I had a dream that night. It was about Annabeth. Who else?
In my dream, Annabeth was walking with Connor on a sidewalk in a park. They were holding hands, and I could feel my dream teeth grinding together.
"Annabeth, do you love me?" Connor asked, sounding hopeful.
Annabeth's brows pushed together. She seemed like she was trying to remember something, and her stormy grey eyes looked like she was thinking about a thousand things at a time.
"I feel better, Connor. I used to feel all dazed, like I was sick. Now I feel better, like I got medicine." she looked so happy I wanted to kiss her. I know, odd reaction, but that's how I work. Then her mind set out to work again, and for some reason, she looked...mad. I wondered why.
Connor looked like the sky was falling, and he quickly pulled out a glass vial of a dark liquid.
"Here, Annabeth, drink this. It's the drink you like, the one that smells like strawberries." he sounded nervous, like he knew it wasn't going to work.
Annabeth's eyes lit up, and she grabbed the vial and chugged it down.
"No, Annabeth, you drank too much!" Connor looked frantic, like her drinking the whole thing would result to world domination.
Annabeth looked at Connor lovingly. "Oh, Connor, you're so cute!" Annabeth squealed and planted a fat kiss on his lips.
The look on Connor's face was so surprised I wanted to laugh, but under these circumstances, I'd rather kill him.
"Um, Annabeth, are you okay?" now he sounded worried.
"Connor, I love you, and I want to kiss you, so come here." Annabeth demanded.
Connor strolled forward like he was the luckiest man on Earth, which he was.
My dream ended with Connor and Annabeth's hopefully last kiss of the night.
The next day, I went to Chiron to tell him about my dream. The whole time he nodded like he understood me, so I figured he'd be able to help me.
When he finally talked and said "I don't know, Percy. I guess she's moved on and wants Connor."
Chiron was as bad a liar as Grover. As he was talking and after he talked his tail twitched and the corners of his mouth pulled down into a frown.
"Chiron, tell me what you know." I demanded.
"Wh-what are you talking about? I told you I don't know." his tail twitched again, betraying him.
"Okay, fine." I gave up. I would be keeping an eye out for whenever he made a slip and spilled something.
"Bye, Percy. I hope to see you soon if you find out anything about your case." he turned away quickly, probably hiding his relief that I'd 'given up.'
I went back to my cabin to find Grover skipping around my room.
"Dude, what's up?" I kind of wanted to know why my best goat was skipping around my room like an Aphrodite camper after looking at their reflection.
"I kissed Juniper!" he was smiling from horn to horn, which was sort of weird because they were on top of his head. At least I could understand him, though.
"Dude, good for you!" I was really wishing he'd get out of my room so I could wallow in my self pity.
"I know! I think she enjoyed it, but I sure did. It lasted, like, two seconds and when we pulled back, we were both smiling and I said 'I have to tell Perrrccy' and she said okay and I said bye and she said bye and- it was amazing!" I never knew goats had that much breath in them.
"Good for you, man!" I repeated.
"Yeah" he sighed.
"Well, I have to clean up, so if you want to help-" I couldn't even finish my sentence before he was out of my room.
I grinned, then frowned, because of the Connor/Annabeth situation. How could she have all of a sudden loved him? Why did he look so worried? What did she mean when she said she felt like she got medicine? I knew that the dark liquid had probably affected her lovey dovey mood, but I didn't know what it was. Was the answer right in front of me? Was I missing it by an inch? Annabeth would probably tell me that I was such a Seaweed Brain and that the answer was indeed right in front of me.
I set my mind to interpreting my dream.
I had to stop Connor from whatever he was doing. Fast.
