I turned to see Matthew, but his eyes were cold. His brown hair had grown and curled below his ears. His face was hard lines of anger. "Why? Why did you just leave us?" A few tables looked over to see what was happening and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Bobby leave the Hermes table and intersect with where Percy was as they moved towards me. "Why Annabeth? Or don't you know how to talk now either?"
I met his eyes, their chill hitting my bones and making me want to either away. Instead I smiled and said,"Hi Matthew."
"Is that all you can say after everything you did? You left us. You abandoned us when we needed you." Bobby and Percy reached the table for this, both of them standing closer to me. "Bobby I left to protect you. I thought that in leaving the monsters would you leave you alone."
He laughed coldly. "Well they didn't. They kept coming after you left. They never stopped coming."
"Matthew!", exclaimed Bobby. "How would Annabeth know that? We didn't even know that."
"She's a demigod too! She should've recognized us for what we were! For what we are!" Matthew stood straighter, his hard eyes turning from Bobby to me. "You left us to die. I can never forgive you. I hate you Annabeth."
I sat there in shock for a minute before lowering my eyes. "I thought I was protecting you." "Well you didn't." Suddenly, everyone in the mess hall gasped. I looked up to see a blazing emblem above both Bobby's and Matthew's heads.