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The rest of the day went by pretty quickly. It turned out that Nico had made a friend named Hazel, the same age as him. Apparently she was fairly new to the school. She came a bit after me.

"Are we missing classes today to go look in the library?" I asked Bianca the next morning.

"I don't know," she said. "Do you want to?"

I yawned. "Sure. I don't want to go to Mrs. Dodds's class anyway."

She rolled her eyes playfully. "Don't get used to it."

"That's why I'm enjoying it right now."

"Percy!" Grover said rushing towards me with his plate, spilling some cereal in the process.

"Yeah? What's up?" I asked.

"Um…" he said. "I want to ask her out today."

"Juniper?" I said.

"Who else?" he said. He immediately blushed a deep crimson.

"Aw. That's sweet," Bianca smiled.

He cleared his throat. "But I don't know how! Should I just ask her out like during class or something? Or should I take her somewhere first and then ask her out? Or—"

"Grover, calm down!" I laughed.

"There's a really nice garden in the back of the school," Bianca suggested. "It's kind of hidden and you need to go around the secondary building, but there's a garden there. It's pretty quiet, and not a lot of people know about the place."

"Then who does the gardening?" I asked.

"Of course you would care about that Perce," Grover said.

Bianca laughed. "I'm not really sure. But I sneaked out of my room once and I saw a girl tending to the flowers. But I don't know who she is, and I know nearly all the girls here. I think she only comes around during nighttime though, so don't worry about it."

"Thank you Bianca. You're a lifesaver," Grover said. He finished off his cereal. "I'm going to go see if I can find it. See you guys later!"

He ran off.

"You weren't lying about that, right?" I asked.

"Of course not!" she said, as if appalled that I had even thought of that. "Like Annabeth said, there's a lot of secrets in this school."

"And a criminal school has hidden gardens," I said.

"Just believe it," she said. "I'm going to head to the library now. Can you bring some snacks?"

"I don't have any money," I said.

She rummaged around in her backpack and tossed me a ten dollar bill. I wondered where she got that. "Katie's helping out until class starts. Maybe she'll give you a discount."

She headed off toward the library while I stuffed my pancakes down my throat. I choked. Rachel slapped my back.

"Did you have to hit that hard?" I said.

She grinned. "Sorry. But it looked like you were going to die."

"Oh," I said, feeling my face heating up. "I'm going to the school store. You want to come?"

"Sure," she said. "I need to get some more paint anyway."

The inside of the store was pretty small, but cozy. It reminded me of the cabin that I used to go to with my mom in Montauk for some reason.

"Welcome," Katie said in a bored voice. Then she saw who it was and brightened up. "Oh, hey Percy! Nice to see you too, Rachel."

"Hey, Katie," I smiled.

I grabbed a few bags of chips while Rachel was debating which paints she should buy.

"I'll give you a discount," Katie said. "Thirteen bags of chips for ten bucks. How does that sound, Jackson?"

"Great," I grinned.

She took my ten. "Are you seriously going to eat these all?"

"I'm sharing with Bianca."

"Of course," she said. She took Rachel's money and handed her the change. "Oh yeah, Percy."

"Yeah?" I said.

"Chiron wanted me to tell you to see him after school," she said.

"Right," I said. "Thanks Katie."

"Anytime."

"How's the note searching doing?" Rachel asked as we walked to the building.

"Somewhat better than before," I said. "How many notes are there?"

"A lot," Rachel said. "How many did you find?"

"Five or more… I think."

Rachel shook her head. "There's over fifty of them in there. Annabeth might not have as much time as I thought."

"Wait, what?" I said, stopping her.

"A new prediction came last night," she admitted. "Tomorrow."

"Tomorrow what?"

"You have to go look for her tomorrow," Rachel said. "I have Luke cutting off all the power lines so that all classes will be canceled tomorrow. You have to leave tomorrow."

"Wait, so she's not in the school?"

"Let's go somewhere where people won't hear us," she said.

"Just go to the library," I said, and she nodded.

"Back again?" the librarian asked. "And you've brought someone with you, I see."

"Hello," Rachel greeted.

I got us a table and brought over Bianca.

"So what's going on?" she asked.

I gave her a brief overview of what Rachel just told me.

"Okay, so go on," Bianca said.

"She's still in the school," Rachel said. "But I don't know where."

"How many floors can the buildings support?" Bianca asked. "Each."

Rachel shrugged. "I'm an artist. I'm not a genius on those subjects. I know a bit, of course, but I can't guarantee that the information I can give is accurate. That's Annabeth's field. Trust me. I want to find Annabeth as much as you do."

"What's your guess?" Bianca pressed.

Rachel got out her sketchbook and the bell rang. "Looks like I'll be missing class," she sighed.

She drew a quick sketch of the two buildings.

"The main building is pretty sturdy," she muttered. "It's bigger than a house, but smaller than an apartment building."

She made a few scribbles.

"This building that we're in right now," Rachel said, "seems to be able to hold maybe three or four floors. But they could've expanded the floor sizes to put only two, but that's very unlikely."

"But there's no stairs!" Bianca said.

Rachel looked at me. "Remember that third floor in the main building? The one that's somewhat-hidden?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

"If they were following the original plans—which I don't have by the way. I 'm just guessing—it's not supposed to be hidden. It's supposed to look a bit more natural," Rachel said and drew a picture on what it was supposed to look like.

"So if there are more than two floors here, you're saying that the stairway is hidden?" Bianca said.

Rachel nodded. "I don't know if it exists, but as far as I know, Annabeth doesn't know about any other floor here."

"Rachel, you have to help us," I said. I didn't understand everything she just said, but I got the basic gist of it. "We need to get a basic idea of it if we're going to go look for her tomorrow."

Rachel hesitated, but nodded. "She made me promise not to tell, but it's for her own good. Now, the books that she hid them in, they're either connected to her, or they're following current events."

"She's scared of spiders," I said. "Maybe she hid one in a book about spiders?"

Rachel nodded. "In the nonfiction section. There's a big book on arachnids. Percy, you go look for that. I'll go with Bianca."

I raced over to the nonfiction section and tried to look for the book that Rachel was talking about. I found a book called Arachnids and flipped through the pages. Nothing. Simon & Schuster's Children Guide to Insects and Spiders. Nope. Spiders. Nope.

I looked around for the girls and saw them looking at books about… Dobermans?

I shook my head and pulled out another book. Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. I flipped through the pages and pulled out a note.

Dear whoever is reading this:

I keep hearing weird noises during the night. Maybe I'm just being sensitive, but there's a buzzing sound somewhere. I tried looking around for the source, but I have no idea where it's coming from. I checked both buildings thoroughly (Well, not the boys' dorms. That's just weird.)

I scoffed. And she didn't find it any awkward when I was in the girls' dorms.

-and there wasn't anything to be found. The noise gets louder when it's someone's detention day. I swear, I sometimes heard screaming from a nonexistent place.

Please place this in another book.

-Ath. C.

(Annabeth Chase)

I stuffed it in a book about tarantulas. She probably wouldn't approve of it, but whatever.

"Found one," I said.

"We found one too," Bianca said. "It talked about how only specific people got detention."

"Mine talked about weird noises," I said.

"I think we can finish finding the main ones by lunch," Rachel said. "After that, we can start planning."

"Okay. How many more?" I asked.

"Well, the important ones…" she counted on her fingers. "Maybe eight? But the last few are the stuff you already know."

"Do you remember what books she put them in?"

"A book about San Francisco," she said. "And this sci-fi book… I think it was called Ender's Game or something? She also put one in a book about Artemis."

"Alright," I stretched. "Let's get looking."

"Chips first," Rachel said. "Hand them over."

I rolled my eyes and distributed the chips.

"Now let's get looking," Bianca said.

We were pretty productive and found the main notes plus some side notes before lunch.

"Looks like you gave Annabeth a good impression," Rachel snorted. She showed Bianca one of the notes we found, and she started laughing.

"Let me see!" I said and snatched the note from them.

Dear whoever is reading this:

A new kid came. It's strange since we didn't have a new student in ages. Maybe Rachel's prediction is coming true?

I think his name was Percy Jackson. I had Luke check his file. He sounds like trouble, but then again, this whole school is trouble.

Apparently he lives with his mom and stepfather who's a drunkard. Sounds like Mr. D. His stepfather hates him. Also sounds like Mr. D.

In fact (I'm writing this part last minute), I met the new kid on my way up here. I knocked him out. I couldn't have him knowing what I was doing. Especially if he's not the person that Rachel was talking about. I feel kind of bad for beating him up, but he was a good practice target, I guess. He looks kind of familiar. I can't place it though. And he needs a haircut.

Please place this in another book.

-Ath. C.

(Annabeth Chase)

I scowled. "Target practice, huh?"

"There's another one about you," Rachel said and handed me another note. "It was in Tom Sawyer."

She said that I had dyslexia just like a whole lot of kids here, and that I seemed kind of dull when it came to academics.

"Thanks," I said.

"There's also these," Bianca grinned and gave me two more notes.

My expression darkened even more.

I was right when I thought that he was going to be trouble.

His insults kind of suck. I should give him lessons sometime.

He's going to spend his lifetime in the hospital if he ever gets out of here.

It's kind of annoying how his dyslexia is keep acting up. I have to finish this fact sheet on Othrys on my own.

He's actually kind of fun to be around.

The girls laughed at my expressions.

"So anyway," I said pushing the notes away. "Who's going to go?"

"Something's wrong," Rachel said. "In the future and the past. Something went wrong."

"What do you mean?" Bianca asked.

"Something tells me that five people are supposed to go, but one of them is missing or dead," she said.

"How did you come up with that?" I said dryly.

She slapped my arm. "It just came to me."

"So do we go with four then?" Bianca asked.

"I don't know," Rachel said. "Maybe. Probably."

"I'm going," I said.

"We know," Bianca said. "And we can't stop you. I'm going to go too."

"But Bianca," I said. "You could get hurt."

"If I get hurt, I get hurt," Bianca said. "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I'm weak."

"I was always told that, but after coming here, I have more proof of that," I said. "Grover's going to come too."

"Grover?" Bianca said. "I thought that he doesn't know any of this!"

"He doesn't," I said. "But he said that he's going to help find her. He said."

"All right then," Rachel said. "Who else?"

"Um," Bianca started. "Is it okay if Zoë comes? I think that she could be a nice addition."

"Sure," I said. "But doesn't she hate boys?"

"Hopefully it won't take long," Bianca said.

"Is that it? Or do we need to take another person?" I looked at Rachel. "Why don't you come along?"

"I'm sorry, but I won't be much help to you, even if I did tag along," she said apologetically. "As for the last member, as I've said, they're not here."

"Then what do we do?"

"Just take your current team," Rachel said. "Inform them of what you're going to be doing. And meet me in front of Chiron's room at…" she checked the clock. "11 PM tonight."

"What are we going to be doing?" I asked. "Won't we need some rest if we're going to leave tomorrow?"

She rolled her eyes. "Don't be a pussy, Jackson. You'd better show up on time."