And so he found her crying, coiled up on the dirty ground. Her prince finally came to save her, and the rest you can figure out. But it was a trick, and the clock struck twelve. Well, make sure, to build your house brick by boring brick, or the wolf's gonna blow it down.

-Brick by Boring Brick

By: Paramore

"Who cares? What's the point of living?" I chanted, over and over again, while lying on my bed and breaking pencils as many times as I could. My once lively and stormy gray eyes were now dull, and almost colorless. I had been at this for almost an hour. There were tons and tons of broken pencils on the bed, and I had probably hundreds of new ones, ready to be broken. The door creaked open, and I didn't bother to look up and acknowledge whoever just walked in. The person rushed over to me, and stood right in front of my bed, hands on their hips. I knew exactly who it was. Thalia.

"Oh my gods Annabeth. What are you doing? Stop that," she said sternly. I continued on, ignoring her remark. She stomped over and pushed all the broken, and new, pencils off of the bed. I continued on breaking the pencil I had. She took me by the shoulders and pushed me up, forcing me to face her.

"You need to leave this cabin Annabeth. You haven't left in days!" Thalia said, shaking my shoulders. It was true. I hadn't left my cabin in days. There are bathrooms in the cabin, so I had that covered. And I just had people bring me food every day. Either one of the Athena campers, Nico, or Thalia. She only came sometimes. I wasn't (and I'm still not,) ready to face Percy, Ashley, Rachel, Connor, or Travis. That's five people. Five people that everyone knows.

"No I don't. I'm quite fine in here," I replied, turning my face away from her.

"If you don't get your butt up from that bed and get outside, I'll do it myself," she replied hastily. I rolled my eyes.

"What're you gonna do? Carry me?" I asked sarcastically. She smirked.

"I will if you don't get outside yourself." I narrowed my eyes.

"I'd like to see you try. And you're out of luck, because I'm not going out there," I said.

"Alright, that's it. You leave me no choice," she said, and got up from my bed. She wiped her hands on her jeans and then pushed her hair out of her eyes. Then she grabbed my waist and pulled me to my feet.

"What? What're you doing? Let go of me!" I yelled quietly at her. She then proceeded to pick me up and throw me over her shoulder, and walk out the door. I was kicking her, and punching her, and screaming at her the whole time.

"Told you," Thalia muttered, once we were outside of the cabin, and right near the bleachers, where we gather for Capture the Flag. And everyone was there. I really didn't care at this point. I wanted her to put me down, and let me go back to the safety and warmth of my cabin.

"Thalia! Let me go! Now! Seriously, this is so not funny! Put me down!" I screamed at her. At this, she just shook her head.

"Nope. We have to play Capture the Flag. And if I put you down, you'll run," she replied.

"No I won't! I swear. Please just put me down, and I'll play," I said, pleadingly.

"Fine," she said, and placed me on the ground. That's when I noticed everyone, just sitting there. A lot of them were watching us, and a few talking quietly to each other. I spotted Connor and Travis, whispering to each other, most likely about their battle strategies. Ashley and Rachel were sitting next to each other, whispering to each other here and there, with smirks on their faces. And Percy… wasn't here? Huh? Why wasn't he here? My question was answered when I heard someone behind me and Thalia, breathing heavily.

"Sorry I'm late, I was swimming," the deep voice behind me said, and laughed, along with most of the people sitting there, but they still looked really uncomfortable. Percy noticed that, apparently.

"What's wrong?" he asked, scanning each of the campers. "What's going on? Is someth-" Percy said, and then cut himself off, when he spotted my messy, curly blonde hair in front of him. "Annabeth." My eyes widened, and my heart raced at a million miles per second. My stomach churned. I couldn't be here. I couldn't face him.

"Thalia, I can't be here again," I said softly, so only she could hear. My eyes watered, and she looked into them. Her electric blue eyes softened when she saw the tears threatening to spill from my eyes.

"Okay," she said to me. "Go." I turned on my heel, and started to walk back in the direction of my cabin. Unfortunately, I had to pass Percy on the way. His scent hit me as I started to pass by him, and the first tear fell. Percy saw it, and reached out to grab my arm.

"Wait." I glanced at him, and kept walking. "Annabeth!" I could hear him turn and start to walk after me, so I took off in a run. I ran behind the first cabin I saw. I think it was the Artemis cabin. I pulled my knees up to my chest, and placed my head on them. Then, I felt the tears trickle down my face. I didn't bother stopping them. I felt a presence next to me, so I picked up my head, and sure enough, I found myself staring into the emerald green eyes of that black haired boy of Poseidon.

"Hey," he said softly.

"What do you want?" I asked harshly.

"Annabeth, please, can we talk?" he asked, looking down at his scuffed Vans. I stood up and faced him, the anger bubbling inside of me.

"Oh, now you wanna talk? Do you even know how much you hurt me?" I practically screamed at him. He looked up sharply, pain in his eyes.

"Annabeth! Okay, I know that you think I'm just some-" he started, but I cut him off.

"Jerk? Bastard?" I sneered.

"Annabeth, I know what I accused you of was wrong, but if you'd just listen-" he pleaded, but I cut him off, once again.

"No, you listen. I learned my lesson the first time, and I thought you did too, but I guess I was wrong. You've hurt me so many times Percy, when are you gonna stop?" I questioned, the tears streaming down my face. Percy bit his lip, and stuffed his hands deep into his pockets, clearly uncomfortable.

"I don't know how much more pain I can take, Percy! I have practically no friends, everyone looks down upon me, and you hurt me. A lot. I don't even know what happened! I just want to be twelve again, before you came. Everything was fine, until you showed up. I had friends, I was the best sword fighter, and we didn't have to worry about monsters always being right near camp. Luke wasn't evil, and no one was dead, and then everything changed because of you!" I screamed at him, while sobbing and crying uncontrollably.

"Annabeth, c'mon, don't bring any of that into this," Percy said, clearly hurt.

"No, I will. Because you only live one life, and you've already ruined mine enough. So, I'm just gonna get out of this camp," I said.

"You can't leave camp Annabeth!" Percy said, exasperated. I glared at him, and then walked over, so I was standing right next to him.

"Watch me."

Alright… who wants to kill me? All of you, I presume. I'm so sorry! I really am! But I was lazy, and I was writing another story for Fanworks, and it was eleven thousand something words. And wow, I haven't been on Fanfiction in a long time! This is ridiculous. I've been too busy reading Panic! At the Disco stories on Fanworks. Sorry about that… But, yeah, I dunno where this chapter came from. It was weird, I know. I didn't really like it. But you guys review anyway! I'll write more soon if you do, I promise!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for the storyline and made up characters.