CHAPTER 9

Sam's PoV

So it's been an hour and forty two minutes of walking and we finally found a stupid hotel, Holly's Hotel. This place looked absolutely horrible! The vomit colored paint was peeling, The grass was taller than me, the once beautiful (I assume) statues were shattered and many bullet holes and spray paint decorated the walls.

"Oh this looks 'lovely'," I said pointing to the wall that said, uh many things.

"Well we could walk another mile to go to 'Authors Inn'-"

"I love this place," I said through clenched teeth.

"I guess we are staying here then."

We all walked in the fogged up front door where a huge spider crossed us and Annabeth shrieked and jumped into Percy's arms.

"Dude," I said amused. I then took off my shoe and hit the giant beast, " Oh gods it almost got me. (That's right I am starting to catch on)."

Annabeth looked at me with disbelief," How are you not afraid of those blood sucking demons?"

"Cause back home I had to deal with them a lot. Including Fat-cine Briggs," I shrugged.

Annabeth shook her head and we all walked in. The place looked extremely different then from outside. The place was beautiful, there were exotic rugs including plants, soft leather couches, a giant TV, some pearly white tables and a huge diamond chandelier.

"I'll get the room," I volunteered

"I'm going with you," Freddie said taking out is wallet.

"Why?" I complained.

"Just in case you 'accidently' rip someone's head off because they don't have any ham," Freddie said starting toward the front desk.

"So true," I said shaking my head and catching up with Freddie.

"Room for four, please," Freddie said giving the girl behind the desk his credit card.

"When did you get a credit card," I whispered in his ear.

"Ever since my mom thought she had seen tantutics."

"What are tantutics?"

"I have no idea."

"Okay you are all set," The girl said finally looking up from her desk and handed the card back to Freddie. When she saw him her hand shot directly to her hair and she tucked it behind her ear.

This girl seemed about Freddie and my age with jet black hair and sea blue eyes. The girl also gave us four cards and explained: "These are your hotel cards. If you want to go to the library, gym, or swimming pool just swipe your card on the panel next to the door and your in."

"Does this place have a cafeteria or something?" I asked getting excited.

"Of course but we like to call it a buffet," The girl said not even glancing at me.

I was seriously about to faint if wasn't for the fact that the girl ignored me and kept looking at Freddie.

"So you have a gym?" Freddie said not noticing my glares toward the black haired wonder.

"Yes second floor," she said almost immediately.

"Thanks," Freddie smiled toward her.

"No problem," The girl answered and started twirling her hair on her finger and batting her eyes.

"Anyway," I stepped in," we better get going."

I walked away thinking Freddie was behind me and pushed the elevator button with a lot of anger. While I was wondering where my anger was coming from Annabeth and Percy joined me. I turned around expecting Freddie to be there but he wasn't.

"Um, you guys know where the nub went?"

Annabeth and I looked around while Percy suddenly took interest in his shoes. I shrugged him off and went back to looking for Freddie when my eyes landed on the front desk. I saw the girl writing something on Freddie's arm and my heart seemed to have dropped.

I felt a rush of emotions, hurt, anger, disappointment, sadness and you guessed it jealousy (stop smiling its creepy). But why do I feel this way I don't like the nub.

Yes you do.

No I don't.

Yes you do.

No I don't. We are just friends.

Uh huh and how do you feel about that?

Just then the elevator doors opened and I ran inside trying not to think about what I just saw.

Annabeth seemed to have seen it to and climbed into the elevator with me followed by Percy frowning. I pushed the 8th floor button with enough force to break it.

"Um, aren't we going to wait for Freddie?" Percy gulped.

"Why? He wants to flirt with ugly hotel girls, let him. Mama's tired." I say hoping my anger isn't noticeable.

The door closed and 'Running Away' by AM played on the way up.

"UGH!" I almost yelled.

"What? What's wrong?" Annabeth asked worried.

"Nothing," I said clenching and unclenching my fists and turning away from Percy and Annabeth's gaze.

When we got to our floor I rushed toward the doors waiting for them to open. When they did I practically ran out and took a left then glanced down at the piece of paper with our apartment number on it. 239

Of course it is...

When I got to the door I put the keys in and opened the door.

The apartment was huge! When you walked in there are two doors on either side that I assume lead to bedrooms and in between there was a living room with a black leather couch and a black love seat with a plasma and a balcony. I didn't spend much time in the living room, in fact I really didn't care.

I walked in to the bedroom on my right with a blue door and found two beds, two dressers, one normal sized TV and a huge bathroom. The beds were different colors though, there was a blue on and a sea green one too. I realized this room was decorated like a beach with star fish and seashells and the faint smell of sea water.

This is strange...

I left the room and walked into room with a red door. It was the same except the beds were red and gray and instead of a TV it was a book case. Also instead of a theme of the beach this room had owls everywhere.

Okay, this is starting to freak me out...

I Ran out of the room and went to the balcony and sat down on a chair I found. After a few minutes or so the door for the balcony swung open and an angry Annabeth came out.

"Sam, you shouldn't run off like that."

"Yes mother," I grumbled.

Annabeth's stern face suddenly turned soft and she walked over to me and kneeled down," Sam are you okay? And be honest."

"Fine, I am not okay. happy?"

"No. Why are you not unhappy?" Annabeth asked. I tell she all ready knows she just wanted me to admit it.

"Because that is life," I said looking toward the stars.

"How is being unhappy your life?"

"Look at me Annabeth. Nobody likes me. My 'fake mom' doesn't like me. My teachers hate me. People at camp and at school only think I am a bully with no feelings and even some of iCarly fans think I am horrible, and I am not going to get into what iCarly was. My old boyfriends used me to get to Carly because she is the pretty one and I'm just... I'm just Sam." My eyes started to water but I held them in. Sam Puckett does not cry.

Annabeth seemed taken back from this and when it started to sink in she put an arm around me, "What's wrong with being just Sam? Being just Sam is great. You are great at everything!"

"No its not. When people think you they don't think you're a menace or have anger issues."

"That's not fully true. Some people think I have anger issues to."

"Yah, right," I huffed.

"Sam, I like you Percy like you. Heck, I think Freddie loves you," Annabeth said trying to boost up my confidence.

"Ha, that explains why he tells me he hates me every day and is flirting with that hotel girl downstairs right?" I felt my eyes water and I once again held them in.

"Sam, I want you to be honest with me," Annabeth said looking into my eyes.

"What?"

"Do you like Freddie, as in more than a friend?"

I really didn't want to answer the question. And there really wasn't any way out of this.

"No," I lied.

"You're lying," Annabeth whispered.

"No I am not."

"Sam, I am daughter of Athena, I know you like him."

"So what if I do. He doesn't like me."

"Sam, I really think he does. Every time he is with you he always seems to brighten up smile a lot. I see you do that to, missy"

"Eh, whatever, I am going to go get some Ham." I said getting up still kind of down.

"Fine. But one more thing?" Annabeth got up.

I motioned for her to go on.

"Who was your first kiss?"

"We promised we wouldn't tell anyone, but...Please don't tell anyone even Percy,"

"Wow, now I see how annoying I get. I promise."

"It was uh... Freddie," and with that I left Annabeth with her mouth hung open and left the apartment with my card and one key to get in the apartment when I get back.

Ham here I come.

A/N: Did you guys catch my hints (8 , Running away, 239) If you don't just message me and I'll tell you. Also Don't you find it extremely hard to get Sam and or Freddie to say that they really do like each other without it being OOC. It's aggravating. Anyway I can a sure you tantutics are as real as grunions so Yay. Oh and I finally figured out Percabeth's colors! Sea Green and Gray! Hope you enjoyed and I wanna know what you think so how am I supposed to know if you don't REVIEW!