Annabeth

This whole week? It was confusing. That one day, where James asked me if I knew him, that was practically a blur until I saw Thalia. What others may not understand is that, I have no memory of James until that moment. Weird, right? But whatever, today's friday! We can finally escape this school. I know I'm not the only one excited, I've heard Nico say multiple times that he can't wait to go either.

I went to my closet. It was 5:00, the dance started at 6.

"Annie!" Thalia called me from the bathroom.

"What?!" I asked while walking towards the bathroom. I leaned in the doorway.

"Can I have some help with," Thalia pointed to the mess called hair,"this?"

"Sure." I reached over and began blow drying her hair, my hair was already dry. While I was helping Thalia, she was applying make-up to her face. She still had her blue streaks, to match her electric blue eyes. She applied the basics, and started with the hard as I finished her hair.

"There you go, Thals." I told as I turned out of the room.

"Thanks," Thalia called to me.

"No problem." I call back.

I went back to my closet (which has a mirror) and put on my make-up. In the mirror I saw what I thought wasn't there anymore, a gray streak; the same streak that Percy got when he held the sky for me. I hadn't realized I was crying until I noticed wet streaks on my face.

"What's wrong, Annie?" Thalia came in to grab her dress.

"Nothing." I faked a smile and wiped the tears away with a tissue. Unfortunately, for me, Thalia didn't buy it.

"Annie you can tell me-" She stopped and tilted her head to look at the streak. "Is that the streak?"

I nodded slightly.

"Oh Annie," she hugged me tightly and I just slowly let the tears fall. It wasn't a lot, I've spent a lot of time crying, it was just that I thought there wasn't anything left to remind me of Percy. His family collected everything. I had nothing left, until I saw that gray streak still in my hair. By the time I had stopped, it was 5:30.

I sprung up from the bed (my closet was more of a wardrobe) and fixed myself up. The make-up I had on was waterproof (thank the gods). I quickly went to the bathroom to curl my hair, a little bit. Afterwards, I changed into my dress. It was a short ombre gray/white dress. It was a one-shoulder, and a tight top. the skirt was not like a cupcake. It practically went straight down; which should be right since it was made of silk. I had white heels to match the dress, only a few inches high. I had no jewelry, except a silver necklace made by one of the Hephaestus kids that morphed into a shield. I had so many bobby pins in my hair, it was in a nice neat bun with curled ends. The good thing was that my bun concealed an expanding dagger.

Thalia looked so beautiful she could rival the goddess of beauty herself, Nico would indefinably agree. She was wearing black, of course. It was a sleeveless dress that poofed out at the skirt. It glittered and shined electric blue to match her hair and eyes. She had black stilettos that also glittered and shone like her dress. The dress was simplistic, in its design, but not in its color choice. How she got a dress like that, I never knew. Inside her stiletto were small slits that allowed for the storage of thin blades. Her short hair was down and flat, like usual, but she had earrings on. The earrings were simple small hoops with a long piece of metal coming off of it. The earrings were just earrings, unfortunately. Although she did have her studded cuff, the one that turned into a shield. With what concealed weapons we had, we were actually pretty safe.

The knock on the door signaled the boys were here. Oh. My Gods. I almost forgot about our other roommate, Ell (Elizabeth). I don't think she's a demigod, although if she was one then she'd be a Demeter kid for sure. In the room there's about a dozen potted plants. Plus, here books are mostly about horticulture. Her parents (her stepmother and her birth father, her died when she was a baby she told me) were scientist looking for renewable energies. All the paper she uses is recycled, and I swear on the River Styx that she was at a natural wildlife preservation protest in Central Park a month ago. Anyways, she was wearing a white dress that was pure white. It had two straps, not really thick but not thin either. And her hair cascaded down in soft curls. Her hair was a light auburn brown and she had bright green eyes; eyes as green as the most cared for grass in the world. She had plain white heels. The jewelry she had were a necklace, earrings, and a bracelet. The necklace was a natural white crystal. Her earrings also had that strange crystal. And her bracelet was a small white cuff studded with the same crystal. She was pretty, naturally prettier than over three-fourths of the girl population in the whole school. She would be really popular if she wasn't so introverted, I would miss her when we leave tonight.

The boys came in, Nico and James both in all black, a blazer thrown over a black dress shirt. No ties. Grover wore a traditional suit: black blazer, white dress shirt, black tie, and black dress pants. The boys were awestruck with each of us, Nico to Thalia more than any of them. I saw Grover nervously eyeing Ell, he was still going out with Juniper. James was eyeing all of us, creepily. He kept his eyes trained on either Thalia or I thou, but I knew he was sneaking looks at Ell. I think he actually likes her. I'll have to question him about it later. We left for the dance with Nico and Thalia interlocking arms and the rest of us awkwardly walking towards the ballroom (yes, there was an actual ballroom).

Nothing happened, not really. But I got a phone call. I got a phone call. It was from Chiron, he was asking how were and he told us we needed to be ready to go by ten tonight. Argo would be waiting in front of the school with the van. I told everyone the information. It was nine when we put the plan into action. Thalia and I were going to lure James out to the front while Nico and Grover ran back to get all of our things. At the last minute, I left to the bathroom. I got an Iris message, it was Chiron again.

"Hello Chiron, is there a reason for this message?" I asked him.

"Yes, it seems there was a mis-communication and you will also be responsible in bring back a second demigod, her name is Elizabeth Cypress, I believe."

I nodded, "I know her, she's my roommate."

"Good, good..." He paused, "I will see you at camp."

We said our goodbyes and I swiped my hand through the message. I raced back to the ballroom, our plan wasn't in session.

"Change of plan, guys," I said after I gathered Thalia, Nico, and Grover.

"What do you mean?" Nico asked.

"We have to get Ell, too." I said.

"Oh," he said.

"So, this is what we are going to do..."