Annabeth POV

Lines suck. I've been waiting in the line to go to the bathroon for half a freaking hour, and we've barely moved forwards.

Finally, someone comes out of the bathroom and a twelve year old girl goes in. Next it's me! Please don't be applying makeup as well, little twelve year old girl. Please!

I shift on my feet nervously and as soon as the door opens a tiny bit I dart in, slamming and locking the door.

After I do that business, I go back out to the closed of section of the beach where the bands were. I spot Percy talking to a boy, and the rest of my band waving me over.

"Annabeth, they're about to call out whose getting eliminated!" Paisley says nervously, twisting her fingers.

"Let's go then." I say, rounding them all to infront of the stage. Percy comes to stand next to me.

"Hey bethie." He says, sliding his hand into mine and tugging me to his side.

"Hey Cee Cee." I giggle, poking him in the side. He playfully glares at me.

"Don't call me that." He whisper's as the lights begin to brighten.

"Then don't call me Bethie." I retaliate, shuffling into him more.

Hermes strutted onto the stage confidently, holding in his hands a microphone and a slip of paper. "Hello contestants. Before we get to the fun stuff, we have our first roundof eliminations."

Nerves bubbled up in my stomach and chest with those words. My hands are shaking, and my knee's would have buckled if Percy wasn't there.

"So, let's get started, shall we?" He grins, "Word of warning: Do not get upset if you are eliminated. Be glad you made it this far. So, first leaving us will be..."

He lets it hang in the air for a while, setting everyone on the tips of their toes.

"Acousticity."

A groups of people sighed and sniffled. A few profanities were shouted, and then were held back.

"Second will be... Lishous." (A/N These names suck. Sorry...)

A group of girls start to cry. They were all in matching colours. I guess they wanted to make it to the end, but then again so do I.

"Lastly, leaving us today will be Lightning."

This sounds so mean, but thank gods a boy band got kicked out. The world has too many. Not that I want Percy to fail... just...I think you know what I'm saying.

Releif swept over me and my band mates and I'm torn away from Percy and into a group hug.

"We made it!" Thalia cries in relief, "IN YOUR FACE SUCKERS!" She yells into the night sky.

"Don't offend anyone Thalia." Calypso warns, "The people eliminated may just take an unliking to you."

Thats what we have to look out for. The eliminated bands. Their feelings will be on the line between hatred and sadness. Hatred for the bands that got through and sadness that they had to leave. If we offend them, they might hurt us.

"WE DID IT, WE DID IT, WE DID IT, HOORAY!" Leo cheers in the Dora the Explorer song they play at the end of each episode.

We all laughed. I felt someone watching me.

"Ew, it's that creep Octavian." Paisley sneered, glaring at the scrawny, scare-crow like person behind me.

"How is he a creep?" Percy asks his sister, flinging an arm over my shoudler effectively calming my nerves and warming me. Not that California wasn't hot enough.

"He came up to me and said he knew all about me and he looked me up on the internet. It was creepy." She shuddered. That was oveer the line. I mean, looking up a fifteen year old on the internet is just weird.

"Ew." Piper agreed, "But we should be happy that we made it this far and we're still here, so..."

"Hey, you lot! We're playing a whole bunch of activities! You have to join in!" hermes said, pointing at us, all bunched up away from everyone.

Everyone made room for us in the circle around the campfire. Hermes sat on a chair to the side.

"Okay, first bonding exersize is you stand up and we can all ask questions that are appropriate and you have to answer them." He says. He does realise some people are gonna get real personal with the questions.

"You over there! Scrawny one that looks like a he jumped from a halloween party!" hermes says, pointing to Octavian. I stiffled a laugh. He did look like he was ready for a Halloween party.

Octavian just glared, "What?" He snapped. You;d think he would be a bit more polite to the person running the competition he was in.

"You can start, so stand up." Hermes says, getting slightly angry.

"Okay." Octavian says, getting up. "Who wants to ask a question?"

Paisley's hand shoots up, "Why are you such a creep?" She asks, sending everyone, including myself into fits of laughter, "I mean, you friggin' stalked me and admitted it to my face."

Octavian turned bright red and sat down.

The questions went around the circle, and when it got to me, I stood up.

"What year are you in?"

"Senior."

"Are you a braniac, because you look like one?"

"Depends on whose perspective."

"Are you single?"

"Nope." I enjoyed seeing the hurt on the person's face.

"What sports do you play?"

"Track and Volleyball."

"Do you like reading?"

"I love it."

And so the questions went until I sat down.

Some people's answer's were hilarious. Like, someone asked the question "Why does our nose run and our feet smell?" Courtesy of Leo.

I can't wait until the next round of boot camp.

AN

Short, yes. But I don't care.

I stood on something in the backyard and now my baby toe is bleeding. But I have a transformers plaster on it, so everything is okay. It just feels reall weird.

I saw a two dead fish, a dead seagull remains, put up a mini retaining wall, drove a boat with my little sister, did my Social Studies homework and produced this very un edited suckish chapter allllll today.

Answer of the last question: I am allergic to bath bombs and coloured soap. Its weird, I know.

The colour of my eyes is _. (None of you are gonna guess this, I bet)

~KaleidoscopeColours

:D Smile, it looks good on you.