So funny story my last chapter I had made a mistake. I had written "White House" instead of the "Big House". Part of me had thought I was wrong but I decided against looking it up. My mistake, sorry. Well I hope you like this chapter!
I made my way to the Big House with my thought going a mile per minute. I'm mean what could Chiron want to talk to me about, I mean maybe it was just to catch up, but Nico had really wanted to tell me something in our Iris Message. Was it possible that these two needed conversations connected?
Once I was standing on the front porch I paused before I opened the door. I took a deep breath getting ready for whatever conversation was about to ensue. 'You can do this Annabeth,' I told myself, 'Chiron probably just wants to catch up…that's all.' I wasn't sure if I believed myself though, something told me it was more then that. Well it was now or never so I opened the door.
When I walked in I found Chiron, Grover, and Nico all sitting at a table. "Hey guys," I greeted them.
"Annabeth," Grover simply said as he made his way over to me and pulled me into a hug. "I've missed you."
"I did too goat boy," I replied. I pulled away to look at him, he looked basically the same other then older. His furry bottom and tiny horns brought me back to the past, back to those quests with him and Percy. He reminded me painfully of Percy, I mean I guess it made sense since they where best friends. God I missed Percy.
"Nico told me about your Ex," he said looking at my cheek and eye. "Are you and Ava okay?"
"Yeah," I assured him, "we are in a safe place now." It was true Benny couldn't hurt us anymore, there was no way for him to get me, it's not like I had a cell phone for him to call and he couldn't get to camp. We were safe now.
"Annabeth it's great to see you again and you an Ava are welcome to stay here for how ever long you need but there is something we need to discuss." Chiron finally chimed into the conversation.
"Is it the same thing Nico tried to tell me when Iris Messaged him?" I asked getting anxious to what this was about. They didn't seem too upset or anything so I didn't think it could be that bad.
I looked to Nico who had so far said nothing but he did give me a nod. I hoped Nico still wasn't upset about the other day, it really wasn't anything against him he was just getting on my case and I was stressed. I would have to tell him that later.
"Annabeth are you ready to hear this," Chiron asked me. I nodded as I took another deep breath. "It's about Percy." My heart skipped a beat. I felt like I couldn't breathe.
"Annabeth are you okay," Grover questioned.
I blinked the tears that where forming in my eyes and shook my head. "What about Percy," I whispered.
All of them looked at each other before Grover nodded as if he was telling them how he would say it. Maybe they thought whatever was going to be said should come from Percy and my closest friend. He smiled before any words came out of his mouth, "He's back Annabeth…Percy he's back."
And I leave you with that for chapter 8. Hope you all liked it!
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