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Athena's Owl: I like the idea, but that's not exactly how I'm planning it :P
I got a few Are you a Demigod? reviews this time.
If I am I demigod now I wouldn't be able to tell you now ould I?
"Juniper Tree (A/N: Sorry, I just had to do that :P) and Grover Underwood"
"Nico Di Angelo and Thalia Grace (A/N: Ok guys, I don't know if I'm going to have Thalico cuz some people are reviewing against it. Tell me what you think! Trust me, if there's gonna be Thalico it's gonna be minor)"
Mrs. Mires listed a bunch of other names after that.
"Ok guys!" she said after she finished ,"Please get with your partners and you can go for the rest of the period. And remember! No asking questions!"
No questions? What's up with that?
I got up and migrated through the crowd of kids to Annabeth's seat. She was sitting there waiting for me.
"You ready?' I asked her.
She nodded and got up. I followed her out the building. I walked beside her when we got outside.
"So you again." I joked ,"We always seem to end up together in one class or another."
She gave a small laugh.
"Yeah," she said," You just can't wait to get your butt kicked by me can you?"
"Hey! I won the last time didn't I!"
"Well, your size adds to your advantages!" she said.
"Oh admit it! You loved being in my arms." I joked.
She scoffed.
"Sure." she said sarcastically.
I looked around and saw we were walking on a sidewalk that I'd never been on.
"Where are we going?" I asked Annabeth.
"You'll see." she said with a glint in her eye.
There was a moment of comfortable silence between us.
Annabeth turned down a trail. I tripped over a root on the way down and almost knocked Annabeth over.
"Walk much?" she asked.
I blushed.
"Sorry." I mumbled.
"For a boy with reflexes for his ability you're pretty clumsy."
Before I could retort back at her we came to the end of the trail. There was a small beach that stretched out down the coast of the water. The air didn't have a salty smell to it though.
"A river?" I asked.
"Yeah." Annabeth answered ,"It's the perfect place to go to get away."
She kicked off her flats and picked them up. I took off my shoes too and carried them. It felt good to have the sand through my toes.
We started to walk down the beach. There was a nice breeze off the water.
"So we're supposed to do a project on each other then." I said.
"Yeah. No questions." she reminded me.
"Yeah."
"So where are you from?" she asked.
"I thought you said no questions!" I exclaimed.
"I was trying to start a conversation! If we don't talk we won't get anything done!" she defended herself.
"Fine, I'm from Manhattan."
"Cool." She said.
"Where are you from?" I asked.
"San Francisco. But I lived in Manhattan once though." she answered.
"That's cool." I said," How'd you end up here?" I asked her and she hopped over a root in the sand.
She looked down at her feet uncomfortably.
"Your ability can't be that bad. I got kicked out of 10 schools." I said.
She looked at me with a surprised face.
"10?"
"Yep." I answered," 10 of 'em. All for fights."
"So that's how you got so good. What'd you get in fights for?" she asked.
"Bullies picking on kids." I answered.
She looked at my face.
"That's really sweet of you."
"Yeah, let's just say I know exactly how they feel." I said.
She nodded.
'I was picked on when I was younger." She said.
1st thing I know about Annabeth Chase: was picked on.
"Really? You seem really popular here." I said.
She shrugged.
We approached a creek in our way.
"Come on." Annabeth said.
She ran over to a log that went over the creek. She jumped up on it gracefully and began to walk across. She turned around.
"Are you coming?" she asked.
I hopped up on the log to and walked to flashed me a smile and began to walk across. We were at the middle when Annabeth's foot slipped. She fell to one side, and I caught her under her arms before she fell all the way.
She blushed as I helped her regain her footing.
"Sorry." she mumbled.
"It's fine." I said.
We made it to the other side without any more problems.
We started to walk again. I looked over and saw Annabeth staring at me.
"You really aren't afraid of eye contact are you?" I asked.
"You seem more relaxed." she said.
"Do I have any reason to be nervous?" I asked.
"No," she answered," You just seem a little tense in classes."
"Well, I guess I like the water." I said.
"I do too." she said.
"Do you swim?" I asked her.
"Of course I do!" she answered.
"No," I said, "Like on a team?"
"No. The pools are mostly reserved for kids with water abilities." she explained.
"What about here?" I asked.
"Not usually. Sometimes we go out to the island when it gets warm." she answered.
"The island?" I asked.
"There's a small island a ways that way ," she pointed out toward the water, "It's a good place to hang out if the weather's good. And most of the time it's deserted. Some kids are afraid to go."
I looked at her.
"Afraid? Why?" I asked.
"Well "legend has it" there used to be a lab on the island where they did experiments on kids from Goode." she said.
"They?" I asked.
"A man named Daedalus. He was a student at Goode, but had a crazy ability. No one's really sure what it was. The teachers keep it quiet."
"Yeah" I urged her.
"Supposedly he was completely mad. Like insane. Everyone at Goode was afraid of him because of his ability. Whatever it was. But he used to like to go to the island to get away. When he was in school people started disappearing."
She ducked under a tree branch.
"Daedalus would continue to go to the island. Then The Legacies got involved. The Legacies are an organization here at Goode that protect us and keep intruders away. If you do something really bad, the teachers threaten to give you to The Legacies."
"What do they look like?" I asked.
"Big guys. Buff as they get. Some are 7 feet tall. I've only seen them once. But everyone's learned to be afraid of The Legacies. Kids who sent to them never come back. They go completely off the grid."
"Completely?" I asked.
"Completely. But they protect us so they're good. They followed Daedalus one day and somehow found a lab, and Daedalus was never seen or heard of again. But some people said they were on the beach when he was found, and they said they could hear his screams."
She looked up at me.
"But the island isn't big enough to fit a big evil lab so it's defiantly not true." she assured me.
"Huh" I said.
I thought about the files I had found in the desk last night.
I might have to take another look at those.
"We probably should be getting back." Annabeth said turning around.
"Yeah." I said catching up with her.
Later that night I went back through the desk. In a file I found a whole bunch of satellite photos. They were of the school. I looked at the dates. They were all a long time ago.
I put them away and shuffled through the desk papers again. I pulled out a map. The map was of a complicated building complex. I was about to look at it when I heard someone outside. I walked over to the door and opened it.
Someone was on the swing.
I recognized the blonde curls cascading down the girl's back. I walked over to Annabeth. She turned her head to me in surprise as I sat down next to her.
"What are you doing out here?" I asked her.
"Thinking" she answered, looking out at the sunset, "What are you doing here?"
"I live right there." I pointed to my cabin.
"That's funny." she said ," I live right there."
She pointed to the cabin next to it.
"Hey neighbor." I joked.
She laughed.
"Hi neighbor." She answered.
"Did Thalia tell you how she and Nico did? Nico was so mad when we found him he had to go vent on a wall." I said.
Annabeth laughed again.
"She said he was pretty annoying and couldn't take a hint to shut up." she answered.
I chuckled.
"This is gonna be a long project for them." I said.
"It is." she agreed.
"You won't make it a long project for us will ya?" I joked.
She laughed.
"I don't think it's me we have to worry about."
"What! I don't ever argue!" I exclaimed.
She smirked at me.
"You're arguing right now." She said.
I stood up and threw my hands in the air.
"Fine!" I exclaimed jokingly.
Annabeth laughed.
"Bye neighbor!" she called to me as I walked back to my cabin.
"Bye neighbor." I called back.
Ok guys, Thalico or no Thalico?
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