Chapter 8

Starting All Over Again

I groaned. My head hurts like heck. I feels like I have a major hangover but I didn't drink last night… did I? Oh well. I sat up and looked around. I just stared at the wall for a moment before I looked at the time an—OH NO! I'M LATE! I'M SO LATE! I jumped up, grabbed my dagger, put on quickly my armor and ran for the Big House. I fell like 2 times and tripped way more than you can imagine. "Hey, Hey, sorry Chiron. I had a major headache so I woke up pretty late." I said… well more like gasped the sentence. Anyway, I say Chiron standing there with a boy. I stared at him as though I know him somewhere but actually I don't. I just somehow feel intimidated. He smiled at me as though I was the first normal person he has ever seen. I felt kinda sad for this boy. I'm sure he is a new demigod. "This is Percy Jackson. Percy, meet Annabeth Chase, one of our best campers." Chiron said, proudly. I felt my pride swell up. Chiron is like a father to me and hearing him say that would always make my day. The dude, Percy, held his hand out and I shook it smiling slightly to make him a little less nervous and he smiled back. I guess it worked.

I am already showing the new kid around. As we reached the horse stall Clarisse and her gang came up to us.

She sneered before saying, "New meat in camp I see. Hey new boy, move out of the way." I fidgeted for a bit and fidgeted even more when I saw the fast appearing and disappearing emotion in Percy's eyes. He was getting craaaanky~~

"Oh so now your ignoring us?" Clarisse growled before she grabbed the back of his shirt and dragged him somewhere.

"Clarisse! Put him down!" I yelled as I followed her. I watched in horror as she lead him to the girl's comfort room and tried to introduce his head to the toilet.

I stood frozen at the entrance not knowing what to do. Yes I may be a great fighter but I can't just attack a camper out of nowhere. Then all of a sudden water burst from the toilet and pinned Clarisse and her minions on the ground.

The next thing I know is that I'm drenched in toilet water and he's not. I walk with him outside where Clarisse was. She yelled some inappropriate words before Percy growled and said, "Want to gargle in toilet water again?" and she was dragged off by her friends.

I stared at him before asking, "How did you do that?" He paled for a moment before collecting his thoughts and said, "I don't know."

My head spun for a few moments and Percy said, "Hey, hey, are you okay?" His voice sounded far away…

I was just floating, relaxing, trying to get my mind of things when I was splashed. "Hey!" I exclaimed and wiped my face. "Such a serious mood you got there, Princess." A sarcastic voice said. My heart speeds up. He sounded a lot like Percy but… No… I spun around and there I really did see Percy. I wadded through to water to him, "Percy!" I hugged him and he hugged back. I pulled away and said, "Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be on Mount Olympus?" I rattled on. "Well… Yeah. I will be going there but not after I say this…" He trailed off. There was a moment of silence before I said, "Say what?" Another moment of silence which irritated me a bit and I was about to smack him when he kissed my forehead and said, "I didn't forget my promise Annabeth, I WILL be coming back. Wait for me…" I closed my eyes and when I opened them he was gone. I smiled and screamed, "I will be holding on to that promise, Jackson!" and I smiled as I heard his laughter.

A finger snapped in front of my face. "Hey, hey Annabeth!" a voice said, Luke. I shook my head for a moment. I looked around and I was still standing in the same spot. "Daydreamin' ain't good, Princess." Luke said and laughed. Princess… that was what Percy called me in my… my what? … Imagination? Memory?

I tried to clear my head of the thought and punched Luke's arm. "That is for mocking me." Then I punched his other arm. "And that is for everything else." I smirked at him before waving to Percy and saying, "Show Percy around. I need to take a break."

I was walking away when I heard Luke say, "Oh yeah… Sure… Pass the job to the busy one." I rolled my eyes and walked off to practice sword fighting. I heard a bark and came face to face with Mrs. O'Leary.

"Hey there, girl." I cooed and scratched behind her ear. Mrs. O'Leary is a hellhound. From what I heard, she was owned by a former Teacher here and all I knew about that teacher is that he just vanished. Chiron wouldn't let me talk about him too which was kind of weird but it didn't matter. I adored Mrs. O'Leary but for some reason the back of mind said I hated her… sort of.

"Annabeth!" I heard a voice gasping for breath, I twirled around and expected Percy to halt or give a sign that he was scared but noooo. He was…calm. Who am I kidding? 'Calm' would be an understatement! He's more of… confident. There's something weird about this dude and whatever it is I am going to find out.

Sorry people! I am having a writer's block. XD