Inside Percy's Mind

Percy's POV

I was next in line to visit Annabeth. When she woke up, I was supposed to be the very first one to see her, to hold her hand, to tell her everything was alright. But it didn't happen. I knew it wouldn't happen. I had a feeling in my gut, a nervous emptiness that everything wasn't alright. I just couldn't visualize me holding her hand and whispering softly into her ear. I couldn't even picture us together as a normal couple, like we were. Something was going to be different, but I couldn't pin it. The future was on the tip of my tongue; it was so close, but so far. I tried to scrape some of it off with my perfectly white and aligned teeth but all I did was push it farther back.

I remember the call I got from Bianca, I didn't even know she had my number. My head was resting softly on my blue pillow. Come fast. Out cold. Miranda's evil. Please. The rest was a blur. The next thing, I was in the hospital, waiting.