I used my key and walked in our apartment, I had been hurt on a Wednesday and today was Thursday so I had been just over 24 hours and it was already a mess. My dad was probably partying about me being the hospital. I give a soft grim chuckle at the thought, 'It's the first thing in his eyes I did right.' I shook my head, I'm so morbid gosh. I started to pick up the bottles and broken glass and almost had all the red cups and wrappers and pizza boxes off the ground when my phone rang.

"Hey Annie!"

"Thalia don't call me 'Annie' and how did you get my number?" I held my phone between my shoulder and head and continued cleaning.

"Death breath gave it to me and I called to make sure you were good enough to go to Luke's party tomorrow."

"Thalia, I just got out of the hospital from loss of blood, a party sounds like the fucking dumbest idea."

"Exactly! You need to dance and maybe drink a little! Get the blood pumping and flowing again smartass!"

"Listen I would love to but I don't have a ride, don't know what to wear, and I've only meet Luke once so why would I go to his party."

"We call it Luke's party because it's at his house, but like the whole school is going, AND Silena said she would take us to her house to get ready and take us to Luke's. So you have no excuse, you're coming."

"Do I have to?"

"Yes, now go to sleep because you skipped school today and yesterday so you have a lot of shit to make up."

"Thalia…" I threw away my big bag of trash and stole a glance at the clock, 10:30, "what do I need to bring to Silena's?" I sighed. And the other end of the phone made an unrealistic squeal.

"Nothing! Bye Annie!" And the asshole hung up. She's a really loveable bitch. I looked around at my cleanly handiwork and walked to my room with a slight smug grin. I was injured and a hormonal mess but I was still able to fuck up my dad's hardwork at destroying this home. Not much but a small victory non the less.

_MORNInGGGGGG_

An odd feeling of deja vu crosses me when I slam my hand on the alarm and the little shit breaks, I couldn't help but laugh. I really should take a shower but I was in a sanitized hospital so I'm going to pretend I'm not a showerless hobo. I threw on a random Fall Out Boy shirt, I only have like 10 pfff, white skinny jeans, and black vans. I'm a walking fashion model, I know. I threw my hair in a messy side braid and said screw it to the make up and walked out bare faced, pity anyone who looks at me. I take a look at the clock and see that I, for once, am right on time. I take a slow pace when walking to get my bag, popping some advil in my mouth, I have stupid fucking party tonight that stupid fucking Thalia made me agree to. May the dreading begin. I'm out the door and in the lobby when a familiar little latino comes down stairs.

"Hey little blonde mama."

"Lovely nickname, I hope it sticks."

"Anything you want baby, speaking of wanting, would you like a ride? Or to take the lovely form of public transportation? Possibly walk with your fucked up leg?" I felt myself start to sweat and my heart beat increase, 'In a car, only me and a guy' all of a sudden all the events of Wednesday came back, I mean everything. The men and the licking and kissing and everything.

"Woah mama, do you need a seat?" Only then did I realize I had been shaking and mumbling.

"Leo, can I drive?" I asked grabbing his shoulder to steady myself.

"I don't think you should. Do you not trust me?" he said with a smirk, and he looked like one of the men from the alley. I almost fell but Leo caught my arms and threw them around him and he held me against him. "Annabeth, do you wanna go back upstairs? Or I could call down Mrs. Jackson-Blofis? She's better with girls than me, or I can get Percy if you want. I waged my options:

Pros of going with Leo: I know him, I'm not alone, I can trust him

Cons of going with Leo: He's a guy, He's a very suggestive guy.

I decided it would be best to go with him. I mean, I could take Leo in a fight, and it's better than being alone when its semi-dark outside. And Leo being suggestive is part of his humor, and humor is one of the things you gotta love about him. I calmed down and held myself up,

"Take me to school. Anyone else coming?" I slowly backed towards the door.

"Either we can wait for Percy or ditch him. And Luke is ditching to set up, are you coming?" I decided not to be mad at Percy for not being at the hospital, I mean, I wasn't mad at Leo and my dad probably just lied.

"Wait for Seaweed Brain, and that's a surprise. Why do you want a date? Oh shit!"

"I can get my own date and 'oh shit' what?"

"I'm stupid. I said I would go with Nico to the party but I also said I was going with Thalia and her friends."

"Eh Nico can come get you, plus showing up with little Nicky means no one will fuck with you." We sat down on the chairs and waited for Percy to get his ass down stairs.

"Why?"

"Because 1) Nico is a little scary and 2) our whole school honors the bro code. So Nico is like the ideal guy for what happened to you lately."

"What do you mean?" I said a bit too defensively.

"I mean rumors have gone around school about what happened to you, saying you were in a drug deal or you were mugged. No one will approach you or even think of it with Nico around."

"Oh yeah, obviously." Saved at the bell, a tall raven haired boy with blue green eyes rounded the corner of the stairs.

"Hello everyone, shall we head to hell? I mean school. And then Luke's?" Percy strutted out the door and Leo whispered in my ear.

"Be careful with party Percy, he's not exactly himself. It's funny if you aren't the victim."