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Percy:

"You what?!" Yelled Grover when I told him about me and Annabeth's little midnight tour of the city.

"It was fun," I replied.

"You could have gotten beaten up, kidnapped, killed or all three!"

"Well, we weren't!"

Grover is so protective. He even says he's my protector. It's probably because we are like brothers. I know the idea was dangerous, but it was Annabeth's idea not mine!

"Do you like her?"

"Who?"

"Annabeth!"

"As a friend"

The question caught me completely off guard. Did I like Annabeth? I don't know. I don't think so...yet. It just seems kind of fast...maybe? I don't know.

"She likes you."

"Yeah, I can tell. She just pushed me out of her room. I really feel the love. I said sarcastically.

"When a girl acts like she hates you, you know she's into you." (AN: Does anyone remember that from The Demigod Files? :'( Beckondorf )

"Makes sense," I said sarcastically.

"Go ask her out!"

"She will kill me! I'm telling you, she doesn't like me! I'm not even sure if I like her!"

We have a Fourth of July celebration tomorrow. We call it the fireworks. Should I asked her out? I'm very afraid that she will kill me. I wonder if Annabeth even new about the fireworks.

I looked at my watch. Annabeth will be finish studying in about 5 minutes. It has been about 30 minutes since I killed a spider for Annabeth. She is very afraid of spiders. I better keep in mind because the area were we have the fireworks has many spiders. She probably will not want to go she finds that out, maybe we can go somewhere else to see the fireworks...like the deck! The view up there will probably be much better. It will great!

"Get out of here!" I told Grover.

"What?"

"Annabeth will be here in a couple of minutes and I want to be alone with her!"

"I just came back from my date, and now your kicking me back out?"

"Yes, pretty much. Now go!" I said as I pushed him through the doorway.

I laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling. Maybe I should have kept Grover in a little longer. I'm so bored! This is the longest two minutes of my life! I heard a knock on the door. I quickly stood up and ran to the door. I knew it was Annabeth and I was excited to see her. I wasn't sure why.

I opened the door and was disappointed to see it was Grover. "What do you want!?" I asked.

"I need to get my enchilada!" He said while pointing to a plate on the desk with a half eaten enchilada.

How did I not notice a enchilada on my desk! I walked to the desk, picked up the plate, shoved it toward, and slammed the door. About 30 seconds after I closed the door I heard a knock again.

"What do you want, Grover!"

"Grover?" I heard Annabth said.

"Annabeth!"

I stood up quickly and opened the door to let Annabeth in.

"Okay, I finished studying. What do you want to do?" Annabeth asked as she sat down in my chair.

"Want to go to the deck. It's still pretty early, so it's probably not that hot, yet."

"Okay," she said standing out of my chair.

I could tell that she liked the deck. I also want to go because we will be alone. We walked up the stairs to the deck. I opened and held the door for her like a gentleman. I looked at my watch and noticed that it was about 10:00 a.m. This day has been going by so slowly. It isn't even noon, yet!
We sat down on a three feet tall brick wall that was protected the air conditioner and looked into the horizon. The view wasn't as nice as it was at night, but it was still nice to get some fresh air.

"We have a Fourth of July celebration tomorrow." I said.

"That's cool."

"Yeah, it is. It's a lot of fun. We have food, fireworks, and everyone hanging out in that field over there," I said while pointing to a field behind the house.

"That must be really fun."

"Do you want to go with me?"

She smiled. "As friends or on a date?"

"What do you want to go as?"

She hesitated for a while, which made me kind of nervous. It scares me when she thinks.

"I don't know. Let's just see how it goes," she finally replied.

"Okay," I replied while smiling. I like that idea. We aren't rushing into anything, we're just seeing how it works out.

We stayed on the deck for about another 10 minutes. We talked about how are day was going, and about what are plans were for today. I told her every part of my day, except the part when Grover and me talked. She told me about her day too, which was much more exciting than mine. I haven't even done my chore, yet. I looked at the time. It was 10:15 a.m.. I'll do my chore later. We don't have to do it until lunch at 12:30.

Annabeth went back to her room after we came back inside. She told me that she wanted to study for another hour. She studies way too much for summer break, in my opinion.
I went back to my room, since I didn't have anything to do. Grover wasn't in the room. I lay down on my bed and yawned. I'm so tired. After about five minutes, I felt myself starting to drift asleep...

FLASHBACK.

"Wake up, Percy!" My mom's voice called. "You don't want to be late fir school."

Oh no...school. I tiredly sat up and tossed the blankets off of me, as I stood up. I looked at my clock. It was 6:30 a.m. Why do I wake up so early? School doesn't start until 8:30!

"Are you awake, yet, honey?" My mom's sweet voice called.

I smiled in my sleep. The memory of my mom's voice always make me feel warm and...safe.

"Yes, I'm awake," I called back.
"Get ready!" She said. "I made blue pancakes for breakfast!"

I quickly started getting ready. My mom is the best cook. I love it when she makes food me favorite color, blue. It probably took about five minutes for me to get ready. As soon as I finished, I ran down the stairs.

"Good morning, Percy!" She said cheerfully while she finished cooking the pancakes.

I helped her put out the plates and silverware. We sat down to eat. The pancakes tasted so good. I haven't eaten them in so long. I hope my mom will make them more often.

I smiled of the memory of the taste of the blue pancakes.

We talked about our plans for today and what we wanted to do. It was 7:30 a.m. after we finished eating.

"I better leave, now." My mom said as she stood up and took her jacket off of the coat hanger.

"Bye. I'll see you later," I said as I gave her a hug.

"I love you," My mom said.

"Love you, too"

TEN HOURS LATER.

I had gotten home a few hours ago. Why isn't my mom home, yet? She is usually home by 2:00 p.m. and it's already about 5:00! I felt anxiety growing inside of me. I picked up the phone and called her, but she didn't answer. My mom would never not tell me if she was coming home late.

I heard the door ring. I ran to the door because I was sure that it was my mom, but instead it was a police officer.

Wake up! I kept on repeating to myself in my sleep. This dream that was a sweet memory is going to soon turn into a nightmare...

"Your mother is gone," The man said with no sympathy at all.

"What are you talking about?"

"She disappeared!" The man said. "You will have to become an orphan, since you have no relatives that can take custody of you."
"You can't do that! I screamed. "You don't even know what happened to her!"

"If she turns up, we will return you back to her." He grabbed my arm and started pulling me away.

ONE WEEK LATER

I sat down in the cold room and started at the picture of my mom. They had stopped looking for her.

END OF FLASHBACK

Wake up! Someone screamed as they shook me awake. I bolted straight up and immediately closed my eyes and put my hands on my head, as if I were trying to block out the bad memories.

"It's okay," a voice said gently. I realized it was Annabeth.

"Mom!" I screamed still thinking about my dream.

Annabeth wrapped her arms around me, as I continued to keep my eyes shut, and hold my head. I knew Annabeth was trying to say things to make me calm down, but I had no idea what she was saying. Everything sounded so muffled. I felt hopeless. I felt like I lost the most important person in my life all over again.

"She's alive," I kept on reassuring myself.

After a while, I started feeling normal again. I pulled my heads off of my head and opened my blood-shot eyes.

I took a deep breath. "I'm fine," I reassured Annabeth.

Annabeth was not convinced at all. She looked at me very concerned. She didn't even ask me if I was okay because she knew I wasn't.

Annabeth hugged me again, and whispered," Its okay."

I smiled at her.

She smiled back warmly and patted my shoulder," Now, go do your chores!"

"What?!"

"Lunch starts in half an hour!"

"That's not fair!"

"Too bad!" she said as she started to drag me downstairs.

She was right. It is 11:55 a.m. Lunch starts at 12:30. You have to finish your chore before lunch. It's one of our most important rules. I looked at the list of chores. There was only one chore that hasn't been finished and it was...cleaning the boy's restroom.

Annabeth burst out laughing when she saw what chore it was.

"Well, you better get busy," she said pointing at the clocking trying hard not to laugh.

I will never ever ever get the last chore, again. I feel like I'm going to throw up. Why can't boys be cleaner! I usually have to use a napkin to use the door handler to open the door, so this is beyond gross. It smelled horrible, too. This is why I never use this restroom. I only use the one in my room. Once I finished, I looked at the clock and saw that it was 12:23 p.m. I quickly went to get Chiron, so he could approve of my job. He looked around and approved of it.

I sat down at the table with my friends. I hesitated before eating anything, tough. For some reason, cleaning those toilets really made me lose my appetite. I really didn't want to anything. I was seriously grossed out and I'm not really hungry.

I went back to my room after lunch. I sat there staring at the wall until I heard a knock. Anna Beth came in and sat next to me. She smiled at me and I smiled back.

"Are you sure you're okay?" she asked for the millionth time.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I replied. "I just had a nightmare."

Should I tell her about it? Yes. I'm going too.

I told her every part of my dream and what had happened. I felt better after I told her.

"Your mom made you blue pancakes?!" Annabeth asked trying to lighten the tension.

"Yes, and they were awesome!"

It was 10:45 p.m. I laid in my bed wide awake. Grover is fast asleep and he snores...really loudly, but that wasn't the thing that was keeping me awake. I was almost afraid to fall asleep because of the nightmares, but tonight I feel a little better. After about half an hour I fell asleep, too.

RING! RING! I reached my hand over to the bedside table to turn off my alarm. I sat up and noticed that there was a plate of blue pancakes on my desk! I got up and picked up a card next to it.
The note said:

I thought it was really nice how your mom
made blue pancakes for you! I know the ones
that I made will never be as special as your
mom's, but I just thought it was sad because
you haven't been able to eat them since you
were twelve. I hope it brings back good memories!
Enjoy!

PS: See you at the fireworks!

-Annabeth :-)

She is so sweet.

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