High School Hostages
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Annabeth
I had no clue where I was going.
How was I meant to get a gang of burly biker guys out of the school?
I really should have stayed in the classroom.
'Uh, Annabeth?' Nico asked from behind me, I turned to face him.
'Nico?' I sing-songed.
'Where exactly are we going?'
I sighed and came to a stop. I rubbed my face and then let my arms drop and blew a piece of hair out of my face.
'I don't know, Nico. We've been though countless corridors, up and down stairs, I mean the only place we haven't been is-,' I cut myself off, realising how thick I had been this entire day.
'Where?' Nico urged, confused.
'Outside.'
Nico ran a hand through his dark hair, 'Of course! Hidden in plain sight; how could we be so stupid?'
Within the hour, Nico and I were sitting on the front steps of the school, beaten.
'I can't believe-.'
'They locked the gates,' I finished Nico's sentence for him. We had no way out: the entire school was surrounded by eight-foot spiked fences (apparently because the school was being broken into too often, touché), and all the gates were close. And I was not going to be the one to put my hand up to climb over the fence.
I buried my face in my hands, which were resting on my knees, 'I really hope Thalia has a plan.'
'You and me both, sister.'
'I guess we'd better head back inside, then,' I sighed, picking my head up. Nico hopped to his feet an extended a hand, I took at gratefully and he pulled me up to my feet. We climbed the stairs and opened the door, only to see everyone wreaking havoc in the corridor.
'What'd we miss?' Nico marvelled at the spectacle of the full corridors, eager to join in. He started to move forward, but I grasped his arm and pulled him back.
'We should ask someone what's going on.'
Nico deflated, 'Okay, boss.'
I spotted an old friend, Leo, amongst the crowd; a roll of toilet paper in his hands. I ran up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and pulled a quizzical face, then relaxed and smiled.
'Annabeth!' he chimed. 'Long time, no see! What's up?'
'Well, Leo, that's what I was hoping to ask you," Leo and I hadn't talked a great deal since sophomore year, and I was glad to see that he wasn't going to reject me straight off the bat.
'Oh, this?' I nodded, and he continued. 'Well we just heard something over the intercom, uh, something along the lines of, "Get the hell out of this office, or you kids are toast!". Then, this happened,' he gestured around the hallway. Nico had caught up to me and was on my right, unintentionally blocking the stream of kids from bumping into me.
'Right, well, thanks, Leo,' and I caught Nico's arm so I could lead us out of the chaos-zone.
'No problem, Annabeth!' he shouted over the crowd.
Once we were free, Nico turned to me, 'What'd he say?'
'Threat over intercom equals riot, apparently,' I told him, my eyes drawing to the rapidly-moving crowd. We had a big school, but it wasn't really big enough for two and a half thousand teenagers running around with no real objective at quarter past eight in the evening.
'Who threatened?' he asked, drawing my attention back to our conversation.
'Leo didn't say, but by the sound of it, it was one of the bikers. Hughie, maybe?' I shuddered at the thought of Hughie, a poor excuse for a human being.
'Not those guys again,' Nico whined.
I thought for a moment, 'C'mon.' I grabbed his arm suddenly, dragging him straight into the flow.
'Where are we going?' he asked, surprised at the sudden man-handling.
'To find Percy,' I muttered. Despite my best instincts, I knew he would be able to control the crowd, plus, my instincts didn't want to see him, but I did; although I wasn't ready to admit that to Nico.
AND HERE WE HAVE, A TWO-CHAPTER UPDATE [CUE APPLAUSE]
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