Okay people I have decided to take this out of the crossover category because it really doesn't have anything to do with Touch I just got an idea from watching the trailer and thought it would be more similar, I was wrong. So here is the next chapter in the story. Also does anyone like the new description?
I felt myself go numb with shock. Someone was after Percy and the were after me so they could hurt him. I don't get it why would anyone be after Percy? Another thing I don't get is why someone would threatened Percy through me. I had meet Percy literally yesterday. And yet I felt like I knew him a lot better then I did. It was all so confusing and I hated being confused. The numbness finally started to go away and I found I could move again. The paper had slipped from my grasp sometime during my state of numbness and I picked it up and placed it in my nightstand drawer. I was just in time to for not only a moment later someone knocked on the door. I got up and walked over to the door and hesitated.
"Who is it? I called wanting to make sure it was someone I knew, call me paranoid but I had just learned someone was watching the orphanage and me.
"Its Grover."
I smiled Grover was another one of my good friends. I unlocked the door and stepped out closing the door behind me.
"Your not sick or something right Annabeth, you have never slept in this late."
"Why what time is it?" I asked as I made my way down stairs with him next to me.
"Almost nine."
He was right I had never slept in this late and I still hadn't but I had a feeling that I probably shouldn't tell him what I had discovered, Grover scared to easily.
"Well I guess I just got tired from yesterday it was very eventful."
"Yeah no kidding."
"So Grover thanks for making sure I was okay."
We were in the hall now and I was heading toward the kitchen with Grover following me.
"Oh well it really wasn't my idea." He sounded completely embarrassed but I wasn't offended.
"Its alright Grover," We had made it to the kitchen and I grabbed Pop-tarts as my breakfast like usual. "But who's idea was it then?"
"It was Percy's."
That made me stop. I spun around to face Grover.
"Did he talk to you?" for some reason I felt like I would be mad at Percy if he had.
"No he doesn't talk at all, he wrote it to me on a piece of paper."
"Oh okay. So you are getting along with Percy okay then?" Grover had a lot of trouble with making friends with just about everyone he always froze up when he had to talk to some one new.
"Yeah actually Percy is a cool guy although its sorta weird he doesn't talk."
I couldn't help but agree.
It was only a sort time later I found myself in the backyard watching as Katie and the Stoll's talked, it was very amusing. Not the talking in itself, I couldn't hear what they were saying but it looked like Katie was ordering them to do something and the Stoll's didn't want to do it. Suddenly a very clear and loud, "BUT KATIE!" came from Connor and Katie turned on him and started talking again, only this time it seemed like she was getting frustrated.
"Why are you watching them?" Came a voice from behind me and I turned to see Clarisse and Chris behind me.
Both Clarisse and Chris were a few years older then me and I usually didn't talk to them but I knew them quite well, after all they were like family.
"Because it is extremely funny." I said answering there question from before.
They watched as Connor and Travis seemed to give up and went into the gardening shed and came out with some wood, nails and a few bags of dirt and how they piled it all into a wheel barrow and started walking to the front of the house.
"That was tiring." Katie said as she walked towards us noticing us for the first time.
"What are they doing?" I asked her completely confused as to what they needed that stuff for.
"Well on Friday when I got home from school I was looking at the front of the house and decided it needed something pretty to make it look nicer so I am going to make little flower beds and plant flowers in them before we have to go to school tomorrow."
Her words hit me and I groaned, "We have school tomorrow?"
"Yes we do, even I could remember that." A new voice joined in on the conversation, Thalia.
"Well sorry." Then I turned back to Katie. "That's a great idea but what are the Stoll's for?"
"I didn't want to have to make the flower beds myself so I am making those two do it."
"And you are trusting them with that?" Chris asked looking at her like she was crazy.
"No which is why I have to go, bye guys!"
"Bye!" We all shouted and watched as she disappeared around the corner of the house.
I turned back around only to see Clarisse and Chris had walked away leaving only me and Thalia.
"So were Jason?" I asked I had thought she wouldn't let him leave her for at least a week.
"With Chiron and Percy." she said this bitterly like she didn't like that idea.
"Why is he with them?"
"Chiron says he needs to sign Jason up for school since he said he wanted to stay here and Percy is with them to get school supplies or something like that."
"Well its good that Jason wants to stay here." I said trying to cheer her up.
"Yeah it is I just wish he would tell me were he has been and were he got all those scars from."
"He isn't telling you?"
"No, although I cant really blame him it would probably be hard for me to talk about something that gave me such bad scars to."
We stood in silence for a moment and I looked over the back yard. It was a very large area that had a slide and swings it also had a basket ball net and two trees stood close together were we would usually have a volley-ball net, only we had taken it down for the winter that would becoming in a few weeks. The pool that we had was also covered up but it was rather large and had a nice deck around it. Unfortunately we had been told to remove the diving board all of us kids had made ourselves, Chiron had said something about the pool being to shallow for us to dive. In the very center of the yard was the biggest thing yet, Katie's Garden, it was rather bland at the moment because of the winter but in the summer it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Surrounding the entire yard was a large forest, in the summer we would all go out and play games or splash around in the creek that ran through the middle. I turned my attention back to the garden, there was something about gardening that was nudging at the back of my mind. And then it all clicked, well not all of it but I remembered that in the drawing of us in Percy's notebook there had been a garden out front that hadn't been there before.
"It can't be." I whispered to my self but Thalia heard.
"What can't be?" Thalia asked completely confused.
"Think hard Thalia," I said as I lead her to the front "Were have we seen that garden before?"
"Um, nowhere? Katie just told us her idea like five minutes ago."
"I know that Thalia. Think."
I saw her look at it and saw how her eyes widened in shock.
"That's the garden from Percy's drawing."
