular girl. I then started acting out in class. I would tell the teacher when they were wrong, but I only did it to piss them off. I got detention an lot for that and that I was always late for class.

Then my father found out from the principal and he was trying to get me back on track. Or at least that's what he called it. He just told me that if I didn't then he would take away any of my privileges, I mean was he stupid? What Privileges? All I did was eat, go to school, come home, eat, do homework, and then do it all over again. He defiantly did not get threw to me, so after him probably complaining to his bitchy wife. Guess what she decided? Yep. You guessed it. Boarding school.

My father thought about if for a couple of days and then probably thought "Hey! Her life isn't fucked up enough already, let's make it so much worse, let's send her to boarding school!" When he told me that's where I was going I locked myself in my room for months and my birthday passed and there was nothing even close to a "Happy Birthday!". Yeah, there was Facebook where it tells you everybody's birthday but nope no birthday wishes.

Summer was already almost over school was about to start and I was 16 so now I can get my drivers license, and surprisingly since I came out of my room my dad let me get it, but I don't get a car and the only reason Helen let me get it was so that when I come home from boarding school I can drive Matthew and Bobby to places and to get grocery's and stuff like that.

"Today is the day" I thought, I have to leave with my dad to some stupid boarding school.

My life in hell was about to start...yay!

A.N.: Well I hope you liked it and if you didn't I'm sorry and please leave suggestions and reviews. Thank you!