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Hello again to all of my awesome readers! I'm back, and I'm in a good mood. I did a lot better on my final in a History class than I thought I would, and I've just been being a nerd all day, so hopefully this will be a good chapter.

This is chapter ten for branch 2, so this is going to be interesting.

I hope you enjoy!

Percy's POV

Today was a good day.

I'd been wandering around my cabin, way too energetic to just lay down and think, so I had to move around. After days of being slow, lazy, and not being allowed to do anything, my ADHD was kicking in worse than usual.

I decided to leave my cabin and go find Nico.

That was another reason today was so good, Nico was acting normally. I'd half expected him to act awkward, even though I hoped he wouldn't. Nico was my only friend I could count on treating me normally, and I didn't want him to act differently.

I walked out the door and looked at everything, the pavilion, the strawberry fields, everything was better today.

People weren't staying away from me as much either, and I heard one person say something to another something about Thalia going off in the arena, but I didn't hear what about.

I walked across the pavilion, excited for the day and hoping it would actually be a normal day for once.

It was just my luck that that hope was almost immediately dashed.

"Percy!" I heard Annabeth call from behind me.

I tensed. What did she want? I still didn't know what I should feel about her. There were already too many emotions for her to cause more. Bitterness, anger, disappointment, longing… I didn't know what to expect from her.

I turned around to face her as she came towards me, then she did something I hadn't expected at all. She hugged me, tight, and put her face into my chest.

"I'm sorry Percy, I messed up," she said, holding me tight while I just stood, looking down at her, "I'm sorry, I didn't know how much you meant to be and I didn't realize it until you almost left us." She said.

I had no idea what to say or how to react. Did she really expect me to forgive her this soon after she'd crushed me? I'd been miserable and she'd completely ignored me through all of it, and when I'm finally starting to feel somewhat normal again, she decides that she messed up and wants to get back together?

I pushed her away from me gently and took a step away from her.

"Annabeth, I… I don't know, my emotions are so messed up that I didn't know how I felt before this. You've ignored me for days and would hardly even look at me, and now you just want me to forget all of that?"

I immediately saw the guilt in her eyes, "I know I've treated you awfully, and you have every right to hate me, but I want to make this right. I feel terrible for what happened, and I didn't know how much I meant to you, or you to me until now, but I want us to be us again. I want to fix this." Annabeth said.

"I ne-… I need time to think about this ok? I don't know how I feel anymore, and I haven't manage to straighten out my emotions yet. I need to think about this."

"Ok." She muttered, not making eye contact with me as she said it.

She walked off towards the cabins, and I stood, watching her go. I didn't know what to think, my emotions were already scrambled without adding this into the mix.

I decided I would go to try to find Nico again, I needed to talk to someone about this and he was the only person I trusted enough to tell.

I looked around for about thirty minutes before I found Nico sitting on the beach by the Ocean, looking out at the waves, just sitting.

I walked up and sat down next to him. He looked a little surprised, then asked "Where've you been?"

I told him about what Annabeth had said to me, and he took on a serious expression while he was watching the sea.

"So what are you going to do?"

"I don't know Nico, my emotions have been jarred over and over through the last couple of days, and before this I haven't been able to straighten them out. Everything is just making my life more complex and I don't know what to do or think about this."

Nico sat silently, looking out at the waves, thinking.

"I guess I'll go to my cabin, I need some time alone to think."

He nodded and I stood up.

I brushed the sand off of my pants, and walked back through the camp to my cabin. I closed the door behind me and sat on my bed, staring at the opposite wall.

There was nothing left for me to do, so I sat there, thinking about Annabeth, Nico, and everything that had happened to me over the last few days.

Chapter 10 Branch 2! Hooray and stuff! I hope you enjoyed reading, and I'm sorry about the short chapter, this is the point where the stories start to become different from each other, so be patient! Please review and let me know what you think, and I hope to see all of you in the next chapter!