Insomnia.
When someone has trouble falling or staying sleep because they are afraid that something bad will happen to them or the ones they love.
After that letter, I haven't been able to sleep at all.
It's been two days.
I've tried to sleep, I just can't. I wake up crying and I can't go through that again.
"Kat?" I blinked and looked at who ever was talking to me.
"What?" I asked slightly confused.
"That's the third time in the past hour and a half that you have zoned out." Percy said putting his hands on my shoulders.
"Sorry." I said exhausted.
"You need to get some sleep." He said picking me up and walking back to the cabin because we were on the beach.
"I don't need sleep." I told him.
"Yes you do Kat." He said walking into the cabin. He set me down on my bed. He pushed on my shoulders so I would lie down, but I sat right back up. "I will be right here okay? Nothing back is going to happen Kat, I promise." He said pushing me back down. I stayed down this time.
"Promise?" I said holding out my pinky.
"Promise." He said grabbing my pinky with his. "Now go to sleep." He said. I did what he said and closed my eyes as hepatitis the blanket overtop of me.
~PERCY'S POV~
I stayed with Kat until I was positive that she was asleep. I quietly ran out of the cabin all the way to the Athena cabin where I knew Annabeth was. By time I got to the Athena cabin, I was completely out of breath.
"Annabeth!" I yelled out of breath. "Annabeth!" Seconds later she came running out of the cabin.
"Percy?!" She half yelled running towards me. "Percy what's wrong?" She asked putting a hand on my shoulder. I put one finger up signaling her to wait while I caught y breath.
"I'm worried about Kat." I said starting to walk back towards my cabin. "She hasn't slept in two day's Annabeth. That's not good."
"She's scared out of her mind right now Percy, everyone she loves was just threated by someone who clearly knows how to mess with her." Annabeth said. "She tries to brave for all of us, but at the end of the day she's still just a little girl who's past still haunts her. It's hard to be brave when you're alone in the dark."
"I just want to protect her Annabeth." I sighed.
"I know, we all want to protect her, she is the one that keeps us sane and grounded, but there are somethings that we can't protect her from." She said as we got back to my cabin. We walked in and saw Kat sleeping peacefully on her bed. Me and Annabeth walked over to my bed and sat down. We started talking when we heard Kat start talking in her sleep.
"No." I ran over to Kat's bed.
"Kat? Kat wake up." I said shaking her shoulders.
"No!" She said. Her breathing became irregular and her heart-rate stated to speed up.
"Kat! Wake up!" I yelled and she shot up. She looked around and I pulled her into a hug. She started to cry into my shoulder.Annabeth came and sat down beside Kat and grabbed her hand, squeezing it reassuringly. We sat like that for a few minutes in complete silence until Kat broke it.
"Can one of you guy's sing for me? That's what Chase used to do whenever I had I nightmare." Kat said still crying. I looked at Annabeth and she started singing.
There's a little house on a perfect little hill
Just short of a fairytale
There's a little child with a million ways to feel
Caught up in a hurricane
Paper-thin walls
Angry words from down the hall
Something changed then
I think about him every now and again
Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it
I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
I'm still having nightmares
Never did I think I'd be coming back around
Digging up old memories
Always used to be the one to let it go
Kept my fears in a suitcase
I locked them all away
In a place I wouldn't find
They still haunt me
I think about it every now and again
Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it
I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
I'm still having nightmares
Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it
Now there's a ghost in the back of this room
And I don't like it
I fall asleep with my covers pulled up
And try to fight it
I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
I'm still having nightmares
I gotta say it's hard to be brave
When you're alone in the dark
I told myself that I wouldn't be scared
But I'm still having nightmares
By the end of the song, Kat had fallen asleep in my arms. I set her back down on the bed and looked at Annabeth.
"You never told me you could sing." I told her.
"You never asked." She shrugged.
"That was amazing." I smiled and kissed her.
"Thank you." She said leaning her forehead on mine.
"Is everything okay in here!?" Hazel said running in with everyone following her.
"We heard screaming." Jason said.
"Kat had a nightmare." Annabeth said.
"Oh." Everyone said.
"What are we going to do now?" Leo asked.
"Now we come up with a plan." I said turning to look at Kat.
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Hello readers!
The song Annabeth sang to Kat is Nightmares by All Time Low.
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~Kimberly
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