The Silent Confession

Finding Frank (Hopefully)

Hazel looked at Leo, "What do you mean where's Frank!?" Hazel looked around and when she didn't see Frank either she yelled, "Where did Frank go!" Piper sighed and said, "Yelling 'Where did Frank go' would do anything!" Then she went to the closest teacher, which was our history teacher and told them the problem. When the teacher walked up to our grade, he told us, "Everyone get into the bus, please. We have a situation to deal with." With everyone obeying, we all walked onto the bus and sat down at our seats.

"I can't believe we managed to lose Frank like that." I heard Piper say when she sat down. "I'm sure he will be fine." The kid Grover told her and Piper glared at her, "Like why would you care about him? Aren't you friends with Percy, the popular brat?" Grover sighed, "Yeah, I'm friends with him... but I'm not like him I swear!" Piper rolled her eyes and I chimed in, "He's right, you know." The whole friend group looked at me, plus Jason, "Grover's right. He's not anything like Percy." "How do you know that?" Will asked me, his question wasn't spoken in a mean way, it was a soft tone of voice. I was about to tell him about the whole flashback/vision thing but then he would probably think I was crazy so I went with, "I just have a feeling." And it was true, I did have a feeling Grover wasn't like Percy at all.

It looked as if Will sensed that I wasn't telling the full story but he didn't push for more details. After a few minutes of silence, Jason spoke up, "What if the teachers can't find him? What then? Hasn't been around like 5 minutes or more already?" Jason's right, it has been a while and the teachers still weren't back. "Then we look for him ourselves." Hazel told us as she got up from her seat. "Are you sure that's a good idea?" Piper asked her. "I don't care if it's a good idea or not, I'm not going to just sit here while Frank is somewhere in that park." Hazel started walking down the aisle and being a good friend I was, I followed. When we got outside the bus, Will, Leo, Piper, Jason, and surprisingly Grover had also followed.

"So, where do we start?" Grover had asked us. I looked around at everyone, "I guess we can start where we last saw him." I told them and we went to the ride Steel Eel, since that was the last place we saw him, since he went on the ride with us.

"I don't see him." Jason said, stating out the obvious but no one commented on that, "Where would he be?" Hazel asked pacing around. "He could be anywhere." Leo told her and Hazel sighed. "I know that, and who knows how much time we have. Did the teachers call the police or something yet?"

"Hazel..." I started to say and I grabbed her arm to stop her from pacing. Then got a flashback/vision.

"Come on! Let's go on the Steel Eel!" Frank suggested Hazel and the others all got in line. Hazel hesitated when it was her and her friends turn to go on the ride. "Come on, it will be fun!" Frank reassured her and grabbed her hand and got on the Steel Eel. As it turned out, Hazel loved the ride that she and Frank went on it one more time while the others waited.

When Hazel and Frank got off the ride the second time, Hazel and the others started going off to the Great White. When going on that ride, Hazel looked around for Frank, "Were'd he go?" Hazel mumbled to herself. "Hazel." Will snapped her out of her thoughts, "Come on. We have a seat for you." Hazel walked over to Will and sat one the left of him on the edge of the ride since the other seats where taken. Hazel just assumed that Frank needed to use the restroom badly that he didn't tell them anything.

"Nico!" Hazel snapped me out of the vision. I jumped a little, startled and get go of Hazel, "Yeah?" I asked. "What the heck just happened?" I hesitated for a second then answered with, "Nothing, nothing happened." I took my hand away from Hazel's arm and looked to the ground, at my feet. Hazel lifted my chin up but I looked anywhere other than in her eyes, "Nico. Look me in the eyes." I sighed and did, "Something happened. You touched me and then it was as if you started daydreaming. You know you can tell us anything, right?" I nodded and backed up away from Hazel and Will touched my shoulder, "And even if you don't want to tell them anything. You still have me, your boyfriend."

I nodded at Will, "I-... it's nothing." I said again, "But..." I trailed off and looked off in the distance. "Wait..." I pointed to a person who looked like Frank, and he looked to be talking to a girl. The others looked in the direction I was pointing, "That's Frank!" I think Hazel said because she was running to him before my brain could comprehend what she said. Everyone else followed her and Hazel yelled, "Frank!" And sure enough, the person that we were running to was Frank. Hazel didn't slow down when she got to Frank because she hugged him, tightly, and Frank stumbled back a few steps.

"Woah there." Frank told her and had hugged her back. Me and the others had stopped running and were standing in front of Frank and looked at the girl Frank was with. "What's going on?" Frank then asked, "It's as if you hadn't seen me in a decade." Hazel let go of Frank, and on his shirt you could see that she's been crying some. "You went missing." Hazel told him and Frank looked confused, "Missing? What do you mean by that? I just went to say 'Hi' to my friend Rayna." Frank pointed to the girl next to him, "I'm sure it was only for a few minutes..." We all shook our heads no.

Frank looked at his watch, "Shit..." He then looked at the girl Rayna, "If was nice seeing you again." Rayna smiled, "You too, Frank. Hope to see you again soon!" Rayna walked off in the opposite direction that we were going and when we got onto the bus, first being scolded at by the teachers for running off without permission, but happy that Frank was back. Frank looked at us and said, "I'm sorry guys. I truly am... I didn't mean to scare you all like that. I didn't realize I was gone that long."

"Leo, can you punch Frank for me?" Hazel asked him and Leo did, Hazel continued, "It's fine I guess... but I swear if you ever do that again-..." Hazel didn't continue her sentence and I didn't think I wanted her too.

On the ride back to school, I was sitting by the window next to Will and I was watching the sunset. "It's pretty, don't you think?" Will asked me. I nodded then Will continued, "But not as pretty as you are." I blushed and laid my head on Will's shoulder. I left Will's arm wrap around me and he kissed the top of my head and with that, I fell asleep.