A/U: So I replaced the author's note on chapter 24 if you want to read it. Well you have to if you want to know what's happening. I'll try to update tomorrow but no promises. Sorry, kind of short
~Melissa L.
Rose
I woke up from that awful nightmare, thinking I'm being stupid. It's was just a break up. Okay, sure Nico was my first boyfriend and I'd never felt so happy about anything in my life and thought we were meant to be…this really isn't helping. I decided to just stay in my cabin and pretend to be sick. I didn't really want to go out to my activities today.
It was noon when I heard a soft knock at the door. "Rose, are you in there? You've better not disappeared, too or else I'm going to be mad," it was Annabeth. I groaned, I didn't want her to see me like this. I hid my face under the covers as I heard the door creak open. I tried my best to sound like I had a sour throat. "What?" I rasped. I heard footsteps coming towards me and I silently prayed that Annabeth would leave soon.
I felt her sit on the bed beside me. "Are okay?" she asked.
"No, I feel awful," I replied. I wasn't exactly lying either, I did feel awful.
"C'mon Rose, let me see. I need to see if you have a fever. Take the covers off," Crap. I quickly wiped the tears from my eyes. Maybe she wouldn't notice and my head being under the covers made my head feel warmer. I pulled the covers off my face.
"Wow, you look awful, oh sorry," she said.
"That's okay, I know I look awful,"
"Does your throat hurt that bad? It looks like you'd been crying,''
I nodded. Just a little white lie wouldn't hurt and I really didn't want to talk about the break up just yet. She felt my forehead, "You are running a fever, don't worry, I'll get you some nectar, let you rest for the day and you'll feel better tomorrow, sounds good?" she asked me.
"Yeah, thanks," I made an act of struggling to talk. Annabeth left the cabin. A few minutes later she came back with a glass of nectar with a straw in it. At the door I saw a lot of boys trying to get into the cabin. Annabeth blocked the doorway and yelled at them, "She's sick. Rose doesn't want to see anyone right now. Go away already," and closed the door behind her. "Boys," she said and rolled her eyes. I giggled a bit than pretended that my throat hurt again. I always got away with pretending I was sick. Back at the orphanage when I really didn't want to do or go somewhere, I would make a show of coughing and moaning. That usually did the trick.
Annabeth gave me the glass of nectar. "Here, that'll help you. Do you want me to get Nico for you?" I almost choked on the nectar. I really didn't want to see him right now. I couldn't blame Annabeth for bringing him up. She didn't know.
"It's okay, I just want to rest," I said. Annabeth nodded and walked to the door.
Before she closed the door she looked back at me and said with a smile, "When you're done pretending to be sick, come and get me and we'll talk about whatever is bothering you, okay?" I probably had my mouth open because she looked at me smugly, "I know you enough to know when you lie. I'm a daughter of Athena, I don't get tricked easily. Bye, Rose," with that, she closed the door leaving me feeling embarrassed.
I carefully put the glass of nectar on the small bedside table and lazily got up to take a shower. I felt re-energized as the warm water splashed on my face and washed all the stress and sadness from my body. I took extra long in the shower washing my hair twice, scrubbing myself over and over again. I really didn't want to get out but eventually I turned off the water and got dressed. I dried my hair as best as I could with my towel. I looked around the cabin and saw it was quite filthy. I decided to spend my time cleaning.
I went around the place picking up trash on the floor and under the beds. I remade Percy's and my bed. I looked at the space above Percy's bed. It had pictures of all his friends and of mom and some guy that had his arm around her. My guess was that he was Paul, Percy's stepfather. There was one with Annabeth and Grover when they were younger, another picture that had a girl with spiky black hair and blue eyes, which was probably Thalia. I saw Tyson and Chiron, even Clarisse. Then I saw a picture of me and Percy, we took that a few days after I got claimed. We were in the long island beach and were splashing each other in the face. That day was fun.
I looked at my wall, I hadn't noticed that I hadn't put anything on mine. I certainly had enough pictures to cover the entire wall but my heart just wasn't in it. I didn't want to see any pictures of me and Nico having fun and smiling. I looked at the clock on my bedside table, it said 3:17. Had time really gone that fast? I had nothing else to do so I went to look for Annabeth to help me with this stupid boy problem that I had.
Hope you enjoy. Reviews and constructive criticism is cool, flames...I guess you can write them, I just won't pay attention to those.
~Melissa L. :)