A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR: Sorry for taking so long. Writer's block.

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Chapter 2: They say knowledge will set you free

POV: Percy

Who ever promised that knowledge would set you free was really stupid. All school was for me was more information that amounted to nothing. Another excuse for people to call the mute kid stupid. The teachers didn't give a crap about me and some of them even enjoyed asking me questions so that they can grill me out about not answering. Needless to say I hated school.

I groaned as my alarm went off to wake me up for school. I opened my sleepy eyes after a nightmare filled night. I shut my alarm off and got out of bed, still shaking from the dream.

In it I had watched my mom die again and then stood helplessly as my dad jumped off the bridge again. Then Luke beat the snot out of me while Gabe drank beer and told Luke where to hit me. It was a synopsis of my life.

As I staggered in a daze to the bathroom, I passed Annabeth's door and remembered that the new girl was actually nice. I stopped and knocked on her door to make sure she was up in time to catch the bus. I had missed it a few times and had to walk to school. It wasn't fun.

"Yes?" Her voice came from inside.

I couldn't respond so I knocked again.

"Who's there?" Her voice sounded again.

Not knowing what to do I knocked a third time.

The door flung wide open.

"What?" demanded the girl in a hostile tone.

My eyebrows went up in surprise. I expected her to apologies when she remembered I was mute but she didn't.

"Oh," She said, once she realized it was me. "It's you." She spoke in an angry tone.

Maybe she's not a morning person. I thought to my self.

Then she pushed past me and stalked off down the hall. I was a little upset by this but I was ignored and bullied to often to make a big deal out of it.

She'll come around. I thought to my self. She just lost her dad so she's probably really upset and can't think strait.

I finished getting dressed and then made my way down the block to the homeless shelter to get some food. It wasn't very good but it was a meal. After that I got on line for the school bus. There I saw Annabeth again. She was laughing with a spiky, black haired girl who's name I knew to be Thalia.

I smiled as I realized that Annabeth was in a better mood.

Now I can talk to her, so to speak. I thought.

As I approached her thought she caught sight of me and her expression darkened.

"What do you want?" She demanded in an angry voice.

'Why are you angry?' I signed in confusion.

She shook her head.

"Just piss off." She growled. "Now."

I frowned at her and quickly walked away.

Great. I thought to my self. Just another jerk in the house and this was the first one I had the slightest hope of becoming friends with.

The worst part for me though was we had really hit it off the day before. We had chatted for a wile and even found out that we both like out door activities. Then she just tells me to go away like Im some sort of ass hole?

When the bus pulls up I climb on and take a seat a few rows behind Annabeth and on the other side of the walk way. To my surprise she sat next to Luke and they both appeared to be laughing.

She had seen him punch me and walk over me as I way at the bottom of the stairs and now they were buddy buddy? What is wrong with her? I thought as I watched her.

Then Luke looked back at me and gave me a crule wink as if to say 'See that? She likes me.'

I felt a tear form in my eye now as I realized I was going to be alone my hole life and there was nothing I could do about it.

Time Break!

POV: Percy

School sucked as usual. Teachers not caring and students picking on me. I was at lunch when something caught my eye. I looked to my left from my lunch table, where I sat alone, to see Luke, Clarisse, Annabeth, and more of Luke's gang talking and laughing. My mind hit a new low there. The one person I could communicate with and she hangs out with them.

What did I do to deserve this? I thought in despair.

Then Clarisse and Annabeth got up to leave and Luke approached my table.

"Hey, stupid." He called out as he came near to me.

I didn't give him the satisfaction of looking at him.

"Just figured I'd tell you this right now." He said. "She knows your a stupid mute that's more likely to cause her pain than be worth anything. Figured you'd need some help rapping your stupid head around that one. You'd be better off if you just dropped dead."

I stared at the idiot in front of me for a few seconds. Did he really think that this was an insult? Who talks like that anyway? It's like some bad fan-fiction writing I read online once.

When he realized that he wasn't upsetting me he started to kick the shit out of me. He beat me so bad that I was leading from several arias in my body.

"No one will ever give two fucks for a mute orphan." He growled in my ear as I lay helpless on the ground.

Time Break

I sat on my bed as my hands constructed something I had made a thousand times. It had become a secret art project of mine to make. Today though I wasn't just going to make it and destroy it like usual. Instead I hung it from the ceiling by pulling over my desk chair and securing it to the ceiling fan that never works.

My hole body ached from my beating earlier to day. Then there was Annabeth thinking that I was not worth any of her time. She treated me with so much hate earlier that I realized my life was one big shit show and more shit was on the way. I had no future. I can't afford collage and I had no hope of ever making friends. Annabeth had proven that. So I put my master escape plan into affect.

I know I said my run away plans wouldn't work and I was yet to come up with a way to do it but this plan was different. I placed the letter on my desk and put my "art" to use. I rocked the chair until it tipped over and I fell.

Then I felt my "Art" tighten around my neck as the rope grew taught. I was dangling there un able to breath.

Dam. I thought. My neck didn't break and now I was suffocating. I was hopping it would be quicker than this. Just a fall and then nothing. If I was lucky I might get to se my mom and dad again but not I had to suffer first.

As I dangled there, chocking, there was a knock on my door. After a second the door opened and Annabeth stuck her head around the corner.

"You in here, Percy?" She asked as she glanced around the room.

Her eyes bugged out of her head when she saw me.

"What the hell?!" She screamed and ran forward to me as I silently choked to death.

She tried to grab hold of my legs as I feebly tried to push her away but I was running out of air and couldn't manage to do it. As she grabbed my legs, she pushed me up towards the ceiling to loosen the tension on the rope and my lungs filled them selves with air, against my will. As my strength came back I started to fight her off so she would drop me and let me hang.

Why does she care anyway? I thought. Im just some problem for her anyway.

"Percy, calm down!" Annabeth yelled. "Im trying to help you!"

'Then let me go.' I signed.

She stared up at me in shock.

"What?" She shouted. "Percy, Im not going to let you hang your self!"

I started to thrash around even more. She didn't care about me. She was probably trying to save her own skin like Gabe.

As I continued to struggle she spotted something on my desk. I thought it was the letter but her eyes lit up to bright for it to be the letter. Then she gently let go of me and I was back to hanging. This was what I wanted. To be left alone to die in peace. Then Annabeth righted the chair next to me and she stood on it. I wasn't sure what she was doing till I herd a snip and I fell to the floor.

I rolled over to see Annabeth throwing my scissors, that she used to cut me down, out the window.

probably so I don't try and stab myself. I thought bitterly.

Then she picked up the corded phone on my desk and called 911.

When she finished with the operator she hung up and turned to me with terror and anger in her eyes.

"What the hell were you thinking?" She demanded. She was staring at me, waiting for an answer.

Well keep waiting. I thought as I sat on the floor with the broken rope still tied around my neck.

"Why would you do that, Percy?" She asked, sounding like she was about to cry.

Nice acting. I thought. But I saw your true side today.

"Percy, please." She pleaded, now kneeling in front of me.

She attempted to take my hands but I pulled them away from her.

"Percy?" She asked. "Why were you trying to kill your self?"

I just glared at her.

She stared at me with deep concern in her eyes.

"Percy?" She asked.

'Why do you care?' I signed, eventually.

She seamed taken aback by this.

"Percy," She began.

'No.' I signed to cut her off. 'Shut up.'

"Percy," She began again.

'I said shut up.' I signed.

"Im here to try and help you." She said as I herd sirens out the window.

'What were your words?' I signed. 'oh yah, PISS OFF'

I turned my back on her as a medical teem came in and put me on a stretcher to wheel me out of the room.

A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR: Confused? Well post a review and I'll post the answer as to what the fuck is up with Annabeth! MMMUUUAAAHHHAAAHHHAAA!