Disclaimer: I do not own PJO, Rick Riordan does.
Thanks to DrathGranola, vampirediaries-damon and bookstobiasever for reviewing. You guys always make me smile with your reviews.
Dear No One,
So I haven't touched upon this much but about every saturday I have been going to a therapy group like thing where I meet kids my age who also have cancer. This was my parents idea.
They thought it wasn't healthy for a teenager with cancer to spend all her free time in the house. The 'rents also wanted me to meet new people instead of just hanging out with Percy everyday.
I admit I thought I was going to hate it but it turned out to be really fun. I have so many friends now, it's unrealistic. Percy wanted to go with me at first but this was something I wanted to do alone. It would also would have been awkward for Percy to be the only kid in there who never had cancer.
Now before you start conjuring up some sort of image of how the group goes, I will start with this: It is nothing like the group sessions in The Fault in our Stars. It's not even close.
The atmosphere is really peaceful and we get to sit on beanbag chairs. We don't even have to participate in the group if we don't want to. As a person who is never comfortable in uncharted territory, I feel safer here then I do in my own home.
They are always playing some lame Taylor Swift song, though but it is quiet enough that unless you concentrate you don't hear it at all.
The consular like person who runs the group is named Reyna. She herself has never had cancer but she has been working with kids who have/had cancer ever since her older sister Hylla was diagnosed with leukemia. I am pretty sure Reyna is in her early twenties but she is super nice.
Now on to the kids or the regulars as I like to call them:
I will start off with the Leo. Like most of the kids in the group, he has leukemia. Leo has had it since he was twelve years old (he is coming up on his sixteenth birthday) and has been in remission twice.
Then we have one of my more closer friends, Piper. Piper is now in remission (I don't know what type of cancer she had though). She has choppy brown hair that is always in braids. Piper comes over my house every so often and she has become great friends with Percy.
It turns out she is dating Jason, who is on Percy's swim team. Piper goes to a different school but she meet Jason during one of Percy's swim meets, when his team was competing against her school.
There is only one other person in remission in this group. Her name is Hazel. I don't know her that much, I don't even think we have spoken once but she seems very nice. The one thing that is weird about her is she seems to have a fascination with gems.
There are a couple of more kids left to mention but I think I am just going to list them.
The Stoll brothers: They look a like but are not twins. I think Connor is older than Travis.
Rachel: She loves to paint and is the daughter of two very famous parents. In other words she is filthy rich but not snobby.
I almost forgot. There was one more person that used to go to this group. And no, I did not mess up, I meant to write 'used to'.
Her name was Bianca, we learned last meeting that she had passed on. It makes you realize how short life is and how some of us don't last for very long.
I remember a kid coming out of a room while I was in for a check up. There was a lot of cries and screams coming from that room. That's how I knew someone died in that room.
I learned later that the kid was Bianca's brother and Bianca was the one in the hospital room. The one who the cries and screams were for. Her brother looked destroyed and I don't even know his name. It kind of made me feel miserable.
I wish I got to say goodbye one last time. She was my first friend in the group and she made feel like I actually fit in. Bianca seemed like she could do that with anybody, some people just have that type of gift.
Well other then finding out one of your friends had died in the past week, the group is actually pretty awesome. We did a secret Santa thing right before the group stopped meeting for the rest of the year.
I grabbed Leo's name out of the hat. I decided to get him a tool belt because he is always going on and on about not having any place to put his tools when he is tinkering on something. Leo looked like the happiest man alive when he opened his present.
Piper was the one who was my secret Santa. She got me three books that I have been dying to read for ages. She got me the Maze Runner trilogy, I finished reading all three books by the next day.
Speaking of Christmas presents,
Percy got me one of those necklaces that fit together like the 'best friend' necklaces. This one was a heart and a key. Percy showed me both of them together, although he was going to give me the heart. There was an inscription on the back:
PJ+AC=Forever
The heart had the PJ + AC=, the key had Forever inscribed into it. I know you might think it is romantic and say 'but Annabeth, you two aren't even dating'. I think the message is supposed to symbolize our friendship but right now writing this letter, I think it means something more. I think he was trying to tell me something in his own Percyish way.
I think in my own way I have been trying to tell him something too. So are we some what dating? Argh, this is to confusing for the day after Christmas. I will talk to him later about it. Not to mention my parents would flip a table if they found out I was dating someone.
The necklace was the best christmas present I had ever gotten. It might have made me cry a little.
Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Boxing Day/what ever other holiday you celebrate!
Thanks for listening,
Annabeth Chase
I am not so happy of how this chapter turned out. It's not my best work but oh well, this wasn't even supposed to be chapter 9. I had to change around this chapter for another one which is now chapter 10. Speaking of chapters there is only 3 more left:( Anyways I just started watching Avavtar: the Last Airbender last week, already on season 3 (or book 3). It is so good:)
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