Chapter 14 Mysterious

As I stomped away from Percy, I realized I looked like a five-year old kid getting frustrated because I didn't get my lollipop. But who cares, it's not like someones going to come up to me and say, "Stop stomping like a little kid."

"Hey Annabeth! You look like a little kid!" Percy shouts, coming up from behind me.

Well of course, HE would. "Who made me do this huh?"

"Yourself" smirks.

"What?"

"Yup, you totally enjoyed that but you're upset with yourself that you pulled away."

"Nooo!" I said, blushing while trying to glare at him at the same time.

"Whatever you sayyy."

"Hmph." I was turning around and walking with my back turned to him again when he suddenly grabbed my hand, and pulling me into the line of the Haunted Mansion.

Apparently there was no line because just when I was going to yell at him, someone said, "How many do you have in your party?"

"Two!" came a voice behind me.

"Okay, watch your step. Oh! and Beware of-"

"Thanks! Yeah! I saw the sign," piped Percy, dragging me into the ride.

"By the way, if you get scared, I'm here!" smiled Percy mischieviously when the ride started.

"Yes, me out of all people, would get scared! I think you, Seaweed Brain, would be more scared than-AHHHH!" I screamed, breaking off my sentence, grabbing on to Percy.

A spider SPIDER was dangling in front of me.

"S-SPIDER! AHHHH!" I kept screaming throughout the whole ride, clutching onto Percy as he put his arm around me.

When the spider disappeared, and I saw sunlight peering through the exit, I straigtened myself up, brushed off my clothes and scooted all the way to the other side of the bench, blushing and cursing myself for grabbing Percy.

I scrambled out of the seat when the bars came up and ran outside, taking deep breaths.

"I'm so sorry Annabeth, I didn't know about that." Percy whispered, standing in front of me.

"It's o-okay. Th-" I broke off, seeing a gigantic red thing behind Percy.

I stepped around him to reveal the red sign, saying 'BEWARE OF GHOSTS, SPIDERS, SOULS, AND WITCHES! GO ON IF YOU DARE'

"PERSEUS JACKSON!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, thinking of when he said '...I saw the sign'. I glared at him, while he shuffled from foot to foot, timidly looking at me.

"YOU KNEW AND YOU STILL MADE ME GO IN THERE, THIS IS OVER THE LINE!" I turned around, refusing to face him. I could hear him coming up behind me, but I just ran away from him.

I bumped into someone, and without looking up, I said, "Sorry!"

The person stopped me by my shoulder and said, "Annabeth?"

I looked up to see a smiling Matt. "Oh hey Matt." I greeted.

"Hey," he glanced behind me, "Err...I think Percy's looking for you?"

"Whatever."

"Annabeth!"

"What, Perseus."

"I'm sooo sooooo soooooooooooooo sorry."

"Sorry isn't going to cut it."

"Wait wait, hold up. What's going on?" A confused Matt asked.

"He dragged me on the Haunted Mansion ride when he knew there was spiders!"

"Awww. Percy, you shouldn't have done that! Her being a daughter of At-" he stopped midway because I had covered his mouth.

"SHH!"

"Don't be so dumb. Not everyone here knows that we are you-know-whats!" Percy commented.

"He's new to this whole you-know-what thing! It's not his fault." I backed Matt up.

"Yeah yeah, sure, go on backing HIM up. When I was new to this whole thing, you slapped me on the head calling me stupid."

"That's because you are!"

"Okay, whoa whoa. You guys. Want to sit down and talk before you rip out each other's throats which I wouldn't mind if Annabeth did that to Percy."

Percy glared at Matt as we all walked toward a picnic table.

My stomach grumbled when we sat down. "Hey Matt, I'm going to go grab a sandwhich or a hamburger or something. You want anything?"

"OHH! I want a cheeseburger!" Percy piped.

I pointedly ignored him and waited for Matt's answer.

"It's okay. Thanks!" He said, giving me a smile.

I walked over to the line, scanning the menu.

Five minutes later, I grabbed my meal and walked over to the picnic table. I saw Percy and Matt having an angry discussion. Percy had a very mad look on his face, and Matt was glaring at him like he would kill Percy.

"Hey, what's going on?" I walked over, as they immediately stopped their conversation.

"Nothing, oohh, that looks delicious!" Matt said, his eyes on my food.

"What. Happened." I said.

"Nothing." Percy replied, not bothering to look at me.

My stomach grumbled again and I sighed, knowing I would get it out of them sooner or later as I picked up my sandwhich. As I ate, they talked like nothing had happened even though I can still feel the tension in the air.