All characters belong to Rick Riordan.
Okay, this'll either be the second or third to last chapter.
A lot of you guys have been reviewing my story (thanks!) and one review by "mandy8o8" gave me an idea to have Annabeth and Percy play a prank on Clarisse, based on what she'd done to them. I changed the idea she gave me, but still, I wouldn't have thought of it if it weren't for her review. I'm going to put that part in the next chapter.
I know it's out pretty late… I'M SORRY! Don't think you're the only thing I've been putting off. My school work isn't finished neither.
I hope you like the chapter!
We walked through the forest, not talking to each other. It was starting to get lighter out.
I wondered what was going to happen when we got back. Maybe no one noticed we were gone. Maybe Clarisse said we were purposely breaking the rules for attention. That seemed like what she would do.
I could see the sun rising. It was bright, even though it was just starting to peak over the hills of Camp Half-Blood. It hurt my eyes, and that's when I noticed how exhausted I was.
I could tell we were getting closer to camp. I was starting to see some things I recognized from before we'd gotten pranked by Clarisse.
"Percy, I'm sorry I was angry at you." It took me a few seconds to realize she was apologizing to me. "I guess I was just unhappy anyways, so I took it out on you."
I felt like I'd heard this before. I think it was from a soap opera my mom used to watch. I guess that things on T.V do really happen.
"No, it's okay. I should have thought before I spoke." I said.
"Well… you are a Seaweed Brain." She said, and I saw she was smiling.
Well we were talking; we hadn't noticed that we'd gotten back to camp. I could see a couple of the early birds of Camp Half-Blood already up.
"Maybe if we sneak back into our cabins no one will notice we weren't here." I said, looking for a path to go on where no one could see us.
"Maybe you can, but I can't." she said, with a troubled look on her face. "Some of my cabin mates have already gotten up!" Then I remembered. The early birds of Camp Half-Blood were the Athena cabin. "Well…" I said, thinking. "…you could come in my cabin?" I said it like it was a question, instead of a statement, which made me sound dumb.
"Okay." She said. She obviously didn't think that it would be awkward. That was a good thing, right?
I snuck into my cabin. I peeked outside. No one.
I turned my head to my cabin, about to signal Annabeth to come in, when I saw my room. Oh yeah. I forgot that it was a complete mess.
I darted around the room shoving dirty shirts and crumpled pieces of paper under my drawers, and pushing my suitcase that had some old food in it under my bed.
Unfortunately, Annabeth decided to come in while I was shoveling t-shirts with pieces of I-don't-even-know-what on them into one of my drawers.
She looked at me for a second, and then sat down on a bunk.
"What time is it?" she asked. "Don't you keep a clock in here?"
"Oh, I think it's on my drawer." I said, and then sat on a bunk near her.
"We have about an hour until everyone else wakes up… what do you wanna talk about?"
"How about…" I thought, trying to think about what we could talk about for a while.
"How about the fact that my capture the flag team's going to kick your team's butt?" she said daringly. The next capture the flag game was going to be Athena's cabin, Ares', Aphrodite, Dionysus, and Demeter, against my cabin (which doesn't really make a contribution to the number of people), Hephaestus's cabin, Apollo's, and Hermes.
"Well, your team does have two war gods…" I hesitated. "But my team has me. And everyone knows that I've always been great at making a game plan." I finished sarcastically.
After that, we started talking about strategies, and teasing each other about our skills. Somehow, I woke up about 40 minutes later on the bunk I'd been sitting on, and Annabeth was lying on the bunk she'd been on.
"Annabeth," I said, shaking her arm.
"Yeahhhh..." She said groggily.
"You awake?" I asked in a soft voice.
"Mmmhmm," she said without opening her eyes. "You drooled in your sleep again."
She opened her eyes. "Should we go? Maybe I can tell my cabin mates I came in late and got up early or something." I nodded.
"Let's get to breakfast." I said, then stood up with Annabeth and walked out the door.
There you go! I promise I'll have the next one out way sooner! I feel bad for waiting so long.
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