finding annabeth- ts (rewrite)

TWO

" perhaps you and I will find our way back "

Chapter 2:

Mistakes and Memories

FIVE YEARS LATER

Everyone made mistakes.

You make mistakes; I make mistakes. So do the Prime Minister and the Queen. Children and adults, rich and poor, young and old, male and female. It ties us together. Mistakes are part of being human. They're inescapable. And that's why, it's relatively facile to believe that even through all of her shows of bravery, Annabeth Carter was not prone to mistakes.

We can make dozens, hundreds, even thousands of mistakes a day, ranging from the minuscule (forgetting to take your medicines one morning) to the massive (following a wrong turn and getting hit by a car). Granted, most don't commit such tremendous mistakes.

Lives are changed for better and worse by mistakes. Children are born, people die, inventions are made, lives are saved or lost, millions in each beat of your heart. Mistakes are supposed to be a valid, a natural part of life.

Annabeth usually felt as if she was not permitted to make a single one. Mistakes were sternly forbidden in her sunken eyes, and yet her she was incapable to ever do a single thing correctly. Malibu felt a lot like a grave mistake when it did not seem to appreciate Annabeth's unusual presence this time of the year.

It had now been about five years since the girl had packed up her bags and left this place to go to London with her mom. Oh, how she had turned from that nineteen year old party girl to a quiet twenty-four year old med-school dropout still seeking a stable job.

Annabeth vainly tried her best to look at least acceptable as she walked through the cracked sidewalks, setting her hair every now and then and smoothening down her skirt.

She had an interview today— at Stark Industries.

She was wary of it, but it was the only place hiring someone with her credential. There seemed to be a position empty as someone's assistant— and as foolish as it may sound, in the desperate hurry with which she left her cramped apartment, she had forgotten to review the name or really... anything. Her cousin Sharon had set up the entire thing.

Astonishingly, she was qualified barely enough for the job.

This job was crucial for Annabeth because if she got it then her deceased mother's hospital debt could be cleared soon enough and she can go back to medical school. Money was ridiculously scarce.