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Chapter 11: Welcome to the Second Underworld!

Annabeth's POV:

"Welcome back to San Francisco Bay High, welcome to all the newcomers; freshman or not! Get on with your day and remember, don't be tardy!" said a voice over the loud speaker. Needless to say, I wasn't happy to be back. It's not like I'm a loner or anything, my neighbor Lacey and her older sister Samantha go to the same school, and they're really nice. Lacey introduced me to some of her friends this morning. I think their names were Hannah, Elaine, and Darcy. Darcy has the next class with me, which is accelerated history. I was put in all accelerated classes, and I even found out they have an architecture class here. Sometimes school doesn't suck.

At lunch, I was pelted with questions about my summer, what I did before I moved here, land of course, my love life. Lacey explained how we met, and of course Darcy jumped right into questions about my love life. Typical girls, that's why I mostly hang around with guys. "So, Annabeth, meet any guys this summer? I know Lacey did, at the county fair!" All the girls at our table giggled and Lacey turned red.

"Shut up, Darcy! Gosh, Lucas is just a friend!" Lacey spurted out, turning redder than a tomato.

"Yeah, I friend you text EVERY DAY!" laughed Hannah, "by the way, Annabeth, what's your number? I totally wanna text you!" she gushed,

"Um, oh yeah, I don't have a cell phone." The whole table looked at me like I was a mutant. "Well, we really can't afford phones, and I honestly don't want one. Too distracting." That was a lie, because I had one stashed away for life or death situations. I wasn't going to mention it, because I had a feeling Hannah would blow up my phone to no end.

"You never answered my question about a boyfriend, Annabeth!" interjected Darcy, and everyone leaned forward. I felt like I was a celebrity, in a bad way.

"Well, I have this boyfriend back in Manhattan…" I started. All the girls squeals and immediately pelted me with questions. I ignored them and continued, "He's like six feet tall, and his name's Percy."

"Oh my god, he sounds so CUTE!" exclaimed Lacey. She was the last one I would have thought to say that, "Can we see what he looks like? Do you have a picture?" I showed her the two from last summer, which so happened to be taped to the front of my planner.

"He's gorgeous! You're so lucky!"

"Look at those gorgeous green eyes! I could stare into those eyes for days!" While all the girls ogled over Percy, I thought about how handsome he really was. I stared at the picture of just us holding each other, and I looked at him for a really long time. He had typical Grecian features (which also were actually really handsome now that I look at it), his hair just fell so it looked haphazard but also really good while doing so, his eyes; well I already know how easy I drown in his gorgeous sea green eyes, and camp worked him really hard along with wars and quests so he wasn't in bad shape at all. In fact, as I thought about it, he was pretty ripped. Not creepy steroid veiny ripped, but still ripped enough to make my new friends swoon. I was actually really lucky to have him.

"Earth to Annabeth? Guys, and think she's gone." said Lacey, and all the girls laughed, and I laughed too. I had a feeling I wouldn't mind sophomore year.

The rest of my day went pretty fast, and I got home to my stepmom overrun by my little brother's attitudes and mess. She looked tired enough to collapse. We may not get along, but I still wanted to her. I cleaned up and got the kitchen ready for dinner while she took a nap, and I woke her up when the oven was preheated. She took over the rest. I remembered I had homework and went to my room to work on it. I walked past my dad's office to hear a woman's voice.

"What I'm asking is if she's coming to New York, Olympus needs its architect," said the woman.

"Yeah, she is, but we're not telling her until tonight. The ticket is for Wednesday, and we were just not going to make her go to school tomorrow so she can pack," said my dad. I was going back to New York? I almost collapsed I was so excited.

"What about school?" asked the woman.

"We were going to surprise her by sending her to a small private high school with great opportunities for advanced students. I have a feeling she's going to love the building and architectural department," replied my dad, was it just me or does he sound proud of himself?

"Sounds like a plan. Glad to have this chat Fred. I hope I see you soon." Then there was a flash and my dad sighed and I could hear the scratching of his pen. I knew that was my mom. I was so excited, I ran right to my room, turned my music up, and screamed. When I finished, I picked up the little things around my room and sat on my bed. I dug in my side table drawer and found a golden drachma. I turned on the little battery powered fan that sprays water, and creates the perfect Iris message. "Oh Iris, goddess of Rainbows, please accept my offering, show me Percy Jackson, Manhattan, New York." Suddenly, Percy appeared in the middle of my room. He was sitting on his bed, looking dead confused. He had books surrounding him and papers all around, he ran his hand through his hair and huffed.

"Stuck, Seaweed Brain?" I asked loudly. He jumped six feet in the air, and his face lit up when he saw me. I loved that. My heart did back flips when he smiled at me.

"Sorry I'm not a super genius like you, Wise Girl. I missed you." He said. I missed him too. We had to skip Iris messaging for a week because I ran out of drachmas. Longest week of my life.

"I would give you a kiss because that was so sweet but I can't," I pouted. I had the urge to tell him about me coming to New York, but I decided not to. I had the perfect surprise for him come Thursday. "Anyway, what high school are you at again, Percy?" I asked

"Goode High School, on East 81st street, why?" he rose an eyebrow in suspicion.

"No reason, but my friends like you!" I said shrugging my shoulders.

"Sweet..but they haven't even met me." He said, getting that adorable confused look he usually gets.

"Well, I put those pictures of us on my planner, " he grinned at that part and rose his eyebrow in scandalous way, which made me laugh, "anyway they saw them and all of them called you gorgeous." I blurted out.

He turned red, but recovered, "And what did you say, Miss Chase?"

This time I turned red. "Um.." he laughed and squatted in front of the Iris message, "No please, go on. That's a great story." He fully raised his eyebrows now. I laughing hysterically at this point, and he was laughing too. Gods, I missed him so much already. I squatted in front of the Iris message too, and it felt like we were only inches apart like the old times.

"For your information, Mr. Perseus Jackson, I agreed. What can I say, those green eyes make girls melt." I said, I could just feel the heat rise to my face. Percy reached forward like he wanted to touch me face, but he remembered it was just an Iris message and turned red also.

"Gods, I want to kiss you so bad!" he muttered, then firmly plopped to the ground in front of the message with crossed legs, hands propping up his chin. I copied him.

"Oh stop pouting, I may come back earlier than you think." CRAP. I never meant to mention that. His eyes lit up and he sat up. "No way." He said, grinning. Just then, my stepmom called me to dinner. "Sorry, Seaweed Brain, dinner time. I'll see you later, okay?" he looked disappointed then nodded.

"Alright, Wise Girl, just remember, I miss you." He said. I would kill anyone if they repeated this, but he had a tendency to take my breath away with just little things that make me feel lucky that he was mine.

"I miss you too." I said, I smiled sadly and swiped through the image. This whole different sides of the country thing sucked, but luckily soon enough we can be together again. I walked downstairs for dinner. Afterwards, my little brothers left to get their homework done, and my dad asked me to stay behind.

"I understand you're the official architect of Olympus, so your stepmom and I are sending you back to New York until next school year to work on it. We also arranged for you to go to Puttock High, for gifted children. We also arranged a credit card. Thank my job for all this, they gave me quite a raise. What do you say sweetie, do you want to go back to New York?"

I got up and hugged them both, "Of course! Thank you guys so much I can't even explain how happy I am!" I almost cried.

"They have quite an architect program, so get happier!" said my stepmom. We may have never gotten along super well, but I see a bright future for us. With that, I ran upstairs to start repacking, and plan my ambush on Percy.

I spent the next 36 hours panicking, jumping around giggling, and thinking. Packing was a breeze because I was still a bit packed from Camp Half Blood this summer. I was too lazy to fully-fully unpack. When I got to the plane, I could barely believe I was actually going to New York again, and when the plane ride was done, I knew I was home. Home sweet home.

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