You Can't Choose Your Family (On Hold)

Chapter 13: I am Attacked by a... Thing?

Chapter Thirteen: I am attacked by a… thing?

　

　

“So what was all that about?” Annabeth asked. “I heard a lot of screaming, then some yelling, then some more screaming. Then I heard Nico and Connor fighting over who was going to take you to the infirmary.”

“Well, you know the old oracle thingy? Well it grabbed me, then it’s hand practically broke my wrist!” I said looking down at it. It was all purple and black now, and it was starting to swell a little. It was pretty gross looking. It was hurting a little more now that I was thinking about it.

“Hm. That’s strange.” then she smiled.

“What?” I asked her. There was something strange to her smile.

“Do you see it now?” she asked not quite looking at me.

“See what?” I asked her. Looking around, thinking she meant something out here.

“Hehehe. No. you cant visibly see it!” She said. It looked like she was starting to blush a little.

“What!” I said shoving her a little. My curiosity level had spiked well beyond its peak.

“How much Connor likes you!” she blurted with a wide grin.

I stopped in my tracts. She had got to be kidding me right? Connor? Never. We were just friends and he knew that. Right? “No! He-we don’t like each other. We’re just friends.”

“Mm-hm.” Annabeth said. “Did you not notice how jealous he was of Nico?” When she said Nico’s name, I imagined him in my mind. His black hair, his smile, his brown eyes that made you want to melt. I realized what I was thinking, and immediately stopped thinking it. No! You do not like him. But the truth was, I think I did like him a little. And with what I had to do, a boyfriend was totally out of the question. But can’t you have a boyfriend at least for the year? a small part of me begged. I pushed all that down.

Annabeth’s jaw dropped. “No! You don’t!”

“I don’t what?” I asked, hoping she didn’t mean what I thought that she meant.

“You like Nico!” Crap. She was thinking it.

“No I don’t.” I said a little too quickly, not really helping my case. I tried to hide my smile and my blush, but must have failed miserably considering what Annabeth said next.

“Look at your blush! You so do!” that made me blush even harder. “Oh my gods! Connor is not going to like this one bit.” she stated. I rolled my eyes at her.

We walked into the infirmary. I was still mad that I had to come here again. Lara and Matt, two Apollo children came over. “Hahaha. You’re here again, Zoe?” Lara asked.

“Jeeze. If we started charging you for coming in here, I bet we could make a fortune!” Matt said. They were both around my age, and liked to pick on me.

“Come on! I haven’t been in here that much. And this time it was totally not even my fault!”

“Okay, what happened this time?” Matt asked me, raising his eyebrows.

“Well, to make the story short an evil hand from Hell attacked me and Chiron thinks that I broke my wrist. He was the was the one that made me come up here in the first place.”

“Well it’s a good thing he had you come up here.” Matt said. Lara had just walked away to help a kid with a profusely bleeding arm. “Because it’s not broken, but it is sprained. Here, take one square of this now, and one tonight. It’s a lot, but I think you will be able to handle it. Wear this brace and in the morning, I think you can take it off. It will be sore for a while, but after a couple days it will be as good as new.” He said putting the brace on my wrist. I ate the ambrosia, and almost immediately felt a little better.