"Oh gods." Annabeth heard Frank muttered somewhere behind her, but she felt herself reeling as she stared down at the body beneath them. Their teacher laid sprawled out head bent slightly at the neck, a pool of blood rushing out of it.
Calypso bent down trying to take his pulse, but it was pretty clear he was gone. His gold eyes were staring blankly towards the sky, his face frozen in horror and shock. Calypso finally stood up her two fingers caked in blood as she shook her head.
"Oh gods." Frank muttered again.
Somewhere next to her she could feel Hazel retching in the trashcan, but Annabeth couldn't even make herself feel disgusted. For the first time in her life, she couldn't think straight. Everything had happened so fast; it was a blur. Even as she tried to replay it in her mind to make sense of it all, she couldn't. All she knew she knew was the end result, which was the one thing she didn't want to know.
She glanced up to find a fight breaking out between Percy and Piper. Annabeth tried to focus as Percy yanked the phone from her hands and smashed it on the concrete.
"We can't call the cops! Do you want to go to jail?" He asked her, his glower darkening.
"We can say it was self-defense! They'll let us off." Piper cried out in desperation her lower lip trembled.
"No they won't! Look at him Piper; he's dead! We killed him." Piper glanced down at their now deceased teacher and broke out in sobs.
"We have to get rid of him." Percy said, Annabeth was slightly worried about how calm he was about this all, but she was more grateful at least one of them was thinking straight.
"Oh no, no! No! Not calling the cops is one thing, but this!" Piper exclaimed, black mascara streaks running down her face. No one bothered to tell her that.
"We can't leave him here!" Percy glared at the girl.
"If we leave no evidence there was no crime right?" Calypso spoke this time, as she scanned the parking lot looking for danger.
Piper glared at the girl so hard, Annabeth thought she was going to pounce. Hazel sat on the sidewalk curb next to Piper, but she looked like she was going to be sick again.
"No! You two are crazy! I refuse to be a part of this, I'm going to the station." Piper declared standing up, but Jason grabbed her wrist.
"Let me go! I swear Jason!" But Jason wasn't the star athlete at the school for nothing. Jason had an iron grip, even without trying, so Piper was going anywhere.
"They're right." Jason's voice was grim as he glanced down at body, his expression matching his voice. "No evidence, no crime."
"You're crazy!" Piper yelled, her green eyes glaring up at the six foot three blonde.
"Piper…calm down." Calypso said smoothly.
"Calm down! You want me to calm down! We just committed murder!" She yelled, before Jason clamped his hand over her mouth, muffling what she was saying.
"Leo, you got any duck tape?"
Annabeth had forgotten the boy was even there, which was very unusual since he was always cracking jokes or playing pranks, however he looked nowhere in the laughing mood. In fact he seemed almost angry, as he glared upon their teacher.
He turned to where Jason was holding Piper and his gaze softened up a little. He seemed to have a silent argument with his sister, before he won. Jason noticed it too as he promptly let go of her. Thankfully, she didn't make a run for it.
"Fine, so how do we get rid of him without any evidence?" She said, arms crossed over her chest.
"We burn him." Annabeth said finding her voice. All heads turned to her as she spoke. "Fire, will destroy all DNA traces and reduce him to ash, therefore no one should be able to find him." Annabeth said her brain finally clicking on. She tried to think of a plan, which wasn't too hard, if she didn't think about what exactly she was covering up.
"Calypso, Piper, Jason, wash the blood off the pavement, try not to get any on you. Leo…" Annabeth turned to the prankster, who seemed to be fiddling with his hands.
"Can you hack into the system? I need you to delete all the video footage of us."
"Aye Aye, Captain." He saluted.
"Frank, Hazel, Percy and I will go to the dump and…" Annabeth trailed off, but nobody needed an explanation.
"Jason, Frank, let me see your blazers" Annabeth order, her voice taking on something even she didn't recognize. Frank automatically shrugged his off, while Jason was weary, but she had no other option.
Annabeth knelt down and tried to wrap Mr. K's head so the blood wouldn't drip when they carried him to the car. She nodded trying not to think about what she was doing.
"As long as everyone does this, they shouldn't come after us. Everything will go back to normal."
Even though she said that, Annabeth highly doubted that, but she knew she couldn't say that, not if she wanted the plan to go flawlessly. They were scared, heck she was scared, but there was no way out of this. If anyone found out, they would all be hauled to jail, and Annabeth was so close to graduation and college, she refused to let anything stop her. Not even a dead teacher she had just murdered.