(A/N: Ok, ok I know! It took forever! I'm really sorry! And I realized I forgot to put the disclaimer on this thing! And I'd seriously like to thank my Bestie Anna. She co-wrote this chapter. She's gonna be helping me from now on!)

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own anything, except Andy. She is 100% my character. I actually dreamt her up a few nights after the Last Olympian came out. Oh yeah, and the story line is Anna's and mine.

Thalia's POV

I was having a dream about something that had happened to me when I was a little girl.

I was 8 years old and sitting in the school ground sandbox by myself, building up mounds of dirt and knocking them down, when Bobby, a boy with a petty crush on me came over to sit next to me.

I didn't like Bobby that much so I pointedly ignored him. After a minute or so he asked me, "Hey, Thals. Whadda ya wanna be when you grow up?"

"A nun," I snapped "now lemee alone."

"A nun?" he asked incredulously "You can't be a nun. You're supposed to be my wife remember?"

My temper flared and I said "I'll never be you're wife!" I jumped on the sand mound he was forming to match mine, and stormed off.

Wow, I was a smart 8 year old.

Other than that, my night was dreamless (Thank the gods). But I guess I had always been like that towards boys. Except for Luke and Apollo… Gods I gotta stop thinking like that! Artemis is gonna ex-lieutenant me (if that's a word). But well, you know how Luke and I were right? It broke my heart when Luke betrayed us. But, before all of that he was amazing… but he betrayed us and that was that.

Oh and Apollo! Wow… No Thalia! Bad! Stop it! Gods… it's even worse that he's Artemis's brother… oh well, I chose my path, and I WILL stick to it.

At 11:00 a.m. I woke and I was in a particularly good mood because Andy hadn't woken me up at the crack of dawn (No doubt she had been up by then). That was one thing her and her brother didn't have in common.

I was about to close my eyes when Andy knocked on my door and poked her head in. "Thals? Are you awake yet?" she asked.

"How many times must I tell you to not call me Thals?" I grumbled. I hated it when people called me that.

"Ok, fine, Thalia. Fine. I'm just bored! I've been up since 5," (Told you.) "and You know how crappy T.V. is on Saturday mornings."

I was about to say something like "Why don't you go be a normal person and go back to sleep" when I realized she had said "Saturday" My backup was coming today! I had talked to Annabeth from Iris message yesterday and she said that they should be here at 5 tonight.

I sat bolt upright in the bed. She looked at me strange so I said "You're right. We're gonna go to the park. Get your shoes on."

She looked at me quizzically, but she did as I said. She was a good kid. Good grades, good behavior. Doesn't sound like a demi-god, right? But believe me, if you could look at her, you would know.

And if you're wondering why I wanted to bring her to the park, I was just trying to get her away from the house, because now that more people know about her, the monsters will be swarming us. They'll hit the house first.

I started getting dressed, trying to plan out the day, so we never went near the house. Ok, first the park for an hour, then get lunch at drive through Panda express (her favorite) and then, just to make her really happy, the book store for 2 hours, then… jeeze what are we gonna do for another 2 hours… I wondered. Oh well, we'll just go to the mall maybe.

Half an hour later we were in the car and I was desperately trying not to look like I was hiding something.