NEXT MORNING

I woke up to my alarm beeping loudly. I groaned, trying to cover my head with my pillow. When the beeping continued, I slapped the clock repeatedly until I finally turned it off.

Sighing, I got up, waking campers up. I first went to Lexi.

Lexia's a very deep sleeper, so I've discovered the only way to wake her up. I climbed onto her bed, and pushed her over the railing, so she fell off her top bunk. Jumping off, I continued waking up my siblings.

I pulled on Percy's old swim team shirt, some basketball shorts, and my purple flip-flops. I pulled my hair into a ponytail, and went back around the cabin, making sure everyone was getting dressed.

Once my cabin was ready, we walked into the pavilion, getting out food, and giving our offerings. As I sat down, my dad walked up,

"Annabeth, Malcolm told me. You should've told us, we're your family!"

I turned towards him, "Not really, Dad. You're not my family, these guys are. Chiron's more of a father figure than you ever were."

I went back to eating my waffles, hoping he'd leave.

"Excuse me? Annabeth, we've always been there for you! We are your family!"

"Okay, then when did Percy and I get together?"

He bit his lip, "I don't know!"

Lexi, who was obviously eavesdropping, stood up on the table, "Hey guys, when did Percabeth get together?"

Almost the entire camp chorused, "August 18th!"

My dad stalked away, followed by Karen and the twins. Resting my head in my hands, I sighed,

"Worst week ever."

Lexia nodded, "I see my dad. Connor better not pull any pranks, or I'm dead."

"Your dad would make you break up with him?"

She shrugged, "He'd tell me to, but it's not like I'd listen."

Lexia's father walked over, giving his daughter a kiss on the cheek, "Good morning, Lex. Who's this?" He asked, pointing at me.

Lexi smiled, "Dad, this is my sister and counselor, Annabeth Chase. Annie, meet my dad, James Burke."

I forced a smile, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Burke."

"You as well, Annabeth."

Percy walked in last, deep in an argument with Thalia and Nico. He broke away, coming towards me.

"Morning, Wise Girl. How're you?"

I shrugged, "Eh. My dad knows, and he's not dropping it. I tried to tell him that everyone here is more like family than he is, and he got mad."

He gave me a light kiss, "I'm sorry. We'll talk later, okay?"

I nodded, "If I can make it through the day."

Percy laughed, and walked down to his table.

After breakfast, Chiron hit his hoof on the floor,

"Okay everyone. Mortals, you will follow your child's cabin. One sword fighting group has changed, and I'd li-"

He was interrupted by two Pegisi swooping into the pavilion, carrying two familiar people.

"REYNA!" Leo yelled from the Hephaestus table.

Leo ran over, hugging his girlfriend.

Jason Grace hopped off his Pegasus, "Pipes?"

Piper ran from the Aphrodite table, Jason easily picking her up, spinning her.

Leo and Piper hadn't seen Reyna and Jason for about two months, since they were at Camp Jupiter.

Jason kissed Piper soundly, Leo doing the same to Reyna.

Chiron chuckled, "Ah, Reyna, Jason. We'll call a diplomatic meeting in the rec. room tonight. You can participate in camp activities if you wish. As I was saying, a sword fighting group has changed, Athena, Hermes and the Big Three cabins will meet in the arena immediately following breakfast. Jason can go with Thalia, and Reyna-"

"Athena will take her!" I interrupted.

Chiron nodded, "Sure. Reyna, go with the Athena cabin. Now, the Hephaestus and Aphrodite cabins have put together a presentation, explaining the wars, and what we do here. Leo, Nyssa, Piper and Lacey?"

Said campers walked up to a screen.

"Hello," Leo began, "I am Leo Valdez, supreme controller and builder of the Argo II, son of Hephaestus, and a fire user. This," he pointed to Piper, "is Piper, McLean, beauty queen daughter of Aphrodite."

Piper scowled, "Stop calling me that. Anyways. This is Nyssa, daughter of Hephaestus, and Lacey, my sister. Let the show begin."

A big picture of all the campers was projected on the screen.

Leo smiled, "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood. We have many activities here, but I'm going to name a few; sword fighting, archery, weapon-less fighting, strawberry picking, arts and crafts, and my favorite: capture the flag."

Piper stepped up, "Some of you may not know about the two wars we've been through in the past few years. I wasn't here for the first one, so I'll let Percy take over. Perce?"

Percy stood up, walking over to the screen.

"Um… Hi. I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. The first war was against the Titans, but specifically Kronos, my grandpa. Lovely thought, huh? So, there was a prophecy, stating that the next Big Three child to reach sixteen would make a decision that would help, or destroy the gods. I'm the prophecy kid. It all turned out pretty well. We don't really like to talk about it, we lost a lot of campers, and friends. I was asleep for part of the giant war, so I'll let Leo continue. Come on, Flame Boy."

Leo skipped up, "Okay. Hera swapped Jason," He pointed to Jason, "and Percy, from here to the Roman camp, which Jason and my beautiful girlfriend Reyna, are praetors of. We joined forces with the Romans and had to fight Gaea, also known as Mother Earth. We won. Like Percy said, we don't really like to talk about either war, so don't go and bombard your kid once we finish the presentation. Lacey decided to add something to the end, and none of us have any idea what it is. Lace?"

Lacey smiled, "Hello everyone. This is mainly for siblings. The rest of the Aphrodite cabin, not including Piper, she doesn't care about this stuff, and I decided that we must tell you all about the couples of Camp."

She clicked a button on a laptop, and a picture of Percy and I popped up, "This is Percabeth. Percy Jackson, and Annabeth Chase. Don't even try to break them up. You will be maimed."

Lacey clicked again, and Thalia and Nico's faces appeared on the screen, "This is Thalico. Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, and Nico di Angelo, son of Hades. Their super cute."

After another click, she continued, "This is Tratie, Travis Stoll, son of Hermes, and Katie Gardener, daughter of Demeter."

Clarisse and Chris' faces appeared, "Clariss. Clarisse daughter of Ares, and Chris son of Hermes. Clarisse would kill you with Lamer before you could break them up."

"MAIMER!" Clarisse yelled from her table.

Lacey smirked, "Sorry, Maimer."

"Will and Nyssa. We can't figure a good name for them yet."

She clicked again, "Jasper! Jason, son of Jupiter and Piper, my sister."

"This is Leyna, Leo and Reyna, daughter of Bellona."

With a final click, Lexi and Connor's faces appeared on the screen. I felt Lexia slide down in her seat.

"Lexnor! Aren't they adorable? It's Lexia Burke, daughter of Athena, and Connor Stoll, of Hermes. That's all!"

Lacey skipped off, leaving many blushing campers.

Leo, on the other hand, was happy, "Yeah! LEYNA!"

Reyna slapped him, "Shut up Leo!"

Chiron awkwardly cleared his throat, "That was… Lovely. So, mortals, go find your children. Dismissed!"

Thalia and Nico walked over to my table, hand in hand.

"That was embarrassing," Thalia said.

Lexi nodded, "Oh my gods… I officially hate Lacey."

A crowd of mortals came up to our table, and we set off for the arena. Percy ran over, slipping an arm around my waist,

"Hey Annabeth."

I smiled up at him, and poked his stomach, "Seaweed Brain."

Suddenly, something jumped on my back. I quickly grabbed the attacker's hand, flipping them over my shoulder. Battle reflexes.

"Ow! Annie, what the heck?"

Bobby was lying on the ground clutching his wrist.

"Oops. Sorry, Bobby. Let me see your wrist."

It was swelling, turning a nasty red color, "Not too bad."

He looked at me like I was crazy, "Not too bad? Annabeth, really?"

I shrugged, "It's not. I have a bruise on my stomach the size of your head."

He raised an eyebrow, "Sure…"

I raised my shirt just above my bellybutton. Sure enough, the entire side of my left stomach was purple.

I turned to see Will walking hand in hand with Nyssa.

"Solace! I need a healer!"

Will walked over, "What's up Annabeth? How's that bruise healing?"

"It's fine. I flipped my brother, his wrist is swelling."

Percy tapped my shoulder, "Your parents are coming. I don't think they'll be thrilled about Bobby's wrist."

Will started muttering prayers, and Bobby's wrist went back to normal.

"Thanks Will," I said.

Will nodded, and walked away.

Karen came up, "Hello everyone. Where's the arena?"

Percy and I led them to the training arena, which was already full of campers and parents.

I sat down on the bleachers next to Thalia and Nico, who were currently arguing over whenever lightning powers, or control over the dead was better. Again.

~I'm just a line breaker, don't mind me…~

The day went quickly, with only minimum harassment from my dad. Soon it was four o'clock, and we had free time until dinner.

I started walking up to the beach, where I was meeting Percy. I groaned as Karen caught sight of me, and walked over.

"Hey Annabeth! Your father, brothers and I were wondering if you could give us a complete tour."

"Um… I was planning on hanging out with Percy."

Her face fell, "Oh. Annabeth, I think I need to talk to you. Percy can come. It's just, coming here has made me realize that I don't really know you very well."

Karen wanted to talk. About my life? I figured that this was probably the only chance she'll ever be interested in my life, so I said yes.

"Sure. Let me go get Perce."

I whipped my cap out of my pocket, slapping it on my head, and running down to the beach.

I jumped onto Percy's back, "Guess who?"

He grinned, "Hey Wise Girl."

I took my hat off, still on his back, "How're your parents?"

"Good. Mom's harassing Nico, but he loves it."

I laughed, "Nice. Karen wants to talk to me, she said you could come."

Percy turned to kiss my cheek, "Let's go."

He ran up to Karen, who was waiting up at the lava wall.

"Hey Karen."

I hopped off Percy's back, and grabbed his hand.

Karen gave a small smile, "Where can we talk?"

"The rec. room," Percy answered.

We walked up to the Big House, and into the rec. room. I sat down in a chair surrounding the ping pong table, as did Percy, gesturing for Karen to do the same.

"So, Karen, why did you want to talk?" I asked.

She smiled sadly, "I don't really know you, do I? When I tell people I have a step-daughter, they always ask about you, and what you're like, and I don't really know."

"Oh. I wasn't under the impression that you cared." I retorted.

Karen nodded, "I was awful to you; blaming you for the monsters, not letting you play with Bobby and Matthew. I really am sorry. "

I sighed, "I know. What do you want to know?"

"Who are your friends? What do you like to do? What do you dislike?"

Percy squeezed my hand, and I smiled, "You saw most of my friends on that presentation this morning. Perce, Grover; a satyr, Thalia, Nico, Travis, Katie, Lexi, Bella, Connor, Clarisse, Piper, Leo, Jason, Hazel, Frank, Reyna and some others."

Karen smiled as well, "You'll have to introduce me."

I nodded, "Yeah. Um... I love architecture. I designed about half of the camp, and almost all of Olympus."

Her eyes widened, "You've been to Olympus?"

"I have an office there. What do I dislike? Spiders, defiantly."

For the rest of free time, Karen, Percy and I exchanged stories, and I walked to dinner feeling closer to my stepmother.

~I'm just a line breaker, don't mind me...~

After dinner and campfire, I walked back into my cabin. Tomorrow, I would talk to my dad. Tomorrow, I'll be at peace with my family.

A/N: Hola! This is chapter 2, I hope you like it!

I NEED IDEAS, LIKE REALLY BAD.

EVERYONE WHO GIVES ME AN IDEA, WILL GET A DEDICATION IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!

I'm on my new MACBOOK, and I'm soooo happy about it!