Chapter 5

If I thought I was going to get a good night's sleep, I was wrong. To start things off, about an hour or 2 after curfew, Annabeth came in. I had wondered why Percy had kept the lights on this entire time and now I knew, he was waiting for Annabeth. It seemed perfectly normal to them which really freaked me out.
"Look Andy, the thing is," they had told me, "last summer, we fell into, um... the big pit in the under world." Percy had explained to me that it was really a bad idea to say names, that it invited a shadow of something's presence to wherever you are.
"We can't sleep at night when we aren't near each other." Annabeth was explaining to me why they had done this every night since they had come back to camp.
"Well, it's more of we can hardly sleep anyways without waking up in a screaming fit. We just calm each other down way faster than if say Grover were to calm me and Malcom were to calm Annabeth. So, how heavy of a sleeper are you? I'm sorry I don't have any earplugs tonight because I had no idea you would be here tonight. I really am sorry for the small amount of sleep you will get tonight." I thought it was sweet and odd in the same way.
I replied, "Nah, I've slept through that kind of stuff before at orphanages so you should be good."
"You have never heard Annabeth scream then." She blushed fiercely.
The next words that came out of Percy's mouth were 'lights out' and the room turned dark. I fell asleep quickly, which was a miracle considering all I had been through that day, then again, I was exhausted.
(Line Break)
I woke up to the scream of Annabeth. It was shrill and full of terror. Percy scrambled to her and wrapped his arms around her and spoke to her with a soothing voice.
"I was back Percy, In the pit." She was scared out of her mind, "it was when we ran into Ma." He kept hugging he like she was the most important part of his life. They must have loved each other an awful lot.
"Its ok Annabeth, you're safe now." He was hugging and rocking her in his arms. They looked so sweet together, like she was a little kid who had a nightmare that a monster lived under her bed. I got up and walked over to Annabeth.
"You're not there anymore, you are here, at camp." She took in a deep breath and nodded as soon as I said that. Percy was concentrated on Annabeth. His eyebrows scrunched together, like he was scared if he let go of her, she wouldn't be there anymore.
"Percy?" I asked. "Are you going to be okay?" He just nodded and sat there staring at Annabeth, soaking in her presence. After a few minutes of this, I put my hand on his shoulder and told him that we had to sleep. He still seemed dazed.
He kept soaking in her image as if he thought it was something he would never see again. I had a sudden thought, "Percy, what did you dream about?" He stared at me blankly, as if he had no clue what I was talking about.
I thought he was going to turn back to Annabeth, when he simply said, "Death." I understood. There must have been plenty of times when they were stranded in Tartarus, that he and Annabeth had near death experiences. I nodded and he finally broke out of his trance. Now I knew what he meant when he said he was sorry. Seeing Percy and Annabeth like this, was almost torture. I hated people feeling bad, they always had someway of bringing me down.
"You two love each other a lot, don't you?" They just nodded. It was hard to look in their eyes because they were filled with fear. I had the distinct impression I was going to have to pry them apart if I needed them to part, but Percy got up and went back to his bunk and fell asleep in seconds. Annabeth crawled back into her bunk and sat there staring at the one above her.
"He is just getting used to you." I was surprised to hear Annabeth speak, "He thinks its cool that he has a sister, but he is also worried that you wont get along." Percy had seemed a little uncomfortable around me, just like I was uncomfortable around him.
"I know," I replied. I must have fallen asleep at some point, because the next thing I knew it was morning.
(Another Line Break, I know it's creepy and weird)
"Rise and shine, Andy." I woke up to Annabeth shaking me. "Man, you sleep almost as bad as Percy does." She pointed to Percy, who was on the floor covered in sheets. I started to laugh. If there was anything funnier than my brother laying on the floor, drooling and covered in sheets, my brain couldn't seem to find it.
I got up and grabbed a cup full of cold water, "Watch this," I told Annabeth.
I headed over to Percy and said, "You'd better get up right now." I was warning him. He mumbled something like 'five more minutes' and just laid there. I took the cup of water and held it over his head. Annabeth was giggling in the corner. I dumped the water straight on him and willed it to soak the sand colored carpet and freeze. It responded. I was amazed as the water penetrated the carpet and frost started to form around Percy's face. He must have felt the chill of the ice, because as soon as he had fallen asleep, he was standing up and reaching for his sword in his pocket, only to realize he was wearing pajamas, not jeans. Annabeth and I were almost rolling on the frost covered floor in laughter. Percy was covered in frost.
When we walked out of the cabin for breakfast, Annabeth ran ahead to her cabin. Percy still had frost in his hair and looked like he was melting. I had a wide beam on my face that must have made me seem really happy, which I was.
"Hey Andy," Connor said. "What happened to Percy?" He was laughing. There was another guy with him who looked almost exactly like him and was cracking up too.
"He wouldn't wake up," I said innocently. This made them laugh even more as a devilish smile flickered across my face. We had reached the pavilion and I walked happily over to the Poseidon table as Percy trudged after me, shivering. Everybody was watching him. Either they were amazed he had frost in his hair, or amazed he was up so early, probably both.
Chiron trotted over to us and asked, "Percy, what happened?" He sounded worried.
"I had to wake him up somehow..." I responded for Percy because his teeth were chattering. Amusement played across Chiron's face. The white stallion probably knew what I did.
Percy had stopped chattering and said, "you didn't have to freeze me on my first day of being an older brother." I shrugged off the comment. I felt bad enough about doing it after I saw how cold he was. Annabeth came up behind us and ran her hand through Percy's hair, shaking frost all over me. We all laughed. More frost just reappeared in Percy's hair. Ok that was weird.
"Percy, does my method of waking you up bother you?" I kept playing innocent, nobody knew what I did except for Annabeth, Percy, and I. Everyone else probably assumed I got a lot of ice shavings and dumped it on Percy. We ate our breakfast quickly and headed to the climbing wall.