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NO NO NOT THE EASTER BUNNY YOU RACIST PEOPLE.
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I stood up, my feet convulsing intensely.

Percy.

I could literally feel my heart shattering. So I did what I only know how to do. I ran. I ran into the woods, away from the little camp that we had set up. I ran away from the one person I thought I could trust. I ran away from my life, that I used to have, only to be abandoned and left in the dust. I ran away from the one place that I felt like I've grown up in all my life, the one place I learned to loathe some people, but love so many others.

Trees whizzed passed me, as the night enveloped around the Earth like a tight blanket, cutting off my precious air. My lungs burned, my head throbbed violently, and my ears still rung with Percy's words.

Do you hear me? GONE.

I didn't even know what I was running to. Maybe I hoped that if I kept running, I'd become one with the Earth. I'd blend in so well that no one could ever find me again. No more pain. No more worries. No more grieving. Just peace. Forever.

The pitch dark sky was starting to disappear, along with the stars that were my only source of light. The treetops were getting thicker, branches getting wider and more twisted.

Like my own head.

"SHUT UP!" I screamed to nothing in particular, and that frightened me.

It's your fault. You know it is. You're nothing but a screw up. A disappointment to the human race. God shouldn't have given you another chance. You don't deserve it. You don't deserve anything.

"STOP! JUST STOP!" I shouted. "STOP MESSING WITH ME. NOT AGAIN!"

Finally I realized just what I was yelling at. It was my head. My own head.

It scary. The effect that your own mind can have on you. It can make you indestructible. Or it can trap you, weighing you down like Hell itself.

All of a sudden, I could feel myself falling. And just for a brief second there, I thought that I had died and went to heaven. It was a moment of relaxation. Just a couple of seconds felt like an eternity, like I could just spread out my arms and there would be a huge comfy pillow at the end of the rainbow.

Damn was I wrong. Then, I felt the ground beneath me, and I concluded that I had only tripped over a stump in the ground. It was life saying, 'oh, you're fine now, I've got you.'

Two seconds later: 'BAHA JUST KIDDING, SORRY BITCH.'

God, my life was messed up.

I dragged my body through the dirt to the next tree, and rested my head against it. What was I going to do? I don't even know where I-

"I promise Jason, they don't expect a thing."

My eyes widened as I stopped breathing, and tucked my hair behind my ear. It was a weird superstition, I know, tucking your hair behind your ear to hear better. But I've been doing it for as long as I can remember. And it's a habit that I'm not gonna stop now.

The voice was so familiar. So gentle. Although, there was a difference in the voice. It was harsher. Meaner. Wicked, almost.

"Yeah. We'll be there in a couple of days. Percy and Annabeth got in a little argument." I could literally hear the smile in her voice. "It was beyond entertaining. The look on her face was priceless. Now, if only I could get it to stay that way forever." She hissed into the phone and my heart was beating out of my chest.

I dared to stretch my neck around, peering out with only one eye.

Piper.

I stiffed a gasp, my hands shaking so hard I had to sit on them. Percy was right. He was always right.

I heard Piper giggle and I wanted to throw up, right on the spot.

"Baby, don't be like that. We'll be there soon. I miss you. What was that number again?"

She bit her lip and rocked back and forth on her heels, taking something out of her pocket. I had to strain my eyes to see. I immediately regret not remembering to bring my glasses.

"Ok, room 34-D. I'll meet you there once I ditch those bastards." She sneers and I cringe, repeating the words in my head. 34-D. 34-D. 34-D.

Piper breaks me out of my repetative thoughts with a girly squeal. "No, you hang up!"

A moment of silence.

"No, you hang up!"

FOR THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST-

"She is such a piece of bullshit!" I grumbled under my breath.

Piper paused and I froze. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.

"Okay Jason, I gotta go. Bye."

I tried picking myself up, pain shooting up my leg and into my torso.

"Ah!" I moaned silently, trying to move my leg; it was definitely sprained.

"Who's there?" I heard Piper shout and I knew I couldn't stay here anymore. I bolted back, from the way I came from, ignoring the burning sensation in my leg. It felt like it was just hanging onto my body by a thread.

"ANNABETH!" I hear her shriek behind me, and I know she's close.

My breath is uneven, adrenaline pumping into my veins. I can do this. I can actually do this.

I turn the corner, only to see the light of the camp site. I can see Percy, sitting on a log, both hands propped on his elbows as he stares wistfully into the fire. I wonder if he knew I was gone. I wonder if he even cared.

"Perc-" I try calling out to him, but it was too late. Something-someone was now in front of me, her body blocking my view from safety.

I look up at her face, a malicious smile was carved into her pale skin, which only seemed to glow in the dark. She had never looked more ghostly, more demon-like. I look down at her arm, which had the symbols 34-D carved into her skin. I now acknowledged that she was bleeding, and the thing she took out of her pants wasn't a pen. It was a knife.

"Nighty-night, bitch."

I feel a blow to the head and the darkness consumes me.

So guys, did I make up for it? Haha, of course not, but at least I updated :P What do you think's gonna happen to Annabeth? To Percy? Any theories? I wanna see what creative things you come up with! I might even include it in the upcoming chapters, only with your permission and credits given towards you, of course.

Depending on how many people are still into this, I'll see if I can update sooner. Again, thank you for EVERYTHING that I have recieved so far, including the communities. (I'm still in shock!) What I'm planning to do is update/finish this story then move on to the others.
Love you all and remember to review!

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