I'm sorry for you Percabeth fans, but I just think that Percy deserves much more than Annabeth Chase. And please don't get mad or try to kill me in the comments about Rachel's portion of the chapter. Please, if you have some negative comments or some constructive criticism, please don't go on a full rampage about it in your comments. For the people of Percabeth, sorry, I just don't believe in it. I don't own any characters of the 39 clues or Percy Jackson and the Olympians. r&r.
Chapter 4
Natalie
All I knew was that this place they called Camp Half-Blood, was filthy as ever, it was as if they've never heard of clean before. I, for one took the opportunity to teach the Apollo children how to wipe up the dirt and blood off their latest kill.
Ian and I were definite misfits in this place, and I know that we both missed Anya, with her we didn't have to do much talking to people that we did not know, although, most boys in the Apollo were such hotties and I could not really stay away from them. Yet the small child that had brought us to our cabin-Michael Yew- had to ruin it by telling us that these were our new brothers and sisters, so we could not date them. Yet we could date children in other cabins. This camp was so strange.
All I knew was that we had to find Anya and quick; she knew more about the Greeks than anyone that I knew.
Ian and I went to the archery arena to practice with the other Apollo children. I knew that I was totally going to rip my clothes and then miss the shot. So, when it was my turn to shoot, I closed my eyes, and shot.
When I opened my eyes my clothes weren't ripped, and everyone was staring at Ian and me. You see,
neither of us had ripped our clothes nor had we missed the shot. And people could tell that we had
never been experienced with archery before, our clothes were to fancy.
"You guys are definitely Apollo's kids," one of them said to us
"No first timers have had that much skill since… ever".
Once again, all I knew was that we had to find Anya, and fast.
Rachel
It had made me glad for the day to have disobeyed Annabeth, and she has been jealous of my
friendship with her boyfriend ever since it started, before he was her boyfriend and before I was
the oracle. Now she thinks that I want her boyfriend, and she tries to shove it in my face that I can't date Percy. Sometimes I just want to walk up to her when she does that and say "I DON'T WANT YOUR BOYFRIEND, SO YOU CAN STOP BEING PARANOID NOW!", but since Percy thinks that he is such the ladies' man, I wouldn't want to upset him. I mean, Percy thinks that I like him too but not that I like him enough to steal him from Annabeth. I mean, I know that I can't date boys anymore and I won't even try to get around the rules. But, I have every reason in the world to think that Annabeth and Percy didn't belong together, and I mean, almost everyone was aware of the fact; Annabeth was annoying. Even her own cabinmates admitted to it. So I was so surprised when Thalia came rushing up to me and said what she said
"Rachel!" she called, I spun around, my thick red hair whipping my face
"What?" I answered
"Annabeth is looking for you," she told me
"What?" I inquired "no, you must mean she's looking for someone that's in her cabin. She can't be looking for me"
Thalia shook her head "she said 'Thalia, can you go find Rachel for me?'"
I shook my head in confusion "where is she?" I said at last
"She's down by the river, staring into it while the naiads make faces at her"
I nodded in thanks to Thalia and she ran off in the opposite direction while I ran toward the river.
I found Annabeth right where Thalia said she would be
"What's up Annabeth?" I asked her making conversation
"Percy is cheating on me" she divulged and put her head in her hands
I was taken completely aback
"What?"
"Percy is cheating on me" she repeated
I thought
"How do you know?"
She looked up
"Well he was talking to that new girl… what's her name? The one with the long dark hair?"
"Anya," I enlightened her
"Yeah, her"
"And so? Just because he was talking to her doesn't mean he was cheating on you, I mean, I'm a girl and Percy talks to me all the time"
Annabeth gave me a look that said exactly.
"Listen Annabeth, I have to get this out and into the air" I took a deep breath and began "I am aware that I cannot date Percy, and therefore you do not have to go out of your way to show me that. The only reason you do that is because you think that there is a chance that Percy might fall for me, meaning that you are totally jealous."
Annabeth opened her mouth to speak, but I wasn't finished
"And another thing, Percy wouldn't cheat on you with me, because I wouldn't let him. I don't want your boyfriend anymore, so you're gonna have to learn to trust me"
She nodded
"And why do you assume that Percy is cheating on you with this Anya"
Annabeth seemed afraid to answer, but then she said
"Well, she's prettier than me and-"
"No," I cut her off "you think he's cheating on you with her because you feel insecure. I can tell that Anya is the type of girl that boys would come crawling to with the whip of her hair." I didn't know for sure at that moment, but I was actually right "take that Ian boy"
Annabeth gave me a perplexed look
"Ian, the cute boy that came with Anya when she entered the camp"
Oohhh. Annabeth mouthed
"He told me that he has been chasing Anya since he was 10, and they're both 18. That's 8 whole years! When I asked him how he came about liking her and he said that at first all he saw was a beautiful face and thought, well this should be easy, but then he began to talk to her and when he asked her out, she shot him down cold."
"So?" Annabeth asked "what does this have to do with me?"
I put up my hands "wait. After she shot him down he realized that behind that pretty face was a brain, Anya was a girl with and outspoken, free spirit and he wanted her." Annabeth urged me on with her facial expressions
"Then Natalie came and told me that Anya had the confidence of….well something that has a lot of confidence."
"Okay"
"And that confidence that everything will go her way and as long as she be's who she is nothing will go wrong is what draws boys toward her. And, after 8 years of the same kind of rejection, Ian is still chasing after that girl. If she was only a pretty face, he would be over with her in about a month. And with a burning love that can only be extinguished with love in return from her-who from what I've heard, he will not be getting in a long time"
"The point?" she asked
"Carry yourself with that king of confidence and you will never have to worry about Percy cheating on you. You see, with that confidence comes the charm and the poise that boys love to see"
Annabeth nodded, stood, and began to walk away, and then she turned and said
"Thanks" and continued walking
She then turned around again and said
"And I do, I do indeed trust you"
Then she left.
I sat with the naiads as they swam smiling at me and wished that I could take my own advice, confidence like that was far away from me.
Anya
Yes, I had flirted with Percy. The only reason I did that was because I, well… liked him.
I know you're thinking if she has a boy like Ian wrapped around her finger, why would she want Percy? What I said about knowing Percy was true. I did know him, and had a crush on him since 3rd grade. I was his best friend, and he felt very fortunate to have a friend like me. Well I didn't guess that I would end up having a crush on him. At that time I didn't know that he was going out with Annabeth, so don't think that I'm a relationship wrecker. But, there was just something about Percy, that I just loved, so I disguised my crush on him by saying that he was my best friend, and that would be why I spent so much time around him, even though he said that Grover was his best friend. But you can have more thn one best friend, right?
