I have been busy. I am sorry. I try and update every chance and I get. But here is the next chapter.

6: Hermes' Lyre, Captain Crunch, Parties

Annabeth unlocked Luks's door and went in. "Luke!" She called. No answer. "Luke!" She called again. No answer. She stepped in and closed the door. She walked into the kitchen and opened his refrigerator. Nothing, nothing but an old can of juice and that French Onion Dip. Hold on why would he put that in the fridge? Annabeth thought. She reached her hand out to grab it and when her fingers were inches away, she heard a noise outside. Annabeth quickly shut the fridge and turned around. Annabeth went over to the door and opened it. There was no one there. But she noticed that he had mail. She grabbed the mail and took it inside. There were two envelopes. One was a bill and the other, a letter. Annabeth looked at it. It was from San Francisco, from his mother. Now Annabeth was curious. She opened the letter up.

Luke

I am currently okay. The doctor has said that the operation will do the trick. Now only if I had money to pay for it. And I do not want you running around up there in such a big city getting into trouble like last time. You don't need to run around and try to get money for the operation. If I have to I can open my life savings or I can get your father to lend me some money. Not sure if he will though. You know your father. Always has to do his job. But anyway, I just wanted to say hi and that I love you. Tell your girlfriend I said hello too. But you don't have to if you don't want to.

Mom

P.S. Thank you for the blanket.

Annabeth was really confused now. "His mother is still in San Francisco? Then where has he been going the entire time?" Annabeth asked no one.

Then she started to hear footsteps. She put the letter back in the envelope. She stood up and ran into the bathroom.

The door opened and Luke came back. However he did not look so good. His nose was bloody and his lip too. He was starting to get a black eye. He walked into the kitchen and spit blood into the sink. He grabbed a glass and filled it with water. He drank some, gargled the water, and then spit it out. He then did it again three more times. He placed the glass in the sink. Luke then went back into the living room. But this time he noticed something he hadn't before, Annabeth's bag.

"Annabeth!" He called.

"Uh, yeah?" Annabeth called back.

"What are you doing here?" Luke asked.

Annabeth came out of the bathroom. "To see you silly and what the hell happened to you?" Said Annabeth.

"None of your concern." Said Luke.

"Alright. But I would like to know why your mom is in San Francisco when you said she was gonna' be here." Annabeth said raising her voice.

"How do you know she isn't here?" Asked Luke.

"Not the point." Said Annabeth.

"She isn't here yet." Luke said calmer than before.

"You're a liar. I read the letter your mom sent you. She is in the hospital down there. They wont move her here without a very and I mean VERY good reason."

"You just don't understand." Said Luke.

"I don't understand because you haven't given me a chance to understand."

"Annabeth you should go."

"No! I want to know what hell is going o-."

"What?" Luke asked.

Annabeth was looking at something. Luke turned around but there was nothing.

"What?" He asked again. Then he looked down. He had forgotten his shirt was ripped.

Annabeth was looking at a tattoo on Luke's skin. It was Hermes' Lyre.

"I have to go bye." Annabeth said. She ran over, grabbed her bag, and bolted out the door.

()()()()()()()

Nico sat up in his bed. He yawned and got out. He dressed and went over to a cabinet and pulled out a box of Captain Crunch. He started to shake it and nothing came out. He looked in the box and there was a note. He pulled it out.

Nico

I owe you a box of Captain Crunch.

Percy

"DAMN YOU PERCY!"

()()()()()

"Oh yeah I work out." Percy said to a pretty girl.

"Oh really?" The girl asked.

"Yup about every we-."

Percy was just rudely interrupted by his phone. It rang playing Life Starts Now By Three Days Grace.

"Hello." Said Percy.

"YOU ATE MY FLIPPEN CAPTAIN CRUCNH!" Nico said on the other line.

"I left you a note." Said Percy.

"But you still ate it!"

"Go buy more."

"NOOOOO! YOU BUY MORE YOU FU-."

Beep. Percy hung up.

"Who was that?" The girl asked.

"My roommate."

()()()()

Annabeth entered her dorm room. No body there. She went over to her bed and lied down. And the next thing she knew, she was asleep.

"Ann- b-b-bet-h."

Annabeth opened her eyes. Silena was in front of her.

"What is it?" Annabeth asked.

"Your phone won't shut up. It's been going haywire for three hours." Said Silena.

Annabeth picked up her phone. She had twenty-seven missed calls from Luke. And seven text messages.

Text 1: Annabeth pick up your phone.

Text 2: Damnit Annabeth pick up your damn phone.

Text 3: Where's Thalia?

Text 4: Alright I will talk.

Text 5: Please talk to me.

Text 6: PARTY AT THE LAKE!

Text 7: Annabeth you are gonna have to talk to me eventually.

"What's up?" Silena asked.

"My boyfriend." Said Annabeth.

Silena's phone rang. "Hello. Oh awesome. Yeah we will come."

"What is it?" Annabeth asked.

"Percy is throwing a party."

()()()

Percy heard about the party down at the lake. So he decided he wanted to throw a better one at his dad's beach house. Over six hundred people came.

Percy was walking around the house waiting for his friends when he heard the voices of Travis and Conner Stole.

"What are you nimrods doing?" Percy asked. They were on the roof of Percy's dad's surfboard shed.

"Well Conner heard that if you can fly your awesome! And that's what we wanna' prove... We're AWESOME!"

Percy knew they were intoxicated. But yet he said, "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"Yeah okay." Conner said.

Percy continued to walk around until this guy came up to him.

"Hey Percy what do you call a dog with no legs? My friend wants to know."

"Doesn't matter what you call him he ain't gonna' come." Said Percy.

Percy waited two minutes and Nico, Grover, Annabeth, Thalia, Silena, and Beckendorf showed up.

The party kept going on and the gang was in the room at the top of the house. They were all laughing and talking. Grover stood up and looked out the window. "Hey guys, have you ever wandered why they call it after dark when it is really after light?"

Everyone laughed but Nico. "No Grover I do not believe I have ever thought of that."

"Nico I don't believe you ever believe anything." Said Thalia.

"Sure I do. I believe I'll have another beer."

Everyone laughed again.

After another four hours, Nico, Thalia, and Silena had fallen asleep. Grover was getting there. But Beckendorf, Percy, and Annabeth were wide awake. The three were talking until Beckendorf stood up and said, "Bathroom!" He got up and bolted away.

Since Percy and Annabeth were sort of the only ones there and Grover fell asleep. He asked her why she looked so down. "You okay?"

"No not really." Said Annabeth.

"What's up?" Percy asked.

"Well you're familiar with the Twelve Olympians of NYC?"

Percy nodded.

"Well I've had dealings with one of them before. And it made me downright angry. I didn't want to deal with them any longer."

"But what about at the museum. Zeus owned that." Said Percy.

"Yeah because he was Zeus. I couldn't be rude around him."

"Yeah I get it. So continue."

"Well my boyfriend Luke, he is one of the offsprings. Hermes' son."

"Wow. I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault. I just didn't want to be around one because I thought they would be just like their mother or father."

Percy gulped.

"So why exactly do you hate the Olympians?"

Annabeth tensed. She wasn't sure if she should tell him. But she had a feeling he was a good person. So she did….. "And that's it." Said Annabeth.

"Oh wow. That's harsh."

"Yup. Sometimes I wish I had just died then."

"Hey come on. There is worth things in life then death. Have you ever spent an evening alone with an insurance salesman?"

Annabeth laughed. "You're funny you know that."

"I've been told."

The two sat there up against the wall. They never realized Beckendorf never came back.

Well there it is. I will try to update as soon as I can. And look at that. Their friendship is growing stronger.