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I may or may not be able to update again tonight, I have some homework to do along with practices and stuff, and those along with the fact that I just recently started getting obsessed with attempting to write my own mix-tape, I'm not sure how much time I'll have. But for now, time to write. Dubstep today, and my imagination.

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Chapter 14 Branch 2

Percy's POV

I woke up in my bedroom very early in the morning. I figured it must be around 2 or 3 in the morning, but there was nothing around that could've woken me up.

I stood up and checked my entire cabin, but there was nothing unusual that could've woken my up. I laid back down onto my bed, and wondered why I had woken up. I closed my eyes and thought of the sea, sand, salty breeze in my face, and drifted off to sleep once again.

I opened my eyes and saw that I was sitting in front of the canoe lake, but I wasn't sure why.

It took me a few seconds, but I realized I was in a dream, and I think it was something that had actually happened. I looked down at myself and saw that I was younger in this dream, not by much, maybe a year or two, but from the scars that were missing, I knew it was at least a year ago.

I then looked over to my side to see Annabeth sitting beside me, staring out at the lake. I realized what was happening. This was going to be our first kiss after the Titan War. We had just defeated Kronos and we were relaxing for the first time in months by the lake together.

It was like watching a movie, watching everything occur the same way it had the first time. We talked, laughed, and just enjoyed each other's company.

Then the moment came the same as it had when it really did, and we kissed. Afterwards, the campers flooded out of hiding, threw us into the lake, and we kissed in the air bubble that I had created at the bottom of the lake. Then it started to change from what really happened.

Annabeth pulled away and looked at me with a vampire smirk, then said "This never was real." Then vanished into nothingness and I was alone at the bottom of the lake.

Then, the air bubble collapsed and I started choking. Drowning? I couldn't drown this didn't make sense.

I clawed at the water, trying to get to the surface, but I wasn't making any progress.

As my sight went dark, I heard Annabeth's voice saying one last word, "Alone."

I woke up.

The sun was streaming into my cabin again, and I tried to figure out what had happened.

Eventually I decided I needed to think of something else so I went outside.

I met Nico at the pavilion and ate breakfast next to him at my table, like every morning.

I finished eating quickly and we started walking around the camp, talking and trying to figure out what we were going to do today.

I saw Annabeth a few times, but avoided her as best as I could without being obvious. I couldn't shake the sound of her voice from my dream telling me that I was alone.

Eventually we decided to go to the arena, since sword fighting was the only thing that we're both good at.

Eventually we got to the arena, went to our corner, and practiced.

After about an hour of practicing, Nico paused and said "Percy, what's wrong?"

I stopped too, "What?"
"You seem really out of it today, you've hardly been focusing on what we're doing."

"I didn't sleep well last night. I had a dream."

He looked at me expectantly.

I sighed. He would probably leave me alone if I didn't tell him, but I felt that I should tell him.

I re-told my whole dream to him while we were leaning against the wall and he listened quietly, not saying anything the whole time.

When I finished, he just stayed quiet.
"What do you think it meant?"

He was silent for a few more seconds, and he wiped his hair out of his eyes.

"I doubt it meant anything Percy, odds are it was just your head messing with you because of your breakup. Don't think about it too much, it won't help at all."

I figured he was probably right, but I couldn't stop picturing Annabeth's smirk as she repeated those words over and over in my head.

We got back to practice, and I tried to distract myself from the dream by fighting even harder against Nico.

By the end of our several hour practice we were both nearly dripping sweat. We went our separate ways to shower and get changed into clean clothes and met again with the rest of the camp to eat dinner at the pavilion.

Given what had happened, Chiron had made a temporary exception to the rules so Nico could sit by me while we ate. For the first little while people had given us odd looks, but it was normal by now.

I noticed Annabeth looking at me during the meal a few times, and tried not to look back at her. I didn't want my mind to get stuck on my dream again.

We finished eating our food a bit after everyone else had finished, and were just sitting talking at my table. Nico eventually told me he was going back to his cabin to rest.

"See you tomorrow?" I asked him.

"Of course." He replied.

"Alright, night." I replied as I put my hand on his shoulder.

He immediately tensed up and I removed my hand.

"Sorry, I forgot about the touching thing."

He just nodded and left for his cabin.

I sat alone at my table thinking about everything that was going on.

After a couple minutes, I was the last one in the pavilion.

I heard someone else walking into the pavilion. Judging from the lighter footsteps, they weren't very big,

I stood up from my table and turned around to see Annabeth several feet away from me.

"Percy," She started, but I interrupted her.

"I don't want to talk right now."

"I just want to tell you something," She said, but I was already walking away out of the pavilion.

I got to my cabin and laid down on my bed to try to get to sleep.

I thought about what had happened, what Annabeth might have wanted to say to me, and everything.

I thought about Nico freezing up when I grabbed his shoulder earlier, and I felt bad for doing that. I knew he hated people touching him, but it was odd that he hadn't gotten angry or yelled at me for it like he usually did when people touched him.

I gave up thinking about everything and just let myself be overwhelmed by the thought of the sea and the sand, until I fell asleep.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I'm trying to keep them kind of similar, so the stories progress at the same rate, but I hope you can all notice the differences in the stories. Well, please review, it motivates me to write more, and lets me know what you think of the story. Also, because I've seen some other authors do this, if you have any questions for me or about me and what I say is going on, ask. I'll answer almost anything that you ask.

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