Still day two...
"Piper?" I cocked my head sideways. "Uh... yeah..." The girl, Piper, said. I blinked hard, trying to remember who "Piper" was. "Oh! You sent me texts!" I said, happy I remembered something. Piper exhaled slowly. "Annabeth... you didn't meet me here yesterday like you said you would. Something happened to you yesterday. So tell me truthfully right now... can you remember anything from before this morning?" She asked me. I sighed. "No," I answered. Piper nodded. "Okay... I know what we can do. Come with me," She got up and walked to the door. She turned around when she noticed I wasn't following. "Are you coming?" She asked. I hesitated, then nodded.
We drove in her car back to my house. We walked inside, and Piper quickly went to my bedroom. She opened my closet door and started to looked through some of the stuff. "Uh... if you plan on grabbing duck tape and rope and tying me up, you can leave," I said, standing in the doorway. Piper shook her head and gave me an uneasy laugh. "Annabeth... here," She pulled out a black box and handed it to me. "This may sound crazy... but for some reason, three years ago, you had a dream you would lose your memory one day. So you made that," She pointed to the box. "It may unlock some clues to your past," Piper smiled and went back to digging in my closet. I slowly sat on my bed and opened the box. Inside of it were many pictures. But... some of them were ripped up.
I picked up one a ripped half of a picture. It was a blonde girl in a purple t-shirt and jeans, standing next to... well, half of a person. I could make out a shoulder and a little bit of a face topped with messy black hair, but the rest of the person was gone, ripped away. I got up and looked in the mirror on the wall. I had blonde hair, tanned skin, and grey eyes. Okay... so obviously I'm the girl in that picture... but who's that other guy? I pondered in my head. I turned around and looked at Piper, who was now digging through my bureau. "Piper, who's this person?" I asked her, pointing to what was left of the black-haired man. "Uh... I can't tell. He looks familiar... just a bit... but I can't tell with just that little bit of him," Piper shrugged and got up. "But.. I don't understand why you would rip up that picture if you knew you might have to use in the future," She looked at me strangely. "Oh, there's many more that are ripped," I said. Piper looked shocked, but then calmed down."Okay, let's go. We need to find out what happened to you to make you forget everything," Piper left before I could argue. I sighed and put down the box of pictures and followed her.
When I finally caught up with her, she was standing on a chair, fiddling with something on the ceiling. "What're you doing?" I asked her. Piper grabbed what looked like a small camera off the ceiling and jumped down. "You installed this a while back, just in case someone broke into the house, you would have this," She shook the camera a little bit in front of my face. "So... how can this help us?" I asked. Piper sat down on the chair and sighed. "If we're lucky, we might find out how you lost you're memory," She pressed a button on the camera as I crouched next to her. "Okay, watch," Piper said and the video played.
There was girl, probably me, in the kitchen. I seemed to being crying. It was nighttime, and I rushed into the hall and didn't come down until morning. Then, after a few minutes the sun rose and I appeared in the kitchen once again. I looked awful and pale. I had grabbed a coffee pot... and dropped it. The coffee went everywhere, and I slipped. My head hit the counter behind me and then hit the ground. I was limp.
Piper fast-forwarded until I started to move again.
I got up, looking clueless, and looked around. It wasn't long before, I walked into the other room.
"Oh my god..." Piper said, putting down the camera. "You hit you're head... oh my god, Annabeth, I'm so sorry!" She looked as if she could cry. "It's.. uh... okay. Look, Piper, it really isn't important..." I shrugged. "Not important?! Your whole life was just taken away in seconds!" Piper shouted. I rolled my eyes. "Whatever. Piper, I really just need some time to relax. I want to go out shopping on that street that has the coffee shop. But can you help my find my car keys?" I asked. Piper nodded. "Yeah, they're sitting on your nightstand. But don't ask me for your journal keys, 'cause I have no clue where those are. Oh, and I'm gonna text all your friends and tell them that you got amnesia. They probably won't believe me but, whatevs," Piper said, and was gone. She disappeared out the front door. I shrugged and walked to my bedroom. Journal... I need to find those keys to my journal...I thought as I grabbed my car keys and ran out of the house.
I drove back to Cittie Street and parked my car next to a pet store. For some reason, I felt the urge to just buy a bunch of animals right there on the spot. But I knew I couldn't do that. I laughed at the thought and walked inside the store. Chirps and meows and barks all filled the store. I walked over to the fish area and looked at the pretty goldfish.
"Cool fish, right?" I heard a voice from behind me. When I turned around, I saw a young man with messy black hair and sea-green eyes. He was wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans, but for some reason, his smile vanished and was replaced with a look of sadness, anger, and hurt. "Oh.. uh... I.." His voice trailed off and he was about to walk away, when I said, "Hey, wait!" I smiled and ran after him. "What do you want?" He snapped at me. I lifted my eyebrows. "Jeez, you don't gotta be so rude," I chuckled. "I just wanted to know your name," I smiled, waiting for an answer. Just as the guy was about to reply, his phone buzzed and he looked down at it. There was a text and it read:
Percy, Annabeth lost her memory yesterday. I don't care if you believe me or not, but I'm serious that she's got amnesia. I don't know how long it'll last, but if you see her, try to jog her memory. And make sure she knows you're her boyfriend.
Or, was her girlfriend, the guy (Percy) thought to himself. But then, he got a great idea. This could be his chance to win Annabeth back! She couldn't remember anything... so that means she won't remember Percy and Rachel! Percy quickly grinned broadly and shoved his phone in his pocket. "I'm sorry for snapping at you. I'm Percy Jackson," He raised his hand for a handshake. "Nice to meet you," I shook his hand. "I'm Anabeth Chase," Percy nodded. "So... yeah... the fish are beautiful, right?" Percy said, looking back up at the fish. I looked at them, too. "Yeah. I like those ones over there," I pointed to the bright blue fish with long flowing fins. "Me, too," Percy smiled, looking at me as if he had known me forever. "Uh... I'm gonna go look at the cats now," I said, starting to feel strange about the guy, Percy. I turned around and was about to just leave the store, when something happened...
A bright flash blinded me momentarily, and I found myself in some house. There was music, and dancing, and singing. I walked into another room, and saw a girl and a boy in a bed. For some reason I got so mad, and then I-
When I snapped out of the dream-like-state thing that just happened, I found myself on the pet store floor, shaking, with Percy next to me and a few other worried customers standing around me. "Annabeth, are you okay?" Percy asked me. I took a shaky breath and looked around. What had just happened? I got up slowly and put my hand on a counter, balancing myself. Am I going insane? Did I have a brain problem before I got amnesia? Or was it a memory coming back... My mind was racing as I thought all these things.
