I can't believe it. I'm actually leaving. For the first time in my life, I'm truly leaving camp, practically for good. The school year was much too long to be gone for and as much as I hated to admit it, I was beyond scared.

So here I am, currently standing at the top of Half-Blood Hill. I had already said my goodbyes-I miraculously managed not to cry. While yes, I would be seeing most of my close friends in little less than two weeks for school, there were still some other campers that I would miss tons, like my former fellow Hermes campers and other friends I had made since I started at Camp-Half Blood.

Annabeth too will be joining us in New York although she'll be attending a boarding school in the city rather than going to Goode High with the rest of us. While she claims it's to be closer to Mount Olympus, we all know it's so that she's actually just close to Percy.

Right now though, I am alone, surveying the scene of parents picking up their kids and carting them off to wherever they came from. I was waiting for Percy, but he of course, was off with Annabeth, having, I'm sure some ridiculous over the top goodbye scene, despite the fact that they would see each other tomorrow night for dinner.

Fortunately I spotted Annabeth getting into her car, and Percy finally making his way over to me. I could tell he was already missing her.

"You'll see her in 24 hours, so wipe that lovesick frown off your face before I feel it necessary to vomit."

Then finally I saw my mom. I had been Iris-messaging her for the remainder of my time at camp and we had gotten pretty close. I didn't really feel any anger towards her, at least not anymore, because I know she had to protect me and the best way to do that was Camp Half-Blood.

I also saw Paul with her. Percy followed my gaze and noticed who I was looking at. He nudged me and gave me a look that clearly said to be nice.

"Hi, Mom," I greeted her shyly.

"Oh, I've missed you baby girl," she responded, pulling me into a hug. Everything felt right with my mom, like we hadn't been apart for the majority of my life.

I'd also made an effort to dress more conservatively than I had the first time I met her. I was wearing a white lace tee-shirt and denim shorts with a coral colored belt and matching accessories. It was classy.

I turned to Paul as Percy said hi to our mom. "Hi, Paul," I said. "Look, umm, I'm sorry about the other night. It was just too much to process all at once, so I lashed out. I kinda have a terrible tendency to do that. You can ask Percy. I did the same thing to him."

Next to us, Percy laughed and nodded. "Lashed out is an understatement, sis."

I grimaced because he was absolutely right. "So yeah, sorry."

"Apology accepted," he said, smiling at me. "I had a hard enough time handling it, I can imagine it was pretty tough on you."

The car ride back to the city was admittedly a little awkward. It was hard to find your own place in a group that had been formed without you. But I knew I would. This was my family after all.

Annabeth was over for dinner the next night as expected. Percy was besides himself with joy, which was annoying but better than the mood he had been in before. So here we are just chilling in the living room when the doorbell rang. I was a little confused because we weren't expecting anyone else.

"Brooke's got it," Percy shouted.

I glared at him but grudgingly got up for two reasons: 1 Annabeth was sitting on his lap and it didn't seem like she would move to let him up and 2 Mom and
Paul were busy making dinner and I was trying my hardest to be a good daughter, believe it or not. I had offered to help them as did Percy but she just shooed us away and told us to "go have fun".

Checking the peephole to make sure no monster awaited me on the other side, I found that it while it wasn't a monster, it was someone just as scary although in a completely different way. It was Connor. Not going to lie, it concerned me slightly that he knew where I lived.

"What do you want?" I asked as I opened the door.

"Really, no 'hi, how are you?'"

I rolled my eyes and just asked him where Travis was.

In a very Connor-ish manner, he stuck his tongue out at me and said, "I always knew Travis was your favorite."

"Oh you know I love my precious little Connie," I teased, using the nickname I had given him that he pretended to hate but I knew that way deep down, he truly loved. "Seriously though, where is Travis? You two are never separated. What are you even doing here?"

"Well darling Travis ditched me for Katie and I was bored."

"So you only come to me when you're bored?" I teased. "And are they on a date?! How could Katie not have told me?"

"Because Katie didn't know. He might have just randomly shown up on her doorstep and guilted her into spending time with him. I'm sure she doesn't view it as a date."

Typical Travis. Having to trick/beg a girl to go on a date was the only way he was capable of getting a date and as such was his go to move.

I led Connor to the living room and left him with Percy and Annabeth and strict instructions to not steal anything.

I went to the kitchen to ask if it were okay if Connor stayed for dinner and Mom and Paul insisted it was okay.

So basically, I'll be eating dinner with my mother I just met, her husband whom I yelled at, a boy I had always known of but recently discovered was my brother and his girlfriend who happened to be one of my best friends a while ago, and now a boy I call my best friend who's also friends with my brother and that I've been sharing a cabin with for a large part of my life and also has a small crush on me.

This will be interesting.

Yes I am a terrible person, I know :( my life has been crazy busy but that's no excuse for my poor updating habit. Tell me what you think of the chapter though and REVIEW!

Also:

Do you ship Percabeth?...Tratie?...or are there other pairings you'd like to see?