A/N: Hey. I would have had this up earlier but I practically rewrote the chapter. I hope it is satisfactory to anyone who is reading this.

Chapter 3

After the Wreck

The hospital didn't tell us anything that we didn't already know. No one was severely injured. We had a lot of stitches and a broken arm.

My CT scan came back normal which, in my thoughts, meant that I wasn't crazy. I did sprain my ankle. They said that I would have to wear a brace and that I wouldn't be able to practice for a week.

Percy and his mom stayed until all of our parents got to the hospital. This meant I was able to ask Percy something. "Do you think I'm crazy too?"

Percy shrugged. "It was a really traumatic event but I don't think that makes you crazy."

"That story I said was kind of far fetched," I said quietly, not looking at him. "I don't know. I thought that was what I saw."

"Don't worry," he said, grinning slightly, as if from an inside joke. "I know something about that."

"Em, Emily," I heard my dad call as he entered the waiting room. "Are you okay?"

"Thanks for the help," I said with a small smile. "I'll see you at school I guess." I turned away from him to see my dad.

Percy walked away.

"Emily is everything okay?" he asked. He took me by the shoulders and looked me in the eyes. "When the hospital called, I was so worried. I thought that something horrible happened."

"Yeah," I replied. "We wrecked."

Dad shook his head slowly, suppressing a laugh. "I knew that from the call. I thought it was…" He trailed off, thinking. "Never mind that. I'm just glad you're okay."

"What did you think that it was?" I asked. I had no clue what he was getting at. I also had a feeling that I wouldn't know what it was.

"I said to never mind," he said shortly. He took a deep breath. His temper only flared when he was worried about something or had lost all patience. The latter had only happened once in my lifetime and with me as a child, that was pretty good.

"Let's just go home," I said.

He nodded. "That sounds like a good idea."

~*~

School passed like normal. My habit of just scraping up a passing grade hadn't changed with the wreck. It wasn't that I was extremely dumb, just really lazy. The only thing I really tried at was swimming.

It wasn't until the week after the wreck, when I could finally go back to swim practice, that anything was less than normal. Two boys, who not only had not been at practice a week ago, I had never seen in my life, were there. I asked Anna about them.

She pointed to the taller of the two. "That's Levi," she said in a slightly dreamy voice, like her mind was somewhere else. "He's a junior." He had blond hair that was spiked at the front. Perfectly tanned, perfect teeth, perfect hair. I am not one to go gaga over a boy but even I had to say he was HOT.

His friend wasn't so much. He had light brown hair, was not nearly as tanned or muscular as Levi and had glasses. He would probably be pegged as a geek at school but there was something about him that was kinda cute. "That's Mark," Anna said, noticing my gaze. "He's a sophomore, like us."

"They weren't here the first day," I said. I wasn't surprised that I hadn't seen them at school but I should have seen him at practice. If Mark were a sophomore then he would have been in our lane.

"Yeah they were," Anna, contradicted me. "Mark's about average. Not extremely fast but not horrible. Levi is really good."

Great, I thought. Like she needs another reason for her to idolize that boy.

"Yeah," I said with a nod."Whatever." I wouldn't win an argument against the redhead and I wanted to have a friend on the team. I still wasn't sure how they had hoodwinked the entire team. I was sure that they hadn't been there before but I had also thought that the car I was in had been attacked by a giant lion.

I just couldn't trust my own mind. I should have. It was a costly mistake.

A/N: I hope to have the next chapter up quicker. It is already partly written so it is possible but I'm still not making promises. Everyone have a good morning/day/afternoon/evening/night/ whatever time of day it is when you read this.