p class="MsoNormal"Chapter 1/p
p class="MsoNormal"Annabeth/p
p class="MsoNormal"I stared up at the impressive stone building before me. I had finally made it; I had got away from my old life, half the country away if I was honest with myself./p
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p class="MsoNormal"Why was I so nervous though? I looked down at my hands and saw them shaking furiously. I stuffed them under my arms in order to stop them. I never got nervous before gymnastics meets not even at the Olympics, so why now?/p
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p class="MsoNormal"Perhaps it was because it was my first time at a real school or was it the fact that lots of people had started to stare and I had already heard one girl whisper to her friend "That's her I'm sure of it, Annabeth Chase the gold medallist". I took another breath and walked towards my new life./p
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p class="MsoNormal"I wandered in my own bubble for all of five minutes before I was stopped by a giant hug from behind/p
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p class="MsoNormal""Annie!" a blond headed boy of about 19 was clinging around my neck./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey Luke" I smiled while trying to prise his hands from my neck without much luck./p
p class="MsoNormal"Luke looked released me from his bear hug and tousled my hair style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"How are you finding Columbia then?" he asked me quizzically./p
p class="MsoNormal""I've barely been here ten minutes I'll tell you at the end of the day, Ok?" I quipped./p
p class="MsoNormal""Fine I'll see you later" Luke's face contorted for just a second before it resumed it natural charming smile./p
p class="MsoNormal""Bye" I almost whispered as I watched the receding figure of my best friend./p
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p class="MsoNormal"I thought back our first meeting at my gymnastics club when I was only 3. I had fallen trying to land a trick and he came and sat next to me until I was better I smiled as I remembered his kindness. We had been inseparable ever since all the way to the Olympics, well almost all the way. I still remembered the day when the list went up and his face the way it fell as he desperately searched for his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe supported my journey to the games even when I had to move to Texas to train full time./p
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p class="MsoNormal"He was the only thing I missed. I had no other friends, when your home-schooled and you spend all of your time training there isn't much time or opportunity for making friends./p
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p class="MsoNormal"My parents weren't much better my father and manager pushed hard but I knew it was because he loved me. My mum well she … I reached up to touch my owl necklace the present she had given me before my first national competition and the last time she saw me compete./p
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p class="MsoNormal"The police said the car came out of nowhere and that she couldn't have done anything. My father had become very protective of me after that and I had just buried my self with training. My dad moved on pretty quickly though … with my/p
p class="MsoNormal"Publicist. A blonde bimbo who probably had no clue where I even was right now. When I was younger I had wondered how she still had a job but I guess that when you screwing your employer it doesn't matter if you forget small things like an international meet with China./p
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p class="MsoNormal""Fuck" I looked round and realised that I was late for my class./p
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p class="MsoNormal"I ran into the Architecture building and pushed the door open with all of my might causing it to slam against the wall and for all of the students to look up and stare at me. Then the whispers started again./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""OMG it's true she's here"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Look at that body"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Do you think she would sign my book?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"I flung myself into the nearest seat and tried to concentrate on the lines in my notebook and block out all of the people talking about me./p
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p class="MsoNormal"The lecture started and I became engrossed in my second love architecture when suddenly I girl with piercing all over her ears and face. I was sure that I could see a tattoo peeking from under her band hoodie (a band I had never heard of before)./p
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p class="MsoNormal"This girl who had the nerve to barge into his lecture on the first day dumbfounded the professor. "Your name is …" he started to stutter but was quickly cut off by the girl./p
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p class="MsoNormal""Thalia " the professor started scanning his list. The girl sighed impatiently "Thalia Grace"./p
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p class="MsoNormal""Jason's brother?" the professor looked genuinely surprised at the name. This comment caused a wave of murmurs to fly through the lecture hall./p
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p class="MsoNormal""Yes my brother is the all great and powerful Jason, king of the field, kind and noble and all round goody-goody."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"She slumped back in the chair next to me and I finally had a chance to study her. Her black hair was backcombed or maybe she just hadn't brushed it for 5 years. Her hands were weighed down by the rings she wore on her fingers and I wondered how she could lift them above her waist./p
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p class="MsoNormal"The rest of the lecture was uneventful until the end when I was packing up my notebook when Thalia spoke for the first time since her entrance./p
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p class="MsoNormal""Hey you're that gymnast aren't you, got tired of prancing about in a leotard have you thought you could try it in the real world, well I hate to break it to you but it would be better if just left before you release that just because you have a gold it doesn't mean anyone will like you"/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"I stared at her as she strutted away from me in her skinny jeans swinging her ass. People around me had seen our fight, if that was what you would call it, and were shaking their heads and then the whispering started again. My face turned bright red as I grabbed all of the remaining things off my desk and I walked down the stairs trying to grasp to the remaining strands of my dignity./p
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p class="MsoNormal"As I got outside I tried to stop the tears from rolling down my face. I looked around and saw the other people staring at me and I had to try very hard to not yell at them to fuck off./p
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p class="MsoNormal"I was walking towards the exit of campus when I saw him. A crowd of people where gathered around them. A group of boys who were obviously some kind of sports teams. They lifted their captain onto their shoulders and processed him towards me. They placed him down onto the ground and he was embraced by a red head who had the figure of a Victoria's Secret model and I looked round half expecting a posse of models to come round the corner looking for their lost member./p
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p class="MsoNormal"They kissed and the whole team cheered. I watched transfixed by this glimpse into a life that I longed for. The boy was muscular but not grotesque like the gymnasts that I had met. His hair was brown and his eyes … his eyes were like nothing I had every seen before. They moved like the ocean one moment green like jade the next deep blue like the sea. I found myself dreaming about being in his arms and I imagined how his lips would feel against mine. I don't know how long I watched this scene for but I was snapped out of my trance by Jasmine calling me from the side of a black bulletproof car. I saw her and ran towards her thinking that was the end of my green eyed boy and me./p
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p class="MsoNormal"strongHi this is my first story and I hope you enjoy it I am aiming to update at least once a week. Please review so I know what to include in further updates. I hope you enjoy and no hate please./strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongAlly/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongxxx/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"Annabeth/p
p class="MsoNormal"I stared up at the impressive stone building before me. I had finally made it; I had got away from my old life, half the country away if I was honest with myself./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Why was I so nervous though? I looked down at my hands and saw them shaking furiously. I stuffed them under my arms in order to stop them. I never got nervous before gymnastics meets not even at the Olympics, so why now?/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"Perhaps it was because it was my first time at a real school or was it the fact that lots of people had started to stare and I had already heard one girl whisper to her friend "That's her I'm sure of it, Annabeth Chase the gold medallist". I took another breath and walked towards my new life./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"I wandered in my own bubble for all of five minutes before I was stopped by a giant hug from behind/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""Annie!" a blond headed boy of about 19 was clinging around my neck./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey Luke" I smiled while trying to prise his hands from my neck without much luck./p
p class="MsoNormal"Luke looked released me from his bear hug and tousled my hair style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"How are you finding Columbia then?" he asked me quizzically./p
p class="MsoNormal""I've barely been here ten minutes I'll tell you at the end of the day, Ok?" I quipped./p
p class="MsoNormal""Fine I'll see you later" Luke's face contorted for just a second before it resumed it natural charming smile./p
p class="MsoNormal""Bye" I almost whispered as I watched the receding figure of my best friend./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"I thought back our first meeting at my gymnastics club when I was only 3. I had fallen trying to land a trick and he came and sat next to me until I was better I smiled as I remembered his kindness. We had been inseparable ever since all the way to the Olympics, well almost all the way. I still remembered the day when the list went up and his face the way it fell as he desperately searched for his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe supported my journey to the games even when I had to move to Texas to train full time./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"He was the only thing I missed. I had no other friends, when your home-schooled and you spend all of your time training there isn't much time or opportunity for making friends./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"My parents weren't much better my father and manager pushed hard but I knew it was because he loved me. My mum well she … I reached up to touch my owl necklace the present she had given me before my first national competition and the last time she saw me compete./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"The police said the car came out of nowhere and that she couldn't have done anything. My father had become very protective of me after that and I had just buried my self with training. My dad moved on pretty quickly though … with my/p
p class="MsoNormal"Publicist. A blonde bimbo who probably had no clue where I even was right now. When I was younger I had wondered how she still had a job but I guess that when you screwing your employer it doesn't matter if you forget small things like an international meet with China./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""Fuck" I looked round and realised that I was late for my class./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"I ran into the Architecture building and pushed the door open with all of my might causing it to slam against the wall and for all of the students to look up and stare at me. Then the whispers started again./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""OMG it's true she's here"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Look at that body"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Do you think she would sign my book?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"I flung myself into the nearest seat and tried to concentrate on the lines in my notebook and block out all of the people talking about me./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"The lecture started and I became engrossed in my second love architecture when suddenly I girl with piercing all over her ears and face. I was sure that I could see a tattoo peeking from under her band hoodie (a band I had never heard of before)./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"This girl who had the nerve to barge into his lecture on the first day dumbfounded the professor. "Your name is …" he started to stutter but was quickly cut off by the girl./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""Thalia " the professor started scanning his list. The girl sighed impatiently "Thalia Grace"./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""Jason's brother?" the professor looked genuinely surprised at the name. This comment caused a wave of murmurs to fly through the lecture hall./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""Yes my brother is the all great and powerful Jason, king of the field, kind and noble and all round goody-goody."/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"She slumped back in the chair next to me and I finally had a chance to study her. Her black hair was backcombed or maybe she just hadn't brushed it for 5 years. Her hands were weighed down by the rings she wore on her fingers and I wondered how she could lift them above her waist./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"The rest of the lecture was uneventful until the end when I was packing up my notebook when Thalia spoke for the first time since her entrance./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey you're that gymnast aren't you, got tired of prancing about in a leotard have you thought you could try it in the real world, well I hate to break it to you but it would be better if just left before you release that just because you have a gold it doesn't mean anyone will like you"/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"I stared at her as she strutted away from me in her skinny jeans swinging her ass. People around me had seen our fight, if that was what you would call it, and were shaking their heads and then the whispering started again. My face turned bright red as I grabbed all of the remaining things off my desk and I walked down the stairs trying to grasp to the remaining strands of my dignity./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"As I got outside I tried to stop the tears from rolling down my face. I looked around and saw the other people staring at me and I had to try very hard to not yell at them to fuck off./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"I was walking towards the exit of campus when I saw him. A crowd of people where gathered around them. A group of boys who were obviously some kind of sports teams. They lifted their captain onto their shoulders and processed him towards me. They placed him down onto the ground and he was embraced by a red head who had the figure of a Victoria's Secret model and I looked round half expecting a posse of models to come round the corner looking for their lost member./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"They kissed and the whole team cheered. I watched transfixed by this glimpse into a life that I longed for. The boy was muscular but not grotesque like the gymnasts that I had met. His hair was brown and his eyes … his eyes were like nothing I had every seen before. They moved like the ocean one moment green like jade the next deep blue like the sea. I found myself dreaming about being in his arms and I imagined how his lips would feel against mine. I don't know how long I watched this scene for but I was snapped out of my trance by Jasmine calling me from the side of a black bulletproof car. I saw her and ran towards her thinking that was the end of my green eyed boy and me./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"strongHi this is my first story and I hope you enjoy it I am aiming to update at least once a week. Please review so I know what to include in further updates. I hope you enjoy and no hate please./strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongAlly/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongxxx/strong/p
