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I grabbed my backpack off of the one side table and began to pack. To be honest, I was excited but nervous. I loved Percy's mom, but what about camp? I loved camp as well and I didn't want to leave.

A knock on the doorway broke me out of my thoughts. I turned and saw Jamie standing in the doorway.

"Hey," I said, turning back around to my backpack and clothes.

"Uh, so what are you doing?" He asked, "Travis was going on about you going to Sally's."

"Yeah, uh, Sally said I could go stay with her for a little while until things cool down a bit here at camp. She's letting me bring four people including my sister."

"Who are you bringing?"

Crap, I completely forgot about Jamie. "Oh, um," I swallowed, "the Stoll's, Nico and Will."

"Oh," he sounded disappointed, "Well, do you know when you'll get back?"

"No, I want to come back soon, but I don't know how long until camp lets go of the me-being-really-powerful-and-can-destroy-everyone thing."

"I hope they calm down soon, I don't know how much everyone can take, the camp is falling apart."

"Yeah," I sighed, "Sally's going to get here soon to pick us up, so I might want to hurry. I'll IM you when I get there?"

"Sure, I think the others would like that too."

I finished packing my bag and turned back around, I hadn't even noticed that Jamie left. I shouldered my backpack and headed outside.

I got to Half-Blood Hill and saw that everyone was already there. Coral had been staying with Katie the past few days so Katie had helped her pack the stuff that Coral had left in the Demeter cabin.

"Hey," Will said as I walked up to them.

"Hello," I said quietly. Coral ran over to me and I picked her up. "So," I asked her, "Are you excited?"

"Yeah!" She cheered. This made me smile a bit.

Chiron walked up to us. "Sally should be here soon. And Trish, Sally was, uh, skeptical of having the Stoll's stay, so I'm looking to you to keep them out of trouble."

I smiled. "I'm the only one who can keep them out of trouble."

Just then a gray van pulled down the road beside the camp. I guessed that this must have been Sally's car.

It came to a stop right in front of us. Sally stepped out of the driver's side and Paul out of the passengers.

Sally walked up to us. "So, is this everyone who's coming," she said cheerfully.

Just then Percy comes bounding down the hill. "Hey, mom!" He said, going up and hugging her.

He pulled away. "Where's Annabeth?" Sally asked.

"Oh, she's studying something," He explained. I knew what he was talking about. Annabeth was studying the book I let her see. That's all she's been doing since I gave it to her.

"Oh, well tell her I said hello," Sally smiled.

"Will do." Percy then saluted.

"Well," Sally said turning towards us, "Ready to go?"

"Uh, yeah," I said. We all filed into the van and Sally drove away. I looked back at Thalia's tree, wondering if I would be back soon or not.

"I'm surprised that you wanted to do this Trish," Sally said as she sped down the road, "I know you didn't want to leave camp again."

"Yeah, but at least I have people with me this time," I sighed. I saw Sally peek into the rearview mirror. I looked back to see what she was looking at. She was looking at the Stoll's who were fighting about something in the back seat.

I sighed. "Seriously guys, we just got on the road."

"Sorry," they murmured. They sat back in their seats, crossed their arms, and looked the opposite way of each other.

For some reason, I always felt guilty when they did that. "Okay, what's wrong?" I asked.

"Travis forgot our toothbrush," Connor complained.

"No! You forgot our toothbrush!" Travis yelled.

"Hey! No need to yell at each other, I'll just get you new ones when we get there." And then something hit me. "Wait. Eww, you guys share the same toothbrush?"

"It's one of those ones where it has switchable heads. So it shares a body but we have different heads," Travis explained.

"I wouldn't be surprised if they did share one," I heard Nico murmur.

Apparently, the brothers heard him too. "Hey what's that supposed to mean?!" They yelled.

"I mean, come in, you guys share and do everything together," Nico said.

The Stoll's turned to me. "Why did you have to invite death face here?!"

"Hey don't call my boyfriend that!" Will yelled.

Then everyone started yelling at each other, except for Coral who sat in the front like nothing was happening. I sighed. I lifted my hand and made a closing gesture with my fingers. All of the guys' mouths shut instantly. I heard Sally give a sigh of relief in the front and Paul just giggled. "Hey it was your idea," he said to Sally.

"I know, I know."

We sat there in silence for the entire rest of the ride. I had let go of the boys' mouths a while ago, but they knew that if they started arguing again, I'd do more than shut their mouths.

"Here we are," Sally said, parking the van next to the same apartment building I had been to just yesterday. We then walked inside and began heading up the stairs.

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