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I really should help with plans for capture the flag, I thought to myself as I sat in the arena, glaring at the dummies set up for our use. Instead of helping, I was hiding away like a coward.
I stood up, grasping my knife in my hand. I didn't really know what I was doing. I stopped in front of the first dummy, and looked down at the short blade in my hand.
Luke... I miss you.
I was surprised to see a water droplet on my knife. I glanced up at the sky. A clear, sunny day. Zeus was in a good mood. I looked back down at my knife. There was more water, dripping steadily. I raised a hand to my eye, and felt the moisture there.
Luke, why did you have to leave me? I thought we were a family.
I know I shouldn't feel this way. Everything was cleared up and okay now. At least, that's what I told myself. I raised my now soaking knife, and viciously sliced the dummy open. Straw jumped out at me, but I sliced through that too.
I hacked at the dummy, panting slightly from the work. When it was reduced to a pile of straw and an empty potato sack, I moved on to the next dummy.
"Damn you, Luke! Why?! Why did you do this to me?" I said aloud, slicing the dummy down the middle. By now, there was a constant flow of water from my eyes that I couldn't stop. For a moment, I wished that I had Percy's water controlling abilities. Maybe they could stop tears too.
"I don't understand! I feel so alone!" I wiped at my raining eyes furiously, then slashed the next dummy to shreds. There were only two more left.
I stopped in front of the next one and slowly drove my knife into its belly, then slowly sliced in a spiral. Then, I slashed all of its limbs off. Then, I stabbed two 'x's for eyes with a sad slash for a mouth.
I steeled my resolve, and sliced it horizontally across the middle. I trudged to the last dummy.
"I guess I'll never know. Goodbye, Luke." I cut off the dummy's head in one fluid strike. I turned around, and saw Percy with a concerned but kind of frightened look on his face.
"Are you okay? You were kind of screaming."
"I was not."
"Yeah, you were."
"Okay. So your point is?"
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
"Annabeth. Talk to me," he said walking over to me and putting his hands on my shoulders.
"Maybe later." Percy's eyebrows furrowed, then he smoothed out his expression.
"Okay," he said. "Soooo," he said, drawing the word out. "I really hope you weren't thinking about me when you were mutilating those dummies."
I froze. Percy hadn't even crossed my mind when I was hacking at those dummies. Except for the water thing. I shook my head. His brows furrowed again, and he reached a hand up to wipe a tear away. I was so stiff by now that if you hit me against Percy's hard head, it just might have cracked.
He usually didn't show this much affection for me. For anyone. Why now? Why did he make butterflies explode in my stomach? Why did he have to make my heart skip a beat and my breath hitch in my throat? Why, why, why?
"Why am I crying?" I asked him. For once I didn't feel shame for it. I let the tears drip off the end of my lashes.
"Because you feel betrayed by Luke and you want to know how he could do such an awful thing to you?"
"Way to be sensitive," I mumbled.
"What's that?"
"Never mind, Seaweed Brain."
"Whatever you say, Wise Girl." He retracted his hand, just noticing that he still had his hand on my face. I could feel the blush on my face, and I quickly turned away to hide it.
"I... I better go. See you later, Percy."
"Bye." I sprinted off to my cabin to sort my feelings out.
Confused Annabeth. Hard to do. Congrats, Percy.
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