I don't remember if Annabeth's school is a private all girls school or if it's co-ed. For my story, right now, let's pretend it's co-ed. (The Last Olympian is the only book I don't own!)

He's Gone Away…

Chapter 16

Welcome Back

Annabeth's POV

"Percy" she yelled. "Don't leave me! Don't leave us!" The baby she was holding started to cry, sensing her mother's distress. "I don't love you. I never did. Nether of you." She sobbed, "Why? WHY don't you love me?" "Because you didn't come to find me. Good-bye, Annabeth! I hope you have a good life." "No! Don't leave! Percy!" She sobbed. Her baby looked up at her. "It's just you and me, now… now that your … your father's …g…g… gone." She sobbed harder.

Annabeth woke with a start. That was the worst dream ever. It was 6:54; her alarm hadn't gone off yet. Well, I may as well get started with my day.

She got out of bed and started the shower. While the water was warming up, she brushed her hair and her teeth. She climbed into the steaming shower, the warm water helping her think.

Ahh… Perfect temperature. Why did I dream that? Why did he leave me, in my dream? Oh Percy! I wish I could come and find you. I wish you were here. I need you. We need you! Annabeth looked down at her abdomen. It's heard to believe that something is growing inside of me. It's a miracle. No wonder they call it the miracle of life… Oh, I almost forgot about school.

She stepped out of the shower and dried off. She threw on her jeans, a blue long sleeve shirt and the new gray poncho. Then she brushed her hair and went down stairs.

"Good morning Annabeth!" "Good morning Mrs. Jackson." "Sally," she corrected. "Sorry."

"Would you like blue waffles?" "Oh, yes!" "Can you go and wake up Thalia first?" "Of course, I'll be right back!"

She ran back up the stairs and through the door to the guest room, shouting "Thalia, wake up!" Thalia mumbled. "Thals! Get up now!" "UGG! NO!" "NOW! It's 7:32. We are leaving in 28 minutes, because it take 8 minuets to get there and then we will have 7 minuets before class starts." "That was more information then I needed to know! I'll be down in 10 minuets." "Okey dokey!" said Annabeth as she bounced out of the room.

Around 25 minuets later Thalia walked out of the bedroom. She grabbed a waffle and sat down.

"Well, I can't believe I'm going back to school… What, has it been 11 years?" "Actually, almost 9." Annabeth said from looking up from her book. "Your such an Athena girl." "Always!"

"Hay, Annabeth" Sally called. "After school gets out, we are going to the doctor. OK?" "That's fine Mrs. J… I mean Sally."

"Well Thalia, are you ready to go? Do you have your books and…" "YES!" Thalia shouted cutting Sally off. "Well then, let's leave. Girls, get in the car!"

Thalia and Annabeth raced down the stairs and into the car. "I call shot-gun!" And Thalia climbed into the front seat; 8 minuets later they arrived at the school.

They climbed out of the car and walked up to the school. "Well here goes nothing." They entered the building and Annabeth went towards the lockers.

"Hay, Annabeth's back!" "Annabeth!" "Where were you?" "Who's she?" "Why were you gone so long?" "Annabeth, did you escape the psychiatric ward?" The halls grew silent. The last one came from Alexis, or "Leix," who was the brattiest girl in school; or maybe slut was a better word for her. Her father owned a big company, nobody cared which, and she got everything she wanted, luckily Rachel Dare wasn't like her. Her and her following, Kimberly, Olivia, Katie and Morgan, decided, at the beginning of the year, that Annabeth would be her main target for all her insecurities.

Annabeth calmly walked to her locker, her footsteps echoing in the silent halls. Jessie walked over to her and said, "It's good to see you, Annabeth!" Braking the awkward silence. Annabeth burst out laughing.

"Annabeth, where were you? I had to do the lab by myself!" "How did that workout? I know you're lazy, Rita!" A bunch of people burst out laughing, "I did very well! Thank you! … So where were you? "I was at camp!" "For 2 months!" added Josephine, or Josie. "Ya… well then there was… an unintended predicament, which did not allow me to contact any of you or leave camp."

"What happened?" asked Emily. "Well that's a really long story!" "Can you tell us?" asked her twin, Peter. "I'll tell you at lunch."

"Who's she?" asked James, the flirt. "Hi, I'm James. You wanna hang?" "No!" "James, she is Thalia, my best friend." Annabeth grabbed Thalia's arm and dragged her into the closest girls bathroom.

"Thalia, James is the biggest flirt in the school. He wouldn't stop flirting with me until Percy threatened to beat him up." "Can I beat him up?" "No." "Can I threaten him?" "No." "Can I slowly torture him?" "No." "WHAT!" I can't do anything fun! How can I keep him away?" "Well… Nope…" "Tell me!" "We can say you are a lesbian." "Uhhhh… NO!" "We can say you have a boyfriend already!" "Who would pose as one?" "Nico or Connor or Leo or…" "I get it!" "What about Malcolm?" "That might work… I'll ask Artemis. Let's IM her now!" "Olympus is closed. You can't!" "Ugg!"

The bell rang! "Let's go to class! I'm glad we have the same schedule! Well except for Architecture."

All the classes are 1 hour except the 2 hour Architecture class.

Mon, Wed and Thru:

Math- Mr. Walker

Science- Mrs. Carter

History- Mrs. Hawkins

Lunch

English- Dr. Shaw

Architecture- Mr. Spencer

Language- Mrs. Collins

Tue and Fri:

Math- Mr. Walker

Science- Mrs. Carter

History- Mrs. Hawkins

Lunch

PE- Coach Hayes

English- Dr. Shaw

Art- Miss Rose

Language- Mrs. Collins

They entered Mr. Walker's classroom for geometry. Mr. Walker was stern yet forgiving, she sometimes corrected him and loved his class. She walked up to his desk and said "Hello, Mr. Walker. This is Thalia, the new student in your class." "Hi Thalia, nice to meet you!" "Nice to meet you too, Mr." "Annabeth, if you need anything just let me know," he said with sympathy. She looked at him in confusion and said "okay." And she sat down. Her first class flew by and it was time for Science.

When she entered Mrs. Carter's classroom and whispered "Thalia, This is Mrs. Carter. She has two little girls." "How little?" "One's 2 years old and the other is … 9 months now." "Very little!" Annabeth walked up to Mrs. Carter, said hello and introduced Thalia. She said hi back and offered comfort, for Percy's disappearance. "How did she know?" "Well, Annabeth, I think your principle… Mrs. Freedman… told all the teachers." "Oh…" Biology passed fast. They were preparing for a lab dissection of a frog.

After the bell rang they walked into History class, with Mrs. Hawkins. She offered the same comfort as the other teachers. History passed fast in Mrs. Hawkins class. She was a fun teacher, always telling history like the most interesting fairy-tale. When the bell rang, it was time for lunch.

When they arrived in the cafeteria, Thalia asked; "How's the food here?" "Almost as good as camp. Since most of the students live here they have a large staff of good chefs." "Good!"

Annabeth grabbed pasta salad, fruit salad, chicken and some water, while Thalia took a salad, some chicken and an apple. They sat down at a table and soon a lot of people gathered around them. Peter and Emily, Josie, Rita and James from earlier, as well as Charlotte, Becca (Rebecca), Al (Alfred), Diana, Marcelo, Robin, Lillian, Virginia, Dylan, Ken (Kenneth), George, Jacob, Kateri (Kati), Josiah and Mark.

"So are you going to tell us what happened?" asked Peter, the ever inquisitive. "Well… Percy and I went to camp for Christmas, but he was kidnapped." "WHAT?" "No way!" "Who would do something like that?" "I'm so sorry Annabeth!" "How come we didn't find out about it?" "SUSH! Let her answer!" "I have an idea, if you have a question, raise your hand" said Scarlett, walking up with Sam, Jessie and Jordyn. "Great idea!" Becca raised her hand. "How come we didn't know about his kidnapping?" "Well…" said Annabeth "It wasn't publicized because of the nature of the kidnapping." "What kind?" asked Jacob. Jacob's dad was a cop. "I can't tell you anything else. And don't bother looking into it… *whispered* it's not on record."

"Did they bring you in for questioning?" asked, of course, a boy (Marcelo). "Yes and no!" "What do you mean?" said Al. "They asked everyone at camp, but didn't bring anyone down to the police station." "Oh…"

"Why were you missing for so long?" asked Robin. Thalia answered for her "because she was very upset. And needed some time off. And then, she got really sick." "I just got better on Saturday, but the school system said I could not come back till Friday." "I will answer the unspoken question you have." Said Thalia. "I'm here because Annabeth is emotionally unstable and needs her best friend." Annabeth hit Thalia "They didn't need to know that!" Everyone laughed went to finish lunch and spread the news.

The rest of school passed quickly, PE with Coach Hayes they were working on sprinting (Thalia was his favorite). English with Dr. Shaw, they were studying metaphysical poetry ("he tortures dyslexic kids" said Thalia after they left his class). Art with Miss Rose in her class they were painting cityscapes ("it's not a blueprint Annabeth! It's a painting"), she would love Rachel Dare. And lastly advanced Greek and Latin combo with Ms. Collins.

The last bell rang and they grabbed what book they would need for homework and ran to Mrs. Jackson's car.