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I woke up with Percy's strong arms around me and feeling happy for the first time in a long time. I turned around in his arms to see his face. Usually so serious and striking, was now so innocent, almost flawless.

He woke up, fluttering his beautiful eyes. "Ever heard of curtains? You put them over your window and cover the sun." He whined.

I rolled my eyes. "Well good morning to you too, ray of sunshine!" I joked. I wasn't a morning person either. "And I happen to like the warmth."

"Yeah well, I like beauty sleep better. How do you think I always look so tempting?" He asked flashing his pearly white teeth, over emphasizing the word 'tempting'.

"Come on." I sighed, getting up. "We are going to be late for school."

"Five more minutes!" Percy said, groaning into my pillow.

"You are so-"

"Undeniably and extremely sexy," Percy said finishing my sentence, taking the pillow off his gorgeous face. "I know."

Holding Percy's hand, I walked into school. The buzzing of people stopped as they saw us walk past them. Their eyes popped out of their heads, and their mouths dropped open.

"Percy." I asked

"Yeah?"

"Everyones starring." I said, feeling insecure.

"Maybe it cuz ur so sexy,babe."

I rolled my eyes and pushed him slightly.

"Ooo! Kitty has claws!"

I blushed and looked down until I saw Thalia's horrified face as we came into homeroom.

She yanked me away from him and stuck her tongue out at him before she left.

"What are you doing?" she demanded.

"Uh... Hanging out with Percy. What does it look like I'm doing?" I didn't want to sound harsh, but I found her tone strangely offensive.

"Why are you hanging out with that thing with seaweed for brains?"

Now I was hurt.

"Okay, you don't know anything about Percy. Stop assuming he is someone he's not. Get to know him first would ya?" I snapped.

"I'm just looking out for you Annie. Don't get involved into his demented world."

"Don't tell me what to do. And DON'T call me Annie." I concluded, turning around and walking away from her.

How could she say anything about someone she doesn't know? To think. I thought we were actually becoming friends. It just proves who I can and can't trust anymore. It was foolish, stupid really, to think I could trust anyone anymore. I already have a shield around my heart, choosing who goes in, and keeping the ones that I already have in.

I sat down and opened my notebook with all my drawing in it. It was fun flipping through the pages, seeing how my draws matured over time. I taped the picture of the drawing I had shown to my mom so long ago into the book too.

I stared at the picture really hard, as if I did it hard enough, Mother would somehow come back.

I wanted to let go, not think about anyone or anything except my mother. I wanted to shut the world out, and focus on what I had left of her, but then I heard a loud slam on my desk.

"Annabeth Chase, just what do you think you are doing?" My aggravating math teacher, Mrs. Dodds, asked me. "I stood up in front of the classroom and called your names almost five times!"

"I-I'm sorry. I was distracted." I stammered.

"Don't let it happen again." She murmured under her breath, returning to her nest of papers that she calls her desk.

I sank down into my seat as I saw the class staring at me.

I searched the sea of faces frantically, looking for his eyes.

His eyes were concerned, as if they were saying: "I'll kill Mrs. Dodds after class... what's wrong?"

But I knew my stone, ash colored eyes were always unreadable, no matter how hard I try to communicate.

Giving up, I tore my stare from his and stared at the white board up ahead, ignoring the eyes that were watching me.

My good morning washed away just like that.

I felt bad that I had been so mean to Thalia this morning. It was true. She was only looking out for me.

I got my lunch and went up to 'her' table.

A guy dressing in all black was flicking pieces of bread at a lanky, curly brown-haired boy, passed out on it.

"Hi." I said uncertainly, building up my courage to ask her.

"Hey! What's up? Wanna sit?" Thalia asked.

I smiled. "Yeah! That be great." I sat next to her.

"Grover! Wake up!" She screamed in his ear. He jumped up so high his head almost touched the ceiling! I had to admit it was pretty funny. His small brown eyes were wide open, and I realized he had traces of a wispy beard on his chin.

"Gosh dang Thalia! What's wrong with you?" He demanded.

She raised her arms. "Don't look at me! Nico was the one throwing bread at you!"

He glared at Nico, who had thrown the bread over his shoulder, whistling suspiciously.

Grover rolled his eyes and looked at me.

"Who's the new girl?" he quizzed Thalia.

"Hey! Don't be rude! This new girl has a name!" I said, laughing at his ashamed expression.

"Yeah it's Wise Girl." Nico said, stuffing his mouth full of mac and cheese.

I frowned. "Wise Girl?"

"Yeah. You're like the smartest one in the class, and you draw those buildings right?" He asked, chugging down some apple juice.

"Well, thank you but my name is Annabeth." I stated, embarrassed.

"Oh so you're Annabeth...," Grover began, "Aren't you the one dating that hot-shot Percy Jackson?"

I cleared my throat. "Uh yeah. You could say that."

Nico and Grover looked at each other and started bursting out laughing.

I stared at them, scared almost.

"Ugh don't mind them; they are just two big kids." Thalia said.

"HEY!" They said in unison, and started erupting into laughter again.

"So where is your boyfriend? I would think he would have lunch with you." She wondered.

"Yeah... I wonder where he is." I said, starting to feel a little panic. He would never be this late. He would have told me first.

I got up, glanced at the time and thanked Thalia and the guys for letting me sit with them at lunch. It was already 12. Only 15 more minutes until Science.

I rounded the corner of the school until I got to his locker, when I saw Percy there pinned against the locker kissing a girl I recalled to be Drew, an Asian girl I remember from class.

My mouth dropped to the ground and I felt myself shatter into a million pieces. I was petrified, not being able to move.

When they finally stopped, and Percy saw my face, he looked broken. But I didn't care. All I knew was all my love for him was gone. Everything I knew and cared about him was gone.

I dashed out of the school, with him trying to catch up behind me, calling my name.

The sun from this morning was gone. All there were in the sky were thick grey clouds that lined the skies. Thunder was roaring, and rain poured down to the Earth below.

He caught up to me soon enough, grabbing me by my waist. He pushed his lips against mine, holding me there desperately.

I forced him off of me. "What the hell is wrong with you Percy?!" I screamed over the rumbling of the storm.

"I trusted you. I cared for you. I LOVED you. And that was ALL for nothing. You didn't care about me. You NEVER cared about me. Was I just a toy to you Percy?"I asked him, with streams of tears running down my face.

"You know... I don't know what made me trust you in the first place. I'm just stupid enough to let another person hurt me. Like I haven't been hurt enough." I shrieked in his face.

"Annabeth you don't understand. I didn't-"

"Save it. I don't need your lies. No more."

"Anna-"

"Get out of my life PERCY!"

He reached to touch my face but I turned around, and started running in the other direction.

I didn't know where I was going. I didn't know what I was doing. But I never wanted to see him again.

I ran into the storm, the wind blowing me back.

I ended up sitting on the bench across from my house, feeling utter betrayal. The one time I had full trust in someone, the first time I loved someone...was a mistake. I sobbed until I fell asleep on the bench, completely exhausted.

When I woke up, from a frightening nightmare, I wasn't in the right room.

I took into account that the blanket was too thick and cottony, and the pillow was soft. So soft that it made my head sink down into it.

I thought of what happened before. I sat up to see a familiar face in front of me.

"How the heck did I get in here? And who are you?" I asked, suddenly feeling the terror run through me.

"I'm sorry." His deep voice stunned me. "I'm Jason." His electric blue eyes burned into mine. "I saw you passed out on the bench and I couldn't just let you freeze to death. It was 20 degrees outside." Jason explained.

"You look really familiar." I blurted out. "Have we met before?"

"I don't know. I do go to Goode High, though. Maybe you saw me around there somewhere."

"Yeah... I guess so..."I said, taking a look at the clock."

9:30.

"I need to be getting home, but thank you for letting me stay here."I said, trying to stand up but tripping like the klutz I am.

Jason caught me with his arms on either side of me. They made me feel safe. Like he could protect me from anything.

What was I saying? Haven't I got hurt enough to know?

I got out of his grip and started toward the door when I heard the door ring.

I followed Jason to the door opened door, letting out a sharp gasp, seeing the face of Percy Jackson.

Being completely paralyzed, I heard the two words I would never wanted to hear come out of Jason's mouth.

"Hello, brother."

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