Prologue
It was inevitable, even the sun didn't have the strength to rise, on the fateful day, prone to disaster. More commonly known as Monday. Annabeth slowly dragged herself out of bed to shut off her screeching alarm. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she pulled back the covers of her new bedding, it had a floral bedsheet with a light denim blue colored comforter. Neatly tucking the edges, Annabeth set off down the stairs of her new loft to search for coffee. Cardboard boxes were strewn across the floor, a victim to her excited unpacking. She was proud of her new loft, it wasn't necessarily small, yet it was perfect for herself, living on her own for the first time. On one wall of the apartment was a rich tan colored brick wall and on the opposing wall was her glorious collection of books. Yet even with the enormous bookcase, books and blueprints were strewn all around her living room. You could almost say it looked messy, but that was how she liked it, orderly chaos her father used to say. Overall it had a industrial feeling to it. She had moved in not just two days ago from San Francisco, to the big apple New York. New York was her dream, to go to Columbia for her college years, yet of course that dream was instantly snuffed out when the money she saved up for tuition was used by her awful stepmother for her step brother's braces. Those little devils. Susan never liked her and the feeling was reciprocated after one too many times being accidentally "forgotten" at the store when she was little. Yet luck had struck her after her sophomore year at UCLA college. After, the hours of babysitting her brothers, neighbors, family friends, and her job at the library. She had raised enough money… for the plane ride there. So after months of searching for scholarships she, submitted her architectural design to the University of Columbia in New York, and after a week she received a letter back from Athena Minerva Professor of Professional Practice and Chair, of the Architecture department at Columbia. A full architectural scholarship. That was the day everything clicked into place. That day she found a place in New York just minutes away from campus, and she left. She left Susan, her barely there dad, and the life she hated for something new, the opportunity of a lifetime and the last two years of the best years of her life. She didn't even look back for a second. It was all planned out. She would finish college and get a job with a large architectural company. There was no more room for anything else stupid like romance.
If only things turned out the way she thought…...