Hi everybody!

It's PixieDust345 again.

So for today's chapter I didn't really have a full plan in mind, so we'll have to see where my imagination takes me.

Hope you like it!

Annabeth lay on her bed.

In the dark.

She was supposed to be asleep but she just couldn't.

And so she lay there staring at the ceiling and thinking about the days events.

She had beaten Luke and Rachel and had never felt better.

It was only a small victory but it seemed like so much more.

That last look on Luke's face.

What was it?

Anger?

Disgust?

Remorse?

No none of those.

It was embarrassment.

And she had relished in it.

The only problem was –

She still hadn't faced her demons yet.

The demons of the past.

The real reason she had had to leave her old home in the first place.

The accident that hurt so many people.

The accident where SHE had hurt so many people.

Well, indirectly.

She had been trying to stop Luke from stepping over the line but ended up stepping over it herself.

And she couldn't get over it.

She couldn't forgive herself.

She was a terrible person.

And she should have been the one who was hurt.

Not those innocent people.

She turned over – maybe she was just thinking badly because the ceiling was so boring.

She looked at her wall instead.

On it were pictures of her new life.

Pictures from her first sleepover where she officially became one of the gang.

Pictures from the one time she went out with Thalia and Piper for milkshakes and bowling

Pictures from the photo booth at the winter dance where her and her friends had found props of moustaches and wigs and fake glasses to take pictures with.

And most importantly, pictures of her and Percy.

Their first date.

There first kiss.

And just pictures of them both together in general.

While she thought of herself as a terrible person, she couldn't bear it if her friends or Percy ever found out what she did.

She hated herself for it and knew that they would hate her too, if they ever learnt about the demons of her past.

She sat up and put her fist in her mouth trying to stifle a sob.

She sat for moments holding herself, trying to reassure herself that everything would be okay but failing terrible because deep down she knew that it wasn't going to be okay.

She would make another mistake and lose all her friends.

She might have to switch schools or even worse, transfer to a different state again.

She might have to change her name and surname if it's something really bad.

Oh gods she hoped she wouldn't have to.

What if her family disown her?

They already treated her as if she were abnormal.

Who knew how they'd treat her if she didn't stick by the rules again.

Ding.

A notification popped up on her phone screen.

She picked up the cool piece of metal from her bedside table and saw it was an instagram post that she had been tagged onto.

She pressed open the notification and it led her to Piper's homepage.

On it were pictures of the gangs day. Them all at a pizza place. Volunteering at a café. Watching a movie at the cinema. Walking in the streets. But her favourite one was a picture of her and her friends celebrating their dodgeball victory in the nurses' office (because 3 of them had been injured.)

She smiled at that.

Maybe things would turn out alright.

She turned her phone off and put it back on the nightstand before laying down and slowly drifting off to sleep.

The next day

Annabeth woke up suddenly.

Her hair was a tangled mess and her head hurt for some reason.

She grabbed her phone to check the time.

Her eyes widened.

Apparently, she hadn't heard the alarm or had just forgotten to turn it on in the first place.

There were only ten minutes before school started.

She rushed to get ready.

At school

Annabeth was at her locker trying to grab all her textbooks when Percy jogged over with a breakfast smoothie that he handed to her when she was done.

"Alarm didn't go off?" He asked as they started walking to the bleachers they normally sat under.

"Yeah!" She replied breathlessly.

She was tired from rushing to get ready.

They were about to walk the last metre to the bleachers when someone ran straight into Annabeth and the smoothie spilt all over her front.

The person was one of Luke's friends and he looked like Jew was having a laughing fit but it wasn't because of the spill. It was because of someone else.

"We'll clean it up at the hang out." Annabeth assured Percy when he looked like he was going to react towards the boy.

He nodded and they finished walking towards the bleachers.

It was a wreck!

The beanbags and pillows were ripped to shreds; feathers and fabric thrown about everywhere.

The fairy lights were broken and the umbrellas had been turned inside out.

"So this is why he was laughing!" Percy sighed in exasperation.

"Luke obviously put him up to it." She muttered. "He's always been a bitter loser."

"The others have probably seen this and relocated otherwise they'd be here already." Percy mused.

Annabeth nodded grudgingly and they walked towards the library, stopping at Annabeth's locker to grab a spare sweater she brought in case of incidents like this one.

As expected they found their friends, including a positively fuming Thalia in the spot they had been sat in last time.

Annabeth sat next to Thalia.

When she did Jason explained to her that Thalia had been going to pick a fight with Luke for what he did but they had managed to restrain her just in time.

"Beth, no offence but I don't know how you put up with that blonde devil as your boyfriend for so long!" The black haired girl growled.

"Sorry, boyfriend?" Percy butted in. "I thought you two were just friends."

Thalia shot Annabeth an apologetic look when she realised that she had said it in front of everyone.

"That was a year ago." She said clearly not wanting to talk about it.

"How did you put up with him though?" Leo asked.

"Does it really matter?" Oiler's interludes. "If she doesn't want to talk about it, then she doesn't want to talk about it Leo!"

He muttered an apology.

"If you must know, then the reason I put up with him was because he was a good person." She said. "At the beginning." She finished when her friends shot her looks of disbelief.

"I find that hard to believe but it's your word that matters." Thalia smiles grimly.

The bell rang for homeroom.

"Let's meet on the roof top garden where the garden club usually are at break and lunch." Katie suggested. "Since he's new, Luke won't have heard about it."

They all agreed and went their separate ways.