Chapter 1

I dream about Rachel. She's walking down a school hallway being surveyed by a bunch of girls around her age wearing plaid skirts and shirts with a logo I'm unable to read. Some whispering as she walks by, one of them catching her attention … or my attention. The mist isn't as strong where she is so I get very worried as to what she's walking into. I'm sure she notices the bones creating her face and the familiar evil look in her umm… eye sockets? She breezes by with no problems until she takes a few more steps. The monster is standing in front of her with a few other familiar faces behind her. A familiar red headed cheerleader and her sidekick. I can't remember their names only that they rhymed.

"I'm back and I see your little hero send his sidekick to spy on me?" she lets out a breath of anger preparing to launch at Rachel.

I step forward trying to get in between Rachel and this crazy cheerleader, but I'm paralyzed. I'm stuck pulling and aching in guilt for letting her go to that school. Rachel stares blindly at her probably deciding how to fight back. She's clever like that, clever enough to beat her once , but she is stronger now. They both are.

"Afterlife didn't treat you well I see." Rachel says almost spilling some laughs along with it.

I can agree with her comment considering her lack of eyes. She brushes past Rachel knocking her down against old rusted lockers.

"You won't be so arrogant when you're dangling by your feet in the underworld. Oh it will be fun. Hey maybe your little boyfriend will be there too!"

Boyfriend. Rachel must be about to explode of anger now. I feel shaking as my vision goes black. My eyes open. Annabeth.