Annabeth's Struggle

The Truth is Found

A/N Alright so here is chapter 6 of Annabeth’s Struggle! This was fun to write…(:

Annabeth’s PoV:

After our…encounter…it was really awkward, but we didn’t let that get to us and ruin our tenth. We went to the carnival in town, but you probably don’t want to hear me blabber about that since I’ll go for hours on end. So I’ll just skip to Monday at school.

*Monday morning*

I walked through the Goode High entrance and was immediately bombarded by my best friends Cali, Thalia, and Piper. Cali quickly threw her straight brown hair up with a clip and smiled sweetly at me. Thalia blew her spiky black hair out of her electric blue eyes before rolling them. Piper laughed at Thalia, earning a glare.

“How was your ten-year?” Cali asked, looking at me with her innocent blue-green eyes. I averted my eyes quickly since I can’t lie to those pure eyes.

“Good, I guess.” I looked up, anywhere but Cali’s eyes, and Thalia eyed me suspiciously.

“Just good?” Piper asked, confused. “Why? What happened?”

“Oh, doesn’t matter,” I said, shrugging it off.

“No, it does matt—“ Piper was cut off by Nico, Travis, Jason, Leo and Percy running down the hall, barreling straight toward us. Cali, Piper and I quickly moved out of the way, but Thalia wasn’t fast enough. Nico crashed into Thalia while the other boys tumbled into each other.

In other words, Nico and Thalia were blushing like crazy and the other guys were literally rolling on the floor laughing.

“Sorry, we kinda almost got caught sneaking around the school by Mrs. Dodds,” Leo said as he gasped for breath. We all laughed it off as the bell rang to get to class.

Cali, Thalia, Leo, Nico, Percy, and I all had Math first with Mrs. Jenkins, so we started walking toward the 700 wing together.

 Cali blushed when her hand brushed against Leo’s. Cali and Leo have not-so-secret crushes on each other, and have for as long as I’ve liked Percy. They are best friends and practically inseparable. Cali is my neighbor on the other side, and we met the second day I moved here.

Cali shook herself and linked arms with me and Thalia. We understood immediately and started to skip at the same time, singing “We’re off to see the wizard!” loudly. We’re seniors; we can do what we want. Don’t judge us.

We walked into the classroom laughing and went to our assigned seats. I was next to Cali, and she was next to Leo. Behind me was Thalia, and Percy was behind Cali. Luckily we were in the back center, so the teacher didn’t really pay much attention to us.

 “Good morning, class,” Mrs. Jenkins said in her Southern accent, entering the room. We all quiet down and I write notes about math stuff, when a note gets thrown onto my desk.

 Hey, cutie.

 How about you and me go out sometime and have a real good time and ditch those losers you call friends?

 Yours truly,

 Luke

 Aww, cute. Not. I know what Luke did to Percy. He cheated with Percy’s girlfriend. While he was with me. I tried to get my mind off of Percy last year, stupid me, so I went out with Luke until he cheated on me with Calypso, Percy’s girlfriend. Now, he thinks I want him back. Like I would. Ha.

 I wrote a quick message back saying something about in his dreams, I wasn’t really interested anymore, and threw it back to him. I got through English with Mrs. Holmgren, Architecture with Ms. Kaar, History with Mr. Lam, P.E. with Mr. Utler, and now I was finally in Study Hall with Mrs. Dodds. I actually have the whole gang, so it’s awesome.