Piper watched Percy push the food around his plate. She looked at Annabeth. Annabeth's eyes were worried.
"Does it hurt?" Jason asked. "Because I have Tylenol if you need some."
Percy started, and looked up. "No," he said. "It doesn't hurt anymore."
"So why do you look so sick?" asked Piper. "You were fine this morning."
"I'm just… nervous, I guess," said Percy. "I just- I just keep thinking that it's nothing, and then I remember everything that it could be…"
He trailed off, looking at his plate. Frank frowned. Percy was clearly anxious. Frank hoped that Annabeth's phone would ring and Percy could find out whether or not he really had to be so worried.
As if by magic, Annabeth's phone rang. Percy jumped. All of the color drained out of his face, but there was another expression on his face, almost like… relief?
Annabeth flipped open the phone and read the caller ID. "It's him," she mouthed, handing Percy the phone.
Percy stared at it. "Um," he said. "Excuse me, guys."
He got up and walked a short distance away to talk in private. The eyes of the people at the Poseidon table followed him, as did Chiron's.
Annabeth watched Percy's body language as he talked to Dr. Maddox. His back was to her, and she watched as he brought his left hand to touch the mass of bandages hidden by his sleeve on his right arm, and as he slumped. "Oh shoot," she said, watching Percy's spine make an effort to stand up straight as he flipped the phone closed and started walking towards them.
Percy sat down at the table and sort of glanced around the table.
"What did he say?" prompted Hazel.
"He said… he said to come in tomorrow at nine and we can discuss the results. If- if there was nothing wrong, he would have said so, right?"
The averted eyes of the table's inhabitants gave him his answer.
I know the chapters are short, but I can't figure out how to leave you hanging but still have each scene in a different chapter, the way I want. Hopefully they will get longer at some point, but no guarantees.
Guess what! My class voted me to be the editor-in-chief of our yearbook! So happy!‼!
Review Responses:
Percabeth the Potterjay- Thank you! Don't worry, the story will continue- I am not abandoning it!
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Gragra- Benign means that the tumor is not malignant. You can also use it to describe a gentle person, like in Harry Potter, when it says something like "Dumbledore peered benignly over the top of his glasses." Or something like that.
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