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The Lost Princess – Chapter 1
7 Years Later….
Annabeth's POV
Well my name is Annabeth Chase and my life has been pretty much boring. I've never played outside with other kids or go to school. I never had a friend either besides Callie.
Calliope Jane is a young adult. She's going to have her own child too. She's been pregnant for 7 months now and the poor child isn't going to have a dad either. See, Callie used to have a boyfriend but he ran away after he found out that Callie is pregnant. I think that it's horrible for what he's done to her and I'm only allowed to meet her and no one else. She's like my second mother and also my best friend.
Besides Callie, my life has been pretty boring and I'm only 7 years old. That is sad.
So my mother and I have a very different kind of relationship. She is always at work and she hikes through the woods. I've asked her if I could come too but she always say no. Sometimes I feel suspicious of her I mean she always get scared or angry when I talk about going outside. It's like she's afraid that something will take me away. Sometimes I feel like she's not telling me something.
A familiar voice said "Annabeth, Dinner's ready!" she yelled.
I walk downstairs and there she is setting up the food. Her name is Arachne; I normally don't say it at all because, honestly, her name just scares me. Her name is spider in Greek and well I just don't like spiders. Her appearance doesn't help that fact either. She has black frizzy hair that separates in 8 pieces and pitch black eyes that look like death.
I sat down in my seat and started to eat chicken salad with steal and mash potatoes. We started to eat and there was an awkward silence, as usual.
Finally mom said "So how was your say sweetie?" with a fake smile. Sometimes, I think that my mother is forced to like me or that she doesn't even like me. It hurts a little but I honestly don't like her a lot. It's like we were supposed to hate each other from the beginning.
"The same as always, mother. What about yours?" I said in a bored tone.
"Well you know the same. I've been kind of stressed because of work and also–""Mother, why can't I go outside like the other kids?" I blurted out and instantly regretting it when I saw the anger in my mother's eyes. She calmed down for a second and said "Honey, the world is very dangerous out there. I want you to be…. safe so please stop asking. You know that I care about you." She said in a calm voice but I could still hear the anger in her voice.
I stopped talking and started to eat faster so that I could go in my room. Once I was finished I looked at my mother cleaning the dishes and sighed inwardly and wondered when I will be able to see the world. I went in my room closed the door and locked it. I sighed again and went to my hidden place of books. My mother doesn't like the fact I read books for no apparent reason but I still read them. I got them some of them from Callie when she was in college and new books that she gave to me on my birthdays. I also have dyslexia and ADHD so it was hard for me to read at first but I got the hang of it soon. I took out one of the Architecture books that Callie gave me for my 7th birthday and started to read. I've been interested in Architecture and want to be an Architect when I grow older. I've always wanted to build something that's permanent.
When Annabeth finished reading, she immediately when to sleep and thinking 'Gee, I wonder what will happen tomorrow like every other boring day' but I didn't know that boy was I wrong.
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I woke up at exactly 7:00, an hour before my mom goes to work. I laid out my clothes on the bed. It was a turquoise dress with a brown belt that I got from my mother on my birthday. I went in the bathroom and shredded off my clothes and stepping into the hot water.
I started thinking that I had a weird feeling today as if something will happen today but nothing ever happens in my life so I tried to make the feeling go away. My fingers started to wrinkle so I got out and changed into my clothes and started to walk downstairs.
I was walking in the kitchen when I heard a voice that I never heard before talking to mom. I stopped dead in my tracks and tried to listen to their conversation.
A rough and deep voice that reminded me of Mother said "Mother, you need to get rid of her, she will find out sooner or later." He said the voice in a desperate voice. When he said Mother I thought 'I never knew that Arachne had a son' in an angry tone and was about to confront her about her son and why she didn't tell me but something was stopping me so I stayed back. I remembered when he said she and I was wondering who she is?
What surprised me the most was what she said "Annabeth will never find out what I've done? She won't because nobody knows besides you and the others that I've kidnapped her when she was a little baby." She said with a little doubt in her voice.
Suddenly it all came back to me from the start that when she didn't want me to go out because she was afraid that someone will find out or that she will get arrested. I've noticed how she was scared to let me go outside. She kidnapped me when I was a baby. Arachne isn't my mother.
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