Before you judge my life, my past or my character... Walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter.. Remember, everyone has a story. When you've lived my life then you can judge me... unknown
ANNABETH'S POV
I whipped around to see where the voices came from.
"MMatt...BBobby?" I stuttered in surprise. They ran over to hug me. When I winced, and they pulled away.
"What happened?" They asked at the same time noticing my hospital gown. I laughed, and smiled.
"I fell on my bottom and passed out." they looked at me worriedly and hugged me, carefully this time.
"Why are you here?" I asked as they pulled away.
" Oh, Annabeth! Mommy had the baby. he's so cute. His name's Johnathan. It's just great! " the twins said excitedly taking turns with each sentence. I was dumbfounded.
"They're here?" I asked nervously.
"Of course!" Bobby said.
"Come on! " Matt added pulling me. I stumbled.
"Ow!" I cried in distress. Matt stopped immediately. He looked at me in my eyes.
"I'm sorry" he said in a shaky voice. My hands were on my back.
"It's ok. Just be careful, ok?" I asked straightening up and yelping as I did so. Matt nodded. Bobby just looked at me in terror.
" Are you ok?" he asked. I nodded, yelping one last time as I straightened up. This was embarrassing. I never showed vulnerability to anyone.
" Do you want to go back to your room?" Matt asked. I shooked my head.
" Let's go see Johnathan."
"Well, ok." Bobby said. They walked ahead of me and guided the way. After dizzying twists and turns, we got to the nursery. Matt shoulder bumped me.
"Watch." He said. He pressed the speaker button and said
"Francesca, we're back!"
"Already? Come on in." A woman said. I'm guessing she was Francesca. I followed the boys into the hall and into the nursery.
"Hi guys. " Francesca, I guess, told them ruffling their hairs. Her hair is a light brown with blond highlights. She looked up at me with blue eyes.
"Who are you? Friends can't enter in the nursery only the father, mother, and siblings." I smiled and shook my head. My blonde hair and grey eyes are from my mom. You could barely tell that my dad was my dad.
"Are you sick? You can't be in here!" She said with her eyes wide Since I had taken a long time to answer.
"No, no. I just passed out. But I'm under the custody of Frederick, my dad. And they're my half brothers. We found each other in the waiting room because I was out for a walk. And my back really hurts but that's all. I just really want to see my half brother. " she looked surprised for a second as if taking this all in.
Then, she nodded and led us further into the nursery. There were like 10-14 babies here in the , we reached my dad and Helen. My dad had his back towards me and Matt and Bob had already joined Helen and the baby in her arms. Nervous, I stepped outside the curtain. I wasn't ready for this. I don't feel like I belong. The nurse stepped out and walked towards me.
"Didn't you want to see your half brother? " she asked me . I nodded.
" Then, what's stopping you?"
"I just don't feel like I belong, I mean what'll happen when my dad sees me? When will he notice me? What'll Helen say? What if Bob and Matt see why I left? I can't let them see that" I rambled.
"it'll be fine. " Francesca reasured me. I sighed and nodded. I stepped back inside and Francesca didn't follow. Helen looked up at me and scoffed. She looked back at John. My dad looked back to see who Helen had scoffed at. When his eyes met mine, his face was full of confusion. Then, he looked down and his eyes filled with pain, and regret.
" What happened? " he asked.
"NNotthing" I stuttered. He stood up and hugged me, I winced.
" Who told you?" he asked Pulling back.
" Matt and Bobby" He looked back at the twins.
"Why didn't you tell me that she was here?" Bobby and Matt shrugged. He put his hand on my back and slowly guided me towards Helen and the kids.
"That's your new baby brother, Johnathan" he said. I didn't bother correcting him because it would ruin the mood. I fake smiled, but when my half brother was passed into my arms, I felt my own smile melt away the fake one. At that very moment, I promised I would always be there for him, like I had to Matt and Bob. Suddenly, the intercom changed from baby music to a woman's voice which said,
" Annabeth Chase report to the X ray room 295. We'll be expecting you there. " I sighed and carefully handed Johnathan over to Helen as the intercom changed to play baby music again. I started walking towards the curtain before I felt dad behind me. I looked back questioningly.
"you'll need someone to guide you out." He told me resting a hand on my shoulder. I perced my lips but continued to walk. He followed me.
Once I exited the nursery, I was severely confused.
"Told you " my dad said noting the confusion on my face. I sighed and he took my hand, slowly leading me to the waiting area for this floor. The only one that has elevators. But he lead me so slow, that it seemed as if he were confused as to where to go.
"Dad, are you lost?" I asked him.
"Nonsense, I just need to..find a... oh here we go" he said letting go of my hand and walking up to a sign.
"Waiting room, that way" he said pointing it out for me. I began walking and he followed eventually ending up leading me.
Once we reached the waiting room, he pressed the down button for the elevator. I came up behind him.
" You don't have to come with me. " I told him. The elevator doors opened and we walked in.
" I know, I also know that I was wrong Annabeth. " he told me as the doors closed. " I don't want us to have a bad relationship, I know I was wrong for kicking you out, it's just that I was having a bad day, I had gotten laid off-"
" you got laid off? "
"yea but that's not the point. I got lilaid off and then I come home and hear you're staying at a friend's house. And Helen concludes that you were at a party, got drunk, and had a hangover. So that's why you were staying at a friend's house. And I really didn't like that. You know having your only baby girl drinking. I kind of freaked, and you didn't help and what happened, happened." the elevator dinged and stopped. He exited in front of me, looking back at me.
"But we have a bigger apartment now. Grampa stayed in his. Can you...do you, want to move back in?" he asked me. I stumbled but stayed up. Stupid tile. I looked back at my dad, who I knew was really sorry. I smiled and nodded. He sighed in relief as we came upon a sign.
"What had happened was that my friends and I went to Thalia's mom's place and we watched a movie. question is what had they watched. I fell asleep and my friends decided just to stay there that night because a 1 hour ride is very long." he pointed out which way we should go as I talked. We continued walking.
" After I woke up, they tell me they had called you and mom-"
"You have your mom's number on your phone?!"
"YYeeesss"
"Are you nuts?! She could track us down!" I sighed.
" My mom's not a stalker, she will only come on a special occasion and sometimes she doesn't even come!"
"I guess you're right but-"
"Great, just great! We don't need you, you could just go back." a woman cackled pointing to my dad.
"Oookkkk..." my dad exited the room and the woman came over to me.
" Ok sweetie, we're just going to make sure that your spine is not broken or any of such. You hit yourself quite hard on your tailbone and there's a high chance of you having a minor fracture or just a sprain but either way, we want to make sure you're healthy and ok. " She said.
"how long will it take? " I asked her.
"Might be an 2 hours long or just an hour depending on you, sweetie. "
This was going to be a long day.
I'm so happy patriots won the super bowl! Sorry for the sea hawks fans out there but I must say, they let themselves lose. They could've intercepted the ball and won, but they started a fight. But, the plays were amazing and with that half time show, this must be the best super bowl ever!
PERCY : but they...wwell...yyea, I guess you're right.
ME: OF COURSE I'M RIGHT, PATRIOTS WON THE SUPER BOWL, HELL YEA!
ANNABETH : *with wide eyes* yea, alright, they won. But great inference, they did win but the sea hawks could've won...I guess...
PERCY : well, winner is Smiles burn in the Styx for answering first with the correct answer.
ME: *smiles sheepishly * oh yeah and grover had forgotten to be specific about when percy had disappeared, but he meant from the heroes of olympus books but I'm glad mostly everyone got it correct.
ANNABETH : Yeah, congrats to Angelicat2 for getting it correct too.
PERCY: and *coughs* ilikepercabeth123, yea congrats.
Me: well ignore that ilikepercabeth123 you got it completely correct,
ANNABETH : Yeah, Percy's just being an idiot.
ME : yup, the question is, what movie did the gang watch at Thalia's mom's house, from this story?
ANNABETH : why were you acting like an idiot when you said ilikepercabeth123's name, I mean I I know it's weird but you don't wanna hurt her feelings.
PERCY :They've come up with a couple name for us, next thing you know they'll be at our place begging for us to have children.
ME : you guys do know the mic is still on right?
PERCY : WELL, THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, TURN IT OFF!
