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Annabeth:

"Where do you want me to start?" I asked Thalia who was waiting for an explination on how Me and Percy got locked out.

"How, why, when, where?

I started by telling her how we got outside until we were interrupted by the sound of Chiron walking down the hall. I looked at the clock on my bedside table and saw that it was 7:25 a.m. Its morning already? Time really does fly.

"Time to get up! called Chrion.

"Come on. We better start working on our chores. You can tell me the rest of your little adventure when we start our chores."

You can chose what chore you want to do as long as its not taken, so if you want a certain chore you have to wake up early before someone else choses it. I loved that rule. I always wake up and get ready much earlier before everyone else. Me and Thalia went into the hallway to see the list of chores that you can choose. There were 25 different chores, so everyone hada chore to do. Me and Thalia decided that we would sweep the kitchen together, that way we can still talk to each other.

When I started telling Thalia about the deck, she told me that she had went up there before. She doesn't want to go back up there. Thalia won't tell me why...

Thalia was sloppyly sweeping the floor, unlike me. I was determined to make this place spotless. People cook and eat her so I wanted to keep it as clean as possible. Even tough I was talking, I still concentrated on cleaning.

"When do we stop our chores?" I asked.

"When Chiron approves of the job we did"

I nodded in response and continued to tell her what happened. Thalia didn't interrupt me as I told my story.

"Why did you want to go to the city?" Thalia asked once I finished talking.

"Like I said, I have never done anything risky or adventorous my entire life. I wanted to feel like I finally had freedom. I was also curious."

Thalia nodded,"I felt like I was trapped until I came here. This is a good place. Everyone here is praticcally family."

My heart started to feel heavy.

"Your going to leave. Remember this is your temporary home,"a voice kept on sayingin my head.

"I'm sorry," told Thalia as I quickly ran to my room.

It must have been pretty rude of me to run away like that, but I need think. I hated being a foster child. I never get to have a family. All my the girls at my school would always complain about there family, and they don't even realize that I don't even have one! I feel like I have no one. The worst part of being a foster is that everything is temporary. When you start feeling like you have a family you have to leave. I hated that.

"Are you okay, Annabeth?" Thalia said gently from outside the door.

She came in and gently sat next to me.

"Talk to me,"she said.

"This place is scaring me!"

"Why?"

"Because I like it so much!" I probably not making much sense.

"What?" Thalia asked obviously confused.

I took a deep breath."I switch foster cares like everything three to six months and every time I start getting attached to one I have to move, again."

"Don't worry about it."

"But-"

"If you are meant to stay here than you will," Thalia said, cutting me off.

Thalia was right. I probably will be here for a while so I might as well enjoy it. I'll let destiny be destiny.

We went back to the kitchen to finish cleaning. Most of the other kids still weren't out of their rooms. I looked at the clock on the wall. It was 7:45 a.m. It has only been 20 minutes since Chiron woke everyone up. Thalia said that everyone is usually down by breakfast at 8:30 a.m. You can do your chores before or after breakfast but, most people do it after. People are probably too tired in the morning to do chores.

I had just finished and the kitchen looks perfect. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 7:55 a.m. We still had plenty of time before breakfast starts at 8:30. What was I going to do for half an hour? I should probably go take a small nap. I was pretty tired and I didn't get much sleep last night.

I went the very long staircase and went strait for my room. Why are there so many stairs! I'm pretty sure it will take me half an hour just to get up and down the stairs! I decided against the nap. I didn't have much time. I can always take one after breakfast, so I went all the way back down the stairs.

Chiron greeted me at the foot of the steps,"Good morning!"

"Morning,"I replied back warmly with a smile.

"Breakfast starts at 8:30,"he told me.

"Okay, thank you,"I thanked even though I already knew.

I basically walked in circles for half an hour until breakfast started. I didn't know what else to do. I could have gone have upstairs to read, but I didn't want to go all the way back up the stairs. I went into the cafeteria and sat at the same table I sat at yesterday no one was there except Thalia.

"What's up?"Thalia asked.

"Nothing much. I was just walking in circles"

"That sounds exciting," Thalia said very sarcastically.

"What are we going to eat?"

"Whatever you want," Thalia pointed to the table with several choices of foods on it.

I stood up and walked over there to see what was there. Wow! The chef really made an effort to make us happy. I feel like I'm in a hotel not a house. I got some oatmeal, an orange, and sat down. It tasted so much better than that horrible sandwich at the gas station. By the time I came back to the table everyone else was already there. I said good morning to everyone and they all returned it.

"Are you ready to start day two here at the foster care?" Selena asked me.

"I don't know," I replied before taking a bite of my good.

"You will be fine." Selena said and smiles reassuringly."The second day is always better than the first."

"My first day was really good"

"Hopefully today will be better!" Selena said cheerfully.

I finished the rest of my good and decided to go upstairs and study. School is going to start in a couple of weeks and I'm determined to do better than I did last year, so I better get studying!

I walked back up stairs and into my room. I pulled out my books and papers and started studying. This is the type of time when im really glad I have my own room. It was really quiet with out the disturbance of other people.

I'm really excited for school. School is probably my favorite place to go. It's something I'm good at.

About after 30 minutes into my studying, I heard a knock on my door.

"Who is it?" I asked annoyed. I was focusing and someone has to come and ruin it!

"Percy," the voice answered.

How did I not recognize Percy's voice? The sound was too muffled, or I was too annoyed to pay much attention.

"What do you want!"I yelled back even more annoyed.

"It's good to see you too," he answered sarcastically as he walked into the room.

"I'm studying" I said. "Maybe you should do that too"

"We still have two weeks."

I rolled my eyes.

He fell back on to my bed and sighed. He's probably board, tired or both. I started to think of way to get rid of him. It's not that I don't like his company. I was arising and no one intervenes with my studying matter how much I like them.

"Go play with Grover or something!"

"He's with Juniper."

"Who?"

"That's his girlfriend"

"Don't you have any other friends?"

"They're boring."

"Would you rather sit here and study math with me?"

He shook his head, but didn't he off my bed. I stood up from my desk, grabbed his wrist and pushed him out the door.

"I'll hang out with you in a hour,"I said right before I slammed the door in his face.

I sat back down in my chair and continued studying.

After about 10 minutes into my studying, I saw a spider! I had an extreme case of arachnophobia so I screamed and ran out the door as fast as I could. I ran into Percy's room because it was the room closest to mine.

I was still screaming.

"What happened?" Percy asked frantically.

I pointed to my room and quickly ran inside. When Percy finds out that it is a spider, I will never here the end of it, but right now I didn't
care.

Percy looked around my room and didn't see anything so he turned to face me with a confused expression on his face. I quickly pointed the corner where the spider was with my shaky hand. He saw what I was pointing too and he didn't burst into laughter like I thought he would, instead he rolled up a piece of newspaper and killed it.

"Are you okay?" He asked seriously.

"How come your not laughing?" I asked very confused.

"Everyone has their phobias. I understand." He replied. "You can continue studying, now."

He went back into his room. I cautiously made my way back to my desk making sure there were no there spiders. I looked around a few more time before I decided it was safe. I breathed a sigh of relief.

I owe Percy.

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