Sup guys! I'm back HAHA i think this is the first time I've updated on time...I think

Man these few days hasn't been easy for me. Too much time for me to think about my life. There's this thing that's been bothering me. LIke you know, I'm supposed to join this group called the MMs in my church. Yea and I think i was potential or something or whatever but that's not the point.

LIke they had a party which i didn't even know of HAHA they invited all the MMs and POtential MMs and i didn't even know the party existed because apparently the person who created the MMs group didn't add me into it. I don't know i just feel completely unimportant and just want to leave haha i mean i know it's an honest mistake and they didn't purposely NOT add me into the group on whatsapp or anything but it kinda hurts to know that even my own friends didn't bother to ask them about it so yea

needed to let that out. Just feel so down about it cuz yea feel like very unimportant y'kknow what i mean HAHA its a terrible feeling to have and i hate it. Its not even that i was supposed to be in the group and angry cuz they didn't invite me. I'm just sad they forgot, if you get what i mean HAHA

Just needed to let it out HAHA well i'll just try to forget it

Well back to the story, this is i guess a long chapter? I think it's quite an okay chapter so you should like it HAHA Thanks for reading and reviewing! :)

Annabeth's POV

Incessant mutters and murmurs echoed and rebounded off the walls of the school hallway as I walked towards my locker. The excitement that buzzed in the air was so thick that even I was affected.

For a moment, I was worried that I was the cause of all the mutters. However, after a quick glance at my surroundings, I sighed in relief as I realized that none of them were paying any attention to me. That was good- attention was usually never pleasant.

In fact, most of the attentions I have garnered in my life were all the negative kind. The only positive attention I have gotten was from Percy. Probably the best kind of attention anyone could have actually.

I smiled a little at the thought of Percy. He's always been there for all of us, always supporting us and forgiving us easily when we do him wrong.

My smile melted off my face and a small frown settled upon my face as I thought about the whole Rachel incident. Percy's the nicest guy I know. Of all the people that I have came across in my life, he's the one who deserved the most happiness.

And yet, Rachel, of all people, forgot about him. It made me angry to think that Rachel still remembered about Micheal while she forgot Percy. Percy should have been the one that was remembered, the one that she stayed with, not Micheal.

Asi I reached my locker door, an image of Rachel and Percy standing together, holding hands and kissing each other flitted across my mind. For some unexplainable reason, my stomach churned violently and I felt twinge of pain in my chest. This caused me to freeze and I ended up staring at my locker door, not doing anything.

My frown deepened as I fell deep into thought, contemplating about what I was feeling. Worry and panic swelled up in me as I realized what I was feeling.

Jealousy. That was it. As to when was the last time I felt it…

I grabbed my stomach, trying my best to hold back the urge to puke my guts out.

Him. I had felt jealousy for him of all people. My vision went hazy and all the excited chatter receded into a monotone background noise as I started to lose control of myself, my whole body shivering as my thoughts circulated around that one fucking asshole that had crushed and decimated every single shattered piece of my heart and soul.

"Annabeth!" Thalia's excited voice broke through the curtain of hell that had wrapped around my world, helping me to break free of its suffocating grasp.

My eyes focused on Thalia's grinning face just two centimeters away from mine an di immediately leaned back at the speed of lightning, straight into an open locker door behind me.

"Dammit Annabeth, watch where you're smashing your head when you act like a bull, would you?" Leo's slightly pained voice shouted form behind the locker door I hit. I winced as his loud voice, together with the dull, throbbing pain at the back of my head hit me like a truck.

"Sorry, sorry! Thalia surprised me," I apologized when I recovered from the sudden shock and pain.

Three seconds passed before I realized that Leo's locker was actually right beside mine.

"Woah, shit. What? Leo, your locker is beside mine?" I exclaimed in surprise. Both Leo and Thalia gave me a weird look.

"You mean you didn't know? And I thought you were smart!" Leo said in a teasing tone while Thalia laughed her guts out at my stupefied face.

"Well, looks like you're not as observant as I thought," Thalia said while chuckling.

"But seriously," Thalia suddenly stopped chuckling, her expression turning into a worried one and her tone changing into one of a more somber level.

"Why were you so spaced out? You even looked like you were going to cry and vomit at the same time."

My mind went into overdrive as I tried to think up of a thousand excuses that would convince them that it was nothing. Considering the fact that I had just recovered from that short moment of hysteria, my mind was understandably not functioning as well as usual.

Thus, I did the smartest thing I've ever done in my life and stared at her, mind blank and heart pounding.

That, of course, didn't work at all and Thalia got even more worried. I held my breath as she opened her mouth to question me even more. I wanted to flee to the furthest ends of the earth or dig a hole and bury myself in it. They can't know. They just can't.

Relief flooded into me a shrill, high-pitched girly voice screamed, "There he is!" distracting Thalia and Leo. Thalia winced and gritted her teeth in annoyance, glaring at the mob of people suddenly rushing towards the entrance of the hallway.

"What's going on?" I asked a little too hurriedly in my desperation to bring their attention away from me. They didn't notice though- they were too distracted by the mob.

"A popular guy is coming into our school today- an old friend of mine too. We didn't exactly leave on good terms though," Thalia grinned sadistically as she flexed her fingers. Something told me she had punched whoever this person was right in the face before leaving whomever the person was.

"Why is he so popular though?" I asked more calmly this time- partially because I realized that their attention was no longer focused on me, and partially because I was genuinely curious.

"He's the best swordsman anyone has seen in centuries, apparently," Thalia grunted. "In fact, he's the current world champion."

"I heard his dad owns a very successful business," Leo said with a hint of excitement in his voice. He was tiptoeing and trying to look over the sea of heads that blocked his view.

"What's his name?" I asked. A cold feeling seeped into me and my throat constricted. I had a very, very bad feeling about who this person was.

The person who had almost destroyed my life and caused a sea of hopelessness and despair all those years ago had also been a swordsman. He was one of the best…and he had been competing in the youth Olympics.

"His name is Luke," Thalia said with undisguised disgust in her voice.

I immediately stopped breathing. Luke? Luke?

Bile rose in my throat. I suddenly felt extremely giddy and my chest felt constricted, causing me to become breathless.

I crumpled to the ground, whatever energy and strength that I held in my body vanishing into thin air. My eyes were wide and fearful and I could feel tears already sliding down my face.

"Annabeth! Annabeth, what's happening?" Leo and Thalia's panicky and concerned voice seemed so so far away, like they were shouting from a thousand miles away.

My sight was slowly returning, but everything else was worsening. My breaths were becoming shorter and faster, my whole body was quivering unstoppably and my heart was palpitating at a million miles per hour.

Panic seized me as I realized that I was making a commotion. If it was really Luke, I can't, can't let him know I study here as well. Using the adrenaline provided by panic, I picked myself up and rushed to the toilet, slamming a cubicle door behind me and locking it.

My back slid down against the door as the adrenaline left my body and my body, once again, crumpled onto the ground. I hugged my knees to my chest and sobbed.

Why? Why did he have to chase me here? I've moved to so many different places. I was hundreds of miles away from the school I met him. Why, of all places, did he have to enroll here?

He wouldn't leave me alone. My life is over. I have to move again. The very thought about moving away from the gang- from Thalia, from Nico, from Grover, from…

Percy…

For some reason, the very thought of leaving Percy caused me to break down even more. The very thought of him no longer in my life scared me to death.

The prospect of not having Percy by my side to talk to, to joke and tease with, to eat and chat with made me feel so empty, so afraid.

Even when Thalia banged the door, shouting for me to open up and asking what was wrong, I didn't move a single inch from my position. My mind was stuck in the loop of fear and devastation, unable to escape its evil claws.

Eventually, my tears ran out and my blurry vision slowly went black as exhaustion took over, causing me to fall deep into the dark abyss of a fitful sleep.