Hey guy's sorry I haven't updated in 4 days. I went to Oklahoma to visit my dad, so I was quite busy and didn't have a chance to update. But I'm here now, so I hope you guy's enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 13

Percy's POV

I groaned, my head was throbbing. Black spots danced across my vision, I sat up on my bed. Immediately I felt nauseous. Last night was the worst, Gabe was relentless throwing me at the walls repeatedly. In the end, he ended up passing out. I looked up at my clock, seeing that it read 6:00. I was not in the mood to go to school. I stood up, and almost stumbled over my skateboard. I cursed, and walked into the bathroom. Deciding that I would take a shower, I pulled off my boxers and hopped in. Turning on the water, and starting the water. My muscles relaxed under the warm water.

After a nice thorough shower, I got out and tossed some ripped up jeans, and a plain T-shirt. No way was I going to school today, grabbing my phone and skateboard I headed out. It was a nice warm average day, so I hoped on my board and skated toward central park.

Annabeth's POV

Today was a B-day, I shared two classes with Percy. But yet Percy didn't show up for either of those classes, he didn't even come to school. This worried me, the fact that he came to school yesterday with a bruise, and now he's not at school. I walked up to Thalia, while she was leaning against her locker before fourth period. "Hey Thals do you know where Percy is?" She looked at me curiously, and smirked. "Why? Do you wanna confess your love for him?" Thalia said. The inside of my stomach churned with an unfamiliar feeling, I'm not sure what the feeling was but I ignored it. "No Thalia, I'm just worried. He had a bruise yesterday remember." I said, Thalia seemed to just realize what I was Implying.

"No, I haven't seen him since yesterday" She said, "Can you text him" I asked, she nodded and pulled out her phone. The bell rang, signaling that we needed to get to class. Thalia started typing away, on her phone. "Thals I'll head to class, text me when he answers" I said, She grunted in agreement and I headed to class. Fourth period went by quite fast, and now I was walking out the front door's when I heard my name being called. "Annabeth!" I turned around to see Thalia running up to me, she paused to catch her breath. "Percy wont reply to my messages, I think he doesn't really want to talk. But he might wanna talk to you." She said, handing me a slip of paper with a number on it. No doubt It was Percy's number, "Why would he only wanna talk to me, your his cousin" I asked. Thalia shrugged, "Its just a feeling, but I gotta go see 'ya" She said, and walked away.

I started to walk home, pulling my phone out and texting the number Thalia gave me.

A: Hey Percy, It's me. Just checking to see If your ok

I continued to walk, not a minute after I received a reply.

P: I'm fine, thnx for checking

I replied, right then.

A: Where are you?

P: Skating through central park

He replied, I changed my mind. I was going to go see Percy, I wanted to know why he didn't come to school today. Of course I could just ask him about it via Phone, but I felt like it needed to be face to face. So that's what I was going to do.

So I know this Is a really really short chapter, but I wanted to just get this out. Sorry I've been MIA, I went to Oklahoma to visit my dad. So I didn't have time to update, then when I got home I had a major writers block. But I'm starting to figure what I want to happen next. Plus I've been brainstorming some new Ideas for stories. So I have two so far, I'm going to plan them out a bit more, before I get out the first chapter of one of them. So bear with me guy's, I will get back on schedule and have everything going like before. Thank you for understanding and I hope you guy's are having a good day. I will update soon, don't worry.

-The Shadow Demigod