Losing Him Before My Eyes

By: PrincessSparkle101

Chapter 2

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Amanda POV

"Beep...beep...beep..." My eyes shot open.

"beep...beep..." The shapes and colors slowly forming into a... HOSPITAL ROOM?!

"Beep...beep...beep...beep..."

I found three people sitting next to the hospital bed. My older brother, Spencer, my Aunt Sierra, and someone else...

They were all sleeping, slouched down in their chairs, except for Spencer. As soon as I moved to get up, he sprung out of his seat and forced me down.

"No!" He said loudly, then remembering that people were sleeping he whispered, "You have to rest!"

"Ugh I am a free woman! Leave me alone!" I said annoyed, but then I smiled. I couldn't be mad at him, not for long. "I can't believe you're here!"

He leaned down to hug me and smiled, "I had to come see my little sis."

He extended his hand to ruffle my hair, but stopped and moved his arm away, "When Aunt Sierra called saying you were in the hospital, getting stitches in the back of your head, it was the perfect reason to leave work."

Spencer made a face at the thought of work. All work is terrible, but his work was the WORST!

My older brother was a bank owner, the owner of The Young's bank. A family business that our father took much pride in. Spence couldn't let him down. Dad would've been so proud of him if he were alive. Mom too.

I thought back to last night, "Spence, what happened to me last night?" I asked him. I only remembered the party, going outside and... then it got all fuzzy. My brother furrowed his eyebrows and frowned. It didn't seem like he knew.

He opened his mouth to say something, but a different voice came out. "Someone fell off a bench and hit their head on a sharp rock." Spencer turned around to face the person in the third chair, clearly not asleep anymore.

"Oh and you know," The person laughed, "Some knight in shining armor might've saved you." The voice was saying everything jokingly, but when I listened closer, it almost sounded sad. Filled with longing.

I have this weird ability to hear an undertone to people's voices. Like that time when my dad said, "Your mother and I are going to the grocery store to do some shopping." But instead I heard, "We have to hurry to get Amanda's surprise party ready by 8 tonight!"

Pretty weird huh? No one else in my family has it. Or had it. My eyes teared up and I refocused my attention to stop the tears.

"Um..." I looked at the person, only to find the same boy from last night.

"Oh, right," The boy said, running his hand through his messy black hair, "I never got to introduce myself. I'm Percy. Percy Jackson."

He gave me a crooked smile, and my heart just about melted.

Suddenly I felt shy.

"Um, Amanda Young. Nice to meet you."

"Amanda," Percy let my name roll across his tongue, and his eyes drifted off into the distance.

For a second he seemed sad, like a poor heartbroken boy.

I put my hand on his and squeezed it, "Did you know someone else named Amanda before?" I spoke softly, and what I hoped sounded soothing.

"No," Percy wiped away a tear from his glazed over eyes, "but her name was Annabeth. I was gonna propose, and... and she.."

"She what?" I prompted, half knowing what he was going to say, half surprised he even shared this with Spencer and I.

"She betrayed me, Annabeth lied and.. and I just- I'm sorry," He stared rubbing his face, brushing away shiny tears.

He blushed from embarrassment, "You must think I'm some lunatic who goes around telling people his about his empty love life."

Percy pulled away, but Spencer stopped him, "It's fine Percy, you can talk to us, we don't mind. Right Amanda?"

I nodded, "Spencer can take you to the restroom to get cleaned up if you'd like," I offered.

They headed out and I patiently waited for them to return. 30 minutes or so had passed when my Aunt woke up. The boys still hasn't a returned.

She got up from her uncomfortable position, and stretched with a loud yawn. She quickly took notice of me, awake.

"AMANDA!" She enveloped me in a big warm hug and then pulled back, feeling my fore head, "Are you okay? Do I need to call a nurse or something?"

Her eyes were wide with worry. But I just smiled at her and shook my head, "No, I'm fine."

She feared that we would die without her being able to save us. After my parents death, she vowed that she would always protect us.

Aunt Sierra turned to talk to Spencer, but frowned when she saw he was missing.

"He went out with Percy," I explained, "they'll be back soon though."

As the last word slipped from my mouth, a loud crash came from outside. Hysteric laughs could be heard from our side of the door. We exchanged looks and Aunt Sierra opened to door.

"What on Earth just happened?" She exclaimed, clearly holding back a laughing fit.

Huh? I leaned forward a bit to get a better view. The boys were sitting dumbfound on the floor.

Oh it was a sight to see! It looked like Jambaa Juice and McDonald's threw up on the two boys.

Strawberry, mango smoothie dripped down the boy's heads. A hamburger patty stuck to Spencer's shoulder and lettuce hid Percy's face.

I bit my lip, trying hard not to laugh, but it didn't work. "How... did... you ... even..?"

Percy just licked the smoothie around his mouth, and Spencer looked around. "We brought you some food!"

"Uh surprise...?" Percy stopped licking for a second.

A nurse found that in the hall and ushered them back into the bathroom so the janitor could clean up the mess. Luckily there was no carpet, only the weird square patterned floor.

I watched Percy walk to the bathroom the whole way, unable to get rid of a silly smile stuck to my face.

"He's a cutie!" My aunt laughed.

I turned back to her, I was caught. "Uh.. no not like that... um I don't.."

I rarely stutter, and never over boys.

Aunt Sierra must've noticed too, because she raised an eyebrow at me. My face flushed a deep pink and I looked down at my fidgeting fingers.

I barely even knew him, but it was undeniable, I liked the one and only, Percy Jackson.

It started with Percy's phone number. Then we became friends, then best friends. Soon enough though, I don't think either of us thought of the other as a friend.

I remember the day when I found out about Percy's other life. His demigod life.

We were sitting on a little picnic blanket, munching happily on our sandwiches and blue cookies (Did I mention that Sally, Percy's mom, makes the most addicting cookies ever?).

When I saw something dart towards me out of the corner of my eye.

Apparently Percy saw it too, because faster then I have ever seen a human move, he pushed my out of the way.

'Out of the way of what?' you may ask. Just some giant dark black dog. Except it was three times the size of a German Shepard with 4 inch long dirty fur, sharp clawed paws, and red beady eyes.

I screamed at the top of my lungs, not for me, for Percy. I yelled for help, but no one seemed to notice the big monster dog.

But it seemed like he had it under control. And he made his special pen, Riptide, I think it's named, and turned it into a shiny bronze sword somehow.

I stood paralyzed, half confused and and maybe scared and in awe too. I wanted to help my boyfriend, but I wasn't sure I could.

It was obvious that Percy was used to killing that monster-dog thing from the way he destroyed it so easily.

Percy killed the thing in less than a minute, only taking time to make sure I was safe.

I remember how he looked so amazed at me, "You can see this?" And I nodded, surprised he was as interested in me as I felt in this whole weird situation.

Percy said I was a clear-sighted mortal. That's right, I, Amanda the mortal, was dating Percy, half god!

So weird! And confusing, very very confusing!

When I asked my boyfriend about the monster-dog, he corrected me immediately, on instinct.

"Hellhound," He said, "and you might want to sit down for the rest of this."

Turns out, there was a whole camp of demigods, half god, half human, like Percy! Two camps actually, but Percy didn't like to talk about either of the camps much.

He liked to talk about the ocean instead. Which made sense, as he was a son of Poseidon or Neptune.

Percy took me on an ocean tour way underneath the water! I got to see rare fish, explore the coral reefs, and even play hide and go seek in old pirate ships! Somehow he created a giant air bubble for me to move around and breath in!

Amanda POV (continued)

That's how I meet Percy, and learned about the demigods, Greek gods, and Roman gods. Oh and let's not forget Hellhounds. It explained everything, the things I saw I blamed on the heat. The creeping shapes in the corner of my eyes.

Too bad I'm just a mortal, but Percy loves me just the same.

Speaking of Percy, where was he?

I picked up my phone, Where are you?

A few seconds later, the phone buzzed, N basement w/ Spence

Of course! They were off playing video games in the basement, again. This would last the whole day, I'm sure of it. Might as well do some unpacking.

I sighed, the unpacked boxes from our move were getting dusty already! We'd just moved into a cute little apartment, close to Sally, Paul, and their baby girl.

I pulled some clothes out of a blue suitcase, folding Percy's cute little memo PJs. Before long I cleared a total of 11 suitcases, bags and boxes.

12 boxes would be enough for today. I picked up a mossy green box, lifting the cover off to reveal 6 years worth of photos.

There were multiply files, and I scanned the names. Mom and I, Cool Fish, Nemo Fan Club Entries, Camp Half Blood.

I stopped at the Camp Half Blood label and pulled the file out. There were so many pictures, I was surprised Percy managed to fit them all in the small file.

There was a guy who looked part goat, a satyr, with his arm around a green nymph in a leaf dress.

Then there was Percy, a black haired boy with a skull shirt who held an extra dangerous black sword, and a girl with spiky black hair and piercing blue eyes, bow resting on her shoulder.

I found a picture of two brown haired, identical twins and an angry strawberry blond girl holding a shovel threateningly in one hand and a bouquet in the other. They didn't seem to be getting along.

There were a few others with kids from the Ares cabin fighting, Aphrodite girls caking make up on, and Apollo kids playing on musical instruments like leers. I saw a red head covered in splotches of paint, Rachel Dare the Oracle of Delphi

There were also some newer photos of the Romans and Greeks. There was a Latino elfsh boy covered in grease marks, holding a wrench, a blond boy with the same piercing eyes as the girl with spiky hair, and a girl with brown choppy hair, radiating beauty.

There was also a picture of Percy and a girl with a long black braid looking ticked off at a scrawny blonde boy holding a teddy bear and a knife.

If it wasn't for the fighting, I almost wish I could've lived there with Percy and his friends. They seemed so sweet and fun! Well, except for that boy with the teddy bear, he was just creepy!

It was odd, I expected to find at least a couple of photos of Percy's ex, Annabeth. There were none though. Maybe Percy destroyed them all.

Just as I put the camp photos away there was a knock on the door.

A tall woman stood there in a business suit. I could feel the power she radiated and felt stupid all of the sudden. She had beautiful blonde curls, like a princess and her gray intelligent eyes seemed to calculate my every move.

"Hi, how can I help you?" I asked.

The woman grimaced, and I looked down at myself. Was something wrong with me? Did I have a stain on my shirt or a wrinkle in my skirt?

Finally she stopped judging me. "I'm looking for Percy Jackson."

Ooh cliffhanger!

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