Annabeth's POV

The door was opened instantly and I was pulled into a tight group hug. McLean sobs, Grace tears up, while Valdez has an unemotional facial expression but watery eyes. I gave them three a small sad smile and yelled "Can't breathe! Choking. Oxygen. Needed."

They pulled me in and slam the door shut. I sat on the couch and smiled widely at them. McLean leans into Grace's chest while Valdez smiles sadly at me. He asks "So, Annabeth, how have you been?"

I chewed on my lower lip and offered him a fake smile and nodded "Just dandy, Valdez. Oh before we catch up. I kind of brought in a few surprises for all you dinguses."

Piper raises an eyebrow while the boys just look at me curiously. I smirked "Close your eyes idiots."

They all laugh and closed their eyes. I took a deep breath, unzipped my backpack, and took out the three small boxes. I shook my head "You may open your eyes now."

I chewed on my lower lip as I handed them their boxes. Piper squeals "Oh my God. Annie! You got me, you got me a day to spend time with my favorite Designer! Oh God Annabeth!"

I smiled a bit and chuckled as she tackles me into a tight hug. Leo then gasps and yells "OMG! Chase! You got me a blueprints and a robot kit. ANNIE! Thank you so so oh so much!"

He shoves piper off and hugs me tightly and I laugh out loud and Grace gasps. "Beth? You, you actually. You didn't. How could you?"

I chewed on my lower lip a bit more. I hope he likes it. Leo pulls away and pouts "Show it to us Jasy!"

Jason shows Leo a box of jerseys that were once owned by FC Barcelona team. Leo and Piper gasp, their jaws literally drop. You see we are all huge Soccer players, but Jason is a diehard fan. He met each one of those players on the team at least 4 times. Heck, he even has Messi's number. That's how hardcore of a fan he is. Jason starts crying and runs towards me and hugs me tightly. Everyone comes towards us and hug me tightly. I try not to wince or cry. I haven't seen these three since we were 11. Now we are all 16. Leo was the oldest, then Jason and then Piper. I then breathed out "Oxygen. I need."

They laugh and pulled away as they wipe their eyes. I'm glad I didn't cry. I never cried in front of them. I never again. The last time I ever cried was when they moved to the other Half Blood Academy in New York. We have kept in touch but I haven't seen them in person till today. I took a deep breath "I have some bad news."

Leo gasps, Jason pales, Piper closes her eyes tightly. "Well, good news for me, bad news for you guys."

They all roll their eyes at me and grinned "I'm going to Goode high."

They all cheered and I rolled my eyes "Yeah, yeah I'm going to a normal high school, with you fools."

I took another breath and stood up. My chest and back were aching. I need to go somewhere. I need some space. I pulled on my backpack hurriedly and run towards the door, but someone grabbed my wrist. It was Leo. I gave him a serious glare and he holds on tighter but looks at me with a concerned expression but I pulled my wrist out of his hand and dash out of their apartment complex ignoring their pleas for me to return to them.

I turned up the radio and drive off to God knows where. My phone went off and I harshly lifted it "What is it?"

I hit the breaks and shrink in my seat as I heard her voice "Welcome back! I will send you the address better be home in the next 10 minutes or you know what happens."

I nodded and she chuckles "Good girl! See you soon daughter."

I shivered. Daughter. I may be a spy but I can't fight two people. Ever. My step mom and father. I googled the address and realized it was an hour away. Oh boy, I'm dead meat. For sure.

~~~Time Skip~~~

I hurriedly got out of the car and run towards the door and ring the bell just to see my calm father and a smirking step mom. I gulped and walked in. I looked around just to make sure the twins weren't around. My step mom laughs "Don't worry the twins aren't here yet. They will be here tomorrow."

She sits on the couch while my father walks out of the room. I sighed and she looks at me "So. Anna. Why are you late?"

I sighed "I was meeting up with a few friends I haven't seen in awhile, Mother." I cringed internally. I hate calling her that title. She's not even my mom, hell she's not even the twins' mom! She stands up and smiles at me too sweetly "Oh okay! Next time just let us know ahead of time honey, okay?"

I swear she's bipolar, I nodded my head mutely and uncertainly, what is this witch planning. I turned my and make my way towards the basement but I suddenly fell onto my knees and gasped loudly in pain. I turned around at her just to see a broken bottle being shoved up and down my back. I felt tears at the rim of my eyes. I won't cry. I will never cry, not in front of her. I swallowed in the pain and took a shaky breath. She pulls the glass out of my back and smacks my cheek with her hand hard. I gasp and fell onto my side in pain. I suddenly felt a hard kick to my back. I gasped in pain and suddenly felt everything went blurry, I blacked out.

A/N: Sorry about the short chapters. I write my chapters on Google drive so I don't really know the word counts, so yeah...I think I will just keep my chapters short and make sure I write a ton...Anyways, hope you don't flame me...still a newbie...but hopefully...this one is good-ish...Let me know if I should stop writing...this story...eh. Thank you!