AN I haven't updated in so long it sucks ,but to those that are reading it I recived an e-mail from Athena Forever and I was like ohmygod I have to update so I stayed up all night reading this over and checking it! That takes a long time people. I started at 8 and it is now 5am in the morning. But it was worth it just like it will be worth it to review because you will make me feel happy. ALSO 118 REVIEWS POEPLE YEAHHHH! and thank you if you are part of that 118 I hope you will review again and again and again. Also I have something to ask you at the end of the chapter in a note. Anyways review for a sneak peak also thank ILUVFANTASY sorry it's not normally caps ,but anyways thank that person for saving me and PS THAT PERSON HAS A REALLY GOOD STORY I SUGGEST YOU READ IT. anyways sorry this is so long. and thanks for reviewing!
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Annabeth POV
I heard a faint beeping in the background from slowly waking up. I guess my alarm clock was broken because it was much quieter then it normally was or then again maybe I chucked it at the wall again while I was
sleep. I wanted to get up I really did it's just everything hurt like hell. And I'm not talking just 'ow' I'm talking like 'holy ** I'm scared to move because It hurts so much' so I just stayed still barley listening waiting for Thalia to come banging on the door for me to wake up.
But it didn't happen and the beeping didn't stop, as it went on it seemed get less familiar. Like it was a totally different alarm clock then I had ever had and that confused me. Wasn't I at home? Yesterday I was...HOLY ** I CAN'T REMEMBER! I remember I was at that 4th of July Party with Percy and Thalia ,but after that It's just..fuzzy like it was from year's ago not however long ago it was. And suddenly I was scared I had no idea were the hell I was!
"Sweety wake up it's time to take your medication." A sweet voice said somewhere in my room. First off this person didn't sound like Thalia and Thalia would never call me sweety unless she was blackmailing me ,but me in this state of delusion still called out, "Thalia?" Crazily as I tried to fight the wariness in my bones and make myself open my eye's. I slowly lifted my eye lids and was met with blinding white and then it focused in
on a lady about her mid-thirties wearing a blue pair of scrubs. Suddenly as the noise rushed to my ear's like a tidal wave I remember exactly what had happened. The car..
"What, what happen?" I croaked as the nurse let out a light laugh.
"Well you have a minor concussion and a sprained ankle. You were lucky you're friend over there broke her leg in three places. She needs a full leg cast," The nurse said pointing to the window on the side of my room.
Through the window was Thalia with her leg hoisted up arguing with a nurse that was trying to give her medication. "Yea, well she's been a bit...crazy on the medication ,but I didn't know it did that to people." She shook her head slightly and I noticed her slightly southern accent. Thalia was not panickly pushing the help button while continuing to yell.
"Oh it's not the med's.." I whispered to myself as I grabbed the glass of water on my bedside table and drank it swallowing some chunky pill. The nurse was looking at my IV and adjusting things.
"What now?" She said looking at me in case I said something ,but I just looked away and shrugged then my eye's fell on the corner of the room were a guy sat covered by a coat and sleeping over two chairs with his hair going every which way and his mouth slightly open. "Oh," She said her eye's falling on the corner of the room were I was looking, "He was here the whole time and never even left once even when the security guards told him he had to he just fell asleep. "
"What?" I croaked looking up at the sleeping figure.
"Well dear he has been here for the past three day's so-" She said fluffing my pillows before taking the empty cup of water and the plastic cup and throwing it into a trash can in the corner of the room. Though I didn't pay attention to her much while she was talking after the amount of days in which I had been in this purell smelling place. Three day's? Three how, with a minor concussion do I possibly stay here for three days! I screamed inside my head.
"WHAT!" I said abruptly sitting up getting a major headache. The nurse jumped slightly at my outburst because apparently she was still talking when I screamed. She looked at me with a crazy look.
"I was saying that sometimes when-" She started ,but I interrupted her again, "NOT THAT!" I screamed, "I'VE BEEN HERE FOR THREE DAYS!" I screamed at the nurse who just shrugged, "WHY HAVE I BEEN HERE FOR THREE DAYS!" Okay so I was having a bit of a panic attack ,but my hospital robe was itchy and paper thin and I hated this place. Every glance around this damn place reminded me what's at home and I hated being reminded that. I hated it more then anything.
"Well, we wanted to make sure you didn't have internal bleeding or that your brain wouldn't swell." She nurse said exasperatedly looking at me shaking her head, "What is with these med's these day's?" She mumbled walking out of the room and hitting Percy on the head waking him up, "Young man she's up now."
He shook awake with a crazy look in his eye's when he was tired. Me smiled and getting up and walking over, "Are you okay?" I could see he was tired and his hair was everywhere and for the first time he needed to shave.
"You didn't have to stay here the whole time, what did you eat? Where the hell did you shower?" I asked looking around the small room. He laughed like I just said the funniest thing in the world.
"Well the gym of this place has showers and the cafeteria doesn't have terrible food. But I wanted to stay and I wanted to make sure you are okay.." He said looking at me with his eye's full of concern. He leaned down and kissed me softly as if I was made of glass.
"But there was barley anything wrong with me unlike that girl," I said jabbing my hand in the direction of the Thalia's room and looked over to see if she was still screaming. But instead she was standing on crutches next to Nico at the window looking and pointing at us. Percy stuck out of his tongue and lowered the shades. He rolled his eye's looking back at me and smiling.
"Well I was worried about you and I didn't want anything to happen to you. As soon as I heard I freaked out and I drove here as quickly as I could." He said holding my hand softly and rubbing circles on it. I heard a knocking on the glass which was no doubt Thalia and Nico being 5 year-olds. "Will they ever grow up?" He laughed, "Which reminds me I need to ask you if you want a bagel from Dunkin Donuts or the crappy one's here I've eating.."
I laughed pushing him towards the door, "Well what do you think Sherlock?" I said as he just shrugged and laughed, "How much longer will I be here though?" I said looking at those stupid machines that I hated so much. I knew them all because I've seen them so many times that I knew there beeping, like a terrible memory you wish you just didn't remember. But then again I did remember and I was so damn hard to forget everything without feeling like the worst person in the world.
"Well by the end of the day you should be cleared to go." He said looking around like he knew what he was talking about which really confused me, "They just want to make sure that nothing will happen to you. Your head hit the window pretty hard it's a surprise you didn't die from the blunt force trauma not to mention-" But I cut him off there because I just didn't like knowing why I am so lucky to live. Though I was also confused why on earth did he know this stuff?
"Woah Woah calm down just get me a bagel," I paused before I called out one last line before he went out the door, "Percy how do you know this?" he froze in the doorway not facing me ,but I could imagine with his face looked like from the other side. The way he just stopped moving and how his breath went out of him like he'd been punched in the stomach. I didn't know if he wanted to tell me ,but I wasn't going to press it because I didn't tell him everything either.
"I-I-I'll get your bagel." He whispered as he slipped out the door and walked down the hall silently. It must be something bad because the way he reacted well that just isn't normal for him. I was so caught up in my own thought I didn't even see Thalia walk in on her crutches followed by Nico who was making sure she didn't fall.
"What did you say to make him shut up so fast?" Thalia joked. Well she was never good at reading situations I think so I decided no to make a rude comment because those crutches could hurt me in so many ways.
"Helloo earth to Annabeth? Are you in there somewhere?" Thalia said looking at me cracking a smile and rolling her eye's as I shook my head to snap myself back into reality.
"Why does Percy know so much about this crap?" I said pointing to pretty much every medical machine in the room, "He knew when I would get out and why they kept me in here.." I said looking at Thalia who paled.
Thalia glanced back at Nico and I knew that damn look because right now they were silently arguing in there heads with each other. Silently arguing on either to tell me or not. After two seconds of small lip movements and a hit in the 'crotch' area Nico gave in and let Thalia talk while he fell to the ground from the crutch hitting..well you guess.
"Annabeth you know I hate keeping secrets from you ,but this isn't something I can just tell people. He needs to tell you himself when he's ready," She said slowly looking for what I would do ,but I just nodded along because I personally have my own secret like that. "But you can't go pressing him for it you just have to let him tell you." I just continued nodding as she spoke.
"That's okay and have I really eaten nothing the last couple days?" I said grabbing my stomach because ever since Percy talked about bagels I've groan hungry. They both nodded and laughed at my obscene hand movements, "And can I get up from this stupid bed?"
"Well you might want some clothes before you do that. Those hospital robes don't exactly have good 'coverage' were they tie if you know what I mean.." Thalia said and that's when I noticed she was wearing a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt with a gigantic white cast on her left leg. She noticed me looking at her cast and she scowled. "I can't do anything for like the rest of my life! It sucks I wish I could just saw this damn thing off!" She hit it with one of her crutches while Nico made sure she didn't fall over and do something stupid.
"Thalia it's three months for you because you broke it in three places your life is not over. And if you saw that damn thing off I will kill you," Nico said balancing her and looking in her eye's. He is so damn lucky he is taller then her or else she would've given him the death glare. For some reason she can't 'death glare' up. I only know that because whenever she's mad I hide in higher elevations. Like tree's..., but that's another terrifying story I would really not like to get into at the moment.
"Fine ," Thalia huffed and silently held Nico's hand behind her as she turned back to me. I guess she though I could see it behind her crutches ,but I still could. I guess she didn't know that because she just kept on talking, "But Annabeth Percy did bring you some clothes so you don't have to wear the ones we crashed in because my blood is on some of that...Yeah you wouldn't want to wear that I hope. Anyway's me and Nico are going down to the cafeteria to get some food before getting you ready to leave."
As they walked out I looked around for a button and started pressing it to get a nurse into my room to ask what medication was I on because I was seeing spots and it was making me dizzy. Apparently that was 'completely normal' ,but it annoyed the hell out of me. Once Percy showed up I was thanking my lucky stars because I'm sure I was never hungrier a day in my life before. "Oh my god these are so good!" I moaning biting into the bagel.
Percy laughed as he made his own,"That's Dunkin Donuts for you." He chuckled and winked which made me laugh as he ate is own bagel. "Oh and I have some clothes for you from your house. You don't really want to go walking around in that robe any time soon."
By the time I was home it was the next day because they had to run a bunch of tests on me to make sure nothing else was wrong. Which nothing was then finally I was able to change into my 'street clothes' and sign out and Percy was with me the whole entire time. "
"You know you don't have to drive me.." I said to him not wanting to seem helpless because he drove me everywhere. It's not that I don't like driving ,but after going to a class on statistics for architecture because you need to know what happens if hurricanes and what not, but I learned some facts about driving that I don't really like. Percy looked for his car click unlock and lock on his key's over and over again till he saw his car's headlights flashing.
"Oh really and tell me exactly how on earth you'll get home?" He said holding the door open for me as I sat down feeling weird. Hospitals do that to you I guess, but he did have a point there if he didn't take me home how would I get there anyway's? "Exactly besides I like being around you." He said sliding into the drivers seat and starting the car.
That made me giggle a bit before I could force words out of my mouth. So it was more like uncontrollable laughter, but that's besides the point, "What does that mean?" Even though I had been laughing close to two seconds ago I managed to as that as seriously as I could. He looked at me scrunching his eye brows together so obviously he was in deep thought which was a weird, but cute expression from him.
"It means that being with you is different.." He said searching for words, "It's like..it's like I don't care about what were doing because I'm happy about being with you. But I also care about what your thinking. I-I guess it feels like floating, but I hate when people say that so it's like riding your first roller coaster. It's so fun you scream your head off from joy ,but at the same time you don't want it to end because you waited so long to get on. But instead I'm still happy ,but not screaming and I waited so long for you and I don't want us to end..."
I was just stunned completely. I couldn't talk and I just sat and continued to look at his sea green eye's in amazement that someone who seemed so sadly he does seem it air headed could say something like that. Percy was alot of things to a lot of people. He was Nico's confidon (I was talking to him about that today), He was my boyfriend, he was his best friend Grover's advice giver from what I heard, and he was a best friend to so many people. All of them needed him in some way to either be a happy face or just to talk to more then you would think. But the most surprising part is he was a hopeless romantic. Not only did he disprove about 50 stereotypes he also was the damn cutest person I'm pretty sure I've ever met.
"Annabeth?" He said as my vision focused and I noticed I was at my house.
"How did we get here!" I practically shouted because I could've sworn we where just driving on a rode that was at least 50 minutes away from here. Percy gave me a weird look for a second before I spoke again, "I mean like I could've sworn we were just on that street and you said.."
"Well after I was done talking you just went silent and starred at me for 50 minutes and I guess I was confused ,but I thought it was better to let you think." He smiled intertwining his hand in mine as we walked in the door. I felt my face flush even though it was so dark you couldn't see anything I was embarrassed. I must've looked like a complete lunatic just staring at him like that...
"Oh right.." I said feeling along the wall for the light switches. "But there is one thing I must tell you Seaweed Brain," I said smiling at the nickname that I had created all that time ago. "I've never been on a roller
coaster.." I wasn't because I was scared it was because I was focused and every time my family wanted to go I was working on a drawing of a building because of sudden inspiration that I always get in the summer for some reason.
I saw his mouth drop open like it was the craziest thing I had ever said. "Oh my god we will have to fix that won't we?" He laughed after finding the light switch and flicking it on. Then all of a sudden two heads popped up from on the couch and there hair was messed up, "That the hell?" Percy said looking at the both of them.
"Oh we were..." Thalia started ,but couldn't come up with something good at first, "We were jumping on the couch and then we just fell down and passed out!"
Nico gave her a weird look before nodding, "Yea it was crazy!" Little did he know he had some smudged lip stick on his face the exact shade that Thalia wears.
"Nico.." I said looking at him while Percy snickered earning her a glare from Nico, "You do notice that you have Thalia's lip stick on your face so unless you're a tranny or something you can tell us what's going on.. you
know that right?" I said as he wiped his face like mad man to try to get whatever was on it off. He finally came across it and gave a small smile before noticing we were still standing there. Thalia though grabbed her crutches and started to hobble over to us.
"Where going out happy?" She grumbled as she turned and started going in the direction of the kitchen. "Anyone want a protine shake?" She called into the living room, but when she glanced it we were all making horiffied faces of even at the offer to try a protein shake. "There chocolate!" She smiled happily before hobbling back into the kitchen when we kept out horrified expressions on.
"I'd rather not destroy my taste of chocolate forever.." Percy said causing Nico to laugh at the blender flicked on. After a couple minutes Percy and Nico where in the car after giving there respective girlfriends a kiss goodbye because they too sadly had to go home even though it was getting light outside.
"Thalia you need to go to bed.." I said looking at the clock as the sky started to get lighter. She gave me a look that obviously said that I shouldn't give her that crap because I was the one with the healing concussion.
"I'm going to besides Percy and Nico won't even be up till at least 6 tonight so I don't see the need of being up." I said shrugging before walking off to bed.
"Annabeth!" Thalia called after me, "Get me some blankets I don't feel like climbing stairs with these things!"
Yeah people that is all one day. One freaking day. and I wrote it in one night. one freaking night. and updated at 6am for those who have alerts so maybe they can send me an e-mail like I have sent them with this chapter? Maybe? An e-mail of a review. But anyways I want to ask people what day's I should make a permanent update days. Choose three and I will choose from there. Also If I have like two chapters to update I will update earlier sometimes. But once again I need reviews to help me with this. Also review for s sneak peak!
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