Penalties are Never Good

The morning brought sunny skies and breezy weather. It was beautiful, except I had a punishment to see to. After breakfast, who knew what I would have to go through? I don't even want to think about it. True, Chiron said it wouldn't be a huge one, but he can lie to make it sound better...

I jogged into breakfast, as I felt the need to move my legs. Minor cramps in my legs, and running always helps. Percy immediately caught my attention, as he always does. I wish I wasn't so in love with him, but he's just so damn hot! Hm, should I even bother with flirting? No, not right now. I need to eat, and then find out what I have to do for the ounishment, no matter how much I really don'twant to do it.

I walked over to the Athena table, and sat down beside this red haired girl. She looked nice enough, I guess. The others seemed to tired to socialize. I wanted to talk to someone.

"Hey, what's you name? I'm Ser- I mean Annabeth"

Almost slipped there...

"Oh, hi! My name is Anna! How do you like the breakfast?"

"It's pretty good. I've always like eggs and muffins."

"Same. These blueberry muffins are delicious! I can't wait for the orange-cranberry ones were having tomorrow! Have you heard?"

"Oh, yum! I can't wait! I love my orange cranberry muffins"

"Haha. Me to. Well, I have to go throw my stuff away. I'm done. But I'll talk to you later, okay?

"Sure thing."

Well, that was kind of a pointless conversation... Oh well.

Soon I finished my muffin as well, and I guess Chiron noticed I was done, cause he came over, no doubt to tell me of my penalty.

"Hello there, Annabeth. Enjoyed your breakfast?"

"Yes, very. It was just delicious."

Gotta kiss up to the old man...I thought.

"Good. Now, I was thinking about the penatly you had to pay for your late night out, and I came up with this: First, you will not be able to go off camp ground at all, for any reason what so ever. Second, you are not to hang out with friends, or "chill" with them, as you youngsters call it. You are to wake up each morning and train only, nothing else. If I see you socializing, you will be further punished. Understand? Also, the third thing - Percy is off limits. I know you like him, I can see it whenever you're around him. You're probably trying to hide it, but it's not exactly working. No Percy, socializing, or sneaking out. Am I understood?"

"B..but... that's not FAIR! You can't take everything I love away from me! I understand the whole camp ground thing, but to not be able to even socialize or talk to Percy? That's just cruel! And you didn't have to bring up me and Percy. You KNEW it would only embarass me. You're horrible!"

"I'm doing this for your own good. You need to learn that when you sneak out after dark, there's consequences. You don't need to get mad at me for that, as I'm only trying to help you."

"No, you're not! You have no idea what I'm going through right now! You don't need to make it worse by adding some retarded punishment! Seriously!"

Maybe I'm overeacting... I shouldn't have been so harsh with him.

"Look, I'm sorry for snapping at you, I'm just in a sucky mood today. But how long is this punishment going to last? For as long as I'm here?"

He thought about it, with a rather funny expression. I chuckled inside.

"Hmm... Well, I couldn't realisticaly put this penatly on you for the rest of your time here, as you would be bound to break on of the rules, if not all of them, one way or another. So, no. It will last a month. Hopefully by the end of this month, you'll have realized the mistake of sneaking out, and I won't need to extend the punishment. Can I let you go, knowing you'll obey?"

"Yes, but you're over reacting! I don't like this!"

"Okay, but before you go, just wanted to let you know that you are not to speak to me like that ever again. I have authority over you, so you cannot just yell and scream at me like I'm a kid. I'm fully an adult, and you are to listen to me. And also... have fun!"

Bitch. He can be sarcastic all he wants, but that's just gonna make me hate him even more. Well, I'll have to make the best of it, I guess. Not that I really can. I can't even talk to Percy...or anyone, for that matter! God, what is my life coming to? Damn!

I exited from breakfast, and walked to my cabin. I need to rest, to get this all out of my system, before I killed someone. I was in a really bad mood right now, and a quick nap would solve everything.

As I approached the Athena cabin, I kicked a tree trunk out of hatred. My life sucked. But, 1 second later, I realized that wasn't the best thing to do.

"Fuck! God dammit, that hurt! Ow ow ow ow ow."

I hopped on one leg that rest of the way. I flopped onto my bed, which was nice. My leg still hurt like hell, but hey, atleast I was on a comfy matress. It could be worse.

I fell into a light asleep a few minutes later, thinking about my sorry life. It didn't help the prospects of a good nap, but a little sleep was better than nothing. I had to calm my nerves.

As I fell into a deeper sleep, someone came in. Probably a camper, but I didn't care.

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