There it was. Looking at it made me sick at the pit of my stomach. See Annabeth? See what being dumb can do? How could I let this happen? What would my mother think of this? As a goddess of wisdom, Athena would never had been this idiotic.
I was looking at a early pregnancy test and the pink + sign was glowing at me... proving to me again that I was an unprepared idiot.
It had been almost two weeks sense camp had started. Children of Gods such as Hermes, Athena, Ares and Aphrodite were running around from their activities. As I looked around, I smiled. How carefree these kids were... nothing to worry about in their life. Of course, they had to worry that they might get killed every living minute, but they still didn't have a care in the world about stuff in the real world. Like getting pregnant.
There was a sudden noise of the conch shell being blown for everybody to know it was meal time. Everybody started racing up to the big house to get their food. Among them were also the counselors, and my best friends in the world. Grover, Nico, Thaila... and Percy.
Percy and I have been dating for three years now. After the prophecy was broken (the one that said that a child of the big three would either rule with or against the Olympians...) we got together much to our parent's dismay; the relationship has been going strong sense. A little too strong actually, Annabeth, I said to myself.
After getting some steak to be used as an offering to the gods, I walked over to the fire pit and dropped it in there. Please accept my offering, Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and Artemis, Goddess of Childbirth. I needed all the help I could get in this situation. I vowed to make the same offering at each meal just to keep my luck up. I just hoped my mother wouldn't hear me.
I sat next to my fellow counselors at the head table and started eating. "Hey Wise Girl" Percy sat down next to me and gave me one of his genuine grins at me. "How did archery go today?"
"Pretty good... I swear, all of Ares' kids have a gift with the bow and arrow."
He laughed, his eyes crinkling, being so happy. Little did he know that I was going to be extinguishing his happiness after dinner.
"No kidding... the god of war's blood is running through their veins. They're going to be natural killers."
"You're right... which is why I don't give them any pointers that will make them mad because they might kill me."
Percy laughed again and held my hand "Listen," he said "if any of those kids are giving you trouble, you send them my way and I'll put them back in line."
I could feel the heat rising to my face. Percy was always so sweet to me... always looking after me to see if I was always ok. I squeezed his hand and went on with my meal.
Pretty soon, Mr. D stood up from his chair and held up his hand to quiet down the place. Kids hushed other kids and those kids hushed those kids, it took a long time before they finally quieted down.
"It is with great displeasure that I inform you that next week we will be having a game of capture the flag wi-" no sooner had Mr. D said the words "capture the flag" the entire mess hall had erupted with cheers and smiles. Capture the flag was a ritual we all played at camp... everybody loved it. "Ahem, as I was saying," Mr. D said while the comotion had died down, "We will be having a game of capture the flag with the hunters of Artemis.
Suddenly, the great room had become silent. Sullen looks had replaced the happy and gleeful looks that were previously on everybody's faces. The Hunters were usually not welcomed by the campers... especially when we played Capture the Flag because there had ever been a time when the campers had beat the hunters. Ever. Hopefully we would get a chance to beat them... but it wasn't a huge possibility. No offense to Camp Half Blood, but the hunters were extremely organized and always had a plan that was brilliant.
After dinner, we all went to our cabins... I lingered a while so I could talk to Percy alone; but I couldn't find him. Great. Right when I really needed to talk to him, he disappears.