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Percy:

"Annabeth, this is Percy," said Thalia while looking at Annabeth and making a gesture toward me.

Annabeth and I stood up to shake hands. I reached my hand out and smiled. She returned the smile and shook my hand with both of her hands. We sat back down and started talking with Thalia.

Everyone at the foster care has been waiting for Annabeth. Well, everyone except Clarrise. It was exciting to have someone new at the foster care. We haven't had a new orphan in over a year.

I didn't know much about Annabeth. None of us did. All we knew was that she doesn't have any parents like everyone else. I didn't want to ask her anything, not yet. I haven't even said hi to her, yet.

I felt a tap on my back", Are you going to eat that?"

I didn't even turn around to see who it is because I already knew it was my best friend, Grover. Grover was a year older than me, 16. He has been my best friend since I was twelve, which is the age I came to the foster home.

"Here," I replied as I handed him my enchilada. I've NEVER EVER seen someone so obsessed with a certain type of food.

Anyway, back to what I was saying. I came here when I was twelve. My mom told me that my dad got lost at sea before I was born. I don't really know much about my dad. My mom said that I look just like him. We both have green eyes and black hair.

My mom disappeared when I was twelve. I don't know what happened to her. One day she left for work and never came back. That's probably the worst part of this, not being able to know what happened to her, but I still believe she is alive.

"Lunch time is finished!" said Dionysus.

"Who's that?" asked Annabeth pointing toward Dionysus.

"Dionysus another one of our guardians, he is a relative of Chiron," I answered.

"What is he like?" Annabeth questioned.

"He doesn't do much. He drinks, plays video games, and pronounces names wrong." I replied.

After lunch, we would have free time for the rest of the day since it was summer break and we all did our chores in the morning. We can only go out on the weekends, even though it is summer.

"I'll take your plate," I told Annnabeth.

I took her plate without waiting for her to answer. I could tell Annabeth was stubborn and doesn't want anyone's help. She thinks she can take care of herself, and probably can, but assistance can never hurt.

"Come on," I said to Annabeth.

"Where?"

"For a tour"

"Of what?"

"Madagascar. Where do you think, Wise girl?"

She rolled her eyes.

"Let's go take a tour of the foster home," I said as I grabbed her wrist and started dragging her out as she waved Thalia good-bye.

This house was really big. There are two rooms on the bottom floor because you have the kitchen and the bathrooms, which take up a lot of space, and five on the second and third. Everyone usually shares room but we still had one left over so Annabeth gets the entire room to herself. We walked out of the kitchen to the restrooms.

"This is the boys and the girls restroom," I said.

"What?!" shouted Annabeth. "I have to walk down a million stairs to go to the restroom!"

I started laughing.

"Isn't funny!"

"It kind of is"

She playfully hit my arm. I know she didn't intend it to hurt but it kind of did. She's pretty strong. Maybe its because she is tall. She is probably only an inch shorter than me and I'm 5'10.

"If it makes you feel any better, I stay on the third floor too," I replied. "Don't worry, you get use to the stairs."

"Which room do you stay in?" asked Annabeth.

"The one right next to yours"

"That's cool"

"Yeah, whenever you have nightmares you can come running to me."

She grinned and rolled her eyes at me. Why does she keep on rolling her eyes at me!? Do you think I'm annoying her? No, that's not it. We continued walking. She was pretty quit while we explored the first floor.

"Tell me something about you." I said.

"Well…" she thought for a second. "I really want to be an architect. When I was a little kid I would always play with the building blocks. I wanted to be an architect as long as I could remember. I feel like I could finally build something I wanted, something I control, something that would last for million of years."

She really is an interesting girl…

"Tell me something about you," she demands and cuts off my thoughts.

"I'm not as interesting as you are. What do you want to know?"

"Do you have girlfriend…?" she asked silently.

I grinned. This is my chance to mess with her," Why are you asking?"

"No, no, no this isn't about me! I was just wondering…"

"Why are you asking!?" I repeated.

"Just answer the question!"

"No, I do not have a girlfriend. Don't worry, you don't have to share me," she hit my arm again, but she kind of blushed too at the same time. My arm is starting to hurt. How many times does she have to hit me!

We walked through the rest of the house, which were basically all rooms. While we were walking around I realized how pretty and…intimidating Annabeth was. It was hard to make eye contact because her eyes are so stormy.

"What's the schedule?" asked Annabeth.

"We wake up at 7:30 am and have to do our chores before lunch at 12:30 pm. We have free time for the rest of the day since its summer and curfew is at 10:30 pm but we have to be in our rooms by 8:30 pm on weekdays. We can go out on the weekends," I answered.

She nodded.

I was okay with the fact that Annabeth got an entire room o herself unlike some people. I liked sharing a room with Grover. When went inside of her room. It looks like everyone's room did when they first came here, except her wall. Wow! There were awards everywhere. She had so many awards and honors. She told me that she studied a lot and really liked school, but I didn't expect this.

"Your really smart," I told her still looking at her wall.

"Thanks, my grades have gotten even better now that I'm out of the house with my parents," she answered. "There was a lot of chores I had to do when I lived with my dad so I didn't have as much time to study."

Annabeth was really good at school unlike me. School isn't really my thing. I'm kind of master at school expulsion. I keep on blowing up stuff. I'm really misunderstood in school. I try not to destroy the schools, but somehow it keeps on happening! One time I blew up school before it even started!

"What do you like to do?" asked Annabeth.

"I like the ocean and to swim." I answered. "Its weird that I like the ocean because my dad was lost at sea, so shouldn't I be afraid of the ocean?"

Annabeth shrugged.

"What?! Wise girl doesn't know something?!" I caught her hand she could hit my arm, again. I knew she was going to try to hit me!

"Let's go on the roof. We have a deck. It's a great view," I said.

The deck was my favorite part of the foster home. I was the only one in the foster care that went up there. Thalia came with me once but she refuses to come up, again. She is afraid of heights.

I don't really like heights either because my grandparents died in a plane crash, but I didn't think the deck was that high. I really liked the view especially at night with all of the lights. It's really noisy, though. We're in Manhattan so the streets always are full of cars.

"There's more stairs!?" Annabeth shouted.

"Yup, now come on!" I said trying to drag her up the stairs.

Annabeth sighed," Okay, the view better be worth it!"

It was really nice outside. There was a cool breeze even though it was summer. Annabeth squinted and used her hand to block the sun out of her eyes. I did the same. I looked at my watch. It was 1:15 pm, so the sun was still up.

"Can we come back at night? It will probably be prettier with all of the lights and its really sunny. It's kind of hard to see," Annabeth asked.

"The sun sets at nine o'clock."

"So?"

"We have to be in our rooms by 8:30 pm on weekdays, but we can sneak out…"

"I don't want to get in trouble on my first day here!"

"Okay, I'll be at your room at 9:30."

"But-"

" It will be worth it. I promise."

"Annabeth sighed," Whatever"

EIGHT HOURS LATER

"Knock, knock," I whispered quietly making sure no one would hear me.

Annabeth opened the door.

"What are you doing here!" Annabeth whisper-yelled to me.

"I told you I was coming at 9:30!"

"I told you no! I thought you were joking!"

"Well too bad, come one!" I said as I dragged her through the hallway by the wrist.

How was this chapter? This is the longest one so far. I'm going to make the next chapter Annabeth POV. again because this chapter was much loner than 1 and 2. I will switch POV's every chapter. Please tell me what you think! Please review, follow, and favorite! Thank you for reading!

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